Facts and Background Information Selected print and electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc. Books Locate items in the library catalog and other libraries. Articles Use indexes to search for articles in journals, proceedings, etc. Primary Sources Websites Recommended academic, professional, and learned societies sites, and more. Contact a Librarian

Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of German and Russian Literature. See also the research guide to General Humanities. Please consult with a reference librarian for directions to many more sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement).

Facts and Background Information     [back to top]

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

German

German Literature: an Annotated Reference Guide
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z2231 .F38]

Oxford Companion to German Literature
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PT41 .G3 1997]

Allgemeine Bücherkunde zur neueren deutschen Literaturgeschichte
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z1035.3 .A8 1966]

Russian

Russia and the Soviet Union: a Bibliographic Guide to Western-Language Publications
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Z2491 .H64]

Handbook of Russian Literature
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PG2940 .H29 1985]

Language Dictionaries

German
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PF3640]

Russian
[PRINT. Tisch Reference PG2640]

Find Books     [back to top]

These databases use Library of Congress subject headings:

Library Catalog

Boston Library Consortium Catalogs

Worldcat
Catalog records from thousands of North American libraries.

For more on how to find books and search subjects in German and Russian literature, click here.

Find Articles     [back to top]

MLA International Bibliography 1963-
An international index to books and journals on the modern languages and literatures, including linguistics and folklore. Publications from 1921 to 1962 are covered in printed volumes at Tisch Reference Indexes [HUM] Z7006 .M64.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Institute for Scientific Information, 1974-
Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1974. Part of Web of Science.

International Medieval Bibliography. Brepols, 1967-
An international index to medieval topics (400-1500) in literature, language, history, archaeology, art, music, theater, Arabic and Islamic studies, and religion and philosophy. IMB covers 4,500 journals and over 5,000 miscellany volumes in 30 languages.

Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
Index and full text, 1902-1994. Names of contributors, anonymous through 1974, have been restored wherever possible.

Electronic journals

Periodicals are listed in the library catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals.

Many humanities/social sciences journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse or JSTOR. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to our electronic journals.

For more on how to find articles, see Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF).

Primary Sources     [back to top]

ArchivesUSA
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.

Websites     [back to top]

Tufts Department of German, Russian & Asian Languages and Literature

German Electronic Texts
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.

Human Languages Page

Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures (Other Than English) Page

For more on how to find and evaluate websites, see How to Evaluate Web Sources.

Contact a Librarian     [back to top]

Christopher Barbour. Contact for questions about library collections.
Chao Chen . Contact for reference questions and instruction requests.