Web Sites of Interest to Wiggies

German Studies Overviews | German Language Bibliographic Resources

 

U.S. Women's Studies & Gender Studies Resources | U.S. Activist Resources | European Women's Studies & Gender Studies Pages |

Text and Film Archives | Buying Books and Films | Other Professional Organizations

Open Access Publishing

General German Studies / European Studies Overviews

• German Jump Station Page : URLs of interest to teachers of German leading either to portals or to very specialized links that might not be returned in a routine search.
• German Studies Trails Coming to you from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, this site provides links to Web sites devoted to German language and culture, arts and humanities, science and technology, international affairs, the German Internet Project, and other topics.
• Donna Van Handle's German Links
• Internet Resources for Germanists
• WESS

German Language Bibliographic Resources

• BDSL - Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft database citations up until 10 years ago available without liscense
• DigiZeitschriften - Das deutsche digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv
• xipolis.net: Homepage
• IDZ - Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815
• VD16 Verzeichnis des deutschsprachigen Schrifftums des 16. Jahrhunderts
• Karlsruhe Virtueller Katalog
• KLGonline - Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur

U.S. Women's Studies / Gender Studies Resources

• Women's Studies Online Resources (annotated!)
• Wmst-L (membership on list also enables access to archived wmst-l files)
• Women's Studies syllabus archive

U.S. Activist Resources

• The Feminist Majority Foundation: Information on and links to feminist news and events, a feminist Internet gateway, publications and research, the feminist university network, as well as membership information for the Feminist Majority. Also provides a forum (with e-mail addresses) for protest letters to President Bush and Congress.

European Women's Studies / Gender Studies Pages

• Women in German Studies: WiG's "sister" group in the UK
• WISE (Women's International Studies Europe - also a list-serve)
• nextGenderation: A transnational European network of students, researchers and activists with an interest in feminist theory and politics, and their intersections with anti-racist, migrant, lesbian, queer and anti-capitalist struggles. Also a list-serve.
• Das Österreichisches Frauennetzwerk: Includes information of women's Internet resources in Europe, newsletters, articles, publications, links to the European Frauenlobby, a hotlist of women's homepages in Europe, and more.
• FEMALE-L Homepage: The homepage for the FEMALE-L mailing list in Austria. Includes information about FEMALE-L, worldwide women's information, lists of lectures sponsored by FEMALE, and more.
• German Foundation for Women's Studies

Text and Film Archives

• Sophie: An Electronic Library of Early German Women's Writing 1740-1923
• Projekt Gutenberg: archive of writings in German; housed by Der Spiegel
• Göttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum Homepage
• Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum
• Electronic Text Collections for Western European Literatures
• DEFA Film Library: archive of East German films, housed at the University of Massachusetts; site includes film synopses

Finding & Buying Books and Films

• Facets Multimedia (world cinema)
• ICESTORM International, Inc.: commercial distributor of DEFA video titles
• International Book Import Service (IBIS): A fabulous resource for German books in the U.S.
• Global Books: buy European books at list price ; no postage for orders over 50 Euro.
• buchhandel.de
• AbeBooks
• Harrassowitz
• ZVAB - Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher
• Amazon.de: German books by the Internet bookseller. Also see their page devoted to Austria, Amazon.

Other Professional Organizations

• AATG Home Page
• German Studies Association
• Modern Language Association

Resources Relevant to Discussions about Open Access Publishing

Open Access Journals

• Public Library of Science
• BioMed Central | The Open Access Publisher
• HighWire Press -- Free Online Full-text Articles

Open Access Initiatives & Information

• Budapest Open Access Initiative
• Open Access Conference - Berlin Declaration
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
• ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences
• PKP @ SFU Public Knowledge Project / Online Journal Systems - the open source publishing platform for journals.

Open Access German Studies Journals

• Sophie Journal
• Glossen

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