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German Studies eResources

“Articles, Books, and More”

Use the library’s Discovery Service to retrieve BILLIONS of journal articles, books, book chapters, entries in reference resources (etc.) from thousands of individual databases. Type in your search terms and then select “Articles, Books, and More” from the drop-down menu.

Reference Resources

Credo Reference – brief entries from over 1k reference works, such as subject-specific encyclopedias and language dictionaries, covering all subject areas

Oxford Reference – brief entries from 300+ reference works in all subject areas.

Britannica Academic – a general encyclopedia intended for college students.

Gale in Context: Biography – information about notable people, both contemporary and historical, from a wide range of sources, such as biographical dictionaries, magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

Short Stories for Students (analyses of the plots, themes, characters, and cultural/historical contributions of well-known short stories)

Books

Converse – to find books, both print and electronic, in Converse’s Mickel Library, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “Converse Catalog.”

PASCAL Delivers – to find books, both print and electronic, in South Carolina’s college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, type your terms in the search box, and select “PASCAL Delivers.” You can borrow these books by signing in and following the instructions to “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

WorldCat – records for millions of books in thousands of libraries; most of these are “borrow-able” through our Interlibrary Loan Service.

Periodical Articles

Subject-Specific

MLA International Bibliography – citations to and, occasionally, full-text articles from academic journals, books, dissertations, etc. on literature and language.

Music & Performing Arts Collection – full-text of 300-ish American and international journals in these two fields; citations and abstracts for articles in hundreds of additional journals.

Religion and Philosophy Collection – full-text articles from more than 300 journals in these two fields.

Humanities Full Text – provides full-text articles from 300-ish core journals in history, religion, philosophy, literature, theatre, and film; provides citations to articles in another 400-ish journals.

General

Academic Search Complete – one of the world’s largest databases of academic journals and magazines on all subjects; indexes over 12k periodicals and provides complete articles from over 8k of these titles.

JSTOR – non-current full-text articles in core academic journals in all subjects; Converse’s JSTOR collections focus on the humanities.

Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega – complete articles and citations to articles from several hundred popular magazines.

Periodicals Available at Converse

Periodicals by Title – Key in some or all of a periodical’s title (NOT the title of the article itself) to retrieve a listing of periodicals the library owns in either electronic or print/physical format.

Interlibrary Loan

To request books held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to our Discovery Service, key in your terms and select “PASCAL Delivers,” click on the book you would like to borrow, sign in, and click on “Request via PASCAL Delivers.”

To request articles and other non-book materials, as well as books NOT held by South Carolina college/university libraries, go to Interlibrary Loan and select the correct form.