Catalogues
UB Frankfurt Linguistik
Until 2015, the University Library in Frankfurt/Main hosted the Special Subject Collection "General Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and collected as completely as possible the relevant scientific literature from Germany and abroad.
The linguistic section of the online catalogue includes titles acquired after 1986.
The library participates in the interlibrary loan system (ILL) and offers document delivery via subito.
IDS Mannheim
The library of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim is a specialised library covering all subdomains of modern German linguistics as well as general linguistics.
The reference library is a service facility for the researchers at the IDS. During the working hours it is open to anyone interested.
UB Frankfurt Retrokatalog
The Retrokatalog of the University Library in Frankfurt/Main is the card catalogue that includes the books acquired before 1986. By employing heuristic methods, 38,000 linguistically relevant titles were selected from the 1.7 million digitalised cards. The selection is integrated in the Lin|gu|is|tik portal.
The library participates in the interlibrary loan system (ILL) and offers document delivery via subito.
https://lbsopac.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/LNG=EN/CMD?ACT=SRCHA&TRM=slu%3Ahebis-retro
DNB Subject Category Language
This is a selection of circa 200,000 titles from the online catalogue of the German National Library (DNB). The selection is based on the language-related main subject categories (DDC 400-499).
The DNB is a public reference library located in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main. The library holdings can be used only in the reading rooms.
Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft
The library of the Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft at the Goethe University Frankfurt is a specialised library covering historical comparative linguistics, Indo-European linguistics as well as Caucasian languages.
The reference library is a service facility for the members of the local university and during the working hours it is open to anyone interested.
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)
The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) is a university-independent research centre located in the federal state of Berlin. Its research areas include phonetics and phonology, language development and multilingualism, syntax and lexicon as well as semantics and pragmatics.
The institute’s library is a reference library. It is a service facility for the researchers at the ZAS.
MPI-SHH Linguistics Collection
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) hosts a collection of linguistic literature. The collection was compiled from 1998 to 2015 at the former Department of Linguistics of the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. After the closing of the department, the library holdings were transferred to the MPI-SHH.
The library participates in the interlibrary loan system (ILL).
MPI for Psycholinguistics
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen focuses on the research of the psychological, social and biological foundations of human language. The main research areas are reflected in the holdings of the institute’s library that was established in 1976.
The reference library is a service facility for the researchers at the MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Bibliographies
Bibliography of Linguistic Literature Database (BLLDB)
The Bibliography of Linguistic Literature (BLL) is one of the most comprehensive sources of bibliographic information for the general linguistics with its subdomains and neighbouring disciplines as well as for the English, German and Romance linguistics. The Bibliography of Linguistic Literature Database (BLLDB) is the online version of the BLL (licence required). It dates back as far as 1971 and lists about 500,000 citations. The older references are freely accessible (Moving Wall 10 years).
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
The Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL) lists more than 490,000 references covering German philology worldwide – linguistics as well as literary studies. The selection of the linguistically relevant publications is based on the classification Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (in Auswahl).
Licensing institutions obtain access to the complete database. The older references are freely accessible (Moving Wall 10 years).
IDS Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik
The Bibliografie zur deutschen Grammatik is being compiled at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim. It covers linguistic literature published after 1965 and lists over 30,000 references concerning the grammar of the modern German language.
IDS Bibliografie zur Gesprächsforschung
The Bibliografie zur Gesprächsforschung of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim has been documenting publications in German and English since 2007. The bibliography covers the fields of conversational analysis, sociolinguistics, spoken language research, interactional linguistics, functional pragmatics, communicational ethnography as well as linguistic pragmatics.
IDS Konnektoren im Deutschen
The bibliographic database Konnektoren of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim covers interclausal connectives and relations in the German language as well as respective contrastive and typological research. The period covered spans from the 1960s to the present day.
IDS Präpositionen im Deutschen
The bibliographic database Präpositionen of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim lists publications concerning prepositions, verbal particles, prepositional adverbs, and encoding of spatial relations in German as well as respective contrastive and typological research. The period covered spans from the 1960s to the present day.
IDS OBELEX meta
The Online Bibliography of Electronic Lexicography (OBELEXmeta) of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim covers the field of electronic lexicography with a special focus on online lexicography. Articles, monographs, anthologies and reviews published after 2000 have been systematically documented. Some older relevant works are also included.
OLC Linguistik
The freely accessible database Online Contents Linguistik (OLC Linguistik) includes the tables of contents of more than 450 journals. For the period 1993 to 2014, it comprises circa 285,000 references.
Linked Open Data catalogues
Annohub
Annohub is a repository containing metadata of language resources. The resources are freely available research data such as corpora or dictionaries that provide their (meta)data in accordance with the LOD principles. The resources were integrated in the search index my means of LOD technologies.
Online resources
Link directory
The "Link directory" of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal is a collection of scientifically relevant links to resources from different disciplines of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages.
Journal directory
The "Journal directory" of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal lists more than 2,000 electronic journals selected from the Electronic Journals Library (Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB) and classified as linguistically relevant.
Database directory
The "Database directory" of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal lists more than 500 linguistically relevant online databases.
Dictionary directory
The "Dictionary directory" of the Lin|gu|is|tik portal includes links to over 1,000 online dictionaries. Most of them are freely accessible.
Open access dokuments
BASE
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is one of the world’s largest search engines for open access academic publications. The linguistically relevant publications are filtered out of more than 150 million documents.
Linguistik-Repository
The Linguistik-Repository is an open access for the field of linguistics. Authors can use the repository for first or post-print online publication as well as for electronic archiving of their scientific documents (free of charge). The University Library in Frankfurt/Main maintains the Linguistik-Repository.
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/collection/id/16096
IDS Publikationsserver
The publication server of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) is an institutional repository. It is a service for the researchers at the IDS and provides access to the bibliographic references of their publications and – if legally possible – to the full text.
Online dissertations
More than 1,000 open access electronic dissertations are selected from the catalogue of the German National Library (DNB). The selection is based on the language-related main subject categories (DDC 400-499). A direct link to the full text is available.
Language Description Heritage
The open access digital library Language Description Heritage provides easy access to descriptive material about the world’s languages. It focuses on the linguistic descriptions of less-researched languages. The collection is being compiled at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) in Germany.