Sunday, February 18, 2007

LINKS: Couch Potato Research

One of the most significant technological innovations in the last several years has been the availability on the web of many standard reference works that I had to consult in the library when I was a grad student. I'd like to begin a list of useful links for those who work in early modern European history. Some of my favorites are:

Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/suchmaschine

Elektronische Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~ndb/adb_index.html

Grotefends Zeitrechnung des Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit

http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm

Orbis Latinus Online

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html

What are your favorite reference links? Let us know, and we'll post them on this site!

3 comments:

David Whitford said...

One should definitely not underestimate the power of Google Books, books.google.com. I found out recently that the entire collection of Migne's PG (Greek) and PL (Latin) are there. I found, for example, Didymus the Blind.

Brian Lugioyo said...

Amy,

Here is a website that I have found invaluable for primary texts. It is the digitized library of Albert Hardenberg - Worth bookmarking especially for Bucer fans --- http://hardenberg.jalb.de/

Cheers,

Brian Lugioyo
University of Aberdeen

David Whitford said...

For online searching in UK archives, go to
http://www.a2a.org.uk/