This is a selection of available electronic resources in German. For a complete list, please see this list of databases.
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
Online version of the bibliography with the same name. Also known as "Eppelsheimer-Kottelwelsch", it is considered the most important bibliographical resource for German language and literary studies. The scope of the database goes back retrospectively to 1985 (the bibliography began in 1945), and it broadly indexes both monographic and serial literature in the field. Published by Klostermann Verlag, it is maintained by the Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main and is updated quarterly. It covers scholarly publishing on an international scale in several languages.DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
The German National Library is entrusted with the task of collecting, permanently archiving, bibliographically classifying and making available to the general public all German and German-language publications from 1913, foreign publications about Germany, translations of German works, and the works of German-speaking emigrants published abroad between 1933 and 1945.
The DigiZeitschriften
Created by the “Verein zur Digitalisierung von wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften” at the University Library of Göttingen and funded by the German Research Foundation, DigiZeitschriften provides page images and increasing full text of periodicals in Economics, English Languages, Geology, History, Law, Librarianship, Literature, Philology, the Sciences, and Sociology. Providing access to the back issues of German titles, DigiZeitschriften complements JSTOR. Dates of coverage vary by title.