Research Guides: German Studies: Books

Search the Libraries' Catalog

You can still use the Classic Catalog for your searches, and it is recommended if you are searching by call number or would like to browse subject headings. You can start your search in the box below, click the link above, or find it on the Libraries homepage just above the WorldCatUMD search box.

* Updated links to the Classic Catalog will be added soon.

Search UMD Discover

UMD Discover, available on the Libraries homepage, searches for a variety of materials (books, articles, journals, videos, etc.) at College Park, other Maryland campuses, and libraries worldwide.

Use the Advanced Search page to limit your search to books, search by title and author, limit to a particular time frame, or limit the search to College Park. You can also use the facets on the right of the results screen to filter your results after the fact.

UMD Discover is now our default search interface. It is a discovery tool that searches libraries worldwide and allows you to search multiple high quality sources at one time. The Libraries have put together a tutorial for UMD Discover that provides in-depth information. Be sure to check it out!

Other useful catalogs

If you are having a hard time tracking down a book, try one of these catalogs. They cover more ground than UMD Discover, and we can usually still access the material through Interlibrary Loan. UMD Faculty and Graduate Students have borrowing priveleges with the Washington Research Libraries Consortium, so try Aladin if you would like to take a field trip!

Online-Katalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
Searches more than 10 million items in the Bavarian State Library's collections.
Kataloge der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Searches the catalogs of the Austrian National Library
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog KVK is a meta search interface which allows you to access library and book trade catalogs online via Internet. KVK starts a simultaneous search in the catalogs and gives you a standardized hit list.
The European Library
Searches the catalogs of many European national libraries.

Center for Research Libraries Catalog
CRL is a consortium of North American academic and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through ILL. CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates); some of the earliest African-American newspapers; and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations. These holdings are available for use by students, scholars and other researchers affiliated with CRL member institutions. For more information see https://www.crl.edu/?l1=5 All, although majority of materials emphasise early modern and modern periods.