LibGuides: German Studies: Catalogs for Books

Key Catalogs

Center for Research Libraries
Holds expensive collaborative purchases for US academic libraries like foreign dissertations, large microfilm sets, and more. Items can be requested by Interlibrary Loan.
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Dissertations & Theses
A catalog for US and some foreign dissertations, and includes full-text of dissertations.
Europeana
KIT Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog (KVK)
A combined search of German union catalogs and national library catalogs.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Search TRLN
A catalog of holdings at four local academic libraries: Duke UNC NCSU and NCCU ; books requested through Search TRLN will arrive in 2-3 business days.
Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie
A subject bibliography for German regions.
WorldCat
A union catalog for US libraries and libraries abroad.

HathiTrust (Public Domain within US only) This link opens in a new window
Search a digital repository of major research libraries. This is an open access database.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

Library Hub
Library Hub Discover currently contains 43,512,235 records created from 112,714,767 records contributed by 149 institutions. Jan. 2020
ZACK Gateway
Search German library catalogs. Z39.50 protocol.