August 2011: I have taken early retirement, but continue to edit these pages ad hoc.

Listed below are new links added and changes made to WGSW in the last few months.

Tips on how to use this site.

May 2013

• Die deutsche Gedichtebibliothek : Gesamtverzeichnis deutschsprachiger Gedichte Huge collection of (copyright-free) poems

September 2011

• Neue Rundschau complete online since 1890. Free Testzugang lasts three months
  

March 2011

• Editionsprojekt Karl Gutzkow
• Informationskompetenz Vermittlung von Informationskompetenz an deutschen Bibliotheken

February 2011

• Krimi-Couch "Unabhängiges Online-Magazin zum Thema Kriminalroman" - not just from Germany
  

January 2011

• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: Portal für Kultur und Wissenschaft Opens Autumn 2012: will offer "einen zentralen Zugang zu digitalem Wissen und Kultur in Deutschland"
• GNARP: German-North American Resources Partnership An inventory of digital projects in German Studies or from German-speaking countries
• Verzeichnis der künstlerischen, wissenschaftlichen und kulturpolitischen Nachlässe in Österreich Locations of c. 6000 estates of Austrian cultural figures
  

November 2010

• Europeana Digitised materials from Europe's museums, archives, libraries etc. Images, texts, sound and videos
  

October 2010

• abgeordnetenwatch.de Promoting more transparency in Parliament; "der direkte Draht von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zu den Abgeordneten und Kandidierenden"

July 2010

• Stiftung Berliner Mauer New! Includes the Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, Bernauer Strasse
  

June 2010

• Netzwerk Literaturkritik from Rostock University. Links to people, publications, reviews, periods etc. Still under construction
  

May 2010

• Several additions to our database lists of historical newspapers and periodicals
  

April 2010

• The novels of Fanny Lewald from Washington University in St Louis: ten digitised novels
  

March 2010

• Revisions and corrections to our economics page
  

February 2010

• Metropolis 2710 On the 2010 restored version of Metropolis
• Several new links on our dictionaries page - including...
  
• Wörterbücher und Indices New from Mediaevum.de. Many medieval dictionaries, but New High German too
  

January 2010

• What's so funny about German? more than you might think... Videos from stand-up comedian Henning Wehn
  

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