The most important full-text collections:

• Literature Online

More:

• DBIS - General and Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies - Full-Text Databases

• Writings on World Literature
• Oxford Scholarship Online – Literature
• Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

• E-Journal of Mainz Comparative Literature: Comparative Literature at literaturkritik.de
• EZB – General and Comparative Linguistics and Literature. Indo-European Studies. Non-European Languages and Literatures

• Literary Studies Portal
• Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLG)
• Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur (KLfG)
• Kindler’s Literary Encyclopedia
• Killy Lexicon of Literature
• The Oxford encyclopedia of literary theory
• Encyclopedia of Literature

• avldigital BLOG
• Blog of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin
• LiteraturWissenschaft in Berlin – Thinking Literary

• Faculty 05 – General and Comparative Literature

• New Acquisitions General and Comparative Literature

In the Central Library, you can find literary studies under the classification numbers 13E – 13K in the textbook collection and under LING C in the reading room. 

In the Humanities Library you will find General and Comparative Literature (AVL) in rooms 03/922 and 03/916.

The journals of the years 2005 and older can be found in the journal magazine Humanities in the Central Library.

Cataloging systems at our locations

All new acquisitions have been shelved in the Central Library since 2023 and in the Humanities Library since 2024 using the RVK system. The classification numbers for Literary Studies begin with the letters EA - ED.