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Newsletter: Austria KulturAustrian Press and Information Service
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Special Links: 60 Years, Staatsvertrag/State Treaty
- Austria Academic Portal:
Includes complete contact information for all uiversities and technical schools. Some individual university homepages:
- University of Vienna Homepage
- Universität Klagenfurt Homepage
- Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Homepage
Institut für Zeitgeschichte homepage- Leoppold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck Homepage
- Universität Salzburg Homepage
- Austrian Fulbright Commission: http://www.fulbright.at/
- Information on Austria from the US-Embassy: http://www.usembassy.at/en/austria/index.html:
A portal site for almost anything you want to know about Austria- Wien-Konkret: Parallel to City-Search
- Austrian Government Links:
all federal and state units, political parties, and relevant embassies
- The Researcher's Mobility Portal
- Universal Currency Converter
- Austrian Maps online
- About Austria, travel Guide
- Vienna Ball Calendar and City Info
- Planet Vienna
Professional Organizations,
Author Societies,
and Publications
- Austrian Studies
(Modern Humanities Research Association, London)- Austrian Research Portal, UK and Ireland
- Elfriede Jelinek Forschungszentrum
- Arthur Schnitzler Gesellschaft
- Kafka Society of America
- Grillparzer Gesellschaft and Biography
- Internationales Nestroy Zentrum Schwechat
- Ferdinand Raimund
- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur
- Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft
- Heimito von Doderer-Gesellschaft
- Internationale Alexander Lernet-Holenia Gesellschaft
- Dachverband der Volksliedwerk der Bundesländer
- Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (supports many kinds of iniitatives)
- Austrian Philatelic Society
- Austria Philatelic Society (US)
Presses and Media
- Radio Österreich International
- ORF: Österreichischer Radio und Fernsehen
- Austrian Culture, Series edited by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger for Peter Lang
- Ariadne Press (specializing in translations of Austrian literature)
- Verlag Turia + Kant
- Studienverlag
- Wiener Universitätsverlag
Centers, Archives and Libraries
Österreichische Bibliotheken, Dokumentationsstellen und verwandte Einrichtungen:
Complete list of all Austrian Archives and libraries
Österreichische Bibligrafie: OeB-online
- The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta
- Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota
- Center Austria: Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce, University of New Orleans
- Österreich-Zentrum Antwerpen (OCTANT)
- Die Homepage vom Literaturhaus Arbeitsstelle und Archiv für neuere Österreichische Literatur (Vienna)
- Literaturhaus (Salzburg)
- Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek
- Austrian National Library (ÖNB, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
- Ariadne (a service of the Austrian National Library for gender specific literature and women's studies data bases)
- Österreichisches Literaturarchiv (collection of library estates of mainly contemporary Austrian writers)
- Österreichische Bibliografie
- ANNO: Historische Österreichische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften online
FYI: György Kókay, A magyar sajtó története [History of the Hungarian Press], Budapest 1995; Kurt Paupie, Handbuch der Österreichischen Presse, 1848-1959 (Vienna, 1960), 2 Vols; Hungarian newspapers (selected)- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Oxford Austrian and Central European Studies
- The Vatican portal (includes Vatican Museums and Library)
- Virtuelles Urkundenarchiv österreichischer Klöster: Monasterium
(overview by Andreas Hepperger: "Klosterbibliotheken in Oesterreich und die 'Digital Heritage-Politik Europas'")- Das Portal zum Archivwesen der römisch-katholischen Kirche in Österreich
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- COLLATE - Collaboratory for Annotation, Indexing and Retrieval of Digitized Historical Archive Material
- Erinnerungsort Wien: Website on the Second Republic: Bruno Kreisky Archive
- Filmarchiv Austria
- Film Archives and DIF: Deutsches Filminstitut
- Center for Research Libraries (Chicago): quick search page: inculdes database of foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations
- Literaturfoto: Photos of authors
- Databases with sources on Hungarian history: Arcanum (about)
Online Publications and Newsgroups
- HABSBURG: discussion list for all facets of Austrian cultural history
- Webage for the dissucsion list on the Holy Roman Empire (includes reviews, links)
- ASciNA: Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America, a contact, job, and information list for scholars from and interested in Austria
- AEIOU: Austrian Cultural Information, an online encyclopedia
- Österreichische Literatur und Kultur im historischen Prozess and especially "Literaturepochen--Exil"
- Kakanien revisited: http://www.kakanien.ac.at: "Kakanien revisited" is a web site for interdisciplinary research in the field of Central and Eastern European studies
- Ab Imperio: Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) quarterly dedicated to studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the post Soviet Space
- Spaces of Identity (on Central Europe): http://www.spacesofidentity.net/
- Conference Group for Central European History: http://home.olemiss.edu/~hsgispen/cgceh/cgceh.html
- Studia Germanica et Austriaca
- Literaturwissenschaftliche Rezensionen
- Int. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, online review service: http://www.iaslonline.de/
- SEHEPUNKTE: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften
- Polish History List
History Sources in a (Central) European Context
- Zeitgeschichte Information System: portal site for history
- History Guide: InformationsWeiser Geschichte (portal site)
- Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI): Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
- Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte (see exhibits archive; e.g.Good Bye Bayern)
- Historicum.net: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenwschaften im Internet (a portal site for many projects, originating in Munich and Cologne
-- note the countries and projects links, e-publishing and Link-Wink)- Collegium Carolinum: Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder bzw. Tschechiens und der Slowakei,
and Bibliographie for religious history- Historische Kommission für die böhmischen Länder e.V. (HKBL)
- Geheimes Staatsarch Preussischer Kulturbesitz
- Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbestiz
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Kommission für die Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie
- Clio-Online: Fachportal für die Geschichtsswissenschaften
- Wissenschaftliches Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg
- Die Bundesbeauftragten der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes, and documentation like 17. Juni 1953
- NordOst Institut: Instutut für die Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen in Nordosteuropa e.V. (IKGN)
- Internetgestützten Lehre (IGL) der Uni Wien (the home page requires you to pick a person; look at the links on the left)
- Österreichische Städteatlas
- Stadt Wien (with a number of city history projects for all of Austria)
- Geschichte Online
- Library of Congress European Reading Room
Sources for Information in a (Central) European Context
- Russian and East European Network Information Center, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- Osteuropa Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
- Russian and Eastern European Studies VIrtual Library, University of Pittsburgh
- Indexes for Slavic and Eastern European Studies
- Council for European Studies: includes grants
- Unusual Websites from Central Europe
- Site for Holocaust bank litigation
- Multi-linguial place names for Czech names: The Global Gazeteer (ver. 2) and a clickable map
- Historic maps from the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
- Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München: Online Bibliography of Secondary Literature on Manuscripts, Modern Papers and Rare Printed Books
- Southeast European NGO Database, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE)
- Disclosing hidden history: Lustration in the Western Balkans
- Unusual Websites from Central Europe (Stanford University)
- Popular information on Hungary
German Language and Teaching Sources
- Österreichportal for teaching materials
- European Journal of Education
- European University Association
- Pedagogical and Educational Research Information Network for Europe
- Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
- Language Lab Austria
- Portal Fremdsprache Deutsch
- Germanica: German cutlure portal and Teacher Stuff
- German Dictionaries and Grammar
- Klett Edition Deutsch
- Fachsprache Computer - Computerterminologie für Deutsch als Fremdsprache
- Kinder-Brauser
- American Association of Teachers of German
- German Studies Association
- Internet Resources for Germanists/Die professionelle Germanistik
- Modern Language Association
- Women in German
- Philosophy Resources on the Internet