Zeitschriften der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft

The Deutsche Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft (DMG -German Oriental Society) which was founded in 1845 started to publish a periodical focused on the history of Oriental cultures and languages in 1847. The Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG) is still today one of the leading scientific periodicals in the field of Oriental and African studies. In addition to the ZDMG the society published for a certain period of time 3 other scientific journals which dealt with particular aspects of Oriental studies: The Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete was published from 1886 until 1938, the Zeitschrift fuer Indologie und Iranistik was published from 1922 until 1936, and the Zeitschrift fuer Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete was published between 1922 and 1935. These journals represent valuable contributions to the scholaly discourse on the history of Asian and African cultures and societies and are, at the same time, an important source for the history of and current research in Oriental studies.

The project is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-German Research Foundation) and aims at the digitzation of all volumes of all the periodicals published by the DMG until the present day. The resulting digital collection comprises 132.000 images. Tables of contents of all volumes are catalogued into the periodical contents database of the Middle East Virtual Library MENALIB - MENAcontents. Also, the contents of all volumes can be retrieved through a fulltext search. Access to the collection is open without any restrictions. The digital images are catalogued into databases of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB -German National Library) the Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke (ZVDD - Central Directory of Digitzed Imprints) and DigiZeitschriften.

The Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle (ULB Halle) maintains the collection Periodicals of the DMG as a module of its national Middle East and North Africa collection (Sondersammelgebiet Vorderer Orient einschliesslich Nordafrika) and the Middle East Virtual Library MENALIB. Technical concept and support for the project are provided by semantics GmbH in collaboration with Walter Nagel GmbH & Co KG and Herrmann und Kraemer GmbH.