External Links
Newspapers, Magazines, other media
http://www.infodrom.north.de/
Comprehensive list of links to German-language daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines.
http://www.zeit.de/
Die Zeit, major German daily newspaper
http://www.faz.de/
Frankfurter Allgemeine, German daily newpaper
http://www.nzz.ch/
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Swiss daily newspaper
http://www.spiegel.de/
Der Spiegel, German weekly news magazine
http://www.dwelle.de/
The site of the Deutsche Welle. In addition to the latest news on their web page the Deutsche Welle offers an email service twice daily.
Universities, research, educational sites
http://webwiz.hlc.unimelb.edu.au/ThinkOutsideTheBox/home.htm
Think outside the Box: A website with exercises for students of German
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/areas/AMODEUR.html
European Studies at Melbourne Uni.
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/
University of Heidelberg
http://www.uni-saarland.de/
Saarland University
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/
University of Freiburg
http://www.fu-berlin.de/
The Free University of Berlin
http://www.germanistik.fu-berlin.de/
The German dept at the Free University of Berlin
http://www.fu-berlin.de/
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
http://www.daad.de/
The German Academic Exchange Service website
http://www.dean-online.de/
German-Australian Network, for student exchange between the countries
Governments, regions, cities
http://www.bundesregierung.de/
Official site of the German government
http://www.parlinkom.gv.at/
Official site of the Austrian Parliament
http://www.berlin.de/
Information on the German capital
http://www.muenchen.de/
Information on Munich, the Bavarian capital
http://www.koeln.de/
Information on Cologne
http://www.stuttgart.de/
Information on Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg
http://www.info.wien.at/
On Vienna, the capital of Austria
http://www.tiscover.com/tirol/
Info on the Austrian region of Tyrol
http://www.tiscover.com/carinthia/
Info on the Austrian region of Carinthia
http://www.tiscover.com/upperaustria/
Info on the Austrian region of Upper Austria
http://www.tiscover.com/vorarlberg
Info on the Austrian region of Vorarlberg
http://www.austrianviews.at/
Austrian views
Language and Literature
http://www.goethe.de/
The Goethe Institute. A highly-recommended site
http://www.literaturkritik.de/
A professionally designed internet magazine devoted to current German literature (in German)
http://www.lyrikline.org/
A good collection of modern poetry, it includes audio.
Museums
http://www.design-museum.de/
Vitra Design Museum
Search Engines
http://de.yahoo.com/
The German Yahoo
http://de.altavista.com/
The German Altavista
http://www.tellavision.at/
An Austrian search engine
Databases, Catalogues, Dictionaries, Translation
http://www.vlb.de/
German Books in Print (Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher). This page is operated by the German booksellers organisation.
http://wortschatz.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/index.html
Das Wortschatz-Lexikon stellt sich zum Ziel, den deutschen Wortschatz so vollständig wie möglich zur Verfügung zu stellen. Grundlage ist der gegenwärtig in maschinenlesbaren Quellen zur Verfügung stehende Text. Momentan enthält die Datenbank fast 5 Millionen Wortformen.
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/bdv/opac/opac1.html
A link to the library catalogue of the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.
http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/kvk_extern.html
This page allows searches in a variety of networked library catalogues, including Die Deutsche Bibliothek (for titles from 1980 onwards).
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gdz/en/projects/vdf_verzdokuserv_1en.html
Inventory of primary Web resources in the Distributed Digital Research Library Germany (Retrodigitization). Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The inventory contains primary Web-accessible resources created by German research libraries and other academic institutions.
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
A web-based machine translator. You can cut and paste text into it and it will do its job - surprisingly well, as long as the input does not get too complicated.
Swedish newspapers
Dagens Nyheter
www.dn.se
Svenska Dagbladet
www.svd.se
Aftonbladet
www.aftonbladet.se
Göteborgs-Posten
www.gp.se
Dagens Industri
www.di.se
Danish and Norwegian Newspapers
Jyllandsposten
www.jp.dk
Politikken
www.politikken.dk
Aftenposten
www.aftenposten.no
Universities
Uppsala universitet
www.uu.se
Lunds universitet
www.lu.se
Göteborgs universitet
www.gu.se
Stockholms universitet
www.su.se
Linköpings universitet
www.liu.se
Umeå universitet
www.umu.se
Kungliga tekniska högskolan
(KTH) Royal Institute of Technology www.kth.se
Chalmers tekniska högskola
(CTH) Chalmers Institute of Technology www chalmers.se
Øresundsuniversitetet
www.uni.oresund.org
Other links:
Virtual Sweden
The Official Gateway to Sweden. Highly recommended site! www.sweden.se
Swedish Institute
www.si.se
Högskoleverket:
National Agency for Higher Education www.hsv.se
Øresund
Bridge-Tunnel site: www.oeresundsbron.com
Yorvik Site
York, England www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk
Bellman Site
www.bellman.net
Swedish Church in Melbourne
http://skut.svenskakyrkan.se/melbourne/
The Language Bank
at Göteborg University http://spraakbanken.gu.se/
Swedish Yahoo
http://se.yahoo.com/
Swedish Altavista
www.altavista.se
Swedish Kulturnät
www.kultur.nu
Riksantikvarieämbetet
www.raa.se
Swedish Government
www.regeringen.se
Swedish Academy
www.svenskaakademien.se
The Swedish Embassy in Canberra
www.swedenabroad.com
Swedish Trade Council in Australia
www.swedishtrade.com/australia
Swedish Tourist Association
www.meravsverige.nu
Visit Sweden
A Global Visitor's Guide to Sweden www.visit-sweden.com
Svensk Idrott
Swedish Sports official homepage www.svenskidrott.se
Svensk Form
The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design www.svenskform.se
ABBA - The Site
Official ABBA Website www.abbasite.com
ABBA in Australia
http://phenomenon.abba-world.net
The Cardigans
website www.cardigans.com
Eagle-Eye Cherry
website www.eagle-eyecherry.com
Swedish National Television
www.svt.se
Swedish National Radio
www.sr.se Listen to Swedish Radio online!