The cumulative “Subject Index Germanistik 1990-1994” continues the previously published cumulative indexes for 2000-2004 and 1995-1999. The indexes provide comprehensive and more user-friendly access to the data. The volumes evaluated for the present index contain 36,888 titles. The terms used, which have varied over the years, have, as far as possible, been standardised and expanded. Searching has been simplified through a system of cross-references and the refined form of the column titles. In addition to the terms distributed throughout the index, motifs, lexicological studies, names, inscriptions, runes are grouped under the relevant term such as “motif,” “lexicology.”