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Information Sources for Eastern European Studies
Academic Department
Library Catalogs
Library Electronic Resources
Maps, Dictionaries
Cyrillic Transliteration Tables
Major Sites Relating to Slavic and East European Studies
Slavic and East European Library Web Sites
Other Useful Web Sites Relating to East European Studies
- Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies at UCSB
Online Library Catalogs
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Pegasus:
UCSB's online catalog
- Melvyl:
the University of California online catalog
- Next-Generation Melvyl Pilot:
combines University of California online catalog with WorldCat
- These electronic databases are available on campus and through off-campus access (proxy server/VPN).
- Newspapers
- Russian Electronic Newspapers
- Newspapers in Slavic Languages (other than Russian)
- Electronic Journals (Selected titles)
- Databases
- ABSEES Online
- ABSEES Online is the online version of the American Bibliography of Slavic
and East European Studies. It can be searched by multiple fields, including
author, title, publisher, date of publication, subject heading, and a keyword.
The database contains bibliographic citations to books, book reviews and
journal articles published in the United States and Canada. ABSEES currently
contains over 35,000 citations from 1990-1996 and is updated monthly.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Arts & humanities citation index provides complete access to
articles from more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities
journals and to relevant articles in over 7,000 social science and science
journals.
- Business Source Complete
- Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,200 journals.
- Historical Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts is bibliographic database containing citations to
articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the
United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently indexes over 2,000
journals published throughout the world. In addition to including the key
historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts
includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences
and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of
history.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Contents of LexisNexis Academic:
- Newspapers around the world and within the United States
- Business, legal, and medical journals and news
- Corporate financial information
- Federal laws, regulations, and all court decisions
- State laws and court decisions in full text
- Quotations; biographies; and business directories
- MLA International Bibliography
- Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, the MLA
International Bibliography indexes critical scholarship on literature,
language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles,
series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other
materials. The database includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present,
approximately 1,400,000 records.
- PAIS International
- PAIS International, from Public Affairs Information Service, is an
important index to political, economic, and social issues in current debate.
The database covers the public and social policy literature of business,
economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration,
government, political science, and other social sciences -- with emphasis on
issues that are or might become the subjects of legislation. Dating from 1972
to the present, PAIS International contains abstracts of journal articles,
books, statistical yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, research
reports and government documents from all over the world. The materials
indexed are published in 60 countries in six languages -- English, German,
French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. All subject headings and abstracts
are written in English. PAIS International aids public policy researchers in
academic, government, corporate, and community settings.
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliography
- A bibliography created by the Institute of Scientific Information in the
Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Covers all disciplines in
the Social Sciences and Humanities and is especially good for searching
citations in Russian language journals.
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Citations and abstracts for articles in 1,700 journals in the social
sciences, spanning 50 disciplines. Also includes information on individually
selected, relevant items from over 3,300 scientific and technical journals.
Because the information stored about each article includes the article's
bibliography, or cited reference list, you can also search the database for
articles that cite a known author or work. Articles indexed cover 1980 to
present.
- Science Citation Index
expanded
- Science Citation Index, also known as "Web of Science", compiled by the
Institute for Scientific Information, indexes 5700 major journals in all
fields of science. The database also includes: Social Science Citation Index
and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
- Alexandria Digital Library
- Alexandria Digital Library is a working digital library with
collections of geographically referenced materials and services for accessing
those collections.
- The Babelfish Translator
- The Babelfish Translator service from AltaVista translates raw text, web
pages, or search results from Russian to English.
- Basic Phrases for East European Languages
- This site gives some simple phrases in ... different Eastern European
languages, including Polish
- Maps of Russia
and the Former Soviet Republics. The Perry-Castaņeda Map Library at the
University of Texas makes available a variety of maps from their collection in
digitized form.
- Maps of Europe.
Digitized maps of Europe from the Perry-Castaņeda Map Library at the
University of Texas.
- Your dictionary
- YourDictionary.com is the web's most authoritative and comprehensive
language portal. It has links to more than 1500 dictionaries representing more
than 230 languages.
- Transliteration Tables
- These are Library of Congress transliteration tables for Russian,
Byelorussian, Serbian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Azerbaijanian,
Kazakh, Moldovan, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uzbek which we use in our library
catalog. There are many other ways to represent Cyrillic characters in Roman
letters. Other databases may use other transliteration schemes. Please adjust
your search accordingly.
- College & Research
Libraries News Links
- Russian "sites to link you to history, politics, and culture"
- REENIC
- The Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC) at the
University of Texas is a comprehensive site for information about countries of
the former Soviet Union. This site provides keyword search capability to the
site, a country directory with extensive links to online information resources
about each country, and information by resource type (newsletters, databases,
UseNet News, etc.).
- REESWeb
- REESWeb is a comprehensive index of electronic resources on the Balkans,
the Baltic states, the Caucusus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS,
Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union.
- CSEEES
- Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies offers links
to general, travel, language, culture, media, government information and
virtual tours to 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
- ECEC
- Columbia University's East Central Europe Center provides country indexes
of each country in Eastern Europe with links to sites with cultural,
geographical, political, and historical information, bibliographic information
on environment, European integration, foreign investment, minorities,
nationalism, privatization and women's rights.
- Slavic and East European Resources (UC Berkeley)
- This web site is designed to assist users in learning about UC Berkeley's
collections in Slavic and East European Studies. Coverage includes Russia and
the republics of the Former Soviet Union, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and
Albania.
- The Slavonic and East European Collections at British Library
- The Bucknell Russian Program (Bucknell University)
- This site provides a very comprehensive information on Russian history, literature, culture, media, and society.
- Hoover Institution
- The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, has a world-renowned library and archives.
- New York Public Library : Slavic and Baltic Division
- Bobst Library at New York University : Slavic Studies Resources
- Slavic and East European Collection at the University of Chicago Library
- Slavic and East European Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
- Rhodes College Eastern Europe Resources
- Slavic and East European Collections in the Stanford University Libraries
- Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Michigan : Slavic and East European Division
- REECA Web (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries)
- Slavic and East European Resources (Cornell University)
- Hokkaido University Slavic Research Center
- Other Useful Web
Sites Relating to East European Studies
Questions? Contact Annie Platoff.
Based on earlier versions by Cecily Johns, Olha Buchel, and Allan Urbanic.
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