Resources Outside The University Of Chicago Of Interest To Slavic And East European Studies Scholars

Plate # 47. Ukrainsk'ke narodne mystetstvo. Zhyvopys, Kyiv: Mystetstvo, 1967

REESWeb, sponsored by the University Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, is The World Wide Web Virtual Library's entry to organizing resources about this field. As such, it provides an excellent starting point for investigating the Web. It includes national home pages, interactive databases, research aids and information on current events, to name just a sampling of its coverage.

In addition to the broad array of resources available within REESWeb, below is a selection of sources that are of particular interest in our field.

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

• The 2002 All-Russian Population Census online can be both searched and browsed. Each volume is presented in the original Russian and in English translation.
• American Bibliography for Slavic and East European Studies.ABSEES ONLINE is the computer database version of the print bibliography, an index of books, journal articles and book reviews published in North America. Access to this database, from this site, is for the University of Chicago only.
• CEEOL - CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN ONLINE LIBRARY - a database with access to the full text pdf articles from more than 250 journals from Central and Eastern Europe. See the Index for a list of journal titles and subject areas. NOTE THAT WE HAVE LIMITED DOWNLOADS PER YEAR, SO BROWSE FREELY, BUT DOWNLOAD ONLY THOSE ARTICLES MOST IMPORTANT TO YOUR RESEARCH.
• Russian National Bibliography, RNB.- The online version of the Russian National Bibliography, which merges into one database all of its eight subseries (Knizhnaia letopis', Letopis' gazetnykh statei, Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei, Letopis' avtoreferatov dissertatsii, Letopis' retsenzii, Letopis' izoizdanii, Notnaia letopis' and Kartograficheskaia letopis'), searchable either in the Cyrillic alphabet or in Library of Congress transliteration. Subject coverage: all areas of the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Time coverage: 1998 - present.
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, RAS. The 200,000+ citations and abstracts cover books, individual chapters in monographic collections, manuscripts, and dissertations, plus articles from more than 10,000 periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Citations are given in their original language (in Library of Congress transliteration) and subject headings can be searched in transliterated Russian and in English. Access to this database from this site, is for the University of Chicago only.
• Universal Database of Russian Newspapers, UDRN: With more than 900 new articles being added daily, UDB provides the full-text of the current year's issues of over 30 Russian newspapers, as well as accessing archives to past years (back to 1996 for some titles). Among those titles included are Argumenty i fakty, Itogi, ITAR-TASS, Izvestiia, Kommersant-Daily, Literaturnaia gazeta, Nezavisimaia gazeta, Obshchaia gazeta, Rossiiskaia gazeta, Sankt-Peteterburgskie vedomosti, and Zavtra.
• Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press: The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research, presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal. Complete full-text archive 1949-present
• VOPROSY ISTORII [1926-2006] includes Istorik Marksist, 1926-1941; Bor'ba klassov, 1931-1936; Istoricheskii zhurnal, 1937-1945; Voprosy istorii, 1945-2006].  The oldest Soviet and Russian academic history journal, it has offered scholarly perspectives on events in Russia and the world since 1926. Published by the Russian Academy of Sciences, this legendary journal covers Russian and world history.  NOTE: To search a pre-1980 start date, you will need to click on the drop box and select the appropriate start date.
• VOPROSY LITERATURY [1957-2006] The most authoritative journal of literary criticism for more than half a century. It offers articles, essays and roundtable transcripts dealing with problems of Russian and world literature, history and theory of literature. This journal is also noteworthy for its publications from the writers' archives. NOTE: To search a pre-1980 start date, you will need to click on the drop box and select the appropriate start date.
• VIESTNIK EVROPY [1802-1830] One of the first literary and political journals in Russia. Together with literature and arts the journal enlightened its readers on problems of internal and foreign policy of Russia as well as history and political life of foreign countries. Nikolai Karamzin, the famous writer and historian, was its editor. The journal ceased publishing in 1830. This journal is searchable using modern Russian (post-1917) spelling, although the text is available in its pre-1917 orthography. To search a pre-1980 start date, you will need to click on the drop box and select the appropriate start date.
• Country Watch and Country Wire Service. Updated every 6 months, each country review provides a political and economic overview and analysis of data from the corporate/finance sector, environmental trends, etc. Tables and maps are included. The Wire Service provides daily analysis of current trends and events. Print copies of the Reviews are shelved in the Business & Economics Reading Room, Floor A Regenstein. Access to this database from this site, is for the University of Chicago only.

• LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) is broad in scope, providing access to citations and abstracts from over 2,000 serial publications, books, occasional papers, technical reports and dissertations from around the world in more than 75 subject categories such as language acquisition, computational linguistics, dialectology, artificial intelligence, and bilingualism, as well as related topics in sociology, psychology, anthropology, folklore, etc. Slavic and East European topics and sources are well represented. Coverage of the electronic database begins with 1973. For earlier years (1964-72) see the print copy at Z7003.L17 RR4.
• MLA includes articles, books and dissertations on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore from 1963 to the present, with excellent coverage of Slavic and East European topics. (For materials cited from 1921-1962, refer to the original print format: "MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures" at Z7006.M67 RR and RR3.)
• PAIS International. The Public Affairs Information Service database consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters and statistical directories about public affairs, broadly defined (i. e. politics and government, economics, law, environmental studies, etc.). It contains many citations to Slavic and East European topics, and is particularly useful for its coverage of western European journals. Coverage is from 1972 - present.
• The WEB OF SCIENCE database provides access to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index from 1987 - present. Included are thousands of citations to scholarly materials on Slavic and East European topics, and it is particularly useful in identifying citations in western European publications.
• WORLD NEWS CONNECTION (WNC) contains material provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) from full text and summaries of non-U.S. media sources, usually within 48-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast. Included are translations of important radio and television broadcasts, as well as selected newspaper and journal articles, news agency releases and other official government statements.
• AAASS NEWSNET ARCHIVE The newsletter of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, NewsNet features articles, news and information columns including a listing of conferences and conventions, news on Slavic collections and archives at various academic and institutional libraries as well as new Web sites covering Slavic studies, recent or upcoming publications written, edited, or translated by AAASS members, as well as announcements of large-scale research projects or surveys. Coverage: 1960-2006

NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS

• Checklist of Slavic, East European and Central Eurasian Newspapers  held by the University of Chicago Library.
• Poland: National Digital Library: Journals To date, includes 20 titles from the collections of Biblioteka Narodowa, with more to be added in the future.
• Gazety Rossii 1703-1917 [Russian Newspapers 1703-1917] A listing of Russian newspaper holdings of the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg), the Russian State Library (Moscow), the Russian Public Historical Library (Moscow) and other depositories, providing bibliographic descriptions and detailed holdings information for more than 6,400 newspapers published within the territories of the Russian Empire.
• Zhurnal'nyi Zal: A gateway to the full-text of current and back issues of many important Russian literary journals such as Novyi mir, Oktiabr', Neva, Zvezda, Logos, Kontinent, and many others. In Russian; free access.
• A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF CZECH LITERARY & THEATRICAL NEWSPAPERS [Digitalizovani Archiv Casopisu] includes the full-text of more than 45 Czech newspapers of the 19th and 20th centuries, a project of the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences of The Czech Republic [Ustav pro ceskou literaturu AV CR]. The user can browse title, issue by issue, as well as search for individual articles by author, title and date.
• DIGITAL NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA: NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES: Free full-text access to many important titles from the 19^th - first half of the 20^th century, including Politika (1904-1941); Novine serbske (1813-1821); Srpske novine (1834-1919); Misao (1919-1937); Danica (1860-1872); Orao (1875-1902; Jugoslovensko pcelarstvo (1934-1971); Leskovacki glasnik (1921-1941), etc.
• The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Slavic Newspaper Index contains detailed holdings of more than 850 Slavic & East European newspapers held by UIUC in print, microfiche and microfilm. The index can be searched by country of publication, city of publication, title or language. Most titles can be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
• Harvard's WIDENER COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM. Search by country on the pulldown menu (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, etc.) to see a list of newspaper titles held.
• Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium: Union List of Newspapers Currently Received. Member institutions include the libraries of Arizona State University, Stanford University, University of Arizona, University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles, University of Hawaii, University of Oregon and the University of Washington. The University of British Columbia Library and the University of Southern California are affiliate members

ARCHIVES

• Guides to Russian Archives/ Putevoditeli po rossiiskim arkhivam, a joint project of Rosarkhiv (Russian Federal Archival Agency), the Slavic Section of the University of Kansas Library, and East View Information Services, provides a full-text searchable database of more than 60 Russian federal and regional archival guides published between 1987-2004.
• Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Catalogue of Finding Aids and Documents. A joint project of the State Archival Service of the Russian Federation (Rosarkhiv), the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Chadwyck- Healey, the catalogue lists both the reels of Opisi (finding aids) and the reels of Dela (documents) from The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF) and The Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI) and the Centre for the Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD).
  
  The 454 reels of the Opisi are a joint purchase of the CIC libraries, a consortium of which the University of Chicago is a member, and are housed in the University of Illinois (Urbana) Slavic and East European Library. The Opisi are available to all University of Chicago faculty, students, staff, and other authorized borrowers with privileges at any one of the CIC libraries. Use the Library's special Opisi Requests form to borrow needed reels on Interlibrary Loan. Microfilm of individual reels of the Dela (archival documents), are available for purchase in any combination. Please contact the Slavic Bibliographer if there are specific reels of Dela that you would recommend that the library acquire.
• ArcheoBiblioBase is an electronic information system about archival repositories in the Russian Federation and includes the current sixteen federal archives (sometimes called "Preservation Centers") which are under the administration of Rosarkhiv, as well as other major archives of Russian Federation agencies. This system is maintained in Moscow by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, in collaboration with Rosarkhiv, the Federal Archival Service of Russia.
• The Open Society Archives (Budapest) includes information about and descriptions of its various holdings, including the records of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (1949-1993) and its successor, the Open Media Research Institute (1994-1997), as well as archives of the Soros Foundations networks, archives of the Central European University, records of various human rights movements and issues, as well as a unique and extensive collection of audiovisual materials.

DIGITAL TEXTS

• Inventory of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Digital Projects. This inventory includes (1) Non-Searchable image files (2) OCR'd or keyboarded text (3) Encoded text and (4) Overlap categories. Browse by category or keyword search. This is a project of the Subcommittee on Digital Projects of the Bibliography & Documentation Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
• FEB, Fundamental Electronic Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
  FEB-web is a project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and online since July 2002. FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it. FEB-web makes the canon of Russian verbal art available free of charge to anyone with internet access. FEB-web is also a unique analytical tool with functional capabilities that allow researchers to approach Russian verbal art in a fundamentally new way. Includes full-texts of authors' works (Pushkin, Batiushkov, Griboedov, Boratynskii, Tiutchev, Lermontov, L. Tolstoi, Esenin, Slovo o polku Igoreve, and Byliny), as well as general reference works and those devoted to specific authors or genres. English version available.
• DIGITAL NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SERBIA: Includes the full-text of Cyrillic manuscripts, Epic national poetry, Old printed books, Old and rare books, other book & graphic collections (digital texts of Zorana Djindjic, Momcilo Nastasijevic, books on Napoleon, Serbian children's books, etc.), Cartographic materials, Engravings and art material, Photographic documents, Posters and documentary material, Printed music & sound recordings; Catalogs and bibliographies (including the Serbian National Bibliography), and many other collections.
• The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The digital collection consists chiefly of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. The HPSSS’s value is compounded by the fact that it was compiled in English and organized according to a rigorous social science framework.

JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, HANDBOOKS

• Slavic Review is the journal of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty RFE/RLhas resumed publication of their Daily Reports. This link will also take you to the archives of the Reports published by Open Media Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic the past few years.
• Publications of The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (The Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) include both current and archival issues of their biweekly electronic journal The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, as well as their Field Reports and Forum Summaries .
• Caucasian Regional Studies. Published by the International Association for Caucasian Studies (IACRS), beginning with no. 1, 1996.
• Current and archival issues of East European Consitutional Review, published online by New York University's School of Law.
• Library of Congress Country Studies / Area Handbooks. The Federal Research Division of LC regularly prepares and updates handbooks for over 71 countries, including the countries and regions of the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. Many of the printed copies of these handbooks are in the Slavic Reference Collection (RR2S). Look at Library of Congress Country Studies to search the text of these handbooks, individually or in combination.

OTHER SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN LIBRARY SITES

• Library of Congress European Room
• British Library Slavonic & East European Collections

ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• IREX (International Research and Exchange Board)
• AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)
• AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)