Slavonic and East European Studies
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| American
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) |
The online
version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East
European Studies covering the period 1990 to the present.
Scope of coverage: articles, books, dissertations etc on East-Central
Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States
and Canada. |
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| Central
and Eastern European Online Library |
Online
database which provides access to full text articles from humanities
and social sciences journals, electronic books and re-digitized
documents pertaining to Central, South-Eastern, Baltic and Eastern
European topics. |
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| Comintern
Archive |
An
index to the archive and microform collections held at the Russian
Centre for the Conservation and Study of Records of Modern History.
The Comintern Archive contains original documents from over
35 communist and left-socialist parties, together with other
international organisations from 21 different countries. It
covers the entire period of the Comintern's existence, from
1919 to 1943. |
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| Comintern
Electronic Archives |
The
Comintern (3rd International) was founded by Lenin in 1919 as
an International Party of Proletariat, and was ceased in 1943.
The Comintern Archive consists of 55 million pages of documents
in 90 languages. Now kept in the Russian State Archive for Social
and Political History in Moscow (RGASPI), the archive has been
classified until 1991. The COMINTERN online Database is based
upon the inventory to the complete Comintern Archives. It provides
full descriptions of all files and access to 1.2 million digital
images of the most frequently used documents. The service, database
and number of images are being updated on a regular basis. A
summary of the files that have been digitised is available.
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| Croatian
National Bibliography |
The
catalogues of the National and
University Library of Croatia list books, serials, articles
from journals and newspapers. |
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| Cult
of Body : Sports and Physical Culture in Russia |
Comprises
collections of unique material about various forms of popular
culture and the entertainment industry in Tsarist and Soviet
Russia. This collection is a valuable resource for researchers
interested in sports, tourism, gender roles and sexuality in
Russia, as revealed in sports periodicals. Published by IDC
as part of the series Mass Culture and Entertainment in
Russia.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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| Czech
National Bibliography |
Used
to search for: articles in Czech magazines and papers 1991-1996;
Czech books published between 1983-1996; dissertations and Authors'
abstracts 1989-March 1996; periodicals published in the Czech
Republic 1990 -1995. |
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| Early
Russian Cinema |
Unique
collection of Russian film periodicals published during the
last decade of the Tsarist regime. The collection includes sophisticated,
bi-monthly periodicals as well as more popular weeklies released
by the major Russian film studios. Containing, amongst others,
interviews with movie stars and screenplays that are now irretrievably
lost, these journals are an invaluable source of information
for researchers interested in the silent movie era and Russia's
entertainment industry at the eve of the Revolution. Published
by IDC as part of the series Mass Culture and Entertainment
in Russia.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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| Hungarian
authors |
Szinnyei
Jozsef: Magyar Irok Elete Es Munkai (Lives and works of Hungarian
authors) compiled by József Szinnyei. Originally published
in Budapest, 1891-1914. Contains 30.000 biographies. |
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| Hungarian
bibliography |
Hungarian
bibliography covering the period 1712 to 1920 compiled by Géza
Petrik and others. |
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| Hungarian
National Bibliography |
Contains
three databases: Books, Periodicals and Repertory of Serials,
all published in Hungary and deposited at the National Szechenyi
Library through legal deposit or acquired from other sources.
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| Integrum
World Wide |
An
integrated database that includes CIS and Russian central and
regional newspapers, journals and magazines, Russian and foreign
Information agencies, Internet media, TV and radio, statistics,
directories, legislation, official publications, business information,
production catalogues, Who is Who, etc. The database also includes
a full text collection of literary texts (Russian and world
literature in translation).
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| Kodeks
database |
A
major source for Russian legislation comprising documents going
back to 1991. It includes legislative acts issued by approximately
200 executive, legislative and judiciary bodies in Russia. |
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| Mass
Culture and Entertainment in Russia |
This
series comprises collections of rare, and often unique, materials
that offer an insight into the dynamics of cultural and daily
life in imperial and Soviet Russia. The series is organized
along six thematic lines that together cover the full spectrum
of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian culture, ranging
from the penny press and high-brow art journals in pre-Revolutionary
Russia, to children's magazines and publications on constructivist
design in the early Soviet Union. The British Library subscribes
to the following databases from this series: Russian
Avant-Garde, Screen
and Stage, Early
Russian Cinema, Cult
of : Body Sports and Physical Culture in Russia and World
of Children - Artek Pioneer Camp Archive.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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| Polish
National Bibliography |
Produced
by the National Library of Poland,
and covering the years 1982-1997, this CD-ROM lists monographs,
serials, periodicals. It allows English and Polish language
searching. It has a number of searchable indexes including author,
subject, keyword, title, ISBN and ISSN. |
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| Russian
Academy of Sciences Bibliographies |
Covers
more than 12,500 periodicals published primarily in Russia,
the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern
Europe. Created by the Institute of Scientific Information on
Social Sciences (INION) of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
it cites and abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations, and
articles. Coverage is from 1986 to the present. |
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| Russian
Avant-Garde |
The
most comprehensive collection of Russian Literary avant-garde
publications. This collection includes representative works
from all Russian literary avant-garde schools. It comprises
almost 800 books, periodicals and almanacs most of them published
between 1910 and 1940, and thus offers a varied and well-balanced
overview of one of the most versatile movements in Russian literature.
The books in this collection can be regarded as objects of art,
illustrated by famous artists such as Malevich, Goncharova and
Lisitskii. Published by IDC as part of the series Mass Culture
and Entertainment in Russia.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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| Russian
/ NIS Statistical Databases |
Online
Russian and CIS Statistical Publications (Eastview) |
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| Russian
/ NIS Universal Databases |
Online
databases of Russian/FSU Publications (East View).
Files: Central Newspapers, Regional Newspapers, CIS & Baltic
Periodicals, Social Sciences & Humanities, Parliamentary Publications,
Military & Security Periodicals. |
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| Russian
National Bibliography |
This
database provides bibliographic data for over one million items
(books, brochures, over 80,000 dissertations) published in the
Former Soviet Union and - after 1991 - the Russian Federation.
The records were provided by the Russian Book Chamber, the official
National Bibliographic Centre, and the Russian ISBN agency.
Cyrillic and English language interfaces are available. |
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| Russian
National Bibliography (Eastview) |
This
online database includes bibliographic data for printed books,
maps, music, art albums, periodical (journal and newspaper)
articles, reviews and dissertation abstracts. 1995 onwards.
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| Russian
State Archive of Literature and Art |
Contains
material relating to writers, artists, actors, dramatists, musicians,
film makers and others in the cultural domain from the 18th
to 20th centuries. It also contains over 500 rare photographs
and engravings from the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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| Screen
and Stage |
A
collection of rare Russian theatre and film periodicals, which
also includes material on other forms of entertainment and mass
culture in pre-Revolutionary Russia. The collection consists
of various types of material ranging from sophisticated journals
to cheaply produced magazines published in the last three decades
of the Tsarist regime. Published by IDC as part of the series
Mass Culture and Entertainment in Russia.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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| Slovak
Bibliography |
Used
to check bibliographical details of Slovak monographs published
between 1989 and 1994: includes seminar and congress proceedings,
Festschriften, radio plays (published by Radio Slovenia), and
doctoral theses. |
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| World
of Children - Artek Pioneer Camp Archive |
Publications
on the life of young people in the USSR and their subculture.
These documents, held in the Russian State Archive of Social
and Political History (Moscow), relate to the history of the
Artek Pioneer Camp, the main Soviet pioneer recreation camp,
and include information on various aspects of youth policy and
young people's lives in the Soviet Union in the period from
1944 to 1967. They provide an insight into everyday life and
the mentality of Soviet children by means of government documents,
administrative, medical and financial records, transcripts of
meetings, statistical reports, letters from Soviet and foreign
children, diaries, etc. The archive is a valuable resource for
researchers in such fields as sociology, cultural studies, philology
and political history. Published by IDC as part of the series
Mass Culture and Entertainment in Russia.
NB. Printing should be from within the PDF application
(not the web browser).
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Social sciences
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| Applied
Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) |
An
indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services,
economics, politics, race relations and education. |
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| Humanities
& Social Sciences Index Retrospective |
A
bibliographic database that cites articles from humanities and
social sciences journals and covers a wide range of interdisciplinary
fields. Dates covered: 1907 - 1984. |
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| International
bibliography of the social sciences |
Indexes
information contained in more than 2,600 social science journals
and 6,000 books each year covering the core disciplines of anthropology,
economics, political science, and sociology. |
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| Oxford
Reference Online (Premium Collection) |
Over
100 specialist and general reference dictionaries covering a
wide range of subjects from social sciences, business, sciences,
language, the arts, and history. |
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| Social
Policy and Practice |
This
database covers public and social policy, public health, social
care, community development, mental & community health,
homelessness, housing, crime, law & order, families, children
and older people. Content is from the UK with some material
from the USA and Europe. |
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| Social
Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) |
A
multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts,
covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes
more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as
covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300
of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. |
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| Social
Sciences Full Text |
A
cover-to-cover index to a broad range of international English-language
periodicals from 1983 onwards on all aspects of the social sciences
but especially strong on politics, economics and current affairs.
Includes selective full text of articles from 1994.
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| Sociological
abstracts |
Contains
information from approximately 2500 journals in 30 different
languages from about 55 countries. It covers sociology and related
disciplines by including bibliographic citations and abstracts
and enhanced dissertation citations from Dissertation Abstracts
International. |
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Women's studies
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| British
and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries |
Includes
more than 100,000 pages of primary materials spanning more than
300 years, from the 16th century onwards; also includes biographical
information and a bibliography of sources. |
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| The
Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online |
A
collection of more than 4,700 publications from continental
Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand,
dating from 1543-1945. Gerritsen Online allows scholars to trace
the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as
the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.
It consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph
Language Series. |
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| International
Who's Who of Women |
Details
from this publication, which outlines the lives and achievements
of the most eminent and distinguished women in the world today,
are included in World
Who's Who. |
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| North
American Women's Letters and Diaries |
Includes more than 150,000 pages of primary materials spanning
more than 300 years, from Colonial times to 1950; also includes
biographies and a bibliography of sources. |
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| Orlando
: Women's Writing in the British isles from the Beginnings to
the Present |
Electronic
textbase on the history of women's writing, primarily focused
upon the British Isles, with biographical entries, from 8th
century AD to the present.
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| Past
Masters |
A
full text electronic database which includes Eighteenth
century women playwrights, the Oxford guide to women
writers, and letters and/or works by Jane Austen, Charlotte
Bronte, Frances Burney, George Eliot, Mary Shelley and others. |
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| Scottish
Women Poets of the Romantic Period |
Includes
some 60 volumes from 47 poets, together with critical and biographical
essays. |
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| Women
Writers Online |
The
Women Writers Project textbase, containing texts by women writers
from the period 1400 to 1850. |
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Other electronic resources
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| Buildings
of England (Pevsner) |
Provides
information on buildings and artefacts in England, such as location,
period, architect etc. Also serves as a comprehensive index
to the printed volumes of Pevsner's Buildings of England,
from which all of the information on the database is drawn. |
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| Columbia
Gazetteer of the world |
A
database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over
165,000 places in the world. Includes both modern and historical
place names. |
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| Geobase |
Multidisciplinary
database containing bibliographic information and abstracts
in the fields of development studies, the earth sciences, ecology,
geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography. The database
provides current coverage of over 1,800 journals and archive
coverage of several thousand additional titles. |
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Index
Translationum
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A
bibliographic database of translated books published in about
100 countries in all fields since 1979. Subject coverage is
mostly humanities, social sciences. |
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| Keesing's
online |
Digest
of political, social and economic events for all countries of
the world from 1931. |
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| Publishers'
International ISBN Directory |
The
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is a 10-digit or 13-digit
code that provides each published book with a unique identification
number. The ISBN also identifies publishers. This directory
gives full names and addresses for the publishers listed. |
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| Statesman's
Yearbook Online |
This site
contains the full text of the current edition of The Statesman's
Yearbook, regularly updated to reflect recent world events,
with search and browse facilities. It provides current political,
social and economic information about all the nation states
of the world.
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| World
of learning |
Information
on over 30,000 universities, colleges, schools of art and music,
libraries, learned societies, museums and art galleries, research
institutes and international cultural, scientific and educational
organizations, together with details of more than 200,000 staff
and officials. |
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