Russian & Slavic Studies
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Finding Articles &Translations (major sources for each category are shaded)
Online indexes, databases
ABI/INFORM
Covers a broad range of business periodicals, many dealing with financial and economic issues in Russian and Eastern Europe.
ABSEES Online
Covers journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. Coverage begins in 1998. EBSEES (The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies), the European version of this publication, can be searched online http://www.ebsees.msh-paris.fr/
Academic Onefile
Academic OneFile includes a high percentage of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, this database indexes over 8000 titles and includes full text for over 5000 titles
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database that includes many full-text articles. Offers full text coverage for 1,000 journals and indexing for 3,000 journals.
Academic Universe - Lexis Nexis Online
Academic Universe carries the fulltext of many English language newspapers and other sources dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe. Includes: TASS - English translation of material broadcast on the Russian/Soviet news service & Current Digest of the Soviet/Post-Soviet Press.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database. Allows for general searches (for articles), and for citation searches (to see how many times a given article/book/author has been cited, and by whom). An extremely powerful resource.
CEEOL (Central & East European Online Library)
Fulltext coverage for over 250 Central and East European journals in the social sciences and humanities. Some coverage stars in the late 1990s. The UA library purchases a limited number of "downloads" (any time an article is downloaded or accessed), so please only access those articles that you are fairly certain are of interest.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Indexes a broad range of articles on education in journals and articles on ERIC microfiche. Many Slavic and East European titles are indexed.
InfoTRAC Onefile
An interdisciplinary index to journals in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Indexes 9,000 journals, magazines of interest plus the New York Times.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Online Index
An index to the FBIS Daily Reports (1975-1996) issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information.
Index to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports.
A CD-ROM index containing references to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports for all regions of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Gov Docs CD Cabinet, Disc #13). The indexes to earlier FBIS Daily reports are available in print at DJK1 D34 (Eastern Europe), and DK1 U55 (USSR). World News Connection (WNC) gives access to the fulltext of these reports beginning in 1996. The fulltext of earlier reports is available in Microforms at PREX 7.10:FBIS-EEU- (Eastern Europe) or PrEx 7.10:FBIS-SOV-. (Soviet Union).
Global Newsbank
Online access to international news in translations, including news from the countries of the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes hundreds of journals dealing with non-North American subjects.
Humanities International Complete
Bibliographic coverage of humanities literature.
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Wissenschaftlicher Literatur = International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature
An important source for citation information for West European scholarly reviews of books. Also in available in print in Main Ref. (with older volumes in the stacks) AI9 I61
Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur = International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
An important source for citation information for West European scholarly articles. Also in available in print in Main Ref. (with older volumes in the stacks) AI9 B7
JSTOR
JSTOR provides the complete back runs of several Slavic Studies titles in fullpage PDF images. These include: Europe-Asia Studies 1993-1998; Soviet Studies 1949-1992; Russian Review 1941-1996; Slavic and East European Journal 1957-1998; Slavic Review 1961-1998; American Slavic and East European Review 1945-1961; Slavonic and East European Review. American Series 1943-1944; Slavonic Year-Book. American Series 1941.
Literature Resource Center
A database containing much of Gale's Contemporary Authors, and Literary Criticism series as well as many others. Provides good, basic biographical, bibliographic, and critical information and resources on authors and works from nearly all cultures and periods. Many critical works, even those published contemporaneously with the literary works from the 19th and early 20th centuries are available fulltext.
Летопись журнальных статей [Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei]
Provided by Indiana's University Digital Library Летопись журнальных статей is a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. Virtually any student or scholar studying Russian political science, literature, or history between 1956-1975 will find Летопись журнальных статей to be an invaluable resource. This titles is available for 1998-present as part of the Russian National Bibliography database.
MLA Bibliography
Database of articles on literature, literary criticism, and linguistics. 1963-present. No Fulltext. Note: The print version of this index for 1970-1975 at Call Number P1 M64 [Main Ref] contain abstracts of the articles for those years which are not included in the online database.
RussGUS
A free internet database of German language publications relating to Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Covers 1974-present. Contains over 170,000 records. Currently the search page is in German only. An English version is in the works.
Fulltext searchability for the following Russian newspapers/journals, some as far back as the early 1980s: Argumenty i fakty, Itogi, Izvestiia, Literaturnaia gazeta, Nezavisimaia gazeta, Ogonek, Pravda. All newspapers are in Russian (Cyrillic). Online Cyrillic keyboard is available for searching.
Russian National Bibliography
This database gives access to 9 major Russian bibliographic resources, including Летопись журнальных статей, Летопись газетных статей, and Книжная летопись. Covers 1998-present. Searchable in transliteration or in Cyrillic and is browsable by date. Subject headings are provided in English and in Russian. A terrific bibliographic resource.
Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals
Fulltext database of Russian social sciences and humanities journals. Most provide 5 or more years of coverage. Titles include: Izvestiia RAN. Seriia literatury i iazyka, NG. Ex libris, Nash sovremennik, Neva, Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, Novyi mir, Oktiabr', Otechestvennaia istoriia, Russkaia literatura, Russkaia rech', Russkaia slovesnost', Vestnik drevnei istorii, Voprosy literatury, Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost', Zvezda. All content is in Cyrillic. Online Cyrillic keyboard is provided.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary database. Allows for general searches (for articles), and for citation searches (to see how many times a given article/book/author has been cited, and by whom). An extremely powerful resource.
Published in Moscow from 1802 to 1830, Vestnik Evropy was founded by Nikolai Karamzin, famous author and historian. Among the journals contributors were Zhukovskii, Batiushkov, Viazemskii and Derzhavin. Aleksandr Pushkin published his first poems here in 1814. The database includes over 57,000 pages of text. Older orthographic conventions are being regularized in the OCR process to aid in searching. Text is available both in HTML and PDF format.
WorldCat
A union catalog for more than 2000 libraries around the world, including all major research libraries and many public libraries in the US and Canada. Provides a very detailed search interface for focused searches. Updated daily.
World News Connection (WNC)
Access to the FBIS Daily reports (translated summaries of news reports in the vernacular) from Russia and Eastern Europe dating back to 1994. The indexes to previous FBIS Daily reports are available online through Newsbank WWW (see FBIS above) or in print at DJK1 D34 (Eastern Europe), and DK1 U55 (USSR). The fulltext for older reports is located in Microforms at PREX 7.10:FBIS-EEU- or PrEx 7.10:FBIS-SOV-
Select print indexes
Index to Social Sciences and Humanities Proceedings. - Z7161 .I58 Main Ref.
Indexes proceedings in the social sciences and humanities. A valuable resource, as proceedings, congresses, conference papers, etc. are often not indexed in other sources.
Летопись газетных статей. - AI15 .L35 Main Current Journal. (1986- in Main Stacks)
Indexes hundreds of Russian (and previously Soviet) newspapers and other daily and weekly publications of all types. Issued weekly.
Летопись периодических и продолжающихся изданий. - Z6956 .R9 L36 Main Ref
Indexes a broad spectrum of Russian/Soviet publications. Our subscription begins in 1961.
Летопись журнальных статей. - AI15 .L4 Main Ref. (Earlier issues in Main Stacks)
Indexes a broad range of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes quarterly index. Our subscription begins in 1961.
Modern Slavic literatures. - PG501 .M518 Main Ref.
Lists critical writings on Russian and non-Russian authors. Literatures covered are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian
Year's work in modern language studies. - PB1 .Y45 Main Ref (Earlier issues in Main stacks)
Indexes a surprising number of periodicals in and about Slavic languages, often with excellent, brief abstracts. Publication tends to run several years behind, but well worth the wait.
Bibliographies
An Annotated Bibliography on Russia and the Soviet Union. Main Ref. Z2491 .H6
Библиография русской зарубежной литературы, 1918-1968. - Z2513 .F66 Main
Contains citations to literary works by Russian emigre writers published outside of the Soviet Union.
Библиография советской библиографии (1958-1989). - Z2491.A1 V75 1958 Main
Bibliography of Soviet Bibliographies.
Bibliographic guide to Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian studies. - Z2483 .B48 Main Ref. (1996- in Main stacks)
Published by the Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library.
East Central Europe: A Guide to Basic Publications. Main Ref. Z2483 .H56
Eastern Europe: a Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1986-1993. Main Ref. DJK9 .B87 1995
Focuses on Albania, the former Czecholovakia, the former German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia. Countries are subdivided by subject.
Eastern Europe : a bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1986-1993. - DJK9 .B87 1995 Main Ref.
European bibliography of Slavic and East European studies (EBSEES). - Z2483 .E87 Main Ref.
Bibliography of publications on Slavic and East European topics in European journals. European companion to ABSEES (American bibliography of Slavic and East European studies).
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union: A Selected Bibliography of Sources in English. Main DK266 .R57 1992
Russia and the Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to Western Language Publications. Main Ref. Z2491 .H64
Russia, the USSR and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1964-1974. Main Ref. Z2483 .H54 DJK9
Arranged by subject. Includes English language publications on history, languages, literatures, and politics of Slavic and Eastern European countries.
Russia, the USSR, & Eastern Europe : a bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1981-1985 - DJK9 .H67 1987 Main Ref.
Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1986-1991. Main Ref. DK17 .S89 1994
Русский фольклорь: библиографический указатель. Main GR202 .R8
Russian Folklore: a Bibliographic Guide.
Славянское языкознание: библиографический указатель литературы изданной в СССР с 1918 по 1960 гг. Main Ref. Z7041 .A39
Slavic Linguistics: a Bibliographic Guide to Literature Published in the USSR from 1918 through 1960.
Slavic Bibliographies
Various bibliographies, too specific to list here, are located in the call number range Z2483 through Z2527 Main/Main Ref.
Southeastern Europe: A Guide to Basic Publications. Main Ref. Z2831 .H67
Soviet Serials: bibliographic guides
Many bibliographic guides to Soviet/Russian serials are located in the call number range Z6950 through Z6960 Main/Main Ref.
Union Lists
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog.
Offers a simultaneous search of as many as 75 millions books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide, including the Library of Congress, the National Library of France, half a dozen major libraries in Germany and Austria, and the British Union Catalog, among others.
WorldCat
A union catalog for more than 2000 libraries around the world, including all major research libraries and many public libraries in the US and Canada. Provides a very detailed search interface for focused searches. Updated daily.
Finding translations
A Bibliography of Russian literature in English translation to 1900. - Z2504.T8 L5 Main Ref.
Excludes periodicals.
Bibliography of Ukrainian literature in English and French : translations and critical works (1950-1986) - PG3901 .P52 1989 Main.
Books available in English by Russians and on Russia, published in the United States. - Z2506 .M3 1939 Main.
Covers works of only through the early 1930s.
A Comprehensive bibliography of Yugoslav literature in English, 1593-1980. - PG584.E1 M55 1984 Main Ref.
Index Translationum. - Z6514 T7 I4 Main Ref
An international index of translations, providing citation information for translations of works from and into most major languages and many less common languages. Unfortunately, the latest copy issue is from 1986. A valuable resource all the same. Earlier volumes are at Z6514. T7 I4. Online at http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans/
Literatures of the world in English translation: The Slavic literatures. - Z7041 L59 Main Ref.
Nineteenth-century Russian literature in English : a bibliography of criticism and translations. - PG3012 .P76 1990 Main.
Polish literature in English translation; a bibliography. - Z2528.T7 C6 Main Ref.
Russian literature, theatre, and art; a bibliography of works in English, published 1900-1945. - Z2501 .E8 1971 Main.
The Slavic literatures. - Z7041 .L59 Main
Women and writing in Russia and the USSR : a bibliography of English-language sources. - PG2997 .N45 1992 Main.
Yugoslav literature in English : a bibliography of translations and criticism, 1821-1975. PG584.E1 Y83 1976 Main.
Electronic texts
Conradish.net
This site not only does it offer e-versions of most of the classics (War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, We, Doctor Zhivago, and Master and Margarita, just to name a few) but most words in the Russian text is "hyperlinked" to a vocabulary translator and grammar explanation. If nothing else, the underlying technology is mind boggling! The site also allows teachers to select any number of works and assemble them into their own Russian literature reader. The texts are saved in Adobe's Acrobat (.PDF) format.
The Fundamental Electronic Library of Russian Literature and Folklore ФЭБ
This site houses the fulltext electronic corpora of many major Russian authors. In Russian only. Windows 1251 encoding.
Maksim Moshkov's remarkable online library of Russian/Soviet Classics
An extensive library of Russian and Soviet classics. Titles are too numerous to name. If you can think it, chances are, this electronic library has it.
Russian Virtual Library
Provides the fulltext of the works of hundreds of Russian authors. Very comprehensive. Worth perusing.
Театр и театральное искусство [Teatr i teatral'noe iskusstvo]
This site contains, among other things, a vast collection of plays, both Russian and foreign, all available in the Russian language.