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Selected Resources for: East European Studies
 | Subject Librarian: Gordon Anderson E-Mail: ganderso@umn.edu This subject covers: material on Russia; the Balkans, excluding Yugoslavia (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania); the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania); Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine; Hungary; the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Chechnia); Poland; Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan); Bosnia; Croatia; Macedonia; Serbia/Montenegro; and Slovenia. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies  ABSEES On Line covers North-American academic and professional research on Russia & Eastern Europe. Coverages is from the late 1980s to the present. The print edition began in 1957 and can be found in Wilson Library DJK9.A4x [1957-1959] and Wilson Library Quarto DJK9.A4x [1967-1994]..
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| CIAO Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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| European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies The print index continues the European Bibliography of Soviet, East
European & Slavonic studies (-1993). EBSEES is now also publicly accessible on line. The bibliography is divided into two databases: for the period 1991-2000 and for 2001-present.
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Historical Abstracts   Covers the world's scholarship in history from 1450 to the present.
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| MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926.
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| PAIS Archive 1915-1976 The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of scholarly monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, government documents, policy reports and analyses.
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| PAIS International Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters.
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| Times Digital Archive Digital Archive of The Times of London for the years 1785-1985. Full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories.
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| Web of Science (ISI) 1975 to the present. Search the social sciences and arts & humanities sections. The key feature of this resource is the complex citation linkage between the scholarly work and the resources cited in its bibliography.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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| World News Connection Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
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General Reference Sources
Country Studies
| CIA World Factbook Provides a standard set of facts for all countries of the world.
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| Europa World Online Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
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| Library of Congress Country Studies The Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
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Encyclopedias
| Encyklopedia multimedialna PWN [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Information Bulgaria A short Encyclopaedia of the People's Republic of Bulgaria edited by the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
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| Political and Economic Encyclopedia of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Reader's Encyclopedia of Eastern European Literature [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Chronology of 20th-century Eastern European History [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States Includes political perspectives, religion, social policy, business development, international relations, and country surveys.
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| Handbook of Reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Political Parties of Eastern Europe, Russia and the Successor States [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Revolutions in Eastern Europe [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
| Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia This site provides well over 3,500 links to governmental and non-governmental web sites about politics and economics in the post-communist states of East Central Europe and Eurasia. Searching is done by country or by subject or theme. In addition, the site provides information about using Cyrillic-alphabet characters on the web and in e-mail, fonts to download, and access to research materials about elections and information policy.
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| UC Berkeley Vitual Information Center Provides a wealth of infomation to support Slavic and East European research.
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| University of Pittsburgh REESWeb Russian and East European Studies Web site. Similar in concept to WESSWEB, this is a good place to begin to find out about Russia and Eastern Europe
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
| Central and Eastern European Online Library CEEOL is an online archive which provides access to full-text PDF articles from 301 humanities and social-science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
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News Sources
| RFE/RL Newsline This daily report provides expert analysis on major political events and trends in the former USSR (including the Central Asian republics) and Afthanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The serice features daily news headline reports, twelve weekly reports on the region, and country-specific reports. Reports are available in the region's languages and in English; with archives dating back to 2000. The site's main page is found at www.rferl.org.
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| Transitions Online Providing weekly news and background reports on the 28 countries of the former Soviet Bloc, TOL is especially useful for information on Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and Hungary, which are not covered in RFE/RL Newsline. The TOL on-line archive is available back to 1999. Its print predecessor, Transition (1995-1999), are found in the Wilson Library Annex.
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| Universal Database of Russian Newspapers Full-text electronic versions of major Russian and many NIS periodicals on the same day they are published. The Universal database includes archives of back issues of newspapers and journals, some far back as 1996. It is a source for information on business, economics, domestic and foreign policy and important political events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The UDB can be searched in either Cyrillic or LC-transliterated Russian. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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Writing Guides
| Citing Electronic Resources Guide prepared by the Internet Public Library. Includes both Internet links and print resources.
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