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Use SearchWorks to find published collections of documents as well archival collections in Stanford's and Hoover's archives. SearchWorks records for collections of documents often include the subject term "sources." So a search might look like this: [topic, geographic entity, or keywords from name of organization] sources. To find archival collections, try this search: [name of person or organization] papers. Some examples:
Cernǎuţi : Societatea Istorico-Evreiascǎ, 1938.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » DS135.R7 R4 1938
Search terms: Jews Bukovina sources
Maribor : Obzorja, 1980.
Green Library » Stacks » DB80.8 .F8371 1980
Search terms: Austria revolution 1848 sources
Budapest : Magyar Országos Levéltár : Állambiztonsági Szogálatok Történeti Levéltára : Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Interjúk Tára : Kossuth Kiadó, c2008.
Media & Microtext Center » Ask at Media Microtext desk » ZMS 2565
"This DVD contains archival sound recordings that are synchronized with complete transcripts of the secret trials conducted in February-June 1958 which resulted in the execution of Nagy and others on charges of treason. Also included are essays and scanned copies of documents." Search terms: Nagy Imre sources
Wyd. 1. Warszawa : Państwowe Wydawn. Nauk., 1989.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » DK505.922 .M48 1989
Search terms: Vilnius history sources (Geographical names, if the place still exists, are tagged with their current names; thus Vilnius as a search term instead of Wilno or Vilna.)
New York : Radio Free Europe, 1983.
Hoover Library » Stacks » DK4440 .P5756
Search terms: Poland history sources
București : Scriptorium, 2004.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » HV8241.8 .A45 P76 2004
Search terms: political prisoners Romania sources
Additional resources
Provides free access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 repositories throughout California. Use finding aids here to learn what is in collections and which boxes to examine. (Not all California collections are listed here, though.)
Can I Get It on Interlibrary Loan?
How to get access to material that Stanford does not have.
If Stanford doesn't have an item, you can often get it on interlibrary loan. BUT if what you need is a book and it's 2 years old or less, ask me to order it for our library instead.
Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. Look here especially if a book or journal was published before 1923. Such material is out of copyright in the US, meaning you could have access to the full text online.
Check here to see if a library in North America has it. If you find a record for it, click on the holdings link. Note if Berkeley has it. If Berkeley does not, copy the Accession Number from the bottom of the record. Put "WorldCat" and the Accession Number into the interlibrary borrowing form.
Same huge multi-library database as above, with different interface.
UC Berkeley libraries' online catalog. If WorldCat shows that Berkeley has your item, check here to make sure it's available now. Copy their call number into the RLCP form.
European archives and their holdings
Access to information on archival material from several European countries. Search holdings of more than one archive at once. (Not all countries are included yet.)
Links to websites of the National or State Archives of the 25 Member States of the European Union.
Links to websites of many national archives, including several outside of European Union and even outside of Europe. From European Board of National Archivists.
Can't Find It? Try These Search Engines, Link Sites, etc.
Find additional sources using search engines, link sites, guides and bibliographies (online and in paper).
Link site from Duke University's Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies and Slavic and East European Language Resource Center.
Collection of useful links from Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University.
Large, attractive and well-organized site from Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Univesity of Texas at Austin.
Search engine from Center for Russian & East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh. All subjects, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences.
From Berlin State Library, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Interface, instructions and description in German, Russian or English, although German version is most complete. Large, sophisticated database with a variety of ways to retrieve information. All social sciences and humanities subjects, but emphasis is on languages and literatures of the region.
From a partnership of several libraries & research institutes in Germany and beyond, financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Interface, instructions and description in German, Russian or English. Large, sophisticated database covering social sciences and humanities subjects, with emphasis on history and social sciences.
Selected digitized Russian books, maps and primary source materials from 19th and early 20th centuries. Site is entirely in Russian.
Thousands of Cyrillic pre-1917 books digitized by Google. Subjects include history, archeology, geography, ethnography, philology, linguistics, genealogy, philosophy.
See particularly the many Research Guides compiled about most of the countries and many subjects.
Thorough guide to Soviet and Russian reference works through 1984. The online 1999 expanded edition will be available again shortly.
Find IGO websites.
Find NGO websites.
This was a large, well-organized site created by Eric Herron while he was at the University of Kansas. Although the 2012 version on the Web Archive's WayBack Machine is now a bit out-of-date, it still includes many valid links to government offices, NGOs, institutes, news sources, political parties, etc.
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