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Searchable multidisciplinary database providing full text for over 4,650 scholarly publications, more than 3,600 of them peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing for 8,200 journals. Covers 1965-
Searchable bibliographical database of journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada, 1990- (Before 1990 use this bibliography in paper format.)
Aggregation of searchable full text of articles in nearly 1000 humanities and social science journals. Most of the material is in languages of the region, but there is also some in English. Look over list of periodicals before you start to search. Then search in language of material you expect to retrieve. It is also searchable using Google Scholar.
United States congressional documents, publications, legislative research. Includes reports from Congressional Research Service, Congress's "think tank," on subjects of policy interest. Covers 1789- and CRS reports 1916-
Translated summaries of well-selected articles from the Soviet, post-Soviet, and now Russian press. Search engine here does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to occur in articles you retrieve. (For Russian names, be sure to read “A Special Note on Transliteration in The Current Digest” on the front page.) Covers 1949-
Full text of thousands of declassified U.S. documents that led to policy decisions. Includes collection “The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991”: documents from Director of Central Intelligence, National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and others.
Several hundred full-text Russian (mostly), Baltic and NIS newspapers, newswires, magazines, scholarly journals and government publications. Language is predominantly Russian, but if you search in English, you will retrieve material in English. Dates of coverage vary; most start in 1990s. (Search engine here does not work like Google: use AND between terms if you want both of them to occur in articles you retrieve.)
From Law Library of Congress. See particularly the link Nations of the World. Constitutions, legislation, laws, other fairly current government documents. Material linked to is typically in language(s) of country and/or English. Some countries have only limited material online.
Indexes articles from major history journals published all over the world in many languages. Covers articles published 1955- and includes some full text.
Index, abstracts and some full text of thousands of sources, some back to 1980s. Its particular strength for our purposes is news. Includes BBC monitoring of major international news sources. (It has legal and business databases as well.)
Indexes books and articles on modern languages and literatures. Coverage of material in foreign languages is better in later years. Covers articles published 1921-
Index of articles on public and international affairs, along with many other subjects in the social sciences. English and Western languages. Covers articles published 1915-
Combination of Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900- , Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956- , and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975- . Especially useful for topics with a science component (e.g., environment, public health).
Find articles in languages of the region
Aggregation of searchable full text of articles in over 800 humanities and social science journals. Most of the material is in languages of the region, but there is also some in English. Look over list of periodicals before you start to search. Then search in language of material you expect to retrieve. It is also searchable using Google Scholar.
The national libraries of many East Central European countries publish online indexes to articles published in the country. Coverage typically begins fairly recently. Some examples are below. (For the full range of databases and digital collections available from a particular library, click on the link to that library's own home page.)
Czech database of selected journal and newspaper articles. Covers articles published 1991- Diacritics required for words that have them.
Polish index of selected journal and newspaper articles. Coverage is for articles published 1996- in several separate databases. Diacritics required for words that have them.
Croatian index to articles in selected journals, collections of articles, etc. Diacritics required for words that have them. To see this index's previous versions, put its title into SearchWorks.
Hungarian database of selected journal and newspaper articles. Covers articles published 1993- Diacritics required for words that have them.
Periodicals indexes and their online versions are part of the countries' national bibliographies. This excellent site includes most of the countries, along with the history of national bibliography in each, and titles of print versions. Put those titles into SearchWorks to find them at Stanford.
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.
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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