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Current and recent news
English-language summaries of well-selected articles from the Soviet, post-Soviet, and now Russian press. (Search engine does not work like Google: if you want both words to appear in an article, put AND between them.) Be sure to read “A Special Note on Transliteration in The Current Digest” on the front page. Covers 1949-
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 does not work like Google: if you want both words to appear in an article, put AND between them.)
Current news, business, environment, foreign relations, human rights, politics, culture of Caucasian and Central Asian countries plus Turkey. Site in English and Russian.
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.)
Hundreds of online newspapers, listed by continent, then country.
Daily online news from 19 countries and regions. Also photos, streaming and archived mutimedia, blogs, commentary, etc., in English and languages of region.
News and analysis about the entire region. "Premium content" is by Stanford subscription (see link), while the site http://www.tol.org/ includes a great deal of free content.
Full-text English language translations of selected foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspaper & journal articles, press releases. Continues FBIS Daily Reports 1995-2013.
My blog post containing additional resources focused on the current crisis and its background.
A series of guides, tutorials, and walkthroughs in English on understanding and conducting open-source research on the Russian-language Internet (RuNet). Research sources include Russian social media. There is even a page of tactics for researchers who don't know Russian.
Historical news
English-language summaries of well-selected articles from the Soviet, post-Soviet, and now Russian press. (Search engine does not work like Google: if you want both words to appear in an article, put AND between them.) Be sure to read “A Special Note on Transliteration in The Current Digest” on the front page. Covers 1949-
Begins Feb. 28, 1917. Can be searched together with Pravda Digital Archive (see entry below) by going to East View Universal Databases main page, http://dlib.eastview.com/, and choosing just Izvestiia Digital Archive and Pravda Digital Archive. (Search engine does not work like Google: if you want both words to appear in an article, put AND between them.)
Begins Apr. 22, 1912. Can be searched together with Izvestiia Digital Archive (see entry above) by going to East View Universal Databases main page, http://dlib.eastview.com/, and choosing just Izvestiia Digital Archive and Pravda Digital Archive. (Search engine does not work like Google: if you want both words to appear in an article, put AND between them.)
Searchable database of historical newspaper digitization projects around the world. Search by title, city, date and/or other parameters. Some links lead to digitized newspapers themselves.
Full-text English language translations of selected foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspaper & journal articles, press releases. Soviet Union/Central Eurasia section currently covers 1941-1996. Continued by World News Connection. Note: Both Russia and the Soviet Union are listed under Asia.
Full-text English language translations of selected foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspaper & journal articles, press releases. Continues FBIS Daily Reports 1995-2013.
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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