Russian, East European and Central Asian Resources at UW-Madison : Subject-Specific Databases
Subject-Specific Databases
- ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), provides citations to scholarly publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)This database contains data for 1991-2007, It has about 85.500 citations and was developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris. Work on adding records to EBSEES ended in 2007
- Eastview Universal DatabasesA collection of various electronic resources marketed by Eastview, including Russian newspapers, academic journals and e-books, election campaign ephemera, statistical publications from the Russian Federation and the CIS countries and other electronic resources.
- IntegrumIntegrum is an interface to a collection of databases providing varying sources of current information about Russia, the CIS, and the Baltic states. Includes full text of central and regional newspapers and other resource
- Humanities International CompleteHumanities Index Complete is a comprehensive database covering more than 2,100 journals, books and other important reference sources published worldwide in the humanities, with a focus on literary, scholarly and creative thought.
- Stalin Digital ArchiveThe Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) is the result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press. SDA provides online access to Stalin's correspondence, library (with notations), documents, and more, which were previously only available in hard copy in the RGASPI archive.
- Электронная библиотека исторических документовElectronic Library of [Russian and Soviet] Historical Documents
- Bulgarian Dialectology as Living TraditionBulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition, a searchable and interactive database of oral speech representing a broad range of Bulgarian dialects. Data is presented in 199 texts excerpted from material recorded in 76 different Bulgarian villages.
- Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System onlineThe Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online is a digitized collection of summary transcripts of 705 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War.
- FBIS / JPRSThe Foreign Broadcast Information Service and the Joint Publications Research Service provide English language translations of foreign (including Soviet) broadcast news and technical reports
- Slavistik-PortalThe "Slavistik-Portal" is based on the project "Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Slavistik" (ViFa Slavistik). ViFa Slavistik is a central contact point for specialized information on Slavic Studies. It is primarily aimed at scholars and students interested in Slavic Studies, Slavic languages and literature as well as Slavic folklore.
- MLA International BibliographyThe Modern Languages Association International Bibliography indexes 4,000 periodicals in English and other languages as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. It includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics, film, and folklore.
- Literature Criticism OnlineFeatures modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres, with content from print reference titles such as: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Drama Criticism
- Air University Library Index to Military PeriodicalsThe Air University Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items and editorials appearing in 76 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
- Cold War Intelligence: The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991Formerly classified U.S. government documents about efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- Russian Books of the 18th CenturyCurated collection of digitized books listed in Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka. It is designed to be used in tandem with the catalog: each item is cross-referenced with its entry number and transliterated title for easy access. Curated by the Slavic Reference Service (SRS) at the University of Illinois from the digital copies in the Russian National Electronic Library (RusNEB).
- Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922: From Silk Road to Soviet RuleThis collection of Foreign Office files explores the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan. Comprised of correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts and other materials from the FO 65, FO 106, FO 371 and FO 539 series of historical documents relating to this region.
- Kazakhstan National Electronic LibraryKazakhstan National Electronic Library = Қазақстандық Ұлттық Электронды Кітапхана = Казахстанская Национальная Электронная Библиотека is the catalog of the Kazakhstan electronic state library fund with single electronic repository of copies of books in the depository and user collection. The electronic library collections has over 55,000 items.