Russian, East European and Central Asian Resources at UW-Madison : Multi-Subject Databases
Multi-Subject Databases
- Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted. PDF backfiles to 1975 or earlier are available for over 100 journals and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
- ProquestProQuest’s indexing databases cover multiple disciplines and provide indexing of dissertations and theses, historical newspapers; government documents and scholarly journals. Selected Proquest databases that have content relevant to Russian and Soviet history and culture are: Humanities Index, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, GenderWatch, Film Index International, International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA), Periodical Index Online, Periodicals Archive Online, Sociological Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Historical Newspapers (NYT, etc)
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal ArchiveJSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of anthropology, economics, education, film, folklore, history, language, literature, sociology, and other subjects. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue, depending on the title. The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal; it is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR.
- Project MuseProject Muse provides full text access to more than 300 humanities and social science journals from various publishers. Disciplines covered include art, anthropology, literature, film, theatre, history, ethnic and cultural studies, music, philosophy, religion, psychology, sociology and women's studies.
- IBZ: International Bibliography of Periodical LiteratureIndexes more than 5600 periodicals in many languages; particularly strong in European humanities and social sciences.
- OECD iLibraryOnline library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics.
- Web of ScienceIncludes the "Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)" --1900-present as well as the "Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)" --1975-present
- Science DirectScienceDirect is primarily an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. However it also indexes the journal Russian Literature
- Times (London) Digital Archive, The, 1785-1985Page facsimiles of all the issues of the London Times. Search by keyword and date and limit search to sections such as: Advertising, Pictures, People, News, Editorials. Sundays are not included.
- HathiTrust Digital LibraryShared digital repository of library books and journals converted from print owned by research institutions, including UW-Madison. Only materials that are no longer under copyright (typically those published prior to 1923) may be viewed online or downloaded. Note: links to digital versions, when available, can be found in our catalog's records
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.