Guide to Slavonic & East European e-resources
(compiled and updated by Angelina Gibson for the REES seminars)
Online catalogues and bibliographic databases
- Olis (including Bodleian pre-1920 catalogue) http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ - Oxford users see OxLIP
- COPAC http://www.copac.ac.uk - Oxford users see OxLIP
- ABSEES (the American bibliography for Slavic and East European studies) http://www.library.uiuc.edu/absees/ Oxford users see OxLIP (Title index) http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/
- EBSEES (the European bibliography of Slavonic and East European studies)
http://www2.msh-paris.fr/betuee/BD_Bibl_Est_accueil_angl.htm - IBSS (International bibliography of the social sciences) http://www.ibss.ac.uk Oxford users see OxLIP
- ArcheoBiblioBase (the bibliographical database for Russian archives including Rosarkhiv, archives of the President, archives under major Federal agencies, etc.) http://www.iisg.nl/~abb
- Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
- Google Books http://books.google.com
See also UK links to:
- INTUTE http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/ - BL Slavonic and E. E. collections http://www.bl.uk/collections/easteuropean/slavonicindex.html.
For holdings search the BL's new Integrated Catalogue http://catalogue.bl.uk - COCOREES http://www.cocorees.ac.uk
- CREES http://www.bham.ac.uk/crees/
- SSCEES http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/School.htm
- SPRI http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/lib/spriruss.htm
- SSEES http://www.ssees.ac.uk/russia.htm
- REES at Oxford http://www.rees.ox.ac.uk
- Data Library at Nuffield http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/projects/datalibrary/index.html
WWW Gateways
- Baltic directory
http://bibl.sh.se/baltic - Centreurope.org (a selection of 300 websites, an academic directory, online courses and other services for business with Central and Eastern Europe)
http://www.centreurope.org - Gabriel (Gateway to Europe's National Libraries) http://www.konbib.nl/gabriel/
- Hungarika Informacio database of the Szechenyi Library http://www.iif.hu/db/huni/
- LibWeb (library servers in over 100 countries)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/Europe_main.html - NUPI (Norwegian) Centre for Russian Studies http://www.nupi.no/russland/database/start.htm
- Open Russian Electronic Library http://orel.rsl.ru gathers and catalogues electronic texts. This includes the electronic Library of Dissertations http://diss.rsl.ru A virtual keyboard is provided.
- PIASA (Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America) http://www.piasa.org
- REECA (Web guide to Russian, East European and Central Asian Collections) http://www.wisc.edu/creeca/reeca/
- REESWeb National Homepages. Visit the Web page of Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, etc. http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/reesnatl.htm
- RussGus (German language materials on Russia/Former Soviet Union) http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~pbruhn/russgus.htm
- Slavic and East European Resources at the University of Chicago (includes reference material on Russian women authors, Jews in Russia, the Soviet Union and Central-East Europe, Soviet serial titles 1917-1950, guide to microform sources, etc.) http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/slavic/inside.html
- Slavophilia http://www.slavophilia.com
Selected online journals and newspapers
East European and Central European Journals (in English):
- Bosnet (the first Bosnian group on the Internet) http://www.bosnet.org/ In English and Croatian
- Central Europe Online (from Prague in English) http://www.centraleurope.com
- Central Asian Voices http://centralasianvoices.org
- Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe http://www.seerecon.org/
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting http://www.iwpr.net/
- Political Resources on the Net http://www.politicalresources.net
- Russia Today http://www.russiatoday.com
- Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe http://www.stabilitypact.org
- Transitions Online (published by a Czech non-profit organization. It covers 28 post-communist countries) http://www.tol.cz/
- TOL Culture (Formerly Central Europe Review - the weekly journal of Central and EE culture) http://www.ce-review.org/
Selected Russian Newspapers (mostly in Russian):
- Argumenty i fakty http://www.aif.ru
- Argumenty i fakty Kazakhstan http://www.aif.kz
- Compromat (political scandals) http://www.compromat.ru
- Gazeta ru (Daily in Russian) http://gazeta.ru/
- Itogi http://www.itogi.ru
see also Nastoiashchie itogi http://www.itogi.lenta.ru/ - Izvestia http://www.izvestia.ru/
- Komsomolskaia pravda http://www.kp.ru/
- Lenta.ru (In Russian and English) http://www.lenta.ru/
- Moskovskaia pravda http://mospravda.ru/
- Moskovskie novosti http://www.mn.ru/
- Nezavisimaia gazeta http://www.ng.ru/
- Novaia gazeta (in Russian) http://www.novayagazeta.ru/
- Polit.ru (Daily political news) http://www.polit.ru/
- Politeia http://www.politeia.ru
- Pravda http://www.pravda.ru/
- Rossiiskaia gazeta http://www.rg.ru/
- Russkii zhurnal http://www.russ.ru/
- SMI http://www.smi.ru
- The Moscow Times http://www.moscowtimes.ru/ (in English)
- The St. Petersburg Times http://www.sptimes.ru/ (in English)
- Utro http://www.utro.ru/
- Vedomosti http://www.vedomosti.ru/
- Vesti.ru (Daily Internet newspaper) http://www.vesti.ru/
- Yabloko (Russian Dem. Party) http://www.yabloko.ru
News and Media
- BBC Russian service http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/forum.shtml
- Integrum http://www.integrum.com
- ITAR/TASS (the largest news agency in CIS) http://www.itar-tass.com
- Radio Free Europe/Liberty. Russian service http://www.svoboda.org/
- Russian News Room http://www.russiannewsroom.com
- SCOLA Russian TV Online (free Russian TV on the Internet) http://www.scola.org/
Selected links to history, economics and politics
- Agentura (National security) http://agentura.ru
- Almamater (Russian education) http://www.rusalma.org/ (NB You may need to 'refresh' this page several times before it comes up)
- Archives in Russia (the genealogical site for researching Russian roots) http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr
- Balkan media and policy monitor http://mediafilter.org/MFF/MonIdx.html
- Balkan Peace Links http://www.uottawa.ca/associations/balkanpeace/links.html
- CAST (Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies) http://cast.ru
- Constitution of the RF, Dec. 1993 http://www.fipc.ru/fipc/constit/
- Digital Slavist (wiki of the B&D sub-committee of the AAASS) http://digitalslavist.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
- Embassy of the Russian Federation in the USA (includes country profile, constitution and latest press releases) http://www.russianembassy.org/
- Embassy of the Russian Federation in Great Britain (includes visa information) http://www.great-britain.mid.ru/
- EuroDocs (portal to European primary historical material) http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu/
- EurasiaNet (Central Asian and Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union) http://www.eurasianet.org
- Forced Labor Camps http://www.osa.ceu.hu/gulag/
- Internet-Parliament (the Gos. Duma and presidential elections 1999-2000) http://www.elections.ru/
- Offitsialnaia Rossiia (the official web-site of the Russian Federation) http://www.gov.ru/
- Revelations from the Russian archives (directories and documents from the Library of Congress) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/
- Rosbusiness Consulting (latest financial news from CIS in English and Russian) http://www.rbc.ru/
- Russia in figures (Practical science) http://www.sci.aha.ru
- Russian Feminism Resources http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html
- Russian History http://www.bucknell.edu/Academics/Colleges_Departments/Academic_Departments/Foreign_Language_Programs/Russian_Studies/Resources/History.html
- Russian Virtual Library http://www.rvb.ru
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet History http://www.soviethistory.org
- Soviet Union Internet Archive (primary sources of early Soviet history) http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/
- Stalin - era research and archives project http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/serap/
- The illustrated history of Russia and the former USSR http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/mes/russia/history.html
- State Committee of the RF on Statistics http://www.gks.ru/
- Statistics http://www.cisstat.com/
- Stratfor (intelligence reports) http://www.stratfor.com/
- University of Texas at Austin. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/commonwealth.html
Major Web directories and search engines
Russia
- Aport http://www.aport.ru/
- Kirill i Mefodii http://www.km.ru/ (includes encyclopedia http://mega.km.ru/bes_98)
- Krugosvet encyclopedia http://www.krugosvet.ru/
- Mail.ru http://www.mail.ru/
- Poisk http://www.poisk.ru (includes http://100news.ru)
- Rambler http://www.rambler.ru/
- Russia on the Net http://www.ru/
- Russia.com http://www.russia.com
- Russia Online http://www.rol.ru/
- Ves Russkii Internet http://www.diamondteam.ru/catalog/
- Yandex http://www.yandex.ru/
Albania
- http://www.albanianyellowpages.com
- http://www.albafind.com
- Baltic States
Estonia
Lithuania
Belarus
Bulgaria- portal.bg http://portal.bg/
- search.bg http://www.search.bg
Czech Republic and Slovakia
- http://najdi.to
- http://www.centrum.cz
- http://www.surf.sk/
- http://www.zoznam.sk
- http://www.katalog.sk/
Hungary
- Halovilag http://www.halovilag.hu
- HuDir http://www.hudir.hu/
- Megaport http://www.megaport.hu
Poland
- Wirtualna Polska http://www.wp.pl/
- Polonia Net http://www.polonia.net
- Official Website of Poland http://poland.pl
Romania
- Fast http://www.fast.ro
- ROL http://www.rol.ro
Ukraine
- Meta http://meta-ukraine.com/
- Ukraine.com http://www.ukraine.com
Former Yugoslavia
- YuSearch http://www.yusearch.com/start.html
- Yugo Info Map http://www.yu
Bosnia
Croatia
Macedonia
- http://www.anhoch.com/maklink/ (in Cyrillic or Roman)
- http://www.google.com/intl/mk/
Slovenia
Major Organizations
- AAASS (The American Association For the Advancement of Slavic Studies) http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/index.htm
- AWSS (Association for Women in Slavic Studies) http://www.loyola.edu/AWSS/
- AATSEEL (The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/
- BASEES (The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) http://www.gla.ac.uk/External/basees/index.html
- BSA (The Bulgarian Studies Association) http://www.pitt.edu/~bsa/
- CAS (The Canadian Association of Slavists) http://www.utoronto.ca/slavic/cas/
- COSEELIS (Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services) http://www.gla.ac.uk/Library/COSEELIS/index.html
- ESSA (the Early Slavic Studies Association) http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~essa/index.html
- SEESA (the Southeast European Studies Association) http://www.unc.edu/~rdgreenb/seesa/
Online dictionaries and translators
- English-Russian Dictionary http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~andrei/dictionary/
- Foreign languages for travelers (over 70 languages with essential information about their corresponding countries. Also has a multiple translating dictionary) http://www.travlang.com/languages/index.html
- Russian dictionaries online http://www.online-dictionary.net/russian
(includes Socrates text translator www.rustran.com) - Yourdictionary (260 online dictionaries) http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Currency converter
- http://www.xe.net/ucc
Try this useful tool if you want to find out how many Russian Rubles there are to the Czech Koruna or try the full universal converter to find out how many Ukrainian Hryvnia there are to the Slovenian Tolar plus many other regularly updated currencies.
White pages
- http://spravka.net/
A list of 362 online telephone directories for 182 Russian cities