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Obis, OhioLink
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Oberlin College
Library's Databases and Indexes Page. From here, you can go to WorldCat,
Historical Abstracts, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science
Citation Index and many others.
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check bibliographic guides, biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias, statistical
handbooks for basic information: develop keywords and subjects to help
you search through library catalogs and databases
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You may also find useful links of a general nature at the History
Department's web site.
GENERAL GUIDES TO REFERENCE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES IN ENGLISH
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Slavic Studies: A Guide To Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, And Handbooks.
2 vols. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993 Z2483.S554 1993 Main
Ref
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Horak, Stephan M. Russia, The USSR, And Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic
Guide To English Language Publications. Littleton, Colo., 3 vols. Z2843
H54 Main Ref
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Sullivan, H.F., Burger, R. H. Russia And The Former Soviet Union: A Bibliographic
Guide To English Language Publications. 1986-1991.Englewood, Libraries
Unlimited, 1994. Z2491 S89 1994 Main Ref
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Bollard, S. D. Reinterpreting Russia: An Annotated Bibliography Of Books
On Russia, The Soviet Union And The Russian Federation, 1991-1996. Lanham,
Scarecrow, 1997. Z2491.B63 1997 Main Library
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Schaffner, B. L. Bibliography Of The Soviet Union, Its Predecessors And
Successors. Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press, 1995. (Scarecrow Area Bibliogrphies,
No. 5). Books published mainly since 1984. Z2506.S3 1995 Main Ref.
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Russian
Reference Works, by Wojciech Zalewski
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University
of California-Berkeley Libraries: Research Guides for the study of Russia,
the Former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe
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University
of Chicago Libraries: Slavic & East European - Resources and Reference
Guides.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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Great Soviet Encyclopedia: a translation of the third edition. [New York,
1973- v.1-30 and index. [NB: Russian edition published 1969-78] AE5.B58
Main Ref
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The Cambridge encyclopedia of Russia and the former Soviet Union. 2nd ed..
Cambridge; New York, 1994. DK14.C35 1994 Main Ref
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The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Ed. Joseph L. Wieczynski.
Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1976-1994. v.1-56 (A-YA) DK14.M6 Main Ref Supplement
DK14. M62 1995
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Paxton, John. Encyclopedia of Russian history : from the Christianization
of Kiev to the break-up of the U.S.S.R. Santa Barbara, Ca., 1993. DK36.P39
1993 Main Ref
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The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature. Ed. Harry B.
Weber. Gulf Breeze, Fla., 1977- v.1-9 (A-Holovko, A.V.) PG2940.M6 Main
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Electronic Resources at Oberlin
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
ABSEES
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
has been compiled continuously since 1956. The bibliography is currently
based at the University Library ofthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ABSEES covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union, and contains bibliographic citations for journal
articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected
government publications.
Text edition: Z2483.A65 Location:Main Library
ABSEES Online is the online version of The American Bibliography of
Slavic and East European Studies. It has been available over the Internet
since 1992. ABSEES Online can be searched by multiple fields, including
author, title, publisher, date of publication, and subject heading. There
is also full-record keyword searching. Period of Coverage: 1990-present.
Scope of Coverage: Journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews,
dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe
and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada Update
Frequency: Monthly
FBIS Index
(Foreign Broadcast
Info. Service): access from CD-ROM network
This database in an index to the FBIS Daily Reports which are translations
of foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals
and government statements. Most of the Daily Reports are available on microfishe
beginning from 1978. In 1992, the Daily Reports for the Soviet Union were
superceded by Daily Reports for Central Eurasia.
PAIS
(Public Affairs Information Service)
Slavic Resources on the Web
Index Sites
Hokkaido
University Internet Resources for Russian Studies.
The best Russian Affairs index site, urls are classified by country,
period and topic.
Marshall Poe's Russian History
on the Web.
Benjamin Sher's Russian
Index
The
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Russian History Index
Useful links, especially to some of the principle journals in the field.
REESweb
A reasonably comprehensive site for electronic resources on the Balkans,
the Baltic states, the Caucusus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS,
Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet
Union. The REESWeb is sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European
Studies of the University of Pittsburgh.
UT-REENIC
A reasonably comprehensive site. Hosted by The University of Texas
at Austin Russian and East European Network Information Center. Information
is broken down by geographic region, links are organized by type (e.g.,
current news, databases, etc.).
Bucknell
University's Russian History
Has links to a variety of sites; also contains a useful chronology
of Russian history.
Friends & Partners
A much less scholarly site with lots of current information
Finding aids, primary documents and secondary sources
For current news and information. RFE/RL Newsline is a daily report of
developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and
Central Asia prepared by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
It is published Monday through Friday (except holidays). Friends
and Partners maintains a seven year and growing archive of RFE/RL Newsline
and its predecessors, the OMRI Daily Digest and RFE Daily Report. It is
browsable and searchable. Subscription is free; send e-mail
to newsline-request@list.rferl.org.
Text copy: begins in 1941 as Slavonic and East European Reivew,
continues as American Slavic and East European Review from 1945-1961;
then becomes Slavic Review, 1961-.
A good resource page maintained by John Slatter at the University of Durham;
he also maintains a Russian
History page with a variety of primary documents from Kievan times
to the present.
Library of Congress,
Revelations from the Soviet Archives
Vladimir Bukovsky, Selected
Soviet archival documents
The Association of Women in Slavic Studies is a networking resource for
people concerned with the problems, status, and achievements of women in
the profession. It also attempts to cover research and teaching in women's
studies and questions of gender and family life in Central/Eastern Europe
and the Former Soviet Union. The organization is affiliated with AAASS
(The American Association for theAdvancement of Slavic Studies).
Cold
War International History Project
The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials
by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the
process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the
former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has
been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant
onWestern archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language,
geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars
interested in Cold War history.
WWW Virtual Guide to the History
of Russian and Soviet Science and Technology
The Russian North
and Siberia
SPRI Library holds an extensive collection of publications concerning
northern Russia and Siberia. There are currently some 20,000 records, listing
works published from 1671 through to 1999.
Check out Oberlin College
Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies
Contains useful links to news sources, internships, study abroad and
will keep you connected to things going on at Oberlin,
Selected Electronic and Text Periodicals
Current Digest of the Soviet Press
A key source for English translations from Soviet and post-Soviet periodicals.Location:
Main Periodicals LIB. HAS v.13-43, 1961-92 (text) v. 1-12, 1949-61 (microfilm).
Indexed in Nexis from June 1983. While the Current Digest is indexed in
a variety of electronic data bases, the indexing is not comprehensive.
Careful review of the hard copy is recommended.
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
Location: Main Periodicals LIB. HAS v.44-- 1992--; Annual Index (1992)-
Russian
Review
Soviet Studies, continued as Europe-Asia
Studies
Problems of Communism, continued as Problems of Post-Communism
Soviet Economy, continued as Post-Soviet Affairs
A periodical publication supported by the Open Society Institute which
covers political and social developments in the former Sovit Union and
Eastern Europe. Begun in June 1997 as the heir of Transition biweekly which
was publishedby the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) of the Open Society
Institute (OSI) since 1994. Further sites are indexed through the Transitions
homge page.
English-language newspaper, which began publication in July 1994. Archived
and searchable.
Moscow News
New Times
Kommersant Weekly
Guides to Using and Citing Web Resources
A Brief Citation
Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
by Melvin
E. Page
Citing
Electronic Information in History Papers by Maurice Crouse
Online! A Reference
Guide to Using Internet Sources by Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger
Research and Documentation
in the Electronic Age by Diana Hacker