FW: Russian online databases

Tue Nov 4 18:20:15 UTC 2008

From: June Farris
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:19 PM
To: 'Klawa Thresher'
Cc: 'SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list'
Subject: FW: Russian online databases

Dear Ms. Thresher,

Below you will find a slightly amended copy of the handout I give to students beginning a new research topic, looking for material primarily in English.  Most of these, however, require paid subscriptions by your library for access, so I don't know which might be available to your student.

SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SOURCES:

*        ABSEES [American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies]
All areas of the humanities and social sciences
*        Central & Eastern European Online Library [CEEOL]
All areas of the humanities and social sciences - searches with English keywords will bring up articles in English
*        CountryWatch
Critical country-specific news and information: political, economic, social, business, environmental overviews, statistics, etc.
*        World News Connection [WNC]
Full text and summaries of non-U.S. media sources, translated into English, including important radio and television broadcasts, as well as selected newspaper and journal articles, news agency releases and other official government statements.
*        Historical Abstracts
Materials on world history, military history, women's history, history of education, etc. Includes citations to articles in Russian
*        PAIS International
Public affairs, broadly defined (politics and government, economics, law, environmental studies, etc.)
*        Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering most aspects of the humanities, social sciences and sciences
*        JSTOR
Full text of journal articles in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.  Includes a number of Slavic Studies journals (Europe-Asia Studies, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Slavic & East European Journal)
*        CIAO [Columbia International Affairs Online
*        FBIS [Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index
*        Human Rights Watch
*        WorldWide Political Science Abstracts

Russian language sources:
*        Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies.  Sort of the Russian equivalent of WorldCat, but which includes articles as well as books
*        Universal Database of Russian Newspapers [UDRN]
All areas of the humanities and social sciences-searches with English keywords will bring up articles in English, Russian words will bring up Russian citations
*        Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press [online & print formats]  Although the articles are in English translation, they each give citations to the original Russian articles
*        Russian/NIS Newswires Database Includes several outstanding sources to follow day-to-day developments in Russia and CIS. Covering politics from the president down to leading economists, events - large and small, economic news, and Central Asia.
*        Voprosy istorii (print and online database)
*        WorldCat  Includes citations to nearly 1900 book titles on Chechnia (950 in Russian, 675 in English), as well as many internet sources

Again, these are paid databases, so all may not be available to your student.

You might also want to contact Emma Gilligan at the University of Connecticut, Department of History. She has been gathering thousands of citations on Chechnya for many years now, and would very likely be able to quickly point your student in the right direction, especially regarding important web sites in Russian & English.  You can mention my name as a referral.  emma.gilligan at uconn.edu<mailto:emma.gilligan at uconn.edu>

For a good bibliography in paper format, there is:

Kratkaia anotirovannaia bibliografiia chechenskogo konflikta. Kh. Abdulaev, Z. Gukaev, comps. Moskva: RAN, 2002. 136p.  [WorldCat lists 30 some locations in U.S. libraries, so it should be easy to borrow on Interlibrary Loan]

Best,

June Farris

_________________________________________

June Pachuta Farris

Bibliographer for Slavic, E. European

and Central Eurasian Studies

University of Chicago Library

Room 263 Regenstein Library

1100 E. 57th Street

Chicago, IL  60637

1-773-702-8456 (phone)

1-773-702-6623 (fax)

jpf3 at uchicago.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Klawa Thresher
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 5:18 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: [SEELANGS] Russian online databases

Dear Colleagues,

One of our seniors is working on a senior honors project that relates to

Russia's present and historical conflict in Chechnya and would like to

find more sources about this in Russian.  I am a literature specialist

and we do not have any Russian history or politics specialists, so I am

writing to ask if there are any Russian databases on politics,

nationalism and/or linguistics that she might find helpful (her Russian

is quite good).

You can respond to me at kthresher at randolphcollege.edu.

Thank you very much,

Klawa

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