Google will only take you so far… in particular it cannot show you areas of the web which are not freely available including the many specialist resources purchased by the library. Subject portals contain links to all sorts of relevant online resources and they have usually been checked to make sure they are trustworthy (however you should always do your own checks). Here are some subject portals for Slavonic studies
The Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a trusted citation index for locating research across a curated, multidisciplinary set of journals, books and conferences. It works differently from.other bibliographical databases in that it allows citation searching on works which a given work cites as well as works which cite the document itself. This will lead you on to works which in turn have references for the works they cite as well as works which cite them. It is indeed a 'web' of knowledge!
The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is a repository of full text indexed documents in the fields of Humanities and Social Science publications from and about Central and Eastern Europe. The collections include native language sources from and about Central, East and Southeast Europe's humanities and social sciences in the form of journal articles, eBooks and Grey Literature. Countries covered include: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia,
Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
The electronic version of American Bibliography of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies provides information on East-Central Europe, Russia, Soviet Union and the former Soviet republics with a vast collection of indexed sources published mainly in the United States and Canada. Subjects include Gender Studies, language and linguistics, literature, literary criticism, performing arts, philosophy and history and social sciences. Sources include journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and online resources, It was first published in printed format in 1957. It started to appear in digital format in 1989. It continues to be published up until the present.
Alternative names: ABSEEES ; American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies ; ABSEES
American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES) offers a bibliography to Slavic and Eastern European studies, as well as Eurasian studies. Covering all subject areas, the majority of content is originally published in the US and Canada.
Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.Topics covered include Pushkin, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Dostoevsky...
Alternative name: CCO
Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Each collection is updated with new Companions on publication.
The Dostoevsky Research Series (Dostoevskii: Materialy i Issledovaniia) is a continuing publication and since 1974 23 volumes have been published. In addition to letters addressed to the writer and critical works it includes articles on the influence of Dostoevsky on Russian and foreign literature.
Alternative names: Dostoevskii: Materialy i Issledovaniia ; EB-DRS
This series is a companion to the 30 volume Collected works of Fyodor Dostoevsky published by Pushkinskii Dom. The series includes contemporary issues in Dostoyevsky scholarship, letters addressed to the writer, materials and documents covering his biography and critical analysis of this works.
The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) should complement the American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES), It covers articles published in Europe including the UK rather than North America It started in electronic form in 1991. It exists in print between 1975 and 1990 and came to an abrupt end in 2007. It has not been updated since then so it is not as useful as it could be.
Alternative name: EBSEES
The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) was created in 1974 by merging the two bibliographies that were then in print : the British Soviet East European and Slavonic Studies in Britain (a supplement to the journal ABSEES between 1971 and 1974), and the French Travaux et publications parus en francais sur la Russie et lÆURSS published in the Cahiers du Monde russe et sovietique from 1963 to 1974. The English title of the bibliography was originally the European Bibliography of Soviet, East European and Slavonic Studies; it was changed with the 1990 volume to reflect the new political situation. The French and British founders of EBSEES were gradually joined by new European partners: Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and most recently Switzerland.
Contains correspondence of Catherine, Czarina of Russia (in French) and a few other letters (in Russian) of the period ie the 'long' eighteenth century. See also Catcor (Correspondence of Catherine the Great database) further down the list.
Alternative name: EE
Electronic Enlightenment has as its foundation major printed editions of correspondence centred on the "long 18th century". From the correspondence itself, the supporting critical apparatus and additional research, the project has developed a set of information categories that creates an intricate network of connections between the documents and enriches Electronic Enlightenment as a digital academic resource. Through such interconnecting and contextualizing categories, Electronic Enlightenment is able to offer the user an unrivalled range and depth of approachs to the documents and people included here.
To date, most of the content of Electronic Enlightenment has been provided by printed editions of correspondences from academic presses worldwide; nevertheless, it is not simply an aggregation of these editions. Rather it is a database of individual letters and correspondents that can be searched or browsed as a complete collection. This is one of the great strengths of Electronic Enlightenment.
The content of Electronic Enlightenment is planned to grow by several thousand letters a year: additional content will include both new print editions and correspondence never previously edited. The network of external links to leading resources, from Chambers' Cyclopaedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, will continue to expand. The functionality of Electronic Enlightenment will also be enhanced in line with developments in online database technology.
Provides access to the the main canonical texts of Russian 19th century literature in authoritative editions. In addition, provides partial access to important literary journals such as Literaturnoe nasledstvo and also access to a range of monolingual Russian dictionaries
Alternative names: FEB-web ; The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
"FEB-web" is short for The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore, a project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and online since July 2002. FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it. FEB-web makes the canon of Russian verbal art available free of charge to anyone with internet access. FEB-web is also a unique analytical tool with functional capabilities that allow researchers to approach Russian verbal art in a fundamentally new way. In assembling its collections, FEB-web sustains an unprecedented level of bibliographical and textological precision — these are texts the most demanding researchers can trust. The key concept that makes all this possible is The FEB-web Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE). Each DSE combines an exhaustive collection of primary texts with all the essential secondary literature and bibliographical works you need to do research on a given author, genre, or work (e.g. Pushkin, byliny, or The Lay of Igor's Campaign ).
Includes Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon and Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Dictionaries can be searched in isolation or simultaneously.
Alternative names: IEEDO ; IEED Online
The IEEDO comprises etymological dictionaries of Old-Frisian, Iranian, Latin, Italic, Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Hittite, Persian, Proto-Celtic, Armenian, Greek and Proto-Nostratic. The dictionaries are cross-searchable and may also be searched individually.
There is the possibility of searching for Slavic and East European material by restricting the geographical scope of the search to Russia and/or East Central and/or South Central Europe. There is also a search parameter for the Baltic
Alternative name: IMB
The International Medieval Bibliograpy (IMB) database comprises records deriving from articles published in periodicals (journals) and in miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues) published world-wide. It can be searched as part of Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies.
All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Please note that we only have a three user licence for this title so please exit when you have finished!
If you browse by subject and select Slavic Studies this will bring up a list of all the Slavonic-related journals that are included in this full-text database. Note that you will not find the most recent articles in JSTOR as there is always a 'moving wall' sometimes of five years after which there is no access.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Originally conceived as a project at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR began as an effort to ease the increasing problems faced by libraries seeking to provide adequate shelf space for the long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals. JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
Library Hub Discover replaced COPAC in July 2019. It includes the library catalogues of 117 university and research libraries in the UK. The new service offers much of the same functionality as COPAC. If you click on More Search Options you will be able to see the full range of searches possible. LHD is useful for discovering whether another UK library holds a particular title which is not to be found in Oxford. If another UK library holds the item you may be able to apply for an interlibrary loan.
Alternative name: Jisc Library Hub Discover Library Hub Discover is a union catalogue, giving free access to the merged online catalogues of over 100 UK national, academic and specialist libraries. There are over 39 million records in the database. Library Hub Discover replaces the previous union catalogues Copac and SUNCAT.
Manuscriptorum is a collaborative programme to make digitized XML-encoded manuscripts from all over the world accessible to scholars and others. The Czech manuscripts from the National Library of the Czech Republic is one part of the wider programme. However, there is also access to manuscripts of all kinds in a variety of languages both from the Czech Republic, Moravia and Slovakia and beyond ie Europe and the US. This digital library is being added to all the time. The interface is in Czech and English
Digitized images of two manuscripts:
* Labirynt sveta a lusthauz srdc
* Knizky sestery o obecn
ých vecech krestanskych
The original manuscripts are from the historical collections of the National Library of the Czech Republic.
There are also several sample pages from the manuscript Codex Pictoricus Mexicanus (part) whose purpose is to demonstrate how the digital copy is stored and described.
This database is the first port of call for research in Modern Languages including Slavonic and East European languages. Mainly access to periodical articles is provided. Sometimes there is direct access to the full text. More often than not a bibliographical reference to a particular year and journal volume and issue is provided.
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations. It has more than 3 million records and is constantly updated by scholars in the field. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
Alternative name: Universal Database of Governmental Publications
This database monitors events in the Duma and the Federation Council. Includes stenographic records, vote results, resolutions and legislative drafts, schedules and agendas. Use the site to monitor the constantly evolving events in parliament, including stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft laws, vote results, official resolutions and decrees.
Catherine’s thousands of letters, in French, Russian, and German, span her full career, with the earliest known texts dating from 1742 and the last from just before her death in 1796. She corresponded with well-known figures of the French Enlightenment like Voltaire and Mme Geoffrin; monarchs like Frederick the Great of Prussia and Gustav III of Sweden; lovers like Grigory Potemkin; and a wide range of diplomats and statesmen in her service. Her most extensive and literary correspondence is that with Friedrich Melchior Grimm, a German baron living in Paris for much of his life and whom Catherine took into her service as her primary cultural agent in Europe. The majority of her letters were published in nineteenth-century historical journals (many quite rare) and remain scattered, although some of the most famous correspondences, like those with Voltaire and Potemkin, have appeared in scholarly editions. There is no single print edition or digital repository available.
Catcor (Correspondence of Catherine the Great database) is a pilot project for a digital database of the letters of Catherine the Great. It currently contains about 1000 letters in full text encoded in TEI XML with searchable metadata records for another 6000+. The letters are a representative sample of different aspects of Catherine's correspondence (literature, statecraft, court life etc) with a wide variety of different correspondents in French, Russian and German. The resource includes notes, calendar and an interactive map plotting Catherine's correspondence network.
Here you may find the complete works of Chekhov, Tolstoy and ... Kropotkin (in English)
Past Masters is a collection of primary-source full-text humanities databases. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of individual authors.
Here you can find all the main Russian newspapers both current issues and archives. Newspapers include Kommersant, Literaturnaia gazeta, Izvestiia and others
Alternative name: Universal Database of Russian Central Newspapers
Comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia from official sources
The Russian National Corpus is a representative collection of texts in Russian, counting more than 2 bln linguistic units and completed with linguistic annotation and search tools
This website contains a corpus of the modern Russian language incorporating over 150 million words. The corpus of Russian is a reference system based on a collection of Russian texts in electronic form.
The Corpus is intended for all who are interested in the Russian language and various associated fields: professional linguists, language teachers, school and university students, foreigners learning the language.
The National Library of Russia, located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, and one of three national public libraries in Russia. The NLR is currently ranked among the world's major libraries
The Russian State Library is one of the three national libraries of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest library in the country, second largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Its holdings crossed over 47 million units in 2017
Alternative name: Российская Государственная Библиотека
The Russian State Library is the largest library in Europe and the second largest in the world after the Library of Congress.
The Library holds collections which are unique in terms of completeness and universality and include documents in hundreds of dead and living languages of the world.
The RSL has specialised collections of maps, musical scores and records, rare books, art publications , dissertations etc.
The RSL ensures access to its rich collections for the development of science, culture and education via a system of catalogues and by organising exhibitions of different kind.
Russkaia literatura is a well-known journal of literary criticism.
Russkaia literatura (ISSN 0131-6095) is a well-known journal of literary criticism, one of the most comprehensive, reliable and authoritative resources featuring biographical information and criticism of Russian and Soviet authors in various genres.
Published since 1958 by the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Science (Pushkinskii Dom), this scholarly journal features numerous research papers, discussion pieces, analytical articles and critical essays concerning classical and modern writers and poets of Russia.
ZHURNAL KRITIKI I LITERATUROVEDENIIA Authoritative journal of literary criticism offering articles and roundtable transcripts dealing with problems of Russian and world literature, history and theory of literature.
WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing short biographical information on 4.2 million people with a historical coverage from the 8th century BC to the present. Included are 4.56 million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works on 3.2 million people worldwide.
NOTE: WBIS allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users institution-wide.
Bibliographical Archives we have access to:
American Biographical Archive I-II
Archives Biographiques Françaises I-II (French)
Archivio Biografico Italiano I-II (Italian)
Archivo Biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica I-II (Spanish & Portuguese)
OCLC catalogue of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
Contains all the records catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records. Includes records representing 400 languages. Over 95,000,000 records added since 1971.
Coverage - before 1000 BC to present, updated daily.
The most comprehensive bibliographic product of Russian printed works from the governmental body, the Russian Book Chamber. Enjoy fingertip bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. The Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography covers publications by 21,500 publishers.
