Guides: Russian & East European Studies: Articles & Books

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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
Citations to U.S. and Canadian publications on topics related to East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union, including culture, history, economics, international relations, and literature. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

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Academic Search Premier
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.
ProQuest Central
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Conference proceedings and working papers from participating institutes around the world. Includes the full text of books and book summaries, journal abstracts, links to websites and a calendar of conferences and seminars.
MLA International Bibliography
Provides access to worldwide scholarly research in literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater, representing all national literatures. Does not include book reviews.
PAIS Index
A subject guide to journals, books, pamphlets, and government publications relating to economics, social conditions, and international relations.
Social Sciences Full Text
Indexes the major scholarly journals in the social sciences, including public policy, since 1983. For prior years, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
Web of Science Core Collection
Cumulates five databases:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.

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Online Databases of Russian/NIS Publications
See particularly "Russian Social Science & Humanities" for academic articles. Includes several databases.

Central and East European Online Library
While the library does not have a subscription to this database, a large number of CEEOL articles are freely accessible.

Russian Romanization

North American libraries use the Library of Congress romanization table for Russian. Romanization tables exist for other languages written in Cyrillic characters; to look at the complete list of romanization tables created by the Library of Congress go here.

Click here for other Russian Cyrillic romanization tables, including the ISO and GOST standards.

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WorldCat.org
Over 100 million records for books and other materials in over 60,000 libraries. Items found in WorldCat may be requested through InterLibrary & Consortium Loan services.