Index to EES Web Pages:
About EES
The EES office (Room 5711H, second floor of Ackerman Library) manages the East European and Slavic
Studies collection of The Ohio State University Libraries.
OSU students, faculty and staff are welcome to e-mail or telephone (614-292-8959)
Miroljub Ruzic for area-specific
reference assistance.
All others, please contact the University of Illinois Library's
Slavic
Reference Service.
EES Reference Area
The EES Collection Area
A diagram of EES Areas in Ackerman Library.
The East European and Slavic Studies Collection Area is located on the main floor of the
OSU Ackerman Library, 600 Ackerman Rd. Columbus, OH
43202. The Collection Area houses a reference
and browsing collection containing nearly 10,000 volumes as well as current
newspapers and journals from and about the region.
The Collection Area is open the same hours as Ackerman Library. (Click here to see Ackerman Library's hours of operation.)
Click here to look at pictures of the EES sections inside Ackerman Library.
The Index
Table holds several hundred volumes of important bibliographic and
reference materials in one location for easy browsing.
Here is a list of current newspapers received in EES sorted by Title
or by Country
of publication.
About the collection
The East European and Slavic Studies collection contains approximately
1,000,000 books and journals of which the great majority are in the languages
of the region (Russian, Polish, Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian,
Romanian, etc.) The majority of these cover the broad area of the humanities
and social sciences, reflecting the diverse interests of OSU's scholars
and students.
Click here to see a list of recent
acquisitions in East European and Slavic Studies at the OSU Libraries.
The collections, catalogs, databases and services of the Ohio State
University and OhioLINK libraries are the most important local resources
for researchers. Beginning and advanced users should make an effort to
become familiar with the tools and techniques of library research and the
resources available. The library catalogs of OSU and OhioLINK are available
to all, but many services are available only to authorized users.
Search the OSU Libraries' online catalog, OSCAR,
(login as 'library' and select appropriate terminal type - select 'o' for
VT100 terminal emulation.) Note that many of the databases, indexes and
electronic resources have been available through the VT100 version of OSCAR
are now web-only. For this reason, the Web-based
version of OSCAR is becoming the main gateway for many Library users.
To learn about and use all of the services of the Ohio State University
Libraries and OhioLINK, connect to the home pages of The
Ohio State University Libraries, and OhioLINK.
Or follow this link for information about The
Ohio State University.
Advanced researchers may also benefit from searching other libraries'
catalogs. The Hytelnet database
is a directory of Internet-accessible library catalogs before the World Wide Web came along.
Browse through the list of early sites which started sharing information online.
The Wildman-Perez Russian Peasant Collection
Professors Allan K. Wildman and Marge Perez have compiled a collection
of statistical and other primary source material for the study of the Russian
peasantry. The collection, over 150 titles and 200 volumes, consists of
archival quality photocopies of rare publications, dating mostly from the
1870's to 1917. Click here for a bibliography of titles in the collection.
Unbound copies of these works are available for purchase by scholars
and libraries from The Ohio State University's Center
for Slavic and East European Studies for the cost of photocopying.
The Hilandar Research Library
The Hilandar Research
Library is a special research collection for the study of medieval
Slavic Orthodox Christianity. With over 4,500 manuscripts, chiefly in microform,
the Hilandar Research Library contains the largest collection of Slavic
manuscripts in North America and second largest in the world. The core
of the collection consists of microfilms of the manuscript collection of
the Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos. The Hilandar Research Library recently
acquired over 1,200 manuscripts on microfilm from widely scattered and
previously inaccessible libraries in Russia, making The Ohio State University
the leading center of medieval and early modern Slavic studies in the United
States.
Reference Guides to EES Collections
The rich resources at the Ohio State University Libraries for the study
of the Slavic world are quite remarkable, but finding material on a particular
topic is often a complex process. For a number of technical and historical
reasons, the Libraries' catalogs will often not yield complete results.
Many, if not most advanced research projects will require recourse to printed
and electronic bibliographies and indexes. Behind the next link are several
lists of important bibliographic
and reference tools for Slavic and East European Studies held by the
OSU Libraries. These lists are not by any means exhaustive, but they will
help users begin the process of bibliographic research. (The lists focus
predominantly on Russia, and many of the titles cited are in Russian. Some
important bibliographic works on other countries are included.)
Important East European and Slavic Studies
Resources Online
Online Reference Sources
ABSEES Online (The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) contains bibliographic
citations to books, book reviews and journal articles published in the
United States and Canada. The database currently contains over 35,000 citations
from 1990-1996 and is updated monthly. For earlier citations, see the printed
version in OSU's main reference room. Available for OSU campus and HomeNet
users only.
The Russian Academy
of Sciences Bibliographies The Institut Nauchnoi Informatsii po
Obshchestvennym Naukam Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk (INION RAN) - the Institute
of Scientific Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences - compiles
a large bibliographic database including citations to Russian, European
and Western journals and books received at the Academy of Sciences Library
in St. Petersburg. This resource is an online version of the important
bibliographic series Novaia otechestvennaia literatura po . . .
that can be found in the EES Reading Room. Available for OSU campus
and HomeNet users only.
The
Universal Database of Russian Newspapers provides full text access
to current and back issues (as far back as 1996) of Russian newspapers.
The database is searchable by date of issue as well as keyword. Available
for OSU campus and HomeNet users only.
The University of Pittsburgh's REES
Homepage compiles and presents WWW resources from and about the former
Soviet Union, Eastern- and Central-Europe. In addition to much else, this
page includes instructions on how to view Cyrillic and other non-ASCII
pages online.
The University of Illinois Library's Slavic
Reference Service has a very useful site for researchers on Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. Here you will find pointers to library
resources, catalogs, and databases from the region. The University of Illinois
Slavic Library's searchable database of Slavic
and East European newspapers is a must-see resource for researchers
focusing on the twentieth century.
Stanford University's Wojciech Zalewski has prepared an excellent online
guide to Russian reference sources. His Introduction
to Russian Reference Works includes citations to bibliographic and
non-bibliographic reference tools of interest both to senior scholars and
advanced students of Russia working in the humanities and social sciences.
Scholars and students preparing for archival research in Moscow and
Leningrad will want to have a look at Patricia Kennedy Grimsted's ArcheoBiblioBase.
ABB is an online version of Grimsted's 1997 Arkhivy rossii : Moskva
i Sankt-Peterburg : spravochnik-obozrenie i bibliograficheskii ukazatel.
Click here to see a list of East European and Slavic dictionaries online.
Electronic
periodical publications
Click here to view electronic periodical publications in Eastern European and Slavic Studies.
There are many newspapers
from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union currently available on
the World Wide Web. Most are in the languages of the countries of publication
(and several of these require special software to view properly), but several
are in English. Arranged by country of publication.
News
analysis and digesting services are an important source of up-to-the-minute
information. We have listed some of the most important that are freely
available online and in English.
There are currently very few important online
journals available in East European and Slavic Studies. We have listed
the most important, and are keeping our fingers crossed for more.
Russian literary sources and journals online
There are a number of journals available online and free of charge
in Russia. All of these require that you have enabled your computer to
display Russian text in Cyrillic characters and understand at least how
to change encodings in your browser. Click here for instructions on using
Russian
on the Macintosh. Click here for using Russian
with Netscape for Windows.
Dostoyevsky: Complete works
of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and concordances have been mounted by the Petrozavodsk
State University.
Arion: A quarterly "thick journal" dedicated to the problems of contemporary
Russian poetry. The journal itself appears to have ceased, but selected
articles from 1995 are available, as are whole issues for 1996-7.
Vavilon: vestnik
molodoi literatury. (V samizdate s 1989, v poligraficheskom ispolnenii
s 1992.)
Searching tips for East European
and Slavic Materials
Many of the languages of the region use a Cyrillic alphabet. Most online
library catalogs and bibliographic indexes in the United States and Europe
do not support these alphabets, but use instead a system to render the
words in the Roman alphabet. There are several transliteration systems
in use that are accepted - and even preferred - by scholars, but libraries
(in the US) use a standard established by the Library of Congress. To
search successfully for titles in Cyrillic alphabets, you must use this
system.
Princeton University Library's Cataloging Department has prepared a
WWW version of the Library
of Congress transliteration tables for Slavic and non-Slavic languages
of the region that use Cyrillic alphabets. Here are found transliteration
tables for Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Serbian,
Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Ukrainian and Uzbek languages.
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