Slavic Studies Resources

This selection of specialized resources in Slavic is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list.

Indexes & Databases

Indexes can be used to locate articles by topic, title, or author.

ABSEES [American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies] | Guide

American Bibliography of Slavic & Eastern European Studies (ABSEES), produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of the many subjects covered include: anthropology, culture & the arts, economics, education, and geography. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage for ABSEES ranges from 1990-present. (1990-, updated monthly)

Academic Search Complete (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index see Web of Knowledge

 

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) | includes Full Text

C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 280 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

Contemporary Authors (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Contemporary Authors helps researchers discover biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States are featured.

Contemporary Literary Criticism (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

CLC presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.

CountryWatch | includes Full Text

Contains detailed textual, data and graphic information for countries and regions. Topics include: country overviews, political history and conditions, economic status, investment overviews, social background, and environmental situation and issues.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) records the achievements of the world's most influential literary figures. Each entry includes personal data, the author's principal works, and sources for further study.

Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text

Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

Humanities International Complete | includes Full Text

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. The database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases.

IBZ International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

IBZ online contains over 2.1 million journal articles from over 6,000 journals covering the years 1983-2001. Approx. 120,000 entries are added to the database annually. (1983- updated monthly)

International Medieval Bibliography (Note down-loadable IMB-fonts for non-Arabic characters in indexed literature)

The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. The discipline areas to which the IMB is relevant include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. (1981-)

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei -- Soviet Periodical Index

"Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei [is] a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in publication since 1926, covers more than 1,700 journals, series, and continuing publications of academies, universities, and research institutes in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, and the social sciences, and it also covers the popular periodical literature. Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei provides access to the periodical literature of an essential time in modern Russian history, beginning with the period of the Khrushchev "Thaw" following the 20th CPSU Congress and continuing through the first half of the so-called Brezhnev "Period of Stagnation". Virtually any student or scholar studying Russian political science, literature, or history between 1956-1975 will find Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei to be an invaluable resource."

Modern Language Association Bibliography (via FirstSearch) | includes Full Text

This bibliography covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide between 1926 and the present. The MLA Bibliography is updated ten times per year. (1926-)

Periodicals Index Online

Periodicals Index Online began as Periodicals Contents Index at Harvard University. Articles from over 900 humanities and social sciences periodicals with nineteenth century content have been indexed. (1790-1919)

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (via FirstSearch)

A unique and rich new source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies and social sciences about materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe. Created by one of the world's largest producers of bibliographies in the social sciences and humanities. RAS cites and abstracts books, manuscripts, dissertations, plus articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. The vendor of this database has merged with OCLC; the database migrated onto the WorldCat interface, 9/19/07.

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text

The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))

Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

ZDB is the largest database of periodicals and serials in the world. It contains over 1,2 million titles in all languages, published from 1500 to the present day. Electronic editions of periodicals are also included. In addition, ZDB lists over 6 million holdings of these titles in 4,300 German libraries.

Online Text Collections

Digital Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest/UMI

A comprehensive source for doctoral dissertations from the United States and Canada. Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. A limited number of master's theses is also included. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

Digital National Security Archive

The database contains more than 35,000 of the most important, declassified U.S. federal documents that led to policy decisions. The Digital National Security Archive contains fifteen complete collections: Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Iraqgate, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, Presidential Directives from Truman to Clinton, South Africa, and Soviet Estimate.

Fundamental'náiâ elektronnáiâ biblioteka Russkáiâ literatura i fol'klor : FEB.

A free digital Library devoted to Russian literature and folklore from the 11th-20th centuries. Provides full-text access to literary texts, audio, and visual materials, and supporting scholarly works, including a number of Russian reference tools. The contents are in Russian; however, the site provides a link to an English language version that describes the materials covered and explains the library's goals. The library is produced by The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Newspapers

Microforms located in Government Publications (Fondren basement)
Current issues located in Current Periodicals Room

Literaturnaia gazeta

Call Number:  AN70 .L5

Microform Holdings:  1961- on microfilm

Notes: Organ of the Writer's Association in the U.S.S.R.

Literaturnaia Rossiia

Print Holdings:  current 3 months

Call Number:  AN70 .L55

Notes: Soiuz pisatelei RSFSR; Moskovskaia pisatelskaia organizatsiia (R.S.F.S.R.)

Moskovskie novosti

Print Holdings:  current 3 months

Call Number:  AN70 .M67

Notes: Soiuz sovetskikh obshchestv druzhby i kulturnoi sviazi s zarubezhnymi stranami; Agentstvo pechati "Novosti."

Nezavisimaia gazeta

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN70 .I52

Microform Holdings:  1991-2001 on microfilm (AN70 .I522)

Notes: Issued by: Moskovskii gorodskoi sovet narodnykh deputatov

Novaia gazeta ponedelnik

Print Holdings:  current issues

Call Number:  AN70 .N68

Microform Holdings:  1996- on microfilm (AN70 .N682)

Novoe Russkoe Slovo/ New Russian Word

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN2 .N4 N68

Notes: Russian American daily newspaper, published in New York.

Obshchaia gazeta

Call Number:  AN70 .O272

Microform Holdings:  1991-2002 on microfilm

Notes: Ceased in 2002; not published in 1992.

Prague Post

Print Holdings:  current 3 months

Call Number:  AN67 .P72

Pravda

Call Number:  AN70 .P7

Microform Holdings:  1961-1983, 1989-1999 with gaps on microfilm

Notes: Official organ of: Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza, Oct. 15, 1952-

Russkiia viedomosti

Call Number:  AN70 .R8

Microform Holdings:  1890-1918 with gaps on microfilm

Rzeczpospolita

Warsaw Voice

Print Holdings:  current 3 months

Call Number:  AN67 .W37

Microform Sets

Czech and Slovakian Biographical Archive

Call Number:  CT933 .C47  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  none

Polish Biographical Archive

Call Number:  CT1230 .P64  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title

Guide:  Four volume guide

Russian Biographical Archive

Call Number:  CT1203 .R87  microfiche

Library Catalog Access:  series title only

Guide:  None

Reference Works

Language Dictionaries:

Language dictionaries can be found in the Reference section under the following call number ranges. Some older dictionaries may also be available in the Stacks for check-out.

• Bulgarian: PG801-1146
• Czech: PG4001-5146
• Polish: PG6001-7446
• Russian: PG2001-2826
• Serbo-Croatian: PG1201-1696
• Slovak: PG5201-5546
• Ukrainian: PG3801-3987

Atlas of Russia and the Independent Republics. Moshe Brawer. Simon & Schuster: 1994.

Call Number:  G2110 .B7   REF-ATLAS

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. 2nd ed. Archie Brown, Michael Kaser and Gerald S. Smith. Cambridge University Press: 1994.

Call Number:  DK14 .C35   REFERENCE

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Europa Publications: 2000.

Call Number:  HC244.A1 .E293   REFERENCE

Part of series: Regional surveys of the world

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson. G.K. Hall: 1991-1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E53   REFERENCE

v.1 North America; v.2 Oceania; v.3 South Asia; v.4 Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe); v.5 East and Southeast Asia; v.6 Russia and Eurasia, China; v.7 South America; v.8 Middle America and the Caribbean; v.9 Africa and the Middle East; v.10 Indexes

Entsiklopedicheskii slovar. Ivan Efimovich Andreevskii, K. K. Arsen’ev and F. F. Petrushevskii. 1890-1907.

Holdings:  v.1-41, Suppl. 1-2

Call Number:  AE55 .E6   STACKS

Historical Dictionary of Poland. George Sanford and Adriana Gozdecka-Sanford. Scarecrow Press: 1994.

Call Number:  DK4030 .S26   REFERENCE

Historical Dictionary of Russia. Boris Raymond and Paul Duffy. Scarecrow Press: 1998.

Call Number:  DK36 .R39   REFERENCE

Poland: an encyclopedic guide. Edyta Banaszkiewicz-Zygmunt and Krzysztof Olendzki. PWN: 2000.

Call Number:  DK4030 .P636   REFERENCE

Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Neil Cornwell. Fitzroy Dearborn: 1998.

Call Number:  PG2940 .R44   REFERENCE

The Year's work in modern language studies. London: Modern Humanities Research Association.

Holdings:  v.1 (1929/1930) -- present

Call Number:  PB1 .Y45   REFERENCE

The first ten years of this useful resource are available on microfilm; the remaining issues are in the Reference Collection.

Other available formats:  MICROFORM

Wielka encyklopedia PWN. Jan Wojnowski. Naukowe PWN: 2001-.

Call Number:  AE53 .W44   REFERENCE

Films at Fondren Library

The following are live WebCat searches which retrieve current lists of our films in the languages specified, most of which have English subtitles. (* DVDs with subtitle options in the language are also retrieved at the present due to a technical problem.) The Language Resource Center also collects foreign-language films. You can search their catalog on the Language Resource Center Website.

Czech Films

Polish Films

Russian Films

Ukrainian Films

You can also search our catalog for a specific film by title, director or main actors (via author search); or, on the power search page, you can limit a keyword search to films by selecting a format of "VM" (Visual Materials).

Checkout for films is as follows:

Videotape 1 films (documentaries) circulate to all Rice patrons for a week.

Videotape 2 films (feature films) circulate to Faculty for 3 days; Staff and Students can view the films inside the Library (we have recently upgraded our viewing equipment).

Websites

Biblioteka Narodowa

National Library of Poland

Národní knihovna Ceské republiky (NK)

The National Library of the Czech Republic

Novaia gazeta online

NUKAT [Narodowy Uniwersalny Katalog Centralny]

Combined catalog of Polish research libraries.

Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennaia biblioteka

Russian State Library

Transliteration Tables for Non-Roman Scripts

A useful resource from the Library of Congress.