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Web Resources in Russian, East European,

and Eurasian Studies


Transliteration:
-ALA-LC Romanization Tables
-Online transliteration tool

Electronic Libraries:
-Fundamental Electronic Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
-Maksim Moshkow’s Library
-Polska biblioteka internetowa (site is periodically inaccessible)
-South Slavic Literature Library
-Virtual Library of Polish Literature
-Verses : Classic Russian / Soviet Poetry
-Zhurnal'nyi zal
-Ceska citanka
-Slovoto: Bulgarian virtual library

Reference Sources (dictionaries and encyclopedias):
-Mir Entsiklopedii
-Slavic Language Dictionaries

Guides to Slavic Studies Research:
-Introduction to Slavic Information Resources (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
-Slavic Studies Research Guide (New York University Libraries)
-Russian Reference Works (Wojciech Zalewski)

General/Area Overview (including current events):
-REENIC
-Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
-REESWeb
-Eurasianet.org
-Central Europe Online
-Fond “Obshchestvennoe mnenie”

Government Information:
-CIA World Factbook
-Country Studies/Area Handbooks (Library of Congress)
-Country Briefings (The Economist)
-Country Profiles (BBC)
-Foreign Government Resources (University of Michigan)

Search Engines:
-Russian Google
-Yandex
-Rambler
-Aport

Archival Resources:
-Russian Archives Online
-Arkhivy Rossii
-Russian Archives Database/Putevoditeli po arkhivam Rossii : Links to identical database; one version maintained by EastView, the other by Rosarkhiv.

Universal Catalogs of Slavic Library Holdings:
-Russian Information Library Consortium
-SIGLA
-Slavistics Portal Metasearch

Print Index:
-Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei
Other indexes to print publications available in print only at the PCL. Check online catalog for details.