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ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) 1990 - present 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 Un... View ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) Online

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ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) 1990 - present 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 Un... View ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) Online
BBC Country Profiles Current This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides info... View BBC Country Profiles Online
Border and Migration Studies Online 19th - 21st centuries This collection of primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera relate to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries. It offers researchers historical context an... View Border and Migration Studies Online Online
Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) 1862 - 1939 for Europe; -1948 for Soviet Russia IYP, the Index to Yiddish Periodicals, is a bibliographical data base using Yiddish, which aims to record the materials published in the Yiddish press in Eastern Europe, from its beginnings (1862) ... View Index to Yiddish Periodicals (IYP) Online
Integrum Integrum is an interface to a collection of databases providing varying sources of current information about Russia, the CIS, and the Baltic states. Includes full text of central and regional newsp... View Integrum Online
Jewish Encyclopedia 1901 - 1906 This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public... View Jewish Encyclopedia Online
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies 1986 - Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies. This resource indexes more than 12,500 periodicals published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Euro... View Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies Online
Russian State Library Digital Library 1500 - Collections from the Russian State Library, in four parts. Universal Collection: printed editions that published since 1830. It provides the wide range of sources on culture and history of Russia a... View Russian State Library Digital Library Online
Universal Databases (East View) A collection of various electronic resources marketed by Eastview, including Russian newspapers, academic journals and e-books, Middle Eastern Arabic language e-books, American Slavic studies publi... View Universal Databases (East View) Online
YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 8th century BCE - present Topics covered include arts, daily life, places, language, literature, history, politics, and religion. In addition to the encyclopedia articles, this site provides access to a collection of photog... View YIVO encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Online

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Anthropological Index Online 1957 - present Anthropological Index Online contains citations for more than 770 international journals and special interest publications in all areas of anthropology and archaeology. Journals indexed are publish... View Anthropological Index Online Online
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials 1908 - present The ATLA Religion Database (formerly ATLA Religion Index) indexes more than 600 of the leading journals in the field of religion and theology. The index also includes essays from multi-author works... View ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials Online
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. It supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, scie... View Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online
Election Ephemera Collections (Russia/Belarus) 2010 - 2012 Collections of election related ephemera gathered during the 2010 Presidential Election in Belarus, the 2011 Russian Federation Duma election and the 2012 Russian Federation Presidential election. View Election Ephemera Collections (Russia/Belarus) Online
First World War 1910-1925 The First World War Portal consists of three modules each representing different presentations of the First World War, using a vast array of primary source materials drawn from several archives and... View First World War Online
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996 Electronic version of the FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports. In February 1941, the Roosevelt administration authorized the creation of the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Serv... View Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Online
Historical Abstracts 1955 - present Historical Abstracts indexes and abstracts information in world history and the related social sciences and humanities, excluding the U.S. and Canada. (See America: History and Life for U.S. and Ca... View Historical Abstracts Online
Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) 1957 - 1995 The Joint Publications Research Service was a U.S. government organization established in 1957 to supply government agencies with translations of unclassified foreign documents consisting of the fo... View Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS) Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 1923 - present JTA Jewish & Israel News is a searchable database chronicling modern Jewish history, as seen through the eyes of journalists. It consists of articles published or disseminated by the JTA (Jewish Te... View JTA Jewish & Israel News (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Online
Law in Eastern Europe (HeinOnline) 1951 - present The Law in Eastern Europe book series, published by Brill, covers the development, enactment, and impact of the rule of law in Eastern Europe. Per the agreement with the publisher, there is a 2 vol... View Law in Eastern Europe (HeinOnline) Online
Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 1945 - 1950 This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and adm... View Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 Online
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) 1851 - 2014, rolling 4 year embargo This version of The New York Times includes full-text and full-image articles since its beginning year. Digital reproductions of every page and every article from every issue are available in downl... View ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851-2014) Online
Socialism on Film early 20th century to the 1980s Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American... View Socialism on Film Online
Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-35 1923 - 1935 The archive contains materials providing information on the activities of the Soviet film company Sovkino and its relations with various other companies in the film industry, both in the Soviet Uni... View Soviet Cinema: Archival Documents from RGALI, 1923-35 Online
Stalin Digital Archive The Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) is the result of collaboration between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press. SDA provides online access to S... View Stalin Digital Archive Online
U.K. Parliamentary Papers 1688 - 2003/04 session Papers issued by the United Kingdom House of Commons including Bills and Acts, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, Hansard (the official report of debates in Parliament) and supplementary mate... View U.K. Parliamentary Papers Online
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... View Web of Science Online

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