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GENERAL SOURCES

Materials are located in the YRL Reference Reading Room unless otherwise indicated.

Bibliographic Guides

Specific countries/areas

  • Burger, Robert H. and Helen F. Sullivan. Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1986-1993. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995. [Z 2483 .B89 1995]

  • Chambers, Frances. France. (World Bibliographical Series, vol. 206) Oxford, Eng.; Santa Barbara, CA. : Clio Press, 1998. [DC 707 .C353 1998]

  • Croucher, Murlin, ed. Slavic studies : A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1993.
    [Z 2483 .S554 1993]

  • Iovanni, LeeAnn. Denmark. Rev. ed. (World Bibliographical Series, vol. 83) Oxford, England; Santa Barbara, CA : Clio Press, c1999.
    [Z 2561 .I58 1999]

  • Pitman, Lesley. Russia/USSR. 2nd ed. (World Bibliographical Series, vol. 6) Oxford ; Santa Barbara, CA : Clio Press, 1994. [Z 2491 .T452 1994]

  • Sponza, Lucio and Diego Zancani. Italy. (World Bibliographical Series, vol. 30) Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, CA : Clio Press, c1995.
    [DG 417 .Z99S66 1995]

Social Sciences & Humanities

  • Balay, Robert, ed. Guide to reference books. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. [Ref Desk Z 1035 .M88g 1996]

  • Blazek, Ron and Elizabeth Aversa. The Humanities: A Selective Guide to Information Sources. 5th ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
    [Ref Desk Z 6265 .B53 2000]

  • Herron, Nancy L., ed. The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources. 2nd ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1996.
    [Ref. Desk Z 7161 .S648 1996]
    Covers reference materials in anthropology and other social sciences.

  • Webb, William H. Sources of Information in the Social Sciences : A Guide to the Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago ; London : American library Association, 1986. [Ref Desk Z 7161 .S666 1986]

  • Guide to Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Information Resources

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Web Megasites
Collections of links covering many topics in European & Russian studies

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Encyclopedias & Handbooks Covering All of Europe
There are many handbooks in the YRL reference collection that are useful for European topics. The following are examples only.

  • Economist Intelligence Unit
    Country Profiles and Country Reports which provide analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries.

  • The Europa world year book. 30th ed. 1989- London, England: Europa Publications Limited, c1989- [Ref Desk D 904 .E93]
    This annual began in 1959 under the title The Europa Year Book. Since 1960, it covers the whole world, not just Europe.

  • Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. 2000- London, England: Europa Publications [Ref Desk HC 244 .E225]
    For 1992-98, this was published as Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

  • Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations. 8th ed. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1995. 5 vols. [Ref Desk G 63 .W67 1995] Vol. 5 is Europe.

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General Encyclopedias from Europe and Russia
There are many other European general encyclopedias, old and new, in the same area of the reference reading room (currently Section 202-216). Here are a few good examples.

  • Bolhaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia. Moskva: "Sov. entsiklopediia", 1970-1978. 30 vols. in 31. [AE 55 .B64 1970]

  • Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. 19th ed. Mannheim: F.A. Brockhaus, 1986-c1996. 30 vols. [AE 27 .B78 1986]

  • Enciclopedia europea. Milano: Garzanti, 1976-1997. 14 vols. [AE 35 .E53]

  • Encyclopaedia universalis. Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis, 1989-1990. 30 vols. [AE 25 .E568 1989]

  • Gran enciclopedia Rialp : GER. 6th ed. Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, 1989. 25 vols. [AE 61 .G763 1989]

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Maps

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Data & Statistics

  • Global Statistics (U.N. Statistics Division)

  • National Publications and Statistical Yearbooks, Current Statistics and Internet Sites (U.N. Statistics Division)

  • Statistical Agencies: International (U.S. Census Bureau)

  • Index to international statistics: IIS. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1983)- Washington D.C. : Congressional Information Service, c1983-
    [YRL Reference Government Resources Index Table HA 36 .I52]

  • LexisNexis Statistical (Congressional Information Service, c2000- )
    Summary: Indexes and abstracts printed federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Covers: American statistics index (ASI); Statistical reference index (SRI); and Index to international statistics (IIS). Also includes links to other Web sites about government statistics.

  • Social portrait of Europe. 2nd ed. Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1996. [HN 380.5 .A85S63 1996]
    Compiled by Eurostat's Directorate for Social and Regional Statistics and Structural Plans in conjunction with other Eurostat directorates.

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Article Databases & Indexes

Article Databases
Links to periodical indexes and electronic journals in the social sciences and humanities.
A few indexes to highlight because of their coverage of Europe and/or Russia are listed below. All of these and many others are available on the Article Databases page.

  • American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
    Covers North American scholarship since the late 1980s on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.

  • European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (Bibliographie européenne des travaux sur l'ex-URSS et l'Europe de l'Est. Europäische Bibliographie zur Osteuropaforschung.)
    EBSEES lists books, journal articles, reviews, and theses on Eastern Europe (formerly Communist countries) published in Western Europe. Includes national minorities and émigré publications. Covers works published between 1991 and 1996.

  • FRANCIS
    An index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art, and literature from 1984 to the present.

  • IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
    Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals, including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent, 1983 to the present.

  • MLA International Bibliography
    Indexes journals, dissertations, collected works in the fields of literature, folklore, and linguistics from 1963 to the present.

  • PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
    Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics, from 1972 to the present.

  • Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
  • Index to materials in the humanities and social sciences published 1992-present in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Subject headings are in Russian (with some in English), as are most of the materials indexed.

  • Web of Science
  • The Social Sciences Citation Index (1975-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), and Science Citation Index (1975-present). Covers thousands of journals in a wide array of disciplines. Search by topic, author, journal title, or cited author (to identify articles which cite that author's article).

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Dissertations

  • ProQuest Digital Dissertations
  • Index to doctoral dissertations from 1861 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Complete text of dissertations and theses from University of California campuses since 1997 is available at no charge to download in PDF format. The first 24 pages of all items since 1997 are available to preview at no charge.

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Archives & Manuscripts

  • DeWitt, Donald L. Guides to archives and manuscript collections in the United States : an annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. [Ref Desk CD 3022 .A2D48 1994]

  • National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Directory of archives and manuscript repositories in the United States. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988. [Ref desk CD 3020 .U58d 1988]

For archival resources in Washington, D.C. area libraries (including the Library of Congress):

  • Dillon, Kenneth J. Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C. for Central and East European studies: Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany (FRG & GDR), Greece (Ancient & Modern), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Yugoslavia. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: 1980. [Z 2483 .D54]

  • Higbee, Joan Florence. Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C. for southwest European studies: France, Italy (including Ancient Rome), Malta, Portugal, Spain, the Vatican. Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press, 1989. [Z 2000 .H5 1989]

  • Pitschmann, Louis A. Scholars' guide to Washington, D.C., for northwest European studies. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984. (covers Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden) [Z 2551 .P57 1984]

Archival Resources via the World Wide Web

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Abbrevations

  • ITA : internationale Titelabkürzungen von Zeitschriften, Zeitungen, wichtigen Handbüchern, Wörterbüchern, Gesetzen, Institutionen usw. = International title abbreviations of periodicals, newspapers, important handbooks, dictionaries, laws, institutions etc. 9th ed. München: K.G. Saur, 2003. 3 v. [Ref desk Z 6945 .A2L53 2003]

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Universities & Academies

  • The directory of university libraries in Europe. London, U.K. : Europa Publications, 2000. [Ref desk Z 675 .U5D57]

  • The World of learning. London, Europa Publications, 2003.
    [Ref desk L 101 .W893]

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Compiled by Patti S. Caravello, March 2003

Last Updated: August 8, 2005
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