Research Librarian
Start With These
These core Russian Studies databases are good places to start!
- American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES) (1939 to present) This link opens in a new window
Index covering North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (1991-2006) This link opens in a new windowCitations to European multidisciplinary scholarship on Slavic and East European subject matter (index of articles published from 1975-1990 is in print format only, in the Five College Depository).
These are also freely-available resources online in Russian studies:
- The H-Russia Network
Scholarly network on Russian and Soviet studies - The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore
Full-text digital resource on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies. - Museum of Russian Icons
- Russian Library of Classics (in Russian & English)
Collection of Russian literature, with some English translations.
- Ruthenia.RU (in Russian)
Online depository of scholarly work on Russian 19th and early-20th century literature and culture. - The New Literary Map of Russia (in Russian)
Information about authors and scholars working in a broad variety of genres, living in Russia and abroad. Bibliographical information, full-text versions of poems and critical studies. NOTE: Does not display in Firefox or Internet Explorer. - The Periodicals Room (in Russian)
Online collection of full-text issues of major Russian literary magazines and scholarly journals in the humanities.
Tip: Peer-reviewed articles
Peer-reviewed articles are:
- written by experts in the field
- assessed for validity and scholarly rigor by other experts in the field (peer review)
- published in scholarly journals