Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

European Studies


AAASS NewsNet Archive (UDB-NN) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
NewsNet features articles on particular issues in Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies, and on the teaching of disciplines related to Slavic studies.

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AEIOU Encyclopedia of Austria
The AEIOU is the online version of the Österreich-Lexikon encyclopaedia containing all entries and illustrations of the two-volume encyclopaedia.

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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ABSEES online contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books & chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications covering US and Canadian scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.

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Anthropology Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.

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Archive of European Integration
The AEI is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.

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ARTFL ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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Basque Database
Provides multilingual access to Basque-studies books, articles, chapters, dissertations, films and other materials.

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Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
German language index of (primarily) German language periodicals covering all aspects of German language and literature.

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BOPCRIS : Unlocking Key British Government Publications
Search and browse information in over 24,000 documents from the the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service (BOPCRIS).

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Brepolis Medieval Bibliographies Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The leading bibliography of the European Middle Ages (400-1500) providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

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Central and Eastern European Online Library ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CEEOL provides access to full text articles from more than 200 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

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Central Index of Digitized Imprints (ZVDD)
ZVDD is a German national union catalog of digitized materials for scholarly relevant digitized resources dating from the beginning of printing to the 21st century.

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CIS and Baltics Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes a number of authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

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Columbia International Affairs Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CIAO contains theory and research on policy issues and current events in international affairs.

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Comintern : Electronic Archives of the Communist International (Access from European Reading Room Only) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Comintern Archive contains original documents from over 35 communist and left-socialist parties, together with other international organizations from 21 different countries.

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Compact Memory
Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika is a digital collection of some of the most important German-language Jewish periodicals of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

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Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe
The Compendium is an expanding Europe-wide information and monitoring system on cultural policy measures, instruments, debates and cultural trends.

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Compludoc
A database containing article citations (author, title, journal information, and some author summaries) from nearly four thousand peer-reviewed scientific journals held in the Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Use "Connect via IP Access") ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical, economic, and political information.

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Country Studies
Prepared by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division, these studies describe and analyze the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions for over 100 countries and regions.

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Credo Reference : Law Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of a dozen domestic and international reference legal sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries.

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Credo Reference : Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over a dozen reference sources covering international relations, political science and sociology.

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Current Digest of the Soviet & Post-Soviet Press ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text English translations of selected articles from Russian language newspapers published in Russia and the former Soviet Republics.

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Database on Developed Countries
Demographic indicators (in French) for developed countries (EU, Japan and North America) including tables for Natalité, Fécondité; Nuptialité, Divortialité; Mortalité; and Mouvement de la population.

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Databases of Russian / NIS Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Eastview databases containing the full text of current and older issues of Russian, Baltic and Ukrainian newspapers and journals.

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Deutsche Bibliothek ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications from the National Library of Germany.

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Deutsche Lyrik ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Die Deutsche Lyrik ( German Lyric Poetry ) is a German language database of German poetry containing the complete works of one hundred poets, from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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Digitale Bibliothek Deutscher Klassiker ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text to works by more than thirty German authors, allowing users to cross-search an outstanding corpus of classic texts.

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Dramatis Personae Archive
Covers European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850 and contains rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals.

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E-Journals in History & Archaeology ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in History & Archaeology.

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Editoria Italiana Online (Click on "Access for Institutions") ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Electronic editions of more than 500 books and 100 journals, in a wide range of disciplines, produced by some of Italy’s most important publishers.

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eHRAF World Cultures ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Human Relations Area Files Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database of primary source materials on all aspects of cultural and social life worldwide.

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ECCO contains digital images of every page of 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century.

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EIU City Data ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains global price levels covering over 330 cost of living prices for 140 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present.

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EIU Country Data ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts covering 150 countries and 45 regions.

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EIU Country Profiles ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides background and historical context of current economic and political events for over 200 countries provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides in-depth coverage of 60 key markets worldwide and includes more than 400 different variables per country to help gauge international demand for products and services.

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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
An online catalog of research findings and other shared resources, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was formed to encourage the sharing of data among researchers who emphasize the relationships between place, time and topic in the study of culture and history.

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Emerging Markets ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Collection of news and financial information for over 65 selected countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America.

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EUMC Database
The EUMC - RAcism and XEnophobia Network (RAXEN) contains data and information on organisations addressing the issues of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism, their activities and publications.

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EURODATA Research Archive Bibliographic Database
Contains citations to book and journal literature on issues pertaining to EU countries.

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Eurodicautom
Eurodicautom is the European Commission's multilingual term bank which is widely used by linguists, translators, and interpreters world-wide.

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EUROPA
Provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration.

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Europa World ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Online version of the Europa World Year Book (published since 1975).

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European Archive
A digital library of cultural artifacts including books, music, images, websites and moving images.

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European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES), 1991-2007
EBSEES contains about 85,000 bibliographic records for journal articles, books & chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications covering Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.

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European Commission Libraries Catalogue
ECLAS is a bibliographic database consisting of 350,000 completed catalogue records in the domain of European affairs; about 7,000 new records are added annually.

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European Integration Current Contents
European Integration Current Contents provides access to the tables of contents of journals relevant in European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences.

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European Library
The European Library portal provides bibliographic access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe.

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European Research Papers Archive
The ERPA database contains hundreds papers for research in the field of European Integration studies, providing access to the online working paper series of participating institutions.

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Europeana
Provides access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a cross-domain portal that links to over 2 million digital items.

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Eurostat
Provides access to statistical information on the European Union, the EU Member States, the euro-zone and other countries.

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FRANCIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).

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Gallica
The digitization project of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France focusing on the cultural history of France and French speaking areas throughout the world.

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GBV Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
GBV includes the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.

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German Exile Press 1933-1945
Contains journals from the holdings of the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt/Main and from the collection of the Exile Literature, Leipzig during the NAZI era.

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Global Financial Data ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Comprehensive economic and financial time-series database covering 150 countries and 6,500 different data series.

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Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress.

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Global Legal Information Network
GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.

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Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch
Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, mit beständiger Vergleichung der übrigen Mundarten, besonders aber der Oberdeutschen, von Johann Christoph Adelung.

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Historical Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains annotated references to books, articles, and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

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Historical Archives of the European Commission's Database
ARCHISplus contains references to files of the High Authority of the ECSC, the ECSC Consultative Committee and the Committe of Four Presidents, Euratom, the European Economic Commission and the Commission of the European Communities for the period ranging from 1952 to 1972.

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Humanities E-Book ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project contains hundreds of full text works of major importance in history, area studies, and the humanities.

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IBFD Portal to Cross-Border Tax Information ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) portal to comparative tax research, international tax information and business practices.

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Index to Theses ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

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INSEE
Economic, census, and demographic statisical data for France gathered by the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques.

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International Bibliography of Periodical Literature Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IBZ contains over 2 million journal articles from 11,000 journals covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.

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International Country Risk Guide (select LOGIN to search) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) rating comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk: political, financial, and economic.

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Iter Gateway to the Renaissance and Middle Ages ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

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LIBRIS
Union catalog of books, theses, journals, music, and other materials held by Swedish academic and research libraries.

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Literaturdokumentation zur Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas
Documentation of Literature on the History of East Central Europe provides citations to monographs, articles in journals and collective works on the history of East Central Europe.

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MLA International Bibliography Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association, consists of scholarly research in over 4,000 journals and series pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, including film studies.

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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.

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Newspapers via ProQuest Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full text of 300+ United States and international news sources.

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Osterreichische Historische Bibliographie
The OHB (Austrian Historical Bibliography) is a bibliography of historical literature published in Austrian books, periodicals, festschriften and dissertations since 1965 and relating primarily to Austrian history.

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PAIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Chronicling global public policy and social issues, the Public Affairs Information Service provides access to over 3,600 periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.

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PAIS Archive Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s.

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Parliamentary Information Management Service
PIMS provides an index to the proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament in the UK and includes the full text of Early Day Motions since May 1997.

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PERSEE
Database of French journals in the social sciences and humanities.

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PLEIADI Project
A portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives.

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RDB Rechtsdatenbank (Available in Law Reading Room Only) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to a large number of Austrian legal journals, collections of cases and other resources related to the laws of Austria.

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ReferenceUSA International Businesses ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Reference USA OneSource International Business contains in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information.

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Revues.org
Online journals in French Studies with abstracts available in French and English.

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Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British & Irish History
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography is a database containing 350,000 records on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Citations and abstracts of over 19,000 journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe.

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Russian and CIS Statistical Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers Russian and English language publications, reports and data sets from State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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Russian Governmental Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides monitoring of the constantly evolving events in the Russian parliament, including stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft laws, vote results, official resolutions and decrees.

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Russian Information Library Consortium
RILC is a distributed joint catalogue providing access to the bibliographic and digital resources of five Russian libraries: M I Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature (VGBIL), Moscow State University Academic Library (Lomonosov), National Library of Russia (NLR), Parliamentary Library (PL), and the Russian State Library (RSL).

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Russian Military and Security Periodicals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
UDB-MIL contains a broad range of military texts, including central military journals and regional military district newspapers in all major strategic areas.

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Russian National Bibliography ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides bibliographic access to books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps from 21,500 publishers.

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Russian National Library Catalog
General Alphabetical Online Catalog of Russian Books from 1725-1998.

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Russian Newspapers ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers developments throughout Russia by providing the full-text files of the most influential national and regional Russian newspapers.

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Scottish Bibliographies Online
Scotland’s national bibliography brings together over 70,000 records of books, periodicals and major articles of Scottish interest published all over the world.

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Social Sciences and Humanities Russian Journals ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides access to the contents of all lending Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities, the so called "thick journals.

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SourceOECD ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.

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Sudoc Catalogue
The union catalog of the Système universitaire de documentation contains bibliographic information on all types of documents held by French academic libraries.

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Swedish National Bibliographic Databases
Catalog of books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, and monographs covering material which has been published in Sweden.

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The Swiss Book : Swiss National Bibliography
This bibliography lists all Swiss publications on all mediums: books, maps, music scores, electronic medias and multimedia, periodicals, newspapers, annual publications and series.

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Treaties and International Agreements (Select: Connect via IP Access) ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
TIARA contains accurate versions of over 11,500 treaties and international agreements.

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UK Data Archive
The UK Data Archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

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Ukrainian Publications ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine, its progress along the reform path, views and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, problems of ethnic relations, and tendencies in the development of the armed forces.

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Vascoda
Vascoda is a German gateway for scientific and scholarly information.

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Virtual Library Eastern Europe
ViFaOst provides extensive specialist academic information on the history, culture, politics and society of the countries and regions of Eastern Europe.

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Virtuelle Deutsche Landesbibliographie
The Die Virtuelle Deutscha Landesbibliographie is a meta catalogue allowing simultaneous access to several bibliographic databases of regional german history.

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WAO : World Affairs Online
World Affairs Online is one of the largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing over 665,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters, hearings, and grey literature.

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World Biographical Information System Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
WBIS contains biographies of some 4 million men and women, living and deceased, from all social classes and professions, from all countries and regions, from 4000 BC to the present.

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World News Connection ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Full-text summaries and translations of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from the Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS).

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.

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