Librarian/Curator for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
Alena Aissing
Contact:
A1540 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095
310-206-0324
Start Here: Catalogs, Search Engines, and Other Finding Aids
- WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new windowSearch for books at hundreds of libraries all over the world all at the same time. If UCLA doesn't have a book you need, you can Interlibrary Loan it for free.
Strategy: When you find a book on your topic in an online catalog, scroll down to "Subject(s)". The subject hyperlinks will take you to more books on the same (or similar) subject.
Strategy: When you hold a book on your topic in your hands, look at the bibliography and/or the footnotes for a goldmine of related sources.
- Google ScholarIt's google, but for scholars! Find books and journal articles, and if you're in the UCLA system, links will take you directly to Libary holdings.
Strategy: When you find a resource on your topic, follow the "Cited by..." and "Related articles" links to find more potentially useful things. - YandexLike Google, but in Russian!
Transliteration and Typing
- Virtual Cyrillic Phonetic Keyboard for Russian and UkrainianType the text you need in Cyrillic, then copy and paste into a search box on another page. Extremely useful when working with Russian-language search engines and databases on public computers.
Databases
- American Bibliography of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ABSEEES) This link opens in a new windowCovers 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. Available from UCLA IP addresses only.
- Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies This link opens in a new windowIndex 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.
- Russian National Bibliography This link opens in a new windowUniversal Database of Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB) for Russian printed works by the Russian Book Chamber (Knizhnaia Palata); covers publications from over 20,000 publishers. Includes citations for books, newspaper articles, journal articles, book reviews, maps, dissertation abstracts, sheet music, art works; includes a list of all Russian periodicals and continuing publications; searchable in transliteration (LC) or Cyrillic.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowUse "A-Z List of Databases" to find this resource. MLA = Modern Language Association. Indexes worldwide publications on topics including literature, language, linguistics and folklore from 1923 to the present.