Supplement: Selected Resources For Some Eastern & East Central European Countries

9/25/09

http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/slavic/index.html

Machine-readable version of this guide: http://www.stanford.edu/~rondest/guideEE09.doc

For bibliographic sources and countries not covered in this supplement, see:

University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library, http://www.library.illinois.edu/spx/, which has guides on many countries and subjects.

FINDING ARTICLES and OTHER MATERIAL SHORTER THAN BOOK-LENGTH

Central and East European Online Library, http://www.ceeol.com/. Aggregation of searchable full text of articles in over 400 humanities and social science journals. Most of the material is in the languages of the region. Look over list of periodicals before you start to search. Then search in language of material you expect to retrieve. This resource is also searchable via Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com/schhp.


Bulgaria
Natsionalna bibliografiia na Republika Bulgariia. Seriia 5, Letopis na statiite ot bulgarskite spisaniia i sbornitsi. Sofiia: Narodna biblioteka Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodii, 1991-
AI15 .L375 (Green stacks)

Indexes contents of selected Bulgarian journals and collections. Indexing is way behind, and it is not available online. 1972-1990: part of Natsionalna bibliografiia na NR Bulgariia. 1952-1971: journals and collections covered in Letopis na periodichniia pechat, together with newspapers.

Natsionalna bibliografiia na Republika Bulgariia. Seriia 6, Letopis na statiite ot bulgarskite vestnitsi. Sofiia: Narodna biblioteka Sv. sv. Kiril i Metodii, 1991-
AI15 .L377 (Green stacks)

Indexes contents of selected Bulgarian newspapers. Indexing is way behind, and it is not available online. 1972-1990: part of Natsionalna bibliografiia na NR Bulgariia. 1952-1971: newspapers covered in Letopis na periodichniia pechat, together with journals and collections.

Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
Članky v českých časopisech. Praha: Národní knihovna, 1953-1990.
AI15 .C55 (Green stacks)
Bibliografický katalog ČSFR: Články v českých časopisech. Praha: Národní knihovna v Praze, 1990-[1992?]
AI15 .C58 (Green stacks)
The Czech National Bibliography, including the periodicals index, is available online by going to National Library’s homepage http://www.nkp.cz and pulling down the Katalogy a databázy menu. Interface in Czech or English, with extensive help file. Books section begins in 1901! ANL, also in the Katalogy a databázy menu, is the most recent incarnation of the periodicals index; it indexes articles 1991- Diacritics requried in all databases for searching words that have them.
Hungary
Magyar nemzeti bibliográfia. Idöszaki kiadványok repertóriuma. Budapest: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, 1977-2002.
AI19 .H8 M27 (Green stacks)
Previous title: Magyar folyóiratok repertóriuma.
Available online as IKER--Magyar Időszaki Kiadványok Repertóriuma at http://w3.oszk.hu/rep.htm. Database begins in 1993. Diacritics required for searching words that have them.
Poland
Bibliografia zawartości czasopism. Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, 1947- .
AI15 .B45 Green stacks; also Hoover
Monthly Polish index of selected journal and newspaper articles. Online version for 1996- available at http://mak.bn.org.pl/. Click on icon in middle of page, then Bibliografia narodowa i bibliografie specjalne. The online journal and newspaper index is called Artykuły z czasopism polskich. You will need to look at all the databases listed to cover 1996 to date. Interface is in Polish. Diacritics required for words that have them.
Romania
Bibliografia Naţionalǎ Romanǎ, Publicaţii seriale. Bucureşti : Biblioteca Naţională a României, 1992-
AI19 .R8 B8 (SAL)
Earlier: Bibliografia Romaniei, 1990-1992; Bibliografia Republicii Socialiste România: articole din publicaţii periodice şi seriale; and Bibliografia Republicii Populare Romîne, 1957-1989.
Bibliografia naţionalǎ romanǎ. Articole din publicaţii seriale. Cultura. Bucureşti : Biblioteca Naţionalǎ a României, 2000-
Z2923 .C852 (Green stacks)
Earlier: Cultura în România : referințe bibliografice şi documentare din periodice româneşti, 1992-1999.
Nothing online yet.

Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
Bibliografija Jugoslavije. Članci i prilozi u serijskim publikacijama. Serija A, Društvene nauke. Beograd: Jugoslovenski bibliografski institut.
Under various similar titles, covering 1950-2002.
AI15.B47 Green stacks
Monthly periodicals index covering social sciences, part of national bibliography. Other series cover other broad subject areas. Since breakup of Yugoslavia, it has indexed only periodicals published in Serbia and Montenegro. Nothing online, but see entry for COBISS.
Bibliografija rasprava, članaka i književnih radova. Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, 1956-
Z2951 .Z3 F Green Lane Room (2^nd floor)
Massive retrospective bibliography of journal articles published in Yugoslav lands, 1800-1945.
Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije = Digital Library of Slovenia <http://www.dLib.si/>.
Digitized Slovenian periodicals, books, photographs, music scores, posters, maps, and sound recordings—all both old and new. From National Library of Slovenia.
Hrvatska bibliografija. Niz B, Prilozi u časopisima i zbornicima. Zagreb: Nacionalna i sveučilišna biblioteka.
Published under various similar titles, 1946-1981, 1990-1999. 2000- online only.
AI15 .B52 and nearby call numbers, Green stacks
Croatian periodicals index, part of national bibliography. Online Croatian national bibliography is here: http://www.nsk.hr/bibliografije/index.html. Online access requires subscription, which we don’t have.
Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica = National and Unversity Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Its website <http://www.nuk.uni-lj.si/> includes its online catalog, KatNUK, which contains both books and articles. Articles indexed there 1990- . There is also a link to COBIB (see entry for COBISS above).

FINDING BOOKS (AND IN SOME CASES PERIODICAL TITLES) NOT IN SOCRATES OR WORLDCAT

Bulgaria
Catalogs at Sofia University Library, http://ns.libsu.uni-sofia.bg/index.html, and the National Library, http://www.nationallibrary.bg/.
As with other catalogs of this type, coverage is much better for books published in late 1990s and after.
Bulgarski knigi, 1878-1944: bibliografski ukazatel.
Sofiia: Narodna biblioteka, 1978- . 9 vols.
Z2891 .B8 F (Lane Room)
Ivanchev, Dimitur P. and Todor Borov. Bulgarski periodichen pechat 1844-1944: anotiran bibliografski ukazatel. Sofiia: Nauka i izkustvo, 1962-66. 3 vols.
Z6956.B9 S65 (Green stacks)
Spasova, Mariia Vladimirova. Bulgarski periodichen pechat 1944-1969: bibliogr. ukazatel. Sofiia: Nar. bibl. Kiril i Metodii, 1975. 3 vols.
Z6956.B9.S76 F (Green stacks)
Poland
Catalogs of Jagiellonian Library, http://www.bj.uj.edu.pl/.
If you don't find it in their regular online catalog, try their Katalog Podstawowy, scanned card catalogs of books published up to and including 1949.
Yugoslav successor states
COBISS: Kooperativni online bibliografski sistem in servisi = Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services, http://www.cobiss.net/.
Front page for cooperative union online library catalogs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Montenegro. Slovenian catalog is oldest and largest by far. It includes much more than just material published in Slovenia. Albania has just joined project; Bulgaria recently agreed to join; Croatia has been invited.

Digitalizirani abecedni katalozi (Digitized alphabetical catalogs of National and University Library in Zagreb), http://www.nsk.hr/DigitalLib.aspx?id=75.

Scanned card catalogs of books published before 1990, maps, atlases, manuscripts, old books and periodicals, music scores, sound recordings. Newer publications can be found in the library's regular online catalog.
Katalog knjiga na jezicima jugoslovenskih naroda, 1868-1972. Beograd : Narodna biblioteka SR Srbije, 1975- 14 vols.
Z2952 .N37 1975 (Lane Room).
Digitized version at http://digital.nbs.bg.ac.yu/katalozi/katalog1868-1972/, searchable at http://digital.nbs.bg.ac.yu/scc/index.php.