For a printable version of this list of resources, click here. (Handed out at Nov. 17 session.)
The main online "portal" to the library system is the Harvard Library portal, for the entire system of Harvard's libraries. There is also the site hcl.harvard.edu for the main libraries in the FAS.
Bibliography of Bibliographies
Croucher, Murlin, Slavic studies: a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1993) 2 v.
- Fung Library | Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies | DJK27.Z99 S54 1993x
- Widener | RR 3870.5
- Widener | Slavic Division
Bibliographies
Numerous general bibliographies on Slavic studies are available which include sections on language and literature, although, with the advent of the Web and electronic databases, fewer have been produced in recent years.
Classic Works
Horecky, Paul L. Basic Russian publications: an annotated bibliography on Russia and the Soviet Union (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) xxvi, 313 p.
- Fung Library Slav 600.178
- Widener Harvard Depository
- Widener Slav 600.178
Horecky, Paul L. East Central Europe: a guide to basic publications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969) xxv, 956 p
- Fung Library Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies HB 2013. 20
- Widener HB 2013. 205
- Widener Harvard Depository [Consult Circ. Desk for HNWBB3]
Horecky, Paul L. Russia and the Soviet Union: a bibliographic guide to Western-language publications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965) xxiv, 473 p.
- Fung Library Slav 600.178.5
- Widener Harvard Depository
- Widener Slav 600.178.5
Horecky, Paul L. Southeastern Europe: a guide to basic publications (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969) xxii, 775 p
- Fung Library Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Reference H 209.58.9
- Widener Slav 8120. 270
- Widener RR3900.2
More recent
Sullivan, Helen F. and Robert H. Burger, Russia and Eastern Europe: a bibliographic guide to English-language publications 1992-1999 (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001) xiii, 537 p. (Authors state that this bibliography is a continuation in the spirit of Horecky’s work.)
Hollis Classic or Hollis+ subject heading searches
- Slavic languages -- Bibliography
- Russian (or Czech, or Polish, etc) language -- Bibliography
- Slavic literature -- Bibliography
- Russian (or Czech, or Polish, etc) literature -- Bibliography
Online bibliographies
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) The electronic version covers North American publications from the late 1980s to the present.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:abseesxx
Paper edition from 1967-
- Fung Library Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies H269.18.540
- Widener RR 3870.6
European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies = Bibliographie europeene des travaux sur l’ex-URSS et l’Europe de l”Est = Europaische Bibliographie zur Osteuropaforschung (EBSEES)
Online version includes works from 1991-2007
http://ebsees.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
Paper version from 1975-
- Fung Library Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard Depository DJK 9.Z99
- Widener WID-LC DJK 9.Z99 E97x
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (Includes citations from over 12,500 publications, including journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations. Time period 1980-)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:rasbibli
Slavic Humanities Index
: indexes important and current Slavic humanities periodicals, currently over 180,000 bibliographic citations from more than 180 periodicals in twenty one languages. Coverage generally from about 1994.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:SLHI
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(other than HOLLIS)
Online Bibliographic Utilities
WorldCat (First Search) WorldCat is a union (i.e. collective) catalog of records of any type of material (books, periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) cataloged by tens of thousands of member libraries, primarily from libraries in the U.S. and Canada, but extending to many other nations.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:worldcat
Also an open version at http://www.worldcat.org
The European Library and Europeana allow searching across European libraries and digitized cultural heritage collections.
Google Books and the HathiTrust Digital Library allow for full-text searching of books, with full view public domain works. Hathitrust (requires sign-in) includes often much more accurate metadata and the ability to find much more easily different volumes of a single work.
Printed and Microform catalogs
The Slavic Cyrillic Union Catalog of pre-1956 Imprints [microform], compiled by the Catalog Division, Library of Congress (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980) 174 microfiches.
- Microforms (Lamont) Microfiche W1875
Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic collection / the New York Public Library (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974) 44 v.
*Continued by
Bibliographic guide to Soviet and East European Studies (New York: G.K. Hall, 1978-1993) Annual 16 v
- Widener WID-LC DJK50.Z99 B42x
**Continued by
Bibliographic guide to Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Studies (New York: G.K. Hall, 1995-1999) Annual 5 v
- Widener Wid-LC DJK50.Z99 B42x
***Continued by
G.K. Hall Bibliographic guide to Slavic, Baltic and Eurasian Studies (New York: G.K. Hall, 1999-2003) Annual
- Widener Wid-LC DJK50.Z99 B42x
Note, with the exception of the original publication Dictionary Catalog of the Slavonic collection, these publications are basically a print-out of WorldCat holdings. Many, but not all, of the items listed in the original 44-volume set are also available through WorldCat searches.
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National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
The National Library offers a number of online catalogs freely accessible. Information on these catalogs can be found at:
Of particular interest is the Catalogues of Books in Russian:
Russian State Library, Moscow
Online catalog includes Russian books acquired from 1994 to 2002; dissertations from 1995-; and dissertation abstracts from 1984
Provides a link to the Russian Electronic Library that includes full-text books, as well as maps and dissertations
Президентская библиотека имени Б.Н. Ельцина / Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
Czech National Library
Slavonic Collection
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Encyclopedias and handbooks
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Widener WID-LC DK32 .C33 2012
- Also available online at: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebookbatch.GEN_batch:CR9781139030359
The Cambridge history of Russian literature, edited by Charles A. Moser (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Kratkaia literaturnaia entsiklopediia, edited by A. A. Surkov (Moskva: Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1962-1978) 9 v.
- Ukrainian Res Inst Ref PN41 .K7 1962 v. 1-7
- Widener Slav 4063.15 v. 1-9
Handbook of Russian literature, edited by Victor Terras (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985)
- Fung Library Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Reference PG2940 .H29 1985
- Houghton Reading Room f PG2940 .H29 1985 [Original blue cloth.]
- Lamont PG2940 .H29 1985
- Lamont REFERENCE PG2940 .H29 1985
- Widener RR 3408
- Widener Slavic Division Widener WID-LC PG2940 .H29 1985
The modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature, edited by Harry Weber (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1977- )
- Widener WID-LC PG2940 .M6 v. 1-10 (still being published)
Reference guide to Russian literature, edited by Neil Cornwell (London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1998.)
- Lamont REFERENCE PG2940 .R44 1998
- Widener RR 3408.10
The Routledge companion to Russian literature, edited by Neil Cornwell (London ; New York : Routledge, 2001)
Hollis Classic subject heading searches
- Russian (or Czech, or Polish, etc) literature -- Dictionaries (or Encyclopedias)
- Russian (or Czech, or Polish, etc) literature -- History and criticism
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Dostoevskii's three journals, Vremia (1861-1863), Epokha (1864-1865), and Grazhdanin (1873-1874) http://www.philolog.ru/filolog/vremja.htm
Digital Archive versions of the following publications:
East View Social Science and Humanities database: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:udbsohum
“The goal of this database is to provide researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities. It is comprised of all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences ranging from archeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications.”
Nabokov Studies (1994- ) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx110978984251292
Russian Linguistics (1974- ) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx954925511439
Russian Literature (1971- ) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx954925511438
Russian Review (1941- ) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx954925442609
Russian Studies in Literature (1964- )
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx954925598607 Complete back file available at http://www.metapress.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/110922/?p=1d5cdabf56934c7284be4a85699360bf&pi=0
Studies in Slavic Culture (2000- ) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx991042754192540
Voprosy literatury (1957- ) http://dlib.eastview.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/sources/publication.jsp?id=686
Vestnik evropy (1802-1830) http://dlib.eastview.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/sources/publication.jsp?id=6286&uid=491
The full run of Voprosy istorii which includes the following titles:
Voprosy istorii 1945 – current http://dlib.eastview.com.ezp1.harvard.edu/sources/publication.jsp?id=688
Other online resources
Cyfrowa Biblioteka Narodowa (National Digital Library of Poland) http://www.polona.pl
Дигитална Народна библиотека Србије (Digital National Library of Serbia) http://serbia-forum.mi.sanu.ac.rs/Webbook.jsp Includes full-text manuscripts, monographs, newspapers and journal, cartographic materials, images, and other miscellaneous publications.
Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" (ФЭБ): The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore. The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (FEB-web) is a full-text digital resource. FEB-web accumulates information in text, audio, visual, and other forms on 11th-20th-century Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the history of Russian literary scholarship and folklore studies.
http://feb-web.ru/index.htm (Open access via the Web)
Hrčak Portal znanstvenih časopisa Republike Hrvatske (Hrcak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia) Includes 189 Croatian scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php
Library of Internet Publications http://www.magister.msk.ru/library/library.htm This is a full-text database that includes many of the major pre-Soviet Russian literary authors. Unfortunately, the original sources of the publications are not cited.
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