Have you looked at feb-web.ru lately?

Have you looked at feb-web.ru lately? This is a cite where frequent checks really are useful. Recently the full text of Masanov's pseudonym dictionary as well as the best reference sources for periodicals have all been added. The image to the left shows some of the sources/categories of sources available. Highlighted are the links to Masanov's dictionary and the periodical resources. The complete text, fully searchable, is available for these sources.

The pseudonym dictionary is more than just a list of author's and their pseudonyms as it includes in many cases the publications and dates when a particular pseudonym was used.
The periodical bibliographies included here are:
Русская периодическая печать, 1702—1894. — 1959 Русская периодическая печать, 1895 — октябрь 1917. — 1957 Лисовский. Библиография русской периодической печати, 1703—1900 гг.: Материалы для истории русской журналистики: В 2 кн. Библиография периодических изданий России, 1901—1916 Сводный каталог сериальных изданий России, 1801—1825.
If you are seeking information on periodical publications from the pre-revolutionary period this will be the best site to consult. The nature of the information in each of these sources, and its organization varies quite alot. So while Lisovskii's bibliography is probably the most comprehensive list of titles, Русская периодическая печать includes the most detailed descriptions of the type of material included in each publication. Библиография периодических изданий России Rossii is the most comprehensive list of titles for the late imperial period and has the added advantage of an index volume with a subject list. Also, each of its entries include the issues that were published for each year and their volume/issue numbers.
The final title in this list has yet to be scanned for the project.

The Russian National Library scanned the card catalog of its Armenian-language holdings

The Russian National Library scanned the card catalog of its Armenian-language holdings (over 64,000 items) and made it available online some time ago. They recently added part of their Georgian card catalog (from ა through დუმბაძე) as well, which will contain records for over 100,000 items when fully mounted. While many of the cards include Russian versions of the titles and authors' names, these cannot serve as access points since the full text of the cards is not searchable (unlike the State Public Scientific- Technical Library's scanned card catalog, where this kind of thing can be done). This means that search terms must be entered in Armenian or Georgian script, respectively. It also means that search capabilities are limited to browsing the portion of the Armenian or Georgian alphabetical order where the search term (i.e., an author's surname or the first word of a title or institution) may appear as the first word on the card (i.e., as the main entry), just as if one was standing in front of an actual card catalog and flipping through the cards one by one. Nevertheless, this is a major resource for scholars of the south Caucasus, as it provides access to the National Library's monographic holdings in these languages dating from the early 17th century to the present. General records for serials (without holdings information) are also included, and the Georgian catalog also includes records for avtoreferaty of dissertations.

Records for individual articles in the Kazakh and Georgian National Libraries

Records for individual articles in the Kazakh and Georgian National Library's online catalogs The National Library of Kazakhstan (http://www.nlrk.kz/) only has records for a fraction of its holdings online, but among those it does have are tens and tens of thousands of records for individual newspaper articles, journal articles, and individual papers from published conference proceedings, dating back to at least 1949. It is not clear how comprehensive the coverage is, especially for earlier years, but the value of having these records online is obvious, both for researchers and for librarians seeking to verify citations. Russian-language and Kazakh-language materials must be searched separately, the former in "Казахстан: прошлое и настоящее (рус)", and the latter in "Казахстан: прошлое и настоящее (каз)". These databases can be selected at http://212.13.133.56/. The keyword search does not appear to function properly, and some of the other search capabilities may not work as well as they might, but this is nevertheless a huge benefit to scholars and librarians. The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia also has a large number of records for individual articles online, including records for over 30,000 Georgian-language newspaper articles dating from 1852 to 1912 (http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ec/search.php?lang=en&db=pera). Several other article databases are listed at http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ec/changedb.php?lang=en&refurl=%2Fec%2Fsearch.php. Other national libraries in the region have recently begun to do some cataloging at the article level, as certain Eastern European libraries began to do several years ago. This is a welcome trend.

Retrospective resources at Knizhnaia Palata

Knizhnaia Palata www.bookchamber.ru The Russian Book Chamber has been a source of bibliographic information in print and electronic form for many years. They have now added some new retrospective resources to their current online searches that could be of interest to scholars. They have recently added several databases that provide online, free access to the books formerly only listed in print in Knizhnaia Letopis or electronically via the scanned catalog at the Russian National Library. There are two databases in particular that will be of interest to those seeking Russian language materials of the early Soviet period: the national bibliography for 1917-1930 and the national bibliography for 1939-45.

Internet Usage World Statistics

Internet Usage World Statistics http://www.internetworldstats.com/ The current interest in Internet usage makes this a very useful site, at least for comparative purposes. The statistics here largely come from the United Nations. When compared with many of the stats coming out of ISI Emerging Markets. It is a fairly thorough listing of statistics for most countries of the region. There are also links for numerous supporting sites here.

Russian Union catalog

Union Catalogs are always changing. One of the Russian sites that is really useful is the RIBK (Russian Library Information Consortium). The search mechanism sends queries to the Russian State Library, the National Library, Moscow University Library, the Rudomino Foreign Language Library and the Parliamentary Library. Many of the individual databases of these libraries are available via the interface as well.

Bibliographic Management Tools

We are sometimes asked by our patrons about the various bibliographic management tools available on the market, such as RefWorks, Endnote, etc. I pulled together a few links that give a good background regarding the subject of bibliographic software. The pages I link to range from very in-depth ones, some of which are continuously updated, to quick overviews, some in easy to read table form.

Here is a Berkeley site with nice tutorials, in depth descriptions of each program, FAQs and more. Discussed are EndNote, RefWorks, QUOSA, and Reference Manager.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/PUBL/endnote.html

There is also this detailed side by side comparison of several programs including RefWorks, Biblioscape, Bookends, Library Master, ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager, and Papyrus:

http://www.burioni.it/forum/ors-bfs/text/6e12400-42.html

Tufts also has a nice page comparing Endnote, RefWorks, and Reference Manager.

http://www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/education/endnote_refworks.html

For an overview at a glance here is everything about the main features of the programs put together in one big table (from a University of Washington page). Compared are: RefWorks, Endnote, Procite, and Reference Manager.

http://healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/citation_tools_comparison.pdf

Czech publications on history post 1990

http://biblio.hiu.cas.cz/english.html

The database BIBLIO is a working database of the Bibliographical department of the Library of the Historical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It contains monographs and articles in periodicals and collections of historical orientation published after the year 1990, with the bohemian character (Czech author, Czech topic, published in the Czech Republic). The database serves as a groundwork for the publishing of the yearbook Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands.

The archaeological records and records with Slovak topic are included only selectively, because they are processed in the Library of Archaeological Institute in Prague and in the Bibliographical Department of Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.

The meaning of the abbreviations of the excerpted periodicals and collections you can find at the bottom of pages with the found records. Complete list is here.

Number of records in database: 110 979 Date of the last update: 23. 4. 2007

Lexinfosys-Great source for Central Asian legal information

Another useful legal source Lexinfosys. This one is focused on Central Asia. URL:

http://www.cis-legal-reform.org/indexdb.asp?langi=eng

Each of the numbers here represents a subject category. You can get a list of the categories by clicking Show. Lots of translation, Russian and vernacular language materials.

World Law Guide for post-Soviet legislation

World Law Guide http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/legis.php Really nice source for legislation from the post-Soviet period. Quite a bit in translation and a section on each page of legal sources

Estonian National Library

Estonian National Library URL: http://www.nlib.ee/ The library catalog here allows access to citations for: Items (books, periodicals, sheet music, maps, sound recordings) acquired by the Tallinn libraries of the ELNET consortium JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN ESTONIA BOOKS PUBLISHED IN ESTONIA regardless of the language of publication. PERIODICALS PUBLISHED IN ESTONIA (regardless of the language). FOREIGN BOOKS issued after 1992 and (data on books published in Cyrillic is missing) - information comes from the union catalogue of foreign books. FOREIGN BOOKS published before 1992 and obtained by the National Library from (regardless of the language).

National Bibliography and National Libray acces as Subject Bibliography?

If you have ever struggled with research to compile a comprehensive list of publications on a topic it might be worth your time to reexamine the national bibliographies of Eastern Europe in their electronic manifestations. In the East European nations in particular, some of these sources are really remarkable!

MAK w WWW Polish National Bibliography Online Searchable by author, title, subject, series title, and keyword. The online bibliography includes records from 1976-

LIBIS Lithuanian National Library Catalog While not truly the bibliography it is an excellent source for current publications and does contain brief records for very recent materials that are on order. There is also an article search available from this interface.

Latvian National Bibliography - Aleph main menu National Bibliography of Latvia Online The National Bibliography online includes the monograph and periodical sections and has a very comprehensive search structure. Collections will often have their contents listed

Magyar Nemzeti Bibliogr�fia - K�nyvek Bibliogr�fi�ja Hungarian National Bibliography This site includes the last 4-5 issues of the Hungarian National Bibliography. There is a general subject guide that reflects the organizaiton of the printed bibliography.

Bulgarian National Library Bulgarian National Library with a variety of sources available including the following: Машинен каталог на български и чуждестранни книги Своден каталог на чуждестранните периодични издания в България (1984 - ) Своден каталог на чуждестранните книги (1995 - Статии от българските списания, вестници и сборници

NKC Online katalog a bibliograficka baze Narodni knihovny CR Czech National Bibliography The bibliography online includes records from the cd version of the bibliography. Like the cd, the web version is divided into databases for articles, books, "Foreign Bohemica", dissertations, periodicals, authority records and "Special Materials".

NSK - National Bibliography Croatian National Bibliography online. The series on mongraphs, periodicals and articles are all available at this site. There is retrospective depth to at least 1999 for all materials.