Multilingual Electronic Resources for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies  Tags: slavic east_european research_methods russian technology  

Library PressDisplay provides virtual, same-day copies of newspapers from Slavic, East European & Eurasian countries as follows:

• Russia: 42+ titles
• Hungary: 17
• Romania: 5
• Bulgaria: 3
• Czech Republic: 3
• Poland: 3
• Slovakia: 3
• Croatia: 2
• Montenegro: 2
• Serbia: 2
• Albania: 1
• Armenia: 1
• Azerbaijan: 1
• Ukraine: 1

The specific newspapers available for each country can be viewed by hovering over "Select Title" at the top right-hand side of all Library Press Display pages.

Library PressDisplay is a full-text, searchable, 60-day archive of 650 major newspaper titles from over 70 countries.

• Same-day online full-color replicas of print editions of newspapers
• No retrospective coverage beyond a moving 60-day window

From the index page for Library PressDisplay's Hungarian newspapers

For researchers and scholars interested in current events, Library PressDisplay offers several attractive options, including full-text searching, blogging, and RSS feeds (see the Slavic Reference Service's guide to Research Technologies at the UIUC Library). In our experience, the performance of the search interface can be uneven, but it can nevertheless be used to great advantage for most newspapers. Click on the image below to see the first few results of a search for "абхазия" in all newspapers on May 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 2008:

Click on the following image to see one of several possible modes of display for the second search result: