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

Of the more than 770,000 records in the Historical Abstracts database, about one-seventh are for items written in Slavic, East European & Eurasian languages, as follows:

Russian: nearly 50,000

Polish: over 18,000

Czech & Hungarian: over 8,000

Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian: about 5,000

Albanian, Lithuanian, Slovak and Slovene: over 1,000

Armenian, Estonian, Latvian, Macedonian, Yiddish, and other languages of the region: less than 1,000

Total: over 110,000

Historical Abstracts follows the standard U.S. system (Library of Congress) for transliteration of Cyrillic scripts, without diacritics.

Historical Abstracts indexes "more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages." All article titles are translated into English and brief English abstracts are also provided.

• "Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present"
• "Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world...a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth."
• 1955-present -- further retrospective coverage (i.e., for articles published before 1955) is being added
• Includes articles, dissertations, & masters' theses
• Over 770,000 records