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

The number of IMB records for items written in Slavic and East European languages as of May 2008 is as follows:

Polish:  10,821

Czech or Slovak:  7,818

Russian:  3,006

Hungarian:  2,929

Bulgarian:  1,317

Estonian:  less than 500

Total:  about 25,000

IMB uses the British Standard transliteration system (which is included in a table here) for Cyrillic scripts, in which (for example) "языческое" becomes "yazȳcheskoe," "любовные" becomes "lyubovnȳe," "варяги" becomes "varyagi," etc.

The International Medieval Bibliography indexes articles from journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings, collected essays, Festschriften and exhibition catalogs published since 1967, in over 30 languages. The search interface's default setting also provides access to the Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale, which is a project currently under development that is aimed at indexing all monographs published on medieval Europe, the Middle East and North Africa since 1957.

• 330,000+ records
• Regularly indexes over 4,500 journals, and to date has indexed over 5,000 edited volumes
• "All subjects relating to the Middle Ages are included, within the date range 300-1500 AD. Geographical areas covered are Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa."
• Powerful (if quirky) search options, including three "hierarchical indexes"
• Updated quarterly
• Approximately 10,000 records added per year
• Also available in print