Gender & Democracy in Russia, Eurasia & Beyond : Research Strategies & Sources  Tags: slavic russian women_and_politics women_and_media gender_studies  

Online library catalogs in North America and Western Europe seldom contain records for individual journal and newspaper articles. In Eastern Europe and parts of Eurasia, however, this has become relatively common in recent years. While the cataloging of articles may not be comprehensive, it nevertheless affords researchers an opportunity to quickly review some of the periodical literature in the languages of the region -- literature that is rarely indexed in Western (or non-Western) online databases. For example, keyword searches for terms relating to gender in Kazakh and Russian in the online union catalog of the Казахстанский Центр Корпоративной Каталогизации (Kazakhstan Center for Corporative Cataloging, a project of the National Library of Kazakhstan) bring up records for a number of recent periodical articles (along with monographs, etc.). A few of the results of a search for "Гендерлiк саясат" are reproduced below.

For Georgia, records for articles appearing in recent years in particular journals and newspapers can be searched via the Georgian National Parliamentary Library's online catalogs.

It should be noted that this type of access to periodical articles varies widely across the region. The national libraries of Kazakhstan and Georgia, as seen above, provide access to a significant number of articles via a variety of search options, while the national libraries of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan have no known online presence as of May 2008. More information about general resources for the study of modern Central Asia and the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan in particular, is available via a Slavic Reference Service presentation posted at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/SRLpresentations2007/Caucasus/Caucasus/frame.htm. Occasionally information on researching the region will also appear in our blog at http://srscite.blogspot.com. Additional detail regarding Kazakhstan in particular is available in our Introduction to Slavic Information Resources.