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

1.  Central Eurasian Studies World Wide (CESWW): Resources for the Study of Central Eurasia (http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/index.html)

• A clearing-house of information related to Central Eurasian Studies, including bibliographic information
• Sponsored by Harvard
• Has mirror sites in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus
  

2.  Amjad Jaimoukha’s North Caucasian Bibliography and Library (http://www.geocities.com/eureka/enterprises/2493/circbibliog.html)

• Begins with a list of 70 bibliographies/catalogs
  

3.  The Virtual Library of Resources - Central Asia, a project of the Open Society Institute of Budapest.

4.  Others are out there...

A number of portals and guides devoted to gender studies and gender issues can be found on the open Web. These can serve as starting points for productive research. Two of the most comprehensive and useful general guides are the Association of College & Research Libraries' Women's Studies Section's WSSLINKS : Women and Gender Studies Web Sites and the University of Maryland's Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites. The Slavic Reference Service, in collaboration with Barbara Bulat of the Biblioteka Jagiellonska in Kraków, has also created its own guides to Russian and Polish gender studies as part of its Introduction to Slavic Information Resources. A sampling of the kinds of resources included in these portals and guides can be reviewed by clicking on the following links:

http://www.gender.ru/

http://www.owl.ru/

http://www.neww.org/en.php/home/index/0.html

http://www.gender-az.org/index.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

Many documents and publications emanating from the governments of Russia and Eurasian countries can be found in full text using ISI Emerging Markets and the East View databases. The Slavic Reference Service's guide to Slavic Internet Resources leads to a number of government websites, including:

Kazakhstan: www.government.kz

Kyrgyzstan: www.gov.kg

Tajikistan: www.tajik-gateway.org

Turkmenistan: www.turkmenistan.gov.tm

Uzbekistan: www.gov.uz