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Recommended Databases
Begin your research with these databases:
- Academic OneFile Covers all subjects, searching 13,000 journals, with over 7300 peer-reviewed titles.
- Digital National Security Archive Declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations, covering events from the Berlin Crisis to post-9/11 U.S. intelligence.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- International Historical Statistics, 1750-2010 This database provides key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years gathered from a multitude of statistical sources.
- Izvestiia Digital Archive, 1917-2010 The complete archive of Izvestiia, the Kremlin's newspaper of record. The Izvestiia Digital Archive is full-image with text, allows browsing and is full-text searchable. Also has a Cyrillic virtual keyboard and the ability to search in transliteration.
- JSTOR Primarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
- Ogonek Digital Archive. One of the oldest weekly magazines in Russia, this digital archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1923 on. It is the most comprehensive collection available for this title and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text.
- PAIS Index Covers issues in public affairs and policy issues through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources. Coverage: 1915 - present.
- Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-present Full-text full-image access to the Russian newspaper, Pravda. Searching can be done with cyrillic-enabled keyboards, the databases' virtual cyrillic keyboard, or with transliteration.
- Soviet Woman Digital Archive (DA-SW) The Soviet Woman digital archive contains all obtainable published issues from the very first issue, comprising more than 500 issues and over 7,500 articles. The Soviet Woman digital archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title, and features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text, and is cross-searchable with numerous other East. Archive spans1945-1991.
