1	Research strategies and sources for modern Central Asia and the Caucasus by Kit Condill, Slavic Reference Service, UIUC June 26, 2007 – 1:30-3:30 pm “From Chechnya to Kabul: New Directions in Central Asian and Caucasus Studies” – a training workshop
2	National libraries Each is a (if not the) major resource for the study of that country The holdings of the national libraries of Central Asia and the Caucasus are, by and large, only searchable on-site Access to websites and online catalogs may be unreliable Search interfaces may not work properly Online content and features may change frequently Only a fraction of library holdings have been entered into online catalogs
3	National libraries (cont’d) Kazakhstan (http://www.nlrk.kz/) Online: 105,563 records, for items dating back to 1800 On site: 5,900.000 items, 87% of them in Russian More information at http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/333/Doc25.HTML
4	National libraries (cont’d) Kyrgyzstan (http://www.nlkr.gov.kg) –founded in **** ONLINE CATALOGS: 48,574 records from the “Kyrgyzstan” card file, for items dating from 1991-2001 26,532 records for journal and newspaper articles dating from 1999-2004 19,589 records from the general book catalog, for items dating from 1840-2004 TOTAL: about 100,000 records, including other small catalogs ON SITE: Complete card file contains 2,000,000 records, covering 1850/1924-present 348,600 in card file, covering 1936-present TOTAL: 6,000,000 items, 93% of them in Russian
5	National libraries (cont’d) Uzbekistan (http://www.natlib.uz) On site: 10,000,000 items Access can be unreliable Interface only in Uzbek (Latin script) (as of 6/21/07) V.I. Mezhov’s Turkestanskii Sbornik (see below) is being digitized (?) More information at http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/222/Doc9.HTML, http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/222/Doc15.HTML, http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/222/Doc20.HTML, http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom2/section2/Doc183.HTML
6	National libraries (cont’d) Tajikistan No online presence On site: 3,030,000 items General information c. 2005 at http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11343&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html, and c. 2000 at http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/999/Doc19.HTML Turkmenistan No online presence On site: 5,500,000 items
7	National libraries: Georgia A number of searchable databases, including: Georgian journal articles, 1921-25 & 1939-1970 (128,825 records) Georgian newspaper articles, 1852-1912 (19,861 records) Three separate catalogs of Georgian books, dating from 1629 to the present (129,298 records) Articles from Sakartvelos Respublika, 1992-present (88,650 records) Databases are listed at: http://www.nplg.gov.ge/ec/changedb.php?lang=en&refurl=%2Fec%2Fsearch.php
8	National libraries (cont’d) Armenia (http://www.nla.am) No online catalog On site: over 5,217,171 items A few “New Books” lists of recent acquisitions are posted at http://www.nla.am/am/publications.html (See also Russian National Library’s Armenian catalog, below)
9	National libraries (cont’d) Azerbaijan (http://www.anl.az/) Founded in 1922 Online: records for an undetermined number of items dating back to at least 1940 On site: over 4,513,244 items (2.3 million books, 2.2 million items in other formats) A few installments of Birillik Azərbaycan kitabiyyati (for 1990, 1991, and 2000) are posted at http://www.anl.az/yenin_e.php Lists of new books since 2004 at http://www.anl.az/yeni_e.php
10	National libraries (cont’d) Information on other national and “national” libraries can be found at http://www.library.ru/3/biblionet/?it=211004 (General information about the National Library of Abkhazia, c. 2000, available at http://www.gpntb.ru/win/inter-events/crimea2000/doc/tom1/999/Doc20.HTML)
11	National libraries (cont’d) Russian National Library ONLINE: Alfavitnyi katalog knig na armianskom iazyke (1623-2006) Other card catalogs Elektronnyi katalog knig na iazykakh narodov RF (2000-present)
12	National libraries (cont’d) Russian National Library (cont’d) ON MICROFICHE: The library keeps separate card catalogs for its holdings in languages other than Russian These cards have all been filmed and are now available on microfiche (several major languages are held in Slavic Reference; all other languages will be acquired over time) Items not held and/or not known in the West can be found here, including many published in Latin or Arabic script and/or before 1917
13	Russian National Library’s Kazakh-language card catalog: a sample
14	Russian National Library’s Azeri-language card catalog: a sample
15	Union catalogs ONLINE: KAZAKHSTAN: Kazakhstanskii Tsentr Korporativnoi Katalogizatsii (http://catalogue.nlrk.kz) Online access to combined holdings of 10 major libraries in Kazakhstan—vast majority of these are from the National Library (see above) KYRGYZSTAN: Svodnyi katalog--resursy bibliotek Kyrgyzstana (http://uc.net.kg/index.html) Online access to combined holdings of 12 major Kyrgyz libraries Over 38,000 records for books dating back to 1847 (many of these are Soviet works having nothing specifically to do with Kyrgyzstan or Central Asia) Over 9,000 records for journals, newspapers, and journal and newspaper articles (some with annotations), covering the period from 2003-2006 and, perhaps, beyond
16	National bibliographic publications The most comprehensive bibliographic sources for the publishing output of a particular country/republic Published serially and (when retrospective) as monographs An attempt to systematically index all monographs, periodicals, articles in (major) periodicals, and materials published in other formats for that country/republic, regardless of language Publication history is complicated and sometimes spotty Holdings in the U.S. are weak
17	National bibliographic publications (cont’d) Letopis’ pechati … SSR/Letopis’ pechati … ASSR/Letopis’ pechati …stana (in the vernacular) is the most common title, containing separate bibliographies of books, articles, avtoreferaty of dissertations, etc. Sometimes, different types of material will have a separate periodical publication devoted to them alone (i.e., Kazakhstan’s Gazet maqalarynyng shezhiresi=Letopis’ gazetnykh statei) Serially-published national bibliographic sources such as these index the publishing output of the region back t0 1937 or so with a respectable degree of completeness For works published before 1937, and for periods (or types of materials) missed by serially-published sources, there are often retrospective national bibliographic sources
18	National bibliographic publications (cont’d) For more information: Semenovker, B.A. Retrospektivnaia gosudarstvennaia bibliografiia SSSR : spravochnik. (1990) (UIUC call number Main Stacks/Slavic Reference 016.01547 Se52r) Whitby, Thomas J. & Lorković, Tanja. Introduction to Soviet national bibliography. (1979) (UIUC call number Slavic Reference 015.47 W58i c. 4)
19	Online indexing & abstracting services Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (INION) (Institut Nauchnoi Informatsii po Obshchestvennym Naukam) Online coverage: 1980-present A powerful tool for reviewing Russian scholarship on Central Asia and the Caucasus Preceded by a variety of print sources prior to 1979 Index Islamicus Online coverage: 1906-present Some print coverage back to 1665 (UIUC call numbers: Main Reference 016.915 In2, 016.915 In2q, 016.915 In2Q1) IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur aus allen Gebieten des Wissens) Online coverage: 1983-present Some coverage of Central Asia and the Caucasus in print from 1896-1982 (UIUC call numbers: Main Reference 053 BD, 053 BDB, 050 In8)
20	Additional print and microform sources V. I. Mezhov’s Turkestanskii Sbornik Vitkind, N.I. Bibliografiia po Srednei Azii : ukazatel’ literatury po kolonial’noi politike tsarizma v Srednei Azii. (1929) (Trudy nauchno-issledovatel’skii assotsiatsii pri Kommunisticheskom universitete trudiashchikhsia Vostoka ; vyp. 4) (UIUC call number Main Stacks 016.9584 V83b, History Library FILM 016.9584 V83b, Slavic Reference 016.9584 V83b 1972) Many others
21	Additional print and microform sources (cont’d) BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Bisnek, A.G. & Shafranovskii, K.I. “Bibliografiia bibliografii Srednei Azii.” Bibliografiia Vostoka, vyp. 8-9 (1935), pp. 152-194 Bregel, Yuri. Bibliography of Islamic Central Asia (Indiana, 1995), v. 3, pp. 2021-2048 (“Bibliography”) And others
22	Additional print and microform sources (cont’d) Alektorov. A.E. Ukazatel’ knig, zhurnal’nykh i gazetnykh statei i zametok o kirgizakh. (1900) 969 pp. (UIUC call number Slavic Reference 016.915843 Al2u) Iazberdiev, A. Arap grafikasynda neshir edilen turkmenche kitaplar=Turkmenskaia kniga na arabskoi grafike (1981) (UIUC call number Slavic Reference 015.585 Ia9a 1981) Gorodetskii, B.M. Periodika Kubansko-Chernomorskogo kraia 1863-1925. (1927) (UIUC call number History Library FILM 016.9479 G68p)
23	On the open Web 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
24	On the open Web (cont’d) 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 Russko-Kazakhskaia Elektronnaia Biblioteka (http://www.nklibrary.freenet.kz/elib/projekt/concept_proj.htm) Full-text Etc.
25	After 1991: Full-text databases ISI Emerging Markets Amazing breadth and depth of business-related information, including information on current events Current, full-text, vernacular-language coverage of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and beyond “Unique content,” including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, market-specific information, as well as proprietary research, analysis, and statistics Updated daily (=not much retrospective coverage)
26	After 1991: Full-text databases (cont’d) East View Universal Database of Baltic and CIS Newspapers Full text of over 740,000 articles from 33 newspapers, most dating from 2000-present Access to 4 newspapers from Kazakhstan, 2 from Kyrgyzstan, one each from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, 2 each from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1 from Abkhazia, and 1 from South Ossetia Searchable by keyword All are in Russian or English
27	After 1991: Full-text databases (cont’d) Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Specializes in “grey literature,” i.e., working papers, occasional papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, case studies, course packs, publications of think tanks, NGOs, and university research institutes Large amount of full-text materials in English Search interface could be improved Global Market Information Database Enables users to create customized tables using available data
28	After 1991: Resources on the open Web Media outlets in the countries of the region AKIPress (http://news.akipress.org), Varorud (http://www.varorud.org), etc., etc. Many are listed in the “Media” section of individual BBC Country Profiles (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm) -- also try and "Media" section of individual country pages at http://www.eurasianet.org/ and http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (http://www.rferl.org)
29	After 1991: Resources on the open Web (cont’d) www.islam.ru A good access point for a wide variety of Russian Muslim websites www.religio.ru e-Dagestan’s “Religiia i Islam” page (http://dag.dax.ru/php4/catalog/kategor.phtml?Sort=2&idkat=11679) -- this page may be on the verge of being taken down (Similar websites may be found using the country- and territory-specific search engines and portals at www.searchenginecolossus.net)
30	Other reference sources The Madeni mura series, including: Qazaq adebieti : entsiklopediialyq anyqtamalyq (2005) Qazaq madenieti : entsiklopediialyq anyqtamalyq (2005) Atlas etnopoliticheskoi istorii Kavkaza, 1774-2004 / Artur Tsutsiev (2006) An historical atlas of Central Asia / Yuri Bregel (2003) Many others
31	Further afield Turkey – the Slavic Reference Service is currently working on adding Turkish national bibliography and subject bibliographies to our online Guide, and is now handling interlibrary loan queries for Turkish publications Other parts of Central Eurasia – TBA
32	See also: Slavic Reference Service presentations on: UIUC Research Tools (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/SRLpresentations2007/introductiontotechnology.htm) Vernacular Language Resources (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/SRLpresentations2007/VernacularLanguage.htm) Electronic Resources (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/SRLpresentations2007/Kit-ElectronicResources2007.htm)
33	"All electronic databases can be..." All electronic databases can be accessed by searching for the title at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr
34	Questions? Slavic Reference Service Slavic and East European Library University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Room 225, Main Library 1408 West Gregory Drive Urbana, Illinois 61801 217 333 1349 fax 217 244 8976 srscite@cliff.library.uiuc.edu www.library.uiuc.edu/spx