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Slavic and East European Library

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Full Text Databases


There are several full text databases, to which the library subcribes, that index Slavic materials. This list is not meant to be exhaustive but rather to give the researcher an idea of additional places to find full text articles. This list only includes full text databases which is why you won't find databases like MLA or Russian Acadamy of Sciences listed. Most databases listed under other categories are also not repeated here. Each database can be accessed by UIUC users from the library gateway or from the links below. For a complete list of full text databases available to UIUC users go to the article databases page.

ABSEES Contains: Publications related to Slavic and East European studies. Documents include articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada. 

C.E.E.O.L. Contains: This database is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 227 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
EastView Kodeks Russian Law Databases Contains: Russian legislation - in Russian or English translation comprising thousands of documents going back to 1991. Includes legislative acts issued by approximately 200 executive, legislative, and judicial branches of Russia
EastView Russian Government Publications


34 Russian publications that monitor events from the Duma and Federation Council


EastView Russian National Bibliography


Contains: All 8 of the Russian National Bibliographic Publications, some retrospective to 1994.

EastView Russian Social Science & Humanities Journals


Contains: 75 journals of the Russian Academy of Science on a variety of scholarly topics.



EastView Universal Database of Russian Newspapers

Contains: three databases of Russian newspapers,Central Russian Newspapers, Regional Russian Newspapers and CIS and Baltic Newspapers with a total of 204 titles. The regional papers include titles with the largest circulation in their region
EastView Ukrainian Publications

Contains: Full text of 35 Ukrainian periodicals. This is the first database of newspapers and magazines of Ukraine (UDB-UKR) and includes publications in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. They cover a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine. Topics include Ukraine's progress along the reform path, the view and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, ethnic relations, and organizational trends in development of the armed forces.


EIU Country Data Contains: Powerful database of annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts. EIU CountryData gives you access to 317 series on 150 countries and 45 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forward to 2005.

Ethnic Newsline Contains: Full text of international publications issued in English. Includes newswires and media broadcast texts. Covers publications from 2001 to the present.

Ethinic News Watch Contains: AGBU: Armenian General Benevolent Union, AIM: Armenian International Magazine, The Armenian Reporter, Azerbaijan International, Russian Life, Ukrainian Weekly, We/MbI

UIUC Index Islamicus Contains: Publications on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Publication types include articles, books, conference proceedings and more. All citations include links either to holdings in library catalogs or full text.

ISI Emeriging Markets Contains: full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from local information providers, appear in both English and the local language. The list of Slavic and East European markets covered currently includes: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Khazakhstan, Kyrgyztan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.

Periodical Abstracts Contains: Canadian Slavonic Papers, East European Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, Russian Life, Russian Review, Russian Social Science Review.

Russian Social Science and Humanities Database Contains: This unique database raises primary Slavic Studies research to a new plateau of ease aand sophistication, with fingrtip searching of 50 titles, including thick journals, popular literary editions, Russian Academy of Sciences titles, and independent scholarly publications. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination.

Wilson Select Plus Contains: Central European History, East European Politics and Societies, East European Quarterly, Russian Education and Society, Russian Politics and Law, Russian Socieal Science Review, Russian Studies in History, Sociological Research (former title Soviet Sociology).

World Development Report Contains: Access to the World Bank's annual World Development Reports from 1980 to the present