Slavic and East European Library

Other Resource Guides

The following websites are resource guides for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia

compiled by other universities, libraries and research centers.

Central Asian Studies World Wide - Harvard 

URL:    http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/index.html

This site acts as a guide for scholars researching in the area and includes links to Central Asian studies resources world wide.  Most of the links are to Western sources and institutions, but there are some links to Central Asian universities and libraries.  Also included on the site are a dissertation index and a Central Asian Experts directory.

 

Central Asian - Caucasus Institute - John Hopkins University

URL:    http://www.sais-jhu.edu/centers/caci/

The CACI site contains a list of links for the region in general and separate pages of links for each country in the region.  Subject areas covered include, for example, news, business, government, human rights, oil and gas and NGOs.  There are about 15-20 links listed for each country.  The links are mostly to Western maintained resources and all are in English.  The links are not annotated.

 

Central Eurasia Project - Soros Foundation 

URL:   http://www.eurasianet.org/

Eurasianet provides news and articles covering Central Asia, the Caucuses and Mongolia, including commentary and articles on current affairs, culture, human rights and election results, for example.  The site also includes extensive web resource directories, organized by country.  Each country's page includes news, a news archive and a subject directory of relevant websites covering topics ranging from business to public health.  The site includes a search function.

 

Information System on Legal Development in Transition States

URL:  http://www.lexinfosys.de/
The University of Bremen has made available the texts of the civil codes, constitutions and numerous other legal resources for Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.  The texts are usually available in both Russian and the language of the country.  The link to civil laws will provide the user with access to full text of civil codes in both languages.  

 

CREECA Link Library - University of Wisconsin 

URL:    http://www.wisc.edu/creeca/links/regional.html

This is an extensive and well organized directory of links for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russia. The links are divided by country and then by subject heading.  The subject coverage is wide, ranging from culture to statistics.  Hyperlinks connect to sites in English as well as in the vernacular languages. However, as of early November 2000, link directories have not yet been completed for several countries.

 

CREEES Links- University of Iowa 

URL:    http://www.uiowa.edu/~creees/links/links.htm

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies site includes a very limited number of annotated links.  There is a useful collection of links to relevant libraries and collections in the U.S. and internationally.

 

Electronic Resources - University of Sussex 

URL:    http://www.susx.ac.uk/Units/russian/bookmar2.htm

These, mainly Russia oriented links, are organized by broad subject categories and then into more specific sub categories. Some of the links include short annotation; most link to English language sources.  Includes ready reference as well as directory sites.  The page is aimed at students, including, in addition to regional resources, links to academic departments, funding sources, conferences and list-serves.

 

Eric Herron's Guide to Post Communist States on the Web - University of Kansas

URL:     www.ku.edu/~herron/

This is one of the best area subject directories currently available, well organized, with a huge number of annotated links.  The site is hosted by the University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European Studies. The links are divided into general, regional and country specific resources and are further divided by subject within each geographic region.  Resources included in the guide focus on the areas of government, politics, news and media and search engines, but include other information as well.  Links are to English and vernacular language sites.

 

Information Analytic Center: Internet Eurasia

URL:    http://www.eurasia.org.ru/

This site includes news and links on the countries of Central Asia.  The site is in Russian (Windows) and includes lists of web sites organized by country. (The first page of this site has an English version; however, all the links are in Russian.)

 

Inner Asia and Uralic National Resource Center - University of Indiana

URL:    http://www.indiana.edu/~iaunrc/

This page contains convenient starting points for exploring web sites related to the countries of the Uralic language groups (Estonia, Finland and Hungary), Central Asia, Mongolia and Azerbaijan (as well as Tibet, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey).  The links, mainly to English language ready reference and directory style sites, are organized by region and by country.   

 

REEC Resources Guide - University of Illinois

URL:  http://www.reec.uiuc.edu/links.htm

The Russian and East European Center has organized a directory of annotated web links into five broad subject categories: Current News, Comprehensive Directories, Cultural Interest Sites, Resources for K-12 Education and Scholarly Resources.  Most of the links are to English language sites although some news sources are in the vernacular languages.  Some areas such as Russian culture include a number of links, while other areas include only one or two links.

 

REES Web - University of Pittsburgh 

URL    http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

This is one of the most extensive and well annotated collection of links currently available. The site is browsable by subject, culture, region (where the site was created), and time period. You can combine terms among these categories, but not within a category. The site does include a search engine, but unfortunately it searches all the linked sites, rather than REESweb itself, therefore the results returned do not display REESweb's annotations. The site also includes help pages for both browsing and searching which are quite useful. Recently, REESweb added an Events and Announcements feature, which as of yet has not been fully utilized.

 

REENIC - University of Texas 

URL:    http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic.html

REENIC has a very large collection of links, organized by subject, region and country.   The site is well organized, but the listings for each country can confusing to follow.  Some regions and countries are better covered that others. Links are to to sites in the vernacular as well as English language.

 

Slavophilia 

URL:    http://www.slavophilia.net/

This commercial site indexes web resources by subject and by country.  Not all countries are included and coverage varies.  The links include both general non-area specific sources and very specific country resources.  Subjects range from the Macedonian Table Tennis scene to Orthodox Icons.  Links are mainly to English language sites.

 

Slavic Research Center - Hokkaido University, Japan

URL:    http://src-home.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html

This site includes a huge number of well organized links and is one of the best directories online.  Of particular note is the global scope of the hosts of the linked sites.  Accordingly, the linked sites are in a wide variety of languages.  The links are organized by region and country and then by subject.  Also of use is a long list of sites that link to the page.  The site has a English and Japanese interface.  

 

SSEES Internet Resources - School for Slavonic and East European Studies

URL:     http://www.ssees.ac.uk/dirctory.htm

This directory of fairly standard resources is organized by country and within each country by subject.  The links are mainly to English language sites.  

 

Gonzaga University Law School

URL:    http://www.law.gonzaga.edu/Library/default.htm

This site includes annotated links on law, economics and business for each of the Eastern European countries.  There are not a huge number of links here, but those that are included are generally high quality.