osmikonSEARCH

osmikonSEARCH

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osmikonSEARCH bietet die Möglichkeit, parallel in knapp 40 einschlägigen deutschen und internationalen Bibliothekskatalogen, Bibliografien und Spezialdatenbanken nach wissenschaftlicher Literatur und Forschungsmaterialien zu Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa zu recherchieren.
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OstDok

OstDok

Was wird durchsucht?
Das Fachrepositorium "OstDok – Osteuropa-Dokumente online" stellt elektronische Volltexte der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung zur Verfügung.
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ARTOS

ARTOS

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Die Datenbank ARTOS verzeichnet Fachartikel und Rezensionen aus rund 400 laufenden Zeitschriften und ausgewählten Sammelbänden im breiten Spektrum der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung aus dem östlichen und südöstlichen Europa und über die Region.
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OstNet

OstNet

Was wird durchsucht?
OstNet ist ein Katalog für Internetressourcen und verzeichnet wissenschaftlich relevante Websites und Online-Dokumente zu Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa. In OstNet können Sie beispielsweise nach institutionellen Websites, Blogs oder Digital-Humanities-Projekten zu einem bestimmten Thema oder Land recherchieren oder auch nach Datenbanken für ein bestimmtes Rechercheziel suchen.
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ARTOS

ARTOS AboService

Nutzen Sie den ARTOS AboService, um sich regelmäßig per E-Mail über neue Fachartikel und Rezensionen aus mehreren hundert Zeitschriften und ausgewählten Sammelbänden zum östlichen Europa informieren zu lassen!
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Images, Photos and Videos

Recommended image databases and other services including image, photo and video material on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

AKON is the postcard portal of the Austrian National Library. Over 75,000 digitised postcards with topographical image motifs can be found via the names of the places depicted or via a digital world map. The portal contains postcards from all parts of the world from the beginnings of the illustrated postcard at the end of the 19th century to the early 1940s. A large part of the collection comes from Eastern and Eoutheastern Europe. As an early form of mass communication, these illustrated postcards are an important source for the study of everyday culture.

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AKON - Ansichtskarten Online

The portal ArtArchiv.bg offers free access to digitised paintings and graphics. The focus of the collection is art from the late 19th and 20th century with a special emphasis on Bulgarian modernism.

ArtArchiv.bg

 

 

The Photo Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) houses around 2.2 million photographs and illustrations preserved in their original graphic techniques. Despite its focus on Bavaria, the collection also comprises a number of remarkable holdings with a reference to Eastern Europe – among them the photographic archive of Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), known as "Hitler's photographer", who as a member of a propaganda company during World War II also documented the war on the Eastern Front for a time. Also included is the photographic estate of Baron Peter von Wrangel (Baron Pëtr Nikolaevič Vrangel), General of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. All digitised images can be purchased in high, reproducible resolution upon request; publication of the images requires permission and is usually subject to a fee.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS)

Photo Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

The Image Index is a freely accessible image database containing around 2.2 million photographs of 1.7 million works of art and buildings in Germany and Europe. Russia, East and Southeast Europe are also well covered, especially Bohemia, Greece and Poland.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS)

Image Index

In the Deutsche Fotothek you will find many photos of Russia, East and Southeast Europe via an easy search option. For Budapest, Moscow or Prague alone, several thousand photos are available.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS)

Deutsche Fotothek

The central portal for online collections of Czech cultural heritage from memory institutions also contains over 100,000 photographs.

eSbirky.cz

Europe's largest online collection of art, culture and science contains a large number of photographs from and about Russia, East and Southeast Europe. These can be easily searched and explored using keywords.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS)

Europeana Photography

The database "FotoArchiv.bg" contains more than 45.000 historical photographies, that were taken in Bulgaria in the 20th century. The images can be browsed by location, date, topic or event.

FotoArchiv.bg

 

The Graphikportal is an international network database in which graphic collections, picture archives, photo libraries and libraries publish their holdings of drawings and prints or their photographic reproductions together on the Internet. A large collection of digitised material is available, particularly on Eastern Central Europe.

Graphikportal

In the online database of its image archive, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg lists the digitised image materials from the Institute’s collections as well as additional image sources from joint digitisation projects with cooperation partners. These include some 6,300 vertical aerial photographs of Eastern Central Europe taken by the German Air Force in 73 image flights between 1942 and 1945.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS) - Vertical aerial photos of Eastern Central Europe

Herder Institute: Image Catalog

The database "The History of Russia in Pictures" (original: История России в фотографиях), which is still in beta version, is an open and freely accessible Russian-language photo archive with over 100,000 photographs from the period 1840 to 1999.

Details in the Database Information System (DBIS)

Istoriya Rossii v Fotografiyach

The largest library in the world offers access to a large collection of images and photographs of Russia in its digital collection.

Library of Congress | Digital Collections Russia

The New York Public Library has a number of digitised image and photography collections related to Russia, East and Southeast Europe. The two most extensive of these are the following collections:

  • Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935
  • Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860-1945

New York Public Library | Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935

New York Public Library | Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860-1945

The project "PastVu: Retro View of Mankind's Habitat" collects, indexes and geo-locates historical photographs by a team of volunteers. The focus is on photographs from Russia; smaller collections exist on other European countries.

PastVu

The Visual Archive Southeastern Europe is a freely accessible database containing more than 3.500 images, which originated in Southeastern Europe in various epochs. The collections focus on gender and family, cinema and everyday-life.

Visual Archive Southeastern Europe

More images

Further image databases and collections can be searched via the Database Information System (DBIS).

Image databases in the Database Information System (DBIS)

 

A large number of digital images and photos can also be found in OstNet, our catalogue of Internet resources on Russia, East and Southeast Europe. Use the browsing search function and filter the category “Collections of images” in the section “Publication Type”.

OstNet

 

Suggest image collections

You are welcome to suggest digital image collections for purchase. Please use our wish list service for this purpose.

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