About OstDok

The following digital series are originally published electronically or as hybrid series on OstDok:

• DigiOst
• Digital series of graduation theses: Universities of Germany
• Digital series of graduation theses: Univerzity Česká republika [Universities of the Czech Republic]
• Miscellanies on Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern European Studies

Issues of the following journals (with the exception of the two most recent volumes) are available via OstDok in open access format:

• Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder
• Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung [Journal of East Central European Studies]

The following publication series which are still subject to copyright are only accessible on OstDok in open access format:

• Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum
• Berichte des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien
• Historische und landeskundliche Ostmitteleuropa-Studien
• Materialien und Studien zur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
• Schriften zur Geistesgeschichte des östlichen Europa
• Studia Hungarica
• Südosteuropäische Arbeiten
• Tagungen zur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
• Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde Südosteuropas
• Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum
• Veröffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Institutes München

Since August 2015, the entire copyright-free Eastern Europe Collection of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been electronically accessible on OstDok in the form of retro-digitised copies. In addition, OstDok contains relevant retro-digitisations of works still subject to copyright, for example from the publishing programmes of Otto Sagner, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Wilhelm Fink, Schöningh, as well as a large number of other titles.

The Albania-Institute is a registered association located in Munich and conducts and supports the historical-philological research on Albania and other Albanian settlement areas. It runs a library specialised on Albanology, that is hosted at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna since 2005.

Albania-Institute
 

Contents of the Albania-Institute in OstDok:

Albanische Forschungen: AlbFo

The Albanian Institute, St. Gallen is an international, interdisciplinary, inter- and non-university scientific institution for the transfer of knowledge between Western and South-Eastern Europe. The institute endeavours to connect cultures through journals, books, translations, events, lectures and other services.

Albanian Institute, St. Gallen/Switzerland

Contents of the Albanian Institute, St. Gallen in OstDok:

Maloki, Krist, Ramaj, Albert: Refleksione : kritikë (letrare), analiza dhe mendime. Prishtinë, 2005.

Ramaj, Albert: Burime dhe dëshmi : Stublla në dokumente arkivore austriake, shkolla, kriptokrishtenizmi në Karadak. St. Gallen, 2008.

Ramaj, Albert: Dëshmitar kohe : Dom Zef Ramaj (1882-1914), famullitar dhe mësues në Shkup. St. Gallen, 2014.

Zefi, Frok: Djelovanje isusovaca u Albanskom narodu. Zagreb, 2002.

Zefi, Frok: Mihael Summa : nadbiskup skopski (1695-1777). Osijek, 1994.

Zefi, Frok: Skopsko-prizrenska nadbiskupija u 18. stoljeću. Zagreb, 2004.

The Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies, founded in 2012, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research of both historical and present-day developments in Polish politics, society, language, and culture.

Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies
 

Contents of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies in OstDok:

Polen: Kultur - Geschichte - Gesellschaft

The Baltic Historical Commission (BHK) is a scientific association dealing with the history of the Baltic States. Its research activities focus on all periods of Baltic history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Baltic German minority in the Baltic States is of some importance in this context, but is by no means dealt with exclusively. The intensive cooperation between historians in Germany and the Baltic states is essential for the BHK.

Baltic Historical Commission

Contents of the Baltic Historical Commission in OstDok:

Blaese, Hermann, Elias, Otto-Heinrich, Schönfeldt, Alfred: Baltisches Rechtswörterbuch 1710–1940. [Hamburg], 2022.
Erpenbeck, Dirk-Gerd: Curlandia picta – Bilder von der Dünafront 1915–1918. [Hamburg], 2022.
Erpenbeck, Dirk-Gerd: Schriftenverzeichnis Sigismund von Radecki. [Hamburg], 2009.
Krause, Johann Wilhelm, Etzold, Gottfried: Erinnerungen. [Hamburg], 2013.

The Bavarian Cultural Centre of Germans from Russia (BKDR), based in Nuremberg, functions primarily as a meeting place, event venue and central contact point for Russian Germans. It advises and supports cultural workers of this target group and documents Russian-German history by means of publications, audio and video recordings, etc.

Bavarian Cultural Centre of Germans from Russia

Contents of the Bavarian Cultural Centre of Germans from Russia in OstDok:

Krieger, Viktor: Verfolgt - Entrechtet - Enteignet: zum 80. Jahrestag der Deportation der Russlanddeutschen in der UdSSR : dokumentarische Gedenkschrift. Nürnberg, 2021.

Krieger, Viktor, Böpple, Artur: Grundlinien russlanddeutscher Geschichte: Begleitbroschüre zur Ausstellung. Nürnberg, 2019.

The BKGE is a Federal Institute with Research and Development Assignments in the portfolio of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and a research institute affiliated to the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.

Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe
 

Contents of Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe in OstDok:

Journal für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im Östlichen Europa

Schriften des Bundesinstituts für ostdeutsche Kultur und Geschichte

The Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) is a center for exchange and information about current events in Eastern Europe at the University of Zurich. Via open-access publications, conferences, communications activities, and consultancy work, the CEES provides orientational knowledge for an audience of political and corporate decisionmakers and the interested public.

Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES) at the University of Zurich

Contents of the Center for Eastern European Studies  in OstDok:

Ukrainian Analytical Digest

The Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich is a center of competence for Swiss and international security policy. It offers security policy expertise in research, teaching and consultancy.

Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich
 

Contents of the Center for Security Studies in OstDok:

Ukrainian Analytical Digest

The Collegium Carolinum in Munich, a research institute for the history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, brings together internationally renowned scholars who deal with the history of and present situation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Eastern Central Europe. The associated institute organises conferences, produces numerous publications such as the journal “Bohemia” and maintains a subject library with the largest special collection on Bohemica and Sudetica in Germany.

Collegium Carolinum
 

Contents of the Collegium Carolinum in OstDok: 

Bad Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum

Berichte zur Entwicklung von Staat und Recht in der ČSFR

Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder

Bohemia: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der böhmischen Länder

DigiOst

Digitale Reihe der Graduierungsschriften: Universitäten Deutschland

Digitale Reihe der Graduierungsschriften: Univerzity Česká republika

Veröffentlichungen der Deutsch-Tschechischen und Deutsch-Slowakischen Historikerkommission 

Veröffentlichungen des Collegium Carolinum 

The German Association for East European Studies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO) is the largest network within the German speaking realm engaged in research on East European affairs.  The DGO has been active as a forum for the discussion and analysis of politics, economics, and culture in Europe’s East. It provides information about current developments, serves as a conduit of knowledge, and promotes dialogue between East and West. DGO members are important multipliers from academia, politics, commerce and industry, cultural life, and the media.

German Association for East European Studies

Contents of the German Association for East European Studies in OstDok

Belarus-Analysen

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Ukraine-Analysen

Ukrainian Analytical Digest

Zentralasien-Analysen

The German Institute of Polish Affairs is a centre for Polish history, culture and society and German-Polish relations. With its programmes mainly in Germany it fosters the relations to neighbouring Poland.

German Institute of Polish Affairs

Content of the German Institute of Polish Affairs in OstDok:

Belarus-Analysen

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Ukraine-Analysen

Zentralasien-Analysen

The Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa – FSO) is an independent research institute attached to the University of Bremen. Founded during the Cold War in 1982, the FSO today combines two goals: the (re)examination of societies and cultures in the Eastern Bloc and the analysis of contemporary developments in the post-Soviet region.

Research Centre for East European Studies
 

Contents of the Research Centre for East European Studies in OstDok:

Belarus-Analysen

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Ukraine-Analysen

Ukrainian Analytical Digest

Zentralasien-Analysen

The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association in Marburg is one of the most important institutions for historical research on Eastern Central Europe. With its research library and scientific collections, it fulfils the function of a central research centre and academic service institution.

Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
 

Contents of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in OstDok:

Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler im östlichen Mitteleuropa

DigiOst

Historische und landeskundliche Ostmitteleuropa-Studien

Materialien und Studien zur Ostmitteleuropaforschung 

Sammlungen des Herder-Instituts zur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 

Tagungen zur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung

Tagungsberichte des Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Forschungsrates

Quellen zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Ostmitteleuropas

Wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Ostmitteleuropa-Studien

Wissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Ost-Mitteleuropas

Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung

The Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe (IKGS) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich researches and documents German culture and history in the network of relationships between the cultural regions of Southeastern Europe. Its library has a collection of around 19,000 books and 1,000 journals on the region.

Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe

Contents of the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeastern Europe in OstDok:

Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas e. V. an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (IKGS): Wissenschaftliche Reihe

Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks: Schriftenreihe: Reihe A, Kultur und Dichtung

Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks: Reihe B, Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten

Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks. Reihe C, Erinnerungen und Quellen

Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks: Reihe D, Kleine Südost-Reihe

Veröffentlichungen des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerks: Reihe E, Miscellanea

The Institute of Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies (IdGL) investigates and documents the history and culture of the German settlement areas in Southeastern Europe as well as the interrelationships and exchange processes between Germany and the former settlement areas, which are continuing to develop in the present – keyword Strategy for the Danube Region. It has an interdisciplinary focus, combining historical, geographical, political, literary, linguistic and cultural studies perspectives in its activities.

Institute of Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies
 

Contents of the Institute of Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies in OstDok:

Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde

The Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) analyses economic, social and political processes of change in the agricultural and food sector, and in rural areas. The geographic focus covers the enlarging EU, transition regions of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as well as Central and Eastern Asia.

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
 

Content of the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies in OstDok:

Belarus-Analysen

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Ukraine-Analysen

Zentralasien-Analysen

The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig conducts comparative research on the history and culture of the region between the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea from the early Middle Ages to the present. The scientific reference library of the institute is the largest specialised library on Eastern and Central Europe in the eastern part of Germany.

Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

Contents of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in OstDok:

Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa

Mitropa: Jahresheft des Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO)

Oskar-Halecki-Vorlesung: Jahresvorlesung des GWZO

Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia

Visuelle Geschichtskultur

The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg investigates the economy and history of this region. With the publication of specialist journals and its internationally important subject library, it offers an excellent infrastructure for the academic study of Eastern Europe.

Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
 

Contents of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in OstDok:

Belarus-Analysen

DigiOst

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Schriften zur Geistesgeschichte des östlichen Europa

Südosteuropäische Arbeiten 

Südost-Forschungen: internationale Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Kultur und Landeskunde Südosteuropas

Ukraine-Analysen

Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde Südosteuropas

Veröffentlichungen des Osteuropa-Institutes München

Wissenschaftlicher Dienst Südosteuropa: Quellen und Berichte über Staat, Verwaltung, Recht, Bevölkerung, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Veröffentlichungen in Südosteuropa

Zentralasien-Analysen

The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) is an independent academic institution. It advises policymakers on issues of foreign and security policy and international and European policy on the basis of its own practice-oriented research.

German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Contents of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in OstDok: 

Berichte des Bundesinstituts für Ostwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien

The Hungarian Institute Munich e.V. is a scientific and cultural institute with a focus on history, politics, culture, regional studies, literature, music, art and language. The content contributed to OstDok by the Hungarian Institute Munich e.V. is supervised by the Hungarian Institute of the University of Regensburg.

Hungarian Institute Munich

Hungarian Institute of the University of Regensburg

Contents of the Hungarian Institute Munich in OstDok:  

Studia Hungarica: Schriften des Ungarischen Instituts München

The Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) is an independent, international, publicly funded research institute. It focuses on foundational and policy-relevant academic research on Eastern Europe and shares the results with policymakers, the media, and the broader public.

Centre for East European and International Studies
 

Contents of the Centre for East European and International Studies in Ostdok:

Belarus-Analysen

Polen-Analysen

Russland-Analysen

Ukraine-Analysen

Zentralasien-Analysen

ZOiS Report