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ARTOS: Articles and Book Reviews on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe

ARTOS offers articles and reviews from about 350 academic journals and selected anthologies covering a wide range of interdisciplinary research on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The database is continually updated since 2016, but it partly also includes articles from older journal issues. ARTOS is a Germany-wide project developed by the Bavarian State Library in cooperation with special libraries.
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Austrian Historical Bibliography (ÖHB)

The Austrian Historical Bibliography, established in 1945, contains bibliographical records concerning books and articles on Austrian history which have been printed in Austria.
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Baltic Studies Online Contents: Article Database

The database offers access to tables of contents of academic journals on the culture, history, politics, language, literature and ethnography of the Baltic countries. It covers articles and reviews published since 1993.
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BASE: Search Engine for Academic Resources

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is one of the largest search engines dedicated to electronic academic resources worldwide. It is operated by the Bielefeld University Library which harvests and indexes metadata from freely available repositories. The majority of titles included in BASE are freely accessible (open access); in the case of the remaining titles, direct access is frequently possible through license agreements (usually on the basis of your IP).
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Bavarian State Library (BSB): Library Catalogue

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Bavarian State Library (BSB): Picture Archives

The Bavarian State Library’s Image Archive preserves 2.2 million photographs and representations in original-graphic techniques. The collection’s focus is on Bavaria. However, some remarkable holdings also refer to Central and Eastern Europe. Two subcollections are available via osmikonSEARCH: The Photographic Archive of Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), “Hitler’s photographer” who temporarily documented the Eastern Front of World War II; and the unpublished photos of Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Baron Pëtr Nikolaevič Vrangel), commanding general of the White Army during the Russian Civil War. You may purchase all digitized images in high-resolution quality. Publication of images requires special permission and may be charged with a fee.
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Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage: Eastern Europe collection

The Berlin State Library houses one of the world's most important collections of Eastern European literature outside the region, acquired in more than 30 original languages. Publications on Eastern Europe in Western European languages – mainly in German, English, and French – are acquired in addition. At present, osmikonSEARCH can be used to search the titles related to Eastern and Southeastern Europe that have been acquired since about 1990. An integration of the titles acquired before 1990 is envisaged.
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Bibliography of German History (DHB)

The Bibliography of German History (DHB) is a specialist bibliography on general German history. It sees itself as the successor to the "Annual Reports for German History" completed in 2015 and the "Historical Bibliography" discontinued in 2013. Against this background, it is based on two pillars: 1) The DHB mainly registers German and foreign-language publications on German history from the early Middle Ages. 2) As far as possible, the DHB also lists publications coming from German science of history which are not related to German history.
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Bohemia: A Journal of History and Civilisation in East Central Europe

“Bohemia” is the only academic journal in Western Europe dedicated to the history and culture of the Bohemian Lands, Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Since 1960 it is released annually, since 1980 biannually. New issues are published in open access on Bohemia-online following a moving wall of two years.
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Deutsche Welle (DW): Focus Eastern and Southeastern Europe

„Focus Eastern and Southeastern Europe“ allows to search for region-related articles from the news archive of Germany’s public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The database includes all news reports and analyses that are relevant to Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and have been published since 2010 on the broadcaster’s website DW.com. A daily update offers access to the latest news on the region.
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East European Studies Journals Display

The East European Studies Journals Display offers access to table of contents from about 150 academic journals on Central, East, and Southeast European history, covering the years 2002-2015. You may directly search for articles via full-text search. To do so, please enter your search terms in the search box “All Fields”. The East European Studies Journals Display is operated by the Bavarian State Library (BSB) in Munich.
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East European Studies Online Contents: Article Database

This database offers access to the tables of contents of academic journals dealing with the history, politics and culture of Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, as well as Slavic Languages and Literatures. It covers articles published since 1998.
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Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych (FBC) / Polish Digital Libraries Federation

The Polish Digital Libraries Federation (FBC) brings together the digital collections of leading cultural and scientific institutions (libraries, archives, museums) in Poland. Most documents are available in open access. The “Osmikon” service covers the entire FBC data, with the exception of the digital holdings of the Polish National Library.
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FinnUgGuide: Finnougristic Web Resources

FinnUgGuide is a database covering academically relevant websites and online documents on Finnougristics, Finland, Hungary, as well as Estonian Language and Literature. The service is provided by the Göttingen State and University Library.
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Frankfurt University Library: Jewish Studies Collection

The Jewish Studies Collection of the Frankfurt University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is maintained by the Specialised Information Service Jewish Studies and ranges among the most important collections worldwide of its kind. The collection covers scientific publications in various languages on religious and intellectual history, on the history of Jewish literature and culture, on economic history of the Jews, on Jewish law, Anti-Semitism and migration as well as information on geography and politics of the state of Israel or the Mideast conflict. osmikonSEARCH offers a selection of titles related to Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
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Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES): Library Catalogue

The library catalogue of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) lists holdings pertaining to the following subjects: the German and international labour movement, past and present; German and international social and contemporary history; recent publications by political parties and trade unions in Germany and other selected countries, as well as FES publications in full text.
Also included are two of the library's special collections with particular reference to Eastern Europe: the Solidarność collection, consisting of Polish printed "underground materials" from 1980 to 1990, focusing on the Solidarność trade union; and the historical archive of the "Gesinnungsgemeinschaft sudetendeutscher Sozialdemokraten" (Seliger Archive), containing a collection of primary and secondary sources on the history of the German labor movement in the Bohemian lands.

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German Union Catalogue on Eastern Europe (VOE)

The Union Catalogue on Eastern Europe covers the holdings of more than thirty libraries, cultural and academic institutions in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The range of subjects includes history, literature, linguistics, genealogy, theology, music, art, etc.
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Göttingen State and University Library: Finnougristics Collection

The Finnougristics Special Subject Catalogue includes Finno-Ugrian resources of the Union Catalogue of GBV. The database comprises the subject related holdings of the Göttingen State and University Library and contains a variety of resources: books, journals, maps, and other materials including digital resources.
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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (HI): Image Catalogue

In its Image Catalogue, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg/Germany offers the digitized images of its own collections as well as further materials from digital library projects run in cooperation with other institutions. The catalogue covers a great variety of images on today’s Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Kaliningrad region. It’s main focus is on photography and postcards from the late 19th century on – including photographs of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, as well as about 6.300 vertical aerial photos of East Central Europe taken by the German air force during 73 flights between 1942 and 1945.
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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (HI): Library Catalogue

The library catalogue of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany contains research literature and various other material on political, cultural, economic and social history as well as regional studies on East Central Europe. Beyond books, journals and newspapers, the research library also collects music and films. Priority is also given to “grey” literature. In addition to a smaller inventory of older material, a large part of the collection is from the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (HI): Topographic Map Series

In its directory of topographic map series, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg/Germany lists almost 300 titles with around 36,000 map sheets out of the institute’s traditional analogue map collection. Most of the available topographic maps date from the 19th and 20th century; some of them extend beyond the historical-geographical area of East Central Europe. Within the collection, the modern land surveys of the historical states of East Central Europe as well as current official map series, which were not accessible until the political changes in the 1990s, are of particular importance.
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Historical Bibliography 1990-2012

The Historische Bibliographie / Historical Bibliography lists recent publications by German historians and historical institutions. The data is supplemented by information on selected titles published outside of Germany. The Jahrbuch der Historischen Forschung / Yearbook of Historical Research documents current projects carried out by German historians.
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Historical Bibliography 2013– and 1986-1989

The Historische Bibliographie / Historical Bibliography lists recent publications by German historians and historical institutions. The data is supplemented by information on selected titles published outside of Germany. The Jahrbuch der Historischen Forschung / Yearbook of Historical Research documents current projects carried out by German historians. Published by the Association of Historical Research Institutes in the Federal Republic of Germany (dissolved in 2013), the Jahrbuch der Historischen Forschung / Yearbook of Historical Research is no longer updated.
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Institute for Danube-Swabian History and Cultural Studies (IdGL): Library Catalogue

The library of the Institute for Danube-Swabian History and Cultural Studies (IdGL) in Tübingen specializes on the history, literature and culture of Southeastern Europe. Its collections are related to migration and interethnic relations with special regard to the German minorities and the relations between Southeastern and Central Europe.
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International Bibliography of Pre-Petrine Russia

The International Bibliography of Pre-Petrine Russia covers essays and monographs on the history of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine up to the year 1700, published since 1993. It is operated by the Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg.
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Journal for East Central European Studies (ZfO)

The Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO) is an internationally renowned academic journal on the history and culture of the historical countries and regions within today’s borders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, as well as selected regions in present-day Belarus, Russia (Kaliningrad exclave), Ukraine and Hungary. The ZfO has been published quarterly since 1952; until 1994, the journal was entitled “Zeitschrift für Ostforschung”. In ZfO-online, all issues older than two years are available in open access.
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National Bibliography of Estonia

The Estonian National Bibliography database was launched in 2004 and covers all Books, journals, newspapers, maps, serials, sheet music, videos, sound recordings and e-resources published in Estonia or abroad in the Estonian language, or related to Estonia on the period 1900 to date.
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OstDok: Documents on Eastern Europe Online

OstDok repository provides access to digitized and genuine electronic publications within the full interdisciplinary spectrum of East European Studies. All titles are available as full texts in open access. OstDok is operated by the Bavarian State Library, the Collegium Carolinum, the Herder Institute and the Leibniz Institute for East and South East European Studies.
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OstNet: Web Resources on Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe

OstNet is a database covering academically relevant websites and online documents on the history, culture, politics, and society of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The service is provided by the Bavarian State Library in Munich and the Herder Institute in Marburg.
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recensio.net: Review Platform for European History

recensio.net — review platform for European History – is a Europe-wide, multi-language platform for reviews of historical literature. It brings together reviews of recent historical publications published in academic journals on one platform. recensio.net is a joint project of the Bavarian State Library (BSB) Munich, the University of Cologne and the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) Mainz.
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Religion in Former Yugoslavia: Bibliography

The bibliography includes monographs and articles on religion in former Yugoslavia. Its main focus is on the period after 1918 and the “Serbo-Croatian” regions (Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo).
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Research Centre for Eastern and South Eastern Europe (WiOS): Library Catalogue

The library catalogue of the Research Centre for Eastern and South Eastern Europe (WiOS) lists subject-specific books from the areas of history, economy, law, politics, literature and linguistics (Slavonic studies, Finn-ougristics, Romanian Studies, Albanology), applied geography, society, culture and religion of all countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
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Slovanská knihovna / Slavonic Library, Prague

The Slavonic Library in Prague is one of the most important research libraries on the history and culture of the Slavic peoples and countries and the Russian exile after 1917. The library collection comprises almost 900,000 volumes of books and periodicals (status 2021), and is also famous for its maps, posters, visual and art materials, and collections of rare and precious documents. Every year, it acquires approximately 9,000 new volumes.
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World Affairs Online (WAO)

World Affairs Online (WAO) is one of the largest bibliographic social sciences databases in Europe. It provides targeted access to scholarly literature on international relations, regional and area studies with a focus on global and regional developments, foreign and security policy and social trends. WAO offers a unique cooperation structure with input from ten German institutes, joined in the FIV Information Network International Relations and Area Studies.
osmikon.search includes a regional selection from WAO focused on Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.
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Periodicals Index Online (PIO): Article Database

Periodicals Index Online (PIO) enables you to search for articles published in several thousand journals in the humanities and social sciences. The electronic index of the provider ProQuest contains publications from over 37 disciplines and in more than 40 languages and dialects. Germany-wide access is possible via a national licence provided by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Authentication by the German Research Network (DFN) is required.
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