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CURRENT INFORMATION SOURCES and CURRENT LITERATURE SOURCES
IN LEHMAN LIBRARY:

EASTERN EUROPE

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Current Information Sources

This is a short list of factual information sources on Eastern Europe; all are located in the Reference area, unless another location is given. Please contact ref-area@columbia.edu, for more help.  

  • Country reports: Central and Eastern Europe 1991: Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary. [Eurostat]
    Business Library - Reference - HA1107.C68 1991g

  • Daily report. East Europe/Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1947-.
    Documents Service Center (microfilm, microfiche, and FBIS CD-ROMs)
    Current two-years of content available online at World News Connection

  • EUROPE library on NEXIS [online database]
    Business, political, and economic news from newspapers, magazines, wire services. Available at dedicated terminal in Lehman

  • Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Biennial? 1992- .
    Latest at Reference Desk - DJK1.E22

  • Handbook of reconstruction in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
    HC244.H344 1991

  • Joint Publications Research Service [JPRS]. 1974-.
    Documents Service Center

  • Political and economic encyclopedia of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
    HN373.5.P66 1990g

  • RFE/RL research report. [Continues: Report on Eastern Europe] Weekly. 1992-.
    Current issues on Reserve
    Lehman stacks - DJK51.R454

  • Summary of world broadcasts. Pt. 2: Central Europe and the Balkans. Daily, with weekly economic report. 1962-2001.
    Current issues - Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe - search World News
    Lehman stacks - D839.B75215

  • Szajkowski, Bogdan. Encyclopaedia of conflicts, disputes and flashpoints in Eastern Europe, Russia and the successor states.
    DJK6.S97 1993

  • Yearbook on international Communist affairs. 1966-1991.
    HX1.Y4

For individual countries, see the Area Handbook Series prepared by the Library of Congress and sponsored by the Department of the Army. You can locate series volumes in CLIO under title Area Handbook Series and under individual title, [Name of Country], a country study. Current editions are in the Reference area, in paper and on Countries of the World CD-ROM.

Note: The Business Library Reference Dept., 130 Uris, has a complete collection of the Country Reports and Country Profiles, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. These quarterly publications contain the latest statistical information on each country. To find the call numbers on CLIO, do a title search on the general title plus the name of the country. For example: t=country report bulgaria

CURRENT LITERATURE SOURCES IN LEHMAN LIBRARY:

EASTERN EUROPE

This short list of important bibliographies and indexes will help you find books, articles and other printed materials on Eastern Europe. Please ask the Reference staff or Jared Ingersoll, the Russian & East European Studies Librarian (306 Lehman Library), for other suggestions.

  • ABC poli sci. Advance bibliography of contents: political science and government. Bimonthly. 1969-.
    Reference Desk - Z7161.A214

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community ABSEES: American bibliography of Slavic and East European studies. Annual. 1956-.
    Z2483.A652

  • European bibliography of Soviet, East European and Slavonic studies. Annual. 1975-.
    Z2491.E97

  • Gates-Coon, Rebecca. Eastern European bibliography.
    Z2483.G33 1993

  • Handbook of political science research on the USSR and Eastern Europe: trends from the 1950s to the 1990s.
    JN6524.H36 1992

  • Horak, Stephan M. Russia, the USSR and Eastern Europe: a bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1964-74, and supplements, 1975-80, 1981-85. [Continued by Sullivan, below]
    Z2483.H54 and Z2483.H543 1987

  • International bibliography of the social sciences: political science. Annual. 1952-.
    Z7163.I64

  • International political science abstracts. Bimonthly. 1951-.
    Index Table - JA36.I5

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community PAIS international in print. Monthly. 1915-.
    Z 7163.P922 or PAIS CD-ROM

  • Social sciences citation index. Triannual. 1956-.
    Index Table - Z7161.S65 or CD-ROM

  • Service restricted to members of the Columbia community  Social sciences index. Quarterly. 1974-.
    Z7161.S651

  • Sullivan, Helen F. Russia and the former Soviet Union: a bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1986-1991.
    Z2491.S89 1994

For individual countries, see the World Bibliographical Series published by ABC-CLIO. You can locate them in CLIO under title World Bibliographical Series, then under country name.

U.S. Government Documents, Lehman Library, has reports on international and domestic affairs published by the United States government, as well as collections of statistical publications from international organizations, and declassified documents.

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