Trial databases from East View
La Trobe staff and students now have trial access to four databases from East View until 13 September:
Current Digest of the Russian Press- (formerly The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press) was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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Governmental Publications (Russia)- the Universal Database of Governmental Publications (UDB-GOV) monitors mainly the events in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. It includes stenographic records of the hearings of both its houses, the Duma and Federation Council, and provides vote results, resolutions and legislative drafts as well as auxiliary information such as the schedule and agenda of legislative work. The database includes Biulleten’ Schetnoi palaty published by the State Audit Chamber subordinate to the Duma and the Vestnik Tsentrizbirkoma, or The Herald of the Central Electoral Committee responsible for all types of elections in Russia. Texts of laws, presidential decrees, government resolutions and the Constitutional Court’s decisions are also available as well as comments on current Russian legislation published by popular legal journals Zakon and Gosudarstvo i pravo.
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Russian Central Newspapers- the Universal Database of Russian Newspapers (UDB-COM) provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Krasnaia zvezda, ITAR-TASS), independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database, thus offering a wide array of opinions and perspectives. Several English-language newspapers including the notable Moscow Times, widely read by the international community in the Russian capital, constitute an important part of the database.
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Social Sciences & Humanities (Russia)- the goal of this database is to provide researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities. It is comprised of all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences ranging from archeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications. New titles are added on a regular basis. This universal database grows retroactively. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination.
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2 comments
09/09/2011 at 12:51pm, Bundoora
These databases are extremely valuable for researchers at La Trobe. I am currently using one of them (UDB) on an individual subscription, and it has been utterly indispensable for all of my recent articles and for my current monograph. But that access depends on an ARC grant that is about to run out. When I submit articles to major British and US journals in Russian studies, it is taken for granted that I have access to Eastview’s major Russian databases. Both La Trobe’s politics and history programmes have concentrations of specialists in Russia, the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe. All would benefit from a subscription to some or all of these databases. Finally, I have several postgraduates with Russian language skills, whose PhD theses would benefit enormously from access to database.
14/09/2011 at 10:14am,
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