Using The Correct LC (Library of Congress) Transliteration Rules For Your Catalog Search. The LC system is the one that is most commonly used to transliterate Russian and other Cyrillic language titles in North American scholarship. Consult the transliteration table.
Build your own bibliography first as a guide for your research.
IUCAT
Tips: Do a subject search in Advanced Search (as opposed to the default Basic Search) using two subject terms, one the name of any ethnic group of your interest, for example, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, etc; and the other “Russia.”
use to expand your search beyond IUCAT. Many resources found in Worldcat can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
The following are some of the tools and tips that will help you with building a bibliography.
This database is the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES), which started in 1956 at Indiana University, Bloomington, and continued until 1994, when it completely went online. Its chronological scope is limited, going back to 1989.
Universal Database of Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB) is a database of Russian national bibliographic periodicals (often called "letopisi").
Letopisi – national bibliography indexes – are the most comprehensive bibliographic products of Soviet/Russian printed works published since 1907 by Knizhnaia Palata (Russian Book Chamber). As an official legal deposit institution of Russia, Knizhnaia Palata has been collecting and creating bibliographic records of books, newspapers, journals, book criticism and reviews, the arts, sheet music, dissertations and maps. Bibliographic records of the processed materials are then published in Letopisi – eight serial publications containing records organized by categories of material.
Book reviews may be helpful for writing a historiographical essay, among others.
Use the following two comprehensive book review indices that cover the whole 20th century to the present.
You can also use the Russian national bibliographies:
Letopis’ retsenzii.
Collecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this archive database provides over a million book review citations from 1903 to 1982. It includes at least one review excerpt per book.
LibGuide created by Tiffany Saulter,
Department of Library and Information Science.