Licensed databases

UCL Library Services provides access to a wide range of databases. These are available for use by UCL staff and students both on and off-site within the terms of the license agreements. Off-site users will need to login to most databases using their UCL username and password. Trials to new databases will appear on our blog.

Databases can also be accessed via Explore. The content of many of UCL's databases can be searched within Explore, following links to view full-text if it is available.

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A - Z list of databases related to Slavonic and East European Studies

• ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)

  Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry
• Arcanum Digitheca

  Free access for all until 16th April Open access to the largest Hungarian database containing scientific journals, encyclopedias, newpapers and series.
• Avant-Garde and Architecture in Czechoslovakia 1909-1938

  This collection makes available a number of leading periodicals and monographs with special importance for the study of the Czechoslovak avant-garde and architecture in the period before the Second World War.
• Baltic News Service

  News from the BNS agency based in the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Distributes daily around 1,000 news items in Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian and English.
• BBC Monitoring

  UCL access only - login with UCL username and password. BBC Monitoring covers reports from radio, television, news agencies, press and new media in over 180 countries, in over 100 languages. Access is to the global portal plus Terrorism Digest, Regional Political and Security Round ups and Cyber Security Review
• Book Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities (part of WoS Core Collection)

  Indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books with 10,000 new books added each year. To search only content from this database, go to More settings and select Book Citation Index SSH only.
• Central and Eastern European Online Library - CEEOL

  Online archive of full text articles from over 250 humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. Also includes a directory of links to related websites.
• Cold War Intelligence

  This collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most classified Top Secret or higher) provides a declassified documentary record of successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
• Cult of body

  This collection comprises unique material on sports and physical culture in Russia, 1891-1919. Sports provided opportunities for transitions from tradition to modernity: athletic competition broke down class barriers, brought women into public spaces, and encouraged new modes of behavior and self-presentation.
• Early Russian Cinema

  Information on domestic and foreign films shown on screens in Russia from 1907-1918, including full text of film magazines and newspapers, detailed description of films, reviews by critics and censored materials.
• East Europe, Central Europe Database (ProQuest)

  Ongoing full-text academic journals published in East and Central Europe. Covers business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities
• East European newspapers

  Newspapers published in Eastern Europe between 1835 and 1922.
• East View Online Databases

  Database of full-text newspaper articles, journal articles and government publications from Russia, plus newspaper articles from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
• Ebart Medijska Dokumetacija Newspaper Archive (East View)

  Serbian newspaper database.
• Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports and Profiles

  Providing short- to medium-term economic and political forecast for each of 197 countries, as well as analysis of key developments and major policies creating a picture of the country in the present day and going in to the future.
• Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (YIVO)

  Encyclopedia of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe, from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. Covers arts, daily life, places, languages and literature, history and politics, and religion.
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) 1991-2007

  This database contains the data of two former EBSEES databases, one for 1991-2000, the other for 2001-2006. The new unified database with about 85.500 titles has been developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris.
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports

  Transcribed and translated intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, covering 1941-1996.
• Historical Abstracts

  This database can be accessed by no more than 6 users at a time. Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excl. the United States and Canada - see America: History and Life). A core resource.
• Humanities Index (ProQuest)

  Previously called BHI: British Humanities Index. Index of published literature in the humanities, covering humanities journals and weekly magazines, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK and the United States.
• Hungarian Reformation

  Collection of writings of writings of the Hungarian reformers, 1540s-1650s, including early texts and later works for the established churches.
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)

  Index of literature in the social sciences and related subjects. Core resource for Economics.
• Imperial Russia's Illustrated Press

  The illustrated weeklies gathered in this collection open a window on Russian cultural, social, and political life. Tracing the sweep of the Russian imagination at the apogee of Russian cultural power from the peak years of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy to the modernist era and the chaos of 1917. They captured imperial expansion, cultural innovation, high fashion, graphic arts, performing arts, grand funerals and anniversaries, occasions of state, wonders of science, and domestic and foreign politics.
• IntelliNews Pro

  Delivering market news and reports, in English, for over 15 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and regionally for the Middle East/North Africa, Nigeria/Ivory Coast, Sub Saharan Africa, and Asia
• Iskusstvo Kino digital archive

  Digital Archive of Iskusstvo kino, the journal of Russian cinema critics. The journal publishes reviews of contemporary Russian and foreign movies, articles on history and theory of Russian and world cinema as well as general essays on Russian culture and arts.
• Labyrinth

  Labyrinth provides 25,000 biographies of Russian politicians, officials and business people. Includes descriptions and guides to all federal government bodies, administrative units of the Russian Federation, major businesses, political organizations and federal elections at all levels.
• Manuscriptorium

  Freely accessible, Manuscriptorium digital library is the designated platform for the European Digital Library of Written Cultural Heritage. Providing access to more than 5 million images of manuscripts, incunabula, early printed books, maps, deeds, charters and more, up to the year 1800.
• Mass Media in Russia, 1908-1918

  Complete runs of the kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated newspapers in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century.
• MediaPlus

  A service for UK higher and further education community bringing more than 100,000 videos, images, and sound recordings to your screen.
• MLA International Bibliography

  International database on language, literature, linguistics and folklore.
• Newspapers of the North Caucasus, Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Database covering 19 newspapers from the North Caucasus, one of the most volatile areas of Russia and the Former USSR. Includes the two disputed breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
• Nexis

  Database of news and company information (formerly provided as LexisNexis 'Executive'). A core resource.
• Oficialiosios statistikos portalas (Official Statistics Portal)

  Oficialiosios statistikos portalas (Official Statistics Portal) is the website of the Lithuanian Department of Statistics, Lietuvos Statistikai (Statistics Lithuania) which coordinates official statistics for Lithuania. Statistical information is accessible to all users interested in the socioeconomic development of Lithuania.
• Oxford Scholarship Online

  Full text of over 8,000 books from Oxford University Press. UCL has access to the following modules: Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Psychology, Public Health & Epidemiology and selected titles in Neuroscience, Literature and Linguistics.
• Popular Literature, Fiction and Songs in Imperial Russia

  Material from the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. The collection illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature.
• Prize Papers Online: Atlas

  Covering the period between 1775 and 1783 this resource provides a wealth of information about ships and their crews.
• Russian Anarchist Periodicals of the Early 20th Century

  This collection covers the eventful history of Russia during the revolutionary era, from the perspective of metropolitan and provincial newspapers and journals published by the most radical political forces.
• Russian Theater in the Early 20th Century

  This collection of theatre periodicals provides a detailed picture of metropolitan and provincial Russian theatre, and reflects the cultural life in Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
• Russkii Arkhiv

  A journal of history and literature, published in Moscow from 1863-1917 Russkii Arkhiv published mostly unreleased memoirs, epistolary, literary and institutional documentary materials that highlighted the cultural and political history of the Russian nobility in XVIII and XIX centuries.
• Screen and Stage

  Periodicals from the Russian Cinematographic and Theater Press, 1889-1919, covering film, theatre and other forms of entertainment and mass culture in pre-revolutionary Russia.
• Social Movements, Elections, Ephemera

  This series offers a comprehensive collection of election related material to date from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Includes party programs, propaganda material, collections of special editions of newspapers and literature produced by political parties or candidates.
• Social Sciences Citation Index

  2,697 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
• Sovetskaia Kultura Digital Archive

  Kultura (Culture) is an important Russian weekly newspaper. An indispensable source of information on the developing and ever changing attitudes towards arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies.
• Soviet Cinema Online - Archival Documents from RGALI 1923-1935

  Documents from the period 1923-1935 when state monopoly control over the Soviet cinema industry was being established.
• Soviet Cinema Online: Periodicals and Newspapers, 1918-1942

  Information on domestic and foreign films shown on screens in Russia and the USSR from 1918-1942, including full text of film magazines and newspapers, detailed description of films, reviews by critics and censored materials.
• Stalin Digital Archive

  Compatible with IE9, Firefox and Chrome. A collection of archival and secondary research documents that have previously only been available at the RGASPI archive in Russia
• Web of Science Core Collection

  Cross searches Web of Science Core Collection. A core resource.
• Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters

  Journal collection covering the late Imperial stage in Russia, 1890-1915.

Databases with temporary access in 2020

During the current COVID-19 pandemic many publishers have opened up their collections and extended their access to e-resources to support remote learning and working. In this selection you can find links to the databases that are relevant to Slavonic and East European Studies.

• Academic Complete (ProQuest ebooks) Free access for UCL students and staff until 22nd May 2020. ProQuest's Academic Complete collection of over 150,000 multidisciplinary ebooks will be available within Ebook Central during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Academic Video Online  Free access for UCL students and staff until 22nd May 2020. Academic Video online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
• Age of Exploration Free access for UCL students and staff until 26th June 2020. This collection explores five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts.
• Arcadian Library Online Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Arcadian Library Online enables easy exploration of the holdings of the Arcadian Library, revealing the shared cultural heritage of Europe and the Middle East across the course of a millennium.
• Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I Free access for UCL students and staff until 18th May 2020. Focusing on important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.
• Artfilms Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: Art films Access for UCL students and staff until 30th September 2020. Stream thousands of videos related to the creative arts.
• Berghahn journals Free access for all until 30th June 2020. Berghahn publishes 38 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities
• BiblioPlanet Free access for UCL students and staff until 1st June 2020. Slavic and Eurasian studies ebooks. Access to all materials apart from certain publishers’ collections and Multimedia (audio books and videos) . Collections with no access are greyed out.
• BiblioRossica Free access for UCL students and staff until 1st June 2020. BiblioRossica is a portal which offers expertly selected collections devoted to the most relevant areas of modern Russian and Jewish Humanities.
• Bloomsbury Collections Free access for UCL staff and students until 31st May 2020. Access to the full collection of scholarly ebooks from Bloomsbury’s Academic division. This collection spans the arts, humanities and social sciences.
• Bloomsbury Medieval Studies Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. With a global perspective this platform brings together high-quality secondary content with visual primary sources, a brand new reference work, and material culture images.
• British Online Archives Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: BOA Free access to UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Please sign in using 'Find your Institution'.
• Cambridge Core Textbooks Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Online access to textbooks published by Cambridge University Press. Books can be read online, but not printed or saved
• Cold War Eastern Europe Free access for UCL students and staff until 30th June 2020. Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to over 13,000 files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for reporting on the Soviet Union and the socialist states of Eastern Europe.
• Drama Online Full Access Free access to full collection for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Access to the full Drama Online platform includes the Core Collection, Nick Hern Books, the RSC Live and National Theatre Collections
• eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: EBSCO eBook Academic Collection Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. This multidisciplinary collection includes thousands of e-books covering a large selection of academic subjects and features e-books from leading publishers and university presses.
• Equinox journals, recent content Free access for all to most recent 12 months of all Equinox journals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please select the pdf icon next to the article you require from the table of contents list, not from the article level.
• Essential Russian Classics eBook collection Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st July 2020.
• First World War Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: The First World War Free access for UCL students and staff until 26th June 2020. Primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules: Personal Experiences, Propaganda and Recruitment, Visual Perspectives and Narratives and A Global Conflict.
• Global Issues Library Free access for UCL students and staff until 22nd May 2020. Global Issues Library reflects the key issues affecting our world today, including border issues, migrations, atrocities and human rights violations, security, revolution and protest, and environmental issues.
• Harvard Business Review ebooks Collection Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Access to over 600 books published by Harvard Business Review.
• Human Rights Studies Online Free access for UCL students and staff until 22nd May 2020. Providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010, the collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types. Selected events include Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur.
• Kanopy : Selected collections Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. Kanopy has opened access to several of their film collections: including The Great Courses, Samuel Goldwyn and Collective Eye films.
• Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism Free access for UCL students and staff until 26th June 2020. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals provide unique insight into the expansion, accessibility and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.
• LGBT Thought and Culture Free access for UCL students and staff until 1st June 2020. Featuring books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
• Medieval Travel Writing Free access for UCL students and staff until 26th June 2020. Presenting manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.
• MIT Press books Free access for UCL students and staff until 31st May 2020. MIT Press have opened up access to more than 2,770 eBooks during the COVID-19 pandemic
• NewspaperARCHIVE Free access for UCL students and staff until 15th June 2020. Features newspaper archives from 1607-202, obituaries and family history records from 32 countries and all states of America.
• Non-Fiction Library (Biblioclub) Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: Biblioclub Non-Fiction Library Free access for UCL students and staff until 1st June 2020, to access login using the Username/password provided. Electronic library that includes scientific and educational literature, publications on self-development and intellectual leisure.
• Project Muse: journals and books from participating publishers Free access for all until 31st May 2020. Open access to journals and books published by over 50 participating publishers.
• ProQuest One Literature Free access to UCL students and staff until 22nd May 2020. ProQuest One Literature contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings
• SAGE Knowledge Free access for UCL students and staff until 24th June 2020. SAGE's social sciences platform for SAGE and CQ Press book, reference, and video content.
• Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda Free access for UCL students and staff until 26th June 2020. This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
• Translated Texts for Historians E-Library Free online access for UCL students and staff until 2nd June 2020. Access to 50 volumes: Vol. 1-20; 22-52. The translated Texts for Historians E-Library makes available historical sources from A.D. 300–800 translated into English.
• University of California Press journals Alternative Name(s) & Keywords: UC Press journals Free access for all until 30th June 2020. University of California Press' journals span the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with key subject areas that include history, literature & criticism, film & media, music, religion, and sociology
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online Free access for UCL students and staff until 18th May 2020. This collection provides access to previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.