Online Ressources
Below you will find a list of online resources relevant for conducting East and Southeast European Studies.
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Archive Guides
The ESE Archives Guide
The ESE Archives Guide: A Web Guide to East and Southeast European Archives is an offer by the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies. The ESE Archives Guide has been created to gather and to share vital information for doing archival research in East and Southeast Europe or for doing archival research on topics dealing particularly with East and Southeast Europe.
General Platforms
osmikon – Das Forschungsportal zu Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa
[osmikon – The Research Gateway on East, Eastern-Central and South-Eastern Europe]
osmikon is a collaborative project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the Collegium Carolinum, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association and the Leibniz Institute for the Research of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. At the same time, osmikon is the portal of the Specialised Information Service for Russian, East and Southeast European Studies at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within this scope. osmikon replaced the former Virtual Library Eastern Europe (ViFaOst).
osmikon provides wide ranging research opportunities for those interested in Eastern Europe gathering various competences: simultaneous search through various OPACs, full text search through 80.000 books and periodicals, publish in Open Access, archiving of websites, information on data management, and much more.
Important part of osmikon it the ostdok platform. ostdok provides access to more than 48.000 electronic full texts, including monographs, original sources, academic theses and publication series with main focus on history, culture, politics and philology of East, East Central and South East Europe. In addition, it provides the possibility for researchers to publish electronically.
Please note that most services are offered in German language only.
Online-Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropa
The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung – IOS) offers an online version of its Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropa [Hand book for the History of Southeast Europe].
Please note that this service is offered in German language only.
Online-Handbuch zur Geschichte Südosteuropa ...
Länder-Analysen
[Analysis of States]
The platform offers current analysis of the political, economical, social and cultural development of six countries/regions: Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, Central Asia.
Please note that the service is partly offered in German language only.
Digital Documents
Dokumente und Materialien zur ostmitteleuropäischen Geschichte
[Documents and Materials relating to East Central Europe]
The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association offers an online platform providing access to various original sources and documents concerning East Central Europe such as: :
- Online-edition with texts, statistics, map, pictures and additional materials
- standardised, structured, open-access website. It makes available to lecturers, students and other people interested in the subject of East Central European history
- Open Access for sources that have remained difficult to access until now
- bilingual offer contains scans of the sources as facsimiles
- individual modules are set up and supervised by researchers who are experts in those topics
Please note that most services are offered in German language only.
Documents and Materials relating to East Central Europe ...
GeoPortOst: Thematic and Hidden Maps of Eastern and Southeastern Europe
The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung – IOS) offers a digital online collection of more than 3,000 maps, mainly from 19th and 20th century works on Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The GeoPortOst collection includes especially hidden, thematic maps on history, ethnography as well as the economic and social relations of this area. In addition, GeoPortOst stores old maps and map series from the 16th to 19th century on Eastern Europe. GeoPortOst synthesizes maps, spatial data, and semantic context within a new spatial information system.
IOS Database of economic and social models
The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung – IOS) offers a database of economic and social models providing systematic information on important aspects of economic and social models in (Eastern) European countries.
IOS Database of economic and social models ...
Historical Travel Reports from the 17th to the 19th Century
The collection is a selection of more than 50 travel reports from the 17th to the 20th century. It covers Russia including the Caucasus and Siberia, the Habsburg Monarchy (the Hungarian half of the Empire), as well as Southeast Europe, including the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, there are detailed descriptions of the cities of Bursa, Dorpat (Tartu), Istanbul, Novgorod, Riga and Saint Petersburg.
As part of the EU project ‟Europeana Travel”, selected travel reports from the collection of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies were first digitized by the Regensburg University Library and then subjected to OCR processing. Consequently, the works can not only be read online, but can also be searched for keywords. In addition, individual pages or the entire work (as an e-book) can be downloaded in PDF format (Mac users need an additional plug-in).
Historical Travel Reports from the 17th to the 19th Century ...
Digitales Forum Mittel-und Osteuropa (DiFMOE)
[Digital Forum of Middle and Eastern Europe]
The platform contains digitalisations of historical prints from multiethnic cultural landscapes in Eastern Europe - especially from those with a (formerly existing) German speaking minority. The collection consists mostly of journals, newspapers and pictures.
The more the platform makes the collections of several caital of culture projects available:
- Wratislavia Digitalis
- Riga Digitalis
- Cassovia Digitalis
- Pilsna Digitalis
Please note that most services are offered in German language only.
Digitales Forum Mittel-und Osteuropa (DiFMOE) ...
Bibliographic Databases
IREON – Fachportal Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
[IREON – The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway]
IREON provides access to the WAO – World Affairs Online database, containing more than 900,000 bibliographic references. The multilingual European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies consisting of about 8.200 descriptors is the central source for indexing and retrieving.
IREON offers references and online full-text documents on:
- foreign and security policy
- international cooperation and development policy
- European politics and transatlantic relations
- regional and country studies worldwid
- foreign cultural policy
- climate, environment, energy
The operating agency of the IREON gateway is FIV – The German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies.
Biographic Databases
Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas
[Biographical Encyclopedia on the History of Eastern Europe]
The database is based on the "Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas" [Biographical Encyclopedia on the History of Eastern Europe], published in four volumes from 1974 till 1981. It was digitized by the University of Innsbruck and can now be search by name, places, professions, other metadata and in fulltext. The database contains 1.500 name entries and a register of 10.000 personal details.
Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas ...
Erik-Amburger-Datenbank
[Database of Erik Amburger]
The database contains information on 100.000 foreigners living in the Russian Empire until bis 1917. It is based on the personal collection of Erik Amburger that he bestoed to the IOS. Remarkable is the collection of 2960 relevant genealogical trees.