Selected Library Resources for
“Russian Women Writers”
Online version available at http://people.hws.edu/hunter/welsh08.htm
Prof. Kristen Welsh
Michael Hunter
Reference Librarian
Locate books in the HWS
Library by using our catalog in the Lobby or through our Web page http://academic.hws.edu/library. You can identify more books on a given
subject by searching over 54 million books in Worldcat and
placing interlibrary loan requests for items you would like. Time required is usually a week to 10 days
Scholarly
Databases:
Modern
Language Bibliography, Humanities
Index, JSTOR
Internet
Examine information from the
Internet carefully before using it for research purposes. Always be aware of who is responsible for the
material, and what credentials they have for writing on the subject(s).
Scholarly Subject Directory:
Intute – http://intute.ac.uk
An excellent subject
directory for locating scholarly websites relevant to this course
Individual Websites:
Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors - http://www.sovlit.com/bios.html
Russian
language and literature web sites (
http://www.library.mcgill.ca/human/subguide/rusweb.htm
Electronic
resources for Russian and East European studies - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/russian/bookmar2.htm
Provides links to over one
hundred and fifty websites and includes some interesting web pages that other
resource collections omit. Maintained by the
Online translation service:
NOTE: Free online
translation is word-for-word machine translation. Idioms, special syntax and other important
aspects of a language are generally not incorporated into the results. Proceed with caution.