Selected Library Resources for RUSE 351

“Russian Women Writers”

Online version available at http://people.hws.edu/hunter/welsh08.htm

 

 

Prof. Kristen Welsh                                                                                                                                      
Michael Hunter  Reference Librarian



Books:

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 (McGill University) -
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 University of Sussex (UK).

 

Online translation service:

http://www.worldlingo.com

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.