LibGuide for East Central Europe
Use this guide while the current pages are under construction.
Find Articles (in languages of the region)
Aggregation of searchable full text of articles in over 800 humanities and social science journals. Most of the material is in languages of the region, but there is also some in English. Look over list of periodicals before you start to search. Then search in language of material you expect to retrieve. It is also searchable using Google Scholar.
The national libraries of many East Central European countries publish online indexes to articles published in the country. Coverage typically begins fairly recently. Some examples are below. (For the full range of databases and digital collections available from a particular library, click on the link to that library's own home page.)
Czech database of selected journal and newspaper articles. Covers articles published 1991- Diacritics required for words that have them.
Polish index of selected journal and newspaper articles. Coverage is for articles published 1996- in several separate databases. Diacritics required for words that have them.
Hungarian database of selected journal and newspaper articles. Covers articles published 1993- Diacritics required for words that have them.
Estonian bibliographical database, indexing articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, anthologies and collections beginning in 1990s. Accesses full text if article is freely available. Diacritics required for words that have them.
Periodicals indexes and their online versions are part of the countries' national bibliographies. This excellent site includes most of the countries, along with the history of national bibliography in each, and titles of print versions. Put those titles into SearchWorks to find them at Stanford.

