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Internet resources for the individual countries of Europe may be found on this site's Selected Internet Resources: Europe page.
Libraries
on the Web: Southeast Europe and the Balkans (http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/)
Links to several dozen libraries in the region.
The online books page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)
"The goal of the Online Books Page is to facilitate "access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Now in its tenth year, this site includes a searchable database of over 20,000 book titles available from many different sources, including such well known sites as the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center and Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/), also a Mars Best 2003 winner. In addition to keyword searching, there are options to browse by author, title or subject, this latter category arranged by Library of Congress call number. New to the site are links to several runs of serial archives. Primarily an index to English language materials, there is a page of links provided to several foreign language sites. The look is very spare, but with few graphics and easy-to-read pages, navigation is very fast and easy."--"Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003, RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2003. Reviewed Apr. 12, 2003."
IPL Books Collection (http://www.ipl.org/div/books/)
Part of the Internet Public Library, the site links to more than 20,000 freely available e-books. The catalog can be browsed by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Classification. There is a large overlap between the e-book collection listed on this site and the Online Books Page discussed above.
Archival research
catalog (http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html)
The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC replaces its prototype, the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL).
National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections (http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/)
Presents information about the cooperative cataloging program partnered by the Library of Congress and eligible archival and manuscript repositories throughout the United States. Provides gateway software for searching manuscript records in the RLG Union Catalog Archival and Mixed Collections File and the OCLC Mixed Materials File. Includes FAQs about the program, elegibility guidelines, downloadable data sheets, and links to Web sites on topics of interest to archivists and others, such as Repositories of Primary Materials, Copyright and Fair Use, and Encoded Archival Description.
Ready,
'Net, Go! (http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html)
Presents Ready, Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources, a collection of archival indexes, provided by Leon Miller. Offers access to master lists, tools, archival search engines, and professional resources
History of the Book
Book History Online (http://www.kb.nl/bho/index.html)
The National Library of the Netherlands maintains the International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries, an online bibliographic database which includes citations to hundreds of works pertaining to the individual countries of Eastern Europe, mostly from periodicals and books of that region.
Bibliographic Databases
European
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (http://www2.msh-paris.fr/betuee/BD%5FBibl%5FEst%5Faccueil%5Fangl.htm)
Contains more than 50,000 bibliographic citations to scholarly articles, books, etc, relating to Eastern Europe. The cited materials were published in the following West European countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. There are two databases: the first covers materials published 1991-2000; the second covers works published 2001 to present. There are separate interfaces in English and French.
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