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SOURCES FOR ROMANIAN STUDIES

This page last modified: 16 vi 2009

This is the first part of a reworking of the Sources for Romanian Studies Internet Gateway. Additional sections will be added in due course (plenty of wiggle room there). Suggestions are welcome.

GETTING STARTED

• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is still a premier source of current news and analysis on Eastern Europe. Though they no longer have a Romanian service, RFE/RL's Moldova Service is very active. There are additional materials available on their Romanian-language page.

• The ubiquitous GOOGLE has 215 million listings for Romania, probably all pretty much of equal value. This count is down from 319 million in 2006; is this a trend? Check back next year.

• GOOGLE for Moldova has only 89.4 million listings (down from 178 million in 2006), but, hey, who's really counting?

• YAHOO's Romanian Search Page provides an excellent starting point for matters Romanian.

• YAHOO's Moldovan Search Page provides a good starting point for (you guessed it) matters Moldovan.

• CIA FACT BOOK: Romania. Good basic information.

• CIA FACT BOOK on MOLDOVA. More of the same.

• WASHINGTON POST/Romania Information Site, includes links to POST and Associated Press stories on Romania. A good way to pick up on current news about Romania.

• WASHINGTON POST/Moldova Information Site, includes links to POST and Associated Press stories on Moldova. A good way to pick up on current news about Moldova.

ROMANIAN LIBRARIES

One major advantage of the Internet is that Romanian libraries are becoming part of the virtual library system; the following libraries have online catalogues and other online resources.

• The Romanian Academy Library (Biblioteca Academiei)

• The Romanian National Library (Biblioteca Națională a României)

• University of Bucureşti Central Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Carol I

• University of Iaşi Central Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Mihai Eminescu

• Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj Central Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Lucian Blaga)

• University of Timisoara Central University Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară Eugen Todoran)

• The National Library of Moldova

• Library of the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies

• The National Book Chamber of the Republic of Moldova

• A number of fulltext Romanian works are available from the Biblioteca Românească de Internet .

WESTERN LIBRARY RESOURCES

• University of Illinois Slavic and East European Library, which includes links to their newspaper list and archives list as well as to the highly useful Slavic Reference Service. There are two very useful bibliographical links on this site, one covering Romanian Historical Bibliographical Resources, and a second surveying General Romanian Bibliographical Resources.

• The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and most bibliographical references can be verified through its catalogue. The European Reading Room provides bibliographical assistance by eMail and also has bibliographical guides to Romanian Collections at LC and Moldovan Collections at LC, edited by ace librarian Grant Harris. LC also has internet links pages for Romania and Moldova. You can access two book length country studies online for Romania, which is excellent for the Communist regime (since it was published virtually simultaneouslly with its collapse), but needs to be replaced for post-1989 Romania; and for Moldova, which is more up to date, having been published in 1995. Lastly, you can download pdf "Country Profiles" of Romania and Moldova here; these are updated on a fairly regular basis.

• University of Pittsburgh's Russian and East European Collection houses the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian and East European Studies.

• The Hoover Institution Library's Archives and Collections holdings are extensive for Romania. There is a special page dealing with their Romanian archival collections.

• Columbia University Libraries: Russian, Eurasian & East European studies

• Harvard University Widener Library Slavic Collection

• Indiana University Slavic Collection

• New York Public Library Slavic and Baltic Division

• Stanford University Slavic and Eastern European Studies

• UCal Berkeley Slavic Studies and East European Resources

• University of Chicago Library Slavic and East European Collection

• University of Kansas Slavic and East European Collections

• University of Michigan Graduate Library, Slavic and East European Division. There is a Romanian links page.

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Slavic and East European Collections

• The Russia and East European Information Network at the University of Texas has a Romania Page and a Moldovan Page.

• Yale University Slavic and East European Collections. They have a Selected Bibliography of English-language Print Resources for Romania available online.

• The British Library has several Slavonic and East European Collections. A link to their Romanian collections is here.

• University College/London School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library . SEES also has a Romanian Resources page.

• Oxford University Library

• Cambridge UniversityLibrary

• The Deutsche Bibliothek

• Bibliotheque Nationale

INFORMATION ABOUT ROMANIA

• Welcome to Romania, a comprehensive general information site.

• About Romania, with an extensive set of links.

• Romania.Org, with an extensive set of links.

• The Romanian National Tourist Office has an informative page.

• The Romanian Institute for Cultural Memory (CIMEC) has an informative page.

• ROMANIA: USAID

• US State Department Travel Information Page for Romania: useful.

• UK Travelling and Living Overseas Advice: Romania.

• Lonely Planet Travel Guide for Romania: straightforward.

INFORMATION ABOUT MOLDOVA

• World of Moldova, a general information site.

• OSCE Mission to Moldova.

• Moldova.Org.

• The Moldovan Ministry of Culture and Tourism has an informative page.

• MOLDOVA: USAID

• US State Department Travel Information Page for Moldova.

• UK Travelling and Living Overseas Advice: Moldova.

• Lonely Planet Travel Guide for Moldova.

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