Historians of the Russian province and Internet resources: Historiography Questions Cover Image

Историки российской провинции и интернет- ресурсы: вопросы историографии
Historians of the Russian province and Internet resources: Historiography Questions

Author(s): Nikolay Georgievich Yurkin
Subject(s): Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Middle Ages, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: transition period; pre-revolutionary historiography; national libraries; electronic libraries; Internet resources; search services;

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a summary of the experience the author had with Internet resources while search for editions that are of hard access remote for an historian living in provincial Russia. The emphasis is placed on the availability of domestic pre-revolutionary historiography on problems of the Russian history of the transition period from the Middle Ages to modern times (16th — the first quarter of the 18th century). The state and private electronic libraries are analyzed, the basic principles of Internet resources structure as well as search methods are revealed. The author notes certain difficulties of work with electronic libraries. The material collected is addressed both to specialists in history and to everyone interested in national history.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 81-96
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian