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UCL SSEES Library is the UK’s leading academic and flagship collection on Russia, Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, providing a unique resource for students and researchers. The primary purpose of UCL SSEES Library is to support teaching and research at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
For collection management purposes, the Library holdings are divided into four distinctive areas maintained by a dedicated team of Area Liaison Librarians. This guide focuses on the library resources for Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and Germany. To learn about the resources for other regions, please check the relevant guide. You may also find the following discipline guides useful: SSEES Economics and Business, SSEES History, SSEES Politics and Sociology.
Our libraries are open and we are providing a full service around the clock online as well as on-campus access to study spaces, books and other services. However, some of our services might be subject to change as we follow government guidance. Please consult our current information page for up-to-date news.
The Library supports taught courses at the School, but the collection is research-focused and contains an impressive array of traditional and digital resources.
The Library builds and maintains research level collections of international importance, covering a range of formats from print and electronic books, journals and newspapers to databases, archive collections, rare books, maps and audio-visual resources. The Library’s holdings strongly support research in the humanities, social sciences, and East European studies.
The main fields of interest are history, politics, sociology, economics, geography, languages, literature and culture. Subsidiary fields of interest are the arts, anthropology, demography, ethnography and religion. In addition, current topics such as the European Union, Eurasian integration, media, migration, human rights, gender studies, and environmental issues are well represented.
The guides provide an overview of resources dedicated to the study of Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and Germany area
Fennica - the Finnish National Bibliography is a database dedicated to the Finnish national imprint. It contains information on books from 1488 and newspapers form 1711 to date.
This bibliography contains information about all books published in Latvia from 1585 to the present.
The database contains information about books, documents, serials, grey literature and other types of resources from 1547 to the present.
The Polish National Bibliography online database contains records of printed books and serials, articles in periodicals, audio (recorded music and non-music recordings), printed music, maps and offline publications from 1901 to date.
This database contains the data of two former EBSEES databases, one for 1991-2000, the other for 2001-2006. The new unified database with about 85.500 titles has been developed by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris.
The Estonian National Bibliography database was launched in 2004 and covers media such as : books, journals, newspapers, maps, serials, sheet music, videos, sound recordings, e-resources from 1900 to date.
The Deutsche Nationalbibliografie encompasses: monographs, periodicals, maps, dissertations, music and online publications from 1913 to date.
