Russian, Ukrainian and NIS Universal Database

Regional Newspapers (UDB-REG)
Covers a large variety of editions from diverse geographic areas such as the enclave of Kaliningrad, Vladivostok in the Far East, troubled Chechnya and northern Caucasus, oil rich Siberia, plus local Moscow and St. Petersburg editions, for a total of 82 newspapers from 7 federal districts of Russian Federation. Newspapers selected have the largest circulation in their regions and are considered as most authoritative.

Ukrainian Publications (UDB-UKR)
The world's first database of newspapers and magazines of Ukraine includes several dozen publicationsin Ukrainian, Russian, and English. They cover a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine, its progress along the reform path, views and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, problems of ethnic relations, and tendencies in the development of the armed forces. The database also includes news wire reports and other products of Ukrainian news agencies.

CIS and Baltic Periodicals (UDB-CIS)
The Universal Database of CIS and Baltic Newspapers includes 24 authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The sources are in Russian and in English, and cover various issues of domestic and international importance.

AP-Blitz, an information agency, offers its daily news line Tajikistan News in Brief. Another important publication from the same region is The Times of Central Asia, a business weekly published in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkmenistan are represented with official newspapers while Ukraine, Moldova and Latvia are represented with the most popular business titles. Also included in UDB-CIS are newspapers from Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

Russian/NIS Newswires (UDB-NEWS)
Offers several outstanding sources to follow the day-to-day developments in Russia and CIS. The Moscow bureau of Federal News Service (Washington, D.C.) produces the daily Kremlin package, consisting of the full-text transcripts of top speeches, statements, press conferences, newspaper articles and television reports of the day, from presidential addresses to remarks by Duma opposition leaders, from Foreign Ministry briefings to commentaries by leading economists and other experts.

Governmental Publications (UDB-GOV)
A wide selection of sources offering everything needed to monitor Russian lawmaking while it is happening, including Presidential decrees and government documents, stenographic records of Duma hearings, draft legislation, official resolutions, votes cast, official reports of parliamentary investigations and audits.

Voprosy Istorii archive from 1926
Scholarly journal on the history of science in Russia and abroad.

Social Sciences and Humanities Journals (UDB-EDU)
This unique database raises primary Slavic studies research to a new plateau of ease and sophistication, with fingertip searching of 50 titles, including vaunted "thick journals," popular literary editions, Russian Academy of Sciences titles, and independent scholarly publications. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination.

Military and Security Periodicals (UDB-MIL)
An essential tool for staying abreast of developments in the Russian armed forces, international security affairs and nuclear proliferation. UDB-MIL consists of more than 40 titles encompassing independent and official military and security texts, journals, and regional military district papers.

Statistical Publications (UDB-STAT)
Designed to optimize searching and browsing of statistical data, UDB-STAT covers publications, reports and data sets from Goskomstat Rossii and its regional bodies, the CIS Statistical Committee ("Statkomitet SNG"), and statistical agencies of the former Soviet Union. Features searching within reports, tables, and graphs, transliteration, tables of contents in English, and much more.

Features
The new UDB interface incorporates many valuable suggestions received from librarians and end users at subscribing institutions, specifically optimized to help libraries build efficient electronic collections and support library systems integration. A few of the major innovations are: