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"Access to Russian Archives" Database is Available to Public
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 14, 2006 East View Information Services, a world leader in providing information from Russia, is proud to announce completion of a large scale project to provide 21st century public access to guidebooks of the Russian archives online. The Russian archives database contain description of approximately 80,000 archival fonds (record groups) from more than 20 guidebooks on Russian federal archives and 40 of regional archives published from 1987 to 2004. Kent D. Lee, East View President and CEO, said, "This new resource allows students and scholars from anywhere in the world to identify important Russian archival holdings. Its content of social, political and military documents is important. Its previously inaccessible historic, economic, scientific, technology and literary information is methodically organized and easily available in digital formats." The database provides the most comprehensive access to the holdings of the Russian archival system ever available. East View took on the digitization tasks and provided XML structuring of the guidebooks to enable full text searching and browsing. Researchers can now browse the content of the archives or use search tools to find arcane bits of information from throughout the collection of individual guidebooks. To make the search more useful, users can limit search results to fond title, annotation, reference and other fields individually and in combination. All electronic guidebooks and individual fonds have stable URLs for integration with online catalogs and web sites. The Access to Russian Archives project was managed by the University of Kansas Libraries and Rosarkhiv of Russia with the participation of East View. The project was supported by the Title VI Program of the U.S. Department of Education for Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access, authorized under Title VI (Sec.606) Part A of the Higher Education Act. The official project description is at http://online.eastview.com/projects/ticfia About East View Information Services East View Information Services began business in 1989 and has become the world's leader in providing high-quality information services from Russia and the Newly Independent States. Since 2002, East View added one of the world's largest digital libraries of Chinese information, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure produced at Beijing prestigious Tsinghua University to its offering. East View serves a wide range of organizations from individual researchers to academic libraries and intelligence agencies, private, military and administrative. Opening the door to information sources, providing up-to-the-minute news on current events, and the changing political winds around the world, continues to be East View's distinguishing service. East View also offers a wide and deep collection of cultural background and historical information that was previously obscure in Western nations. Researchers rely on East View for information updates on new legislation and draft legislation, for elusive market data or financial figures, or for official standards, industry directories or advertising opportunities in foreign media. East View is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with offices in Russia, Ukraine and The Netherlands. With over 120 employees East View has developed a reliable and extensive acquisition network capable of satisfying the most sophisticated (as well as simple) information needs. For more information contact:
East View Information Services 10601 Wayzata Boulevard. Minneapolis, MN 55305 USA Ronald Levitus, Director Marketing and Communications ron.levitus@eastview.com. |