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2005

  • Universal Database of Russian Public Health & Medicine is launched, giving access to research findings and journal articles and sources from the Russian Union of Pediatrics, Academy of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Defense, and the Association of Specialists on Prenatal Medicine.  With a wide range of topics:  Russia’s public health situation, primary care, medical training and education, clinical standards and practices, infectious disease, drug and alcohol abuse, economic impact of declines in health and life expectancy, vital statistics, and demographic implications.  A list of titles may be found here:  http://online.eastview.com/resources/xls/udb-med.xls
  • Century Journal Project is launched in December 2005.  The project’s aim is to expand the existing archives of the China Academic Journals (CAJ) database by retrospectively digitizing the most important journals of 20th century China back to the very first issues, as far back as 1937.  
  • Serials coverage is expanding with an increased geographic scope.  Newly added titles from Hungary, Turkey, Iran, Bangladesh, North and South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam have been added to our selection of over 12,000 serial titles.  Search our catalog online here:  http://www.eastview.com/periodicals.asp      
  • Acquisition of The Current Digest of Post-Soviet Press weekly journal, companion quarterly, and annual index publications.  The journal is a compilation of translations or article abstracts selected from a wide variety of Russian-language newspapers and periodicals.
  • The digitization of the 2002 All-Russian Population Census began.  A number of chapters have now been made accessible online.  When complete, it may be purchased as a stand-alone database or in conjunction with the Universal Database of Russian/NIS Statistical Publications.
  • New collections from the Kyiv State Archive published:  The Assassination of Pyotr Stolypin:  http://www.eastview.com/docs/Stolypin_Collection.pdf, Mendel Beilis: Blood Libel Scapegoat: http://www.eastview.com/docs/beilis_case.pdf, and The Polish Legions:  http://www.eastview.com/docs/polish_legions.pdf

 

2004

  • The Access to Russian Archives project, managed by the University of Kansas Libraries and Rosarkhiv of Russia with the participation of East View, is a full-text database of regional and national guides to the Russian archives.  It will provide the most comprehensive access to the holdings of the entire Russian archive system. Creation of this database will allow students and scholars from anywhere in the world to identify important archival holdings related to their research or areas of interest. http://online.eastview.com/projects/RA/index.html
  • The full run of Voprosy istorii (Issues of History) published by the Russian Academy of Sciences is digitized in full text and full image. Chronicling events in Russia and the world since 1926, this legendary journal is available for the first time online.
  • Greatman Knowledge Management Group selects East View to establish and maintain a Web site in the West for Greatman's Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China and Taiwan Literature Series databases.
  • China National Knowledge Infrastructure expands to include the China Doctoral/Masters Dissertations database containing the full-text of more than 50,000 doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 200 top Chinese graduate schools and universities and the China Proceedings of Conferences Database with a collection of national and international conferences or seminars of various academic associations and societies. 

 

2003

  • Full data on the State Standards of the Russian Federation ("gosudartsvennye standarty" or GOSTy) available.  While all GOSTs are originally in Russian, many of them have been fully translated into English.
  • World News Connection accessible through a unique website interface by region.
  • In cooperation with the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation and the CIS Statistical Committee East View develops UDB-STAT, an online database containing official reports, yearbooks and related publications of regional statistical bodies and statistical agencies of the former Soviet Union.
  • With the Russian Book Chamber, East View has digitized the Russian national bibliographies going back to 1998 and made them searchable in UDB-BIB, an online database.

 

2002

  • UDB-UKR, a database of Ukrainian publications including the first digital collection of editions by the Ukrainian Book Chamber, is launched.
  • East View, in cooperation with the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), offers a comprehensive collection of multidisciplinary online databases of Chinese publications, including
    • China Academic Journals
    • China Academic Journals Bibliographic citations
    • China Core Newspapers

 

2001

  • East View takes over publishing and worldwide distribution of the Far Eastern Affairs: A Russian Journal on China, Japan, and Asia-Pacific, an edition of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • East View launches UDB-NEWSWIRES, a database of publications by Russia/NIS information agencies.
  • East View prepares a digitized, full-image CD-Rom version of Izvestiia covering 1980 to 1984. This project was performed for libraries throughout Russia and sponsored by the Soros Foundation.
  • East View introduces UDB-CIS, a database of publications from CIS and the Baltics.

 

2000

  • UDB-REG, a database of Russian Regional Newspapers, is launched.
  • East View improves the online databases with enhanced navigation, allowing an ease of access to the wealth of content available. 
  • East View launches UDB-EDU, a database of major periodicals on Social Sciences and Humanities by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

1999

  • Hilsoft Notifications, a world leader in notification services for class-action lawsuits, has selected East View to coordinate the Swiss banks' publicity campaign for Holocaust survivors in the former Soviet Union.
  • UDB-GOV—a database containing Russian parliamentary publications—is launched.
  • The Universal Database of Russian Military Publications, UDB-MIL, is launched. This database contains central as well as regional Russian military titles.

 

1998

  • East View takes over publishing and worldwide distribution of the reputed Russian academic journal Social Sciences.
  • Primary Sources Media – Gale Group, contracts East View to implement a multiyear project on microfilming formerly restricted holdings from Russia’s most significant federal archives.

 

1997

  • East View reaches critical mass in fostering the development of online publications in Russia and achieves yet another first in providing digital information by launching the Universal Database of Russian newspapers, containing major central titles.

 

1996

  • East View produces The Sixth State Duma of the Russian Federation on CD-ROM, with the capability to search by regions, deputies, parties and factions.
  • East View takes over the translation, printing and worldwide distribution of the main Russian foreign policy journal, International Affairs ("Mezhdunarodnaia Zhizn").
  • East View publishes first on microfiche and then in print and CD-Rom format the 1989 USSR Population Census, the last census of the Soviet era.

 

1995

 

  • East View produces Moscow News on CD-ROM, the first Russian newspaper on CD, using Adobe full-image and full-text technology.
  • East View publishes an archival guide to the holdings of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

1994

  • East View offers online versions of Nezavisimaia Gazeta and Zavtra, democratic and conservative Moscow newspapers, respectively.

 

1993

  • East View starts the EVNet project, offering for the first time the online version of the Moscow daily Segodnia.

 

1992

  • The main journal of the Russian General Staff, Military Thought ("Voennaia mysl'") is translated and published on a regular basis.

 

1991

  • East View is the first Western company to break the Soviet state monopoly on distribution of Soviet books and periodicals out of Russia.
  • East View is the first to distribute Russia’s first independent newspaper, Nezavisimaia Gazeta, in the West.
  • East View is the first Western company to publish a guide to the Russian Military archive, TsGASA.
  • Immediately after the August military coup in Russia, East View publishes The Coup: Underground Moscow Newspapers.

 

1990

  • Permission was received from the Russian Ministry of Defense to microfilm and distribute the formerly classified journal, Military Thought ("Voennaia Mysl' ").

 

1989

  • East View was founded. The new company's first project was a massive microfilming and preservation campaign in Russia, to film hundreds of newspaper and journal titles.