Over 45 years of Slavic studies scholarship news online
AAASS NewsNet Digital Archive is an online database which includes the complete backfiles of the newsmagazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) from 1960 to present. This is a repository of every page published in NewsNet. It may be the best electronic resource for documenting the evolution of Western scholarship in the fields of Slavic, Russian, Central European, and Eurasian studies.
The AAASS NewsNet Digital Archive provides a record of research published in political science, history, language instruction and the humanities in these fields. Use this resource to develop Festschriften or bibliographies of colleagues. For example, find discussions on Baranczak, Flier, or topics such as Solidarno??, and announcements of new archival collections in the field. Other topics include:
- Language Proficiency: 'The National Flagship Program in Russian: Preparing Americans for Level 3 Proficiency and Beyond' by Dan Davidson (NewsNet, No. 3, Vol. 46, 2006, pages: 1-6).
- Major events of Soviet/East European history. Search 'Chernobyl' and a rich list of papers, presentations, research projects, and announcements of books written on the topic may be found.
- Articles of opinion, research and review essays: 'What's in a Name, and Should We Change Ours?' by Katherine Verdery, President of AAASS (NewsNet, No. 2, Vol. 46, 2006, pages: 1-4).
The retrospective enables users to follow trends, explore the foundations of current knowledge and track changing priorities in the field as reflected in AAASS annual conference agendas, papers, panels, and reports on research initiatives. Researchers may find evidence of the evolution of instructional programs, government grants, and the emphasis on particular topics of research.
The AAASS NewsNet Digital Archive is available from issue #1 on East View's Universal Database™ (UDB™) platform. AAASS NewsNet Digital Archive subscribers who own other East View databases will be able to take advantage of the same UDB™ search tools and integrate searching across multiple databases.
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