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Gateways

MINELRES -Romania. General information, human rights, legislation.
Center for Russian, Eastern European and Euroasian Studies -Romanian directory.
REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies
Internet Resources for Romanian Studies at The Slavic Research Center , Hokkaido University
Databases on Research Projects and Institutions in Eastern Europe.From GESIS (Berlin), an infrastructural association which supplies fundamental social science services on a national and international level
Romanian Internet Directory.
WEB Resources for the Romanian History. From the Romanian Postal History Web Page, maintained by dr. Dan-Simion Grecu, http://www.multimania.com/dgrecu/
Romania in the Library of Congress
A Traveller's Compendium of Romanian History,by Mihai Manea.
Romanian Cultural Links
Romanian Cultural Resources

Journals

General

The Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics
Anthropology of East Europe Review
Transitions On Line
East European Constitutional Review
Newsletter "Social Sciences in Eastern Europe" The Newsletter "Social Sciences in Eastern Europe" contains current information on all questions contingent upon the social sciences in Eastern Europe:
Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Communist and Post-Communist Studies is an international journal covering all communist and post-communist states and communist movements, including both their domestic policies and their international relations. It is focused on the analysis of historical as well as current developments in the communist and post-communist world, including ideology, economy and society. It also aims to provide comparative foci on a given subject (e.g. education in China) by inviting comments of a comparative character from scholars specializing in the same subject matter but in different countries (e.g. education in Poland or Romania).
East European Politics and Societies. An international journal that examines social, political, and economic issues in Eastern Europe, EEPS offers holistic coverage of the region - every country, from every discipline - ranging from detailed case studies through comparative analyses and theoretical issues.
Ost-West-Gegeninformationen. Journal of Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures at the Department for Southeast European History University of Graz / AUSTRIA.

Romanian Historical and Social Science Journals

BIC - Banca de Informatii Culturale.The Cultural Information Database, is a joint project of four romanian cultural foundation ("Romania Literara", "Secolul 21", "Memoria" si "Luceafarul"). It offers direct access to the archives of the four publications. English version not available.
The Living PastArchaeological electronic review.
Magazin Istoric. -"Magazin Istoric" (The Historical Magazine) it's a monthly magazine of historical culture that publishes articles about Romanian and universal history.
Sfera Politicii
Altera
Romanian Journal of International Affairs
Korunk
Memoria - Revista Gandirii Arestate (English language presentation at http://bic.romlit.ro/www/memoria/html/prez-en.htm).
Secolul 20
Romanian Civilization. A Journal of Romanian and East Central European Studies. The "Romanian Civilization" is the official journal of the Center for Romanian Studies Iasi. Published three times a year (in English) the journal contains articles dealing with all aspects of Romanian history and culture, reviews, translations of Romanian literature.
Transilvanica. The review of the Association of the Young Historians from Transylvania and Banat. In Romanian.

Societies

In Romania

The Romanian Academy
The Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch
The Romanian Cultural Foundation, is a national independent cultural institution founded in April 1990. It initiates projects designed to integrate Romanian culture into the international arena.
The Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi. The Center for Romanian Studies Iasi, part of the Foundation for Romanian Culture and Studies, is a non-governmental organisation. Goals: to promote a better understanding of Romanian culture throughout the world.
The Society for Romanian Studies. is an inter-disciplinary academic organization founded in 1973 to promote professional study, criticism, and research on all aspects of Romanian culture and civilization. The SRS is generally recognized as the major professional organization for North American scholars concerned with Romania and Moldova.
Institutul pentru Memorie Culturala.(The Institute for Cultural Memory is a public institution founded in 1978, as the national center for the evidence of the cultural patrimony. It is subordianted to the Minister of Culture).
Institutul Roman de Istorie Recenta.

Abroad
The Society for Romanian Studies.

Purpose: To promote professional study, criticism, and research on all aspects of Romanian culture and civilization.

Cambridge University Romanian Society

Libraries
The Romanian virtual library project (in Romanian).
GDS Library
The University Central Library,Bucharest
The National Romanian Library
The "Mihai Eminescu" University Central Library, Iasi
The Romanian Academic Library/Biblioteca Academiei Romane.
The Library Of "Petru Maior" University, Targu Mures
The Central Library of the West University, Timisoara
The "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library, Cluj.
Biblioteca Banat - Banat Library.
Biblioteca Institutului Roman pentru Istorie Recenta.

Archives

Diplomatic Archives - the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The site features the listing of the main holdings of the archives. Romanian and french version also available.
Romanian documents at the Mount Athos.From the exhibition, "Treasures of Mount Athos." It features the English summaries of seventeen medieval documents from the 17th century.
Open Society Archives at Central European University. .OSA actively acquires, preserves and makes available research resources in areas of human rights, communism and the Cold War
Cold War International History Project, Virtual Library.The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist bloc.

Lists

HABSBURG. A member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, HABSBURG is the community within H-Net dealing with the culture and history of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states in central Europe from 1500 to the present.
MINELRES-L mailing list . Goal: to provide a specialized forum for the constant discussion and exchange of information/opinions on minority human rights and related problems of the transition period in Eastern and Central Europe...

About the Romanian History Index

The Romanian History Index is made of different pages which are always under construction. You will find Virtual Resources produced in Romania together with world-wide Resources if they are dealing with the history of Romania.
The URL of this page is [Index.html].
The Romanian History Index is a joint project the European University Institute's Library and History & Civilisation Department .
The Romanian History Index was created in December 1999.

About the WWW-VL and the WWW-VL History Network

The World Wide Web Virtual Library is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. The project is now managed by an independent committee made up of maintainers of various subject areas. For more information on the WWW-VL Main Project, go to [ http://vlib.org/AboutVL.html ] and for more information on the History Network Project, go to [ http://vlib.iue.it/history/about/about.html ]

About the Maintainer

The site is managed by Isabela Corduneanu [victoria.corduneanu@iue.it].
Please direct your notices of new URL's or inoperative links to her here.

Last updated 28/11/2001.