INION Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

Russian bibliographic data bases in the field of social science and humanities

The databases of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION) rank among the renowned bibliographic databases in the field of social sciences and humanities. The databases were launched in the 80es and now provide access to approximately
2,5 million bibliographical records.

The INION databases contain annotated bibliographic descriptions of the Soviet, Russian and foreign literature in all branches of social science and humanities, acquired by the INION library - the largest European library for social sciences and humanities.

Each record is registered in its original language, includes brief abstract in Russian and keywords in Russian and English languages. The INION databases contain not only descriptions of monographs but articles from journals and collections of papers (more than 20 thousand items), dissertation abstracts, conference proceedings and "grey" literature as well.

The INION databases are now available on CD-ROM with INION software and an interface in Russian and English. The CD-ROM can be ordered by the IDC Publishers Corporation, Holland

Access to the INION databases at the Moscow site:

• Economics and Demography (since 1991 г.)
• State and Law. Political Science (since 1986 г.)
• Philosophy and Sociology (since 1981 г.)
• History. Archeology. Ethnology (since 1986 г.)

Please create a login and a password before you start searching.
Use * as a wildcard character within your search string for right and left truncation.
For example, author - Ivanov*.
All Cyrillic data elements are transliterated according to the Library of Congress rules.

Ordering of electronic document copies in INION
INION supplies users with electronic copies of articles from journals and monographs. You can send your order to edd@inion.ru .

The communication languages are Russian, German and English.

Copies are made as an Adobe Acrobat file and as a WinWord file within 3-5 days. The price for a journal article or a book extract up to 50 pages is 5 USD, over 50 pages - 10 USD (authors’ assignments included). Copies can be supplied either via FTP sites or via e-mail.