Aiming at becoming the Internet’s portal to Central and Eastern Europe, the Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is an online archive which provides access to full-text articles from 687 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents. Most of them are Central and Eastern Europe-focused and available in their original (mainly slavic) languages. Political science is covered with more than 100 journals. A catalogue database gives access to up-to-date info on publication archived in the library, with possibility of advanced and multiple searches by author, title, subject, year and keyword. For each journal issue short annotations and metadata about each articles’s content are available. A clear navigation menu facilitates item retrieval, and located material can be downloaded in pdf format. Except from some free samples, an institutional affiliation or an individual payment is required to access to full-text records. Non-affiliates can download articles by a pay-per-view service. However all users can freely use the library catalogue and also to retrieve a directory of links to Central and Eastern European websites, each with a short comment presenting its specific content. With its content richness and its well-structured interface, this website represents a gateway to Central and Eastern Europe of great interest.
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