EBSEES: Yates, Athol - Zvegintzov, Nicholas - A Siberian reality check on open source information

The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) collects books, journal articles, reviews and dissertations from Eastern Europe (former countries of Eastern Bloc) which were published in Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland from 1991 to 2007. The segment "Literature" and "Culture" of the European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies contains 18.000 bibliographic entries (from the total asset of 85.000). More information can be found here.

ID	68729
Author(s)	Yates, Athol; Zvegintzov, Nicholas
Title	A Siberian reality check on open source information
Published	ASLIB Proceedings, 51(6), 1999, p. 175-86
Language(s)	eng
Subjects	Russia, USSR, Russia (Federation) / Bibliography, Reference Works, Area Studies [Browse all] Russia, USSR, Russia (Federation) / Transportation, Communications [Browse all]
Note	Research on BAM for book publ. in 1995. Quality of information sources available in English frequently poor; inadequate use of Russian sources by Western writers; difficult to select reliable sources; limited access to people, places, archives etc.
Medium	article
Holdings	Search WorldCat
PURL	Citation link

	Winnowing the truth from dubious information: the lessons learned in writing a book on a closed zone of the former Soviet Union / Yates, Athol
	Check-out on choice / Jones, Colin
	At source / Whittall, Arnold
	Open Czechs / Samek, René
	Trend's Hotel Check: Das «Paris» in Prag / Riffert, Karl
	Source and sorcery / Bruce, David
	Reality / Szczygieł, Mariusz

The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) - 1991-2007

A Siberian reality check on open source information