World Art-Portal – New Open Access Project of University Library Online

Neksmedia company, owner of University Library Online platform, launches a new open access project World Art-Portal. The collection comprises more than 150 000 images in the field of painting, drawing, decorative and applied arts, sculpture and architecture. The scope of the database suggests that the project will take a leading position among Russian Internet galleries.

Access to the portal is open for all users. Registration is optional, it allows users getting additional opportunities, for example creation of one’s own galleries and viewing other user’s galleries.

At the platform there is an advanced search as well as catalog of museums, countries, genres, eras, styles. Each image is accompanied with detailed description, including information about the author, time and place of creation, storage location, size and technique, in which the work has been performed.

Lots of images are freely available in public access, so users of the portal can apply them in their documents, blogs, derivative works, or social networks. The illustrations on the website are given in the quality and resolution sufficient to use them for personal purposes.

Russian eBook Platform LAN’

MIPP would like to bring to your attention ebook platform LAN’, product of the authoritative Russian publishing house, specializing in academic literature.

LAN' includes more than 53 000 academic and educational ebooks of the leading Russian publishers. The thematic collections cover works in the field of Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, Law, Music, Theatre, Economics and Management, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering Sciences, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Veterinary medicine, Agriculture and Forestry and many others. Among the publishers that cooperate with LAN' are “Mashinostroenie” (Machine building”), “Iurait”, “Finances and Statistics”, “MISiS”, “Fizmatlit”, “Flinta” “Dashkov i K”, “DMK-Press” and others. The access is offered to separate publishing collections by fields of knowledge.

The range of ebooks is constantly expanding. Users have all the necessary system functions at their disposal: they are able to print, cite, make up summaries and create virtual book shelves.

LAN’ offers organizations free permanent access to classical works on history, philosophy, sociology, literature, economics, law, psychology, pedagogy, including foreign literature in the original language, as well as to a number of journals published by Russian universities.

Free trial access to all content is also provided.

You are welcome send your orders or questions to MIPP Electronic Resources Department at eresources@mippbooks.com.

Electronic Archive of Russian Historical Statistics in Open Access

Electronic Archive of Russian Historical Statistics in Russian and English is in open access at https://ristat.org/.

These data allow scholars tracing the social and economic development of Russian regions for the last three centuries. The statistics is collected upon a single program, which includes seven areas (population, employment, industrial production, agricultural output, services, capital, land) for the five time slices (1795, 1858, 1897, 1959, 2002). Statistical data for the XVIII - XXI centuries are derived from various published and unpublished sources, standardized and organized in a database. The database is targeted at the academic community, teachers and students interested in the Russian history.