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University of Toronto Libraries has a list of Subject Guides where you can find research tips and tools, as well as recommendations to the best resources. To familiarize yourself with the guides in Slavic and East European Studies, in "Guides by Subject" select "Slavic and East European Studies."

The Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre website compiles information to many sources for research in Slavic and East European Studies available through UTL and in the Petro Jacyk Resource Centre (PJRC). This includes summaries for the following resources:

• Article Databases, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, and Primary Sources

• Current and Historical Newspapers 

• Primary Sources and Digital Archives

• Publications and Exhibitions 

• Special Collections

The PJRC also provides search tips for discovering primary sources, such as digital archives, manuscript collections, newspapers, collected works (correspondence, speeches, memoirs, diaries, etc.), held by the University of Toronto Libraries or University Archives, as well as by libraries and archives abroad..

In response to Russia's war against Ukraine, staff in the PJRC have compiled library and information resources that can help students and researchers contextualize recent history of Ukraine, Ukraine's relations with Russia, and the beginnings of the war from 2014 to the present.