Of the current 1,000,000 records in the Historical Abstracts database, about one-ninth are for items written in Slavic, East European & Eurasian languages, as follows:
Russian: nearly 50,000
Polish: over 19,000
Czech: over 9,300
Slovak: over 2,000
Hungarian: almost 8,000
Serbo-Croatian: almost 7,000
Bulgarian: over 4,700
Romanian: over 6,000
Ukrainian: about 5,500
Albanian: over 1,400
Baltic languages: about 2,500
Slovenian: over 3,200
Armenian, Macedonian, Yiddish, and other languages of the region: less than 1,000
Total: almost 120,000
Historical Abstracts follows the standard U.S. system (Library of Congress) for transliteration of Cyrillic scripts, without diacritics.
Historical Abstracts indexes more than 2,600 academic journals in over 40 languages. Subject focus os history, although sources from other disciplines in the humanties, including anthropology, political science and sociology are included for historical material. All article titles are translated into English and brief English abstracts are also provided.
The Cited References feature is one of many ways one can mine the database ina focused manner:
In addition to the general Historical Abstracts database, EBSCO has recently added two specialized databases of full-text materials, one for the United States and one for the rest of the world. The former, "America: History & Life," currently offers 255 journals and 83 monographs. The latter is called "Historical Abstracts with Full-Text," and it currently offers 405 journal titles and 140 digitized monographs.