New e-resource: Russian Avantgarde Online

Recent Helsinki University Library acquisitions:

Russian Avantgarde Online e-collection represents works of all Russian literary avant-garde schools; represented in it are more than 30 literary groups. It comprises almost 800 books, periodicals and almanacs most of them published between 1910-1940 and thus offers varied and well-balanced overview of one of the most versatile movements in Russian literature.
The collection gives pride of place to the work of such famous Russian poets as Vladimir Maiakovskii, Elena Guro, Velimir Khlebnikov, Alexei Kruchenykh, and artists N.Goncharova,  G. Iakulov and K.Malevich. However, it also includes relatively unknown poets whose work has never been republished.

This comprehensive online collection enables exploration of the literary evolution of Russian Avantgarde literature year by year.

New e-resource: The Coptic Gnostic Library Online

Recent Helsinki University Library acquisitions:

The Coptic Gnostic Library Online contains all the texts of the Nag Hammadi codices, both in the original Coptic and in translation. Each text has its own introduction, and full indexes are provided. Our main sources of information for the Gnostic religion are the so-called Nag Hammadi codices, written in Coptic. These were unearthed in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt.

The Coptic Gnostic Library is the only authoritative edition of many of the Coptic writings of the Gnostics from the first centuries AD. It was originally published by Brill in fourteen hardback volumes as part of the Nag Hammadi (and Manichaean) Studies series between 1975 and 1995.

Trial: Palgrave Connect E-books

Palgrave Connect E-books has been set for trial use for a month. Trial access is provided for more than 2300 eBooks in following subject areas:

Humanities Social Sciences Language&Linguistics Media&Culture Literature

Religion&Philosophy Education Political&International Studies Economics&Finance

Books available for trial are marked with an orange padlock.

Trial period: 1.12.-31.12.2012.

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