Library

FEFU Research Library's history dates back to 1899 to the foundation of Institute of Oriental Studies. Initially, it increased its unique holdings thanks to gifts from other Russian universities, private book collections, scholarly works by professors of Institute of Oriental Studies as well as rare editions brought at international expeditions or ordered from Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo and other cities.

Today FEFU holds over 2 million volumes in Russian, German, English, French, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Latin and many other languages dating from the 16th - 21st centuries. Full-text online access is provided to thousands of worldwide journals via 71 national and international e-databases. FEFU was among the first in Russia to have installed the automated library system Virtua (VTLS Corporation).

FEFU Research Library users have access to scientific journals in printed and electronic form, electronic library systems (ELS) containing textbooks, teaching aids, monographs; Russian databases; electronic books published by Elsevier and Springer, Oxford Russian Foundation; archives of journals of major international publishers: the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Annual Reviews, Cambridge University Press, etc.

The FEFU Research Library is very proud of the fund of rare editions, the only one of its kind in the Russian Far East, which has over 45 thousand items, starting from the 17th century.

FEFU Research Library has its own "Electronic Library" - these are the works of FEFU professors, articles, abstracts of dissertations, textbooks and teaching aids, digitized documents from the fund of rare publications, etc. One of the components of the "Electronic Library" are full-text bibliographic indexes for scientific fields created by the Library’s employees.

The FEFU Research Library is the methodological center of the Zonal Methodological Association (ZMA) of university libraries in the Far East region. It coordinates the activities of these university libraries: organizes and conducts regional conferences, meetings of interuniversity sections in all areas of information and library activities; identifies, studies and implements innovative technologies that help improve the quality of information and library services for users in the practical activities of the Scientific Library and university libraries of the ZMO Far East region.

The main book depository of the Research Library is located in the building at the address: Aleutskaya St., 65B (bus stop "Pokrovsky Park"), tel. 423-246-61-74, e-mail: nbibl@dvfu.ru.

Reading rooms with open access to the fund are located on the FEFU campus (building A - level 10).

International Databases

Access is available from all computers connected to the FEFU network.

Full-text copying, i.e. downloading the whole journals and using software, is prohibited by international agreements on the rules for licensing electronic resources and copyright laws.

Web of Science

The most reputable worldwide online academic citation index, provided by Thomson Reuters on the Web of Knowledge platform (former publisher: Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, USA).The most reputable worldwide online academic citation index, provided by Thomson Reuters on the Web of Knowledge platform (former publisher: Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, USA).The most reputable worldwide online academic citation index, provided by Thomson Reuters on the Web of Knowledge platform (former publisher: Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, USA).The most reputable worldwide online academic citation index, provided by Thomson Reuters on the Web of Knowledge platform (former publisher: Institute for Scientific Information - ISI, USA).

Journal Citation Reports

On Web of Knowledge page go to "Additional Resources" tab and then select "Journal Citation Reports"

Journal Citation Reports offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals. This product provides the means of evaluating and comparing journals in all fields of natural, social and applied sciences on the basis of citation index and the number of published articles.

Freedom Collection on ScienceDirect platform

Access to Freedom Collection journals published by Elsevier publishing company: 23 subject collections, more than 1800 journals.

Scopus

Access to Scopus database on SciVerse platform. Scopus is developed and owned by Elsevier publishing company. Scopus is the world's largest universal abstracts database with tracking scientific citations of publications, including Russian authors; indexes 18,000 titles of scientific publications (scientific journals, conference proceedings, books and serial publications) on technical, medical, humanitarian fields by 5000 publishers. Scopus search tools are integrated with Scirus search engine and patent database. Subscription period up to June 30, 2012

You can use instructions for users in Russian, available from the publisher's site, and view a list of Russian journals indexed by Scopus.

EBSCOhost Scientific Databases

EBSCOhost Databases are the most complete, full-text scientific databases in the world, providing information resources of tens of thousands of institutions. FEFU users have free access to 11 collections, including to Academic Search Premier multidisciplinary collection, providing full-text articles from more than 4,600 journals.

Inspec database

Inspec on EBSCO platform generated by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Great Britain, is the major indexing database, reflecting scientific and technical publications in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, automatic control, computer science, information technology, and mechanics. Abstracts of articles from 3400 journals, 2000 proceedings of scientific events, as well as a large number of books, dissertations and reports.

JSTOR - Electronic Archive of Scientific Journals

The major objective of JSTOR is to provide electronic access to the archive of leading journals in all areas of science. JSTOR database is unique because the archives of many scientific journals are available in electronic form, from the first editions, dating back from XIX century.