OstDok is the central platform for electronic full texts of East European studies with currently over 1,200 publications with full-text search option.

 

As a research platform OstDok offers access to scholarly publications published as Open Access documents. Keyword and full-text search facilities provide quick access to all texts - without prior registration or charges involved in the order process. Besides topical documents originally provided in electronic form also digital copies of important scholarly publications of East-Europe research can be located in OstDok.

 

Scholars can use the publication platform for publishing their work in a simple fashion, adding it to the collection of OstDok and thus making it available to the public free of charge.

 

OstDok is a cooperative project of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, the  Herder Institute Marburg, the  Collegium Carolinum Munich and the  Institute for East European Studies Regensburg. It has been supported by the  German Research Foundation since 2009.