When you start looking for a source that is not available in your College or University library, you have several other options. You can look for it

• in other libraries, archives or cultural institutions in the UK. For this consult our Russian resources in the UK.
• Or you can search libraries, archives and cultural institutions in Russia. For this consult our Russian resources in Russia .
• Or you can look for it in Russian collections outside the UK or Russia. For this have a look at our Russian resources in the rest of the world.

The majority of these institutions have an online catalogue, which means you do not need to phone, email or go there. However, before choosing the institution that you think is the most likely to have your source remember that many countries (including the United Kingdom and France) have META-OPACs, that is, online catalogues which collect all the OPACs of a certain area. COPAC, for example, collect major British OPACs; CCFR collects French major onlinecatalogues. And there are even META-OPACs which allow you to do online bibliographical searches of different nationalOPACs at once. This facility gives you the greatest overview of what is available on a trans-national level. We therefore suggest you should start by having a look at the META-OPACs relevant to Russian Studies, included in our

• Russian virtual resources.

Although META-OPACs permit you to scan a massive amount of books (authors, titles, and subjects), this information will not include any articles. So, if you are looking for secondary literature, especially articles and chapters in books, the best way of resourcing these materials is to consult the

MLA International Bibliography which will be available on CD-ROM or in print at your University Library. The MLA International Bibliography provides a listing and subject index for books and articles published in modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It indexes over 50000 books and articles each year.