East to West Links. Directory of Information Providers in the Former Soviet Union and Central‐Eastern Europe

One of the prime reasons for establishing the National Lending Library of Science and Technology was to provide a Russian Literature Centre in order “to build up as far as possible a comprehensive collection of Russian scientific literature. . .to obtain by purchase or exchange the current parts of all the Russian periodicals covered in their abstracts”[1] so that British scientific and technical research centres could be supplied with the Russian language material they needed from a conveniently accessible central source. The material acquired now forms the core of the British Library Document Supply’s (BLDSC) Slavonic Sections which subscribe to...