bibliographical data sources for history of science in baltic countries

Bibliographical data sources for history of science in

Baltic countriesDr. Birutė Railienė

Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

2016 HSS Annual Meeting Atlanta, Georgia 3–6 November 2016

Population in Baltic States

• Estonia 1 304 711• Latvia 1 937 307

• Lithuania 2 811 636

Source: http://countrymeters.info/

Science societies were established in:

• Estonia in 1838• Latvia in 1815• Lithuania in 1907

National bibliography in Baltic states

• Estonian national bibliography http://erb.nlib.ee/?lang=eng • Latvian national bibliography

https://www.lnb.lv/en/catalogues-and-databases/national-bibliography • Lithuanian national bibliography

http://www.lnb.lt/atradimai/leidiniai/valstybes-ir-nac-bibliografijos-leidiniai/nacionalines-bibliografijos-leidiniai

Joint activities

• The Baltic University in Exile (1946–1949) was established in the displaced persons camps in Germany to educate refugees from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania in the aftermath of the Second World war.

More: http://vesture.lu.lv/1939-1949/lu-stasti/raksts/baltijas-universitate/

Baltic conferences on HS

Baltic Association of the History and Philosophy of Science

Baltic Association of the History and Philosophy of Science (BAHPS) is an ‘umbrella organisation’ uniting the national associations of the history of philosophy of science of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It was founded in Riga in 1990.

More: http://www.bahps.org/

Joined initiatives for bibliographical data and open access

• The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/

• Europeana.euhttp://www.europeana.eu/portal/en#

• Etc.

Joined initiatives for theses

• DART Europe - access to 710,922 open access research theses from 597 Universities in 28 European countries

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

• Open Access Theses and Dissertations - over 2.4 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

https://oatd.org/