The Kontakt artists’ monograph collection comprises publications by and about artists in the focus of Kontakt Collection. To get a list of these books, search the ERSTE Foundation Library online catalogue.

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With this special collection, we provide information resources on financial economics and financial literacy, including the most recent publications on social banking and entrepreneurship, money and other currencies like Bitcoin, monetary policies, the financial crisis, investment strategies, sustainability, green finance and many other issues. The collection also includes teaching material on personal finance for both adults and children / young adults, canonical literature on financial economics, bestsellers like Piketty’s »Capital in the 21st century« as well as biographies of personalities in the corporate realm and the financial industry.

Get an overview of the Financial Literacy Collection at the ERSTE Foundation Library online catalogue.

The Gender Check Research Archive provides limited access to the materials researched and collected for the exhibition »Gender Check. Femininity and masculinity in the art of Eastern Europe», which was shown in Vienna in 2009 and Warsaw in 2010.

The collection includes texts and visual material (also on DVDs) from 24 countries:
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

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Search engines, library collections, repositories and research institutions on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

International directory of librarians and library specialists in the Slavic and East European field
The directory is the most comprehensive list for accessing libraries collecting on CEE worldwide.

ABDOS – Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Bibliotheken und Dokumentationsstellen der Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung (ABDOS) e. V.
ABDOS is an alliance of institutions and individuals dedicated to purchasing and collecting literature from and about Eastern, Eastern Central and South-Eastern Europe, and making it accessible to the public; it is, however, also open to anyone involved in research and lecturing on Eastern Europe. ABDOS is also a huge network for people active in library and documentation science in and for Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern countries.

CEU – Central European University (CEU Library)
The CEU Library in Budapest and Vienna is an English-language university library specialised in the fields of social sciences and the humanities as well as a leading research and information centre for the region. Located in the neighbourhood of ERSTE Foundation in Vienna.

BSB – Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Osteuropa
The Department of Eastern Europe is the largest special department of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. It comprises information resources on Eastern Europe, Eastern Central and South-Eastern Europe as well as Russia.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Osteuropa
The Eastern Europe Department of the Berlin State Library houses one of the world’s most important collections of Eastern European literature outside the region.

The British Library’s Eastern European collection
The British Library’s Eastern European collection acquires, as widely as possible, material of research value published in all Slavonic and Eastern European languages covering subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

ViFaOst – Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Osteuropa
ViFaOst is an interdisciplinary portal that offers a wide range of information on the field of Eastern European studies to the academic community.

Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa
With approx. 1,000,000 media units (as of October 2015), the Verbundkatalog Östliches Europa documents the electronically accessible holdings of more than thirty libraries and cultural-science institutions in Germany, Poland and Czechia.

IOS – Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Regensburg)
The Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, IOS, researches economic and historical developments in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and boasts an extensive library.

GWZO – Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (Leipzig)
The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) at the University of Leipzig is a research institute committed to international cooperation and multidisciplinary approaches. GWZO focuses on comparative research into the history and culture of territories between the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea from the Early Middle Ages up to the present day.

wiiw – The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies is one of the principal centres for research on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The library provides access to databases and studies on macroeconomic developments and structural change, international economics, labour markets and social issues as well as on selected issues related to sectoral and regional economic developments.

IDM – Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa (Vienna)
The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) addresses current questions regarding the Danube region, Central and South-Eastern Europe to enhance knowledge about the region and promote good neighbourly relations.

Specialised library including the archive »Studii romani« The specialised library including an archive owns books, periodical publications (articles and book series, journals, newspapers), audio and video materials, archive documents, field materials as well as a museum repository.

Europeana
Multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitised items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.

KVK – Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
The KVK is a meta search engine for more than 500 million books, periodicals and other media stored in library and booksellers’ catalogues worldwide.

OBVSG – Österreichischer Verbundkatalog
Gateway for research in over 80 Austrian libraries under the OBVSG umbrella, including more than 10 million bibliographic entries.

EZB – Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek
EZB is one of the most comprehensive bibliographic databases on scientific online magazines, 58,000 of which are available in full text.

OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open-access repositories.

SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
SSOAR collects quality checked literature relevant to the social sciences. It also offers a publishing platform for academics.