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Contact

Barbara Bajwojtowicz
Subject Consultant
tel: +44 (0)1865 270467
email: barbara.bajwojtowicz@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Collection overview

Collection policy for Slavonic Studies (Language & Literature) including Polish Language and Literature.

Libraries and reading rooms

Principal collections

The principal collections for this subject area are located in the Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library (TABS) at 47, Wellington Square. The Polish collections are for the most part housed within the Research Collection which can only be accessed by postgraduates but from which items may be ordered by all members of the library. The library also has a small but growing open-access collection for undergraduates.

All readers have access to the Reference Collections and Periodicals on the First Floor of the Library. Since 2006, the Taylor Reference collection has been combined with the Bodleian Reference Collection and offers a wide variety of encyclopaedias, dictionaries and bibliographies covering language, literature and history among other subjects. The Library has an unrivalled range of current Slavonic journals.  The Polish ones include Polonistyka, Polish review and Jezyk polski.

  Associated collections

The Bodleian library also houses material relating to Polish language and literature. In particular, legal deposit copies of books published in the field in the UK are available for use and may be ordered to TABS by Automated Stack Request. There is a rapidly growing collection of Polish and other East European films in the Film Studies collection of the Modern Languages Faculty Library in the Main Taylor. Although TABS has some limited holdings of borrowable language-learning materials (including Polish), a fuller range will be found at the Language Centre.

Important e-resources

Access to electronic library resources is through OxLIP+. To access many of these resources when you are not logged on to the university network you will need to register for the Oxford Single Sign-On.

Bibliographic databases

These allow you to find library materials that you cannot find on OLIS e.g. journal articles and book reviews. The most important databases for the study of Polish language and literatures are:

• ABSEES

• MLA Bibliography   

• CEEOL (Central and East European Online Library

Other links

The easiest way to find quality information on the internet is to use ‘gateways’ which link to resources evaluated and described by subject specialists.For more information contact, the Polish subject consultant.