In addition to adding over 65,000 current records in May 2000, RLG also loaded a retrospective file of 119,000 history, archaeology, and anthropology records representing the years 1986-1990. This database now contains over 890,000 records and is updated with another some 70,000 records annually. It is a unique resource for information in Slavic studies and the social sciences, covering more than 20,000 periodicals published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe.
Searchers can retrieve information using author, title, subject, and abstract keyword indexes.
By late 2000, Eureka users will be able to search and view this database in its original Cyrillic, as well. Subject bibliographers at the Russian Academy of Sciences index material in their fields of expertise, using subject terms important in their area. If a publication or journal article covers multiple subjects, it may be indexed by more than one bibliographer and so may appear in the databases more than once.