A general selected bibliography of articles published in the Czech press from 1952 to 1990.
Czech article bibliography, which monitored all disciplines from 1953-1990. Under the title “Czech Periodicals”, a new series of the Bibliographic Catalogue of the Czech Socialistic Republic, i.e., the national registered bibliography, became available.
The “Articles in Czech Magazines” bibliography is selective - it lists selected articles from certain newspapers and magazines. Initially, articles were selected from about 400 of the most important newspapers and magazines, and only essential articles and studies from each title were to be included in the bibliography. The new article bibliography thus acquired a selective character and, at the same time, complemented the existing article bibliographies focused on specific fields.
The bibliography was published monthly (12 volumes). From 1953 to 1954, it was called “Czech Articles”; from 1955 to 1990, it was called “Articles in Czech Magazines”. The printed bibliography “Articles in Czech Magazines“ was followed by the Database of Czech Articles from 1991.
For 1945-1952, a Retrospective Article Bibliography was compiled in the 1960s.
The bibliography Czech Articles and Articles in Czech Magazines is digitised and available through the National Digital Library. Depending on the quality of the text transcription (OCR), the digitised volumes can be searched in full text.
The internal order of each issue of the printed bibliography “Articles in Czech Periodicals” is arranged according to the contemporary Soviet classification (i.e. according to individual fields and subfields). The article record itself is in the form of a bibliographic record.
Searching in the bibliography is possible according to the field (or subfield) corresponding to the individual chapters and subchapters in the bibliography. Within the selected field or subfield, it is already necessary to browse and read all the listed records and search for suitable citations for the given assignment. For some volumes/issues, a subject index has also been developed, which significantly facilitates searching in the bibliography by topic/subject.
All published issues of the article bibliography are supplemented by an author index, with which it is possible to verify whether there are records of articles by a specific author in the given issue/volume of the bibliography.
An overview of the available indexes for each year of “Articles in Czech Magazines” is available in Czech (see below for download options).
Each issue of this bibliography also contains information on the source documents of the articles, as the periodicals may have varied over the years. If you are interested in articles from a particular periodical, you must first verify that the periodical was included in the bibliography for that issue.