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Digital Reading Room

Database of Excerpted Journals

Bibliographical databases

An auxiliary database of journals excerpted for individual bibliographic databases of the Czech Literary Bibliography.

Bibliography of the Czech Literary Exile (1948–1989)

Bibliographical databases

This bibliography, prepared by František Knopp, covers the reception of Czech literature and literary events in periodicals and books published in exile during the period 1948–1989. A book version was published in 1996 with the title Czech Literature in Exile 1948–1989. The database is continuously updated.

Bibliography of the Czech Literary Internet

Bibliographical databases

This bibliography covers Czech fiction and articles on Czech literature published in online journals and on literary, cultural, and news servers. Founded in 2017 as part of the Czech Literary Internet project, it contains more than 15,000 records.

Bibliography of the Czech Literary Samizdat

Bibliographical databases

This bibliography contains records of fiction and articles on literature from samizdat periodicals. Founded in 2016, it contains over 10,000 records.

Retrospective Bibliography of Czech Literature 1770–1945

Bibliographical databases

The Retrospective Bibliography covers the period 1770–1945 and contains more than 1.6 million records. It is accessible in the form of a digitised card file in the RETROBI system, which enables full-text search in OCR transcripts of individual cards.

Bibliography of Post-1945 Czech Literary Studies

Bibliographical databases

This is a daily updated set of bibliographic databases with records on Czech literature, literary journalism, and literary science from the post-1945 period, containing more than 500,000 annotated records.

Czech Literary Bibliography

Bibliographical databases

Consolidated searches on bibliographic databases of the research infrastructure of the Czech Literary Bibliography are made possible through the VuFind discovery system, including the bibliographies of Czech literary science (post-1945 period), literary exile, and samizdat, as well as records – at this time only a partial listing – from the Retrospective Bibliography of Czech Literature 1770–1945.

Digital Archive of Popular Literature

Digital archives

The Digital Archive of Popular Literature presents more than 300 pulp magazines published during the first half of the 20th century, featuring short stories in the detective, adventure, and erotic fiction genre. Special attention is given to a series of Leon Clifton detective stories and the five different series in which these stories were published between 1906 and 1941.

Digital Journal Archive

Digital archives

An open-access archive of digital copies of Czech literary and cultural periodicals, as well as several newspapers from the 19th century to present.

Edition E

Digital archives

The Edition E book series is comprised of 130 titles, mostly of older collected volumes, created by ICL scholars during the preceding sixty plus years, which continue to be of historical value. It includes proceedings, compendia, anthologies, manuals, dictionaries, editions of the writings of F. X. Šalda, Vladislav Vančura, etc.

Database of Literary Awards

Others

An overview of awards, winners, and jurors, including literary prizes awarded in the Czech Republic as well as State Prizes for literature from the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Exhibitions for Download

Others

Exhibitions for Download are designed mainly for schools, libraries, museums, and other cultural, educational, and memory institutions, offering thematic exhibitions to enrich teaching, and inspire readers and visitors. The series also provides teaching materials to accompany selected exhibitions.