Catalog

About

10,000 linear meters of textual, 17,000 hours of audiovisual, and 15 TB of digital records, as well as 150,000 photographs, 6000+ documentary film titles and 19,000 library items on four main areas of interest:

Communism and Cold War, and their Afterlives in Europe Human Rights and Social Justice globally the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna and the Open Society Foundations Network worldwide.

The catalog offers integrated search among the cross-referenced archival, library and film library records held at the Archivum. Where available, digital content is presented along rich contextual descriptions. While the primary language of the catalog is English, some collections are described in their original language including Hungarian, Russian, Polish and Italian.

For a better overview of the holdings of Blinken OSA Archivum, we created the following entry points to our catalog:

Archival Collections

A page displaying a full, tree-like structure of the hierarchical description levels (fonds, subfonds, series) of the archives. If you click on the main themes, on the top level, you can filter the tree with the selected value. Clicking on one element of the tree will show you a short description of the selected record, with the possibility of navigating to the fonds, subfonds, or series description page.

Library special collections

To render your research easier and to track back the origin of library documents, most of the publications are organized in browsable special thematic collections, which are displayed on this page.

Digital image gallery

To see all our digitized image files as an image gallery, rather than going through the whole archival context, a digital image gallery was created. Here you can find the same content that is shown in the regular catalog. You can search among the images using the search box on the top of the page, or you can apply filters in the same way as in the catalog.