A qualitative and quantitative content analysis of the magazine «Ukrainske Slovo» (Berlin, 1921–1922) was conducted while studying an issue of the Ukrainian press bibliography. Information about contemporary press publications was highlighted. The typological models of submitting materials to the press based on the structural features of the magazine’s content have been clarified. The information about the mentioned press in the studied textual content was analyzed and characterized. Materials in press publications are systematized according to target audience, readership, language, nationality, and party or group affiliation. A statistical summary of the information about press publications noted in the «Ukrainske Slovo» was carried out in various aspects: a quantitative assessment of the press publications noted in the journal; the duration of their output; and the numerical characteristics of the periodicals recorded in the studied text array that started in the considered period. The materials concerning the mentioned foreign press have been singled out and analyzed. The need for a bibliography of press publications and the importance of gathering information about them for the study of press history are emphasized. Keywords: «Ukrainske Slovo» (Berlin, 1921–1922), press, content analysis, bibliography, systematization, statistics.

The article studies the problems of covering the revolutionary developments of 1917―1918s in Ukraine in the Ukrainian influential German-language magazine «Ukrainische Korrespondenz». Established and issued by the Main Ukrainian Rada, it actively reacted to the revolutionary transformations in the Russian Empire in 1917. It primarily covered processes of state changes in the Great (Russian-controlled) Ukraine, specifically the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917―1921s. «Ukrainische Korrespondenz» aimed to familiarize readers with these developments. Its editors used as sources information of the Ukrainian, Russian, the digest of the West European press, as well as own analytical materials. At first, it had to use borrowed informations, because the Ukrainian Press Bureau was established in Vienna only in August 1917. At that time the editors of the magazine were able to use materials of its own correspondents. In reporting the Ukrainian Revolution the editorial office preferred materials received from the Russian officials and the party press, which it considered objective. On the contrary, the materials from the Polish press were considered as unreliable, biased, and even fabricated. Most analytical materials regarding the solution of the Ukrainian cause, the editors drew from the German press. The latter was most interested in a positive outcome of the Ukrainian nationstate aspirations. A minor segment among the foreign press publications as a source in coverage of the issue of the Ukrainian Revolution was the French press. This could be explained by that the concept of «Ukraine» was a taboo in France at that time. The growing interest to the Ukrainian question in France happened only with the beginning of the revolutionary events in Russia. News has been received with a considerable delay, its own analytical materials on this topic mainly belonged to V. Kalynovych. The information about the course of developments in Ukraine, changes in social and political life of the country coexisted with a justification of historical background necessary for these changes. Publications on the Ukrainian question relating to the revolutionary events in the Russian Empire and in the Russian Ukraine were gleaned by the German press authorship. The Austrian and German statesmen, political figures, as well as scholars focused on historical aspects of the Ukrainian history and predicted decisions for the development of the Ukrainian state. Materials of the Russian press, reprinted on the pages of the magazine, focused exclusively on clarifying a flow of developments. The bulk of publications of «Die Ukraine» covered issues of the Ukrainian question on the territory of the Eastern Galicia. They illuminated the revolutionary changes in the Great Ukraine, and considered it as a catalyst for positive nation-state decisions in the Western Ukraine. Keywords: Ukrainian, «Ukrainische Korrespondenz», Germanspeaking, Russian, Polish, French press, information, revolutionary events, Ukrainian statehood, Ukrainian question.

The article is devoted to the study of Polish periodicals of 1899–1931 for the presence of publications about V. Stefanyk. In Stefanyk studies, literary criticism works devoted to the works of Vasyl Stefanyk and Polish translations of his works were studied, but the issues of intravital publications have not been highlighted yet separately. The work of the Ukrainian novelist was the subject of interest on a range of Polish scholars, literary critics, and translators. The reviews of V. Stefanyk’s works were published in a number of popular Polish periodicals, in particular “Czas”, “Krytyka”, “Nowa Reforma”, “Przegląd Powszechny”, “Życie”, “Ogniwo”, “Prawda”, “Pamiętnik Warszawski”, “Chwila”, “Promień”, which were published in three cities associated with Ukrainian and Polish cultures, namely: Warsaw, Krakow and Lviv. The authors of these reviews noted the V. Stefanyk’s talent originality, who, in his characteristic expressionist way, managed in the novella form to show the social-ideological issues of that time period in the Ukrainian national and, at the same time, universal dimension. A number of reviews belong to Wacław Moraczewski, who had an essential influence on the shaping of the young Ukrainian writer V. Stefanyk, and inscribed his works in the European context, emphasizing the national features of his talent. Polish translations of Stefanyk’s novellas were published in Polish periodicals, almost simultaneously with their Ukrainian publications. It has been found that, for ideological reasons, critical reviews of Ukrainian literary critics in Polish periodicals have not been studied by a number of Ukrainian researchers. All the reviews of V. Stefanyk’s work in Polish periodicals that have been discussed in the article, will help to clarify the Ukrainian writers’ work reception by Polish literary critics and to find out the thematic direction of the press in which they were published. Keywords:Vasyl Stefanyk, Polish press, Polish literary environment, reviews, popularization, thematic specialization of the press.

The results of functioning of The Press Studies Research Institute of the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv, via a prism of digitalization of scientific information, have been presented here. The main components of the platform of the electronic database of the Institute are described, and the methodology of preparing structured information for such databases is elucidated. The subject area of the e-database of the Institute is highlighted, and its constituent parts such as historical and bibliographic databases are presented. The stages of molding e-databases of the Institute are highlighted, the model of logical level of data organization is characterized, the relational type of databases management systems (DBMS) used for the database of the Ukrainian press register and the hierarchical type of DBMS (under which the database «Ukrainian Journalism in Names» is tested), is surveyed. The main and auxiliary databases integrated in the database «Ukrainian Journalism in Ukraine and the world in XIX–XX centuries» are charac terized. The supplemental e-databases used in the process of working with databases are mentioned. The structure of records of main databases is presented. The peculiarities of each of these conceptually organized datasets are elucidated. The current state of organization of databases of The Press Studies Research Institute is characterized; statistical assessments of their structures are presented; perspective avenues of its functioning and development are outlined. The integrated nature of broad research work of the Research Institute has been accentuated. This will enable a reconstruction of objective picture of the Ukrainian press functioning in historical dimension by accomplishing its scholarly study both in traditional form as well as with usage of modern digital technologies. Keywords: historical and bibliographic database, bio-bibliographic database, Ukrainian press, periodicals, The Press Studies Research Institute.

The centenary of the Ukrainian Revolution (1917―1921s) made relevant the interest to the developments and the personalities of that time, specifically, to the personality of the President of the ZUNR, Petrushevych, Yevhen. The newspaper «Ukrayinskyi Prapor» founded in 1919 in Vienna, throughout its existence, was considered as an official print organ of the Dictator (i.e., Y. Petrushevych). The Vienna period of this publication lasted from August 1919 to mid-November 1923. From the end of November 1923 till April 1932, the paper was published in the capital of the Weimar Republic, Berlin. It was the only newspaper of the Ukrainian emigration published for the longest time in interwar Germany. It was an example of a socio-political periodical. There collaborated outstanding editors and publicists. The pages of this paper record the history of the diplomatic struggle of the West Ukrainian foreign representatives for the liberation of the Eastern Galicia from the protectorate of Poland and the restoration of Ukrainian statehood. Its materials documented the course of the occupation of the Eastern Galicia by Poland and the process of «Polonization» of the Ukrainian population of that region. The article explores the Berlin period of existence of the magazine. Specifically, it studies the changes in the ideological line of the magazine, more specifically, its pro-Soviet editorial orientation because of the illusions about the transformation of the national policy of the Soviet rule in Ukraine, especially during the period of Ukrainization. Then the traditional headings of the magazine were joined by the publications with positive coverage of the flourishing Ukrainianization in Soviet Ukraine. The newspaper also actively reacted to the SVU (Union for Liberation of Ukraine) trial in Kharkiv, justifying the position of the Soviet authorities. The paper’s editorial staff were well-known figures of Ukrainian politics, science, and culture: Yu. Bachynsky, O. Hrytsai, A. Zhuk, M. Lozynsky, R. Perfetsky, and others. They provided a high level of editorial content with high-quality, multifaceted texts. We conclude that in terms of the editorial content and formal aspects, the newspaper «Ukrayinskyi Prapor» matched the standards of the European mainstream press of that time.