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- http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001862 Robert Klymasz] in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
- Article in Ukrainian on "Klymash, Robert Bohdan," in Mykhailo Marunchak, Biohrafichnyi dovidnyk do istorii ukraintsiv Kanady (Winnipeg: Ukrainska Vilna Akademiia Nauk v Kanadi, 1986), page 299.
- Materials on his research trip to Czechoslovakia and Ukraine, based on his personal reminiscences, may be found in the article by Thomas M. Prymak on Oseredok, the Ukrainian Museum and Library in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: https://oseredok.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/A-VISIT-TO-THE-UKRAINIAN-MUSEUM-AND-LIBRARY.pdf
