The Apabi Digital Library is a collection of Chinese language ebooks covering a wide variety of subject areas. The Library has access to selected collections of ebooks within this database.
"Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search for Library" from the Asahi Shimbun Company is an online article database that permits easy investigation of past events, and is available in many universities and libraries both in and outside Japan. It is the largest newspaper article database in Japan, permitting searches of 16 million articles and advertisements from more than 140 years of the newspaper, from its first edition in 1879 (Meiji 12) to today. It covers Full Text Database from 1985 to the present, Shukan Asahi, AERA.
The Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN Database (BERITA), produced by the staff of the Southeast Asia Collection/Malaysian Resource Center, Ohio University, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published and unpublished material that concern Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole (when the foci countries are included). Also included are materials regarding the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). It covers the period from 1990 to present.
Please note BIPE is no longer updated. BIPE will remain available on Informit as an archive database. The Bibliography of Indonesian Politics and the Economy (BIPE), produced by the School of Asian Studies, University of Sydney, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items on Indonesian politics, government, economy, political culture and demography.
The Century Journals Project selects the most important academic journals published in China and digitizes all issues since their very first issue up till 1993 in an effort to expand the China Academic Journals Full-text Database. The earliest journal dates back to 1887.
CAJ is the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals in the world. It contains more than 9,000 journals starting from 1915. The journals form 10 subject collections: (A) Mathematics/ Physics/ Mechanics/ Astronomy -- (B) Chemistry/ Metallurgy/ Environment/ Mine Industry -- (C) Architecture/ Energy/ Traffic/ Electromechanics, etc -- (D) Agriculture -- (E) Medicine & Public Health -- (F) Literature/ History/ Philosophy -- (G) Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law -- (H) Education & Social Sciences -- (I) Electronic Technology & Information Science -- (J) Economics & Management.
CCND selects academic articles from over 500 publicly issued newspapers published in mainland China since 2000. Updated daily. The database contains the following subject collections: Literature/History/Philosophy -- Politics/Military/Law -- Economics -- Education/Society -- Science -- Love/Marriage/Family/Health.
This is the English version of 中国经济社会大数据研究平台 (Zhongguo Jingji Shehui Dashuju Yanjiu Pingtai). which is the upgraded version of the China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD). It contains all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses from 1949 onwards. This database features searches and tools not available in the original version of CSYD, and is updated regularly.
This database is a comprehensive, high quality database of dissertations and theses in China. The dissertations and theses are from hundreds of institutions located across China. Coverage is 1984 onwards and is updated daily. It covers a wide range of subjects such as fundamental sciences, engineering technology, agriculture, medical science, history, philosophy, education, law, economics and more.
This is the upgraded version of the China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD). It contains all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses from 1949 onwards. This database features searches and tools not available in the original version of CSYD, and is updated regularly.
'Pishu' (皮书, which literally means ‘cover-books’) are high-value analytical reports intended to guide policymaking in the People’s Republic of China. Pishu are published by the Social Sciences Academic Press. These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Topics include a variety of issues of importance to China's government and research community, including international relations, agricultural policy, and industry competitiveness.
CRWO is an authoritative, comprehensive and continuously updated encyclopedia database. It contains thousands of reference works from China's leading publishers, including dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauruses, cyclopedias, illustrated books, table spectrum, biography, quotations, handbooks and more. The content covers such subjects as philosophy, art, social science, culture, education, natural science, engineering and medicine.
CSYD contains all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses from 1949- . It includes various kinds of census and survey data, and statistical charts sources from over 3,569 volumes of important statistical yearbooks. The yearbooks are classified by industry, district and type.
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793 - 1980 provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It provides multiple perspectives – from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists, and documents many of the key events that happened in this period.
CYFD is the largest, continuously updated yearbook database in China. It contains various types of yearbooks including national, regional, industry, enterprise yearbooks, and more. It contains over 12,681 volumes, from 1912- The yearbooks are classified by subject, industry and administrative district.
Chinamaxx offers Chinese ebooks covering all academic disciplines. The content lays emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities to attend interests on China study, enhance research projects and facilitate paper writing. The Library has purchased selected collections of ebooks within this database.
The Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 was a nationwide mass political campaign launched by the Chinese Communist Party and its leader Mao Zedong after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. This database is a major historical archival project containing content drawn from libraries with Asian collections all over the world, and many items from private collectors. After sifting through millions of official and unofficial documents and meticulous editorial work, the editors are finally able to present a database with nearly ten thousand documents to the readers. The historical sources included in this database are limited to first-hand original written materials only. Some documents that came into being after the Anti-Rightist Campaign, but were closely connected to the Campaign, are also included. However, secondary sources such as memoirs and interviews are not included.
Catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their Australian descendants. Includes photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum and other online archives, publications and private family collections. Built into the database is the beginnings of an encyclopaedia of Chinese-Australian history, complete with bibliography, which provides contextual information about the images in the database.
This is a collection of film advertisements and transcripts of Chinese documentary films and newsreels that spans the years 1946 to 1985. The original items are held in the Chinese Filmscript and Advertisement Collection held by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. The bulk of the items are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. All documents are in Chinese.
This collection contains 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. These newspapers offer insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classifieds.
The Chinese Recorder Index is a comprehensive index to The Chinese Recorder (and Missionary Journal), with accompanying full text. The complete run of this journal has been indexed by person, subject and mission /organization. The search results can be filtered by subject, year or keyword providing an easily navigated research tool. All 75 volumes of The Chinese Recorder (and Missionary Journal) 1867-1941 have been digitised and are available within this database.
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) Articles enables you to search information on academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. NOTE: CiNii contains open access content and content restricted to subscribers. The Library has access to the open access content only.
DBpia: electronic journal service. Full text database including over 1,000 Korean scholarly journals. the journal titles are arranged by 11 subject categories (Business/Economics, Theology, Education, Sociology, Natural Science, Human science, Linguistics, Law/Administration, Artistic and Physical). All journals are available from the first issue of a given title.
Digital Collection on China Studies 中国学术典藏图书库 contains high quality eBooks on Chinese studies from CNKI. The library has access to selected titles on Chinese culture and society. In the landing page, view these titles in My Library 我的图书馆, or browse the full range of titles in CNKI Books 全部图书. Individual titles are also searchable from the library catalogue.
This database provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.
The six parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Due to the long-unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted British government documents, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials, provide unprecedented levels of detail into one of the most turbulent centuries of Chinese history.
Published in three parts, this collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. 1) Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945; 2) Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952 3) Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930. Incorporating the Taishō to the Shōwa periods, these papers throw light on Anglo-Japanese ties in a time of shifting alliances. Documenting Japan's journey to modernity, the files discuss a period in which the country took on an increasingly bold imperialist agenda.
This database is the electronic version of the famous Chinese encyclopedia "Gu jin tu shu ji cheng," edited by Chen Mong Lei, a renowned scholar of the Qing Dynasty. The present digital edition of The Complete Classics includes the most seminal classics of Chinese literature and culture, from ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. The collection includes works on astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, art, education, agriculture, medicine, and more.
The Indian Biography Database (INDBIO), produced by the School of Politics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, is a database containing details of the members of India's lower-house (the Lok Sabha) of Parliament elected between 1977 and 1991. The database includes biographical information provided by the members of parliament, and includes death dates, references to obituary notices, and notes about recent events in legislators' careers.
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
Drawing upon the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland this resource will be of great value to all those teaching or researching into the History of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
INTAN MAS covers literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, and on Australia's relations with ASEAN nations and is produced by the Northern Territory University Library. Named INTAN MAS (Bahasa Indonesia for diamond and gold) the title is also an acronym for its coverage: INTAN - Irian Jaya, Nusa Tenggara, AntarNegara MAS - Maluku, Sulawesi. It covers the period 1989 to May 2002.
The Japan Times Archive delivers over a century of news and history on world affairs, written in English, from a Japanese perspective. Every issue, published from March 1897 is searchable. The online search tools allow users to enter keywords to find articles or advertisements on specific topics, with the option to limit searches to publication dates, title, specific days of the week, type of publication (Main, Extra or Supplement) or by Imperial Period. The pages are reproduced in full with photos and illustrations.
Kikuzo II Visual is the online commercial database of the Asahi Shimbun, and contains the articles and the advertisements of the newspaper since its first issue in 1879. Content from 1985 to the present day is full text searchable. Earlier years are presented as image databases of the newspaper in reduced-size facsimile edition.
Full-text collection of Korean classical books. Users may search and retrieve primary sources, oral sources, classical texts, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and general reference works in fields such as Korean history, literature, civilization, medicine, architecture, and natural history. Databases both in Korean translation and in the classical Chinese-language original.
This database includes all published volumes of national, provincial, municipal and county level statistics from the 2010 census, and volumes from the 1982, 1990 and 2000 census. The data covers various topics, such as gender, age, nationality, household registration, education level, industry, marriage, fertility, migration, etc. The statistics are available as page images of the original print publications or as Excel files. The Chinese interface of NPCC offers an Index Analysis tool, allowing users to perform contrast analysis, single or multiple index analysis and time series analysis.
Nikkei Telecom is a major Japanese newspaper and source of information for business, economics, trades and international relations with Japan and the world. Archival articles and news including "Nikkei English news" and "Archival search" are available in English.
PKUlaw is the site for English-language resources on Chinese law created and maintained by Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd., and the Legal Information Center of Peking University. The database contains laws & regulations, cases, tax treaties, WTO & China, gazettes, and law journals. It also offers authoritative translations of important legal content relevant to English speakers interested in Chinese law.
Books on Project MUSE offers peer-reviewed books from over 65 university presses and scholarly publishers. The Library has purchased a selection of titles in these subject areas only: Higher education ; Languages and linguistics. Over 550 humanities and social science books from several distinguished university presses are available as fully open access (OA).
South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region.
The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), is a rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary primary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia. This collection has been developed through a collaborative initiative involving US research libraries and partners from South Asia. SAOA consists of 25 partner libraries, and is administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and presented openly online in partnership with JSTOR.
TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services) is a collection of over 900 full-text journals from Taiwan. The Library has access to TEPS - Humanities and TEPS - Social Sciences collections.
The World Bank eLibrary is one of the most comprehensive collections in the area of international development, including social, human, and economic development. It contains country and regional data from World Development Indicators along with books, flagship reports, working papers and journals published by the World Bank. The eLibrary offers a number of value-added functionality for easier discovery, access, and use of World Bank publications and research.
Yomidas Rekishikan is an online database of 11 million articles covering every issue of The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper since its first issue in 1874. The database has four parts: the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras section contains high-quality scans of the articles as they appeared in the original print editions during these periods. The Heisei Era section presents articles in a convenient text view, and for articles since December 2008 there is a clipping view of the original article. The Japan News section catalogues articles which have appeared in our English publication. And finally, the Contemporary Who's Who allows searching by individuals to retrieve biographical information as well as articles which pertain to them. Articles are keyword indexed and can be searched full-text from 1986 to present.
