Electronic Databases and Web-link Resources on the East Asian Studies

Electronic Databases in Chinese and Japanese

Wen Yuan Ge Siku Quan Shu 文淵閣四庫全書

The "Siku Quan Shu=Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature" was compiled during the years 1773-1782 by edict from Emperor QianLong. It includes 3460 works, with a total of more than 36,000 volumes. In the "Siku Quan Shu", the important works include history, astronomy, geography, rules and regulations, politics, economics, society, science and technology, and philosophy.

Coverage: 878 BC - 1600.

• Access: http://siku.ad.sdsc.edu/ UC Davis IP Address only
• Need IME Asian Languages application to input Chinese words for searching
• User's guide is available at the workstations in the E. A. Languages Collection.

China Academic Journals 中国学术期刊全文数据库

Full-text electronic versions of 5,300 Chinese academic periodicals, including literature/history/philosophy, economics/politics/law, education/social science, and electronics/information science. The database includes current issues as well as archives of back issues of journals, and is reproduced with original pagination. Also titled, CAJ, CJN.

Coverage: 1994-present (UC Davis has archives of back issues up to 2002 only)

• Access: http://online.eastview.com/cnki_login/index.jsp UC Davis IP Addresses only.
• Need IME Asian Languages application to input Chinese words for searching.
• User's guide is available at the workstations in the E. A. Languages Collection.

People's Daily 人民日报电子版

The "People's Daily" is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. This database provides complete documentation of the official record of the Chinese government from 1948-2002.

Coverage: 1946-2002

• Access: http://prl5.sdsc.edu/WEB/INDEX.html UC Davis IP Addresses only
• Need IME Asian Languages application to input Chinese words for searching.

Zasshi Kiji Sakuin 雑誌記事索引 = Magazine Plus

Index of Japanese language journals and articles.

Coverage: 1975-present.

• Access: http://web.nichigai.co.jp/cgi-bin/astloginip.cgi?W=UCC&DB=00 UC Davis IP Address only
• Need IME Asian Languages application to input Japanese words for searching.
• User's guide is available at the workstations in the E. A. Languages Collection.

OCLC-CJK Connextion

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Language Interface to OCLC Catalog.

Use this catalog to search for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Collections.

Access at workstations, "Greatwall" and "Osaka," in the East Asian Languages Collection only. Ask East Asian Librarian for assistance.

Electronic Databases in English:

Bibliography of Asian Studies

The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide beginning in 1971.

Coverage: 1971-present, depending upon the sub-file.

Access: http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/ UC Davis IP addresses only

General Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This is a list of the best general databases in the humanities and social sciences. It includes abstracting and indexing services, full text databases and electronic journal libraries that is of interest to the variety of fields in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35

Resources within East Asian Languages Collection pages:

• The Library of Congress Classification System-Subject Outline (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/e-asian/organizing.php)
• Common Subject Headings Related to East Asian Studies (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/e-asian/organizing.php#lcsh)
• Romanization Conversion Tables (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/e-asian/roman.php)

Internet Resources on the East Asian Studies:

University of California System

• Chinese Program, University of California, Davis—Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (http://chinese.ucdavis.edu/)
• Japanese Program, University of California, Davis—Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (http://japanese.ucdavis.edu/)
• Melvyl® Catalog—Union Catalog of the University of California (http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=u-cdl90)
• University of California, Berkeley, East Asian Library (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EAL/)
• University of California, Berkeley, Center for Chinese Studies Library (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/CCSL/)
• University of California, Irvine, East Asian Collection (http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/libraries.html)
• University of California, Los Angles, East Asian Library (http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/)
• University of California, San Diego, East Asian Collection (http://libraries.ucsd.edu/EastAsia/)
• University of California, Santa Barbara, East Asian Library (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/eastasian/lib.html)

In the U.S.

• East Asia WWW Virtual Library, Libraries: East Asian Collection (http://ea-vl.sbc.edu/eavllib.html)
• Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) (http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/ceal/)
• Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications (University of Pittsburgh) (http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/)

In the East Asia Regions

• China Academic Library & Information System (http://www.calis.edu.cn/)
• National Library of China (Beijing) (http://www.nlc.gov.cn/)
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Library (http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/)
• The University of Hong Kong, Library (http://www.lib.hku.hk/)
• Links to Universities, Colleges and Institutes in Japan (http://isl.educ.fukushima-u.ac.jp/school/)
• National Diet Library (http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/)
• Museums, Art Galleries, Document Centers — (Japanese only) (http://www.ojw.or.jp/museum/)
• Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers (http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/uljsn/)
• Online Libraries: South Korea WWW Virtual Library (http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-sk.html)
• Seoul National University (http://www.snu.ac.kr/)
• Taiwan Academic Network (http://www.ntu.edu.tw/TANet/)
• Academia Sinica, Taiwan (http://www.sinica.edu.tw/)
• National Central Library (Taiwan) (http://www.ncl.edu.tw/)
• National Taiwan University-Library (http://www.lib.ntu.edu.tw/)
• National Palace Museum (Taiwan) (http://www.npm.gov.tw/)

Other Resource Links

• Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco (http://www.roc-taiwan.org/usoffice/sf.htm)
• 世界新聞網 (http://www.worldjournal.com/wjindex.php)
• 聯合新聞網 (http://www.udn.com/)
• 大公報 (http://www.takungpao.com/)
• Yahoo! China (http://cn.yahoo.com/)
• Yahoo! Hong Kong (http://hk.yahoo.com/)
• Yahoo! Japan (http://www.yahoo.co.jp)
• Yahoo! Korea (http://www.yahoo.co.kr/)
• Yahoo! Taiwan (http://tw.yahoo.com/)
• Google (Chinese, Traditional) (http://www.google.com/intl/zh-TW/)
• Google (Chinese, Simplified) (http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/)