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East Asian Studies: Databases

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Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and many other resources. 

These databases have been especially selected for this subject area. When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journal titles.

Database Spotlight

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Database of Chinese Popular Literature (中國俗文庫)

The Library offers full-text online access to the  Database of Chinese Popular Literature (中國俗文庫). It contains over 10,000 vernacular literary works and historical documents from the Han and Wei dynasties onward. It includes novels, dramas, folk songs, proverbs, and more, providing rich insights into everyday life, beliefs, and culture. As a key complement to classical Chinese literature, it is an essential resource for studying the social, religious, literary, and art history of China. 

The database is a valuable resource for both research and teaching in early modern Chinese fiction and drama. It supports research by offering a comprehensive corpus with keyword search and parallel reading functions, enabling a broader research scope and the inclusion of additional materials. For teaching, it serves as a primary resource for research exercises, helps students engage with primary texts, and supports dissertation work on Chinese popular literature. Additionally, it enhances course units on mass media and translation studies by highlighting the literary features of pre-Europeanized Chinese texts. The database also promotes self-paced student learning and contributes to research on Chinese religious texts, Confucianism, and Buddhism.  

Overall, it is an essential repository of Chinese popular literature and cultural history. 

Essential databases

The following are important databases for this subject area, however if you don't see what you're looking for, please go to the Database Directory for East Asian Studies to browse a wider selection.

 

  • Web of Science Essential
    Web of Science Core Collection provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings. Includes current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900. All cited references for all publications are fully indexed and searchable. Search across all authors and all author affiliations.Track citation activity with Citation Alerts. See citation activity and trends graphically with Citation Report.Use Analyze Results to identify trends and publication patterns.
  • JSTOR Essential
    Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.
  • MLA international bibliography Essential
    Produced by the Modern Language Association The MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
  • Scopus Essential
    Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed.
  • Project MUSE Essential
    Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE provides access to a growing list of scholarly open access content.
  • Web of Science Essential
    Web of Science Core Collection provides access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and conference proceedings. Includes current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900. All cited references for all publications are fully indexed and searchable. Search across all authors and all author affiliations.Track citation activity with Citation Alerts. See citation activity and trends graphically with Citation Report.Use Analyze Results to identify trends and publication patterns.
  • JSTOR Essential
    Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over one million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.
  • MLA international bibliography Essential
    Produced by the Modern Language Association The MLA International Bibliography is the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations, with links to full text in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other resources. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms, and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.
  • Scopus Essential
    Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers an overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, you can make sure that critical research from around the world is not missed.
  • Project MUSE Essential
    Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. MUSE provides access to a growing list of scholarly open access content.
  • Database of Chinese Popular Literature (中國俗文庫) Essential New
    This database contains over 10,000 vernacular literary works and historical documents from the Han and Wei dynasties onward. It includes novels, dramas, folk songs, proverbs, and more, providing rich insights into everyday life, beliefs, and culture. As a key complement to classical Chinese literature, it is an essential resource for studying the social, religious, literary, and art history of China.
    The database is a valuable resource for both research and teaching in early modern Chinese fiction and drama. It supports research by offering a comprehensive corpus with keyword search and parallel reading functions, enabling a broader research scope and the inclusion of additional materials. It contributes to research on Chinese religious texts, Confucianism, and Buddhism.
  • ACLS Humanities eBook Collection
    A fully searchable collection of high-quality ebooks in the humanities which have been reviewed and recommended by scholars. The Project is a collaboration of 12 learned societies, 95 publishers and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office.
  • Alexander Street Press Collections
    Media content now hosted on the Academic Video Online platform subscribed collections include the Filmakers Library Online; Ethnographic Video Online; Asian Film Online; African Diaspora, 1860-Present and Dance Online: Dance in Video. Trial access also in place for the Film platform and the CNN Video Collection. Accompanying support provides users with synchronously scrolling transcripts, indexing, clip-making, custom playlists, social media functionality, and other tools. Today, Alexander Street Press publishes more than 80 collections totalling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. Alexander Street Press concentrates on building the best collections possible across the curriculumin literature; music; women's history; black history; psychological counseling and therapy; social and cultural history; drama, medical, theatre, film, and the performing arts; religion; sociology; and other emerging areas.
  • Archives Unbound
    Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of primary source historical documents. It covers a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
  • Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Art Full Text is a comprehensive resource for art information featuring full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, high-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. Indexing of almost 200,000 art reproductions provides examples of styles and art movements, including works by emerging artists. The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus. Topics covered include art history & criticism, architecture & architectural history, archaeology, antiques, museum studies, graphic arts, industrial design, landscape architecture, interior design, folk art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, decorative arts, costume design, television and video, motion pictures, advertising art, non-western art, textiles and much more.
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Indexes world's leading arts and humanities journals with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Searchable via Web of Science
  • Arts & Humanities Database
    The Arts & Humanities Database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies. This ProQuest full-text journal database has been created to complement the CSA Illumina portfolio of Arts and Humanities databases. Subscribers to any of these databases - including ARTBibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, British Humanities Index, MLA International Bibliography and Philosopher's Index amongst others - can link directly from citations in these indexes to the corresponding full-text articles.From its launch in April 2008, the database will grow to include significant new titles in the visual and applied arts. When complete, it will contain at least 500 titles, all of them indexed in one or more of the Arts and Humanities databases. Titles include both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and selected trade and consumer titles relevant to applied arts and cultural studies, and the subject strengths of the collection will be: Art, design, crafts and photography; Archaeology, anthropology and classical studies; Architecture, interior design and urban planning; History, philosophy, geography and religion; Modern languages and literatures; Music, theatre, film and cultural studies. The contents reflect the full interdisciplinarity of contemporary study in the arts and humanities, with the inclusion of selected titles from related fields that are also covered by these indexes, such as ethnic and area studies, politics, economics and women's studies.
  • Asahi Kikuzo II bijuaru for libraries : Asahi shinbun onrain kiji detabesu
    Online article database that permits easy investigation of past events, and is available in many universities and libraries both inside and outside Japan. The largest online 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. Allows access to articles from the newspaper editions published in Tokyo (using the Asahi Shimbun Reduced-size Facsimile Edition keywords search) and published in Osaka enabling users to compare the two editions with different content by searching on publication date. Also contains articles from the magazines 'AERA' and 'Shukan Asahi, plus the Historical Photo Archive, a database of approximately 10 thousand photographic records mostly taken in Asia during the World War II period. Additional features: English-language News Database, Asahi Graph, Who's Who database, Image Database of Regional pages, Overseas Editions and Contemporary Words Chiezo.
  • Asia and the West : Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
    Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents -- many never before available -- include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more, offering a look at the inner workings of international relations. This resource allows scholars to explore in detail the history of British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports from 1790 to 1949.
  • Asian Film Online
    Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Such themes are central to any meaningful discussion of contemporary Asian culture and society.
  • BFI Player New
    BFI Player is a video on demand service from the British Film Institute, streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films. The focus is on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. BFI expert curators group most of our films into unique collections, which highlight their significance, whether theyre cultural, award-winning, by a renowned director or they represent a landmark moment in film.
  • China Academic Journals
    Full-text electronic versions of 5,300 Chinese academic periodicals in 9 series: science-engineering (A-C), agriculture, medicine/hygiene, 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.
  • China data online Zhongguo shu ju zai xian
    China Data Online provides national and local statistics of China, time series data and graphs and tables on economic activities in China. Updated monthly, the data bank is authorized by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, distributed by China Data Center at the University of Michigan. The menu on the left side of the screen lists three sections: China Statistics, Census Data, and Sample Data. Please note that the University of Lethbridges subscription does not include the Census Data section.
  • China Doctoral Dissertations
    China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database is the most comprehensive, highest quality, continuously updated doctor dissertations database in China. By now, it has collected 249,707 doctoral dissertations from 419 doctor degree grantors.
  • China EBook Hub
    China E-Book Hub is a digital platform of electronic publications developed by China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation. It has digital resources in forms of books, periodicals, and audiobooks, covering different fields. As a large digital publications platform, China E-Book Hub serves researchers and enthusiasts of Sinology Studies and plays an important role to introduce Chinese culture to the abroad.China E-Book Hub has over 260 thousand titles of e-books and journals and over 1000 audiobooks. By working with 550 publishers in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, the E-Book Hub creates one of the most complete collections of Chinese publications.
  • China masters' theses full-text database
    China Masters' Theses Full-text Database is the most comprehensive, highest quality and continuously updated master theses database in China. By now, it has collected 2,228,000 excellent masters theses from 654 master degree grantors.
  • China: Culture and Society
    Spanning three centuries (c.1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Librarys Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors choices from the collection.
  • China: Trade, Politics & Culture
    The China : Trade, Politics & Culture database is based on collections of manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library. In addition it includes a range of printed materials including missionary periodicals, atlases and books which help to contextualize the other sources. The source material details 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. With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
  • China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
    The China : Trade, Politics & Culture database is based on collections of manuscript materials held at the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the British Library in London, supplemented by additional sources from Cambridge University Library, the Church Missionary Society Archive, the Council for World Missions Library, Duke University, the National Archives at Kew, the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand and Yale Divinity Library. In addition it includes a range of printed materials including missionary periodicals, atlases and books which help to contextualize the other sources. The source material details 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. With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the Peoples Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
  • De Gruyter online
    De Gruyter online provides access to a variety of digital products covering the humanities, social sciences, STM, law and others. Their online databases provide comprehensive access to primary sources, text collections, reference works, and bibliographies across their entire subject catalogue.
  • eBook Central (ProQuest)
    Ebook Central brings content from virtually every publisher into one unified experience so students and faculty can quickly learn the platform and easily discover and use the ebook content they need. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions on each e-book restrict the amount of content that you can print and copy when you read an ebook online. Printing is restricted to 20% of each ebook, and copying 5%. Similar restrictions apply when you read ebooks offline.
  • EBSCO eBook Collection
    Provides the full-text of thousands recently-published books from selected academic and commercial publishers, as well as the full-text of a large number of older works in the public domain. Includes access to eBook Open Access (OA) Collection, created in collaboration with university presses and scholarly OA publishers such as University of Michigan Press, Taylor & Francis and Temple University Press this is a highly curated collection that provides libraries and end users with choice and access to a large selection of discoverable, DRM-Free content.
  • EBSCOhost Research Databases
    Subject coverage includes: anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, geography, gerontology, international relations, law and criminology, planning and public administration, police science and corrections, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry and psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, and related subjects.
  • Film Index International
    Film Index International is the definitive online resource focusing on entertainment films and personalities. Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute (bfi) it is based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the bfi over the past 70 years.Film Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 125,000 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for more than 800,000 personalities. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists.The initial selection of records from SIFT for Film Index International is made by director. The directors selected are a) those who have made a fiction film shown theatrically that is over 50 minutes in duration, released between 1928 and 1965, and b) those who have made a fiction film over 60 minutes in duration, post-1965. There are some exceptions; for example, directors with established careers who have made nothing but short films, and directors who made feature-length documentaries. These are selected on an individual basis.
  • Gale Primary Sources
    Gale Primary Sources is a universal research experience that combines Gale's acclaimed digital archives in a single cross-search interface. This powerful platform greatly enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents through the use of multiple search options and research tools. By building a seamless research environment for multiple collections, Gale is creating the largest digital humanities and social sciences resource in the world.
  • Historical Abstracts with full text
    Historical Abstracts with Full Text is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. This authoritative database provides indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, the database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology and sociology. In addition to standard search features, Historical Abstracts with Full Text allows for searching by time period, a major advantage given the extensive range of its coverage. With over 800,000 records and access to the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books, Historical Abstracts with Full Text is unmatched in its scope and breadth of historical and related social science literature.
  • Humanities Abstracts
    Humanities Abstracts provides detailed indexing for almost 700 periodicals within the humanities area.
  • Japan and the United States : diplomatic, security, and economic relations. Part I, 1960-1976.
    Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976pulls together more than 2,000 primary source documents detailing the relationship between the United States and Japan during the formative years of their modern alliance. The documents, most of which appear here for the first time, include records of historic U.S.-Japanese summit meetings; communications between heads of state; top-level internal deliberations, including Nixon and Kissinger memoranda of conversation; memos, cables and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with Japan; records concerning the U.S.-Japan security relationship; documents related to trade and international monetary relations with Japan; and intelligence estimates and studies concerning Japan's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, economic policies and internal situation. These documents are the result of a seven-year intensive effort under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to force the declassification of files that might otherwise have remained secret indefinitely. The principal agencies and government archives focused upon were the State Department (including the embassy in Tokyo), Defense Department, Commerce Department, Treasury Department, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the Kennedy, Johnson and Ford Presidential Libraries, the Nixon Presidential Materials Project, and the military services. The specific topics covered by these new materials lie at the very core of U.S.-Japan relations during this period, including: the homeporting of U.S. naval vessels in Japan; the transit of nuclear weapons through Japanese territory; the reversion of the Ryukyu Islands (including Okinawa); Japan's role in promoting Asian security; covert U.S. involvement in Japan's internal political affairs; the "Nixon Shocks" of 1971 comprising the U.S. opening to Beijing and the suspension of dollar-gold convertibility; the Lockheed bribery scandal; the "Textile Wrangle" and the full range of trade and economic issues that have engaged both countries for the past several decades.
  • Japan and the United States : diplomatic, security, and economic relations. Part II, 1977-1992
    Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II: 1977-1992is the most important compilation of documents publicly available on relations between the United States and Japan during the Carter, Reagan and Bush I presidencies. This was the period when the Cold War drew to a close and U.S. policy-makers strove to develop a new global strategy. Incorporating the latest U.S. government releases, obtained largely through the Freedom of Information Act, this collection significantly enriches the historical record. White House, State Department, Pentagon, Commerce Department, CIA and other documents, virtually all of them previously classified, cover all the major issues from this critical period, including high-level diplomatic, military and economic relations. Topics covered in detail include summit meetings during all three presidential administrations, U.S. objectives in major trade negotiations on such items as automobiles and semiconductors, the Structural Dialogue talks on trade, U.S. efforts to guide Japanese defense policy, and the impact of the first Persian Gulf conflict on U.S.-Japan relations. The collection also incorporates new material from 1960-1976 released since the publication of Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976.
  • Japan and the United States : diplomatic, security, and economic relations. Part III, 1961-2000.
    This National Security Archive collection, which supplements the first two sets on U.S.-Japanrelations with the very latest declassified records, spans the years from Kennedy to Clinton. As with the earlier sets, it covers a wide spectrum of issues and events in the bilateral relationship during the last four decades of the twentieth century. These materials are also important resources for understanding the current global economic crisis and recent geopolitical developments in East Asia and the Pacific Rim. This collection makes available 902 documents dealing with high-level policy making within the U.S. government and the history of U.S.-Japanrelations during the last four decades of the twentieth century. These newly obtained documents supplement those found in the first two National Security Archive publications onJapan(through ProQuest), and extend the scope of the collections to include the Clinton administration. As with the earlier sets, it covers a wide spectrum of issues and events in the bilateral relationship. The documents include records of key U.S.-Japanese summit meetings; communications between heads of state; top-level internal deliberations, memoranda, cables and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations withJapan; records concerning the U.S.-Japansecurity relationship; documents related to trade and international monetary relations; and intelligence estimates and studies concerning Japans foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, economic policies, and internal situation.
  • JapanKnowledge NK+
    JapanKnowledge+NKis the largest and most resourceful site aboutJapan. It provides access to various reference sources, including Encyclopaedia Nipponica and Kodansha Encyclopaedia ofJapan, It also contains full-text of books in the Toyo Bunko collection, recent issues of the Economist Japanese edition, NNA world news. Furthermore, JapanKnowledge+NKincludes the following databases as well: Jitsu / Great Dictionary of Chinese Characters, Shogakukan Unabridged Dictionary of the Japanese Language, and Encyclopaedia of Japanese history WEB.
  • KCI-Korean Journal Database

    KCI Korean Journal Database on the Web of Science provides access to over 1.4 million articles from more than 2,500 multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI Korean Journal Database, which is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea. ​​This collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Korea provides access to search and view critically important regional content with international impact. Using citation connections from the Web of Science, regional work is framed within the broader context of global research – providing researchers around the world with new insights into research emanating from South Korea, and a more comprehensive picture of the influencers and drivers of regional research.​
  • Kenkyusha Online Dictionary : KOD
    Kenkyusha Online Dictionary
  • Periodicals Archive Online
    Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages and provides users with access to a growing collection of key journals in the humanities and social sciences. Currently, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 700 journals comprising more than 3 million articles and 15 million article pages. Periodicals Archive Online continues to add new titles, to give undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and libraries access to a growing collection of key journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  • ProQuest Databases
    ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks. Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, social science, biological science, technology, engineering and psychology. User interface available in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
    Searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers : Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)
    This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Contains full text of various Chinese newspapers. This collection of 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers, which offers coverage of 1832-1953, provides valuable insight into political and social life of China during this turbulent 120-year period in modern Chinese history.Advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads are also included in the resource, as they illuminate as much history as the articles.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers : South China Morning Post (1903-2000)
    Giving international researchers new insights into Hong Kong’s unique political and social history during the 20th century with online access to the South China Morning Post. This premier English-language title is known for its authoritative, influential, and independent reporting on all of Asia as well as its perspective of the rest of the world. Gain unique insights into modern Chinese history, 20th century politics, economics, and more by searching the entire newspaper archive, including all articles, editorials, ads, and photographs. This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection
    This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Contains full text of various Chinese newspapers. This collection of 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers, which offers coverage of 1832-1953, provides valuable insight into political and social life of China during this turbulent 120-year period in modern Chinese history.Advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads are also included in the resource, as they illuminate as much history as the articles.
  • ProQuest One Literature
    ProQuest One Literature is for scholars who must engage with an exhaustive and diverse set of scholarly resources around a given literary topic for research and course planning.It contains 3 million literature citations from thousands of journals, monographs, dissertations, and more than 500,000 primary works – including rare and obscure texts, multiple versions, and non-traditional sources like comics, theatre performances, and author readings. Enhanced by interpretive sources such as book reviews and criticism sourced from wider, interdisciplinary publications in the fields such as humanities and history, it provides diverse, global perspectives with sources from all over the world – Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America - the majority of which are in full-text.
  • Renmin Ribao Digital Archive
    Renmin Ribeo Digital Archive, known in English as the People's Daily, is the official channel of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the central newspaper of record for the modern Chinese state. Since it's founding in 1946, Renmin Ribao has published the official policies and viewpoints of China's central government and includes politically orientated speeches and articles, and covers major events both at home and abroad. Researchers can access 65 years of full text and full image articles from Renmin Ribao, with the database offering an intuitive search function for both images and articles.
  • Shen Bao Digital Archive
    The Shen Bao Digital Archive gives a unique insight into the transition of China from the nineteenth century until Mao. This archive presents the complete collection of all issues, from the newspaper's founding in 1872 to 1949 and contains more than two million articles. Both the full text and the full image are retrievable in a single search.
  • Sinica Sinoweb
    Sinica Sinoweb is a collection of key journals with deep archives from the Academia Sinica in Taipei. Journals included in the resources have been published as early as 1928 (varies by title). Offers universal full-text search/retrieval of core Sinica Academa journals on sinology.
  • South China Morning Post
    The South China Morning Post is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper. First published in 1903, the newspaper has developed a good reputation for authoritative, influential and independent reporting on Hong Kong, China and the rest of Asia.
  • Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
    Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) is an on-line database which offers the largest number of full-text Taiwanese periodicals in the world, covering Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences, and Medical and Life Sciences. Additional titles are added regularly.
  • Taylor & Francis Online
    Taylor & Francis Online brings together over 2,700 journals, including the worlds largest program of Social Science and Humanities journals published by Routledge; cutting-edge theoretical and applied Science, Technology and Medicine content from Taylor & Francis; and CogentOA, a suite of broad-spectrum open access journals. Journals on this platform support open access and more traditional subscription routes to publication. Taylor & Francis Online is a single destination platform for all our academic, science, technology, engineering and medicine e-Book content. This platform is designed with our customers in mind. Through a single destination, our patrons will be able to access award-winning content to support their specific needs with the ability to browse the rich-content and authoritative resources available, allowing librarians to build specific collections which best fit their patron needs and institutional budgets. Taylorfrancis.com has been built using extensive user feedback to ensure that it fulfills the needs of our customers from search, to content access, to reporting and analysis. We believe that the platform delivers at every level, ensuring our patrons can access content to support their own needs.
  • Translations of the Peking gazette online
    "Translations of the Peking Gazette Online is a comprehensive database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China's long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912. As the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to China's contemporary rise. The Peking Gazette was a unique publication that allows contemporary readers to explore the contours, boundaries, and geographies of modern Chinese history. Contained within its pages are the voices of Manchu emperors, Han officials, gentry leaders, and peasant spokesmen as they discussed and debated the most important political, social, and cultural movements, trends, and events of their day. As such, the Gazette helps us understand the policies and attitudes of the emperors, the ideas and perspectives of the officials, and the mentality and worldviews of several hundred million Han, Mongol, Manchu, Muslim, and Tibetan subjects of the Great Qing Empire."
  • USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
    Incorporates more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1983, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the ongoing conflicts in the Central African Republic and South Sudan, and anti-Rohingya mass violence.
  • Wiley online library
    Access online journals, books, and other resources from John Wiley & Sons, including content from the key imprints Wiley-Blackwell, Wiley-VCH, Jossey-Bass, and from hundreds of scholarly and professional societies. Wiley Online Library offers seamless access in a flexible and easy to use research environment. Register for content alerts and RSS feeds to keep current with the latest published research in your subject area.

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