Instruction for locating East Asian materials

Hsi-chu Bolick
East Asian Bibliographer
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(919)962-1278

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Citing Information Tutorial

• Use keyword in Chinese or in English
• Use advanced search for specific type/format of books
• You may want to try searching for subjects in the library catalog, such as:

Chinese literature
Chinese history
Chinese culture
Anchient China

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Free ebooks: (selected)

UNC affiliated users only

Chinese databases

• China Academic Journals - Social Science and Humanities (中国学术期刊网)
  CAJ consists of 1700 journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering the fields of literature, history, philosophy, economics, politics, law, and education. [more info]
• Duxiu Knowledge Search (读秀）
  The Duxiu database provides access to more than 3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2 million full text scholarly resources in all subjects and formats, such as books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips.. [more info]
• More (*title starts with China)

English databases

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS On-line)
  The online BAS contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS issued from 1971 up to the1991 edition (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries compiled since. [more info]
• JSTOR
  JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. A moving end-date wall excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals. [more info]
• Project Muse
  Project Muse provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. [more info]
• Historical Abstracts
  Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). [more info]
• *More databases

Free full-text journal articles

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and many languages. [more info]

Google Scholar (*About)

Internet Archive
Searches the full text of books digitized by Project Gutenberg and by various libraries around the world. It provides online access to the full text of public domain and out-of-copyright books reproduced either from the texts produced by libraries, other organizations, or individuals.

In US, you can use Gateway Services, a free delivery service for full-text Chinese language academic publications held by libraries in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan. Use the following indexes for articles:

• HKInChiP (香港中文期刊論文索引)
• Taiwan Periodical Index Database (中文期刊篇目索引影像系統)

UNC:

全國博士論文資訊網(台灣)

National Institute of Educational Resources and Research (教育論文全文索引)

HKLIS Dissertations and Theses Collections (香港博士論文數據庫)

Science China (中国科学文献系统)

Wangfang Data (万方数据库)

CQVIP Chinese Scientific Journals Fulltext Database (维普网)