FOREASt has expanded!

I am excited to announce that FOREASt just acquired its own domain name and set up a new web site http://www.foreast.org.

The new web site provides more functionality for future development and makes it easier to manage existing content. Therefore, we have moved all the subject pages (Asia, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as well as Journals and Online Services) to the new site.  Please use the links on your left to find up-to-date subject lists — the lists on the top of this page have been taken down.

This current WordPress site will continue to exist as FOREASt’s forum for free discussions of the open resources FOREASt has collected. You are more than welcome to comment on individual resources or recommend new resources. Only your first post on the forum needs to be approved (to prevent spammers). Anonymous posts are allowed, too.

Please take a look at our new site and tell us what you think. Thanks!

~Tao

Nichibunken Databases

Nichibunken Databases.

Developed by Nichibunken, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, this page lists a variety of useful databases related to Japanese studies, including full texts, images, biographies, bibliographies, directories, and indexes, covering a wide range of subjects such as history, literature, art, geography, and social sciences.

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FOREASt at 10,000

Returning to work this morning, I am excited to find that the page view counter on FOREASt is approaching 10,000. I want to thank all the contributors and visitors as we are reaching this major milestone.

Best,

Tao

JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online

JAIRO: Japanese Institutional Repositories Online.

Developed by the National Institute of Informatics, JAIRO provides integrated search of over 100 Japanese institutional repositories, including over 500,000 full text items, such as department bulletin paper, journal article, thesis or dissertations, etc.

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Academic Research Database Repository 学術研究データベース・リポジトリ

Academic Research Database Repository 学術研究データベース・リポジトリ.

Developed by the National Institute of Informatics, this resource provides integrated search service for 29 subject-specific indexes or bibliographies.

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Webcat Plus

Webcat Plus.

Developed by the National Institute of Informatics, Webcat Plus “helps you find out-of-print books that are in the collections of university libraries and other institutions”, covering a total of over 12 million records. For books published after 1986, table of contents, related advertisement, or book cover may be provided.

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CiNii – NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator

CiNii – NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator.

Developed by the National Institute of Informatics, CiNii is a tool to find articles published in Japanese academic society journals and university research bulletins. It also incorporates the National Diet Library’s Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (Japanese Periodicals Index) database.

NII states that CiNii has three main features:

• “Large volume of article information – CiNii incorporates 12 million articles. Articles from different databases that have duplicate information are displayed as a single article.
• Access to full text documents – Access to full text documents is possible with 3.2 million of the 12 million articles currently available on CiNii. CiNii enables you to search desired articles and obtain the full text of such articles. Through joint collaborations, we also provide links to navigate to full text documents, etc. on other services.
• Displays citation information – Based on this citation information (References / Cited by), users can track down related articles.”

Please note that some full text articles are free, while other require payment.

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Umehara Korean Archaeology Image Database 梅原考古資料画像データベース

Umehara Archaeology Image Database 梅原考古資料画像データベース. Also in Japanese.

Developed by the Toyo Bunko, this database provides images of thousands of artifacts excavated by Umehara Sueji 梅原末治 in the Korean Peninsula in the 1920s and 1930s. Materials from today’s North Korea are probably the most important, given the current difficulty of entering North Korea.

Related print resource: 『梅原考古資料目録　朝鮮之部』（東洋学術協会，1966年）.

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Encyclopedia of the CPC History 党史百科

Encyclopedia of the CPC History 党史百科.

Developed by the affiliated website of People’s Daily, the official organ of the Communist Party of China (CPC), this resource currently provides over 2000 entries on individuals, events, documents, places, and terms relevant to the history of the CPC. It also provides links to the fulltext of selected works of Mao Zedong and other major CPC leaders. Understandably the entries usually follow the official CPC line on controversial issues.

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Hong Kong Literature Review Database 香港文學書評資料庫

Hong Kong Literature Review Database 香港文學書評資料庫.

Developed by the Lingnan University Library, “Hong Kong Literature Review Database uses Hong Kong Literature : A Bibliography, published by Youth Literary Book Store and the Hong Kong Art Development Council in 1995 as the base. It contains the full texts of some 200 review articles on Hong Kong literature, with a focus on works published from the fifties to the nineties, and will continue to include more writers from the forties to the late nineties, made available via a variety of search functions. In addition, the database offers the electronic texts of Hong Kong Literature : A Bibliography and Hong Kong Literature : A Bibliography :  A Supplement, along with related literature websites for reference.”

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