Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC). “The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to about 75% of the Division’s holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images–about [...]
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CIA – The World Factbook. “The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.” (CIA) What do you think of this resource?
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Open Archive of California. "The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses." Many collections have items related [...]
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Kyoto National Museum Online Database. It can be used to find digital images of thousands of art and archaeological objects on Japan, China, and Korea in the collection of Kyoto National Museum. Users may search in English or romanization on the English-language interface. What do you think of this resource?
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Lafayette College East Asia Image Collections. Based on the collections held at Lafayette College Libraries in Pennsylvania, this resource “is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of colonial Taiwan (1900-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52)” (Lafayette College Libraries). It consists of the following sub-collections – Gerald & Rella Warner collections of postcards, negatives, [...]
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PQDT Open: Open Access Dissertations and Theses. PQDT Open is a new service provided by ProQuest, which also has the fee-based ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database. The PQDT Open can be used to find full text of over 3,000 open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have [...]
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Chinese Historical Postcard Project. Created under the patronage of the Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO) in Lyon, France, this database provides scanned images of early postcards of China. As of June 2009, it has 464 images.
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These are several integrated search engines FOREASt has built on top of the free open resources on East Asia, with a little help from Google. Your feedback on the integrated search engines is much appreciated! Journal Sites Integrated Search It searches 30+ English-language, open access scholarly journals on East Asia in a single query. You [...]
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Baidu Chinese Law Search 百度法律. A free legal database built by the Chinese search engine company Baidu. Can be used to find laws and regulations at both central and regional levels. To find national or “central” laws, add “中央法规” to the search query.
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Yale University Divinity Library: Digital Collections. Including several collections relevant to China studies, such as China Christian Colleges & Universities Image Database Internet Mission Photography Archive Missionary Periodicals Database ATLA Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative Nanking Massacre Project American Context of China’s Christian Colleges and Schools
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