BBC Country Profiles

BBC Country Profiles. Developed by BBC News, the full profiles “provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.” (BBC News) This resource is also listed as one of the best free reference web sites in 2009 by the RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the [...]

Nukata Bunko Database, Toho University 東邦大学額田文庫デジタルコレクション

Nukata Bunko Database, Toho University 東邦大学額田文庫デジタルコレクション. Based on the Nukata Bunko, a book collection that the Nukata family accumulated over a period of four generations, this resource provides fulltext images of 43  Japanese medical books (in 275 volumes) that were printed from 17th to 19th century. It was made available by Toho University in 2009. [...]

HaithiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust Digital Library University of Michigan Library recently announced that fulltext search is now available across the entire HathiTrust Digital Library of more than 4.6 million volumes, including materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK). Jidong Yang, Head of Asia Library at the University of Michigan tested the fulltext search capability and found that the [...]