Posted on November 23, 2009 by Tao
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 OCR [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2009 by Tao
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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Posted on September 23, 2009 by Tao
NLC Collection of Republican Period Publications 中国国家图书馆特色资源(民国专栏).
Developed by the National Library of China, this online collection of Republican period (1913-1949) publications includes full images of over 8000 books, full images of over 8000 legal documents, and the full text of over 4000 periodicals.
Adobe Reader 7.0 and above (Chinese version) is recommended for reading full [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 by Tao
Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive’s “purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format… Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services [...]
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Posted on September 13, 2009 by Tao
J-TEXTS 日本文学電子図書館.
Reportedly belonging to Mr. Keiichi Arayama & Prof. Shinichi Kikuchi (currently of Keio University), J-TEXTS provides fulltext of Japanese literary works in downloadable files.
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Posted on August 23, 2009 by Tao
Between Liberation Space and Time of Need, 1945-1950: Rare Korean Literary Works.
Developed by the University of Washington Libraries, this resource provides full-text images of 128 rare literary books that were printed between the end of Japanese occupation (1945) and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950). The books were on exhibition in the UW Libraries [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by Tao
Kongfz.com 孔夫子旧书网
Self-claimed the most frequented website for used Chinese books, it can be used as a catalog for older books.
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by Tao
Kosho Used Book Search 日本の古本屋トップページ.
Can be used as a online catalog for out-of-print Japanese books.
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by Tao
Hanguk Yoktae Munjip Chongso (韓國歷代文集叢書) is the largest collection of works by Korean authors from ancient times to the early 20th century. Since this set covers over 1000 authors in 3000 volumes, two sets of print reference tools have been compiled for it, Han’guk yŏktae munjip ch‘ongsŏ mongnok 韓國歷代文集叢書目錄and Han’guk yŏktae munjip ch‘ongsŏ mongnok saegin [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2009 by Tao
Access here.
Affiliated with IIAS (International Institute of Asian Studies), “New Asia Books makes it much easier for academics to identify, evaluate and purchase new publications in their fields. The website lists academic English language books published on Asia in the preceding 12 months (using data obtained from Nielsen BookData, a major bibliographic [...]
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