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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Catalog of Books in the Siku Series 四庫系列圖書綜合索引

Catalog of Books in the Siku Series 四庫系列圖書綜合索引.
Developed at the Fudan University Library, this tool can help researchers find individual works within the Siku series by author name or title.
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Holdings Information of Chinese Paintings 中国絵画所在情報データベース

oldings Information of Chinese Paintings 中国絵画所在情報データベース.
Based on the Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku 中國繪畫總合圖錄 and its supplement compiled by the Institute of Oriental Cultures, University of Tokyo, this database provides information on pre-18th century Chinese paintings in the museum and private collections around the world (possibly with the exception of the Palace Museum in Taiwan).
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Yahoo! Taiwan Academic Search 奇摩學術搜尋

Yahoo! Taiwan Academic Search 奇摩學術搜尋.
Developed by Yahoo! Taiwan, it provides integrated search to six academic databases:

Taiwan Dissertations and Theses (National Central Library)
PerioPath – Taiwan periodicals index (National Central Library)
Wanfang Online Journals (a commercial database; only citations are free)
Scholarly Web Resources (National Taiwan University Library and Yahoo! Taiwan)
Taiwan Libraries Union Catalog (National Central Library)
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Catalog of Chosen Tsushinshi Materials

Catalog of Chosen Tsushinshi Materials 朝鮮通信使関係資料目録（データベース版).
Based on a print catalog that Hiroshi Nakao compiled, the online searchable catalog was developed by Naoki Mizuno (Kyoto U.). It provides descriptions and holding information for 898 art objects and 939 books/documents that Korean delegates brought to Japan in the period of 17th-19th century.
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Kosho Used Book Search

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.

Hanguk Yoktae Munjip Chongso (韓國歷代文集叢書) Index

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 [...]

Japanese Databases for the Study of Korean History

Sengo Nihon ni okeru Chosen shi bunken mokuroku 戦後日本における朝鮮史文献目録Access here. Developed by the 朝鮮史研究会 in Japan, this resource provides bibliographic records of Japanese publications on Korean history. Monographs and articles have to be searched separately. As of May 2009, it covers 6953 monographs and 23028 articles, published between 1945 and 2007.
朝鮮史研究会 also lists the [...]

Catalog Navigating System for Chinese Rare Books 中國古籍善本書目聯合導航系統

Catalog Navigating System of Chinese Rare Books 中國古籍善本書目聯合導航系統.
Thanks to Stephen Qiao (U. Toronto) for recommending this resource, which seems to be still in the testing period. Developed jointly by the National Library of China and Peking University, this database has brief records of about 30,000 Chinese books printed before 1911 (including some manuscripts). Users can [...]

Archives des Missions Etrangeres de Paris

Archives des Missions Etrangeres de Paris.
“It is a search site of archival resources of the Missions étrangères de Paris (au service des église d’Asie et de l’Océan indien).” – Hideyuki Morimoto (Columbia U.)