Some of you may have noticed that the database People’s Daily Full Text had been down for a short while because of the server problem. We just replaced the server with a new machine, in order to continue the access to the database. The new URL for the database is: http://biscuit.library.yale.edu. Please bookmark the address for your future reference.

Please note that access to People’s Daily Full Text is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network or with off-campus access. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Chinese new books list for October 2009
Japanese new books list for October 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

Chinese new books list for September 2009
Japanese new books list for September 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce another new Chinese database, Duxiu 读秀, is available for trial now through Feb.14, 2010.

About the Duxiu:

Duxiu, also known as Chinese Google Scholar, is a huge content-based database consisting of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). It is a useful reference tool for discovering bibliographic information; for locating particular search terms within a text; and for getting a preview of a text. IE recommended.

Access information:

Duxiu is available at www.duxiu.com for the trial.

Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new database, National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件全文影像資料庫, is available for trial now through Oct.30, 2009.

About the National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives:

The National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives provides metadata searching and full image reproductions of Qing dynasty archival materials held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Searchable fields include the document number 文獻編號, document date 具奏日期, author 具奏人, official position 官職, topic 事由, keyword 關鍵詞, date of response 硃批日期, and response 硃批. Content from the Qianlong 乾隆 reign is still being entered. To view the original images, please install a special application from this URL: http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/tifsetupeng.exe. IE recommended.

Access information:

The National Palace Museum Palace Memorial and Grand Council Archives is available at http://npmhost.npm.gov.tw/tts/npmmeta/GC/indexcg.html for the trial. You need to use the following log-on info to get into the database:
• 群組 (Group): ft2009
• 帳號 (ID): Yale2009
• 密碼 (password): Yale20090928

Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new database, Chinese Reference Book Database 中国工具书资源全文数据库 , is available for trial now through Nov.1, 2009.

About the Chinese Reference Book Database:

The Chinese Reference Book Database contains full-text articles and pictures from nearly 2000 authoritative Chinese reference books, including Ci Hai 辞海 and Han Yu Da Ci Dian 汉语大词典. It consists of almost all types of reference books, such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies and indexes, to name a few. The Chinese Reference Book Database allows users to search both texts and pictures, and view original pages using the “翻阅原书” function from the printed version. Please note that it may take a while to download the file when you use the “翻阅原书” function. IE recommended.

Access information:

The Chinese Reference Book Database is available at http://reference.apabi.com/overseas for the trial. Please note that the trial is IP restricted and only available to all computers in the Yale network.

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

The East Asia Library is once again offering a series of workshops on both Chinese and Japanese resources throughout the Fall. We will introduce you to databases and resources that are useful for finding full-text journal and newspaper articles, authoritative data, archives, and classical texts. Please come to join us and learn more about it! For more information, please contact Tang Li (email: tang.li@yale.edu; tel.: 203-432-1794), the East Asia Library’s Public Services Librarian.

9/30 Finding Full-Text Journal Articles: Chinese Academic Journals, Wanfang China Online Journals, and More!

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Do you know that the East Asia Library owns a number of Chinese databases that include full-text journal articles? This session will show you all the resources, such as Chinese Academic Journals and Wanfang China Online Journals, to name a few! This will be particularly helpful to those do research for their senior essays.

10/7 Chinese Archives @ Yale: Online Databases, Microfilms, Reprints, and More!

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Archives play a key role in conducting a research on Chinese history. This session will introduce you to a newly acquired database The Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案, which features approximately 310,000 documents originally collected by the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty. In addition, we will give you an overview of the reproductions from Chinese archives in our collections, including microfilms, reprints, and other formats.

10/9 Japanese Database Clinic

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Electronic resources for Japanese studies offer useful tools for tracking down journals articles, newspapers, statistics and visual images. Yale also has excellent databases for searching obscure Japanese terms, places names, author names and techniques to search most effectively. This workshop will introduce to these tools, orient users to the landscape of Japanese electronic materials, and help participants find the resources that fit their research needs.

The session will alter depending on participants requests, but some of databases most we will likely discuss are: JapanKnowledge (including Nihon Koten Daijiten, Nihon Chimei Rekishi Taikei, Jitsu and Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan), Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (both NDL and Koseisha), Factiva, Kikuzo II Visual and Yomiuri Shinbun Online. If needed, we will introduce tools to obtain Japanese resources from Japan which are not held in any universities in the North America. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops to the session.

10/28 Getting Authoritative Data about China: China Data Online and China INFOBANK

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, Bass L06

Data has become increasingly important for conducting a research, and finding authoritative data can be difficult. This session will introduce you to two major online China data resources: China Data Online and China INFOBANK. China Data Online provides access to economic statistics, census data, county statistics, and more from 1949 to present. China INFOBANK provides access to statistics, business reports, economic news, and legal regulations from contemporary China.

11/5 Online resources for Chinese Classical Texts

Time and Place: 4:00 –5:00 pm, SML 207

Are you looking for Chinese classical texts for your coursework and research? This session will introduce you to a number of databases and resources that can help you to locate full-text Chinese classical texts, including the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書, Scripta Sinica 漢藉電子文獻, and more!

Chinese new books list for Summer 2009
Japanese new books list for Summer 2009

Please click here for a complete list of new books added to the East Asia Library since December 2007.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that a new Chinese database, China Yearbooks Full-text Database 中国年鉴全文数据库, is available for trial now through October 18, 2009.

About the China Yearbooks Full-text Database :

"China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) is a database consisting of over 1,800 yearbook titles and over 13,000 volumes (as of mid-2009). Most of the yearbooks date back to the 1980s. Being As part of the CNKI project, CYFD has the capacity to cross database searching with other CNKI products, such as journals, dissertations, reference works, newspapers, conference proceedings and other databases. CYFD consists of more than 300 statistical yearbooks, including all the central and provincial yearbooks, over 90% of city or county level yearbooks and 80% of industrial yearbook from both national and local levels. It also includes yearbooks from research institutions and corporations."

Access information:

To access the trial database, please go to the following URL: http://china.eastview.com/kns50/Navigator.aspx?ID=CYFD

Please note that access to the trial China Yearbooks Full-text Database only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access (http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/proxy/proxy_about.html).

We would like to hear any feedback or comments on this new trial database from you. If you like to schedule a one-on-one session with us to learn more about the database, please feel free to do so. For more information, please contact Tang Li (tang.li@yale.edu).

Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database (http://zassaku-plus.com/advanced.php) combines content already previously available in other Zasshi Kiji Sakuin databases such as MagazinePLUS with indices of journals published in the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa periods, and is notable because it also indexes minor journals that were published in local prefectures and cities.

Among several major journal index databases available for Japanese journals, Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database by Kōseisha is the only database that provides an index of journal articles published in the Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa to present. It also contains many important local journals that were published in prefectures and cities that are not in the NDL journal index. The search function enables users to search terms in modern language for words that were changed historically. In addition, each search provides information about which university library in Japan holds the specific journal where the desired article appears.

For more information, please go to http://www.annex-net.jp/ks1/

Please note that access to the Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shūsei Database is only available from computers on the Yale campus or with off-campus access.