Far East collections

The Far Eastern collections have only a few manuscripts, but many printed books (monographs and journals), including blockprints, microfilms, AV-materials and a small collection of objects related to the art of the Far Eastern book.

Search for printed books in the online catalogue REX . Use Latin letters in transcription.

The Centre for Orientalia and Judaica (COJ) has a reference collection with books in Oriental and Western languages.
This reference collection can be located in REX by a search in the field: Shelfmark - with the search terms: Center for Orientalia og Judaica.

Manuscripts and blockprints may only be used in the Centre for Manuscripts and Rare Books, where the catalogues are located. Some few materials are only to be located from lists kept in the Department of Orientalia and Judaica.

The collections consist of works in Chinese (including some Chinese dialects), Japanese and Korean.

Chinese Academic Journals in full text  (CAJ).
Access to the database is restricted to readers present in the premisses: CAJ  Access from the Asia-Portal at NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) - ELIN - databases and links. China Academic Journals (CAJ) is a full text database for journals in Chinese in humanistic and social subjects (1906-). The Royal Library and NIAS subscribe to the following areas:

• Serie F: Literature, Philosopies and History
• Serie G: Economy, Politics and Jurisprudence
• Serie H: Education and Social sciences

Searching is only possible in Chinese characters. You need to install a CAJViewer or an Acrobat Reader (6.0 or later versions) to open any full text articles - which may be downloaded freely. There is only access to CAJ from the Royal Library and certain selected institutes at the Copenhagen University, e.g. the Asian Studies section of  the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, the Saxo-Institute and NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. We recommend strongly to click LOGOUT, rather than simply closing the window, otherwise the system takes 15 minutes to clear up the last login and allow the others in.

Full text database Renmin ribao 1946-2009 (updated with a delay of 1 monts).
Searching is only possible in Chinese characters. A result is alway shown without the orginal layout and illustrations. The original layout can be seen in a PDF-file. 

EXTERNAL  LINKS.

European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL). Links to East Asian libraries and their collections - all over the world.
EASL

The Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia - CrossAsia - offers parallel access to scientific information in East and Southeast Asian studies. Based in Germany, but includes also full text databases in Western languages. Contains both free and restricted access.

ChinaResource organization at the University of Heidelberg gives access to many helpful resources in Chinese studies.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford has a Chinese on-line CJK katalog in Big-5 coding.
Chinese

East Asia Department of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin on-line catalog including Chinese and Japanese characters. [ German interface] and [ English interface])

List of early Chinese manuscripts 
Database of early Chinese manuscripts

Access to Siku quanshu og Siku quanshu huiyao i fulltext

Free access to China Legal Access (CLASS) and China Business Reference (China Bref)
http://www.oriprobe.com/

International Dunhuang Project gives access to more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang (Gansu province in China) and other Silk Road sites

Site on Resources for East Asian Language and Thought

Special for Japan:

Japanese newspapers in English:
The Internet Public Library

Japan Documentation Center, Library of Congress, USA

Catalogue of the Japanese materials in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (CJK is required):
Japan

Union catalog of Japanese university and college libraries published by The National Institute of Informatics (NII under the Foreign ministry of Japan (CJK is required): Web Cat

National Diet Library web site
Homepage for the National Japanese Library (Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan).

Special for Korea:

Korean Research Information menu of the Korea Foundation homepage has links to web side related to Korean studies.

Korea Web. can be used as a portal for those interested in Korean studies .

Korean History: A bibliography provides a comprehensive bibliography of Korean Studies covering such fields as Korean history, law, women, science, education, philosophy, literature and language.

Korean History On-line Gives access to various korean history sources.

Following Chinese journals in English can be read at the Center for Orientalia and Judaica.
Beijing Review (weekly, arrives about 1 month after publishing).
China Today (mounthly, arrives about 1 month after publishing).
China Pictorical (mounthly, arrives about 1 month after publishing).