Airiti Journals 中文電子期刊服務資料庫

Our library has access to Airiti Journals 中文電子期刊服務資料庫, until 2016 known as TEPS 台湾电子期刊服务网 or Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services. The Airiti Journals are a collection with over 900 fulltext journals from Taiwan in the fields of humanities – including religion, philosophy, history, art, linguistics, literature, anthropology – and social sciences – including education. There are also journals in the field of medical science, natural sciences and applied sciences. Most of the journals are in Chinese, but there are also several journals in English. Use the search screen on the top left to search for articles or journal titles.

Most of the journals are roughly available from 2005, although some journal archives are from an even earlier date. Journals are published online within several weeks of their publication and are ordered by date, newest first.

All fulltext articles have a short abstract in Chinese and English, and are available to download as a PDF file using the red button saying ‘Download PDF’.

All journals are accessible from home for university students and staff with your ULCN username and password, through the ‘Find Databases’ option in the library catalogue, or else this link to Airiti Journals.

February 25, 2014 at 1:24 pm eastasianlibrary Leave a comment

DBpia – Korean ejournal portal

DBpia 전체검색 (누리미디어) is a large collection of more than 1300 Korean fulltext journals covering the fields of humanities, education, literature, arts, social science, theology, economics, management, law, medicine, administration, and natural sciences. (more…)

December 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm eastasianlibrary Leave a comment

Qiushi 求是

We have fulltext access from anywhere inside Leiden University to the English version of Qiushi 求是, the main organ of the Chinese Communist party. The English version started in 2009, so we have access to Qiushi from their first English issue.

Of course, one can also read the original Chinese version of Qiushi 求是 through the large ejournal portal ‘China Ademic Journals‘ (CAJ). We have access to all issues since 1958.

August 8, 2011 at 3:02 pm kattebelletje Leave a comment

China academic journals (CAJ)

Since November 2010 we have access to China Academic Journals [中国期刊全文数据库], a vast collection of Chinese electronic journals. Our license covers four major subjects, resulting in access to over 4,000 journals:

You can search this ejournal database by pinyin or in Chinese characters. Most journals are covered from their first issue, since we have access to all of the archives. Once one has found an article, there is an abstract, plus a list of links to all articles cited inside the article. Furthermore, the list of ‘similar documents’ is really useful – it not only searches through the whole CAJ database for other materials covering the same subject, but also the databases of the Chinese Masters’ (CMFD) and Doctoral Dissertations (CDFD), plus the Chinese Yearbooks. The CAJ fulltext journal database works for multiple concurrent users and is definitely worth checking out!

The Staatsbibliothek Berlin has put a user Guide CAJ [PDF] online. Please note you can only access the fulltext journals from inside the library network, or after logging in with your university password from home.

March 25, 2011 at 9:18 am eastasianlibrary Leave a comment

goodbye to the east asian library blog

The East Asian library is one of the oldest libraries of Asian studies in Europe with a large collection on China, Japan and Korea.

All of our East Asian collections, including reading room reference collections, teachers’ shelves, reading room journals; rare books formerly inside the Arsenaal Van Gulik room and other special collections, have moved from the Arsenaal building to the stacks and vaults of the new Asian Library at Witte Singel 27.

The new reading room of the Asian Library will be open to the public from March 22; the subject librarians on Asia will also move along into their office inside the Asian Library.

Part of our western language collection will be shelved on open stacks at the SUB (-1 floor) in the main University Library (UB), these books are available for browsing by Library of Congress classification, although parts of the collection still need new classification numbers and await shelving. Our pre-1930 collections, including all collections formerly inside the Van Gulik Room, are incorporated into Leiden’s Special Collections. Please contact the Special Collections staff for more information.

All books can be requested through the library catalogue and delivered to the ‘Main University Library’, or another library of your choice. Books are usually available within the hour from the library lockers on the ground floor. Scan your LU-card to get them.

Our collection of online sources – both free and licensed- is still growing, these can be found through the links below (databases China, Japan, Korea). The large collection of Asian films will be available for viewing inside the new ‘Vos’ media room inside the Asian Library.

Please contact us for information, we are here to help you!