Asian Studies: Online Resources at Boston University

China Online Journals (COJ) features core journals in arts, humanities, education, business, economics, finance, law, politics, government and the social sciences, as well as a unique broad collection of Chinese university journals.

The Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) 中文電子期刊資料庫暨平台服務 provides full-text access to more than 3,000 Chinese language journals from around the world from 1991-present. Airiti Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertation Service (CETD, or 華藝中文碩博士論文資料庫) offers full-text theses and dissertations from nearly 60 of Taiwan’s most important academic and research institutions from 2004-present. Available on-campus only.

This database provides full-text access to past and current issues of the following Sinological periodicals published in Taiwan (mostly through the academic institutes that comprise Academia Sinica). Published by United Digital Publications (UDP) Company (Taipei) and marketed in the US by East View Information Services. Available on-campus only.

The collection includes the press of more than twenty cities, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century. The collection provides researchers a perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People’s Republic. Comprising of 500,000 pages from hundreds of titles published in China between 1912 and 1949.

Index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Date coverage: 1868 - present.

JapanKnowledge is an extensive database, mostly in Japanese, with information about Japanese language, culture, history, and more. It Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, ebooks, news articles, and multimedia.

Full-text collection of Korean classical books including: history, literature, folk literature, natural history, oriental medicine, religion, myth, and other classical works.

KSI ebook is a full-text database of about 5.000 Korean e-books published by KSI. Subjects include philosophy, religion, social science, natural science, technology, arts, language, literature, and history.

DBpia is a database of articles from Korean scholarly journals in fields including sociology, literature, economics & business, medical science, humanities, theology, law and administration, arts, engineering, natural science, and education. Back issues of each journal title are searchable by article title, author, keyword, journal title and publisher.

KISS is a full-text database of Korean journals and proceedings. Kiss provides over 1.3 million articles from about 3,285 scholarly journals on social science, humanities, medicine pharmacy, engineering, natural science, physical education and art, linguistics, agricultural science, oceanography. KISS also provides government documents and reports.