Internet resources for all disciplines

EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

BuddhaNet is a nonsectarian organization aiming
to link up with the growing worldwide culture of
people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle. Without focusing on any sect's beliefs
or practices, its website provides a diverse
variety of quality resources about Buddhism in
general, including a World Buddhist Directory,
BuddhaZine-Online Magazine, Insight Meditation
Online, and the Buddhist eLibrary. In particular,
the Buddhist eLibrary is set up to support the
free dissemination of digital Buddhist educational
materials around the world.

These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.

The Chinese collections of the Cambridge Digital Library now
comprise about half a million individual titles, including
monographs, reprinted materials such as manuscripts from
Dunhuang, Huizhou, etc., archival documents and epigraphical
rubbings, 200,000 Chinese e-books (donated by Premier Wan
Jiabao in 2009), 5,000 Chinese e-serials and 3,500 Chinese
microfilm reels. Over 400,000 titles are included in some
2,000 cong shu.

This database contains records for over 140,000 articles
published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era
(1911-1949). These are all articles collected in the Minguo
fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete
Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature)
(MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian
jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB). Both MFQ and
MFQB were compiled under the leadership of Huang Xianian 黃夏
年 and published in 2006 and 2007 respecively.

The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.

The Cheekungtong (also known as Chinese Freemasons)
of Victoria, British Columbia, was founded in 1876
and functioned as an unofficial organization to
maintain order in the Chinese communities.

This digitized collection consists of records that
reflect the functions of the Chinese Freemasons of
Canada, especially in Victoria and Vancouver; their
activities supporting the Chinese communities in
Canada; the lives and concerns of their members in
British Columbia; and their ties with China, spanning
approximately from 1876 to 1956. The textual records
primarily consist of old style Chinese games,
manuscript and printed Chinese medical texts,
correspondence, donation books, publications,
solicitations of donations for members in need,
receipts, and election ballots of the Dart Coon Club.

Languages of the material are approximately 90%
Chinese and 10% English.

These records provide a glimpse into the workings of
a Chinese-Canadian organization over an extended
period of time. In addition, items such as the
Chinese herbal medicine texts and Chinese games
retain significant cultural value to Chinese-
Canadians

The China Biographical Database is an online relational
database with biographical information about approximately
328,000 individuals as of October, 2013, primarily from the
7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful
for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as
well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.

China Film Insider is a leading trade publication that
reports on the relationship between China’s film industry,
Hollywood, and the rest of the world. It provides daily news
and in-depth analyses of the exchanges of capital,
information, and talent flowing between China and Hollywood
now at an increasingly fervent pace.

The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS,
project was launched in January 2001 to establish a
database
of populated places and historical administrative units
for
the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use
in
spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected historical units as digital
maps.

China Historical Images is a commercial database that
claims
to be the biggest electronic depository of Chinese
historical images. The scope of the digital image
collection focuses on late Ming, Qing, and the Republican
era. The database allows searching and browsing by time,
geographical areas, themes, and authors.

This blog discusses the practical aspects of Chinese law and
how it impacts business.

The University of Westminster’s Chinese Poster Collection
is an archival collection of some 800 posters
spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Most of the Collection
dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important
resource for study of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),
a period of China’s modern history commonly characterised
as the ‘ten dark years of chaos’ but given increasing
critical attention research, documentary films and
important museum collections. The collection also has a
range of memorabilia from the same period, such as puzzles
and toys, badges, handkerchiefs and ration coupons,
tickets and receipts, postcard and print sets, picture
books (lianhuanhua), paper cuts and a small but valuable
library of books on Chinese art of the period.

The China Story Yearbook is an annual series
publication by the China experts at Australian
National University's Center on China in the
World. The first issue was published in 2012.
Each issue focuses on a specific topic. The
yearbook looks at issues of China with insight and
perspectives one usually does not find in
commercial media.

China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on
more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the
military, education, business, and the media. China Vitae
tracks the appearances and travel of approximately 500
leading Chinese officials. Searchable information is
available on date and location of activity, officials in
attendance, topics raised, and source of the data. CV also
records official announcements as they occur of new
appointments to senior Party and government positions.

The China Youth Daily (中国青年报, or 中青报 for
short) is the popular official newspaper of the
Communist Youth League (CYL) of China (中国共青
团). It has been operated by the CYL since 1951.
The newspaper got its online version in 2000
(www.cyol.net). The CYOL.net website hosts an
online archive of the newspaper's past issues
dating back to 2005.

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and
trading relationships that emerged between America, China
and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th
centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images,
objects and maps from international libraries and archives
document this fascinating history.

The China-Africa Knowledge Project Resource Hub is a one-
stop shop for researchers and practitioners working on the
China-Africa relationship. As the primary platform for the
work of the Social Science Research Council's China-Africa
Knowledge Project, this site actively builds generative
connections between scholars across disciplines and regions
while organizing a growing and fragmented body of knowledge
and connecting it to important trends in the social sciences
relevant for understanding Africa's new international
relations.

The portal for for China-related digital resources provides
a sortable and searchable list of digital resources that are
either freely available online or via the Centre of East
Asian Studies, the Cluster of Excellence \Asia and Europe in
a Global Context\, the University Library Heidelberg or the
State Library Berlin (CrossAsia).