Internet resources for all disciplines

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, has information
of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 and
can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and
time, and how to access them.

The production of the Web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-
English Dictionary of Modern Usage is based on the first
edition of the work (hereafter called \the original
edition\) published in 1972 by the Chinese University Press.
The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters,
together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical
usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases.

Ling Long is a Chinese magazine on women published in
Shanghai between the tumultuous years of 1931 and 1937.
Today, the magazine is a valuable resource for researchers
studying social life and women's issues of Shanghai in the
Republican-era (1911-49) . This digitized collection of Ling
Long by Columbia University is one of the most complete
holdings of the magazine outside China.

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.

The \Mandarin Chinese mini dictionary\ is a small-scaled
online dictionary especially edited for pupils. It is
comparatively simplified because of considering the word
collections and the expatiations are all suitable for
pupils' use. In using index, users are allowed to input
words to search directly, or search by radicals, strokes
and pronunciations of different Chinese characters.
Besides, there are some words appendixed with pictures for
explanation, so there is also a picture index for users to
query texts reversely, thus it is quite convenient for the
use on language teaching and child-parent education.

This is an open-access internet archive that collects works,
poetry, and images by and of Mao Zedong.

\Min and Hakka Language Archives\, which is a follow-up
project of the \Southern Min Archives: A Database of
Historical Change and Language Distribution”

民国中文期刊资源库以书目数据、篇名数据、数字对象为内容，提供简单检
索、高级检索、二次检索、关联检索和条件限定检索。现提供4351种期刊电
子影像的全文浏览。资源库遵循边建设边服务的原则，将不断追加更新资源
库内容。

Upto December 2015, the Ming-Qing Women's Writings
Digitization Project has now contained 214 collections of
writings by women of the Ming-Qing period. For biographical
data on the women writers, the user can click on the woman
author's name linked to the China Biographical Database
hosted by the Harvard-Yenching Library.

This Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories is part of
Delta State University Archives' Oral History Collection.
The oral history project was funded by the Mississppi
Humanities Council and was completed in 2000. The
Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories consists of
interviews focusing on the history and culture of the
Chinese people in the Mississippi Delta.

The digitized collections of Multicultural Canada provide
free access to historical collections of Canada's minority
groups to promote research into the country's multi-ethnic
communities. Included in the project are an extensive
range
of collections, with the majority of them in a language
other than English, that include historic newspapers,
books,
manuscript documents, photographs, and audio files. A
significant number of the collections is related to Asian
Canadians, especially Chinese Canadians.

Over the past few years the National Diet Library in Tokyo
has digitized a large amount of prewar materials. Most are
in Japanese, and a few in Chinese. Many are available
online. It is certainly easier to enter, for example, “支那経
済” (Shina keizai, Chinese economy) in the search box than to
buy an airline ticket to Tokyo. An increasingly important
resource.

The project brings treasures from the NPM collection to you
using websites offering thematic introductions. These
thematic websites all provide a full array of visual and
textual materials on artworks as well as various functions
for appreciating them. This is done so in the hope of
creating a multiple learning environment that will yield
greater study and research benefits as well as reach the
goal of digitized educational and promotional efforts.

NSSD is a government-sponsored open-access database of
academic journals and dissertations published and/or funded
by the PRC government. It makes available hundreds of
Chinese journals, most of which are in full-text.

This e-journal database provides access to fulltext articles
of 34 journals published by various departments of the
National Taiwan University since 2003. Disciplines covered
include arts, literature, political science, architecture,
engineering and business. Please check
(http://www.press.ntu.edu.tw/ejournal/index.asp) for a full
list of journals included.

CrossAsia offers access to research information for
humanities and social sciences from Asian countries and
about Asia. Academic fields covered by the service range
from philology, history, political science and economics to
ethnology and regional studies. Regardless of the form of
publications, CrossAsia integrates the bibliographic
description of printed and electronic resources.

This database has been developed by the Academia Sinica of
Taiwan, and is an important online tool to look for
bibliographic and holdings information for Chinese Local
Gazetteers. The database is based on the Union Catalogue
of Chinese Local Gazetteers published in 1985 by the
Academy of Sciences in mainland China, which contains
bibliographic information for 8,200 local gazetteers
compiled before 1949 and currently held by 190 libraries
and institutes across mainland China. In addition, the
database also collects the information of over 2,000 New
Gazetteers published after 1949.

The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.

Dictionaries (such as WordNet or the Oxford Collocations Dictionary), which are based on word frequency statistics, collocations, semantic relations, and so on.

The Philosopy Online, supported by Renmin University,
provides online information concerning Chinese philosophy
education,
reaserch, academic exchanging, news, and etc.