Modeled after the Library of Congress Classification
Schedules, this guide categorizes 1700+ entries of
databases, websites and archives in an order that's
convenient for research.It includes contemporary, modern and
premodern time periods. Unfortunately, the guide has stopped
updating itself since 2009.
The Directory of Open Access Repositories, or OpenDOAR, is
\an authoritative directory of academic open access
repositories\. An institutional digital repository helps
to capture, manage, preserve and disseminate the
intellectual output created by community members
of the host institution. OpenDOARS makes it easy to
identify institutional repositories, either by
\Search(ing) for Repositories\ or browsing the \repository
list\ . But more than that, the portal makes it possible
to \Search Repository Contents\, by which users can
HathiTrust is a big digital repository that brings together
the immense collections of 22 major US universities. The
digital collections of Hathi now contain fulltext of more
than two million books. Due to copyright concerns, only 16%
of the books can deliver their fulltexts to readers. Certain
amount of fulltexts can be accessed by members of registered
institutes.
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.
The Internet Archive is a is a non-profit library of
millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities,
and the general public to historical collections that exist
in digital format.
The e-Asia Digital Library is a digital collection
developed by the University of Oregon Library. The
project aims to build \a collection of digitalized
e-books and a database of full text web resources\
to contribute to research and scholarship on East
Asia, while not duplicating nor displacing printed
traditional materials. The focus is on East Asia,
including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South
and North). It currently holds over 4,000 items.
The goal of the Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
[IDEAS] is to unify digitizing efforts already in progress
at various campuses into a shared searchable database,
open
to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. IDEAS focuses
on the generally underrepresented area of Asia in an
attempt
to make multi-media materials more widely available for
specialists and non-specialists alike. IDEAS is the first
multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, pan-Asian
searchable
database in the country.
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
The AGSL collection Includes thousands of photos and maps on
China, Japan, and Korea.