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Bibliographies / Selected Catalogs / Indices

The Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography: 80,000 References on Korea
FindArticles.com (full-text articles online)
Korean History: A Bibliography (compiled by: Kenneth R. Robinson)
A selected bibliography of ENGLISH language publications on Korea, lists roughly 5,000 titles -- about 60% articles and book chapters & 40% books.
Koreans in America -- A Bibliography
Making of America (MOA) (Korea in 19th century American works; full-text articles & books; search for "Corea*" and "Korea*".)
OCLC SiteSearch Suite (free demo version)
Bibliography of Asian Studies (AAS, need password!)
Asia Bibliographies (mostly online; AsiaSource)
Korean Studies Online Bibliographies in Japan (Chôsenshi Kenkyûkai at Kyoto University)
http://papersearch.net/
PaperSearch.net (copy service, Korean full text papers online)
Korean Theses Database (with table of content pages and abstracts)
Academy Infra (copy service for Korean theses)
Seoul Copy System (copy service for Korean theses)
Copyman Service (copy service for Korean theses)
Theses by Koreans at Overseas Universities (searchable database, Korea Research Foundation)
Arts Related Publications (searchable database, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation)
Korean Art Bibliography (searchable database, Korean Art Historical Connection)
       Painting
       Sculpture
       Crafts
Korean History Bibliography (searchable database, Korean Historical Connection)
Korea Journal (Korean UNESCO Commission, FULL TEXT)
The Review of Korean Studies (Academy of Korean Studies, FULL TEXT)
KERIS (Korea Education & Research Information Service) Union Catologue
NAME INDEX to the Ilcheha kongp'an kirok charyojip
A full 385 vol. set of these trial records of the Japanese court in Korea from the late 1920's to 1944 is at the University of Washington Library (call number: 3-3557265 v.1-385). Thanks to Mrs. Yoon-whan Choe and her team!
AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX to Han'guk yôktae munjip ch'ongsô (Collected Works of Korean Authors from the 10th to the Early 20th Century)
"3,000 volumes of the collected works of over a thousand individual authors mostly from Koryô and Chosôn Dynasties (10th-20th century). The contents include historical accounts, social observations, descriptions of daily life and customs as well as personal correspondence, travelogs, and literary endeavors both in verse and prose. These are indispensable materials for any scholar engaged in research on traditional Korea." (At the University of Washington Library; call number: AC147 .H36 1993). Again thanks to Mrs. Yoon-whan Choe and her team!
IRIS (Integrated Research Information System)
IRIS is the online catalog for the Getty Research Library and contains over 500,000 bibliographic records for about 800,000 volumes of art books, serials, and auction catalogs in the general and special collections, as well as descriptive records of approximately 3,000 archival and photograph collections.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

Library Gateways & Guides

LibDex - INDEX to 17,000 Library Catalogs
Library Catalogs Worldwide (Libweb)
Z39.50 Gateway (mostly U.S.)
Z39.50 Gateway and Libweb (Europe)
Z39.50 Gateway (Korea)
Libraries in Korea
Internet Library for Librarians
International Directory of Art Libraries
Book Site Navigator (links to booksellers, publishers, libraries, other book resources)
BookWire Index (links to booksellers, publishers, libraries, other book resources)
Korean Studies (links, East Asian Libraries Co-op WWW)
CEAL (East Asian Internet Academic & Library Resources) (links)

Bookstores

AddALL.com is a price comparison tool that can help you find the lowest price for any U.S. book by comparing the offers of most online bookstores around the world (very useful!).

  
- BookButler or Eurobuch if you are in Europe.
- ZVAB Used Books (German, English)

Amazon.com & Barnes and Noble.com, and the KNO&KV-Katalog for German, French and Spanish titles are very useful online bookstores with
catalogs of (together) over two million titles. Some of these companies
also give you the option to be notified about each and every new book
by a certain author or about a certain subject.
AladdinUS.com (Korean Internet bookstore in California - ships within U.S. and to Canada)
Books on Korea - Bücher über Korea: Korean Bookshop in Germany
Kyobo Booknet (in Seoul)
YesAsia (useful for Korean film DVDs and to order Japanese and Chinese books)

 

SELECTED LIBRARY CATALOGUES:

Korea

National Digital Library
National Library of Korea / Kungnip Chungang Tosôgwan (includes M.A. theses and dissertations database)
National Assembly Library / Kukhoe Tosôgwan
(Korean) Supreme Court Digital Library
Seoul National University's SOLARS
Yonsei University, Central Library
- Yonsei University, Graduate School Theses (full-text)
Koryô Taehakkyo, Tosôgwan
Ewha Women's University Library
Hong-Ik University, Central Library



Japan

CiNii - National Institute of Informatics, Japan (Full Text)
The CiNii in Japan provides three millionen (!) full text articles published in Japanese journals and by research institutions. Many of these can be downloaded free of charge, others are available for a fee (with the $20 annual subscribtion this fee is usually between $1 and $10).


USA

A (by category) & B (by state)
A Guide to Korean Collections in North America (by: Yoon-whan Choe)
The Korean Collections Consortium of North America
Korean Collections in North America
U.S. Holdings of Kyujanggak Collection on Microfilm
East Asian Librarianship (incl. KOREA)
Z39.50 Gateway (over 200 libraries in the US and elsewhere)
Library of Congress (Korean collection: ~160,000)
       Search
       Korean Bibliography (A bibliography of approximately 4,800 records
       of books about Korea in English up to 1995 held by the Library
       of Congress.)
       National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from the
       Library of Congress
       RLIN AMC File Search Form (for manuscripts)
 HOLLIS (Harvard On-Line Library Information System) (Korean collection: ~100,000)
       Lamont Library: ELECTRONIC RENEWAL
       Frances Loeb Library (GSD): ELECTRONIC RENEWAL

   Tip:

    Interlibrary Loan from non-Harvard libraries:
    You can save some time if you make your interlibrary loan via e-mail. Send your e-mail request to the Interlibrary Loan Office ( illweb@fas.harvard.edu, Tel. 495-2972) at Widner and include the following information: (1) Your name, (2) address, [(3) telephone number], (4) Harvard ID#, (5) university status, e.g. GSAS, (6) full bibliographic information of the book(s) or article(s) you need, (7) quoted in ..., (8) willing to pay up to $... for Xeroxes etc.
HOLLIS / e-resources (Harvard) University of Washington (Korean collection: ~66,000) --> More Info
U.C. Berkeley, Korean Collection. Search Melvyl and Gladis Databases (Korean collection: ~53,000) (Melvyl and Gladis Databases show holdings for all nine UC campuses and other libraries.)
University of Hawaii (Korean collection: ~49,000)
Columbia University (Korean collection: ~47,000)
New York Public Library (Korean collection: ~37,000)
Los Angeles Public Library (Korean collection: ~29,000)
University of Southern California Library and its Korean Heritage Library (Korean collection: ~38,000)
    The Korean Heritage Library also includes holdings of over 600 videos of North and South Korean feature films and documentaries. The library is making these available to scholars at other institutions in the United States.
    From the library's Web site: "Its current collection includes more than 40,000 books, 500 serials, 650 video cassettes, 2,000 reels of microfilm, 200 maps (including 170 antique maps), several hundred photographs, and significant holdings of archival materials. The KHL's particular strengths are in Korean newspapers, Korean-American and immigration history, Korean cinema, journalism and mass media, Korean independence movements, the Korean War, and local materials of the Cholla-do region."

Princeton University (Korean collection: ~14,000)
Indiana University (Korean collection: ~15,000)
University of Chicago (Horizon) (Korean collection: ~22,000)
       Center for Research Libraries (CRL) --> Info
Yale University (ORBIS) (Korean collection: ~10,000)
Stanford University
Cornell University
University of Maryland, College Park (Korean collection: ~5,000)
University of Oregon (Korean collection: ~3,500)
MIT (BARTON)

 

Canada

University of Toronto (Korean collection: ~10,000)
University of British Columbia (Korean collection: ~5,000)

 

Asia and Australia / New Zealand



Europe

Libweb and Z39.50 Gateway

    ECLAS (ECLAS covers the European Union's official publications and documents of most intergovernmental organizations, commercial, academic and government presses, and selected periodical articles.)

 
   

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