Korean Studies

A collection of ebooks; many are reference works covering major aspects of Korean civilization.

More than 1,330 titles of Korean classics provided by the Korean Classics Research Institute.

Cross search multiple history databases.

Statistics Korea is a government agency responsible for the dissemination of various statistical data.

Fulltext articles from 1500 academic journals in 11 subject areas (business/economics, arts & recreation, education, engineering, humanities, language & literature, law & public administration, medicine, natural sciences, social sciences, theology).

Large general database of articles from scholarly journals and a few newspapers covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

BAS lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.

Find articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, published in over 2,000 journals from many countries. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see America: History & Life.

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals from a range of disciplines. Coverage usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present.

Search the full text of nearly 400 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s.

Searchable full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, mostly from North American university presses. Older volumes are often available from JSTOR.

Full-text archive of major, local, internet, and industry newspapers, magazines, and TV reports since 1990. Some publications go back to the period of Japanese rule.

Scanned images of Kyŏnghyang sinmun 京鄉新聞, Tonga ilbo 東亞日報, and Maeil kyŏngje sinmun 每日經濟新聞 from 1920 to 1999.

Searchable in Asian scripts (by changing "Language" to specific languages). Includes company and business information, articles from newspapers (Korea Herald, Korea Times, etc.) and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News Pages" on top to browse headline news from major publications. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time.

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Pittsburgh Courier, NY Amsterdam News, Baltimore Afro-American, Washington Post, and The Guardian & The Observer.

Information from thousands of foreign media sources: speeches, radio, television, newspapers, periodicals, and books. Includes unclassified military, political, environmental, sociological, scientific and technical data. All translated into English.

UVa Libraries catalog

Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries in North America and some other countries.

Full text (PDF) of most US dissertations from 1997 on, many earlier works and some from outside the US plus some master's theses. Also lists all dissertations and theses from 1861 on from US universities and some works from Europe and Asia from 1637 on. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

See also Finding Dissertations

Established by KERIS (Korea Education & Research Information Service) under the South Korean Ministry of Education. Services include national union catalog, full text access to theses, dissertations and journal articles.