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The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have trial online access to Duxiu 读秀学术搜索 through June 30, 2008. This trial is available on a temporary basis only. KU Libraries will make a decision about acquiring e-books based on interest, cost, and usability.
With a super search engine, the database has approx. 2,280,000 book titles with searchable TOC, among those, 1,600,000 titles have full-text. Users can read the first 17 pages online of each item found in JPG format. Document Delivery* (DD) method will be used for pages beyound the first 17 pages, with a limit to 50 pages at a time.
* Special reader for Internet Explorer (IE) browser is needed only for pages delivered by the Document Delivery (DD).
Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions on these resources
to Vickie Doll vdoll@ku.edu.
The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have trial online access to e-books on 3 different platforms through May 15, 2008. This trial is available on a temporary basis only. KU Libraries will make a decision about acquiring e-books based on interest, cost, and usability.
Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions on these resources to Judith Emde (jemde@ku.edu).
The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have trial online access to the Otzar Ha-Hochma Online through May 30, 2008. This trial is available on a temporary basis only. KU Libraries will make a decision about subscribing to this electronic resource based on interest, cost, and usability.
The Otzar HaHochma content site is a virtual library containing nearly 23,000 Torah books scanned page after page in their original format. Otzar HaHochma contains ancient and rare books, original manuscripts, periodicals, Torah collections, thousands of contemporary books and more. A plug-in is required for the use of this database and can be found at http://www.cdisys.com/netis/drmclient.asp
Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions on this resource to Nikhat Ghouse (nghouse@ku.edu).
The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have trial
online access to the Oxford
African American Studies Center (AASC) through August 31, 2008.
This trial is available on a temporary basis only. KU Libraries will make a
decision about subscribing to this electronic resource based on interest, cost,
and usability.
AASC provides reference resources in African American studies. At its core,
AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History
1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America,
Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine, published in March 2005; and Africana,
a five-volume history of the African and African American experience. The Center
also includes content from forthcoming print publications including the African
American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of
African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition
to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's
reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American
Literature and selected articles from other reference works. Core reference
content is enhanced by bibliographies, interactive timelines and maps, thematic
photo essays and image collections, key primary source documents, and editorially
selected links to Internet resources.
Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions on this resource
to Deborah Dandridge (ddandrid@ku.edu).
The Lawrence and Edwards campuses of the University of Kansas now have trial online access to Scripta Sinica (漢籍全文資料庫) and the Grand Secretariat Archives (內閣大庫檔案) through May 15, 2008. See details below. This trial is available on a temporary basis only. KU Libraries will make a decision about acquiring e-books based on interest, cost, and usability.
KU East Asian Library has been working with other East Asian libraries in North America of a consortium purchase databases by the Academia Sinica, namely the Scripta Sinica (漢籍全文資料庫) and the Grand Secretariat Archives (內閣大庫檔案) produced by 中央研究院歷史語言研究所. The Academia Sinica recently agreed to open these two databases to E. Asian libraries for subscription without the special collaborating/partnership requirement.
1. Scripta Sinica (漢籍全文資料庫)
The largest and the most authoritative full-text database for the study of pre-modern China. It has a collection of about 430 full-text Chinese pre-modern works in all subject areas.
Major works include 二十五史, 明實錄, 清實錄, 大清會典事例, all titles in 十通, 大正新脩大藏經, 全上古三代秦漢三國六朝文, 全唐文, etc. New content is being added regularly.
Many of you are familiar with the free full-text portion of the database. Subscription will allow you to access a lot more full-text such as the 明實錄 and 清實錄, etc.
The database uses only the Traditional Chinese characters at:
* http://140.109.138.249/ihp/hanji.htm
* Click on [免費使用] to log in.
*Only limited number of titles included for the trial.
* A complete title list is at the [書目瀏覽] tab and then click on the [搜尋] button without keying in search terms.
User Instructions is at: http://140.109.138.249/ihp/usermanual.htm (漢籍電子文獻使用說明)
2. Grand Secretariat Archives (內閣大庫檔案) – Documents originally housed in the storerooms of the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty. Portions of the archives had been published under title “明清檔案.”
See http://archive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/mct/ for more information.
[note: KU may not subscribe to this title. Let me know if you have strong reasons for us to subscribe to this title.]
Please send your feedback, evaluation, comments, and questions on these resources to Vickie Doll vdoll@ku.edu.