English Language
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a repository of digital content from 50 research libraries, including electronic versions of nearly 8 million books at the time of writing.
Note: As of May 2023, Oberlin is a HathiTrust member. Oberlin students, faculty, and staff can access member features by clicking on the “LOG IN” button, choosing “Oberlin College and Conservatory”, and using their ObieID to authenticate.
- E-books in East Asian Languages and Societies - CEDAR publicationProvided by Western Washington University.
Academic papers, books for open access in the EAS studies by Cedar Publication. - Men, Women and Gender in China by Brill PublicationTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of the periodical _Nannü 男女 Men, Women and Gender. , Brill is allowing free downloads of a selected article from each volume.
Chinese Studies
- Duxiu This link opens in a new window读秀 - 知识库
Content-based database searching full-text Chinese books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers. Results are readable on-line, or sendable by email to oneself.
读秀"是由海量全文数据及资料基本信息组成的超大型数据库，为用户提供深入到图书章节和内容的全文检索，部分文献的原文试读，以及高效查找、获取各种类型学术文献资料的一站式检索，周到的参考咨询服务，是一个真正意义上的学术搜索引擎及文献资料服务平台。
- Center for Chinese Studies - Open Access漢學研究中心
Provides full text access to most their publications. Please refer to the title for access. - 全國圖書館參考咨訊聯盟Provides indexes or full text for publications in China via Chinese National Libraries Alliance Reference Services, including newspapers, journals, dissertations, conference papers, eBooks and so on.
- 台灣華文電子書庫 E-Books National Cental Library TaiwanNational Central Library (NCL) is an important repository and disseminator of resources for academic research in Taiwan and abroad.
Many libraries and archives in Taiwan have in their holdings works published between 1911-1949, as publications from this period record various aspects of its history, culture, literati, geography, art, literature, society, politics, and economy.
Japanese Studies
- Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei detabesu This link opens in a new windowComplete database for Japanese magazines and periodicals from the Meiji era to the present. Index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Coverage is from 1868 onwards.
- Asahi Cross Search (Old title聞蔵Ⅱビジュアル海外版 Kikuzo Ⅱ Visual)聞蔵Ⅱビジュアル海外版 Kikuzo Ⅱ Visual KIKUZO Visual II - Asahi shinbun database has become
Asahi Cross Search - new interface.
- CiNii Articles This link opens in a new windowCiNii Article Database is a Japanese scholarly journal index. Abstracts are available. Includes NDL Zasshi Kiji Sakuin search. Many full text articles from Daigaku Kiyo are available in pdf. Can search holding institutions. Can save your bibliographic information in three different formats. CiNii Articles Database is developed and managed by the National Institute of Informatics. Main databases included in CiNii Articles: Electronic Library Service Academic Society Journals (National Institute of Informatics), Electronic Library Service Research Bulletins (joint input from each university), Citation Database for Japanese Publications (National Institute of Informatics), Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (National Diet Library), Institutional Repository (Universities, etc.), JAIRO - Japanese Institutional Repositories Online, J-STAGE Journal Archive (Japan Science and Technology Agency).
- NDL Digital Collection and Exhibitions 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクションについてThe National Diet Library offers online galleries of digitized material with detailed English descriptions. The digitized content can be browsed on an English interface; however, the bibliographic information is available only in Japanese and must be searched using Japanese characters as well.
- The Meiji at 150 Project - University of British Columbia in VancouverThe 2017-2018 Academic Year sees the 150th anniversary of Japan’s 1868 Meiji Restoration, an epochal political revolution that sparked Japan’s remarkable modernization, dramatic cultural transformation, and rapid emergence onto the global stage.
- Koshiki-database (講式データべース)Providing bibliographical references to more than 370 works of Buddhist liturgical texts used for the last 1000 years (starting around the year 980), the koshiki-database was closed down in 2019 but archived and stored as a ZIP-file for free download.
- Japanese Animated Film Classicsfull-view available online (some with English subtitle)
- Japanese Historical Text Initiative - UC BerkeleyThe Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is an electronic research database hosted by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley that is designed to aid research in Japanese history and literature in two ways:
• You can search through a vast amount of source material in the Japanese original and the English translation
• You can browse the Japanese original and/or the English translation of any word or string of words, or any character or string of characters, being studied - Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei Honbun Database日本古典文學大系
National Institute of Japanese Literature
Japanese literature collection originally published by Iwanami Shoten in 102 volumes from 1957-1968. Consists of major works from ancient time to early 20th century, full-text and searchable by keyword. Search can be for the complete collection or limited to individual volumes. (OPEN ACCESS VIA INSTITUTION ONLY) - search the Aozora Bunko corpusThe Aozora Bunko corpus of the Textual Optics Lab at the University of Chicago represents the complete collection of out-of-copyright texts on the Aozora Bunko/青空文庫 website (https://www.aozora.gr.jp/), which represents most of the major literary figures of the modern period. The dates of first publication for about half of the texts were added to this corpus, which incorporates the extensive descriptions provided for each of the texts by Aozora volunteers.
Korean Studies
- Digitalization of Korean HistoryThe NIKH has established a systematic database and internet service network for the purpose of facilitating the investigation, collection, exhibition, and release of historical materials in cooperation with related institutions. The Korean history database (http://db.history.go.kr) provides original text of important historical materials. Basic historical materials are digitalized in a chronological order
- Classic Korean TranslationsIncluding Korean literary Collection in Classical Chinese
- SNU Kyujanggak Institute for Korean StudiesDaily Diaries of Choson kings (Choson Wangjo Sillok and Illseongnok (Records of Daily Reflections)