University of Iowa Chinese Collection

News from Chinese Collection:

(10/01/2006) Research Guide: Chinese Journalism and Mass Communication
(02/25/2006) Research Guide: Chinese and Comparative Literature
(01/26/2006) Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) Intranet Version: This is the electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu. It features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works in 36,000 volumes or 4.7 million pages, which includes works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, technology, etc. As the largest encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works, it is the single richest source for Chinese studies.
(08/25/2005) Siku Quanshu Database: This Database contains all the titles newly classified according to the Library of Congress Classification System.
(03/31/2004) Chinese Journals: This New Database is a complete collection of over 900 journal titles (current and ceased) available from our collection.
(01/20/2004) Research Guide: Chinese Religous Studies
(12/05/2003) Monograph Serials: This New Database contains about 1,100 titles.
(10/20/2003) Research Guide: Chinese History Studies
(09/25/2003) Research Guide: Chinese Film Studies
(08/30/2003) We have created and implemented a new database Web page which allows users to display and search our new acquisitions on a monthly basis. Please check out the new acquisition entry on the menu list.
(08/15/2003) We now have a subscription to an online database of journal articles--China Academic Journals (CAJ): Literature/History/Philosophy(UI access only), part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), provided by East View. This database covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts. It includes back files dated back to 1994 and features more than 639,000 articles.
On the following Web page, you can click on the link "China Academic Journals", which will lead to the search interface. When you choose the Chinese search interface, please be sure to enter keywords or phrases either in simplified Chinese or in traditional Chinese, in accord with the fonts you choose (either GB or Big5).
The database provides full texts in CAJ and PDF formats. You may need to download the CAJ reader (from the search interface) to view CAJ full texts and Acrobat Reader (if your computer does not have one) to view PDF texts.