University Libraries - East Asian Collections

The following is a list of institutions whose library online catalogs feature Chinese collections:

• University of Iowa InfoHawk
• WorldCat (UI access only): a database from OCLC’s FirstSearch service. WorldCat provides simultaneous searching of the catalogs of the Big Ten universities, along with 2,000 other libraries around the world. Users can request an item by interlibrary loan through WorldCat.
• CRLCATALOG: the catalog of the Center for Research Libraries, a cooperative organization operated by 150 university, college and research library members. The purpose of the Center for Research Libraries is to make available to the scholarly community research materials that are rarely held in North American Libraries. The Center has collections of over 3.6 million volumes and 1.1 million microforms.
• CIC/Big Ten University library catalogs for materials in Big Ten University Libraries and University of Chicago Library:
  • Indiana University
  • Michigan State University
  • Northwestern University
  • Ohio State University
  • Penn State University
  • Purdue University
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Other Notable Online Catalogs Featuring Chinese Collections:
  • United States:
    • Harvard University
    • Yale University
    • Princeton University
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Columbia University
    • Cornell University
    • Duke University
    • University of Pittsburgh
  • U.K. and Europe:
    • Chinese Catalog at University of Oxford
    • The Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library
    • UK Union Catalogue of Chinese Books
    • European Virtual OPAC for Chinese Studies(EVOCS): simultaneously search the holdings of major Sinological libraries in Europe
    • Sinological Serials in European Libraries Project(SSELP) provided by European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
    • University of Heidelberg
    • Online Bibliographies for Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University
  • Canada:
    • University of Toronto
    • Universty of British Columbia
  • Australia:
    • The University of Melbourne
    • Australian National University
    • University of Sydney
• Online Catalogs in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan:
  • China:
    • National Library of China
    • Beijing University Library and its catalog
    • Qinghua (Tsinghua) University Library
    • Fudan University Library
  • Hong Kong:
    • University Library at Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Taiwan:
    • National Central Library
    • National Taiwan University
    • Fu Ssu-nien Library at Academia Sinica