Locating Books on Your Topic
- Chinamaxx Digital Library of Chinese eBooks 1949+ This link opens in a new window中国文史资料集粹. This is an e-book collection of over 870,000 titles in Chinese. You can search the full database (click on the Trail button) and see the first 17 pages of any book. If you want the library to buy it, please click on the recommend button.
- WorldcatFind out which libraries own what materials and borrow them through Interlibrary Loan.
- CALIS - 中国高等教育数字图书馆You might be interested in finding out what kinds of books on your topic are held in Chinese libraries.
Locating Journal Articles
- China Academic Journals (Chinese interface) 1994+ This link opens in a new windowSmith has a subscription for full-text access to articles published in the humanities and social sciences since 1994. Search using simplified Chinese characters.
- China Academic Journals (English interface) 1994+ This link opens in a new windowExactly the same content but with an English search screen. You should still search in Chinese for the best results, although you will have some luck in English.
- PerioPathThis can be a very slow site, but it is a good way to find out what has been published in Taiwanese journals. We do not have the full-text so you will need to use Interlibrary Loan to get the articles.
- Hong Kong Journals OnlineFull-text scholarly articles totally focussed on Hong Kong.
