Bibliographies & indexes

To find monographs and journal titles

World Cat (the OCLC Union Catalogue) (off-campus access - SOAS id and password required)

The OCLC Union Catalogue, which provides single point access to the catalogues of thousands of OCLC member libraries around the world, including records in over 400 languages.

Bibliographies / Asia Sources

Links to East Asia related bibliographies from various universities and individuals.

[Japanese titles]

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Books and periodicals held in most academic/research libraries in Japan. Also Japanese language materials held by libraries in the UK. Note: Approximately 10,000 titles held by SOAS are registered in this database. To locate other SOAS holdings, access SOAS online catalogue.

WINE (OPAC of Waseda University Library)

WUL records are not available in NACSIS-Webcat, despite the importance of the collection. WINE uses the same online cataloguing system as SOAS Library.

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Monograph and journal titles with 20,000 titles of PhD dissertations. Select (Ippan shiryo no kensaku / moushikomi ) from the main menu.

Mokuroku Database System at the National Archives of Japan = = 窶倪€板ｧﾅ津ｶ窶｢ﾂｶ窶佛ﾃ吮€禿塒弯ﾆ断[ﾆ耽-ﾆ遅[ﾆ湛ﾆ歎ﾆ湛ﾆ弾ﾆ停ぎ

Non-current government records held at the NA. Also to find the Pre-Meiji documents transferred from Naikaku Bunko. Japanese only.

Japanese Information on books

Japanese books in print. Displays Japanese scripts but no need to install Japanese font.

UK Japan Union Catalogue

To locate Japanese language books held in libraries in the UK. The information is selected from the NACSIS-Webcat. Note: Approximately 10,000 titles held by SOAS were registered to this database. To locate SOAS holdings, access SOAS online catalogue

[Korean titles]

Haksul Chongbo Tonghap Komsaek

The Korea Education & Research Information Services union catalogue of the university libraries in Korea.

The National Assembly Digital Library

Provides Book Catalog, Doctoral and Masters Theses Catalog, Government Publications and more through the NADL. Need to install Korea Supporting S/W to the English version of Windows before use.

To find journal articles

Bibliography of Asian Studies [info]

To locate English language articles on Japan and Korea. Available on-site only.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) (off-campus access - SOAS id and password required)

Articles from arts and humanities journals from 1981 onwards. Also includes the cited references from indexed articles. Available off-campus to SOAS staff and students with SOAS id and password.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (off-campus access - SOAS id and password required)

Details about journals articles, books & book reviews relating to the Social Sciences. 1951 onwards. Available off-site to SOAS staff and students with an Athens username and password.

[Japanese articles]

NDL-OPAC

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5.4 million journal articles since 1948. Select ﾅｽGﾅｽ窶ｹLﾅｽ窶禿ｵﾋ・ｸ窶堙固椎ｸﾃｵ (Zasshi kiji sakuin no kensaku / moushikomi) from the main menu.

Japanese Periodical Index = ﾅｽGﾅｽ窶ｹLﾅｽ窶禿ｵﾋ・ｸ (Zasshi Kiji Sakuin File)

Over 5,600 Japanese journals published between 1975 and the present. On site only with user ID (WUO10083) and password (WUO85071).

[Database of the Gordon W. Prange Collections (1945-1949)] = ﾃｨ窶氾固ﾃｺﾅｽGﾅｽ窶ｹLﾅｽ窶禿ｮ窶｢ﾃｱﾆ断[ﾆ耽ﾆ遅[ﾆ湛