Korean Studies   Tags: buddhism, east asia, korean  

• Glossary of Korean Studies (한국학 영문 용어/용례 사전)

• Thesaurus for classical terms (고전 용어 시소러스)

• Korean History terms Thesaurus (한국 역사 용어 시소러스)

Articles Databases

• E-Korean Studies [ASU ID required]  Kor/Eng/Chi/Jap service
  One stop search for a group of Korean electronic databases (KISS, KoreaA2Z, Kdatabase, KSI e-book, LawnB, etc.)

• KISS [ASU ID required] Kor/Eng service
  available via e-korean Studies with ASU ID
  Full-text scholarly articles in Korean language

• DBpia
  Personal ID required
  Full-text scholarly articles mostly in Korean language for all disciplines

• RISS
  Personal ID required
  RISS provides full-text scholarly articles for all disciplines. Mostly the articles are written in Korean.

• KOSSDA (Korea Social Science Data Archive, 사회과학자료온라인 서비스) Kor/Eng service
  Provides research and statistical data in Social Science via Korea Foundation membership login (open to anyone)

• National Digital Library (국가전자도서관)
  The largest information database for materials on pre-1950 Korea with particularly rich contents on the Japanese Occupation period. Old newspapers (pre-1945), official gazettes (1894-1910), periodicals (pre-1950), more than 1400 Korean academic journals, and the original images of Korean rare books and old maps are available online through more than 70 databases of eight Korean national libraries.
  Available library: the National Library of Korea (국립중앙도서관), the National Assembly Library (국회도서관), the Supreme Court Library (법원도서관), the KAIST Digital Science Library (한국과학기술원 과학도서관), the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (한국과학기술정보연구원), the Korea Education & Research Information Service (한국교육학술정보원), the Korea Agricultural Science Digital Library (농촌진흥청 농업과학도서관), and the Korea Knowledge Portal (국가지식포털).
  Limited functionality outside Korea.

Article Searching Portal Services

• Kyobobook Scholar  교보 학술검색 Kor service
  Provides Korean articles searching service

• Naver Scholar Servcie 네이버 학술검색   Kor service
  Provides Korean articles searching service

Open Access Repositories of universities of South Korea: Researchers may find diverse academic artifacts including dissertation, thesis, conference presentations and others which are published in South Korea.

• dCollection.net
  219 Korean universities and academic institutions are participated in dCollection.

• dSpace
  6 Korean universities and academic institutions are participated in dSpace: Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Inha University, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resource, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affair, Korea Institute for Internatioal Economic Policy

• Jstor
  his database provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences.

• Bibliography of Asian Studies
  Covers western-language materials in the field of Asian Studies. Indexes books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes,conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc.

• ProQuest : Journal articles
ProQuest provides access to a collection of databases for the arts, business, dissertations & theses, health & medicine, history, literature & language, news & newspapers, science & technology, and social sciences. Searches can be run on a single database, on a grouping of databases, or every available database. The ability to search across multiple databases is particularly useful for researching multi-disciplinary topics. Note that direct links to the individual databases in this collection have also been provided under the library’s Research Databases selections.

• Historical Abstracts with Full Text
  Covers the world's scholarly literature in history. Includes full-text articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present

• PAIS International
  Index to political, economic, & social issues in current debate. Covers public & social policy literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations,public administration, government, political science, & other social sciences.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  Supplies up-to-date bibliographic informationand research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

• DB of Korean classics   Kor/Eng/Chi/Jap service
  Provides sources translated into Korean which are written in Chinese.

• The Annals of the Choson Dynasty (조선왕조실록, 朝鮮王朝實錄)   Kor/Eng/Chi/Jap service
  Provides sources translated into Korean which are written in Chinese.
  Provides sources with Korean tranlsation, Chinese texts, and original images.

• Korea History Information Center   Kor/Eng service
  Portal search site for history related primary sources like inscription images, original texts, etc.

• Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies Seoul National University (서울대학교 규장각)   Kor/Eng service

• Jangseogak Royal Archives    Kor/Eng/Chi/Jap service
  Korean Studies Database built by the Academy of Korean Studies.

• Tripitaka Koreana knowlegebase (고려대장경 지식베이스)     Kor/Eng/Chi service
  Tripitaka Koreana, also known the Daejanggyeong, is "a synthesis of all of the Buddha's teachings," composed of three sections, called pitaka, thus the name Tripitaka (三藏). These three including the Sutra Pitaka, the Vinaya Pitaka, and the Abhidharma Pitaka.

• Nambuk Hoedam (남북회담, 南北會談)   Kor/Eng Service
  Provides records and minutes about the dialogues between South Korea and North Korea.

• Korean Statistical infromation Service   Kor/Eng Service
  Provides statistical information researched by Korean Government.

• National Archives of Korea    Kor/Eng/Chi/Jap service
  Provides Government documents.

• National Assembly Library   Kor/Eng service

• KoreaA2Z database  Korean service
  Provides a collection of full text databases on a variety of subjects including primary sources, reference resources, classical literature, newspapers and other books. It also includes Digital Culture Art Course (디지털문화강좌), VOD lectures including over 900 courses under 7 subjects for continuing education.

• Korean Film Database (한국 영화 데이타베이스)  Enlgish Service