Japanese resources

in

AsiaPortal by NIAS

Naomi Yabe Magnussen

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

University of Oslo Library

NAJS at Swedish Institute of International Affiars

18th May 2017

• About NIAS and AsiaPortal – Japanese

• Examples of Japanese resources

• Additional information

• Asian resources - crossing borders between Japan,

Korea and China

• Demonstration: some databases

NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

• NIAS provides support for Asian studies in the Nordic

countries

• NNC (Nordic NIAS Council): 26 member institutions in 5

Nordic countries

• NIAS operates website AsiaPortal

• AsiaPortal E-resources offers databases and journals etc.

Some free, some licensed

• Only NNC member institutions have access to licensed

resources at Asiaportal

Nordic NIAS Council member institutions 2017

Denmark

• Copenhagen business school

• University of the Faroe Islands

• Royal Danish Defence College

• University of Aalborg

• University of Aarhus

• University of Copenhagen

Sweden

• Dalarna University

• FOI: Swedish Defence Research

Agency

• Gothenburg University

• Lund University

• Stockholm University

• Uppsala University

Greenland

• University of Greenland

Norway

• UiT:Arctic University of Norway

• University of Bergen

• University of Oslo

• Norwegian University of Science and

Technology

• Norwegian Scool of Economics and

business administration

• Peace Research Institute Oslo

Finland

• Aalto University School of Business

• University of Jyväskylä

• University of Helsinki

• University of Tampere

• University of Turku

Iceland

• IcelandUniversity of Iceland

• University of Lkureyri

AsiaPortal E-Resources

• Digital resources for Asian studies

• Both English and original language material

• East Asia: Japanese, Korean and Chinese language

resources

• Free and licensed material

• Access is controlled by IP address

• http://www.asiaportal.info/region/japan/?fwp_region=east-asia

Some Japanese resources

• JapanKnowledge (licensed) - encyclopedies, 日本国語大辞典, 国史大辞典、日本歴史地名体系、イミダス and other dictionaries, full-text 日本古典文学全集 東洋文庫 群書類従 風俗画報 etc

• CiNii – most important academic article (etc) database. Partly OA.

J-STAGE is also important resource. Full text access.

• JACAR (Japan Center for Asian Historical records) (free) – digital

database testifying to Japan’s historical relations in Asia

• National Diet Library Digital Collection (free)

• Newspapers (licensed): Asahi shinbun(朝日新聞), Nikkei（日経新聞）,

Yomidasu（読売新聞） and Japan Times with archives from Meiji

period

• Japan Foundation support japanese databases for all NIAS members

How to become a member to NIAS

There are two categories of membership: research

institute or university

• The membership fee for research institutes is app.

1.600 Euro a year

• The membership fee for universities is app. 5.240

Euro a year

• The membership fee is paid annually

Photodublication service NDL

If you find an article in CiNii which you can’t read in

digital form

• National Diet Library in Japan offers photodublication

service (need to register first, personally or instituion)

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/service/copy3.html

• Kyoto university Library via your institution Library

(Accept IFLA-vaucher)

http://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/service/12733?lang=en

Questions about AsiaPortal E-Resources

Please write e-mail to: Inga-Lill Blomkvist at

NIAS LINC (Library and Information Center)

<ilb@nias.ku.dk>

About Japanese resources: Naomi Yabe Magnussen

<naomi.magnussen@ub.uio.no>

University of Oslo Library’s subject site for Japanese studies

http://www.ub.uio.no/fag/sprak-litteratur/asia-orient/japansk/ - Norwegian

http://www.ub.uio.no/english/subjects/language-literature/japanese-studies/index.html

Some examples of

East Asian resources crossing borders

East Asian resources crossing

borders

• Research on China, Japan and Korea is actively crossing

borders and articles/books are written in all these languages.

• Today no database enables simultaneous cross searching in

Korean, Japanese and Chinese language

• If your research covers several countries - try to use different

language databases (Ex: an article in Japanese language

published in Korea will not be found in Japanese database.)

• Off course Google: But not always reach the depth

Japanese article in Korean database DBpia

Download

Japanese article in Korean database KISS

Download

Korean article are in CiNii and JAIRO

Download

Japanese article in Chinese database WanFang

Japanese article in Chinese database TEPS

Other Japanese language articles in Chinese databases

• National social science database 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库free

• CNKI中国知网(m/CAJ China Academic Journal)

• National Digital Library of theses and Dissertations in Taiwan

台灣博士論文知識加值系統 free