The AsiaPortal has got a new and more flexible design, an improved search function and some new content! With the new design we are able to make more of the content, new e-resources, events, blogs, podcasts etc, visible on the frontpage. We will still be working for some time on adding more free journals and adjusting the search facilities if needed.
We would be happy to get your feedback so please feel free to send us comments or criticism via the feedback form under Help and Contact or write to us on bib@nias.ku.dk.
We are happy to welcome you to the new website and hope you will find it useful and easy to navigate around!
New e-resources (NNC members only)
Two e-books from Taiwan (NNC only)
春山文藝創刊號：歷史在呼嘯
SpringHill Literati Vol. I A Whistle in History: the Origins of Sorrows and Creativity ISBN: 9789869804240 春山文藝創刊號：歷史在呼嘯 on the AsiaPortal
春山文藝賴香吟專輯：國家與小寫的人
SpringHill Literati Vol. II Hsiang-Yin Lai: State and the People Without History ISBN: 9789869907286 春山文藝賴香吟專輯：國家與小寫的人 on the AsiaPortal
Please note: we can buy individual titles of Taiwanese books from Airiti for online reading if you contact us, just as you can suggest individual titles of Japanese book in KinoDen for purchase. (NNC members only)
New e-resources (free)
Decoding China Dictionary
From the website: ”The Decoding China Dictionary seeks […..]serve as a guide to understanding the official Chinese meaning of key terms in international relations and development cooperation.
Co-authored by a group of China specialists, the Dictionary introduces a selection of frequently used terms with widely different interpretations between liberal democracies and China. The authors build on previous academic work referenced and acknowledged in the Dictionary, as well as decades of personal experience of working with China.” Decoding China Dictionary on the AsiaPortal
NewspaperSG
An online archive of Singapore and Malayan newspapers in English and Chinese, mainly historical material, from 1984 to the present created by National Library Board of Singapore. Not all articles are available for reading online. NewspaperSG on the AsiaPortal
MERAL – Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal
The MERAL Portal is a project of the Myanmar Rectors’ Committee, National Education Policy Commission, Department of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education, with support from EIFL (Electronic information for Libraries) and the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. The MERAL Portal provides free and open access to research publications (from international and local journals, theses, conference papers, etc.) and to teaching and learning materials from Universities in Myanmar. MERAL – Myanmar Education Research and Learning Portal on the AsiaPortal
China Families incl. Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access online
This site allows you to search across 60,000 names of men and women who lived, worked or died in China, between the 1850s and 1940s. The information is drawn from ten different sources, and you can search each one of these individually, but you can also search across all of them. There are many Chinese names here, as well as the names of foreign residents.
The website also includes a list of Chinese, Japanese and English language newspapers published in China and freely accessible online. China Families incl. Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access online
East Asia Digital Library (EADL)
The East Asia Digital Library (EADL) is a portal site focusing on East Asian cultural and scientific resources. The National Library of Korea and the National Diet Library, Japan develop and operate the site collaboratively.
The EADL makes primary materials about East Asia available free of charge and in multilingual format. The East Asia Digital Library (EADL) on the AsiaPortal
Korea Open Access Journals KOAJ
Provided by the National Research Foundation of Korea this website gives access to (at present) 1202 journals of which 52 are available in fulltext. Korea Open Access Journals KOAJ
Exploring Republican China in the USC Digital Library: An Experimental Metadata Analysis
This exploratory study analyzes the metadata of over 1,500 items in various categories from digital collections related to Republican China (1911-1949) in the University of Southern California Digital Library. It uses data visualization, mapping, social network analysis, and other analytic tools to investigate their coverage and connections in terms of geographic locations, timeline, historical figures and events, themes, and possible social networks. The results of this study, particularly the visual mapping and analysis, will help researchers gain a deeper understanding of USC’s Republican China collections. Exploring Republican China in the USC Digital Library: An Experimental Metadata Analysis
The Druk Journal
From the website: “The Druk Journal, now entering its sixth year, is contributing to Bhutan’s growth as a democracy and as a modern nation. It is becoming an increasingly vibrant public space in which we encourage our contributors to expand our national discourse by introducing new ideas and concepts into the Bhutanese conversation.[....]
The Druk Journal thus serves as a vehicle for the development of a community of people who are concerned about national issues and want to participate in the development of policy by thinking publicly and through conversation. Such a community of thinkers will also draw on the experience of other countries in those areas of political, social, economic, and cultural experimentation that are relevant to our own concerns." The Druk journal
Season's greetings
NIAS will be closed for winter holiday from 24 December 2021 until 03 January 2022 and we take this opportunity to wish you all a
