Digital Library for Korean Study

1. Digital Library of Korean Studies/ 한국학 전자도서관

http://lib.aks.ac.kr/solarsweb4/main.asp

This digital library was built by Korean Studies Information Center whose mission is to publish the most comprehensive encyclopedia for Korean Study, to develop a database for Korean Study materials and to digitize of such materials in order to establish better environment for Korean Study researcher around the world and to be the mainstay of the globalization of Korean Study. This database covers all the literature including old rare books ( 고문헌 ) and their catalogs, theses and dissertations, periodicals, non-book materials, as well as regular monograph materials. It also includes various kinds of databases such as historical people, folk culture encyclopedia, Chosun’ art works, and religion related information.

2. DBpia

http://www.dbpia.co.kr/

A search engine for 409 journals published in South Korea

Digital Library in General

1. The National Digital Library

http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/

The national digital library is the most inclusive service that one can retrieve bibliographic and full-text information from a vast database of all collections in 6 major libraries in Korea. It was built as a national level by the government’s efforts to improve national competitiveness in the knowledge-information society of this 21st century by providing needed information through on-line with enhancement and development of the sharing system in national information resources, based on the exemplary effect of information service system in the digital library. The participated major libraries in Korea are t he National Library of Korea, the National Assembly Library of Korea, Supreme Court Library, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), KERIS (Korea Education and Research Information Service), and Science Library of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).

2. The National Assembly Library

http://www.nanet.go.kr

Digital library for thesis and dissertations, academic journals, rare books, government publications, the legislative information, and etc. Users need to be a citizen of Korea. (ask Donghee for use)

3. Portal to Asian Internet Resources

http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/

T he Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources. Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the PAIR Project is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University.

4. Korean Collections Consortium of North America

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/KConsort/

A consortium of 9 University Libraries received funds from the Korea Foundation has shared their allocation of budget to purchase Korean language materials by avoiding duplication of books in each library . Each library has a specialized subject to concentrate on for its acquisition. As a whole, the collections from all of these libraries would constitute a bigger picture of Korean collection covering all areas of Korean Study without any duplications.

5. Korean Study Resources on the World Wide Web

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/chiu/korean.html

Information about the web sites for Korean literature catalogs in a variety of libraries from academic libraries to newspaper archives.

Portal Site to Korea and Korean Studies

1. Korea A 2 Z

http://www.koreaa2z.com/

2. Korea.net

http://www.korea.net

3. Gateway to Korea

http://www.han.com/gateway.html#info

A large list of Korea-related links, classified by subject area.

Other Databases

1. Who’s Who in Korea (JOINS 인물정보 검색 ) by Jung-Ang Ilbo

http://people.joins.com/

2. Korea Integrated News Database System (KINDS)

http://www.kinds.or.kr/

KINDS is the largest service, composed of national dailies, economic dailies, English language newspapers, news bulletins, local dailies, TV main news, magazines and foreign newspapers (global newsbank). It provides full texts of ten major national dailies over three million articles since 1990 and adds about 2 thousand articles in this database everyday.

3. EncyKorea ( 한국민족문화 대백과사전 )

http://www.encykorea.com/encykorea.htm