Thursday, October 25, 2007

Useful resources for Korean & East Asian Studies

1. Searching tips for the National Library of Korea’s full-text databases and online catalogs : http://www.nl.go.kr
-> NLK provides full text access to NLK’s digitized materials
-> Collections: rare books, government daily report (1894-1945). Monographs (1945-1997), publication from Ministry of culture and Tourism, newspapers (before 1950). Rare periodicals (before 1950), doctoral dissertations in humanities,
Japanese materials (before 1945), academic journal articles, Korean Classics 100, foreign materials on Korea (before 1945), Classic novels in Korean Hangul, selected novels in the New Literature Movement, old maps, overseas collections.

2. Korea Education &Research Information Services-RISS4U: http://riss4u.net
->Books and Foreign E-Books: Provides an index of 7.9 million books and scanned/digital information on book and multi-media materials (CD-ROMs, videos, etc.) held by 564 university and professional libraries in Korea. In addition, 35,000 eBooks from the OCLC netLibrary are provided free of charge.
->Scientific Journals and Papers Published in Scientific Journals: Provided full text for 1.03 million papers published in scientific journals issued by domestic institutes and university laboratories (450,000 in the KERIS DB are free of charge, but 580,000 held in private DBs are subject to a fee for use). Also provided are issue number information, holding information, TOCs, and photocopies of Scientific journals(periodicals), including 27.32 million foreign periodicals held by domestics libraries.
->Theses: 570,000 Master’s/PhD theses from 160 Korean universities and 24,000 Doctoral theses by Korean conducting research in foreign universities are free of charge.
In addition, index information, holding information, and photocopy information on domestic theses are provided.
->Theme Information: Provides foreign information in digital form (public foreign electronic information, foreign eBook services, international doctoral theses) as well as the full text of domestic scientific journals and theses. All these are provided in 8 themes (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medicine and pharmacology, fine arts/physical education, and education).
->Research Support Information: In order to provide support for domestic researchers the curriculum and transcripts of lectures of foreign universities, full text of research reports published by KERIS, information on major institutes, and reports and statistics from international organizations are all provided as completely as possible. In addition, information on major domestic researchers and labs, major academic organizations and university libraries is also provided.

3. Korean Study of Confucian Classics: http://koco.skku.edu
->Digitalizing “the complete collection of the Korean Study of Confucian Classics”
->133 volumes 130,472 pages, 23,906,171 chinese characters.
->Searching by classification, annotation, authors, and title.
->Providing full-texts and images
->Introduction in Korean, English, Chinease, and Japanese

4. Korean Genealogical Table : http://jokbo.skku.edu
->Digitalizing the genealogical records before 1910
->100 volumes 15 families
->Searching by Family Title, Name/Nickname and national civil service examination records
->Providing detail statistical data
->Introduction in Korea, English, Chinese, and Japanese

5. Original Image DB of the Classics: http://oldbook.skku.edu
->Oriental Publication’s searching engine
->Expanded searching by call number, index and edition
->Original images: 774 titles 3,035 volumes 469,498 pages
->Focused on Korean Literature and Confucian Classics
->PDF Type

6. DANSEOUNG Census Register DB : http://ddmh.skku.edu
->Digitalizing of the records between the 17th century and the 18th century of the DANSEOUNG Census Register
->Excel+Image

7 Korean History DB : http://db.history.go.kr
->The Korean History Database is a system designed to provided access to research materials related to Korean History at NIKH.
->Database Types: Full-text DBs, Image DBs (Metadata+Index: name,place, organization, school, company union, event, government service, books, country, a reign-style, etc.)
->Reference for Metadata set
->Providing Chinese Character Text Digitizing Service

8. Korean History On-Line: http://www.koreanhistory.or.kr
->History portal System manages by NIKH as Korean History Information Center
->Integrated search services on historical materials stored at many information centers all over Korea.
->Database is composed of Metadata from organization memebers
->Directly linked to information centers’ website for full-text and image by URL
->Providing Chinese Character to Hangul Dictionary
->Categories:
Old Books/Old Documents/Books
/Documents/Periodicals/Classical/Research/

9. Korea Knowledge Portal : http://www.knowledge.go.kr
->Integrated Search Service: 250 million articles pertaining to 10 fields (education and academic, Science and technology, culture, history, IT, construction and transportation, legislation, industry and economics, maritime, and bio-medicine) are being provided.
->Korea Knowledge Forum: Information such as a Korean Knowledge Q&A are provided to enable mutual exchange of in-depth details regarding national knowledge.
->Korea Knowledge Bank: Provides information on the best and most recommended national knowledge.

10. National Archives Portal Service : http://contents.archives.go.kr
->Search by Government field: The archives held by the service are divided into a total of 28 government fields such as government affairs, budget and finance, national unification, international trade, and science and technology, etc. The fields are again divided into sub-categories to enable searching according to a more specific area of interest.
->Search by Theme: The archives can be searched by 10 different themes including people, projects, and historical events.
->Search by Organization and Function: The archives can be classified according to the corresponding government organization and function, and categorized according to the functioning of the existing 36 government organization such as the Office of Government Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Ministry of Planning and Budget, etc.
-> Major Collection: Among the archives held by the National Archives and Records Service, items that have high query requests or belong to themes that have high social interest are provided in groups. There are a total of 8 collections including the Chosun Government-General records, liberation movement rulings, Cabinet meeting records, and Presidential archives.

11. Korea Press Foundation-KINDS: http://www.kinds.or.kr
->Major Domestic Newspaper Articles: Provides articles from 10 general dailies within the Seoul region, 32 general dailies in areas other than Seoul, 7 economic newspapers, 3 TV broadcast news providers, 13 Internet news sites, 2 English newspapers, and 96 regional newspapers.
->Other Press Material: Provides scanned images of 13 newsletters and 5 professional magazines, as well as scans from the Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul Newspaper, Hankok Ilbo, and Kyunghyan Newspaper between 1966-1989, and the Korean and English versions of the Donglip Newspaper, and the Daehan Maeil Shinbo.

12. National Assembly Information System: http://www.assmbly.go.kr
->Legislation Information: Provides searching and introductory materials on current Korean laws, proposed bills and legislative revisions
->Budget and Settlements Information: Provides information on budgets and settlements as well as the minutes of meetings of the special committee for budgets and settlements.
->Government Inspections Information: Provides information on government inspection plans, minutes of meetings, results reports, and government corrections and processing results by each committee of National Assembly.
->Acts Information: Provides information on all proposed bills, acts, budget proposals, budgets in process, review plans submitted to the National Assembly, and the review reports for the submissions.
->Meeting Minutes: Provides the full minutes recorded for meeting held by the National Assembly, including General Meetings, committees, special committees, and government inspections.

13.Finance Supervisory Service Electronic Corporate Filings System : http://darts.fss.or.kr
->Corporate Filings: Provides corporate disclosure information such as financial statements (quarterly, semi-annual), securities reports, audit reports, and listing of major shareholders. For a detailed business profile, corporate history, areas of business, financial statements, and profile on major officers, refer to the annual, semi-annual, and quarterly financial statements.
->Corporate Overview: Provides general profile information (corporate address, CEO profile, contact information, ticker symbol, fiscal year, etc.) on companies listed on the local securities exchanges.
->Public Subscription Bulletin: Provides information on companies preparing to list on the local exchanges or offering bond subscriptions.

14. Samsung Economic Research Institute SERI: http://www.seri.org
-> SERI directory: Information within the SERI site is organized according to several directories: management, economy, industry, and policy. Each of these directories is further divided into more specific directories to more effectively provide reports as well as news and professional forum information of other organization.
-> SERI Reports: Provides SERI research reports, hot issue papers for CEOs, major trend analysis of the Korean economy, SERI hosted seminar materials, economic indices, and comparative statistical information on the “Korea/China/Japan economy”, industry, society, and technology.
->Open Knowledge Zone: Provides information produced through proposals, debates, research, and sharing among the one-million members of SERI.
->InfoCenter: Provides information such as summary of materials from major domestic organizations, domestic news, theses, conferences, and introduction of professionals in each field.
->External information Source: Provides corporate information on major companies listed on the KOSPI and KOSDAQ, as well as commodities information such as precious metals, non-ferrous metals, energy, and grains.

15. National Statistics Portals: http://www.kosis.kr
->Theme Statistics: National production statistics are classified into 17 theme directories including population/household, employment/labor/income, budget/finance and law/administration, each of which Is further divided into sub-theme statistical information.
->Statistics by Organization: National production statistics are classified according to central administrative organizations (Statistical Service, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, etc), regional administrative organizations (Seoul, Pusan, etc.), financial organizations (Bank of Korea, KB, etc.), and other co-operatives, unions, corporation, and research organizations.
->Statistics by Name: Domestic statistics are provided in alphabetical order
->International Statistics: International Statistics data are provided according to the categories of population, labor and environment. Major statistics indices provided by the OECD, APEC, ASEM members are also included.

Data/Bibliographies
and Annotated/Catalogues/Biographies/Mpas/Dictionaries/Chronology/Multimedia data/ Historical Relics & Sites/ Epigraph

16. Digital Hangeul Museum : http://www.hangeulmuseu.org
->Contains an explanation about various Hangeul references as well as images of their original documents.

17. 21st Century Sejong Project : http://www.sejong.or.kr
->Words and professional terms were organized to computerize the language resources and the data were computerized and compiled into an electronic dictionary to implement the information structure.