Nikkei Telecom 21 Database Trial Announcement (October 1 to 31, 2013)

The University of Toronto Libraries currently has a trial subscription to Nikkei Telecom 21 database from October 1 to 31, 2013.

Established in 1876, the Nikkei Inc., Japan’s premier business media organization, is the publisher of the world’s largest business daily The Nikkei – Nihon Keizai Shinbun – with a daily circulation of more than 3 million. Although mainly a business-oriented resource, there are a number of articles relevant to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Nikkei Telecom 21 Database gives you access to numerous sources both in English and Japanese.  Sources include News Flash, Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Nikkei ; morning and evening editions), Article Archive Search (1975 to present), corporate profiles, and Nikkei Who’s Who.  You can also view images of earlier editions (September 1876-) of the Nihon Keizai Shinbun under the section “Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Meiji kara sengo made) [日本経済新聞(明治から戦後まで)] found on the left column of the page.

To access Nikkei Telecom, click on the link below:

https://www.nikkeiamerica.com/telecom21/iplogin/LoginG3.aspx

Please note that access to the Nikkei Telecom 21 during the trial period is only available on campus!

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have regarding the contents or ease of use of this resource. Please also let me know how important this resource is for your research purposes. If you have any questions or require any assistance using this database, feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian at 416-978-2300 or fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.

Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館 now available!

We are pleased to announce that we updated our subscription from Yomidas Bunshokan to Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館.

The Yomidas Rekishikan is the largest newspaper article databse in Japan with over 10 million articles. The coverage date starts as early as the first publication on November 2, 1874. It is an excellent tool to get a deep insight of Japanese social life and customs, history, politics from the Meiji, Taisho, Showa periods, as well as present. In addition to the full-text articles, researchers are also able to search the advertisements.

The four sections of Yomidas Rekishikan include:

• Yomiuri Shinbun 読売新聞: searchable newspaper articles from 1896 to present
• Meiji/Taisho/Showa 明治・大正・昭和: searchable newspaper articles of Yomiuri Shinbun in image format from 1874 to 1989
• Jinbutsu 人物: Who's Who of 26,000 entries
• Daily Yomiuri: the English-language Daily Yomiuri since 1989

In order to access the Yomidas Rekishikan, please use the following permanent link:

http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/90126

We hope you find this resource useful for your research purposes. If you have any questions or would like assistance with using the Yomidas Rekishikan, please feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca

Extended Coverage for Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries (Asahi Shinbun Database)

We are pleased to announce that the coverage for Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries has been extended. Up to now, we had access to Asahi Shinbun full-text articles from 1945 to present. With the new additional package, we gained access to the full-text articles (Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban) as ealry as 1879. Please see below a description of the contents:

Meiji and Taisho Eras: 123,000 pages of the Asahi Shinbun between 1879 (when it was first published) and end of the Taisho era in 1926. Users can view the original newspaper as PDF, and all the articles and advertisements can be searched by dates, section numbers, time-line, keywords, and subject classification.

Pre-War Showa Period (early Showa): 80,000 pages of Asahi Shinbun as images. It covers the period of early Showa through the Great Depression to the post-war Occupation period. In addition, it includes 470,000 advertisements.

In order to search articles from 1879 onwards, make sure you click on the 朝日新聞縮刷版 [Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban] tab.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.

Chinese America: History and Perspectives

"Chinese America: History and Perspectives" is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) to recount history of Chinese Americans through scholarly essays, oral histories, memoirs, and translations. The journal began publication in 1987. Some of its articles are now available at Goliath. Intersted readers can set up temporary logins at Goliath to retrieve these articles for free.

"Chinese America: History and Perspectives" is also available to the UofT community through two databases, Gale and Expanded Academic ASAP. The coverage of both starts from 2001. Access to the two databaes is restricted to current UofT students, faculty and staff.

Free Trial for Additional Features of the Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries

The current coverage of the Kikuzo II (Asahi Shinbun database) includes articles from 1945 to present. We have been offered a free trial (April 1 to May 31, 2010) for a couple of additional features that will expand the coverage to Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods.

Meiji and Taisho Eras: 123,000 pages of the Asahi Shinbun between 1879 (when it was first published) and end of the Taisho era in 1926. Users can view the original newspaper as PDF, and all the articles and advertisements can be searched by dates, section numbers, time-line, keywords, and subject classification.

Pre-War Showa period (early Showa): 80,000 pages of Asahi Shinbun as images. It covers the period of early Showa through the Great Depression to the post-war Occupation period. In addition, it includes 470,000 advertisements.

Your feedback is extremely important! Please tell us what you think of the coverage, content, and how these additional features would be beneficial to your research. If you have any questions, or require any assistance with using this database, contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.

Enjoy the free trial!

New Database Announcement -- China Data Online Now Available in UofT

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is pleased to announce the addition of the Chinese statistics database,China Data Online (CDO), to our array of electronic resources.

From now and on, you can access the database on and off-campus through the UofT Library homepage. Please search for "China Data Online" under the "E-resources" tab to retrieve the CDO connection record.

CDO aggregates comprehensive Chinese statistics at the national, provincial and local levels with the earliest data traced back to 1949. The database covers:

• Monthly Statistics
• National/Provincial/City/County Statistics
• Monthly Industrial Data
• Yearly Industrial Data
• National/Provincial/City Yearbooks
• Economic census
• Industrial census
• Census 1982
• Census 1982(10%)
• Census 1990
• Census 1995(1%)
• Province Census 2000
• County Census 2000
• Census 2005(1%)
• Advanced Census Data search,
.............

Please feel free to share the CDO information with your UofT colleagues and students. For any problems or issues with CDO, please direct your questions to Lucy Gan (email:lucy.gan@utoronto.ca; phone: 416-978-1025).

Full Access to Zassaku Plus!

We are pleased to announce that we now have the full subscription to Koseisha's Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Detabesu (雑誌記事索引集成データベース ; Complete [Index] Database for Japanese Magazines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to Present). The database is based on 120 print volumes of the Cumulative Index to Magazines and Periodicals in the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods with over 11 million entries.

The Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei Detabesu is available at the following URL:

http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=895671

If you have any questions or comments about this resource or would like some help with using it, please feel free to contact Fabiano Rocha, Japan Studies Librarian, at fabiano.rocha@utoronto.ca.

Siku Quanshu (四庫全書, SKQS) Available Now Through the Internet Archive

The Chinese book project Siku Quanshu (The Complete Library of Four Treasures, 四庫全書) has been deemed as an essential resource for Chinese humanity studies. Initiated by Emperor Qianlong in the late 18th century, the project aimed to collect the most comprehensive information representing the major categories of traditional Chinese knowledge.

The East Asian Library has acquired the ebook database of the Wenyuan Ge copy of Siku Quanshu (文淵閣四庫全書).

In the mean time, we also want to call users' attention to an alternative source for the same set of Wenyuan Ge Siku Quanshu through the Internet Archive (IA), a free and openly accessible digital library project. For the SKQS ebook list in IA, please check the links below:

• 四庫全書 (Siku Quanshu)
• 四庫全書薈要 (Siku Quanshu Hui yao)

While SKQS is available through the Internet Archive, it cannot replace the UofT SKQS database because the IA version has NOT acquired the fulltext keyword search functionality, which is available in the UofT database. But for non-UofT users, the SKQS collection in the Internet Archive will be of great value.

For more information about the IA SKQS or the UofT SKQS database, please contact Stephen Qiao (stephen.qiao@utoronto.ca) or Lucy Gan (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca).

New Resource: 19th Century British Pamphlets

Historical pamphlets are important, but hard-to-find primary sources that shed light on the key political, social, and environmental issues of the period when they were produced.

The JStor collection brings together over 20,000 pamphlets from seven U.K. insitutions, and is of great research value to scholars and students who study the socio-political and economic landscape of the 19th-century Britain. Of course, because of the interwovenness of the relationship between Britain and East Asia (esp. China) during the 19th century, the collection offers rich historical information on topics such as the Opium War, trade issues between Asia and Britain, and so on. Below is a selected list of pamphlets devoted to issues surrounding China, which is used just to showcase the collection's relevance to EAS:


Title:Considerations on the danger of laying open the trade with India and China: including an examination of the objections commonly urged against the East India Company's commercial and financial management.
Author(s):Cossim
Source:Bristol Selected Pamphlets,(1812)
Contributor(s): University of Bristol Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60248474

Title:Sketch of a voyage to the India and China seas, including Japan and the Pacific islands, for the purposes of commerce,-improvement,-and discovery,-combined
Author(s):Buckingham, James Silk
Source:Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection,(1830)
Contributor(s): The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60239304

Title:Chinese monopoly examined.
Author(s):Crawfurd, John
Source:Hume Tracts,(1830)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60213131

Title:Observations on the influence of the East India Company's monopoly on the price and supply of tea, and on the commerce with India, China, etc.
Source:Hume Tracts,(1831)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60211979

Title:A Letter to Lord Althorp, on the China trade: occasioned by an article in the "Edinburgh Review," No. CIV.
Source:Hume Tracts,(1833)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60212123

Title:Lecture on the nature and structure of the Chinese language, delivered at University College
Author(s):Kidd, Samuel
Source:Hume Tracts,(1838)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60213143

Title:Opium crisis: a letter addressed to Charles Elliot, Esq., chief superintendent of the British trade with China
Author(s):American merchant
Source:Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection,(1839)
Contributor(s): The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60235738

Title:Opium: the opium trade with China, its effects, etc.
Source:LSE Selected Pamphlets,(1839)
Contributor(s): LSE Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60222721

Title:British opium trade with China.
Source:Hume Tracts,(1839)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60212219

Title:A voice for China: which must be heard, demonstrating that the war with China arises out of our British national opium smuggling, and protesting against such war or reprisals, as bringing upon this nation the guilt and punishment of robbery, piracy, and murder! ;to my countrymen, the Government and my Church
Source:Knowsley Pamphlet Collection,(1840)
Contributor(s): University of Liverpool
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60101277

Title:Corrected report of the speech of Sir George Staunton, on Lord Ashley's motion on the China trade, in the House of Commons, April 7, 1840: with an appendix, containing resolutions on the China trade, moved in the House of Commons, June 13, 1833.
Author(s):Staunton, George Thomas
Source:Hume Tracts,(1840)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60212995

Title:A digest of the despatches on China (including those received on the 27th of March): with a connecting narrative and comments.
Source:Bristol Selected Pamphlets,(1840)
Contributor(s): University of Bristol Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60244305

Title:The Rupture with China, and its causes, including the opium question, and other important details: in a letter to Lord Viscount Palmerston
Author(s):A Resident in China
Source:Knowsley Pamphlet Collection,(1840)
Contributor(s): University of Liverpool
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60100409

Title:Report on the progress of the culture of the China tea plant in the Himalayas: from 1835 to 1847
Author(s):Royle, J. Forbes (John Forbes)
Source:Hume Tracts,(1849)
Contributor(s): UCL Library Services
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60204485

Title:Our policy in China, or, A glance at the past, present, and future of China in its foreign relations and commerce.
Source:Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection,(1858)
Contributor(s): The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60232626

Title:The new quarrel in China: a statement drawn from the official documents.
Source:Knowsley Pamphlet Collection,(1859)
Contributor(s): University of Liverpool
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60101251

Title:The Taeping Rebellion in China: its origin, progress, and present condition, in a series of letters ... ; with an appendix
Author(s):Sykes, William Henry
Source:Knowsley Pamphlet Collection,(1863)
Contributor(s): University of Liverpool
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60101364

Title:Our interests in China: a letter to the Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G.
Author(s):Lay, Horatio N.
Source:Bristol Selected Pamphlets,(1864)
Contributor(s): University of Bristol Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60245202

Title:The population and revenue of China
Author(s):Parker, Edward Harper
Source:Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection,(1897)
Contributor(s): The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University Library
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/60237006
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How to search the pamphlet collection in JStor:

• Go to JStor "Advanced Search"
• Type your search words in the box. You can limit the search in specific fields such as "fullt-text", "item title", "abstract", etc.
• Click the check box of "Pamphlet" to limit your search to this particular type of materials.

Please contact EAL librarians if you have any questions about the resource.

New Database: Foreign Office Files for China -- 1949~1976

The University of Toronto Libraries has recently acquired "Foreign Office Files for China: 1949-1976", a primary source database that makes available the complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan during 1949 and 1976.

The time coverage (1949-1976) is an immensely critical period in modern Chinese history: 1949 marked the founding of the PRC, and in 1976, Mao Zedong passed away. During the time, Britain was one of the few countries that recognized the Communist China, thus the British Foreign Office Files about China are valuable sources for scholars studying post-1949 China.

The Foreign Office’s reporting includes 3 sections with contents covering:

• Eye-witness accounts and detailed reports on life in China, 1949-1976.
• In depth analysis of the Communist Revolution and all the major figures.
• Material on the Korean War, the Cold War, US relations and the Cultural Revolution.

The database currently makes available files in Section I (1949-1956). Section II and III are scheduled to be released in 2010 and 2011.