East Asia Library

Simon Shi from Superstar Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) will come to demonstrate some of the latest features of the Duxiu (读秀知识库) and Chinamaxx e-book databases and answer questions.

Location: East Asia Library, 4th floor Meyer Library
Date: February 9, 2010
Time: 12 - 1 pm

Chinamaxx
http://www.chinamaxx.net/
Chinamaxx is a full-text database of hundreds of thousands of books published in China since 1949 covering the social sciences and humanities, medical and biological sciences, engineering, and law among others.

Duxiu 读秀知识库

The Grand Secretariat Archives features documents originally collected by the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty. The database allows keyword searching for responsible official, title, matter and document number. It includes full-text images of 310,000 documents dated from the Ming dynasty to the late Qing dynasty.
Note: This resource is only available on campus and cannot be accessed from off campus via proxy.

Connect to Grand Secretariat Archives

Group name: lib
UserID: sf001
Password: sfall2009

Full-text and page images of the Yomiuri shinbun from Meiji 7 (1874) to Showa 35 (1960). Searchable by keyword, date, subject or type of article.

Connect to Yomiuri Shinbun Online

Note: Please e-mail Naomi Kotake or call (650) 725-3437 for user name and password.  Available only to the
Stanford academic community.

Help: Instructions for Using the Yomiuri Shinbun Online (PDF file)

The East Asia Library of Stanford University Libraries invites a student assistant who can perform, under the supervision of the Korean collection staff, various library tasks relating to the acquisition and cataloging of Korean resources. The student will be working 10 hours per week. A candidate with a long-term commitment to the job is highly preferred.

Major tasks are as follows. All necessary training will be provided.

Responsibilities