Exciting news: now you can access all the journals on CNKI via StarPlus

CNKI (China Academic Journals Online, 中国知网) is a full-text searchable database of Chinese journals on business, economics, management, literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, music, arts, politics, law, education and social sciences. All the journals from CNKI are now searchable on StarPlus by title, keywords, publisher, and subjects.



We subscribe to 864 titles in Literature/History/Philosophy, 676 titles in Politics/Military Affairs/Law, 2016 titles in Education/Social Sciences and 982 titles in Economy & Management on CNKI. This development makes accessing these over 4500 Chinese journals easier than ever.

Chinese Language Resources

Access to the following resources are available now via StarPlus the Library Catalogue:

CNKI
Full-text database of Chinese journals on business, economics, management, literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, music, arts, politics, law, education and social sciences.

 

Apabi Digital Library
Chinese collection of e-books, newspapers and statistics covering a similar variety of subjects.  Includes encyclopedias, government reports and dictionaries.

Xin zhou kan
Weekly news and social journal of current affairs and life trends in China. Access to print and limited online content via StarPlus.

Guide to Bibliography of Asian Studies

The Information Skills tutorial Guide to Bibliography of Asian Studies  has been updated to take into account the new much-improved user-interface. This now offers an up-to-date search engine with refining facets and all the entries have been converted into Unicode Formats.

Guide to Bibliography of Asian Studies is just one of a number of tutorials the Library  provides through the Information Skills Resource

Access it from the Library tab in  MUSE and/or from the Library web home page.

Foreign Office Files for China 1949-1980

We have just set up a trial to the Foreign Office Files for China 1949-1980 database,  which will run for 4 weeks.

The documents in the database are sourced from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive.  Published in three sections covering the periods 1949-1956; 1957-1966; and 1967-1980; this project addresses a crucial period in Chinese history.

Please note that the PDF download options are not available during this trial.

Access to Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980 is available to registered staff and students of the University until 3 July 2011. Please let us have your comments by filling in our online form.

Reverso online dictionary

Reverso is an online dictionary offering translations in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian as well as definitions and synonyms.  Follow the link above and you'll  be prompted to  log into MUSE.

Otherwise you can log into MUSE and connect via the Library eResources links, located on the Library tab.

Chinese magazines

We have a new trial running.  This one is  to the Bookan Chinese e-magazine database, which gives access to more than 2500 Chinese best-selling magazines.

The Bookan trial is available to registered staff and students of the University of Sheffield until 28 February 2010. Please take a look and let us have your feedback.