Nikkei Asian Review through Factiva and Nexis UK

Some colleagues and students have asked about online access to Nikkei Asian Review, a weekly magazine in English published by Japan’s leading business and information company which provides timely corporate, economic news from Japan and the Asian region.

The good news is that the full text of Nikkei Asian Review is fully covered in two news source databases that the Library is subscribing to. Factiva provides full text content of this publication from 21 Nov. 2013 onwards, and in Nexis UK from 3 June 1980 onwards. Update schedule is same day as publication. Both databases are indexed in the Library’s Databases A-Z list (www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z).

Trial of a huge range of Chinese resources from Superstar

The Library has arranged a free trial, until 31st October 2017, of several important full-text Chinese resources from the Superstar company (超星公司) which is provider of our currently subscribed databases Duxiu and Chinamass, both of which are in the Databases A-Z list. These resources range from Chinese classics, pre-1949 periodicals and books, to local gazetteers and academic journals since 1949. They are accessible on three different platforms:

  1. Special collections (专题图书馆 and 超星专题库). These two large sets of resources can be accessed on the Chinamaxx platform. . It contains a vast amount of Chinese classics and books on special subjects. Superstar historical documents (超星文史资料) is under a separate section and may be of special interest for regional studies. The following resources are available:
    四库全书 (We have this database)

    四库全书存目丛书

    四库未收书辑刊

    四库禁毁丛刊

    文史资料

    档案文献

    民国丛书

    全宋文 (We have a print collection of 360 volumes in the East Asian Collection, Main Library)

    古今图书集成 (We have this database)

    地方志(ucsd&ucsb)

    套书索引查询

    茶叶

    陶瓷

    纺织服装

    医学

    经济

    工具书

    年鉴

    人民画报(ucsd&ucsb)

    闽台文化资料库

    西安碑林全集

  2. Superstar journals (超星期刊)  which can be accessed on the Duxiu database platform. This resource contains over 6,500 full text post-1949 Chinese journals. Please also remember that we are subscribing to two Chinese journals already: China Academic Journals, and China Online Journals, both of which are in the Database list.
  3. Dacheng gu zhi dui (大成故纸堆). This is a huge database containing several series: 老旧刊(pre-1949, 7491 periodicals),民国图书(39,950 books published before 1949),《申报》(1872-1942),古方志集(3566) ,党史(208 Communist Party publications before 1949), 《顺天时报》(1907-1930),《大美晚报》(1943-1946).This database is to be accessed from: www.dachengdata.com on the University network.

Feedback about these trials are welcome.