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 Superstar historical documents (超星文史资料) is under a separate section and may be of special interest for regional studies.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.