History - Asia: Full-Text Resources

Northwestern Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students, and staff)

• ACLS Humanities E-Book Projects
  Formerly known as the History e-book project, the Humanities e-book project (HEB) now includes access to electronic versions of about 1,500 books in most humanities disciplines and area studies.  Titles are cataloged individually in NUcat.
  
  
• ebrary
  
  
• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
  Official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions, from the State Department's Office of the Historian. Site is part of University of Wisconsin's Digital Collections project, working in collaborators at University of Illinois Chicago. Site includes volumes published from 1861-1960.
  
  
• Gutenberg-e
  
  
• Japan Knowledge
  Includes dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English); a full text 30 vol. encyclopedia; two dictionaries of current words: a dictionary of scientific terms; a biographical dictionary; the JK Who’s Who; the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan; a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union; a full-text journal; chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; URL database; books in print database; sound library; music library, etc.  In Japanese and English.
  
  
• Mongols in World History
  From the Asia for Educators Project at Columbia University. Covers the period 1000 to 1500 A.D. Includes a selection of historical images, short essays, and maps.
  
  
• netLibrary
  
  
• Oxford Scholarship Online: Religion
  The subjects covered by the books selected for Oxford Scholarship Online - Religion module include: Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Church History, Early Christian Studies, Hinduism, History of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Literature, Religion and Society, Religion in the Ancient World, Sikhism, Theology, and World Religions.
  
  
• Past Masters
  
  
• People's Daily (1946-2006)
  The People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. In Chinese.
  
  
• Scripta Sinica
  Full-text database for the study of pre-modern China. It has detailed original texts of nearly 300 multi-volume sets containing thousands of titles in first hand sources up to 220,000,000 Chinese characters.  In Chinese.
  

For further information, contact:

Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library