Korean

A full text database of Korean scholarly journal articles, university publications and research papers published by over 1,200 research institutions in Korea. KISS offers over 1 million full text articles by over 300,000 authors, covering all subject areas.

The Korean Language in America is a refereed scholarly journal that provides a platform for scholarship and professional best practices centering on the teaching of Korean both within the United States and outside. It is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Korean.

This site has collection of well preserved precious information and is accessible to the Korean people. Information regarding Korean ancient books, cultural heritage, cultural arts, environment, ecosystem, law, and North Korea related materials are included. And through ‘knowledge white paper’, governmental white paper is provided.

A union catalog of the public libraries of South Korea including the National Library. Bibliographic information is searchable by keyword, title, author, publisher, and browsing by subject is also supported.

(open access for bibliographic information; partially open access for full-text)
This portal site provides the holdings of the nine participating libraries and portal services: the National Library, the National Assembly Library, the Digital Science Library, the Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), RISS, the Korean Agricultural Science Digital Library, the Korean Knowledge Portal, and the National Defense Digital Library. A single search displays results separately for the nine participating databases, providing full text information when available to registered users.

(open access for bibliographic information; partially open access for full-text)
RISS’s databases included the union catalog of more than 9 million records from 663 academic libraries, over 2.9 million articles from 158,000 domestic journals (11,000 of them in full-text), more than 1.5 million domestic dissertations (913,000 in full-text) and more than 20,000 foreign dissertations on Korea or by Koreans.

This reputable portal site provides a one-stop search engine for numerous historical databases built and shared by nearly twenty organizations including the National Institute of Korean History, Academy of Korean Studies, Kyujanggak Institute of Korean Studies, etc. There is a directory organizing materials according to the type: historic books and documents, periodicals, classical translations, research data, bibliographies and catalogs, biographies, maps, dictionaries, chronologies, multimedia, historical relics and sites, epigraphs, the chronicles of the Chosǒn dynasty, and old newspapers. The federated search engine provides bibliographic information fetched from various sources—one can easily get carried away while exploring different interfaces and catalogs.

A national catalog of Korean old books and manuscripts. Search by title, keyword, author, and publisher.

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