UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

JapanKnowledge has added several more titles to its full-text Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshū　新編日本古典文学全集 series.

The newly added content includes:
Yamato monogatari 大和物語
Sagoromo monogatari 狭衣物語
Heichū monogatari 平中物語
Taketori monogatari 竹取物語
Tosa nikki 土佐日記
Ise monogatari 伊勢物語
Kagerō nikki 蜻蛉日記
Makura no sōshi 枕草子
Shōbō genzō zuimonki 正法眼蔵随聞記
Tannishō 歎異抄
Hōjōki 方丈記
Tsurezuregusa 徒然草

How do you access the material? Check out the tutorial here.

Workshop: Citation Management Workshop for Japan Specialists
Featuring Zotero

• April 30 (Friday), 1:30-3:00pm
• Asian Library, Room 506 (may change to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Rm 318 depending on demand)

Citation management tools are not only useful in storing and formatting citations, but they can also be used to store and organize article pdfs and notes. For this session I will be looking at the Zotero Firefox plugin, and providing information on its functionality with Japanese-language records and script.

To register:
Please contact me, and I will provide you with instructions on what to bring to the workshop.

I am happy to announce that we have just purchased over 120 Japanese-language e-books from netLibrary. To access this collection, please go to the netLibrary information page (after logging into your myVPN if accessing from home), and click on “via the web”.

How can you search inside the e-books? Simply enter your Japanese search term(s) in the search box and choose “Japanese” from the drop-down menu to the right.

You can also browse for Japanese e-books by doing the following:

1. Choose “e-books” from the “In our collection” section to the far right of the home page.



2. Limit by “Japanese”

(note: you may need to reset this limit if you click on “next page”)

Please note that within our current subscription to Kikuzo II (the Asahi Shinbun database), you can now access all articles from 1879 to 1945. This additional content will be freely available to us only until July, when our subscription is due to be renewed. This added content has a significant cost, and we will need to determine whether it’s feasible to purchase this. Please contact me with feedback as to whether the 1879-1945 content is useful for your research and teaching.

The added articles can be found simply by searching the 朝日新聞縮刷版 part of the database, and by leaving the 明治・大正 and 昭和（戦前）boxes checked (see below).

JapanKnowledge has begun uploading the full-text, searchable e-version of Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshu 新編日本古典文学全集 to its database, starting with the full set of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 produced by the series. Users can now search for words within the original text, the gendaigo yaku 現代語訳, the annotations, or all three at once. Other works in the SNKBZ series will be uploaded in the near future. How can you access this resource? See below for details.

1. Log into your myVPN (if accessing from home)
2. Go to the JapanKnowledge website (http://www.jkn21.com/), and click on the ログイン/Login button
3. On the main screen, scroll down and find 新編日本古典文学全集 at the bottom right, and select 個別
   
4. Enter the search term and choose what part of the text you would like to search
   
5. Choose from the results (the search term is highlighted in pink), and you will be taken to a digital reproduction of the page in which the term appears.

Remember to log out when you are finished your search, so that others may access this resource.

Update:
Click here for the newly-released guide from JapanKnowledge.

UBC has started a new subscription to Zasshi kiji sakuin sh̄usei, an online periodicals index from Koseisha. This index, which we trialed in the fall, provides citation information for articles from the Meiji period to the present. Although information on recent publications can also be found in sources such as the National Diet Library’s Periodicals’ index and CiNii, this serves as a unique online resource for pre-1948 works.

To access this e-resource:
1) Sign into your myVPN (if accessing from home)
2) Go to the information page
3) Click on “via the web”

Until the end of March 2010, our Asahi Shinbun‘s Kikuzo Visual II database will include pdf images of the paper’s shukusatsuban small print editions published between 1926 and 1945.

Instructions on accessing the archive:
1) log onto into your VPN and access Kikuzo via the information page
2) choose the 朝日新聞縮刷版 (Asahi Shinbun shukusatsuban) tab
3) 1926-1945 should be pre-selected

Please e-mail me if you have any feedback regarding this resource.

We are currently running a trial of Koseisha’s Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei, an index of Japanese periodicals that covers materials published from the Meiji Period to today. The database includes the full National Diet Library periodicals’ index, but is especially useful for those looking for resources published before 1948.

To access this index:
1) log into your VPN
2) go to the information page
3) click on “via the web”
4) click on 詳細検索

The trial ends October 24, 2009.

For more information on this database, check out this brochure (pdf).

I would appreciate any feedback you may have regarding this resource. Please e-mail me with your comments.

As of today, UBC students and faculty will be able to access Asahi Kikuzo II Visual. This database includes 5.8 million articles in full text from Asahi publications including the Asahi Shinbun newspaper (1945-present), AERA weekly magazine (May 1988-present) and Shukan Asahi weekly magazine.

To link to this resource, please see the information page.

To access from home, you must be logged into your VPN.

For the month of May, we will be having a trial of Yomiuri Shinbun’s Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館 database. The database is keyword searchable and includes over 10 million articles from the newspaper from 1874 to present.

To access this resource

1. Log on to your VPN
2. Go to the site: https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/

Check out the information page for more details.

Your feedback is essential to determining whether or not we will purchase this database in the future. Please e-mail me and let me know how useful you found the resource.