Chinese Studies - How to Find Online Journal Articles?: Chinese Journals
A guide to find full-text Chinese and English periodical articles
How to Discover Chinese Full-text Journal Articles?
- Search the China Academic Journals (CAJ, CNKI, Zhi wang) full-text database if for post-1949 periodicals. The platform includes multiple databases, particularly it covers full-run periodicals from the first issue.
Search CEPS (Chinese Electronic Periodical Services) and Wanfang Data - China Online Journals. CEPS covers periodicals of Taiwan and mainland China; Wanfang covers mainland Chinese periodicals since the 1990s.
- Search Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全国报刊索引数据库 if for pre-1949 periodicals. The platform contains Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku (Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full text Database) (1830-1911) 晚清期刊全文数据库 and Minguo shi qi qi kan quan wen (Republican Period Chinese Periodical Full-text Database) (1911-1949) 民国时期期刊全文. The downloadable PDF options are automatically displayed.
One may also try Dacheng lao jiu kan quan wen shu ju ku 大成老旧刊全文数据库.
- Search the Columbia catalog CLIO or WorldCat.
If the periodical is found to be in ReCap (off-site), a Scan request may be submitted. If available elsewhere in North America, an Interlibrary Loan request may be submitted. If some old periodicals are found in WorldCat to have been reprinted and published into book volumes, the needed volumes may be borrowed just like regular books.
- Ask the librarian.
