Korean Studies Research Guide Original: Find Books
This guide consists of information to assist students and faculty members in Korean Studies courses and scholars who research Korea related topics.
Books
The entire collection of Korean books received by Columbia University Libraries are searchable through CLIO. CLIO which stands for Columbia Libraries Information Online is the online catalog and doing a Quicksearch across all of CLIO will search catalog, articles+, academic commons, libraries website and GeoData. When searching via CLIO, both Korean and romanization using McCune-Reischauer romanization can be used, although Korean character search will not yield the best search results.
If the book is not located in CLIO, please try to search through Borrow Direct which provides quick delivery (3-5 business days). If Borrow Direct does not have the book, please search through one of the following catalogs such as FirstSearch and request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) (2-3 week business days)
- McCune-Reischauer Romanization SystemA Korean romanization system which is based on standard Korean pronunciation and was revised by the Library of Congress in 2009.
- CLIO : library web : Columbia University Libraries online catalog. This link opens in a new windowIs the online catalog for the Columbia libraries for books, serials, newspapers, music scores, sound recordings, microforms, maps, computer files, archives and manuscripts, videorecordings and other materials including Korean collections. For a quick introduction to CLIO, use the CLIO Quick Guide flyer or, within CLIO, the online help pages. If you are having trouble with CLIO, ask a librarian or a circulation desk attendant for help. Please also search EDUCAT (the online catalog of the Milbank Memorial Library of Teachers College) and Pegasus (the online catalog of the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of the Columbia University School of Law)
- Borrow Direct. This link opens in a new windowAn interlibrary loan service including Columbia University, Brown University, the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff at these institutions to request books directly from each other's collections.
- OCLC FirstSearch : list all databases. This link opens in a new windowA union catalog consisting of over 150 million cataloging records in libraries worldwide, comprising of books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media. These materials can be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
- CRL catalog : Center for Research LibrariesA consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries acquires and preserves books and e-resources for research and teaching. CRL makes primary and rarely-held research materials available to Columbia affiliates via interlibrary loan and document delivery. CRL holdings are strong in newspapers, foreign dissertations, and international materials. Columbia University faculty, staff, and students have free and unlimited use of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) collections, available via BorrowDirect or InterLibrary Loan. CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source material critical to those disciplines.
- KORCIS Korean Old and Rare Collection Information SystemA union catalog of Korean old books and manuscripts and it consists of over 420,000 records and 35,000 full-text records. It is searchable by title, keyword, author, and publisher.
- National Digital Library of KoreaA union catalog which consists of over 8.8 million cataloging records of NLK, government agencies, and over 1,400 public libraries in Korea.
- RISS international . This link opens in a new windowA union catalog, similar as OCLC WorldCat which consists of over 11 million cataloging records provided by mainly academic libraries in Korea.
Books in the Korean Collection are either located on the 250 through 100 levels of the stacks in the library and are offsite in NJ, where they are shelved along with Chinese, Japanese, and Western-language materials by subject using the Library of Congress Classification number. The library provides access to e-books listed below and some of the e-book packages are only accessible to CU affiliates.
E-books
- Books I&I (KSI e-books)A database of more than 9,700 e-books in the fields of humanities and social sciences published by Korean Studies Information. (CU affiliates only)
- CNC haksul chongbo (CNC 학술정보)A full-text database of Korean scholarly journal articles of the humanities and social sciences to essential sciences, teaching materials, and reference materials, the foundation for cultivation of liberal arts from professional academic materials. Humanities literacy data contains a large number of representative research texts in nine fields. (CU affiliates only)
- Hanguk ui chisik kontenchu = Korean database. This link opens in a new windowA collection of full-text databases offering a variety of primary sources on Korean studies. They are arranged in 11 categories and each database provides access to full text as well as image files. (CU affiliates only)
- Hathi Trust : a shared digital repository. This link opens in a new windowA shared collection of over 10 million volumes of digitized book and journal content. Columbia University is a member of this international partnership of 60-plus research libraries committed to the long-term preservation and availability of the cultural record. The interface offers a variety of views: page, scroll, flip, thumbnails, ascii text; and supports PDFs downloads of selected pages or the entire document. (CU affiliates only)
- History Culture SeriesA multimedia contents database dedicated to Korean history and culture. The database covers subjects such as archeology, Korean history, and art history. (CU affiliates only)
- KoreaA2Z . This link opens in a new windowA collection of full-text databases on a variety of subjects related to Korean studies. The databases are arranged into 11 categories and include many classical works, dictionaries, and so on. (CU affiliates only)
- Korean History & Culture Research DBA full-text database of excavation reports in providing full-text articles in 4,000 volumes from many organizations since 1940. (CU affiliates only)
- LAWnB (Legal Information Service)A legal information portal service that provides a collection of South Korean legal materials online including law information, judicial precedent, lawyer and law firm information, etc. (CU affiliates only)