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As part of EastView's 2024 & 2025 Global Press Archives (GPA) Area Studies Initiative Offers, two East Asian Newspapers are made open access to the public. (UMN contributed!)

Direct link to the Independence Evening Post (自立晚報).

Library catalog page of Independence Evening Post (自立晚報).

Direct link to Chōya Shinbun (朝野新聞).

Library catalog page of Chōya Shinbun (朝野新聞).

Direct link to J-DAC: History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy Online 通産政策史資料.

Library catalog page of J-DAC: History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy Online 通産政策史資料.

J-DAC provides a multidisciplinary archival platform for researchers in the humanities and social sciences through the collection and consolidation of various cultural and historical records of Japan. We have purchased some sub-collections under the History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy Online 通産政策史資料. For detalied list of titles available, please refer to the blog or the catalog page.

AM (previously named Adam Matthew) has published an East Asian LibGuide to AM databases exploring East Asian history, politics, and culture. It's a good place to navigate the AM East Asian collection. However, the links in the guide will not directly grant you access to the databases UMN has subscribed to. You can either search the titles of each collection in the Libraries search or use the Proxy bookmarklet to reload the page.

Direct link to Dacheng Chinese Communist Party History Periodical Database ( -1949) 中共党史期刊数据库 (-1949).

Library catalog page of Dacheng Chinese Communist Party History Periodical Database ( -1949) 中共党史期刊数据库 (-1949).

This database contains more than 300 kinds of publications founded by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and founded and participated in by early Communist Party members before the founding of the CPC. These publications record the growth of the CPC and the Chinese revolution. Publications include: The Communist, The Guide, The Masses, The Pioneer, Military and Political Daily of the Eighth Route Army, Bolshevik, etc. 

Library page of UDNdata Newspaper Database 聯合知識庫全文報紙資料庫

This database provides news articles from eight newspapers, among which are five major newspapers published by the United Daily News Group. These include United Daily News, Min Sheng Daily, United Evening News, Economic Daily News, and Star News.

Direct link to Maruzen eBook Library.

Link to the Library catalog of げんき多読ブックス = Genki Japanese readers Vol. 1 & 2 (46 titles in total)

ERDB-JP (Electronic Resources Database-Japan) is a project by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. 　 

It is a searchable database of OA resources published in Japan. Now it has been expanded to include OA titles from publications or editorial boards based outside of Japan. 

The UMN Libraries hold a copy of almost every year's winner and honorable mention of every important annual book award in East Asian Studies. We created a Google spreadsheet with book information and links to the UMN Libraries's book record page. The information is also available through the Homepage "List of winners of important annual book awards in East Asian Studies.“

This guide provides an overview of open databases and free resources with primary materials for China studies research. The guide was edited by Joshua Seufert (Princeton University Libraries) and Luo Zhou (Duke University Libraries) for the Luce/ACLS Digital Archives Mapping Project. This guide will be updated periodically, with an expanded directory to be released in winter 2025.