Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Literature) provides comprehensive access to the series dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible. The series provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Features:
More than 420 volumes and 164,000 pages of award-winning content that’s easy to search, retrieve and analyse.
Includes the main series, documentary, and yearbook volumes.
DLCC (Digital Library of Chinese Classics - texts and commentaries of Confucianism) is the most comprehensive collection of classical texts widely related to Confucianism to date. It is an excellent digital library for students and researchers studying classical Chinese, Chinese literature, history, and philosophy. It also provides a valuable source for research in comparative philosophy, intellectual history, and the field of textual traditions.
Features:
The current collection contains 510 texts, the equivalent of 282 volumes, 140 thousand pages, or 200 million characters:
458 classical texts and commentaries in four categories:
- Classics (經 Jing): 190 texts
- History (史 Shi): 56 texts
- Philosophy (子 Zi): 85 texts
- Literature (集 Ji): 127 texts
52 recently excavated manuscripts from across China
An additional 160 Chinese language texts from Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese collections will be added at a later stage.
Texts are meticulously punctuated, enabling easy reading and understanding.
Functions:
Parallel reading panels to easily compare texts
Advanced faceted search and convenient annotation & referencing tools
Each text fragment equipped with a unique URN for intra-database identification
Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese is embedded, allowing for an easy lookup of characters in real time
Le Grand Ricci Dictionary is embedded, a key resource in this field, especially for the French-speaking scholarly community
Sources:
Primary sources
Language:
Content is in Traditional Chinese / Interface is in English
Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile) explores cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a service of OAPEN Foundation. It aims to increase discoverability of academic, peer reviewed books published under open access license. The directory covers various subjects including arts and architecture, business and economics, history and archaeology, languages and literatures, law and political science, philosophy and religion, social sciences and more.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is hosted and maintained by Lund University Libraries. Click here to access DOAJ.
DOAJ provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects including Agriculture and Food Sciences,Arts and Architecture, Biology and Life Sciences, Business and Economics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, History and Archaeology, Languages and Literatures, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Religion, Physics and Astronomy, Science General, Social Sciences, Technology and Engineering, etc. and many languages.
Features:
All journal titles can be searched and browsed. Some journals are searchable at article level.
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