East View’s East Asia Product News
September 2008
New Products (plus flash demos)
As a
complement to East View’s longstanding and successful partnership with Tongfang
Knowledge Network of Beijing, producer of the China National Knowledge
Infrastructure (CNKI), East View debuts the following best-in-class Asian
online resources:
CNKI
CNKI is the world’s most
comprehensive online resource for accessing China’s intellectual output. This
powerful platform is the product of Tongfang Knowledge Network, Beijing, and encompasses academic journals, dissertations,
conference papers, news, and many other resources that put the knowledge of China in the
sciences and humanities at your fingertips. Their newest resource offered in North America is the China Yearbooks Full-text
Database. An indispensable reference
tool, the digital platform provides detailed, timely, comprehensive and
systematic access to authoritative facts, statistics, activities and events of
national and regional significance. Researchers can examine a region, industry
or population segment from key data indicators of politics, the economy,
science, technology, culture and education.
China
Yearbooks Full-Text Database
China Data Center at the University of Michigan
(CDC)
CDC
is the leader in value-added solutions for Chinese demographic and statistical
information. CDC offers comprehensive sets of current and historical data from China,
including unprecedented data down to the township level, and provides online
subscription and ownership solutions. Data are served in tabular format for
export and analysis, or as shape files for GIS applications.
China Data
Online
2005 Data
Assemblies
China GIS Maps
China Zip Maps
Data
Assemblies
Provincial
Collections
Provincial
Data Series
Provincial
Yearbooks
Apabi
Apabi
eBooks: Apabi offers over 400,000 eBook titles, covering social science,
humanities, economics, literature, history, popular science, etc. Content
ranges from 1949-current.
Apabi eBooks
Database
Apabi
Chinese Fine Arts Databases: Apabi’s new series of Chinese fine arts databases
present nearly 30,000 works from China’s leading museums in
high-quality graphic display. Easily accessible online and categorized in
detail, including 26 central genres, the database is the culmination of a
10-year long cultural project of great importance in China. From fine arts to
calligraphy, the easy-to-use Apabi interface makes this dynamic body of content
accessible to the widest possible audience.
Apabi Chinese
Fine Arts Database
China Law Info
Chinalawinfo.com
and LawinfoChina.com: The most comprehensive and authoritative databases of
Chinese laws and regulations. Up-to-the-minute content available in parallel
Chinese and English versions; English translations are top-quality. Easy-to-use
interface, reliable platform, and depth of content make this a premier resource
for understanding China’s
changing legal landscape.
ChinaLawInfo.com
LawInfoChina.com
Digital Heritage's Siku Quanshu
Digital Heritage, Ltd. of Hong Kong was founded with the mission of promoting
Chinese culture through the preservation of cultural classics and making them
more accessible through advanced information technologies. Digital Heritage
offers the only fully online version of the Siku Quanshu, representing a great technological
feat and a contribution to seminal research on Chinese culture, language, and
history.
Siku Quanshu
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covers 4,000 publicly traded companies, and over 1,000 privately held firms in
this English-interface product that presents annual reports, compliance filings,
company and management profiles. Corporate financial data are downloadable in
Excel format for easy application in case studies, etc.
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East View’s Universal
Database™ of Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily)
Tomorrow's
headlines in Beijing,
online today. Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily), the official newspaper of the
People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China, is now integrated
online on East View's Universal Database platform, with an archive going
back to 1956. Find out what is happening
in politics, economics, the military or any other issues developing in China.
PLA Daily [link to file (coming)]
Click on
the link http://www.eastview.com/docs/asian_products/flash/asian_products.html
to launch a flash demonstration of East View’s newest Asian content offerings.
Or access
any of these databases from your own desktop by asking for a trial. Contact East View at info@eastview.com.
New Features
Researching
on a specific topic relating to China
has never been easier. The online publications
found in the China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) are now available as
single title subscriptions.
Subscribe to
such titles as follows:
- “Zhongguo Tongji Nian Jian”
[China Statistical Yearbook” -- $1,900 (2008 access)
- “Zhongguo Zai Qingbao Gao”
[Report of the Damage Caused by Disaster in China] -- $123 (2008 access)
Download
the file showing available titles and 2008 subscription costs:[ http://online.eastview.com/resources/china_new/xls/cyfd.xls]
The clear
advantage to subscribing to publications found in CYFD is that many researchers
may now simultaneously access the content.
Searching up-to-date content is simplified, allowing researchers to
find, compile, analyze, and manipulate the information. Each publication has been digitized down to
every table, chart and picture.
Access the
facts, statistics, activities, events and more about China in CYFD. Every aspect from every region is covered,
such as politics, economics, science/technology, culture and education.
Content News
The journal
title lists for China Academic Journals and Century Journals Project have been
updated.
Download
the Excel file here:
- China Academic Journals:
http://online.eastview.com/resources/china_new/xls/caj_2008-07.xls
- Century
Journals Project:
http://online.eastview.com/resources/china_new/xls/cjp_2008-07.xls
For title
lists for all East View resources, go to:
http://online.eastview.com/titles/index.jsp
Customer Quotes
Periodically,
we hear great comments from the users of the products we offer. Here are a couple of interesting quotes in
regard to China Data Online:
“Yes, it’s very cheap.
Especially, relative to other comparable databases. We knew we were going to have a very
long-term research group working on China, so we knew that buying a
large amount of data was worth the investment.
But through China Data Online, we learned we could have access to all
this information for a few thousand dollars, and that once the agency had a
subscription, the entire agency had access.
This is a huge plus, this is like gold.”
Government User
“I was asked to help
with the formation of a large multi-year China research project. It’s going to span several years, involve a
lot of people, and cover a lot of research topics. Where can we have access to a lot of data
that would be suitable for research on so many different topics? China Data Online was the prime place. And given the reasonable price, our
management could see this was an easy decision.”
Government User
We welcome
your feedback on East View’s East Asia Product News. Please contact us at info@eastview.com.
Archive of previous issues of “East
View’s East Asia Product News”
Fall
2007: Featuring CNKI Features News,
available now, CNKI Forthcoming Features, available in KNS 5.0 updates, CNKI
Content News, and Siku Quanshu, New Database from Hong
Kong. [link to http://www.eastview.com/cnki/default.asp]