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Subject guide for Chinese Studies

On this page you will find a selection of resources concerning Chinese studies with a special view on social studies, culture and languages.You are welcome to contact us in case you need help, or if you have suggestions for additional information for the page.

Se AU Humanioras temaside om Kina her humanioranu.au.dk

Reference Works

A reference work contains systematically arranged information about words or concepts within a certain area. See a selection of reference works where you can find descriptions of academically relevant concepts.

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Bibliographies

Academic bibliographies for use in your literature search - typically contain references to both books and articles, etc.

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  • Anthropology Plus
    Anthropology Plus covers anthropology and related fields. The database offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals and lesser-known journals from the early 19th century to today, providing pervasive indexing of thousands of sources, including journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries.
  • Historical Abstracts
    The bibliography covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada), focusing on the 15th century to the present. Provides a selection of bibliographic records from thousands of academic journals, magazines, books and monographs.
  • Proquest
    Collection of databases which covers a wide range of subject areas: Humanities, social sciences, science and medicine. Most of the databases are bibliographies.

Article Archives

A collection of sources where you can get access to online articles.

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  • JSTOR
    Journal database with full-text access to the leading journals within all subject areas. Usually it is not possible to access the most recent 3-5 volumes, but it is possible to access publications before that.
  • Project Muse
    Journal database with full-text access to high quality journals within the humanities and social science. The database provides access to the most recent issues and sometimes to older issues (back issues) as well.
  • Scopus
    Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Covering research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
  • Web of Science (WOS)
    Web of Science provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic and scientific discipline.

Journals

A selection of journals within your subject area.

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E-books and Text Archives

A selection of e-books and text archives in your subject area and more.

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  • Ebook Central
    E-book database which covers all subject areas. The books come from academic publishing houses: Blackwell, Brill, Oxford University Press, Springer and Wiley. Ebrary and EBL merged into a single new ebook platform, Ebook Central, in 2017.

  • Google Books
    E-book-database which provides access to a large number of academic books from commercial publishers and research libraries

  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    OSO provides full-text access to a broad selection of books published by the Oxford University Press from 2001 and forth.

Dictionaries

As a student, you have access to a number of dictionaries.

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  • Ordbogen.com
    Collection of dictionaries which contains Ordbogen.com and Gyldendals Ordbøger. The collection of dictionaries covers a large number of subject areas and languages. The list of all relevant dictionaries is obtained when you search a word.
  • pleco.com
    Pleco is a free Chinese dictionary app for smart phones and iPads. It includes numerous Chinese dictionaries as well as Chinese fonts, handwriting input, flashcards and audio in a single app.
  • wenlin.com

Political Resources on China (ThinkChina)

Political resources on China. 

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Newspapers and Media in English and Chinese

A selection of sources where you can find Chinese and international news.

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Chinese Language Tools

A collection of tools that can help you learn the Chinese language.

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  • apps.ankiweb.net
    Anki is a free software program to help you remember Chinese characters by generating flashcards.
  • hackingchinese.com
    Hacking Chinese is a website with lots of information on how to learn Chinese and information on relevant learning tools and resources.
  • fluento.com
  • resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar
    Chinese Grammar Wiki is a wiki on Chinese grammar explaining grammatical features for students of beginning Chinese.

Other Subject Guides

Other relevant AU Library subject guides.

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Other Online Library Sources

Bibliotek.dk
Denmark’s national library database. Contains references to the national Danish libraries and materials from the libraries of research.

National Library of China
Bibliotek.dk Denmark’s national library database. Contains references to the national Danish libraries and materials from the libraries of research. National Library of China

AU Studypedia

The AU Studypedia is an academic study tool you can use when writing assignments, searching for sources and in relation to other working methods that form part of studying.

Theses from Aarhus University

Reference Management

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Copyright

Do you know the rules about copyright, when you are studying and writing papers? Figure out how and when you can use pictures, video-recordings or other materials here.

Information seeking

We have collected some relevant information about information retrieval and on how to quickly and efficiently find the materials you need.

More for your studies

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