Please note that all publications in Western languages about East Asia (published in English, German, French, etc.) can be found in the Main Catalogue of the library. The following information applies only to holdings in the languages of East Asia (Chinese, etc.).

The Chinese catalogue includes all books with their main title written in the Chinese script.  If you are interested in periodicals, please note that the catalogue contains only information referring to the periodical title. For actual periodical holdings and a complete bibliographic description please consult the Zeitschriften Datenbank (Periodicals Database [ZDB]).
For all other China/Chinese relevant SBB - PK holdings in Western languages refer to the Main catalogue.
In order to login to the Chinese catalogue use a web browser and connect to:

http://gso.gbv.de/DB=1.97/

This database is UTF-8 encoded, hence a font-end-processor like UnionWay or ChinesePartner is needed.

Help & Information
To view Chinese characters use a font-end processor which is able to read Chinese characters (GB). The Chinese catalogue currently contains approximately 135,000 records (last update August 2002).
To search the index of the catalogue always use small letters.
German "umlauts" (ä, ü, ö) should be typed ae, ue, oe.
The romanisation used in the catalogue is Hanyu Pinyin. Please note that Chinese personal names transcribed along Hanyu Pinyin need to be written in one string:

Search for: wangaili
Instead of: wang, aili or wang aili

It is strongly advised that users search this database with Chinese characters! Failure to do so is likely to result in disappointing search results. A truncated search is always possible and truncation is the default.

More detailed information on the Chinese catalogue can be found here: