EAD Union Catalogue
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The EAD Union Catalogue will replace the former Chinese, Japanese and Central Asia catalogues of the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It consists of the Chinese, Japanese, and Central Asia catalogues and includes all books with their main title written in the Chinese, Japanese script, and Central Asian languages.
As far as periodicals are concerned, 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
Asia relevant SBB - PK holdings in Western languages refer to
the Main Catalogue.
In order to login to the EAD union catalogue
use a web browser and connect to:
http://ead.sbb.spk-berlin.de/php/cat1/suche.php
This database is
UTF-8 encoded. You will need a Unicode font to search the database. Chinese characters are simplified characters only.
Search
The EAD Union Catalogue offers two different search menues: In the simle search bar you can compose a search operation by entering one or more search terms. The search bar is the point from which you coordinate your search activities. You can use the search bar to:
- Enter search terms;
- Perform search operations;
- Change standard search options to suit your needs.
All searches are saved in the "history bar".
The Advanced Search menue offers more options:
- Browse Index
- Combined Searches
- Perform search operations;
- Change standard search options to suit your needs.
All searches are saved in the "history bar".
Index
The EAD Union Catalogue offers different indexes:
- All Words - With this search key you can do a "full-text" search. You may enter a title: keywords, surnames, corporations, publishers, subject headings, numbers etc., in any order
- Title Keyword - Keywords of the title in any order
- Exact Title - Exact title string
- Names - all kind of creators in original script
- Subject Catalogue - Zhongguo tushuguan tushu fenleifa data and Chinese subject headings
- Year of Publication
- ISBN/ISSN - all kind of Standard Nummbers
- Shelmarks - Call Numbers
In the both search menues you can select one of three search methods:
- Search [and]
The standard selection is the search method AND. A search operation of two or more search terms shows the titles that contain all the search terms entered. For example: lishi AND yanjiu searches for all titles that contain both lishi and yanjiu.
- Search [or]
In the menu you can also select the OR search method. A search operation with two or more search terms shows all titles that contain at least one of the search terms. For example: lishi OR yanjiu searches for all titles that contain either lishi or yanjiu or both.
- Search [exact]
A search operation shows the exact string found in the different indexes of the database. For example: lishi yanjiu searches all titles that contain lishi-yanjiu.
- Browse
With the selection Browse you can scan the index for the search terms you have entered.
Romanisation & Transliteration
It is strongly advised that users search this database with Chinese and Japanese characters! Failure to do so is likely to result in disappointing search results.
Data in ideographic script is romanized only to faciliate filing of output in alphabetic sequence (i.e. access points in card catalogues or indexes).
Word Separation
Character text processed for index keys is separated for words only execptionally joining more than three characters, the rules followed apply to words in romanisation accordingly.
Central Asian Languages
The original scripts used for writing
the Central Asian languages are all alphabetical scripts
which can be romanised. The transliteration systems by which these alphabets
are converted into Latin letters are outlined as follows:
For further details see also:
Order
You may choose between two options: Staatsbibliothek Local Lending and Blauer Leihverkehr.
Furthermore you may use all other kind of inter-library loan facilities like Subito or International inter-library loan services.
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