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 Japanese catalogue includes all books with their main title written in the Japanese 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 Japan/Japanese relevant SBB - PK holdings in Western languages refer to the Main catalogue.
In order to login to the Japanese 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 JapanesePartner is needed.

Help & Information

To view Japanese characters use a font-end processor which is able to read Japanese characters (EUC). The Japanese catalogue currently contains approximatley 15,000 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 applied used in the catalogue is Hepburn. Please note that Japanese personal names transcribed along Hepburn need to be written in one string:

Search for: abe hitoshi
Instead of: abehitoshi

It is strongly advised that users search this database with Japanese characters! Failure to do so is likely to result in disappointing search results.

More detailed information on the catalogue can be found here: