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 EAD Union Catalogue is a test database. 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.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/cat1/

This database is UTF-8 encoded. You will need a Unicode font to search the database. Chinese characters are simplified characters only.