On-line Catalogues
Last updated December 2011
CAMBRIDGE CATALOGUES
NEWTON CATALOGUE FOR THE LIBRARIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Please note that the Faculty Library's online catalogue can be found in the 'Departments and Faculties O-Z' database within the Newton catalogue.
1. Searching the Newton catalogue for books written in ARABIC, PERSIAN:
a.) IN TRANSLITERATION : Not all books are catalogued in their original script, therefore, for best result, search in transliteration.
Please click HERE for the transliteration table and for further instructions. When typing into the search boxes ignore diacritics and hyphens, omit linking words and common words. Be aware that some classical authors retain the Latinised forms of their names - e.g. Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides.
b.) IN ORIGINAL SCRIPT: Only publications which have been added to the collection since 2002 can be retrieved by searching in original script so beware of relying on this for older publications and classical authors. Use cut & paste either from the Internet or Microsoft Input. You can only search the Newton catalogue in original script by 'Keyword'.
2. Searching the Newton catalogue for books written in CHINESE : click HERE for further information. Click HERE for how to search the UL catalogue in transliteration.
3. Searching for bibliographic records in the UL in JAPANESE : click HERE for further information.
Click HERE for how to search the UL catalogue in transliteration.
OTHER USEFUL CATALOGUES
COPAC (Academic and National Library Catalogue)
Gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. It is searchable in Chinese, either in Pinyin transcription or in characters.
WORLDCAT
Provides access to on-line catalogues of libraries worldwide.It is a vast database which includes many monographs in their original languages. It can be searched in either in tyransliteration or in the original language. Useful for retrieving bibliographic details of a monograph published in Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese. It also lists libraries which hold a particular monograph in the UK or abroad. RAVEN password is required to use this database outside the Cambridge domain.
UK UNION CATALOGUE OF CHINESE BOOKS
Contains all Chinese publications available in participating UK libraries.You can perform simultaneous search of all library catalogues or select the library of your interest. Can be searched in Pinyin or Chinese characters (use 'HELP' button for instructions).
NATIONAL CENTRAL LIBRARY OF CHINA- National Digital Library
in Chinese; in English
Access to library catalogues and databases
UK UNION CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE BOOKS (includes journals);
A bibliographic database of Japanese publications which are available in the United Kingdom. After each title you can find a list of the holding libraries. (Please note that not all the SOAS records are included).
EUROPEAN UNION CATALOGUE OF JAPANESE BOOKS (+Journals)
Similar database to the UK Japanese Union Catalogue below, expanding to Europe, covering the collections of participating institutions only.
NATIONAL DIET LIBRARY (Japan) ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOGUE (OPAC)
BRITISH LIBRARY MIDDLE EAST, ASIA, PACIFIC & AFRICA COLLECTIONS
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ORIENTAL COLLECTION (Bodleian Library)
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD COLLECTIONS
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES (SOAS) LIBRARY
UKIRA : UK Information Resources on Asia
Provides access to information about the wide range of resources relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa held in university, special and public libraries in the UK. Links to library catalogues under individual institution details
THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY
Gateway to Europe's national libraries.The European Library gives centralised access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe. You can find all kind of material. Original documents, text books, maps, photographs, music, etc. And ….you can quickly check whether a national library has digitised a particular item!