The CrossAsia Fulltext Search is built from textual resources hosted in the CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository (ITR). It is open to all users. Its aim is to help users find texts and sources relevant to their research questions by performing comprehensive fulltext searches across databases. Search hits are displayed as short text snippets with their basic metadata. Access to the complete texts and images is restricted. To access the text in its original database context links are provided for CrossAsia users (in red) as well as for users with other access modes (in grey). Search results can be filtered by subject, time, author and other data as far as provided by the original metadata.
The ITR will grow continuously and more and more fulltexts will be included into the search. In addition to this type of more or less "plain" fulltext searches, CrossAsia will work on the improvement of data exploration and try to find additional modes of navigating the resources.
The two Beta version of CrossAsia Fulltext Search we offer to users - CrossAsia and beyond - are test cases and first attempts to the tasks at hand. We would therefore invite CrossAsia users - but also the broader research and library community - to explore and test the possibilities of these two versions and together develop ideas for the future. The two versions can roughly be characterized as "guided search" (type A), and "explorative search" (type B). Both versions use filters to drill down the search results and both offer links to the object in the database with the best granularity possible, i.e. directly to the page, article or the book or (as for the People's Daily and Erudition Fangzhi) only to the database.
For feedback, questions etc. please contact: x-asia(at)sbb.spk-berlin.de.
Search the fulltexts of about 129,408 titles with 15,5 million pages archived in the CrossAsia ITR.
(for more info click "i" on the search page)
(for more info click "i" on the search page; Type B is currently not compatible with IExplorer)