Digital version of the epoch-making Kadokawa Kogo Daijiten (The Great Dictionary of Archaic Japanese). Includes approximately 100,000 headwords, covering historical, classical, and colloquial terms. The dictionary incorporates the latest research findings at the time of publication, in particular for the middle ages and early modern age, for which a large number of words including legal, economic, popular terms and jargon have been selected. Also cover proper nouns, such as personal and place names, with encyclopedic commentaries as well as examples of usage and sources.
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Kadokawa Kogo Daijiten 角川古語大辞典
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Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten 角川日本地名大辞典
Japan's largest dictionary of ancient and modern place names, compiled by prefecture. Contains 260,000 place name entries, in a total 51 volumes. Includes ancient and modern place names according to prefecture, referring to all manner of topographic materials, revealing the history of a place, as well as that of its name, with its origins. Also includes natural place names such as mountains, hills, rivers, lakes and marshes, and man-made features such as roads, highways and railways are recorded abundantly. Collated headings make it possible to view a place’s name from the present-day to ancient times.
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Kamakura Ibun
Complete collection of all roughly 36,000 antique texts from the Kamakura period. Includes 42 volumes with 4 ones of supplementary materials published by Rizo Takeuchi over a period of 24 years from 1971.
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Kanopy Streaming Video
Kanopy Streaming Video gathers streaming videos from a variety of producers and makes them available to students. Faculty and instructors may request titles for purchase by the Libraries via the Kanopy Streaming Video site. Priority access will be given to faculty and instructors for class use.
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Kansas City Call (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
African American weekly newspaper founded in 1919, covering civil rights issues and fighting segregation, discrimination, and other important issues of the African American community. The paper has a strong history of encouraging African Americans to register and vote and of covering many key Black issues including school segregation and urban development.
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KCI Korean Journal Database
This database provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in KCI. KCI is managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea and contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea.
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KCNA WatchInterface for accessing and searching official North Korean media output.
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Keesing’s World News ArchiveKeesing's Online is an authoritative monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs.
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Kenkyusha Online Dictionary
Online Japanese-English dictionary
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Kierkegaard: Samlede Vaerker
Past Masters edition of Kierkegaard's collected writings. Texts in Danish and German.
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Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Provides in-depth articles with extensive bibliographies about applied chemistry, industrial products, chemical substances either as single substance or group, materials science, and chemical fundamentals.
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KISS: Korean Studies Information Service System
Full text database of Korean scholarly journal articles, university publications and research papers published by over 1,200 research institutions in Korea.
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Klimt02Website that offers space of knowledge, information, debates and exchanges inside the context of contemporary jewelry.
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Kluwer Arbitration
Access provided by the Jerome Hall Law Library. Covers sources of international commercial arbitration law, including conventions, national legislation and case law, model laws, rules of international and regional institutions.
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Korea Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Digital access to The Korea Times, the oldest English-language newspaper in Korea. The paper covers international business, economic and financial news as well as regional issues and events.
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KoreaA2Z
Access to reference and cultural materials on Korea covering various subjects. Also includes many classical works.
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Korean History & Culture Research Database
Access to reports on cultural relics including reports from the National Museum of Korea from as far back as the 1940s. Users may search by year, excavation institution, era, and region.
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Kotobarabia E-Library
A collection of electronic books in Arabic.
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Krokodil Digital Archive
Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. Founded in 1922, it was first published as a supplement for Rabochaia gazeta. In 2001-2004 the title Krokodil was changed to Novyi Krokodil, but in 2005 it returned to the title Krokodil.
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KRpiaKeyword-searchable database of primary sources in Korean history, literature, medicine and philosophy. Image files of original texts in classical Chinese and searchable translations in Korean.
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KSDC DB
Comprehensive source for social science data. Includes survey data and statistics related to social science research.
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Kyobo E-book Library
Access to Korean e-book titles covering a variety of subjects. Please note: in order to access, IUB users must create an account with their iu.edu or indiana.edu email and be approved by the IU administrator. Click more info for complete instructions.
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Kyobo Scholar
Full-text access to academic journals, conference papers, and theses published by academic societies and research centers in South Korea. Fields covered include the humanities, social science, natural science, law, art, engineering, medicine & pharmacy, agriculture, fisheries, and oceanography.