Research Orientation: The Application of ChinaInfoBank and Soshoo Databases
Asian Division of the Library of Congress
presents
"The Application of ChinaInfoBank and
Soshoo Databases"
"中国资讯行及搜数数据库的应用"
by
Dr. Ming Sun Poon
Chinese Reference Librarian
and
Dr. Yuwu Song
Chinese Reference Librarian
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Asian Reading Room Foyer, LJ-150, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
10 First Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-4810
Metro Stop: Capitol South on the Blue/Orange Line
Free and Open to the Public. Pre-registration Required. RSVP by September 16, 2008.
Contact:
Dr Ming Sun Poon (mpoo@loc.gov, 202-707-1798)
Dr Yuwu Song (yson@loc.gov, 202-707-3683)
Description:
The Asian Division has recently added two databases that will benefit researchers and scholars in Chinese and East Asian studies. This research orientation will guide researchers through the use of these two databases.
China Infobank
This massive database provides access to real time business news, China general news articles and magazines, information and statistics on government, reports and statistics of various industries and regions in China. With information collected from over 1,000 media companies, both from China and outside China, and leading government and enterprise organizations, China Infobank dissects the data into 194 different industries. It is indexed and updated daily, with over 10 million articles and is accumulating at a rate of 20 million Chinese characters per day.
China Infobank is actually a conglomerate of the following databanks:
1. China Statistics
2. China Listed Company
3. China Business Report
4. China Laws & Regulations
5. China Economic News
6. China Medical & Health
7. Chinese Government Agency
8. Hong Kong Listed Company
9. China Company Directory
10. English Publications
11. China Who’s Who
12. Glossary
Soshoo
Soshoo is a website that offers yearly and monthly statistical data on social and economic situation of China. The information sourced from national and provincial statistical yearbooks, industrial yearbooks, the People’s Bank of China Quarterly Statistical Bulletin, China’s Customs Statistics, etc. since 1997 with some dated back to 1949. Users can download data into an Excel sheet.
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