Korea Collection: Finding Books

If the books you are looking for are...

• UH system items

Onesearch

• Not at UH

ILL(Inter Library Loan) service 

Purchase Suggestion

Email Korean Studies Librarian

 
WorldCat (World Cat) is the OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. *UHM Only

 
Basic version of WorldCat provided free to the public by OCLC.

 
Digital books, newspapers, journals. borrowing books and obtaining articles via ILL/DD.*Member institution

• KF e-books Library Service: 
  Now Available for Readers here                                                                                     
• LTI Digital Library :
  20th century books here
  Korean literature books that have been translated into English publicly accessible through the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. Also available on Apple iTunes and Google Play
   
• Center for Research Libraries *Member institution
  Digital books, newspapers, journals. borrowing books and obtaining articles via ILL/DD.
   
• ebrary *UHM Only
  English language books on Korea. 
   
• EBSCO eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)
  University of Hawaii Press eBook collection plus classic works of literature and history online in publicly accessible eBooks.
   
• Hathitrust
  Free online out-of-copyright books
   
• Bookrail
  Korean e-books

Searching for Korean language materials in non-Korean Search tools is not the easiest thing to do. You can use Korean to search in the library catalog but some records may not show up as results even though the items are available. One of the reasons is because the bibliographic information is recorded either in Korean or Chinese depending upon the publication.  Besides which there are some technical problems yet to be resolved with Korean scripts in the library catalog. That is why you need to be familiar with Romanization to get the most comprehensive results for Korean books.