With Korea Foundation’s US$23,000 grant to UBC Library (US$20,000: print resources, US$3,000: e-resources), the Library is able to continue support the collection development and subscribe to the vital electronic databases for Korean Studies.

Asian Library subscribes to the following electronic databases:

DBpia (Korean Database)
This database covers over 2 million full-text articles from more than 2,000 scholarly journals.

KISS (Koreanstudies Information Service System)
Covers subject areas, such as Korean literature, language, history, education, law, and engineering. It provides full text articles from over 3309 journals/thesis titles and access to the Choson Ilbo Archive (newspaper articles since 1920).

KRpia (Korean Database)
This is Full text database for Korean Studies covering history, literature, dictionaries and traditional medicines.