Korean Legal Research at the University of Washington
한국법학연구지침

Finding Books and Journals
(Updated January 08, 2008)

Bibliographic Databases

• RedLightGreen and OCLC Worldcat (see below) are the two major U.S. union catalog databases. They contain records for books and periodicals about Korean law in all languages. To see Korean, change encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).
  • RedLightGreen (catalog of the Research Libraries Group - RLG)
    Connect through link on Marian homepage: http://marian.law.washington.edu/.
  • OCLC World Cat
    Connect through link on Marian homepage: http://marian.law.washington.edu/.
  • Dissertation Abstracts (UW Restricted)
    Indexing and abstracts for dissertations from North American and European universities; recent UW dissertations available online to UW users free of charge
    http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/gateway
• AsianLaw Bibliography (Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne): http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/bibliography/
  This is "a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available throughout the world and includes books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses. It does not include newspapers, magazines, conference papers or unpublished articles."

Korean Libraries

• 국회도서관 National Assembly Library: www.nanet.go.kr
• 법원전자도서관 Supreme Court Digital Library: www.sclib.scourt.go.kr
• 국가전자도서관 National Digital Library of Korea: www.dlibrary.go.kr
  Union Catalog of Major Korean National Libraries
• 국립중앙도서관 National Library of Korea: www.nl.go.kr
• 서울대학교 중앙도서관 Seoul National University Library
  English: http://147.46.181.112/snu/index.html
  Korean: http://147.46.181.112/