Friday, March 4, 2011

China Legal Knowledge Database

If you are interested in law from China, you are encouraged to try out China Legal Knowledge Database.   This is the only content officially sanctioned by the People’s Republic of China, and the most extensively used by Chinese attorneys.   CLKD features more than two million records from secondary resources back to 1994—law reviews, journal and newspaper articles, dissertations/theses, and conference proceedings—plus statutes from as early as 1949, and cases from 1979. In addition, laws at both the national and local level are added within days of enactment.


Use it on the web at:

an English interface: http://clkd.cnki.net/

a traditional Chinese interface:  http://law1.cnki.net 

simplified Chinese interface: http://chinalaw.cnki.net

Any of those interfaces lets you easily change over to another.

 

They planned to give us IP-authenticated access, but I find you need to sign in with:

Username:  cornelllaw

Password:    cornellclkd

 

Although the journal articles themselves are in Chinese, it has English keywords, abstracts, article titles, journal titles, and authors, which are all searchable and viewable.  The trial runs through April 8, 2011.  Please let me know if you try it out and what you think, to help the library makes its decision to subscribe or not.

 

Xie xie,

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian