NIAS Library
The NIAS Library and Information Centre (NIAS LINC) is a specialised digital library servicing the Nordic Asian studies community.
We provide a unique service to researchers and students through our online information resources and research dissemination platforms. NIAS LINC works closely together with the libraries of the NNC institutions and with location at the CSS campus with the Faculty Library of Social Sciences of Copenhagen University closeby we have access to one of the largest collection of books and journals on modern Asia in the Nordic region. NIAS book collection has now a part of the collections of the Copenhagen University Library and available for interlibrary loans via the Royal Library/University Library.
Resources
NIAS Library is since 2014 a strictly digital library focusing on providing access to information on Modern Asia and mainly within the social sciences, for the Nordic community. All of our resources are available via the AsiaPortal and consists of databases, newspapers, e-books and online journals. The Asiaportal also provides news and events from the Nordic region, as well as access to AsiainFocus, a Nordic Journal on Asia by early career researchers.
By providing online information combined with reference, guidance and instruction by qualified staff, NIAS LINC is an important node in the Asia research field for Nordic scholars.
How to use the library
To facilitate access to online information on modern Asia, NIAS LINC has created the AsiaPortal. This portal is a collection of high-quality academic resources comprising both free resources and access to restricted databases and journals for our Nordic NIAS Council partner institutions.
At the AsiaPortal you can find:
- Approx. 40 subscribed databases mainly in Asian languages (NNC members only)
- A long list of freely available information resources on Asia, for example more than 80 journals
- Approx. 160 NIAS Press e-books (NNC members only)
- Asian newspapers for online reading (NNC members only)
- Nordic Asia Online - podcasts, webinars and blogs on Asian topics from Nordic academic institutions
- In Focus blog with analyses, opinons and commentaries on Asian topics by Nordic researchers and experts
- Asia in Focus - a Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers