SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION
(a) W i n d o w s
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 or higher (including localized Korean versions of Windows), an IBM PC or compatible computer with a 386DX/25 MHz processor or higher, a minimum of 8 MB of RAM, and a CD-ROM drive.
Windows NT and 2000: Installation on hard drive not required but advisable for faster performance.
Windows 95/98: Installation on hard drive required. 130 MB of free space are needed.
To install the entire bibliography package onto your hard drive, use the installer program located in the "Additional Documentation" folder in the main menu and follow the on-screen instructions.
NOTE: If you are working on a PC with unusual system configurations (e.g. on a networked machine), please consult the system administrator for assistance.
(b) M a c i n t o s h
System 7.1 or higher (OS 8.6 compatible), at least 1 MB of free RAM and a CD-ROM drive. OS 9.x and 10 users need to download and install the free update to EndNote 3.1.3. Installation on hard drive not required but advisable for faster performance.
To install the entire bibliography package onto your hard drive, use the installer program located in the "Additional Documentation" folder and follow the on-screen instructions. 133 MB of free space are required.
WHAT'S IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY?
This bibliography contains references to almost 50,000 articles and over 4,000 book sections, 17,000 books, 7,000 theses, and 4,000 reviews: about 83,000 publications in all. The majority of these are English language works, but we have also listed works in over twenty other languages whose script systems are based on the Latin alphabet. Furthermore, although it is devoted to academic sources, the bibliography contains numerous references to translations of Korean literature. An exact break-down of references by generic type can be found at the end of this document.
THE COMPILATION PROCESS
The Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography is the culmination of a three-year compilation project sponsored by the Korea Institute of Harvard University. The project was conceived and directed by Frank Hoffmann, who was assisted by Matthew J. Christensen and Kirk W. Larsen.
The compilation process involved surveying and collecting references from printed bibliographies and indices, online databases, library catalogues, and an assortment of bibliographical materials received from colleagues in the field. Where possible, we imported bibliographic data from electronic sources directly into our database—a task that required countless hours of computing, writing macros, defanging technical beasts, and the like. Where bibliographical information was unavailable in electronic format, our only recourse was to input the information into the database directly—a tedious though ultimately more reliable approach since it allowed for greater editorial oversight. Given the vast scope of the project, not to mention unavoidable constraints in human and material resources, it was necessary to limit direct data entry as much as possible. Indeed, much of our time has been spent editing and adding keywords to references imported from electronic databases. Despite our best efforts in this regard, it was impossible for us to verify each and every entry for accuracy, particularly because over three-fourths of the entries in this bibliography were taken from online, CD, or printed bibliographies.
As a result, we were to a very great extent dependent upon the accuracy of the bibliographic sources used. This element of dependence was one of several reasons why we decided not to include any diacritics in the bibliography, either for McCune-Reischauer transcription or for French, German, Czech, etc. First of all, many of our sources ignored diacritical marks, and there was no practical way of verifying all the entries. Second, using plain ASCII characters seemed to avoid numerous problems related to the installation of special fonts and their use. The third reason is related to limitations of the software: EndNote is not programmed (with few exceptions) to locate words that include diacritics when the search terms do not include such marks. To take one example, the present version of EndNote will not locate "Sørensen" if you have typed in "Sorensen." In view of this technical limitation, it seemed unlikely that the majority of non-Danish users would, in the given example, immediately know how to type an "ø" on an American, German or French keyboard without combing through reams of computer manuals. All things considered, eliminating diacritical marks from the bibliography seemed the only appropriate response under the circumstances.
Finally, it should be stated that while we regret the persistence of typographical and other errors in this bibliography, such errors were unavoidable in a project of this size and scope, particularly since we had no way of verifying the accuracy of all the imported entries. Consequently, this bibliography should not be deemed to function as an authoritative source, an index magnum of over a hundred years of Western scholarship on Korea, but simply as a useful reference tool intended to help scholars and students find and locate sources for their research.
Throughout the duration of this project, we have benefited from the unflagging support of Professor Carter J. Eckert and the members of the Executive Committee of the Korea Institute. We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the many colleagues in Korean studies from around the world who submitted their own bibliographies and publication lists for use in this project. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the contribution of Brother Anthony of Taizé in addition to those of Professors Robert C. Provine, Werner Sasse, Eckart Dege, James P. Thomas, Mr. Edward J. Baker and Mr. Henny Savenije. A number of people stepped in at key moments to provide administrative assistance, access to equipment and office space, and various forms of technical, translation, and other advice. For these helpful contributions, we express our gratitude to Susan Lee, Raymond Lum, Hoil Kim, Caroline Kerkaert, and Shannon Council.
We would also like to thank the individuals, companies, and institutions who have kindly permitted us to reproduce copyrighted abstracts here. In particular, we express our gratitude to SilverPlatter Information Inc., ABC-CLIO Ltd., Public Affairs Information Service Inc., Expert Information Ltd., the Educational Resources Information Center, the American Economic Association, The H.W. Wilson Company, the Institute for Scientific Information, the American Psychological Association, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company. As the new home of (formerly UMI) Dissertation Abstracts, Bell & Howell wishes to inform you that copies of complete articles and dissertations may be obtained by addressing your request to Bell & Howell Information and Learning Company (formerly UMI), 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 1346 USA. Telephone (734) 761-7400; E-mail: info@bellhowell.infolearning.com; Web-page: http://www.bellhowell.infolearning.com.
ENDNOTE
The four database files on this CD are in EndNote format. EndNote, we think, is the most user-friendly among the three or four leading bibliography programs. EndNote allows you to (a) search the database files (which takes only a second or two), (b) print selected references in a variety of common bibliographic styles such as MLA, Turabian, or Chicago Manual of Style, and (c) export selected references in a selected bibliographic style to your favorite word processor. A fully functional demo version of EndNote is included on this CD. To learn more about the program and all its functions, you may study the enclosed EndNote Demo Guide for version 3 (see below) or visit the Web site of EndNote's producer at http://www.endnote.com/. At the time of publication, Niles Software Inc. had recently merged with Scientific Information (ISI) to form a new company called ResearchSoft; their new Web site is at: http://www.researchsoft.com. A number of universities also offer their own EndNote user guides online: http://www.niles.com/home/help/Libraries.htm.
It should be noted that EndNote permits only 32,767 entries per library file, and that each file can have a maximum size of about 32 MB. Because this Korean studies bibliography contains over 20,000 abstracts, the combined size of the references would exceed 100 MB if merged and indexed in one library. We were therefore forced to separate the database into four distinct libraries. Although the sources are divided in a manner that strikes a balance between flexibility and convenience, you should be aware of the need to perform searches in all four libraries whenever you want to search the entire database (see Tip 10). After having considered various ways of getting around this problem, including using a different bibliography program (ProCite) that would allow an unlimited number of entries for each library, we determined that the benefits of EndNote in terms of reliability and ease of use more than compensate for its limitations. If you are a ProCite user, however, please note that ProCite (version 4 or later) allows the direct import of EndNote libraries. For more information about bibliography programs in general, please visit the Chorus Electronic Research pages at Berkeley: http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/eresearch/.
For your convenience, we have also included the original ReadMe texts that come with EndNote Plus Demo (version 2) in the "Additional Documentation" folder, as well as a more detailed user's guide (EndNote 3 Demo Guide.pdf) and an interactive tutorial (EndNote 3 Tutorial) that come with version 3 of the demo program. For our purposes, Version 3 does not offer any advantages over version 2 and actually performs less well when it is run from the CD itself. We therefore decided to use the older version. We encourage you to peruse these files at your convenience in order to take advantage of EndNote’s more advanced features. In case you want to get started immediately, however, our own User's Guide (which you are reading right now) contains a summary of EndNote's basic searching, printing and exporting functions needed to work with the Korean studies bibliography, followed by a short list of useful tips.
SEARCHING A LIBRARY
The database has been divided into the following four separate files, or libraries:
(A) Theses
(library includes references of the type: Thesis — M.A. theses, dissertations, etc.)
(B) Books, Bk. Sections, Reviews
(library includes references of the types: Book, Edited Book, Book Section
and Book Review)
(C) Articles, 1786-1991
(D) Articles, 1992-1997
(libraries include references of the type: Journal Article)
The EndNote Demo version included on the CD allows both simple and combined searches of the database. For example, you can conduct a general search of all fields for the entire library, or limit your search to a single field or group of fields [e.g. Year, Title, Keywords, or Language]. You can also refine your search by using limiting operators such as And, Or, Not, <, or >. Although certain common Boolean operators such as * and ! do not work with EndNote, the search window provides functional equivalents in the form of MATCH CASE, and MATCH WORD.
MATCH CASE:
When this option is selected, EndNote locates references containing the search term with the same combination of upper and lower case letters. For example, a search for "UNESCO" will not yield "Unesco" when MATCH CASE is selected. By deselecting the option in the search window, however, you will find both.
MATCH WORD:
When this option is selected, EndNote locates only exact matches for the search term, rather than partial-word matches. For example, a search for "Japan" will not yield "Japanese," or "Japanisch" when MATCH WORD is selected. Once again, by deselecting the option in the search window, you will find all entries containing "Japan" alone or as any part of a word.
USE INDEXES:
The database has been indexed for rapid searching; you should keep this option selected at all times (with one possible exception, see Tip 7)
The Symbols sub-menu provides various options for limiting searches. For example, you can limit your search for articles dealing with "Silla" to those published up to and including 1945 by using the symbol options, as shown below. You may either type the desired symbol into the search field, or else select the appropriate option from the Symbols sub-menu.
The Items sub-menu allows you to insert, add or delete search windows with additional terms for advanced searching. Alternatively, you may limit your search results incrementally by performing additional searches (see below).
Begin by searching the whole library. You may then perform additional searches of the "showing references" resulting from the first search by selecting the Search showing references option. Similarly, Omit from showing references allows you to refine a search by excluding references that meet designated search criteria. For example, you might want to eliminate books or articles in a certain language [Label = Language field] and published before or after a certain date. You can also combine results from separate searches by using the Add to showing references option. This option allows you to preserve the results of one search while conducting a separate search of the whole library.
PRINTING AND EXPORTING REFERENCES
PRINTING
(1) Select the references you wish to print using one of the following options:
(a) to select references individually, hold the Ctrl key (Mac: Shift key)
while clicking on individual references
(b) to select a list of references, hold down the Shift key while clicking
on the first reference, then scroll down and click on the last reference
to be included (on the Mac this does not work; you have to scroll to the end
of the list of selected references while holding down the Shift key)
(c) to select all references in a given list (typically after a search), choose
Select All from the Edit menu.
(2) In the Styles menu, select the bibliographic style in which you want the
printed references to appear. Please note that only our customized styles,
marked with a plus ( + ), will work smoothly with all references on the CD.
(3) Select Print from the File menu.
EXPORTING TO A WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENT
The following method works for most popular word processing programs including MS Word and Corel WordPerfect.
(1) Follow steps 1 and 2 for PRINTING (above).
(2) Select Copy Formatted from the Edit menu.
(You may preview the references to be exported by selecting Show
Clipboard from the Edit menu.)
(3) Copy formatted references into your document by selecting
Paste from the word processing program's Edit menu.
EXPORTING REFERENCES TO ANOTHER ENDNOTE LIBRARY
(1) Select references for export using step 1 for PRINTING (above).
(2) Select Copy from the Edit menu.
(3) Open another EndNote library file or select New from the File menu
to create a destination file. The destination for this file cannot be the
Bibliography CD, but must be another writable disk (floppy, ZIP disk, etc.).
(4) Select Paste from EndNote's Edit menu. (This demo version of EndNote
limits the number of references in newly created libraries to 10 entries.)
REFERENCE TYPES AND FIELDS
Unfortunately, ResearchSoft did not grant us permission to customize the generic field names in EndNote's pop-up menus—so you will have to memorize the following correlations in order to search for data in these fields:
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Label <=> Language
Subsidiary Author <=> Translator
Custom 1 <=> Location
Custom 2 <=> Call Number
Custom 3 <=> Alternate Author
Custom 4 <=> Author's/
Use your imagination in devising search terms. For example, if you want to find all works dealing with "Christianity," you should include related terms such as "Christian," "Mission," and "Church" in your search because there is no guarantee that the term "Christianity" will appear in every relevant entry. To assist you in determining whether a certain author's work or a given keyword is included in the library you are searching, you can browse the TERMS list (in Terms / Open List).
