Yale University Library has acquired the access to Udndata 聯合知識庫-全文報紙資料庫. The database allows multiple concurrent users and have been added to the Library’s Quicksearch [1] and Chinese Studies research guide-Newspapers [2]. Information of off-campus access to Yale subscribed electric resources can be found through here [3].

Udndata 聯合知識庫-全文報紙資料庫  [4]provides full-text search for more than 12 million news articles published by the United Daily News Group headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. The contents are updated daily. The 8 newspapers included in the database and their coverage of periods are:

• 聯合報 United Daily News - 1951 to present
• 經濟日報 Economic Daily News - 1967 to present
• 聯合晚報 United Evening News - 1988 to present
• 美洲世界日報 World Journal – 2000 to present
• Upaper – 2007 to present
• 民生報 Min Sheng Daily - 1978 to 2006
• 星報 Star News - 1999 to 2006
• 歐洲日報 Europe Daily – 2000 to 2009

To access Udndata requires NetID authentication and log-in using the account and password listed on a Yale Library page as well as entering the random system-generated “valid code” created for each session on the site. The FAQ of the database is available at http://udndata.com/faq/fulltext.html [5].

Please feel free to contact Michael Meng [6], Librarian for Chinese Studies, if you have any questions about this resource.