The ''Encyclopedia of Korea'' (), a part of the Open Research Library Digital Collections, is the first comprehensive

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of Korea. Sixty Koreanists worldwide contributed some 1300 entries.Asian Library Resources of Australi
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, David R. McCann,

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, Keith Howard, James Hoare and others. Of the minor entries, many are English translations from the ''

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'' and relevant Japanese and

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sources. The contributors' names are recorded in the "List of Contributors and Translators" and also at the end of the entry itself, complete with bibliographical references for further reading. The "Index of Entries" is extensive (about 120 pages), and its contents include the entries in both Sino-Korean and English. The encyclopaedia has about 1500 pages. Korean words are Romanized according to the McCune–Reischauer Romanization System, with some minor exceptions. Overall Statistics (ANU Open Research Library Statistic for "Encyclopaedia of Korea") available since the ''Encyclopaedia'' became part of the ANU's Open Access Digital Collection in 2011, there have been 8,031 + views and 19,857 + downloads of whole and part articles. The Encyclopaedia is

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ed. The Table of Contents, as well as over 1,000 entries and 700 cross-references in the Index of Entries, are hyperlinked to the relevant articles and references in the main text of the Encyclopaedia.

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References

* ''Encyclopaedia of Korean Culture'' of Korea. *Asian Library Resources of Australi
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