Professor Jong-sung You Secures Access to the National Assembly Library in Korea
Agreement with National Assembly Library of Korea to Provide UC San Diego Researchers with Direct Online Access to its Digital Database
05/24/2012
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The UC San Diego Libraries and the National Assembly Library of Korea (NAL) have signed an agreement that provides UC San Diego researchers with direct online access to approximately 2.8 million items, or 140 million pages, of full-text e-resources. Online access to the NAL’s 5 million bibliographic entries, abstracts, and indexes is open to the public, but access to its digital database is restricted only to the libraries that have established mutual cooperation agreements with the NAL.
According to UC San Diego Associate University Librarian Martha Hruska, the agreement with Korea’s National Assembly Library will result in a very valuable resource for faculty, students, and scholars who focus on Asia. The NAL digital library is only available at the Library of Congress and a handful of U.S. academic libraries; UC San Diego is one of the few UC campuses to make the resource available to its library users.
Jong-Sung You, an assistant professor at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, and the co-director of the school’s Korea Pacific Program, played an instrumental role in making the agreement happen.
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Professor Jong-sung You is co-director of the Korea Pacific Program. Along with Professor Stephan Haggard, Professor You also leads the Korean Regional Concentration Program with participation from Director Emeritus Lawrence Krause and Professor Susan Shirk. His research focuses on Korean politics, comparative politics, political sociology, and comparative public policy. He teaches graduate courses on Korean politics and justice, development, and public policy, and an undergraduate course on corruption, inequality, and democracy. Before pursuing an academic career, he worked for democratization and social justice in South Korea. He was Director of Policy Research and later, General Secretary for Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice, an influential NGO in Korea.
