Search Guide
An integrated search service for materials held by the National Library of Korea and other partner institutions. Search results are shown by category: Collections and Full-text Databases.
Collections
Integrated search service for domestic and foreign materials held by the National Library of Korea, including monographs, serials, multimedia, alternative Materials, web resources, maps, music scores, Overseas Records on Korea, other, and so on.
Digitized Materials
The Library provides digitization services for some of the materials held by the NLK, including old and rare documents such as valuable materials and single copies, and the materials for which five years have passed since the dates of their publication.
Search
"Collection" search
"Collections" search is a keyword search service. Other options include: advanced search, keyword autocomplete and multilingual keyboard. Words starting with the same consonant-vowel sequences as those being typed in the search box are shown for faster search.
Keyword Autocomplete
Service for autocompleting search words based on an analysis of the most frequently searched keywords.
Multilingual Keyboard
Special characters can be typed by using the multilingual keyboard.
Advanced search
Advanced search enables performing a more accurate search by various fields such as keyword, author, title, publisher, and so on.
Material Type Classification
The left hand menu bar on the search results page shows the breakdown of search results by material type. By clicking on a material type, results of only the selected type are displayed.
Refine search results
By using the left hand menu bar, search results can be refined by not only material type but also by full-text availability, publication year, subject, and so on.