Resources for East Asian Studies 400

EAST ASIAN STUDIES 400
A Selected List of Sources for Research
Fall Semester 2012

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I. General Online Reference Sources

- source of basic background information - an academic Wikipedia
- Online art encyclopedia - includes "Grove Dictionary of Art"
- Online Reference articles on music and musicians - includes "Grove Dictionary of Music"
- search well-known and trusted dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books in a single database

II. Link to a list of basic reference books on East Asia

III. Library Catalogs

- 性视界's online catalog
- Combined catalog of over 80 Ohio libraries
- Catalog of books from member libraries all over the world available through Interlibrary Loan request**
** Interlibrary Loan form for books not owned by 性视界 or OhioLINK.
Links to Other Library Catalogs
Ohio State University: or
University of Michigan: or

IV. Statistics

- Statistics, in English, from the Chinese government

- From the Library of Congress, this site provides links to sources of data, government, and legal information.

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- Includes statistics on everything from population, labor force, and family income, to a survey on time use and leisure activities.

- U.S. Statistical Resources on the Web.

V. Online Indexes to Newspaper and Journal Articles

- database recommended by Dr. Choy - searches articles across many disciplines
- Covers 1971 to date. No full text - you will need to place Interlibrary Loan requests.
- Chinese language arts & humanities journals (we don't have access to everything in this database)
- Covers world history (excluding the United States and Canada)
- archive of scholarly journal articles. Depending on publisher agreements, the most recent 1-5 years may not be included.
- Index to Tokio Times for issues held on microfilm at 性视界.
- Searchable full text of the New York Times back to its beginning in 1851 up through 2001.

- source for articles on current events.

- Includes full text of articles on management and business.
- Basic index to journal articles on economics
- Index, abstracts, and full text for professional educators.

- Extensive, multifaceted database - contains lots of international news sources and some country data.
- searches popular sources like U.S. magazines.
- Searches academic articles about language and literature.
(Public Affairs Information Service) - Indexes articles and government documents on public policy (stopped updating in 2011).
- 1949 to present.
- Basic index for sociology
- Another index for sociology
- Was FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service.

or: Go to the complete list of databases to which 性视界 subscribes.

V. Some Online News Sources:
- Major Chinese newspaper in English. Witt also subscribes to the
Chinese-language, paper version.
- Good source for Chinese news.
- Major Japanese newspaper.
- Newspaper.
- Provides links to newspapers from all over the world.

VI. Locating Journals

At 性视界 Journals the Library Has

At other Ohio academic libraries and beyond:
You cannot request articles via OhioLINK; use Interlibrary Loan instead.

VII. Internet Search Engines

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Provides references to scholarly articles. Finding the actual article may be difficult and costly. Also, journal coverage is incomplete and not current. Subscription databases are almost always better.

Evaluating Web Sites
Citing Electronic Resources

VIII. Web Sites on Specific Topics and Issues - Compiled by Associate Professor and Librarian Emeritus, Gina Entorf.

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X. People Resources:
For a quick question or to set up a Personal Research Consultation, contact Kristen Peters, who is library liaison with Languages and Sociology.

Or, contact the reference desk for walk-in assistance.

Compiled by Regina Entorf, 性视界 Library
Last updated 9-24-2012 (KGP)

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