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Asian Studies Subject Guide
Indexes
General
Wilson Web OmniFile A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.
Academic Search Complete 
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
For additional general sources, click on the appropriate discipline:
Subject
Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.
MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages. Good source for citations to articles on Asian, Chinese, and Japanese literature.
NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location. |
E-Sources
Journals
SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including Asian Studies (formerly Kluwer Journals).
Project Muse offers indexing and full-text of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Includes 16 titles on Asian Studies.
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including 15 Asian Studies journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.
Books
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About the Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.
Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.
- Asia--Economic conditionsAsia--History Asia--Politics and governmentAsia, Southeastern East Asia
- Japanese Literature
Internet Sites
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Asian Film Connections offers basic information on films made in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, along with critical reviews, interviews with filmmakers, and more.
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AsiaSource is sponsored by the Asia Society and links to news, business resources, and even a database of Asian foods.
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Asiaville offers links to business and cultural information.
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Association for Asian Studies provides links to publications and information distrubuted by the AAS, a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia.
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China the Beautiful is a primary resource site for the Chinese classics, arts, history, literature, poetry, calligraphy, and paintings.
- Denshõ: The Japanese American Legacy Project maintains Japanese American testimonies of those wrongly imprisoned during World War II, so that their memories will be saved and shared here, irreplaceable firsthand accounts, along with historical images and teaching resources.
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East and Southeast Asia: Net Resources a site maintained by Robrt Y. Eng of the University of Redlands.
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Sarai--South Asia Resource Access on the Internet a site maintained by Columbia University Libraries.
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Southeast Asian Studies: World Wide Web Virtual Library is a starting place for exploring Southeast Asian resources.
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Southeast Asia Visions is a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia with online access to 130,000 pages of text from the the John M. Echols Collection at Cornell University. There are also about 10,000 images, as well.
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UCLA Center for East Asian Studies a site maintained by UCLS with a variety of resources--news, journals, films, statistics--relating to Asian Studies.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Asian Studies includes thousands of sorted links to philosophy resources on the internet as well as assorted other features.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Internet Guide for China Studies includes thousands of links to internet resources arranged by Library of Congress Classication: Includes history, economy, education, politics, literature, arts, and more.
About the Department
Asian Studies
Citing Sources
Various Style Manuals may be used in Asian Studies, depending upon the aspect you are studying: history, literature, social sciences, etc. Check with your professor to determine which format you should use for a particular class. Select from a variety of Style Manuals online and on Reserve within the library.
