Japanese Language and Literature Subject Guide
Indexes | E-Sources | Catalog | Internet Sites | Department
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.
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
E-Sources
Journals
Project Muse
Index of periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.
Reference Works
Gale Literary Databases includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Books
netLibrary is a collection of full-text electronic books that library users can search and read over the Internet. Academic, reference, and scholarly books are included. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases.
These materials are shared by people all over the state of Texas. For some titles, there may only be one copy, but for others there are several copies. Though it is not necessary for Austin College students, faculty or staff to set up their own personal account, this is an option discussed on the netLibrary website. It may also speed up your connection to the material.
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.
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Japanese Literature
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Japanese language--Dictionaries
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Japanese literature--History and criticism
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Japanese poetry
Internet Sites
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Japanese Text Initiative a collaborative effort by The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web.
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The Japanese Literature Home Page general source for information in English on Japanese literature, including historical overviews and information on premodern and modern authors.
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JGuide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources JGuide is the WWW Virtual Library for Japan and Japanese Related Topics. This section covers History, Language, and Literature.
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Web Sites for Japanese Literature from Duke University.
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YourDictionary - Japanese provides links to various Japanese-English dictionaries.
About the Department
Citing Sources
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition (LB2369 .G53 2003)
Refer to the following book on Reserve:
or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct MLA citation format.
