East Asian Studies Online Reference Resources

EAST ASIAN STUDIES 400
A Selected List of Online Reference Sources for Research

Go to the Wittenberg East Asian Studies Web Page

I. General Online Reference Sources
   Encyclopedia Britannica
        Grove Dictionary of Art - Online art encyclopedia.
        Grove Dictionary of Music - Online Reference articles on music and musicians.

       Kodansha Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia of Japanese culture, history, society,
        and goverment.
    Nations of the World - From the Library of Congress, this site provides background
        information and links to more information.

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

III. Library Catalogs

EZRA- Wittenberg's online catalog
OhioLINK- Combined catalog of nearly 80 Ohio academic libraries

WorldCat - Worldwide bibliographic utility (limited ports)
www.worldcat.org - open access WorldCat

Interlibrary Loan form for books that neither Wittenberg nor OhioLINK libraries own

Links to Other Library Catalogs
Ohio State University: Libraries' homepage or E. Asian Studies Reading Room
        Note: Thompson Library is closed for renovation; the East Asian Studies collections
        have been moved temporarily to Ackerman Library, 600 Ackerman Road.

University of Michigan: Libraries' homepage   or Asia Library

IV. Statistics

National Bureau of Statistics of China - Statistics, in English, from the Chinese government
Statistics Bureau, Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts,
and Tecommunications. Includes statistics on everything from population, labor
force, and family income, to a survey on time use and leisure activities.

University of Michigan Documents Center - U. S. Statistical Resources on the Web.

V. Periodicals
A. Locating Journals

At Wittenberg: Journals the Library Has -

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

B. Online Indexes to Newspaper and Journal Articles

Bibliography of Asian Studies - Covers 1971 to date. No full text.
Paper editions, kept on the index shelves, go back to 1941.

Academic Search Premier - This is probably our best source for articles on current events. Covers 1986 to date. Some full text.
MasterFile Premier - Indexes and provides some full text for popular U.S. magazines.

JSTOR - 100% full text database of journal back files.
Lexis-Nexis- Extensive, multifaceted database, almost completely full text.

Historical Abstracts - Covers world history excluding the United States and Canada.
New York Times - Historical - Searchable full text of the New York Times back to
its beginning in 1851 up through 2001.
Tokio Times Index (Jan 1877 - Jun 1880) - Index to Tokio Times for issues
    held on microfilm at Wittenberg.

Art Abstracts -
Business Source Complete - Includes lots of full text of articles on management
and business.

Contemporary Women's Issues - Almost all full text. Covers 1988 through
June 2006.
Women's Studies International - Indexes multidisciplinary scholarship in
feminist research. Some full text.

Digital Dissertations - Disseration Abstracts; index, some abstracts, and some
preview pages - 1861 to present.
Education Research Complete - Index, abstracts, and lots of full text for professional
educators.
EconLit- Basic index to journal articles on economics.
Ethnic NewsWatch - "Full text of ethnic, minority and native periodicals.

International Political Science Abstracts - Lots of full text.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts    - 1975 through June 2006 - A basic index for
journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

MLA Bibliography - Gives access to articles about language and literature.
Religion Index - 1949 to date
SocINDEX Complete - Basic index for sociology, with a lot of full text.
Wilson indexes (Wilson Web) - Includes Social Sciences Index, Humanities Index, & General Science Index, plus indexes for art and library science..    Covers 1983 or-4 to date, with some full text since 1996.
World Development Indicators - From the World Bank, this database provides comparative economic statistics from around the world.

World News Connection - Was FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Completely full text.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts    - 1975 through June 2006 - A basic index for
journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/policy. No full text.

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

C. Some Online News Sources:
People's Daily Online - Major Chinese newspaper in English. Witt also subscribes to the
Chinese-language, paper version.
Sina - Good source for Chinese news.
Asahi Shimbun - Major Japanese newspaper.
Korea Times - Newspaper.
News and Newspapers Online - Provides links to newspapers from all over the world.
Asiaweek -

Note: Locating journals can be tricky, difficult, and generally exasperating. If you run into trouble, a reference librarian will be glad to assist you.

VI. Internet Search Engines

Google

Yahoo

Metacrawler

Google Scholar -
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.

       Evalating Web Sites

        Citing Electronic Resources

VII. Web Sites on Specific Topics and Issues

VIII. Chicago Manual of Style (Turabian)

IX.   People Resources:
For help stop by the library, phone the reference desk at 327-7511, or send e-mail to refdesk at wittenberg.edu.

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Compiled by Regina Entorf, Wittenberg University Library
Last updated 6-4-07/RPE

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