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SOCL 267 : Development of Modern Japanese Nationhood (BMC)
Reference books on Japan and Asia:
Japan and the Japanese
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Provides information on English-language journals and reference books on many specific subjects relating to Japan.
ASIA, INCLUDING JAPAN
The Far East and Australasia.
Publisher: London : Europa Publications, c1969-
Provides recent detailed articles on each country in the region, including bibliographies on general background books and books on the history, politics, and economics of the country.
Encyclopedia of modern Asia
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons ; c2002.
Bibliographies at the ends of the articles are quite current.
Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
Provides chronologies of major developments in many areas of politics, science, and culture in each country from prehistoric days through the end of the twentieth century. Japan section begins on p. 118.
Searching for books:
Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow
The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-colleges. We have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.
Searching for scholarly journal articles:
MAIN DATABASES
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
Bibliography of Asian studies
Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971-present.
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963-present.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC DATABASES
You may also want to try other databases of scholarly materials, each focused on a particular subject area:
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATABASES
JSTOR
Excellent place to start your research. Provides full-text searching of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years before today.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.
Searching for newspaper articles and other media sources:
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Full-text of thousands of newspapers -- foreign, domestic, and local. Includes NY Times (1980-current).
The New York times on the Web
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.
Provides full text searching and PDF page images of the New York Times from 1855 until three years ago. Outstanding resource for historical research! Click the link for your school, then the "ProQuest Historical Newspapers" option.
Access world news
Provider: NewsBank
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe, including the NY Times (2000-present). Database covers 1977-present.
Ethnic newswatch
Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America.
Japanese media sources
List compiled by Bryn Mawr's Language Learning Center
Finding images:
AP images
Electronic library containing the Associated Press's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library.
flickr
To find personal photos uploaded and "tagged" by thousands of individuals. This isn't a scholarly resource, but can be a quick way to view recent images from around the world.
Managing your citations:
There are several tools available for managing and tracking your citations to books, articles, websites, etc.. You can use these tools to maintain a database of citations with your research notes; you can also use them to create your in-text citations and list of sources cited.
To learn about the options, check out the library's Managing your Citations page.
To learn about the options, check out the library's Managing your Citations page.
Getting human help:
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