- Journal of Vietnamese Studies
- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (print copies available from Swarthmore)
- Journal of Asian Studies (less helpful for Vietnam).
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Reference books on SE Asia and Vietnam:
Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
Provides chronologies of major developments in politics, science, and culture in Asian countries from prehistoric days through the twentieth century. The section on Vietnam begins on p. 521.
Encyclopedia of modern Asia
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons ; c2002.
This encyclopedia covers thirty-three Asian nations. There are numerous entries on Vietnam and the Vietnamese, all including bibliographies.
Encyclopaedia of the South-east Asian ethnography
Publisher: Deli : Global Vision, 2004.
Contains descriptive summaries of the ethnic groups of South-east Asian countries, including Vietnam.
Encyclopedia of world cultures
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1991-c1995.
Contains entries by anthropologists with research experience in the culture described that provide demographic, historical, social, economic, political, and religious information, along with a basic bibliography.
The Far East and Australasia.
Publisher: London : Europa Publications, c1969-
Provides recent detailed articles on each country in the region, including extensive bibliographies.
Historical dictionary of Vietnam
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
This dictionary covers Vietnamese history, politics and cultural and social matters with an emphasis on more recent events and individuals.
Let's go.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Let's Go: Vietnam. Just what you think it is: a compact travel guide for visitors to Vietnam. Definitely not scholarly, but it is a handy place to find information about the people, culture, and places of Vietnam.
Searching for books:
Tripod library catalog.
Search TRIPOD for books, journals, online resources, and other items in the Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore libraries. Use the request option to ask for items from Haverford or Swarthmore. Delivery is usually within one or two days.
To find items on your topic, try a keyword search:
doi moi
vietnam spirits
Or search an appropriate subject, e.g. :
Vietnam -- History
Vietnam -- Politics and government
Vietnam -- Social life and customs
To find items on your topic, try a keyword search:
doi moi
vietnam spirits
Or search an appropriate subject, e.g. :
Vietnam -- History
Vietnam -- Politics and government
Vietnam -- Social life and customs
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This combined library catalog is a good resource for identifying materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. The database contains over 95 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If you have found a useful item in the Tri-College collections, try searching the author or subject headings of that item in WorldCat. Many of the items you find will be available to you though Interlibrary Loan/E-ZBorrow.
Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow
If the books and articles you need for your research are not available within the Tri-Colleges, we have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. Use E-ZBorrow to request books only and Interlibrary Loan to request journal articles as well as books, reports, and documents not available via E-ZBorrow.
Searching for journal articles:
The following journals may be particularly useful for your research:
MAIN DATABASES
Anthropology plus
Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute. It contains citations to journal articles, reports, and edited works in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, and more. Coverage is from the 19th century to the present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Bibliography of Asian studies
Bibliography of Asian Studies indexes the worldwide literature on East, South, and Southeast Asia, covering all subjects but with an emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from 1971 to the present, although monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database.
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts and citations to journal articles, book reviews, conference papers, and dissertations. In addition your search results may include links to relevant scholars and web sites. Covers 1952-present.
SUBJECT-SPECIFIC DATABASES
You may also want to try other databases of scholarly materials, each focused on a particular subject area:
ATLA religion database + ATLAS
Provider: EBSCO
Provides online access to more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion as well as citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays in many other journals in the fields of religion and theology. Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, and Confucianism are represented along with the Christian traditions. Covers 1949-present.
Education index
Provider: Wilson
Provides abstracts and citations to English-language books and journals published in the United States and elsewhere on all topics in education. Covers 1982-present.
Family & society studies worldwide
Provider: Ebsco
Covers a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, law, history, and social work. Covers 1970-present.
Historical abstracts
Provider: EBSCO
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present. Includes journals with historical content published in closely related social science fields. Covers 1953-present. Use the companion database America: History and Life to find publications on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Women's studies international
Provider: Ebsco
This combined database of ten women’s studies resources provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, newspapers, and dissertations. Disciplines covered include anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, health and technology. Coverage varies, but mostly 1972-present.
Worldwide political science abstracts
Provider: CSA
This database provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975-present.
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY DATABASES
JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text from hundreds of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal up to the past three to five years.
Searches can be limited by article type, date, language, discipline or individual journal. There is a good selection of anthropology and Asian studies journals in JSTOR that may be useful for your research.
Searches can be limited by article type, date, language, discipline or individual journal. There is a good selection of anthropology and Asian studies journals in JSTOR that may be useful for your research.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text from thousands of magazines and journals in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular. Covers 1971-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-date) and the Science Citation Index (1955-date). Search by author and/or topic for scholarly articles in social science and scientific disciplines including anthropology, public health, sociology, women's studies, and medicine. You can also do a Cited Reference search to find articles that cite a known author or work to discover more recent articles on the same topic.
Searching for newspaper articles and other media sources:
LexisNexis academic
Provider: LN
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 English and non-English language news, business, and legal publications. You can search across broad categories of publications, or focus on more narrow categories, publications, or geographic areas. Includes full text from the the Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, Saigon Times Magazine (1997-present), and the Vietnamese News Agency (2007-pesent).
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.
Access to the full text of the New York Times is available to you from several providers. The ProQuest Historical Newspapers version provides searching and PDF page images from 1851 up to the past three years.
Ethnic newswatch
This interdisciplinary database contains full text from over 300 U.S. ethnic, minority and native newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes many magazines and newspapers from the Asian-American community, including Asianweek (1990-present), Hmong Studies Journal (1996-present), and Hmong Times (2006-present).
Finding websites, videos, images, and other materials:
Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the United States of America
This official web site of the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, D.C. includes a Learn About Vitenam section with information on the history and culture of the country.
Maps of Vietnam
A collection of online country, regional, historical, and thematic maps of Vietnam from the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library.
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
This portal created by the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University directs users to to selected Asian area online resources in the humanities and social sciences.
Portals to the World: Vietnam
Contains links selected by the Library of Congress to authoritative resources on Vietnam. These include the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook: Vietnam, the Library of Congress’ Vietnam: a Country Study, and the World Bank web page on Vietnam.
United Nations: Vietnam
This web page has links to information and publications relating to the UN's activities in Vietnam
Vietnam Cultural Profile
This collaborative project between the British educational charity Visiting Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Information of Vietnam attempts to map the cultural infrastructue of Vietnam.
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.
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