- 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.
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.
For locating books, journals, videos, and electronic resources held at Tri-College 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, start with a Keyword search or a Subject search.
To find items on your topic, start with a Keyword search or a Subject search.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This combined library catalog of over 60 million records is a good resource for identifying materials not owned by the Tri-College Libraries. Many of these items are available though interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow
If books and articles are not available within the Tri-colleges, there are two ways to request the materials you need for your research. Use E-Z Borrow to request books only and Interlibrary Loan to request journal articles as well as books, reports, and documents available not available via E-Z Borrow.
Searching for scholarly journal articles:
The following journals may be particularly useful for your research:
MAIN DATABASES
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles and reports in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 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
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
Indexes the literature of sociology and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers. 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:
AccessUN
Provider: Readex
Provides abstracts and some full-text to many United Nations publications including journal articles and official records and documents. Indexes 1945-present. Full-text coverage from 1974-present.
ATLA religion database + ATLAS
Provider: SilverPlatter
Provides online access to more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.
Education index
Provider: Wilson
Provides abstracts and citations to English-language journals, books and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere on all topics in education. Covers 1982-present.
Family & society studies worldwide
Provider: NISC
Covers the literature on children, families, and marriage in a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, 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: NISC
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
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
Excellent place to start your research. Provides the full-text from more than 200 of the top journals in most academic disciplines. There is a good selection of anthropology journals in JSTOR and many others that may be useful for your research. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
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 (1956-date) and the Science Citation Index (1955-date). Search by author and/or topic for scholarly articles in disciplines including anthropology, public health, sociology, women's studies, and medicine. You can also search for articles that cite a known author or work to discover more recent articles on the same topic. Coverage varies.
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. Includes full text from the Vietnamese News Agency from 12/2006 to the present.
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. Contains the full text of the Saigon Times from 12/2002 to the present. Database covers 1977-present.
Ethnic newswatch
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of over 275 U.S. ethnic, minority and native newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes many magazines and newspapers from the Asian-American community, including VietNow and Asianweek. Uses the same search interface as ProQuest Research Library. Covers 1990-present.
Finding websites, videos, images, and other materials:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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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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