Japanese Studies

Featured Databases for Japanese Studies

University of Virginia Library

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Charlottesville VA 22904-4113

434.924.3021

fax: 434.924.1431

Finding Books

Bibliography of Asian Studies    1971-present

Lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.

East Asian Studies: Bibliographic Indexes

Links to library catalogs, journal article indexes, newspaper article indexes, dissertations, books in print and statistical materials related to East Asian Studies.

MLA International Bibliography    1926-present

Lists books plus articles and essays from journals and books on literature, linguistics, and folklore. Before 1956 covered only scholarship published in North America. Also searchable through Literature Resource Center.

OCLC: WorldCat    to display and search in Asian scripts, set "options" to "Unicode"

Online catalog of books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide as catalogued by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).

Finding Journal Articles

Academic OneFile   

Find academic articles in all aspects of the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. Many full text articles with images. Includes book reviews. InfoTrac OneFile includes the same data and also business articles and articles from popular magazines.

CiNii    2005-present

(Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts    1973-present

Search for journal articles on all aspects of the nature and use of language. Includes book reviews. Updated monthly.

PapersFirst     1993-present

Citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses and symposia.

Periodicals Archive Online: PAO

Search the full text of nearly 400 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. These journals with links to JSTOR and through Find@UVa to other collections are also indexed in Periodicals Index Online. PAO was formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index Full Text.

Periodicals Index Online: PIO    1665-present

Search for articles and book reviews in over 4000 international humanities and social sciences journals published from 1770 to the 1990s. Includes links to full text of articles in Periodicals Archive Online and in humanities and social science titles at JSTOR. Formerly known as Periodicals Contents Index (PCI).

Project MUSE

Searchable full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, mostly from North American university presses. Older volumes are often available from JSTOR.

Finding News Articles

Factiva    searchable in Asian scripts

Company and business information from Dow Jones; articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries; use "Search" to find older articles. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time.

LexisNexis Academic

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

World News Connection    1995-present

Information from thousands of foreign media sources, including speeches, radio, television, newspapers, periodicals, and books. Includes unclassified military, political, environmental, sociological, scientific and technical data. All material translated into English.