| Find Your Way to…Asian Studies |  |
Books |
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| The Library uses the Library
of Congress shelving arrangement. |
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| BP: Islam | NK: Decorative/Applied arts |
| BV: Religions: General (includes Hinduism) | PL: Language/Literature: Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| DS: History: Asia | PN: Literature, Poetry, drama, performing arts/theatre |
| N: Visual arts & Art History | R: Medicine: General |
| NA: Architecture | |
| NB: Sculpture | |
| NC: Drawing, Illustration, Design |
Basic Reference Sources | Location |
| Encyclopedia of Modern Asia | REF DS 4 .L48 2002 |
| Encyclopedia of Asian philosophy | REF B 121 .E53 2001 |
| Dictionary of Art (Grove) | REF N 31 .D5 1996 v.1-34 |
| Dictionary of traditional South-East Asia | REF PN 2860 .G48 1994 |
| The Asian political dictionary | REF DS 31 .Z57 1985 |
| Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia | REF DS 526 .L45 2001 |
| Countries and their cultures | REF GN 307 .C68 2001 4v |
| Encyclopedia of World Cultures | REF GN 333 .E53 1991 10v. |
| Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and daily life | REF GN 333 .W67 1991 10v. |
| Please check the HELIN catalog for other topics, such as business or history, as they related to Asia. |
Find Articles and Other Materials | |
Select PC Indexes and Databases | |
| Art Abstracts
1984+ indexing
1944+ abstracting |
Covers more than 250 key international, English- language
arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition
and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, etc. |
| ARTstor | Created by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Contains approximately 300,000 images and descriptive information in the ares of art, architecture and archaeology. |
CAMIO | CAMIO contains thousands of fine art and decorative art images from pre-history through contemporary works. NOTE: All content is rights-cleared for educational use in the classroom or to illustrate papers, Web projects and other assignments. |
| EconLit 1969+ |
Published by the American Economic Association and provides coverage of
a wide range of economics-related literature. As an expanded version of
the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), the database indexes books, dissertations,
and over 450 journals. Contains links to 157 journals available full text
in Academic Search Premier. |
| International medieval Bibliography c. 400-1500 | A leading interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middles Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400- 1500. Click on the "Enter Databases" button to begin searching |
| ISI Emerging Markets | Internet Securities, Inc. uses more than 4400 world sources to provide current news, legal, and political information, company/industry information, and macroeconomics statistics and forecasts for markets in the primarily emerging areas of Europe, Latin America, and Asia |
General | |
| JSTOR |
Access to complete backfiles for 300 journal titles in the humanities,
social sciences, and sciences |
| PAIS International | Materials on public affairs. Includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic | Contains world news from sources in North and South America, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa |
| Social Science Abstracts 1983+ (EBSCO) | Nearly half of the 500 English language periodicals link to full text articles in this index to the social sciences literature |
| Academic Search Premier | Indexes and links to actual articles in major scholarly journals including Asian Studies and related disciplines |
Key Journals | |
| Artibus Asiae | Print/Onlne |
| Asian Affairs | Print/Online |
| Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies | Print/Online |
| Modern Asian Studies | Print/Online |
Select Websites | |
| Centers and Associations for Southeast Asian Studies | Northern Illinois University |
| Center for East Asian Studies | Stamford University |
| Portal to Asian Internet Sources | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Scholarly Associations on South Asia | Colombia University |
Association Sites | |
| American Oriental Society | |
| The Asia Society | Society for South Asian Studies |
| Association for Asian Studies | Society for Asian Art |
Other Sites | |
| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco | http://www.asianart.org/ |
| Asian- Nation | http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtmlx |
| Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library | http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html |
Writing Guides | Location |
| APA Online | A portion of the Publication Manual (APA) |
| APA Style Guide to Electronic References | Downloadable PDF for citing online resources |
| MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing | Modern Language Association. REF: PN147 .G444 1998 |
| A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations |
Turabian, Kate. REF: LB 2369 .T8 1996 |
| Citing Sources | Guides on the Internet |
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| Beatrice Pulliam and Rose Kennedy, Asian Studies Liaisons |
Last revision to this page : 3 January 2008 |
Comments to: Asian Studies Liaison |