ARTICLES
	Help Finding Articles
	Journal Locator - Help Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals.
Scholarly Articles
	Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] - 1965 to present - Full Text Full-text and indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.
	Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present as well as older material cited in these publications. Updated weekly.
	Bibliography of Asian Studies - 1971 to present References western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia
	China Academic Journals - 1994 to present - Full Text On the CNKI USA home page, select "CAJ Full-text" from the pull-down menu and click "search". The CAJ database is divided into 9 series databases and sub-divided 126 subject databases. Use Internet Explorer.
	Historical Abstracts - 1956 to present Covers history after 1450, excluding U.S. and Canada; lists articles, books, collections, and dissertations.
	Humanities Abstracts - 1984 to present Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs from over 465 sources in the humanities.
	International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) - 1951 to present Contains information from international publications, including over 2600 journals, in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science.
	JSTOR - Full Text Complete full text backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, and Music excluding the most recent 2 to 5 years.
	Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts - 1973 to present Covers phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax & semantics, providing abstracts of journal articles, books, chapters, dissertations, & book reviews.
	MLA Bibliography - 1926 to present - Help Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America, includes 1,200,000+ records.
	Women's Studies International - 1972 to present Citations and abstracts from a variety of women's studies databases, covering classic works & core studies and other scholarship in feminist research.
	Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - 1907-1984 Indexes nearly 1,200 English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; also includes citations to book reviews.
	Humanities International Index Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
	[China] Read NCL Databases compiled by the National Central Library in Taiwan. This is a very slow site.
	[Japanese] CiNii (NII Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) Index to articles published in university bulletins and journals. Abstracts are often included and links are provided to NACSIS Webcat to help you checking for library holdings information.
	[Japan] Zasshi Kiji Sakuin @ NDL - 1947 to present Citations to articles published in Japanese language periodicals. Coverage begins with 1947, which is better than the Nichigai Associates database, but the system goes down between 2-5 in the afternoons for maintenance.
Popular Articles
	LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
Journal Indexing and Locations
	Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications Any researcher in the United States who requests full-text academic Chinese journal article(s) for his/her research [may use this service] focused on Chinese academic journal publications not held by or available from libraries in the United States
	Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers A cooperative site maintained by librarians to provide a convenient way to look up which libraries own which issues of which newspapers. Also, there is a convenient link to look at scanned in tables of contents for Japanese language journals.

BOOKS AND MEDIA
	Help Finding Books
	[Chinese] Chinese Text Initiative - Full Text Maintained by the University of Virginia. "... An effort to make texts of Chinese literature available on the World Wide Web."
	[Chinese] National Palace Museum Database of Premodern Texts
	[Chinese] Si ku quan shu (treasury of all knowledge) - Full Text Contains 3492 individual works, divided into 4 categories, represents a massive heritage of Chinese thought and culture. Keyword searchable. See a reference librarian for log in.
	[Chinese] WenxueCity - Full Text Chinese literature. Uses GB encoding.
	[Japanese] Aozora: Blue Sky Collection - Full Text Japanese public domain texts.
	[Japanese] Japanese Text Initiative - Full Text Maintained by the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library."... A collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web."
	Google Books - Full Text Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available.
	Moodle/E-Reserves Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more.
	[Japanese] Kindai Digital Library Japanese language materials, published during the Meiji period (1868-1912) are available online. Keyword searchable to tables of contents. All materials have been cleared for copyright purposes. 3000,000 items to date.
Library Catalogs
	Five College Library Catalog - Help Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst.
	WorldCat (East Asian) OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records. You may now display Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters by clicking on Options and setting the character set to Unicode.
	[China] Beijing University Library Catalog Uses GB encoding.
	[China] Chinese University of Hong Kong Library Catalog Uses Big 5 encoding.
	[China] National Central Library Uses Big5 encoding.
	[Japan] NACSIS Webcat National bibliographic utility for Japanese academic libraries. Use NACSIS Webcat to verify library holdings for periodicals that are not held in North America. Pronunciation guides for authors and titles are provided for all records.
	[Japan] National Diet Library - 1868 - present Includes all materials published since the beginning of the Meiji period. Also see the NDL homepage for information about digital resources, reference services, and virtual collections.
	[Japan] Tokyo University Library Catalog Includes tables of contents for many books.
	[Japan] Waseda University Library Catalog Easiest catalog to use. Provides romanized and kanji for all information. See W.E.B. Du Bois Library, East Asian Computing for help with browser language kits.
	[Korea] National Digital Library Portal to 6 significant libraries in Korea: National Library of Korea, National Assembly Library of Korea, Supreme Court Library, KISTI, KERIS, KAIST Science Library.
Book Purchases and Reviews
	Books in Print - 1979 to present Includes information on scholarly, popular, adult, juvenile, reprint and all other types of books covering all subjects currently published and distributed in the U.S. Includes titles declared out-of-print from July 1979 to the present.
	[Chinese] Xinhau Bookstore
	[Japanese] Kinokuniya Bookstore
	[Japan] Books.or.jp Japanese version of Books in Print.
	[Korea] Kyobo Book Center See W.E.B. Du Bois Library, East Asian Computing Support for help with Web browser language kits.

NEWS
	LexisNexis Academic - Coverage varies by title - Full Text Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Includes federal and state laws and cases.
	[China] Inside China Today - Full Text
	[China] People's Daily - Full Text News from China available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese.
	[China] Xinhua News - Full Text
	[Japan] Asahi News - Full Text - Help
	[Japan] Daily Yomiuri - Full Text - Help
	[Japan] Japan Times - Full Text - Help
	[Japan] Mainichi Daily News - Full Text - Help
	[Japan] NikkeiNet Interactive - Full Text - Help
	[Korea] Chosun Ilbo - Full Text
	[Korea] Korea Times - Full Text
	[Korea] KINDS: Korean Integrated Newpaper Database System Full-text article database covering more than 10 newspapers in both Korean and English since 1990. You must register to use it, but there are no charges involved.

REFERENCE TOOLS
	English Translations of Korean Literature (Brother Anthony’s website)
	English Translations of Korean Literature Published before 2001 Best collection of information on English translations of Korean literature, compiled by Brother Anthony. See also link on this page for translations published since 2001.
	Japanese Literature in Translation (Japan Foundation)
	Korean Short Story Index (University of Hawaii)
	Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
	[Chinese] Contemporary Literature Database (National Central Library, Taiwan)
Addresses, Phone Numbers, Etc.
	MLA Directory of Periodicals
Dictionaries
	CJKV-English Dictionary Designed for use with pre-modern texts, from Zhou dynasty materials to 19th-century writings in China, Korea and Japan. Includes information on Chinese terminology derived from Confucianism, Daoism, secular literature, poetry, and historical works.
	Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms A digital version of the 1930s dictionary of Chinese Buddist terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous.
	Digital Dictionary of Buddhism A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources.
	Oxford Language Dictionaries Online Unabridged bilingual dictionaries for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian & Chinese, with native speaker audio pronunciation. Will be expanded to include Japanese & Polish.
	[Chinese] Chinese Characters Dictionary Web
	[Chinese] Guo yu ci dian
	[Japanese] Yahoo! Japan Dictionaries
	[Korean] Yahoo! Dictionaries
Style Manuals
	Citation Guides & Style Manuals

INTERNET META-SITES
	Google In Your Language Google is a search engine that gives amazing results. It is now available in many languages, so you can search in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in addition to English.
	PAIR – Portal to Asian Internet Resources
	WWW Virtual Library: Asian Studies This is the famous site for East Asian Studies scholars, maintained by experts around the world, and located at Australia National University.
	[China] Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks This is a wonderful site for people interested in Chinese Studies, particularly Chinese Language and Literatures.
	[Japan] Japanese Studies Resources Compiled by Kris Troost, Duke University Libraries East Asian Collection. This is a good starting point for finding reference materials.
	[Japan] Stockton's Links to Japan Easy to use, links are rarely out of date, and good coverage on Japan.
	[Korea] Frank's Korean Studies Page If Frank Hoffman doesn't have a link to it, who does? See also Frank's Korean Studies Page at the Intercultural Institute of California.
	[Korea] Gateway to Korea Sponsored by Network Korea. Business, government, research, academic groups listed.

ORGANIZATIONS
	Korean Women's Association Union
	National Women's Education Center of Japan

RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
	Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures (CFLAC)
	Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
	Department of East Asian Studies
	East Asian Collection, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst

LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
	Your Feedback Have you had a library class within the past week? If so, please give us your feedback.
	Older East Asian Class Guides Archived class guides may not be up-to-date. Please ask a Librarian for assistance if you encounter broken links.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN
	Jim Montgomery Use Ask a Librarian to send a question at any time, or contact the librarian liaison directly: Neilson Library, (413) 585-2921
	AskEASL (Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian) This is a virtual reference desk staffed by volunteer East Asian Studies Librarians from across the country. If you need help finding information, using databases, or checking references, please register and askEASL.
	AskEASL Guides As part of the AskEASL project, librarians are compiling user guides to databases, library services, and multilingual computing. Please check this site regularly to see which new guides have been added.
	East Asian Cataloguer Contact Sharon Domier sdomier@library.umass.edu for help with East Asian vernacular materials.

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