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Introduction
to East Asian Civilizations
History 407
How to Find:
Books | Journal
Articles | Web
Sites | Citing Sources
FINDING BOOKS
Using Catalogs to locate books:
1.) Ariadne
- Search by Keyword
- Find and Use Subject Headings
- Browse the shelves by Call
Number
3.)
WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog
4.) WorldCat
and 5.) Interlibrary
Loan
- Search by Keyword
- Find and Use Subject Headings
- Order item through Interlibrary
Loan
($1 per filled request waived during Library Renovation)
See the History Research
Guide: Finding Books.
Example Subject Headings
East
Asia History
East
Asia Civilization
China
History
Japan
History
Example Call Number
DS511 .B87 1964
Asia in the modern world; a history of China, Japan, South
and Southeast Asia
D HISTORY: GENERAL AND OLD WORLD
DS 1-937 History of Asia
501-518.9 East Asia. The Far East
See also: Library
of Congress Classification...
Guides, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China:
1949-1997, DS 777.2 .S85 1997
- China, World Bibliographical Series, DS 735 .H39 1997,
Reference
- China: A Cultural and Historical Dictionary, DS 733 C58523
1998, Reference
- Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times,
DS 835 .D6 1995, Reference
- Cultural Atlas of Japan, DS 821 .C62 1988, Reference
Circulating Collection
- The Cambridge history of Japan, DS835 .C36 1988
- China & Japan : past and present / M. I. Sladkovsky, DS740.5.J3
S5713
- Empire's end : a history of the Far East from high colonialism
to Hong Kong, DS526.6 .K43 1997
- China : a macro history, DS735 .H785 1997
- Chinese roundabout : essays in history and culture, DS736
.S625 1992
Books at Western Michigan University:
- Broadening the horizons of Chinese history : discourses,
syntheses, and comparisons DS736 .H779713 1999
- China : a new history, DS735 .F27 1998
- The Japanese experience : a short history of Japan, DS835
.B38 1999
- A history of Japan, DS835 .M36 1997
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES
Scholarly journals and Popular Magazines/Newspapers
Scholarly Journals
- Authors are scholars or researchers in their fields.
- Authors cite their sources in footnotes, endnotes, and
bibliographies.
- Individual issues have little or no advertising.
- Articles must go through a peer-review process.
- Articles usually report original scholarly research.
- Most illustrations are charts, figures, or graphs.
- Authors use the specialized language or jargon of the
discipline.
Popular Magazines
- Authors are free lance writers or magazine staff members.
- Authors may mention sources, but rarely cite them in notes
or bibliographies.
- Individual issues contain many advertisements.
- There is no peer review process. Articles are reviewed
by editors or publishers.
- Illustrations are numerous and colorful.
- Articles are meant to inform and entertain an educated
audience.
- Language is written for the general adult audience (no
specialized jargon).
Scholarly or Not?
Use Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Ref. Desk Z6941
.U5)
Look for section called "Document Type"
Document Type MUST say "Academic/Scholarly Publication"
to be considered scholarly!
USING JOURNAL INDEXES
Advanced Search
Help
Off-Campus Access to
Licensed Resources
See Also the History
Research guide Finding Articles.
History
Journals in Kalamazoo College Library Print Collection
See the History Research
Guide: Using Indexes and Databases to help select an Index.
Historical
Abstracts < about
>
Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to
the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding
the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:
History and Life). Published since 1954. Access through ABC-CLIO.
Humanities
Abstracts <
about
>
Humanities Abstracts is a bibliographic database that covers
English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas
of the humanities. Humanities Abstracts offers detailed abstracts
describing the content and scope of source articles.
Coverage: Indexing - 1984 - present; Abstracting - 1994 -
present.
Social
Sciences Abstracts <
about
>
Social Sciences Abstracts is a bibliographic database that
indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals.
Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields
covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Coverage:
1983 to present.
MLA
Bibliography <
about
>
The Modern Language Association International Bibliography
indexes 3,000 English language and foreign periodicals as
well as books, book chapters, and dissertations. Its subject
matter includes critical works on literature, language, linguistics,
and folklore. Reviews of literary and scholarly works are
not included. There are no abstracts. Dates Covered: 1963
- Present.
Do you have access to a journal?
1.) Ariadne
(print)
- Title search on Title of
the Journal to locate print journal
3.)
WestCat - Western Michigan's catalog
4.) Interlibrary
Loan
- Order item through Interlibrary
Loan
($1 per filled request waived during Library Renovation)
- Use *only* when the journal is not available through
Ariadne, Electronic Journals, or WestCat.
FULL-TEXT RESOURCES
Electronic Journal Finder
Wilson
Select < about
>
Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals,
all with ASCII full text online. The database is comprised
of records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers'
Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts,
General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts.
(Please note that each periodical can begin on a different
month and year.)
Dates Covered: 1994-Present.
JSTOR
< about
>
JSTOR includes the complete runs of 117 important journal
titles in 15 disciplines, with 112 journals currently available.
JSTOR's focus is on becoming a trusted archive and does not
publish current issues of the journals. JSTOR has established
a lag period, called the moving wall, that defines the point
at which the JSTOR archive stops, and "current" issues start.
In some cases, the moving wall is three years (meaning the
last issue available in the JSTOR archive would be one published
three years ago); in other cases it is five years.
Incudes journals on Asian Studies.
NOTE: Don't forget to use Bibliographies and Print
Indexes!
WEB SITES
To find Web sites, use search engines and web indexes. See
Finding Web Sites and Web
Indexes and Directories.
See also Web Sites by Subject
and Finding Web Sites
on History.
WorldCat
< about
>
WorldCat contains bibliographic citations for high-quality
Web sites on a variety of subjects. When you search WorldCat
for Web sites, remember to check the box for "Internet
Resources" in the section called "Limit type to".
Sites are selected according to a collection development policy
that emphasizes quality, authoritativeness, and durability.
Use these points to evaluate the credibility of Websites:
1. Accuracy
How reliable is the information? Are there editors and
fact checkers?
2. Authority
What are the author's qualifications? Is the publisher
reputable?
3. Objectivity
Is the author trying to sway opinion? Is the information
free from bias?
4. Currency
Is the publication date indicated? Is the source up
to date?
5. Coverage
Does the site cover the topic comprehensively, or are
there information gaps?
Sites that provide guidance on evaluating Websites:
CITING YOUR SOURCES
See: How
to Cite Sources
See also Citing
Sources for help in citing print and electronic resources
in various bibliographic styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.)
Book citation:
Huang, Ray. 1999. Broadening the horizons
of Chinese history : discourses, syntheses, and comparisons.
Armonk, N.Y.:M.E. Sharpe.
Journal Citation:
Duara, Prasenjit."Transnationalism and the Predicament
of Sovereignty : China 1900-1945." American Historical
Review 102 (4): 1030-1051 (1997).
Chapter in a Book:
Hume, Edward. "Yale for China." In To change
China; Western advisers in China, 1620-1960. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1969.
Chicago
Manual of Style
14th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Reference, Z253 .U69 1993.
Chicago
Style
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.
See the The
Chicago Manual of Style FAQ web site for citing electronic
resources in the Chicago Style.
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