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For extra help consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings listed in four red

volumes located at the reference desk in the Langson Library.

Databases for Locating Journal Articles

Historical Abstracts:

http://serials.abc-clio.com/active/start?_appname=serials&initialdb=HA

Premier index to articles about the history of the world, except for U.S., Canada and Mexico.

American History and life:

http://serials.abc-clio.com/active/start?_appname=serials&initialdb=AHL

One of the two primary databases for History; indexes articles, as well as some books, collections, and dissertations related to the history of the United States and Canada published since 1964.

ProQuest Reference Asia:  http://asia.proquestreference.com/pqrasia

Web of Science: http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/wos?Init=Yes&SID=B4Mf5egIG85H@C7mc5e

Multidisciplinary index to scholarly articles and publications. In addition to citation and abstract, the bibliography of the cited articles is supplied, often with  links to that article citation.

JSTOR: http://uclibs.org/PID/1980

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

Project Muse: http://uclibs.org/PID/31861

To eventually provide full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. A brief bibliographic description of each title is given.

Humanities Index:  http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?&prod=HUMIN

Contains citations to articles and book reviews in approximately 500 well-known scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the humanities. Subjects covered include archaeology, area studies, art, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology. Articles are primarily English language.

PAIS International: http://md1.csa.com/ids70/advanced_search.php?SID=26dddf7b9fa3d11c99cb2662b3b3072a

The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and microfiche. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

PCI Full Text: http://pcift.chadwyck.com/

Indexes periodicals from the humanities and social sciences. To search, enter the title of the book in the "Article title keyword" field. N.B. this database stops coverage in 1995. Contains Japanese journals such as Japan Quarterly, Japanese Journal of  Religious Studies, Japan and the World Economy, Japan Review of International Affairs, and  Journal of Asian Studies.

FRANCIS:  http://uclibs.org/PID/9572

A multilingual multidisciplinary database indexing books and journal articles in the humanities social sciences and economics. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Most items have abstracts.

Ethnic Newswatch: http://uclibs.org/PID/4737

Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic minority and native press in America.

Digital Dissertations:  http://uclibs.org/PID/11984

Provides subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Masters theses have been selectively indexed since 1962. Abstracts are included for doctoral dissertation records from July 1980 to the present. In addition, the database serves to disseminate citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees are not included. UCI dissertations can be searched for in ANTPAC using LD 791.9 and the subsequent numbers relate to the main subject area of the thesis and a table of these numbers is located on the Special Collections and Archives page: http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/special/tdcallnumber.html

Combining Search terms: Using  AND between term will give you a smaller set of retrievals, while using OR will give you more retrievals.

Use available search options to combine terms and/or limit terms (to date, language, format, etc.). Use available output options e.g. , email? Download? print? .

If necessary use any help screens to learn more about the features of a database.

If you are using a databases and the UC-elink button does not indicate whether UCI has the publication, then you would need to search either ANTPAC or MELVYL to locate a copy that is readily available.  If not there, try and Interlibrary Loan Request via ANTPAC. Do also check if the item has a fulltext symbol which links directly to the desired article.

Primary Resources

Primary sources are firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation.  The nature and value of a source cannot be determined without reference to the topic and questions it is meant to answer.  The same document, or other piece of evidence, may be a primary source in one investigation and secondary in another.  The search for primary sources does not, therefore, automatically include or exclude any format of research materials or type of records, documents, or publications. Primary sources typically can include archives and manuscript material, photographs, letters and diaries, scrapbooks, newspapers and clippings, government publications, oral histories, magazines, published books, printed ephemera, and video and audio recordings.

UCI Special Collections:

The books that are in Special Collections ( 5^th floor Langson Library) can be located through your searches of ANTPAC.  The location would indicate Special Collections. A keyword search under Jesuits with a limitation of location to Special Collections would help identify these materials. They do not check out and must be used in the  Special Collections Reading Room.

Regenerations : oral history project : rebuilding Japanese American families, communities, and civil rights in the resettlement era. 4 vols.  Los Angeles : Japanese American National Museum, 2000.

D769.8.A6 R44 2000 

Special Collections

James Kobayashi: interviewed by William Gulley. Roy Kobayashi: interviewed by Don Niemeyer. Fullerton : California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program, 1998.

F868.O6 K59 1998.

Special  Collections

Postage due to love : romance postcards from Palmapodoca Press. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Palmapodoca Press, 2000.

N7433.4 .G653 2000. 

Special Colllections

Mitsuye Yamada papers, 1942-1998 (bulk 1975-1991). 

 MS-R 071   

Special Collections   

Finding Aid: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/oac/uci/spcoll/r71

East Asian Collection: Established in 1990 to serve the teaching and research needs of the faculty in East Asian studies, the East Asian Collection contains the UCI Libraries’ resources of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials. From a core collection of some 8,000 volumes in Chinese, acquired from a noted historian in China, the collection by June 2000 had grown to over 100,000 volumes, making it one of the fastest growing East Asian collections in the country. This large collection on the first floor of the Langson Library near the Reference desk.

Microforms:

There are microfilms having to do with Buddhism on the first floor in the Microfilm area. There is a finding aid on the shelves near these microfilm drawers. There is also a microform reader near the microform drawers from which you can burn articles on a CD or print them out. If you need help with microforms go to the reference desk on the first floor Langson Library. A simple way to locate microfilms at UCI is to search for  your topic in the ANTPAC catalog advanced search mode and limit your search to location: Langson Microforms.

Newspapers:

Access World News:  http://uclibs.org/PID/98452

Access World News from NewsBank provides full text information and perspectives from over 600 U S and over 700 international sources each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local regional and world issues Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.

Japan Times:  UCI has from 1988-present. Langson Library, AP 95 J3 J36 (Bound Journals in basement except current in CPR)

Asia Times Online:  http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page.html

Asianweek: Print/Microfilm; E 184 O6 A84, and online: http://uclibs.org/PID/54500 (1983-1989) and http://uclibs.org/PID/34902 (1989 - present )

Videos:

Videos at UCI are located in the Multimedia resource center across from the reference desk on the first floor of the Langson Library. Many videos located at other institutes can not be loaned to UCI due to restrictions set by the producers.

 A simple way to locate films at UCI is to search for  your topic in the ANTPAC catalog advanced search mode and limit your search to location: Langson - Multimedia resource center and/or Material type: film/video. UCI has over 250 films on Japan.

Goodbye Dragon Inn [videorecording] = Bu san. New York : Wellspring, 2005.

PN1997.2 .G66 2005    

Langson Multimedia Resource Center

Usugurai mizu no soko kara [videorecording] = Dark water. United States : ADV Films, 2005.

PN1997.2 .U88 2005 

Langson Mutimedia Resource Center

Interactive video for teaching about Hinduism & Buddhism. Cos Cob, CT : Hartley Film Foundation, [1994?].

BQ158.5 .I584 1994 

Langson Mutimedia Resource Center

Buddhism [videorecording] : the middle way of compassion. Dubuque, IA : Distributed by Brown-ROA, 1993.

BQ266 .B83 1993 

Langson Mutimedia Resource Center

Odoru hitobito : minsh¯u sh¯uky¯o no tenkai / hensh¯u seisaku Nihon Bikut¯a, Heibonsha. T¯oky¯o : Heibonsha, 1991 (1994 printing).

BQ8520 .O36 1991

Langson Mutimedia Resource Center

Center for Asian American Media: http://asianamericanmedia.org/rf_cms/index.php

Catalog of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association.

Film Index international: http://fii.chadwyck.com/quick/search

American Film Index Catalog: http://afi.chadwyck.com/home

Websites

Beware make sure the information you find on the internet is authoritative.

Center for Research Libraries: http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/

Online Archive of California: http://oac.cdlib.org/ 

This archive covers all the UC special collection archives plus those of many other institutions in California.  It includes some full-text documents, images and guides to others collections not yet online. 

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: 20th Century Documents: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm

H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online:  http://www.h-net.org/

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

UCI Center for Asian Studies: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cas/#

University of Hawaii Japan Collection: http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/index.htm

Ohio State University Libraries Japanese Collection:   http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/eaj/

Asian Studies Network Information Center: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic.html At the University of Texas at Austin.

Japan Foundation: http://www.jpf.go.jp/

Japanese American National Museum:  http://www.janm.org/

In Los Angeles, California.

National Japanese History Museum: http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/index_ne.html

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: http://jarda.cdlib.org/

This project was supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

Institute for Asian American Studies:  http://www.iaas.umb.edu/about/             

The Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston was established in 1993 with support from Asian American communities and direction from the state legislature. The IAAS utilizes resources and expertise from the University and the community to conduct research on Asian Americans; to strengthen and further Asian American involvement in political, economic, social, and cultural life; and to improve opportunities and campus life for Asian American faculty, staff, and students and for those interested in Asian Americans.

Asian American Studies Center: http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/default.asp

At the University of California, Los Angeles.

Asian American Studies Institute: http://asianamerican.uconn.edu/profile.htm

The Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut is an interdisciplinary research, teaching and publication program devoted to the study of the Asian American experience within the larger context of an evolving American society. Of special importance is the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Although the primary focus of the Institute is upon Asians in America, attention is also given to the study of Asia, since Asia informs the Asian American experience. The Institute offers a minor in Asian American Studies with courses drawn from a number of fields. These courses, whose common thread is the Asian American experience, provide a comparative analysis of race, class, gender and Asian ethnicity. These courses also explore the neglected aspects of the cultural, historical, socioeconomic and political experiences of Asian Americans. The goal of the Institute is to prepare students for positions of leadership and service by cultivating a broad understanding of America's racial and cultural diversity. Our hope is that students will employ critical learning in their private lives as citizens. To complement its academic mission, the Institute serves the community beyond the University as a resource for information and advocacy.

Association for Asian Studies:  http://www.aasianst.org/

Asia Source: http://www.asiasource.org/

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Google in Japanese: http://directory.google.com/intl/ja/