Economic Development of
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
AND HANDBOOKS
Asia
overall -- look for topics like
work, work force, working class, leisure, women's work, working conditions,
play
Europa World Yearbook [R.R. JN1.E85]
[or give it a test run]
Encyclopedia of Modern
Encyclopedia
of Contemporary Japanese Culture.
[R.R. DS 822.5 .E516 2002] Introductory
articles ranging from "Individualism" to "Manga" to
"Feminism" to "Family, Gender and Society"
MIT
Encyclopedia of the Japanese Economy
[R.R. HC 462.9 .H73 1999] Includes
articles like "Corporate personnel practices," "Wage
structure," and "Women in the work force." Note date.
Encyclopedia of Japanese business and management. [HF 1001 .E467 2002]
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of
Education
World Education Encyclopedia [R.R. LB15.W87 2001]
Customs and Culture
Worldmark
Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life [R.R. GN333.W67 1998] by country; includes religion, holidays, food,
clothing, rites of passage, interpersonal relations, family, sports, entertainment,
recreation, folk arts and crafts, social problems.
You eat what you are: People, culture and food
traditions [R.R. GT2850.B37 1999]
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion. [R.R. GT 507 .E53 2005]
Women and Children
BRIDGE
BRIDGE will offer subject access to materials on your topic
(but not individual journal articles -- see below for that). Try beginning with
a keyword search to find a good item, and then using the Library of Congress
Subject Headings at the bottom of the record to link to more materials on those
topics.
INDEXES/DATABASES
[A complete list of indexes and databases is
available through the Research Finding Tools page. ]
Scholarly Articles by Topic
PAIS [Public Affairs Information
Service]
Scholarly Articles by Geographical Region
Multidisciplinary Index to Scholarly
Publications
Business Publications
Newspapers
DATASETS
International historical statistics Africa, Asia and
International historical statistics Africa, Asia and
ICPSR
Data [Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of
GOVERNMENT
DOCUMENTS
University of Michigan
Government Documents Links to Foreign Government Resources
Bank of Japan [English]
Japanese Ministry of
Internal Affairs, Statistics Bureau
[English and Japanese]
Ministry of
International Trade [English]
MISCELLANEOUS
RESOURCES ON THE WEB
Librarians’ Catalogs of Websites
Infomine Websites "collected" by academic
librarians -- full descriptions and subject headings
Librarians' Index to
the Internet Aimed more at
public library patrons but still useful for many topics
Scout
Report Reviews of web sites;
searchable by keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library
of Congress Portals to the World: Business, Commerce, Economy: Japan.
25 February 2009
Kris MacPherson
Macphers at stolaf.edu