REFERENCE MATERIALS
Encyclopedias -- By topic or geographical region
The Pacific War
Oxford Companion to World War II. [R.R. D740.O94 1995]
Pacific War Encyclopedia. [R.R. D767.9.D86 1998
Working Americans, 1880-2003, Volume 5: Americans at War [R.R. HD8066.D47 2000]
Asia overall
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia [R.R. DS4.E53 2002] Introductory articles, signed, with
bibliographies .
Encyclopedia of Asian History . [R.R. DS31.E53 1988] Introductory articles, signed, with
bibliographies, e.g. "Family and Marriage" or "Qing Dynasty" (and others) by our own Bob
Entenmann.
Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia [R.R. DS524.S68 2004]
Japan
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. [R.R. DS805 .K633]
Older but comprehensive, with good bibliographies
Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan. [R.R. JQ1605.S86 2003]
China
Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism. [R.R. DS 755.2 .M63 1998]
Korea
The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook. [R.R. DS902.C65 2002]
Religions
Encyclopedia of Buddhism [R.R. BQ 128.E62 2004]
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism [R.R. BQ9259.B37 2002]
Historical Dictionary of Shinto [R.R. BL2216.1.P53 2002]
Statistics
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000 R.R. HA4675.M552 2003
Biographical Dictionaries
Political leaders of modern China : a biographical dictionary R.R. DS755.3 .P64 2002
Biographical dictionary of Chinese women R.R. HQ1767.5.A3 B56 1998
Who was who in the People's Republic of China R.R. DS778.A1 B32 1997
Modern Japanese writers R.R. PL723 .M563 2001
Japanese fiction writers, 1868-1945 R.R. PL747.55 .M63 1997
Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993 R.R. PL725 .S35 1994
Historiography
Historicans and Historical Writing. RR D 14 .E53 1999
See the introduction titled, "Rethinking history?" in volume 1.
Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. RRD13.G47 1998
See article, "American Historiography," pp. 17-29 in volume 1.
For a discussion of historiographical writing and sample essays, check the Claremont Graduate University Writing Center web site:http://www.cgu.edu/pages/840.asp
LIBRARY CATALOGS
Bridge (St. Olaf and Carleton, combined) will offer subject access to individual materials on your topic (but not individual journal articles -- more on that later). Use a KeyWord search if you do not know the subject heading or you wish to combine more than one idea. Conduct a Subject search if you know the subject heading.
University of Minnesota Libraries ; UMN East Asian Library
University of Minnesota materials are available to you for free through Minitex. The first address is for their online catalog; the second is the home page for the East Asia collection.
World Cat : Subject, author and title searching possible. Use Library of Congress Subject Headings as descriptors; keyword searches are okay for narrowly defined topics. Duplicate records signify disagreements among librarians as to how an item should be cataloged. Once at the record level, click on the library icon to see which libraries hold an item, and request with the ILL button if you want it. Items from Minnesota libraries should come in a very timely way; UWiscMadison cooperates with Minitex but is slower. We have cooperative lending agreements with other liberal arts colleges; you are more likely to have to pay with the bigger universities.
Bibliography of Asian Studies. This is the primary index/database for Asian Studies journals. Many sources are indexed here that the other databases don't consider sufficiently "major" to cover. But there will be good materials for you. It also indexes essays in books which may not be accessible through Bridge or WorldCat.
Index to Southeast Asian Journals. 1960-1979. [R.R. DS 504.5 .J6] Extensive coverage for years covered. [In print.]
Journals Specific to Asia in the St. Olaf Collections
Arts of Asia, Asia Major, Asia Pacific Perspectives, Asian Affairs, Asian Survey, Beijing Review, China Quarterly, Japan Echo, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Japanese Studies, Tricycle, US Japan Women's Journal (See Kris for this one).
SUBJECT ACCESS TO SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Indexes to Scholarly Journals in History
Historical Abstracts From an historical perspective -- includes political, social, economic history occuring from 1450 to date for the world other than the US and Canada. You can also search America: History and Life from this same site.
Indexes to Scholarly Journals in the Disciplines: A Sampling
Art Index . Sept. 1984-. Print version goes back to 1928. [R.R. N 1 .A1 A7]
Women Studies International.
ATLA Religion Index
MLA Bibliography literature and linguistics
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972 - PAIS Archive covers 1915-1976
An index to public policy and political affairs around the world. Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
ERIC database Education.
EconLit
Index Islamicus Includes material on the religion as well as topics of significance in the Islamic World (including Asia).
General Indexes to Mainstream Publications
Academic Search Premier Indexes articles in both popular magazines and academic journals. Full text of articles often an option.
Alternative Press Index . [R.R. AI 3 .A27]. Covers 250 (primarily US) alternative and radical publications from 1987-. Ask reference librarian for password.
Book Review Indexes
America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Academic Search Premier Search a few title key words plus (book* or review*)
Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886-1974 RR Z1035.A1C6
Book Review Index , 1965- RR Z1035.A2B6
PRIMARY SOURCES IN PRINT
A creative imagination is your best resource for finding primary sources-- think about what you 'd like to find and then decide how to go about getting it. Remember to watch prefaces, footnotes, and bibliographies of secondary works and watch for references to primary sources in journal indexes. But you can also find primary sources in collections or published separately. Listed below are several categories of documents, with examples to whet your appetite, and suggested strategies for finding them. Remember to discuss your needs/ desires with a reference librarian.
Sourcebooks/Collected Editions
Columbia guide to Hiroshima and the bomb
Hiroshima-shi ( Japan ) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Sources
Documents on the rape of Nanking
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Sources .
Japanese Empire in the tropics : selected documents and reports of the Japanese period in
Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941- 1945
World War , 1939- 1945 -- Malaysia -- Sarawak -- Sources .
More of these collections may be found by searching Bridge:
By subject: "Subject Heading" SOURCES
By title keyword: DOCUMENT* or READINGS or SOURCE*
Published Memoirs/Journals/Letters/Personal Accounts/Autobiographies/Collected Papers
The Pacific War papers : Japanese documents of World War II [
Pt. 2 consists of extracts from
the diaries of Marquis Koichi Kido and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura ]
World War , 1939- 1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese .
Senso : the Japanese remember the Pacific War : letters to the editor of Asahi Shimbun
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese.
For other sources of this type, search Bridge:
By subject: Subject Heading CORRESPONDENCE
PERSONAL NARRATIVES
REMINISCENCES
INTERVIEWS
By title keyword: MEMOIR*
AUTOBIOGRAPHY*
DIARY or DIARIES
LETTERS or CORRESPONDENCE
SPEECHES
By author (if the name is known)
Visual Collections via Bridge
The war against Japan
World War , 1939- 1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Pictorial works
"Gems of the Times"
The Marines' war , an account of the struggle for the Pacific from both American and Japanese
sources [1948]
The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki [by]
the United States Strategic Bombing Survey Medical Division [1947]
Hit the beach! Your Marine Corps in action; a photographic epic of Marine Corps operations of
World War II told by the intrepid leaders who launched the initial offensive at
Guadalcanal, swept the Pacific, and spearheaded the occupation of the Japanese
Empire [1948]
For other sources of this type, search Bridge using:
Appropriate subject headings and then limit your search to the appropriate years of publication [e.g. Keyword World War 1945 Japan* and limited by years 1933-1050]
CONTEMPORARY POPULAR SOURCES
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature [R.R.
AI 3 .R48] (popular magazines of the day)
Combined Retrospective Index to Scholarly Journals in History, 1838-1974 [R.R. D1.C7 1972]
New York Times 1851-2005
Los Angeles Times 1881-1986
The Times (London). At Carleton on microfilm. The index reaches back to 1790.
PRIMARY SOURCES via WEBSITES
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
WebPlus from Web of Knowledge . Do a subject search with their boxes. Look to the upper
right of the journal article results list and click on WebPlus. The rep says they're peer-
reviewed sites; my take is they are more scholarly than not, and probably selected for this
database.
Gateways to Digital Collections
OAIster is an catalog of digital collections. You can choose text or image and search by
keyword. It will tell you about the responsible party (authority).
Best of the History Websites
Google -- Search google with your keywords AND add "digital collections" (with quotation
marks) to your search. This phrase is used by authoritative sites so it will bring up useful items. This is a better strategy than using google images.
As always, you must take care to evaluate your material . Who wrote/posted it? What are their credentials? Is the material from an academic source (scholarly publisher or .edu site on the web) or proprietary source (commercial publisher or .com site)? Is the material current for the topic? If a website, when was it last updated? Is that important? Etc. For more suggestions for evaluating websites, consult the list on the libraries' page: Evaluating Web Sites
CITATION GUIDES
How to cite in Chicago Manual of Style or Turabian format: St. Olaf Library Citation Manuals page.
