accessing electronic resources in japanese studies

Accessing Electronic Resources in Japanese Studies

Wen-ling Liu Librarian for East Asian

Studies Wells Library E860

Email: wliu@indiana.edu Tel.: 812-855-9695 Fax: 812-855-8068

09/20/2012

•Bibliographic citations•Dictionaries•Newspapers•Statistics and data – none focused on Japanese studies

•Full-text journal articles•Full-text e-books

Database Related to East Asian Studies at IUB

http://libraries.iub.edu/

IUCAT WorldCat OneSearch@IU Bibliography of Asian Studies ** JSTOR Ebsco eBook Collection ** New York Times (1857-2006) –

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Brill E-Books Collection Google Books HathiTrust Digital Library Factiva

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General Databases Related to Japanese Studies

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BAS contains 787,165 records on all subjects pertaining to Asia published worldwide from 1971 to

the present

EBSCO eBook Collection – NetLibrary e-books

East Asian Studies http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000026

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1002987

http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000825

Yom idas Rekishikan ヨミダズ歴史館  (Trial ends on October 15)

Asahi Shinbun, Kikuzo II 聞蔵 II  Online newspapers, journal articles

JapanKnowledge++ Dictionaries, e-books Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei DB   雑誌記事索引集

成データベース Bibliographic citations CiNii (National Institute of Informatics

Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator)

Databases for Japanese Studies

A large online collection of Japanese dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other Japanese reference works, including Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Nihon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典 , Nihon rekishi chimei taikei 日本歴史地名大系 , Nihon jinmei daijiten 日本人名大辞典 , Kokushi daijiten 國史大辭典 , etc.

Contains full-text coverage of Tōyō Bunko 東洋文庫 (692 volumes), 新編 日本古典文学全集 (incomplete) , and Shūkan Ekonomisuto (Weekly Economist (contains contents from the previous year and the current year. maximum of two years)

Includes collection of video clips, maps, and many other links. With one search, you can search all the databases.

Japanknowledge+ -- DictionariesUser Guide:

http://www.japanknowledge.com/contents/intro_e/cont_toyo.html

Asahi Shinbun (1985- ) and its regional news from 1985 on.

Shukan Asahi 週刊朝日 (2000- ), AERA (1988- )

Asahi Shinbun Shukusatsuban, Showa-hen, Senzen, Senｇ o 朝日新聞縮刷版昭和編　戦前 (1879-1984), 戦後 (1945-1984 ）　

歴史写真　アーカイブ (Historical Photo Archive) with around 10,000 pieces of historical photos of the period between the 1930s and 1945.

Chiezo ( 知恵蔵） 2012.

Asahi Shinbun Kikuzo II – Japanese newspaper

Coverage from 1868 onwards. 

Index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes.

雑誌記事索引集成データベース 明治から現在まで総合雑誌から地誌まで The complete database for Japanese magazines and periodicals

from the Meiji era to the present

http://zassaku-plus.com/

3.7 million full text articles (PDF) from 15 million article records

Growing number of research bulletins of universities Includes Japanese Periodical Index of NDL 70% of records are from natural science journals Some articles are charged fee, fixed or pay per

article.

CiNii (National Institute of Informatics Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator)

• Yomidas Rekishikan includes 11 million articles from the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper since its first issue in 1874.

• The database has four parts: the Meiji, Taisho and Showa Eras section contains high-quality scans of the articles as they appeared in the original print editions during these periods.

• The Heisei Era section presents articles in text view, and for articles since December 2008 there is a clipping view of the original article.

• The Daily Yomiuri section catalogues articles which have appeared in our English publication.

• The Contemporary Who's Who retrieves biographical data of individuals as well as articles which pertain to them.

ヨミダズ歴史館 https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan

trial ends October 15

ヨミダズ歴史館 https://database.yomiuri.co.jp/rekishikan/

Japanese translation of “Da Tang xiyu ji 大唐西域記” in the IUB library?

Newspaper articles about animation ( アニメ ) ： What kind of animation ( アニメ ) was popular in Japan in the 90s

News articles on the banned books 禁書についての新聞記事 Articles and news about the food ( 食糧 ) situation toward the

end of the war ( 終戦 ). Works by and about 夏目漱石 during the Meiji and Taisho

period. Fashion in the Japanese Wedding Industry The Relationship between Modernization and Imperialism in the Early

Twentieth-century Protagonists in 村上春樹 Approaches to Special Education in Elementary and Middle Schools -- Special

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Questions forElectronic Resources in Japanese Studies

1. a. We can’t find a Japanese translation of “Da Tang xiyu ji” in IUCAT, but, in WorldCat, we found that Daito seiikiki 大唐西域記 is included in Toyo bunko 東洋文庫 . b. JapanKnowledge+

2. Asahi Shinbun Kikuzo IISearch terms -- エヴァンゲリオン evangerion, アニメ , Miyazaki Hayao 宮崎駿

3. BAS, JSTOR, Kikuzo II -- 禁書

4. BAS, EBSCO, New York Times historical, JSTOR Asahi shinbun shukusatsuban -- 終戦 shūsen & 食糧 shokuryo 　 Asahi shinbun rekishi shashin archive -- 食糧 & 残留 (zanryū), 救民配給米

5. 雑誌記事索引集成データベース

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Answers

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Questions?Wen-ling Liu (wliu@indiana.edu)

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