Scribner Library - Information Resources for Japanese

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Find articles, books, chapters, images, reports, et al.)

General Databases

EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite (Coverage : 1984- | Abstracts | Full-text | Updated: Daily.) Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

LexisNexis Academic Provides full text news and information on a regional, national, and international level. Especially useful for locating full-text newspaper articles and country profiles.

ProQuest Provides access to ABI/Inform Global (1457 business related titles), Periodical Abstracts Research II (1817 multidisciplinary titles), and Newspapers Abstracts (incl. 90-day NYTimes and Wall St. Journal; 32 titles). Full text and images are provided where available.

Arts & Humanities Search (Coverage:1980- Updated weekly.) Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 socialscience and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews,and more.

Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971 to present. BAS contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

Ethnic Newswatch (Full-text) Contains the complete articles from 100 ethnic newspapers and magazines published in the United States -- more than 95,000 articles, editorials, and reviews. Provides multicultural coverage of subjects of interest to African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Native Americans, Asian, Jewish, Arab and European Americans. Searchable in both Spanish and English.

Humanities Index (Coverage: 1984- updated: Monthly.) Contains citations for more than 300 humanities publications. Covers feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, reviews of plays and radio and television programs and more. It does not include letters to the editor, editorials, news, cartoons, and advertising.

Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, will be of great use to scholars interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical schools.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1963- updated: Quarterly.) Produced by the Modern Language Association, indexes critical materials on modern language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.

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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES (Find Web resources.)

Asiaco, the Asia Search Engine Thousands of resources, arranged by categories, including arts and humanties, and society and culture, as well as by linked sites.

Japanese e-texts - Japanese Text Initiative (University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh)

Japanese Language Learning Tools on the Web Hundreds of linked resources, including dictionaries, pronunciation, vocabulary, language proficiency, and much more.

JGuide-Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources (WWW Virtual Library for Japan) Created by the US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University, and comprised of comprehensive subject portals, including Language, Literature & History and Education & Academia. Site is searchable, and has handy Reference Tools, and more.

Jim Breen's Japanese Page Professor Jim Breen, Monash University, has put together the definitive resource page on Japan. The scope is huge, and scholarly, with subject matter ranging from literature and language to Kanji Flashcard technology.

Library of Congress Global Gateway World Culture & Resources: World Library Collections. Linked resources are comprehensive and include international print and electronic information, electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts, country studies, foreign research guides and legal materials, research opportunities, select items of global importance from the Library's collections, international cyber casts, and so much more.

NihongoWeb Japanese language learning site for students and educators.

Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, the Internet's oldest producer of free, fine literature, digitally republished, now has over 6,000 titles in various languages and genres. Select Search option from left vertical menu box, then search by author, title, subject (i.e., language, fiction, poetry, literature), language (i.e., Japanese) or Library of Congress Classification http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html, click on P--Language and Literature, choose appropriate subclass.

Yamada Web Guide to Japanese is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. Annotated links to Japanese resources available on the Web are categorized by Language, Culture and Computers.

Your Dictionary.com features multilingual dictionaries, translation tools, foreign language word of the day, grammar, language-related games and more.

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PRINT RESOURCES

Print Collections

Library of Congress Classification Headings
PL 501-889
Japanese Language and Literature

Japanese literature is located on the 3rd floor in the following Call Number areas:

PL844-PL866
Showa period 1945-

PL821-PL843
Showa period (1926-1945)

PL800-PL820
Maiji-Taisho period (1868-1926)

PL796-PL799
Late Edo period (1789-1867)

PL793-PL795
Early Edo period (1600-1788)

PL790-PL792
Kamakura-Momoyama period (1158-1600)

PL787-PL789
Heian period (794-1185)

PL784-PL786
Literature to 794

PL758-PL759
Collections of poetry

PL764-PL772
Collections of drama

PL781-PL783
Collections of translations

PL708-PL889
History and criticism

Select Reference Books

Reference books are located on the 1st floor in the Reference Collection

REF PL723 .B5
Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature

REF DS806 .G82 1989
A Guide to Reference Books for Japanese Studies

REF PS221 .D5 vol.180
Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945

REF PS221 .D5 vol.182
Japanese Fiction Writers since World War II

REF PL683 .K661 1995
Japanese Names and How to Read Them

REF PS221 .D5 vol.203
Medieval Japanese Writers

REF PL723 .M563 2001
Modern Japanese Writers

REF PL679.B37 1989
Basic Japanese-English Dictionary

REF PL619 .C45 2000
A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns

REF PL677.5 .S54 1997
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary