Bibliographic Resources:
Western Language Materials for Japanese Studies
ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES (Selected)
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
(EAS: DS805 .K633 1983 – in Ackerman Library)
Online: available through Japan Knowledge
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Japan+Knowledge
CD-ROM version available for check out: DS805 .E53 1999 Computer file
Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Encyclopedia+Britannica+Online
Encyclopedia of Religion. 2d ed. (Reference: BL31 .E46 2005 – Sullivant Libary)
Online: http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Encyclopedia+of+Religion
JAANUS Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System (online)
http://www.aisf.or.jp/%7Ejaanus/
Dictionary of approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868)
Note: Hepburn system of romanization is used, although with hiragana notation system for long vowels (ex. tourou rather than toro)
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND DATABASES (Selected)
Library catalog: http://library.ohio-state.edu/
Research databases: http://library.ohio-state.edu/screens/databases.html
OCLC Worldcat:
http://library.ohio-state.edu.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000379
*Electronic database listing items in thousands of libraries around the world
*All formats and types of published and unpublished items included.
*OCLC statistics: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/statistics/default.asp
Bibliography for Asian Studies
Online version covers 1971+
http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000093
Note:
Use printed bibliographies for earlier years – for example:
Cumulative bibliography of Asian studies, 1966-1970
(EAS: Z3001.C83 1966 -1970 + Z3001.C84 1966 -1970)
Cumulative bibliography of Asian studies, 1941-1965
(EAS: Z3001.C8 + Z3001.C82)
Ward, Robert Edward. The Allied occupation of Japan, 1945-1952: an annotated bibliography of Western-language materials (EAS Z3308.A5 W35 1974 )
Nachod (Japan: 1906-1937) (EAS: Z3301 .W462 + Z3301 .W463 )
Wenckstern (Japan: 1859-1906) (EAS: Z3301 .W46 1998)
John Dower. Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times
(1995) (EAS: Z3306 .D69 1995 – in Ackerman Library)
H-Japan http://www.h-net.org/~japan/
ISI Citation Databases
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Web+of+Science
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
General search + Cited reference search + Advanced search
**tutorials available! http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/wos7/index.html
JSTOR
Online access and search of digitized journals in various fields (5 yr wall)
http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000042
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies http://www.jstor.org/journals/00730548.html
Journal of Asian Studies http://www.aasianst.org/catalog/jas.htm
Journal of Japanese Studies http://depts.washington.edu/jjs/
Monumenta Nipponica http://monumenta.cc.sophia.ac.jp/
Library of Congress Global Gateway
(Country Studies; Portal to the World, etc)
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html
Portal to Japan: http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/japan/japan.html
Country Study for Japan: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html
Linguistics Abstracts Online (15,000 abstracts from 300 linguistics journals since 1985)
http://proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/login?url=http://www.linguisticsabstracts.com
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
http://www.csa2.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=osul&access=osul312&cat=llba
MLA International Bibliography
(index to literary criticism and scholarship in folklore and linguistics)
Online version covers 1960-
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?MLA+International+Bibliography
For 1921-1959 use printed version: (ETC; Reference; STX: Z7006 M6)
Nichibunken – pre-1900 works on Japan in Western languages in the Nichibunken Library (1,057 items)
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/obun_e.html
Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
(index, abstracts to dissertations and some masters theses from the U.S. and some other countries)
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?ProQuest+Dissertations
Psych Info
http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000319 (1967- )
http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000318 (1887-1966)
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
1900- (Indexes, SUL AI3R23)
See also Nineteenth Century Readers’ Guide, 1890–1899. (SUL AI3 .R29 )Index to contemporary, popular periodicals on a wide range of subjects, ca. 1890-1922.
IMAGES, FILMS, ETC (Selected)
Selected Film resources
OhioLINK digital video collection http://olc7.ohiolink.edu/whatsnew/archives/000125.html (search on JAPAN)
For selected EA-related list (not complete): http://easc.osu.edu/contents/ohiolink_resources.html
for Japan-related list (not complete):
https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese/?p=37
Finding Japanese films in Ohio State’s collections
https://library.osu.edu/site/japanese/?p=40
TRANSLATIONS
Japanese Literature in Translation Database (Japan Foundation)
http://www.jpf.go.jp/cgi-bin/jlsearch/jlsearch_e.cgi
Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/trans/index.html
*texts written in Japan before the year 1600
*covers works of importance for the study of Japanese religion, history, or culture
*arranged in the alphabetical order of the Japanese titles
*Links — book titles in print to Amazon
— titles of journal articles to JSTOR
— marked online or PDF to articles made freely available on web
*PMJS – Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin U) http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/
