Handout for Prof. Andrews’ Art of Japan (History of Art 582) course on October 25, 2010:
Bibliography and Research Methods for Japanese Art History
1. ROMANIZATION: Hint: Stay consistent in one system of romanization!
Libraries use Modified Hepburn romanization, following the Library of Congress. LC’s hints: http://catalog.loc.gov/help/japanese-unicode.htm
Many systems are used to romanize Japanese. Search in multiple ways: https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Romanization
2. GENERAL:
Fine Arts Library: Amanda Gluibizzi’s information on searching Art and History of Art:
http://library.osu.edu/find/subject/art-and-history-of-art/
Japanese Studies Library: wiki project includes Japanese art history information–
- Overview:
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_Art_History - Topics:
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=List_of_East_Asian_art_history_topics - List of Journals:
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_Art_History_Resources_in_the_Ohio_State_University_Library - Index of Nihon no Bijutsu: (monthly journal, with each issue on a particular topic)
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Nihon_no_Bijutsu - Museums:
https://library.osu.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Japanese_Museums
3. ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES (Selected):
- JAANUS Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/
- Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (DS805 .K633 1983 – Thompson Lib Grand R Rm)
Online: in Japan Knowledge http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Japan+Knowledge
Click “ENTER” button (upper R); uncheck all boxes except Encyclopedia of Japan
CD-ROM version available for check out: DS805 .E53 1999 Computer file - Encyclopedia of Religion http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Encyclopedia+of+Religion
4. RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND DBS (Selected):
* Selective Bibliography:
John Dower. Japanese history and culture from ancient to modern times (1995)
(THO Grand R Rm: Z3306 .D69 1995)
* Catalogs:
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- Ohio State’s Library catalog: http://library.ohio-state.edu/
- OhioLINK: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/search/
- OCLC Worldcat or http://www.worldcat.org/
http:/library.ohio-state.edu.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000379
*OCLC statistics: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/statistics/default.asp
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/statistics/charts/languagecloud.htm
* Indexes:
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- Bibliography for Asian Studies
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- Online version covers 1971+ http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=e1000093
Use printed bibliographies for earlier years – for example:
- Cumulative bibliography of Asian studies, 1966-1970
(THO Grand R Rm: Z3001.C83 1966 -1970 + Z3001.C84 1966 -1970) - Cumulative BAS, 1941-1965 (THO Grand R Rm: Z3001.C8 + Z3001.C82)
- Nachod (Japan: 1906-1937) (THO Grand R Rm: Z3301 .W462 + Z3301 .W463 )
- Wenckstern (Japan: 1859-1906) (THO Grand R Rm: Z3301 .W46 1998)
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- Research databases list: http://library.ohio-state.edu/screens/databases.html
- Multi-database search: http://nf4hr2ve4v.cs.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/
- ISI Citation Databases General search + Cited reference search + Advanced search
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?Web+of+Science
**tutorials available! http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/wos7/index.html - Japanese Literature in Translation Database (Japan Foundation)
http://www.jpf.go.jp/JF_Contents/InformationSearchService?ContentNo=13&SubsystemNo=1&HtmlName=search_e.html - Database of Japanese Art in Overseas Collections (5,883 items)
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/japan_e.html
- Bibliography for Asian Studies
* Dissertations
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Contains citations for dissertations and theses done at U.S., Canadian and some foreign institutions. Free PDFs of all dissertations published since 1997 and select pre-1997 dissertations.)
http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/y?ProQuest+Dissertations