- Bibliography of Asian Studies (Online) (1971~ )
- Bibliography of Asian Studies — use printed editions for searching before 1971
- OSU Libraries Research Databases list
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Worldcat.org
- Worldcat with First Search interface
- MLA International Bibliography (1963 ~ )
- JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive
- Project Muse: Scholarly Journals Online
- Google Scholar — search tips — indexes papers, not journals — follow citations to works of interest
- Google Books — can limit to “free Google e-books” to find digitized texts
- Hathitrust — Japanese studies bibliographies are in a Collection = Japanese bibliography (search across multiple works)
- Internet Archive — Ohio State’s project on IA (Who’s Who in Japan 1913, Tales of Old Japan, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
- Peter Kornichki’s Bibliography of Japanese History Up To 1912 (see bibliography section)
- Michael Watson’s Premodern Japanese Texts and Translations
- Michael Watson’s Noh translations
- Japan Foundation’s Japanese Literature in Translation Search