HISTORY OF ASIAN CIVILIZATION II

HY 104

Spring 2008

Dr. Harry Miller

Library Homepage

BOOKS

SOUTHcat: USA Libraries' Catalog

Use the catalog to locate books, journal subscriptions, videos/dvds and government documents in this library.

Sample Subject Searches:

  • asia--history
  • japan
  • china
  • india
  • korea
  • china--civilization
  • china--social conditions
  • japan--history
  • east asia--social life and customs

Sample Keyword (AND with Relevance) Searches (be careful to use only one space between words):

  • sepoy
  • "indian mutiny"
  • india 1857
  • rebellion 1857
  • imperialism asia?
  • nationalism asia?
  • Malays "social conditions"
  • "political culture" (country)
  • asia? statistic?
  • india biography
  • "ch'ing dynasty"
  • japan meiji
  • japan showa
  • korea "politics and government"

NetLibrary -- 12,000 current, full-text books are now available online through the catalog or through Electronic Books link on the homepage. Create an account (very top right corner of NetLibrary) in order to read these books.

ACLS Humanities E-Book. Library Homepage>Articles, Indexes, Databases Very selective collection of fulltext books in the humanities.

http://worldcat.org. No full-text, citations only. Enter your zip code to find out what nearby libraries own the item.

WorldCat (the database). Available in FirstSearch. Citations only, but it links to Interlibrary Loan.

Reference Books in our Library:

Articles--Articles, Indexes, Databases --Available on campus and remotely (login with last name and first 2 letters of your first name(NOT your initials), then Jag Number)

Academic Search Premier. (EBSCO) Some full-text. Includes book reviews.

Sage Journals Online. Full-text journals of this publisher from 1999 to the present.

Project Muse. Full-text access to current issues of humanities and social science journals.

JSTOR. A collection of full-text journals which are usually at least 3 to 5 years old, but often extend back many years. The journals may be searched separately or as a group. Some relevant journals in JSTOR are in the Asian Studies and Middle East Studies collections.

Periodicals Archive Online. Similar to JSTOR. Content up to 1995.

Academic OneFile (Gale/InfoTrac). Some full-text. Includes book reviews.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/InfoTrac). Citations and some full text articles from magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.

SocIndex with Fulltext. (EBSCO). Includes some full-text.

LexisNexis: World News: Asia/Pacific News Sources --current newspaper articles (selected titles)

Google Scholar. Google's attempt at a scholarly database. Useful for identifying some books and articles, but often will not link to full-text. Set your preferencess to University of South Alabama. Links to JSTOR articles, but you must log-in if off-campus. Does link to Google Books for full-text of books that Google has scanned and are out-of-copyright. Click on Library Search to see if the USA Libraries hold a book.

Oxford University Press. Full-text for 152 Oxford publications

Cambridge Journals Online. Full-text for the journals we subscribe to in print. Use the Advanced search. Sepoy 1857

Bibliography of Asian Studies (Citations only).

The on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS issued from 1971 up to the 1991 edition (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries compiled since. To quickly bridge the gap in coverage from 1991 to the present, the BAS staff have identified the most important 100+ periodicals in Asian Studies, and have given these high priority for indexing to make their coverage as up-to-date as possible.

To access full-text articles if you have the citation information:

Use Our Journal List on the Library Homepage to find an article in a journal to which we subscribe. Type in the name of the journal, not the title of the article.

Use InterLibrary Loan on the Library Homepage under the yellow "Information and Services" banner to order books and articles from other libraries if we do not own them. First-time users are asked to set up an account with a login and password you will remember. Then you may order items, check the status and renew online using your own login and password.

Documenting Sources:

Bedford/St. Martin Documentation

Chicago Manual of Style Quick guide

Turabian Citation Guide

Web Sites:

Evaluating Web Sites: Be careful choosing information from public websites. Here are some of the ways you can sort the junk from the good stuff.

http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/sauer/evaluat.html

http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/sauer/propaganda.html

Selected Web Sites:

WWWVL The World Wide Virtual Library History: Central Catalogue
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html

Asian History http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/asian.html

Internet Indian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html

Portals to the World
Country information of all kinds put together by the subject experts of the Library of Congress.

Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Country Studies Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress - Federal Research Division)

World Area Studies http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/area.html
Not annotated, but useful links provided by the Department of Social Sciences
Western Connecticut State University

Library Guide:

History: http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/guides/history.htm

Plagiarism and Turnitin

What is plagiarism?

Academic Integrity and Turnitin

SOUTHcat Plus
University Homepage
To make comments or suggestions, or to get more information,
call (251) 460-7025 or e-mail Jan Sauer or Kathy Jones
Last updated: 02/21/08.
This page: http://www.usouthal.edu/univlib/sauer/asianhistory2.html