Welcome to my Research Sources page for Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies! Chao Chen, Humanities Research and Instruction Librarian This COVID-19 edition emphasizes ebooks and full-text articles. |
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The library's catalog includes ebooks from the following collections, which you can search separately as well:
Note: WorldCat (renamed to be Libraries Worldwide on the Tisch Library homepage) is still a better place to get a fuller picture of books on a topic, even though interlibrary loan service is currently very limited.)
**Check the Boston Public Library's catalog for eBooks (and sign up for a BPL , Tufts students and faculty eligible)
**"Digital books" on Internet Archive
**Open Educational Resources (OER)
online alternatives that are accessible and free to all students
1. Search the Databases for Journal Articles
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A. All-Subject Databases
B. Related Subjects Databases
B. Related Subject-Databases
- In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
- Art & Architecture Source
- ATLA Religion
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
- Communication & Mass Media
- Film & Television Literature Index
- Historical Abstracts (Cultural history of the world)
- MLA International Bibliography (Literature, folklore and related studies.)
- Women's Studies International
**Search by the title of the article in JumboSearch when the full text is not readily available in the two Art History databases.
A Few Notable Journals
- Artibus Asiae
- Ars Orientalis
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- Japan Review
- Japanese journal of religious studies
- The Journal of Japanese Studies
- Journal of Popular Culture
- Mechademia
- Monumenta Nipponica
- Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
- Camera Obscura
- Cinema Journal
- Discourse
- Film & History
- Film History
- Film Quarterly
- Framework
- Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television
- Journal of Film and Video
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- The Movie Image
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
- Projections
- Quarterly Review of Film and Video
- Screen
- The Velvet Light Trap
- Wide Angle
2. Search Databases for Newspaper Articles
- Access World News (rich regional news)
- Factiva (more international news)