Research Guides: JAPN 499: Japanese Senior Seminar: Articles/Databases

Databases Everyone Should Use

Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 4,450 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Provides indexing to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971. Searchable by keyword (any field), author, title, journal, and subject, it may also be browsed by subject, journal or country.
Ethnic Newswatch
Provides a rich collection of articles, editorials and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
JSTOR
Provides access to the complete back files of more than 1300 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s.

Useful Databases for this Course

Access World News
Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.
Art Full Text (1984 - present)
Provides coverage of all styles and periods of art. Indexes 400 international periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, mostly written in English.
Business Source Complete
Provides full text from nearly 3,300 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 4,100 journals. 1922 - present.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (CMMC)
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
EconLit
Covers scholarly research in the areas of economics, business economics, social economics, income distributions, and monetary controls from around the world. Includes both theoretical and applied aspects of economics and allied disciplines from the social sciences. 1969 - present
ERIC
Covers journal and research literature in the field of education. Includes two files: Research in Education (RIE), which indexes and abstracts the miscellaneous education literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), which indexes and abstracts over 775 periodicals. 1966 - present.
Foreign Law Guide
Find relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources.
Gender Studies Database
A multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, gray literature, and the alternative press, with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
Grove Art Online
A comprehensive online resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present.
HathiTrust
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Historical Abstracts
Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Legal Collection
Contains full text for hundreds of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Music Index Online
Indexes over 725 international music periodicals offering a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data.1976 - present
PsycInfo
Abstracts and indexes the professional and academic literature in the field of psychology and related disciplines
SPORTDiscus
Provides comprehensive international coverage on research about sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, and more. 1949 - present

Searching the MLA Int'l Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to 3,000+ journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, etc.
Keyword Search vs. Subject Search in the MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO
A short tutorial about search strategies.

How To Find Articles

If an article is not available in full-text, click the "Find It!" button. or

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If we do not have access, you will be given an option to order it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Fill out the form and click "Submit." It takes about 2 business days to get articles.

Literary Theories

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Offers succinct, focused articles that provide an overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western perspective.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can customize Google Scholar to recognize Willamette-owned materials (visit our Google Scholar page for more info).

Streaming Video Databases

Academic Video Online
A database that provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more.
Digital Theatre Plus
Provides streamed videos in: recent British theatrical productions (Shakespeare, classics, new writing, musicals, dance, and opera); making theater (creative, productive, and technical teams; the acting company; theater management; and filmed interviews with practitioners); study guides; teaching support; and collections.
KANOPY
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, television series, and more.

Streaming Music Databases

Contemporary World Music
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Classical Music Library
Includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Jazz Music Library
The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

JAPN 499: Japanese Senior Seminar: Articles/Databases