World Society in Literature & Film -- China ASST 0868

A collection of useful resources for students in Chinese sections of World Society in Literature & Film.

Introduction

This guide is designed to assist students in Dr. Louis Mangione's section of Chinese / Asian Studies 868 with their information literacy assignment. Assignment Description

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Reports 1 & 2: Background/Overviews

Reference works, i.e. encyclopedias and dictionaries, are an excellent source of general overviews, biographies, explanations, surveys, facts, and bibliographies. Use these to start your research and to find other sources of information.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: unlimited
Credo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: unlimited
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]) is a database of encyclopedias and reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if the database is accessed from different libraries.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 12 users on the platform
Oxford Reference Online includes subject and language reference sources from Oxford University Press, including many titles from the Oxford Companions Series. Browse or search single titles, specific subject areas, or the entire collection.

Report 3: Databases for Peer-Reviewed Articles

When searching for scholarly journal articles, try one of the databases below. Limit your results to just academic journals in order to filter out popular sources (like newspapers and magazines). Remember to search for keywords for your topic, and to join your keywords with the word AND (e.g., search for gender AND qing).

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes journals in the social and humanities sciences, covering 1953-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides page images of ebooks, ebook chapters, and back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to current publication.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete provides full text scholarly journals in all areas of academic study. Limit your search results to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.