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Arts and Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current. Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Indexes mainly western language publications on all parts of Asia and all subjects. 1971 - present online. 1941 - 1970 available in print. Main Library Reference DS5 .A1
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs. 
Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertation Abstracts For an extensive project or thesis, use this catalog of dissertations and masters' theses published from 1851 to current.
East Asian Gateway Service for Chinese and Korean Academic Journal Publicatoins Portal through which to request journal articles sent electronically
EconLit Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. List of Econlit Subject Descriptors. Go shortcuts = go/econlit (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/econlit (off-campus)
ERIC Database ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
Foreast: The Internet East Asian Library 200+ Free Resources for East Asian Studies.
Historical Abstracts Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
HKInChiP HKInChiP indexes Chinese-language and bilingual (Chinese/English) periodicals published in Hong Kong. The index covers over 150 periodicals
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off-campus)
Ling Long Women's Magazine Full image reproduction of Columbia University's holdings of the Republican-period Shanghai women's magazine, along with information about the journal and its readership
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Covers all aspects of the study of language, including anthropological and applied linguistics, second language acquisition, philosophy of language, non-verbal communication, and literary theory. Provides abstracts from articles, books, and other publications, 1960-present.
MLA Bibliography The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
PAIS International Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais
Project Muse Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Ming Pao Daily The archival database of community news in Chinese from Vancouver, BC is available to users all over the world. 
Newspaper Direct 45 day archive of full-color, full-page scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.
Universal Digital Library Access to over 1 million digitized books. Most titles are in Chinese or English, but other languages are included, such as Arabic.
WorldCat Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record.
International Geographic Resources
Columbia Gazetteer of the World A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.
Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
Portals to the World Links to electronic resources from around the world selected by librarians at the Library of Congress.
Yamada Language Guides Web Portal for numerous language related sites
Governments on the WWW Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002. 
MIDCAT List - Chinese Literature Active catalog search Note: Active catalog search
Literature Resource Center The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.
RefWorks RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Middlebury College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account. For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu. Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.
Chinese Character Genealogy An Etymological Chinese-English Dictionary
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage 林语堂当代汉英词典-电子版[繁体] Online Chinese-English Dictionary Note: 林语堂当代汉英词典-电子版[繁体]
MIDCAT List - Chinese Dictionaries Active catalog search Note: Active catalog search
Online Chinese-English dictionary Includes links to several different sources
Your Dictionary Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.
Dissertation Abstracts Online Dissertation Abstracts Online is a subject, title, and author guide to American doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present, Canadian, British and European dissertations from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are included for entries after 1980
MIDCAT List - Chinese Encyclopedias Active catalog search Note: Active catalog search
Sidney Gamble Photograph Collection Images from Korea, Japan, China, Hawaii, San Francisco and Russia 1908-1932.
Foreign Language News and Magazines Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.
Kidon Media Link Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.
Newspaper Direct 45 day archive of full-color, full-page scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.
Newspapers24 12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news
World News Connection Full-text translations of world press and broadcasting, 1995 to current.
Chinese text initiative Digital archive of texts from the University of Virginia
Ming-Qing Women's writings A digital collection of women's writing from the Ming- Qing era 1368-1911)
Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-li The Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China (1368-1644). Each of the shi-lu comprises an account of one emperor's reign, and was compiled after that emperor's death on the basis of a number of sources created during the reign. These collected texts, which run to close to 40,000 pages of unpunctuated, manuscript Classical Chinese constitute one of the most important primary texts of the Ming dynasty, and contain a wealth of materials unrecorded in other sources.
Radio-Locator Find radio stations by country
China Data Online (part of Lexis-Nexis Statistical DataSets) Maps and statistical data (national, provincial, county, & city) for China. We now get this through Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe - Statistical DataSets. Open the Browse by Source folder. To get data down to the city level, choose the China Data Center one that does NOT say national.
CIA - The World Factbook Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.
International TV Portal site to TV stations from around the world
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