Research by Subject: Japanese
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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.
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.
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)
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.
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
Shakai Shisoshi Kenyu (1977-1986) The journal called "Shakai Shisoshi Kenkyu" (ﾐvzj､), published by Shakai Shisoshi Kenkyu Gakkai, from the 1st issue to 10 th (1977 - 1986) publications can be viewed as a full text. You can click on to the index located at right hand side top corner of the page. Then you choose any archives from the year 1977 to 1986. From 1987 onwards are not yet made available with full text format.
Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations. Go shortcut = go/wos Note: access through Web of Science
Zasshi kiji sakuin Article index to journals deposited to the National Diet Library. As of Jan. 2004, 10,000 journals are indexed. All subject fields are covered; humanities and social sciences, technology, science, medicine and pharmacology. It is not available during 4:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. Japan time. Click on NDL-OPAC and then Zasshi Kiji Sakuin no Kensaku/Moshikomi.
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.
JGuide Stanford University guide to Japan resources.
Portals to the World Links to electronic resources from around the world selected by librarians at the Library of Congress. 
Professor Shin'ichi Kikuchi Portal full text literature site from Konan Woman's University.
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. 
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.
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
Kokushi Daijiten Major 15 volume Japanese encyclopedia (in Japanese). Note: Print Resource
Main Library Japanese Collection Reference DS833 .K64 1979
MIDCAT List - Encyclopedias, Japanese Active catalog search Note: Active catalog search
High definition image database of old photographs of Japan Image database hosted by Nagasaki University.
Japan, maps Digitized maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Foreign Language News and Magazines Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.
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
Newspapers24: Tokyo
Links to the major Newspapers in Tokyo
World News Connection Full-text translations of world press and broadcasting, 1995 to current.
Internation Research Center for Japanese Studies Portal site for primary sources.
Japanese Text Initiative A Portal site hosted by the University of Virginia in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh.
Modern Diet Library Portal full text site hosted by the National Library of Japan.
Prange Digital Children's Book Collection This digital archive contains more than 8,000 children's books published in Japan between 1945 and 1949. To date, 1,600 picture books have been digitized and are available here
Professor M. Shibata Portal for literature with full text hosted by Meisei University.
Radio-Locator Find radio stations by country
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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