Guides: Japanese: Articles

Subject Specialist

Carrie M. Macfarlane

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My office is Davis Family Library 209, but the quickest way to reach me is by email or appointment.

Subjects: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Neuroscience, Psychology, Writing and Rhetoric

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LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)
Language & Literature
Journal &newspaper articles, magazines, abstracts, and other published materials from 7 specific language and literature-based databases, plus 3 Proquest-created databases. American Periodicals, British Periodicals, CBCAComplete, Ethnic NewsWatch, Index Islamicus, Linguistics &Language Behavior Abstracts, and MLABibliography make up the bulk of the databases, while the three databases specific to Proquest include language and literature-focused sections of ProQuest Career &Technical Education, ProQuest Dissertations &Theses, and ProQuest Research Library.
ProQuest Social Sciences
Search multiple social sciences databases including ProQuest Social Science Journals, American Periodicals, ERIC, GenderWatch, LLBA, & PAO.

Find Journal & Magazine Articles

CiNii (Citation Index, National Institute of Informatics)
Books and journals held by university libraries in Japan as well as research produced by scholars in Japan.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1.4 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Popular and academic articles from 1970 onward relating to gender studies, LGBT studies, men's studies, women's studies, and more.

Google Scholar
Finds scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a Middlebury subscription or a one-time access fee.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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 All Collections This link opens in a new window
Full-text archive of about 4000 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. “JSTOR All Collections” includes all JSTOR collections to which Middlebury subscribes. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus).

Language & Literature
Search multiple ProQuest databases at once to find journal & newspaper articles, magazines, abstracts, and other published materials related to the study of literature.
LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers, 1960-present. Now on the ProQuest platform.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
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. (Now on the ProQuest platform.)

NDL Search
An integrated search service of catalogs and digital archives including libraries, archives, academic institutes and the National Diet Library.

PressReader This link opens in a new window
90-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 5000 publications from many countries in many languages.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary collection of databases. Provides access to full-text journals, magazines and newspapers.

ProQuest Social Sciences
Search multiple social sciences databases including ProQuest Social Science Journals, American Periodicals, ERIC, GenderWatch, LLBA, & PAO.

SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It features abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals, and extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources.

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.

LibrarySearch Quick Reference
Highlights the essential features of LibrarySearch.

Newspapers

Asahi Shimbun
In Japanese.
Asahi Shimbun
In English.
Foreign Language News and Magazines
Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.
Japan Times
Over time, the Japan Times changed its official title a few times, so it can be hard to find a particular article from a particular date. This page provides links to all versions.
Manga Newspaper
Read the news through manga (Japanese only)

PressReader This link opens in a new window
90-day archive of full-color, full-page, scanned images of over 5000 publications from many countries in many languages.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Includes a handful of English-language news sources including The Japan Times.

Browse Journals by Title

Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus is a peer-reviewed on-line publication providing critical analysis of the forces shaping the Asia-Pacific and the world. The Journal explores the geopolitics, economics, history, society, culture, international relations and environment of the modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific region.

Bungei Shunju archive This link opens in a new window
Archive of issues of Bungei shunjū (Japanese periodical) on the JKBooks platform. 1923-1950. For more recent issues, see Bungei shunjū in MIDCAT
Fuzoku Gaho archive This link opens in a new window
Archive of issues of Fuzoku Gaho (Japanese periodical) on the JKBooks platform covering 1889-1916.

Can't find it at Middlebury?

Use Middlebury's Interlibrary Loan service to access articles, chapters, books, films and more. For more information on interlibrary loan, see the ILL Guide at go/illguide

ILLiad
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