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Albion College Library Online Catalog | | | The Albion College Library Online Catalog - your one-stop spot to search for books, periodicals, government documents, videos, electronic materials and more! | |
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MeLCat Online Catalog | | | MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form. | |
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WorldCat | | | Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
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| Find Journal Articles & More |
CiNii | | | “CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like 'sigh-knee') is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.” Some full text documents are available. Concentrates mainly on Japanese language academic papers. | |
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Full Text Finder | | | Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links. | |
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GeNii (National Institute of Informatics Scholarly and Academic Information Portal) | | | GeNii (pronounced like “Jeanie”) provides a single search engine that retrieves information from several sources, including CiNii (journal articles, theses, etc.), Webcat Plus (identify books available in libraries), NII-DBR (a collection of 29 academic research databases), JAIRO (journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc. accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories), and KAKEN (“Database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research contains the "Project Selected" documents and the research report summaries, including annual and final”). | |
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Japanese Periodicals Index | | | Search more than 9 million journal articles. | |
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| Language Dictionaries |
Basic Japanese-English dictionary | | | REF. PL679 .B37 1994 | |
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Kodansha Japanese-English dictionary | | | REF. PL675 .K56 1989 | |
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New romanized English-Japanese dictionary with Japanese-English dictionary and most useful expressions | | | REF. PL679 .F85 1995 | |
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Oxford-Duden pictorial Japanese & English dictionary | | | REF. PL676 .O9 1992 | |
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| Online Journals |
ejcjs (electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies) | | | “ejcjs is an academic journal in the social sciences that publishes research and scholarly writing on all issues related to contemporary Japan.” | |
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Japan Review | | | Japan Review is the International Research Center for Japanese Studies' refereed English-language journal. Full text articles are available from 1990 to the present. | |
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JSTOR – Asian Studies Collection | | | Provides access to the full text of a number of journals in Asian Studies, including the Journal of Japanese Studies, Japanese Language and Literature, the Journal of Asian Studies, and many others.
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Nihon Kenkyu | | | "A Japanese-language journal of articles by Nichibunken faculty and team research project participants. Published biannually since 1989, Nihon Kenkyu is the primary scholarly journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.” All articles are available in full text.
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Project Muse - Asian Studies Collection | | | Provides access to the full text of a number of journals in Asian Studies, including the Journal of Japanese Studies, the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and many others. | |
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| Online Resources |
International Research Center for Japanese Studies | | | | |
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Japan Studies Resources | | | Duke University's East Asian Collection | |
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Portals to the World - Japan | | | “Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.” | |
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Web Japan | | | Japan Information Network, Sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Web Japan was launched with the aim of helping people around the world get to know more about Japan and the Japanese. With more than about 300 million hits per year from around the world, it has become one of Japan’s leading websites for information on the country. The site provides highly reliable information on Japan across many different genres including culture, sightseeing, society, history and nature. The content is provided primarily in English, but a portion of the site is multilingual.” | |
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| Reference Sources |
Cultural atlas of Japan | | | DS821 .C62 1988 | |
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Japan: A Country Study | | | "This volume is one in a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program”. Has chapters on Japan’s economy, history, society, environment, education, the arts, the political system, foreign relations, national security. Includes an extensive bibliography of other information sources. | |
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Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan | | | DS 805 .K633 1983 and DS 805 .K633 1983 Suppl. | |
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Whole Japan book | | | DS805 .D35 1983 | |
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