Japanese Studies Databases (in English language)
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| BAS : Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971-present) Indexes to articles on Asia. Subjects include Asian anthropology and sociology, arts, biography, economics, education, history, literature, philosophy and religion, politics and government, science and technology. Note: No full-text |
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| Proquest Central (formerly Proquest 5000) A major full-text database covering humanities, social sciences, education, health and medical, science and technology and business and management. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP via Thomson Gale Contains indexes,abstracts and some full-text of journal articles. Topics covered include humanities, communication studies, social science, science and technology, women's studies, sociology, environment and public affairs. |
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| Project Muse Provides access to over 300 peer-reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. |
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| JSTOR Full-text of a wide range of journals, including major Asian Studies titles. Does not include the current five years of issues. |
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| ABI Inform via ProQuest Bibliographic references and abstracts, with partial text provision, to journal articles covering business, industry and management. Journals indexed include Asiaweek, Asian Affairs, Asian Folklore Studies, Asian Philosophy, Asian Survey, Far Eastern Economic Review, Film Review, Japan Echo, Japan Quarterly.) |
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| APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text (1978-present) Contains APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service, which indexes articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. It also includes full-text articles 1994/1995 -, from the top 200 journals indexed.  |
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| Asia-Studies Full-text currently unavailable Thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries. Subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies. |
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| Current Contents Connect via ISI Web of Knowledge Provides access to the table of contents of journals together with complete bibliographic information about each article. Note: No full-text |
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| Dissertation and Theses Full Text via ProQuest (full-text 1997-present) An authoritative source for doctoral dissertations and master's theses, particularly North American theses. Note: Very large files; may be slow to download off-campus. |
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| Factiva.com Factiva provides news, commentary, pictures, company information and stock quotes. It contains more than 8,000 overseas and Australian newspaper and newswire publications. Japanese characters can be used to search Japanese language newspapers. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. Important: Click Logout when finished. Access to Australia Financial Review &BRW |
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| GMID: Global Market Information Database via Euromonitor Log-in required on-campus Up-to-date information on countries (including Japan) profiles, historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, company profiles and full-text market analysis, as well as key business intelligence on countries, markets and companies. |
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| Informit Online Contains more than 84 Australian databases inlcuding some Asian resources. Some full-text articles available. |
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| Historical Abstracts Covers world history (1450 to the present), excluding America. |
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| MLA: Modern Languages Association International Bibliography via Ebsco Bibiographic references to scholarly works, literature, linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism in Japanese, English and other languages. |
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| PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service via Proquest Bibliographic index to journal articles, government documents, reports, books, yearbooks on contemporary social, economic and political issues, social sciences, business and public policy. International geographic coverage. Some full-text articles available. |
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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates. |
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| Scopus Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas. |
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| Sociological Abstracts via Proquest Bibliographic references and abstracts to literature of sociology and the related social sciences. Source material from over 30 languages. Some full-text articles available. |
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| Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge Contains Arts &Humanities Citation Index from 1975., Science Citation Index Expanded 1900- and Social Sciences Citation Index 1956- |
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