Selected Library Resources.*

Note: campus-wide access to the Library’s catalog and electronic resources is through the Library home page.

Reference works:
Cambridge encyclopedia of China / editor, Brian Hook; consultant editor, Denis Twitchett. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, c1991.  
(REF DS705 .C35 1991)

Companion to Chinese history / Hugh B. O’Neill. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1987.
(REF DS705 .063 1987)

Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings/ compiled by Kei Suzuki. [Tokyo] University of Tokyo Press, c1982.
(REF ND1042 .C65)

Dictionary of art / editor, Jane Turner. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996-.
(REF N31 .D5 1996)

Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese art / Hugo Munsterberg. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981.     
(REF N7340 .M78 1981)

Encyclopedia of Asian history / prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society; Ainslie T. Embree, editor in chief; executive editor, Robin J. Lewis; editors, Richard W. Bulliet [et al.]. New York, NY: Scribner; London: Collier Macmillan, c1988.            
(REF DS31 .E53 1988)

Encyclopedia of religion / [editor in chief, Mircea Eliade ; editors, Charles J. Adams... et al.]. New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, c1987.  
(REF BL31 .E46 1987 Copy 1)

Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world / edited by Paul Oliver. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
(REF NA208 .E53 1997’ Copy 1)

Index of early Chinese painters and paintings : T’ang, Sung, and Yüan / by James Cahill, incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.          
(REF ND 1043.3 .C3)

Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo ; New York, N.Y. : Kodansha, 1983.  
(REF DS805 .K633 1983 Copy 1)

Books:
Locate books in the HWS Library through the online catalog. Don’t forget to check the books on reserve for this class. Click on “Basic Search” or “Advanced Search” and enter your search terms (wildcard is a question mark ?).

You can identify more books on a given subject by using a large library’s catalog (such as Cornell’s) and placing Interlibrary Loan requests for items you would like. Time required to receive materials through Interlibrary Loan is usually a week to ten days.

Databases for locating journal articles:
JSTOR provides the full text of journal articles, from the first issue of the journal through issues  dating from three to five years ago (no current articles). Select “Advanced Search,” enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *), and click on as many of the following disciplines that apply: Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Language & Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) provides citations for western-language monographs, articles, and book chapters, published since 1971, on all parts of Asia. When you click on “Search,” the Advanced Search should come up automatically. Enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *), using “entire record” if you are trying to do a keyword search. You can save your results in a bookbag and then e-mail the contents of the bookbag to yourself. After finding sources in this database, you need to check our library catalog and databases to see if they are in our collection in either print or electronic form; if not, you will need to request them through Interlibrary Loan.

Art Index provides citations to articles in all areas of art and architecture, 1984 to present, from over 370 journals in English and other languages. It also provides full text of certain articles beginning in 1997. Select “Advanced Search” and enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *). Note that this database only indexes books on art history and articles in journals devoted to art history, not relevant articles published in, for example, journals devoted to Asian Studies.

Oxford Art Online “is an excellent resource for art research. Most notably, it contains the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 articles on topics in Western and non-Western art, more than 5000 searchable art images, and over 40,000 links to images at museums around the world. Oxford Art Online also includes access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.”

Project Muse provides the full text of journal articles from the most current issue back through the 1990s. It covers different Asian Studies journals than JSTOR does. Select “Advanced Search” and enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *).