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Asian Studies Library Guide
The Asian Studies librarian at Pattee is Jade Atwill. She has put together a comprehensive guide of resources in Asian Studies. The links to the right will get you started, but please see this research guide for specific information on China and Japan.
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Christina Riehman-Murphy
Contact:
Penn State Abington
215-881-7911
Subjects: Campus: Abington, Nursing
General Databases (Where you can search for articles)
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.
Specific Databases (Where you can search for articles)
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new windowThe on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials This link opens in a new windowATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 488,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS App information
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews This link opens in a new windowOxford Handbooks Online brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic including religion, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate. (You can do a search, or click on Religion to browse articles under that category.)
- World Religion Database This link opens in a new windowThe World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world?s religions for the period 1900 to 2050.
Key Journals
- Asian Medicine: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian MedicineA multidisciplinary journal aimed at researchers and practitioners of Asian medicine. It makes available in one single publication academic essays that explore the historical, anthropological, sociological and philological dimensions of Asian medicine as well as practice reports from clinicians based in Asia and in Western countries, translations of relevant texts, and other types of articles.
- Japanese ReligionsFreely available online journal from the NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions.
- eJournal of Indian MedicineAn open access "multidisciplinary periodical that publishes studies on traditional South Asian medical systems by qualified scholars in philology, medicine, pharmacology, botany, anthropology and sociology."