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Asian Studies

Finding Books

Search Omni to find books, journals, videos and other materials owned by the Library.  You can search by keywords, author, title or subject headings.
 
To find a specific known item, search by title or author.  To find books on a topic, either try a subject or keyword search.

Subject Headings vs Keyword Searching

Subject headings allow you to search for resources on a particular author or topic and are often more productive than keyword searches. 

Keyword searches work best if you have multiple concepts or topics. Think of the words that best describe your topic and then connect them with the boolean operators AND OR NOT.

One strategy to find books on your topic is to use a keyword search to find relevant subjects that you can click on to find more books on the same topic.

Keyword Searching TIPS
 

Search Technique  

What It Does

quotation marks

Searches for exact phrase

Truncation *

Searches for all forms of a word

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

Lets you broaden or narrow your search
 
For example:
japan* AND women
china AND "foreign trade"
 
When searching OMNI for books, use the facets located on the search results screen, to limit your search results to books & ebooks.
 
Select useful titles and look at the full record for subject headings.
 
Women Employment Japan
Families Japan
Women Japan Social conditions
Sex role Japan History
 

Subject Headings

Knowing the right subect heading can help you get to information more quickly in Omni.

Examples of subject headings related to Asian Studies are:
 

Asia Economic conditions
Cambodia History
China Politics and government
Confucius
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227
Japan Foreign relations United States
Korea North
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937
Political culture Asia
Social change Asia

Standard Subdivisions

Library of Congress Subject Headings use standard subdivisions under place names (countries, states, cities and other geographic divisions) to classify works.  Here are some for history, which can be further subdivided by time period.

--history
--civilization
--economic conditions
--foreign relations
--intellectual life
--personal narratives
--politics and government
--social conditions
--social life and customs

Featured Resource

Cambridge Histories Online provides access to Cambridge history volumes published since 1960, including: 

  • China
  • Japan
  • Southeast Asia
  • India

Other E-Book Collections

Provides full-text access to major works in American, European and Middle Eastern history. Topics covered include many aspects of history plus archaeology, area studies, art, folklore, literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion, and women's studies.
 
Blackwell publishes a series of books of historiographic essays on many topics in history. They are available online through Wiley Online Library..
 
Oxford Scholarship Online                       
offers full-text access to scholarly publishing in 20 subjects from around the world,
 
Provides access to about 600,000 electronic books (ebooks) Prom a wide variety of publishers.
UPSO includes titles from Oxford University Press and other partner presses.  QUL has access to selected titles, indicated by a green open lock icon on search results screens