Databases by Subject: East Asian Studies

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Full Text: Partial
Description:  This multidisciplinary index contains articles, many in full-text in the areas of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers are all included.

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Dates Covered:  1975-present
Full Text:  Partial
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. 

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AnthroSource

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Partial
Description: Current issues for 11 of the American Anthropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications, and a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003

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Business Source Premier (EBSCO)

Business Searching Interface BSI

Dates Covered: Indexing back to 1965; selected titles go back further
Full Text: Partial
Description:As the world’s largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis.

In 2005, a new searching interface, known as BSI, Business Searching Interface, became available for this database.  This new interface provides a streamlined appearance and faster searching capabilities for locating country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. It contains the same coverage as Business Source Premier.

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Dates Covered: varies with each title
Full Text : Primarily 
Description:  Cambridge Journals Online is a full-text online journal collection of journals published by Cambridge University Press. Over 200 titles are indexed in leading journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Most of the titles are full-text. Searching is available directly through the CJO interface, or link to the full text in this product via the Article Linker button while searching in other indexes. 

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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)

Dates Covered: 1991-present
Full Text:  Yes 
Description: CIAO is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. CIAO is also a widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, and course packs of background readings for history and political science classes.

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Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)

Dates Covered:
Full Text: Partial 
Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media Complete provides an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in any and all aspects of communication and mass media.

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Ethnic NewsWatch

Dates Covered: 1990-present
Full Text: Yes 
Description: This database is a full text general reference database of the 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press dating from 1990 to the present. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, and contains titles in a wide range of current and historical topics in both languages.

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Dates Covered: 1970-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: This index is a full text database comprised of 175 periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch contains some archival materials from the 1970's, making this an important repository on the historical perspective of the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles over the last fifteen to twenty years.

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Dates Covered: Indexing begins with first issue/first volume of each title indexed. Current 3-5 years of each title not included.  
Full Text:  Yes
Description: JSTOR contains a moving wall of back issues of 522 journals in full-text format. Generally the last 3-5 years of publication of each title are NOT included in this index. Bush Library subscribes to the Arts and Sciences collections I, II, and IV, the Complement, and the Language and Literature Collection. View a list of journal titles organized by subject area Collection I and Collection II, Collection IV, the Complement, and the Language and Literature Collection

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LexisNexis Academic Search

Dates Covered: varies with title
Full Text: Yes
Description: This service provides full-text access to articles in news, business, legal research, medicine and reference. This service is especially useful to students looking for full-text of foreign newspapers. Access to full-text of the Minneapolis Star Tribune is available from 1991-present and the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1996-present.

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Literature Resource Center

Full Text: Yes
Description: The Literature Resource Center is designed around three major literary research tools, which Bush Library currently owns in print format only; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Authors. Designed originally for students of literature, this database offers a wealth of information that includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews and explications. Also included are web sites, periodical articles, compare and contrast pages, full-text author's works, and reading lists that are useful in many disciplines. This product is considered by some to be the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

Users can search the product by literary author's name, title of literary work, keyword, critic name, by classifications such as genre, literary movement/time period, nationality, ethnicity, gender, date of birth and/or death or by Literary-Historical Timeline Search.

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MasterFile Premier  EBSCO

Dates Covered: 1975-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

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MLA International Bibliography Plus Modern Language Association - CSA

Dates Covered: 1923 - present
Full Text: No
Description: This database is from the Modern Language Association and is useful for students of English, and Languages and Literature. It contains over 1.7 million citations to materials in books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. More than 4400 of these citations are for journals or series.

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Philosopher's Index

Dates Covered: 1940-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.

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Project Muse

Dates Covered: varies by title
Full Text: Yes 
Description: This database indexes full-text articles in 220 journals which are published by 37 scholarly publishers. They cover the disciplines of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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Sociological Abstracts CSA Illumina

Dates Covered: 1963 - present
Full Text: No
Description: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. This index also includes links to "Scholar Universe", a directory of faculty and organization profiles.

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