Finding Books
Use CBBcat - to find readily available e-books
To look for E-Books, change Entire CBB Collection to E-Books.
CBB subjects, examples:
Military art and science -- China -- History
China -- History -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D
China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
Further Resources
For Citations and Bibliographies
The online Chicago Manual of Style is here
Look for Ch. 14, on Notes and Bibliographies.
The section for Sources Consulted Online advises supplementing the usual bibliographic information with either a URL, a DOI, or the name of the library database where you found the article.
The section on Basic Format gives examples.
Continue scrolling down the table of contents to find more details on constructing Notes and Bibliographies, as well as the format for entries on Books, Periodical articles, and many other types of sources.
For More Citation Styles and Bibliographic Management Software
See this guide page
For Ways to Manage the Process of Researching and Reading
See this guide page
And remember you can always contact me: kjgillum@colby.edu
Canton Factories, ca. 1850 -- en.wikipedia
Research Strategies
Construct your research strategically.
- For background information, use Credo Reference or print dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Use terminology and facts learned from the background information to search for articles in the Bibliography of Asian Studies, Academic Search Complete, and other databases below. Articles present an argument on a particular aspect of a topic, not facts alone.
- Search for books in any of Colby's catalogs, expanding your search with subject linking. The longer form of a book provides greater breadth of general information or greater depth of argument.
- Investigate the notes and bibliographies of every good source you find for leads to more
- Think about what sorts of publications the information you need might be published in
- Leverage the power of the index to navigate within books (Remember to check various translations and Romanizations of Chinese names and titles - Qing / Ching, Pao yu / Bao yu, Cao / Tsao, Li Po / Li Bai, Hsi-feng / Xifeng, etc.)
Librarian for East Asian Studies: Karen Gillum, kjgillum@colby.edu
Contact me at any time!
Databases
Find scholarly articles and contemporary news:
- JSTOR
- Academic Search Complete
A mix of news, popular magazines, academic journals - Historical Abstracts
article on world history from 1450 to the present - ATLA Religion Database
Religious and theological literature, including world religions and social issues. Articles from 1949 to the present. - Political Handbook of the World - Reference information
- ARTstor - images of artworks
- Global Newsstream - current newspapers from around the world
Get access to more of the articles you find by Requesting from Another Library:
Directions on signing up for ILL
For a focus specifically on Asia:
- Bibliography of Asian Studies
Coverage of East, Southeast, and South Asia works in western languages; focus on the humanities and the social sciences. - Asia Country Studies (Library of Congress)
- South China Morning Post (Historical)
- China Data - Online Census Data
- United States and the Two Koreas, Part I - DNSA
- US and the Two Koreas, Part II
Look for more useful databases in the Subject list for East Asian Studies
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Articles in academic journals reflect current scholarly conversation on a given topic. Look for a sidebar in databases that will allow you to limit your results to scholarly journals, set date ranges, etc. |
Online sources