Session 1, J E-Resorce 2004


	Session 1, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004, 10-11:30am: ONLINE CATALOGS RELATED TO JAPANESE STUDIES

In this session, we will cover searching for Japanese resources through the Cornell Catalog. We will also use the Library Gateway to access several databases that can be used for your research, including union catalogs like Eureka (RLG) and Worldcat (OCLC), indexes like the Bibliography of Asian Studies, and full text resources like JSTOR, and Project Muse. We will then discuss Japanese online catalogs like Webcat (NII), Webcat Plus (NII), WINE (Waseda University), and NDL-OPAC (The National Diet Library), and how you can use them to learn what scholarly research has been done on your topic. We will briefly discuss using Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to obtain materials from Waseda University and the National Diet Library.		Part 1: Basic Bibliographical Databases Part 2: Japanese Online Catalogs (search primarily in Japanese) Part 3: Obtaining items through ILL Part 4: Other issues regarding the use of Japanese Electronic Resources


Part 1: Basic Bibliographical Databases: Cornell Catalog http://catalog.library.cornell.edu From the Cornell Library Gateway http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/, we will access several databases that can be used for research on Japan from "Find Databases": Eureka (RLG) Worldcat (OCLC) Bibliography of Asian Studies JSTOR Project Muse Dissertation Abstracts Part 2: Japanese Online Catalogs: (search primarily in Japanese) Webcat (NII) http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat.html (Japanese interface) http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html (English interface) Webcat Plus http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/ Tokyo University Book Contents Database http://contents.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/contents/top.html WINE (Waseda University) http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/ (Japanese interface) http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/search/ (English interface) NDL-OPAC (The National Diet Library) http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index.html Part 3: Obtaining items through ILL From the Library Gateway, click on Interlibrary Loan See, Sharon Domier's guide to using ILL http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/easian/pathfinders/FromZassakutoILL.pdf Part 4: Other issues regarding the use of Japanese Electronic Resources Computer Isuses: To use the above catalogs and databases on your own computer, you will need to set up Japanese capability. Installing and Using East Asian Languages under Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP, Robert Eng, University of Redlands http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/index.html Basic Japanese Word-Processing, University of Arizona http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah/subpathpages/Japanese/WordProcessing.htm Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server, Monash http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html Rikai Translator http://www.rikai.com to get the Japanese reading and English translation. Romanization: When searching Japanese databases you need to use Kunrei-shiki romanization, long vowels must therefore be entered correctly with long o as "ou" and long u as "uu." For the Cornell Catalog, Eureka, and Worldcat, use romaji in Modified Hepburn romanization. Japanese Romanization tables by Yayoi Koizumi http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/jpntable.htm Click here to go back to the index page. Click here to go to the next session (Session 2).