Arts and Humanities Library
W318 Pattee Library
Phone: 814-863-0738
Email: yya2@psu.edu
One single search box that searches across most (not all) library resources for books, scholarly journals, newspapers, full text articles, e-books, and more!
Examples:
Murakami Haruki; "Murakami Haruki" and "after the quake"
Tawada Yoko
You can search The CAT by entering book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be entered last name first and titles should be entered without the initial article (the, a, an...).
Examples:
Tawada, Yoko; bridegroom was a dog;
Japanese + (translations into English)
Izumi Kyoka
To do a subject search, it is important to know the LC subject headings. You can also "Browse" by subject headings, such as:
Japanese literature
Japanese literature -- 20th century
American fiction -- Asian American authors
For journal articles and book chapters
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Lists records on all subjects, especially in the humanities and the social sciences, pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asian published worldwide;
Bibliographic records primarily in western languages.
MLA International Bibliography (In LionSearch)
To find scholarly books, essays, and articles on modern languages and literatures from all over the world, including Asia, Europe and North America. Includes coverage of the “dramatic arts”; film, radio, television and theatre.
JSTOR (In LionSearch)
Full-text and full-image archive of journals in humanities and social sciences disciplines;
Content excludes the most recent three to five years.
ProjectMuse (In LionSearch)
Full-text of scholarly journals, including many key history journals.
RESEARCH GUIDE FOR ASIAN STUDIES
Print Material Location:
Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language and Literature: Pattee 2A, PL500-3300
E-BOOKS
Google Book Search This digital index to the contents of over 10 million English language books is created from the contents of CIC university libraries and others.
Hathi Trust Digital Library A digital catalog and repository created by research libraries
Finding and requesting materials not available at Penn State
WorldCat Holdings from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Login to borrow from other libraries
