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:
"Wu zetian"; footbinding
The CAT (Library’s online catalogue)
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...).
Subject Headings: China--History--Sources; Women--China--History
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.
Historical Abstracts (In LionSearch)
Find articles and other materials dealing with world history for the period 1450 to the present
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.
Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940.
China Academic Journals (in Chinese)
Subscription to CAJ series on Literature/History/Philosophy which offers access to full-text articles from more than 600 journals published in China. To achieve best result, please use Chinese scripts and IE for searching.
PRINT MATERIAL LOCATIONS
DS700-799, Chinese history (Pattee-1)
PL900-3300, Chinese Literature (Pattee-2A)
E-REFERENCE TITLES
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Which includes titles such as: Encyclopedia of Modern China , 4v, 2009; Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (2003).
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
ARTstor (pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)
ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly. It is comprised of six major collections that may be searched separately or simultaneously
Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
