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:
Levy Hideo
Tawada Yoko
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...).
Advance or Quick search:
Maihime by Mori Ogai
Japanese + (translations into English)
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.
JapanKnowledge (In Japanese)
A portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and databases that provide access to various reference sources in Japan including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionaries.
PRINT MATERIAL LOCATIONS
DS800-899, Japanese history (Pattee-1)
PL500-899, Japanese Literature (Pattee-2A)
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.
Newspaper Photos (AP Images)
An average of 800 state, regional, national and international photos are added daily to the AP Photo Archives. After a year, approximately 200 of the best daily photos are retained permanently. The Photo Archive's historical collection continues to grow, featuring images from significant news and features events of the 20th century
