Japanese Studies

• ABI/INFORM Complete
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  Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest.
• Access World News Research Collection
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  The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded.
• America: History & Life (EBSCO)
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  This bibliographic database covers the history of the United States and Canada. It includes key English-language historic journals, selected historic journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and selected relevant journals in the social sciences and humanities.
• Anthropology Plus
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  Anthropology Plus

  • Brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK
  • Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition to lesser known journals, from the early 19th century to today
  • Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
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  The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 737,175 records (as of July 9, 2009) on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.). The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
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  Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 690 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 380 journals.
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
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  Digital Dictionary of Buddhism is a collaborative Internet site developed by user contributions and maintained by a professor of the University of Tokyo. Buddhist terms are indexed by radicals, texts, temples, schools, places, etc. See the list of lexicographical and canonical references used in DDB at: http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/references.html. It provides links to other useful Buddhist web resources. DDB allows unlimited-use of the contents with two-year subscription. USC is one of the thirty-one (31) subscribing academic institutions.
• Facts On File World News Digest
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  World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and convenient new features such as tabbed search results. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
• Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
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  Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications (and selected coverage of nearly 300), as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books
• GenderWatch
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  GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Subjects covered include: business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology, gender and women's studies and more. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives. It includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure.Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports.
• GeNii
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  GeNii, pronounced “gene-knee” is a portal to academic databases and indexes to journal articles, books, reports, and papers in all disciplines. It is a web-based resource for free and unlimited use of the contents, with a few full texts. Databases contained are CiNii, WebcatPlus, KAKEN, DBR, and JAIRO:
• Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
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  Covers history of the world, 1450-. Excludes the U.S. and Canada. Includes key history journals from major countries, as well as relevant selected journals from the social sciences and humanities. All abstracts are in English. Includes book reviews and dissertations.
• Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
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  Over 24,000 pages from twenty-five titles of relocation camp newspapers, from 1942-1945.
• JapanKnowledge Plus
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  JapanKnowledge is a powerful reference tool for Japanese language and culture provided by NetAdvance Inc. of the Shogakkan 小学館Group Holdings, the top 4th publisher in Japan. You can search both federally and some individually its multiple contents of dictionaries, encyclopedias, full-text journals and books. See all the contents at: http://www.jkn21.com/contents/intro/cont_top.html. Eight (8) simultaneous accesses are shared among the GWLA consortium institutions.
• JSTOR
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  A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals. Some backfiles date back to the early 1800s. Fields covered include: anthropology, ecology, economics, education, finance, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, literature, biology.

  For a complete list of periodicals available in full text, see http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/action/showJournals?browseType=title.

• Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries
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  Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries is a news retrieval service from the publisher of Japan’s second largest circulation newspaper, Asahi shinbun 朝日新聞. Coverage includes over 8,000,000 full-text articles as of January, 2009 from 1945 to the present. Currently viewable are full-text articles from 1985 to the present, clipped images from 2005 to the present, and entire page images from 1945 to 1989. It is searchable by keyword in the full-text module from 1985 to the present and in the page image from 1945 to 1984. The page image between 1985 and 1989 is searchable only by date. Eight (8) simultaneous accesses are shared among the consortium of currently ten (10) participating institutions.
• Koseisha Zasshi Kiji Sakuin Shusei
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  The Koseisha database indexes magazines and periodical articles from the Meiji era 1868 to the present. It includes periodicals locally published in Japan as well as those published in neighboring countries during the colonial times. The database is linked with the National Diet Library’s Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (Japanese Periodical Index of 19,514 journals held by the NDL as of 4/6/10; find the journal list at: http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/sakuin/sakuin_index.html), the National Institute of Informatics’ CiNii (a research article index; find the journal list at: http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/DirTop?USELANG=en) and Webcat (a union catalog of the academic libraries in Japan). A journal list of the Koseisha database is not available. The number of simultaneous accesses is shared among the consortium of currently thirty-two (32) participating institutions.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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  LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA.
• MLA International Bibliography
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  Index to scholarly publication in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals and series published worldwide. Indexing only: no full text.
• Nihon Kokugo Daijiten (日本国語大辞典Web版)
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  Published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan, it is the largest and most authoritative encyclopedia for the history of Japan. One simultaneous access is shared by eight GWLA consortium universities. Click on the green arrow buttons to start and end your session.
• Nihon rekishi chimei taikei
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  Published by Heibonsha, it is a gazetteer of Japan. One simultaneous access is shared by ten GWLA consortium universities. Click on the Enter & Logout buttons to start and end your session.
• Nikkei Telecom 21
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  Nikkei Telecom21 is the Japan’s largest online database on business. It provides access to the latest news from the Nikkei newswire service, news archives, business information, and corporate profiles. One (1) simultaneous access is provided on/off USC campus.
• ProQuest - Multiple Databases
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  ProQuest Multiple Databases is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students. It simultaneously searches dozens of subject areas, indexes thousands of general and scholarly titles, and provides full-text for a significant number of the articles included from a variety of contemporary research databases. It is an excellent starting place for research for a paper, particularly if one isn't sure where to begin their research.
• ProQuest Religion
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  An article database, mainly full-text, pertaining to all aspects of the study of religion, dealing with historical foundations to contemporary issues.
• Sociological Abstracts
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  Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.

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• USC Digital Library
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  The USC Digital Library (USCDL) is the digital repository for original research materials which have been selected for archiving by the Libraries. Content made available by the USCDL facilitates new and creative opportunities for scholarship and teaching by providing enhanced access to materials which feature and highlight the Libraries' holdings or from non-Library held collections identified in collaboration with members of the USC academic community. Accordingly, the USCDL provides a wealth of primary and original source material in a variety of formats. These may include, but are not limited to USC theses and dissertations; photographs; rare books, or portions thereof; manuscripts; source documents; sound recordings; moving images; data sets; 'born digital' documents; and digital representations of physical objects. USCDL content can be licensed or sub-licensed to parties outside of USC.
• World News Connection
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  Research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Analysts from FBIS domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials. WNC is the only news service that allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS.
• WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
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  WorldCat is an online union catalog of materials held by OCLC member libraries. OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, is a nonprofit, membership, library computer service and research organization.
  WorldCat contains millions of bibliographic records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Item records provide information about individual library holdings. Types of materials include books, journals, musical scores, computer data files, magazines, newspapers, computer programs, sound recordings, films and slides, maps, videotapes, and manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Updated daily.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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  This database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international journal literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration and policy. Over 1,700 titles are monitored for coverage and, of these, 67% are published outside of the United States.
• Yomidas Rekishikan
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  YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN is the full text database of The Yomiuri Shinbun, containing more than 10 million articles carried by the newspaper since its inaugural issue in 1874.
  Select one of the four blue buttons: [明治・大正・昭和] (1874-1986), [平 成] (1986-), [The Daily yomiuri] (English version, 1989-), or [現代人名 録] (Whos' Who), either from the top menu or from the middle brown box to open the search window. 3 simultaneous access is shared among 5 member institutions.