East Asian Studies: Secondary Sources not in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean

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Index to Scholarly Sources

Bibliography of Asian Studies includes citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc from 1971 to the present. Monographs are included up to 1991. Use WorldCat to locate books published after 1991.

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For index to sources before 1971, please consult the following:

Cumulative bibliography of Asian studies, 1941-1965: subject bibliography

Cumulative bibliography of Asian studies, 1941-1965: author bibliography

Bulletin of Far Eastern bibliography (off-site storage) and also available in microform in YRL.

An Introductory bibliography for Japanese Studies (Print Index)

Covers sources from 1974. The last volume was published in 2004.

WorldCat allows you to search for monographs/books and many other things (except specific articles in journals, magazines, newspapers, books chapter titles) from many libraries all over the world. There are two version of WorldCat. If you have remote access setup, the functionality is almost the same between WorldCat.org and the FirstSearch's version except the FirstSearch version offers more advanced search features, Find similar items and links to published reviews and excerpts.

FRANCIS is particularly strong in humanities. Many entries are in French.

IBZ (Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur/International Bibliography of Periodical Literature) is a German index that includes European publications on and about East Asia.