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Best Bets for Starting Your Research in Chinese Language and Literature
Last Updated: Jun 25, 2012 URL: http://librarybestbets.fairfield.edu/chinese Print Guide RSS UpdatesShareThis

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Journal Locator

Journal Locator

Find specific journals,magazines, and newspapers.


Watch the video below to learn how to find an article if you have the citation.

 

Beyond the DNL

Can't find what you want?

Try Interlibrary Loan!

  • Use materials from other libraries' collections free of charge.
  • Articles arrive via e-mail within 3-5 business days.
  • Books arrive within 2 weeks and are held in your name.
  • You will be notified by e-mail when your items arrive.

Request materials online via:

 

Selected Databases

Selected Databases:

Use databases to find articles on your topic. These databases are the best place to start.

  • Literature Resource Center
    Literature Resource Center contains full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals and literary magazines. Identifies authors and works that share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender.
    Updated: Continually.
  • JSTOR  
      
    JSTOR archives images and full text of scholarly journals. Subscription includes: Life Sciences Collection (which includes Biological Science, Ecology & Botany and Health & General Sciences), Arts and Sciences Collections I through X (which includes many disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences including: Anthropology, Archaeology, Architectural History, Area Studies, Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Business, Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, Education, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Film Studies, History, Language & Literature, Law, Library Science, Linguistics, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Religion, and Technology.) and many individual journal titles.
    Updated: Continually.
  • MLA International Bibliography
    MLA International Bibliography is part of the Literary Reference Center Plus database and includes citations and abstracts from books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
    Coverage: 1926 - Present. Updated: Quarterly.
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
    Bibliography of Asian Studies references principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
    Updated: Continually.
 

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks

  • When searching databases, use AND, OR, and parentheses to focus your search.
  • The asterisk * symbol will search for all variations of a word. For example: basket* will search for baskets and basketry. Using quotes will search for a phrase.
  • Combine synonyms with OR and put them inside parentheses, like this:
"Chin*" AND (language OR literature)
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