FE 157/HY 109 Civilization in East Asia

Library Research Guide

Library instruction provided for Professor John Williams’ Block 1-2, 2009 class.

How to Do Research

Colorado College student describes finding journal articles.

Finding Memoirs (Best Sources)

• Search the Tiger Catalog for books available in Tutt Library.

Search TIGER for Keyword Title Author Subject Journal Title Go

Try searching “China* OR Chinese” AND “Memoir* or Diar* or Personal Narrative*”.

• Search Prospector for books available from academic and public libraries in Colorado. Materials can come in as few as 3 days.

• Search Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

Finding Memoirs (Techniques)

• Search by synonyms of “Memoir”

Memoir, memoirs, memoir*
Dairy, diaries, diar*
“Personal narratives”
Letter, letters, letter*
Correspondence
Oral history, oral histories, oral histor*
Autobiography, autobiographical, autobiograph*
Biography, biographical, biograph* Could be a memoir, could be a biography, be careful!
Voices

• Search by time period:

Meiji Restoration
Ming Dynasty
Heian period, 794-1185
World War 1939-1945, World War II
China—History—19th century This is a SUBJECT Search!

• Search by name of person or type of person:

Women authors, Japanese
“Name of person”
Merchants—China
College teachers—Japan—Biography

Browsing is a better technique than searching for this task!

Finding Journal Articles

Google Scholar

Historical Abstracts

Coverage: 1967 - current

Covers world history.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.

Limit to history journals if necessary in JStor!

Finding Journal Articles in Subject Specific Databases

Try searching a subject specific database from Databases by Subject for more articles from individual disciplines.

For example, try searching ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials listed under Databases for Religion, for the topic “Taois* AND (China or Chinese)”.

Finding Full Text Versions of Articles

When searching article indexing databases, sometimes the full text of the article you need is not provided to you by the database. Or you have identified a citation in a bibliography or footnote and need to find the full text. There are two ways of finding the full text of any article that you need.

1. Check Find Journals to see if Tutt Library subscribes to an electronic version of your journal or magazine or if we own databases which may have your article in full text. Find Journals a.k.a Tutt Link a.k.a Full Text Online is available next to the citations in most of our databases and in GoogleScholar.

1. Request an ILLiad/Interlibrary Loan of your article directly from your database (use button or hotlink) or log into ILLiad and fill out an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. (Articles can come in as few as 24-48 hours.) You must be registered with ILLiad for either method to work – see First Time User Registration for Interlibrary Loan.

Citing Your Sources

How to Cite Sources?

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA handbook for writers of research papers: New York : MLA, 2003.
PE1478 .M57 2003 (1st Floor North-Ref Desk, 1st Floor North-Reference, Permanent Reserves – Circ, Tutt North Basement)

Managing Your Bibliography

RefWorks training every Wed. 1 p.m. @Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM=tuttlibrarian

Contact Krystyna Mrozek, Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian, x6669, Tutt Library 201, kmrozek@coloradocollege.edu, IM=tuttkrystyna

Last revised, 9-28-09, km.