INTS 491 Research (CHIN 491) (Spring 2024)

Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Sample search - Nonsense style Stephen Chow

Multidisciplinary archive of digitized scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and general and biological sciences but continues to grow.

Offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts.

A full-text, scholarly database of more than 12,000 journals (10,900 peer-reviewed) in almost every academic discipline. This database also covers languages, literature and film reviews.
Sample search - zhang yimou AND cultur* or tradition

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

With nearly 2,000 full-text journals (almost 1,600 peer reviewed) Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources, such as feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas and plays that illuminate human thinking, action and interaction.

Provides access to principally western language journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters in various areas of Asian Studies. Coverage starts from 1971 onward with quarterly updates.

Full text access to over 350 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from Johns Hopkins' University Press, as well as a growing number of other University Presses and scholarly publishers. Coverage is current with years of back issues varying by title.

Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for more hundreds of journals and books. In addition, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPAFT) is a dynamic resource for the performing arts that provides indexing and abstracts for more than 210 international journals plus the full text of current articles from over 97 journals.

A database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.

The library subscribes to:
*Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy)
*Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law)
*Series H (Education & Social Sciences)
*Series J (Economics & Management)

Offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

A full-text, scholarly database of more than 12,000 journals (10,900 peer-reviewed) in almost every academic discipline. Also includes over 60,000 videos from the Associated Press.

The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.

Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

This database provides extensive coverage of global political topics with a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. Designed specifically for students, researchers and government institutions, Political Science Complete (PSC) contains full text for hundreds of journals along with indexing and abstracting for thousands of publications.

The library subscribes to:
*Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy)
*Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law)
*Series H (Education & Social Sciences)
*Series J (Economics & Management)

With nearly 2,000 full-text journals (almost 1,600 peer reviewed) Humanities Source Ultimate offers a wide variety of resources, such as feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, book reviews, original works of fiction, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas and plays that illuminate human thinking, action and interaction.

ATLA Religion Database(tm) provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. This database is the definitive index for religious and theological literature. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.5 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 517,000 article citations from more than 1,616 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 220,000 essay citations from over 16,100 multi-author works, more than 474,000 book review citations, and a growing number of multimedia citations.

Combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.

Covers nearly 200 countries and help you keep pace with how national, regional and global events will affect your business in the short-to medium term. Each report examines and explains in depth the issues shaping the countries in which you operate: the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments. Detailed two-year forecasts complement the analysis and pinpoint political and economic developments and trends.

The best source to find "background information" on any topics. For example:

Gale eBooks > Chinese foreign relation > China and Japan / China and India ...
Gale eBooks > Chinese cinema /Zhang Yimou /Zhao Dan / Chen Kaige / Xie Jin / Huang Tudi (Yellow Earth)...

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

Provides statistical and economic information on China. The database includes yearly macro-economy statistics, monthly macro-economy statistics, monthly reports on economy development, city statistics, county statistics, industrial data, and statistical yearbooks. The China census data is not available.