Online Catalogs Related to Japanese Studies

In this session, we will cover searching for Japanese resources through the Cornell Catalog. We will also use the Library Gateway to access several databases that can be used for your research, including union catalogs like Eureka (RLG) and Worldcat (OCLC), indexes like the Bibliography of Asian Studies, and full text resources like JSTOR, and Project Muse. We will then discuss Japanese online catalogs like Webcat (NII), Webcat Plus (NII), WINE (Waseda University), and NDL-OPAC (The National Diet Library), and how you can use them to learn what scholarly research has been done on your topic. We will briefly discuss using Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to obtain materials from Waseda University and the National Diet Library.

Part 1: Basic Bibliographical Databases:

1. Cornell Catalog http://catalog.library.cornell.edu

2. From the Cornell Library Gateway http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/, we will access several databases that can be used for research on Japan from "Find Databases":

• Eureka (RLG)

• Worldcat (OCLC)

• Bibliography of Asian Studies

• JSTOR

• Project Muse

• Dissertation Abstracts

 

Part 2: Japanese Online Catalogs: (search primarily in Japanese)

• Webcat (NII)
  http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat.html (Japanese interface)
  http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html (English interface)
  

• Webcat Plus http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/
  

• Tokyo University Book Contents Database http://contents.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/contents/top.html
  

• WINE (Waseda University)
  http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/ (Japanese interface)
  http://wine.wul.waseda.ac.jp/search/ (English interface)
  

• NDL-OPAC (The National Diet Library) http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index.html
  

 

Part 3: Obtaining items through ILL

From the Library Gateway, click on Interlibrary Loan
See, Sharon Domier's guide to using ILL http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/easian/pathfinders/
FromZassakutoILL.pdf

 

Part 4: Other issues regarding the use of Japanese Electronic Resources

 

Computer Isuses: To use the above catalogs and databases on your own computer, you will need to set up Japanese capability.

• Installing and Using East Asian Languages under Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP, Robert Eng, University of Redlands
  http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
  Language/index.html

• Basic Japanese Word-Processing, University of Arizona
  http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/fah/subpathpages/Japanese/
  WordProcessing.htm
  

• Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server, Monash
  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
  

• Rikai Translator http://www.rikai.com to get the Japanese reading and English translation.

 

Romanization:

When searching Japanese databases you need to use Kunrei-shiki romanization, long vowels must therefore be entered correctly with long o as "ou" and long u as "uu." For the Cornell Catalog, Eureka, and Worldcat, use romaji in Modified Hepburn romanization.

• Japanese Romanization tables by Yayoi Koizumi

• http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/jpntable.htm