Selected Online Resources in Asian History

Databases
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

• *ARTStor
  ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library′s initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
• *ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
  Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 416,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (571 currently indexed), more than 210,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 432,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. Online Journals.
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.
• In the First Person
  A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• *Military & Intellience Database
  The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• *Oxford Islamic Studies Online
  Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur′anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition (1982 -)
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
• *WorldCat
  The world′s most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 42 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes holdings information from the world′s libraries. Now includes the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

Online Journals
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Blackwell-Synergy
  A collection of over 800 online journals from Blackwell Publishers.
• HistoryNet.com
• *JSTOR History Journals
• *Online Journals for History (SerialsSolutions)
• *Oxford Journals Online
  A large collection of online full text journals from Oxford University Press.
• *Project Muse History Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.

Selected Reference Sources
(*licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History
• *Chambers World History
• *Concise Atlas of World History (Andromeda) *Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *Dictionary of Political Biography
• *Dictionary of World History
• *Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century World History *Oxford Guide to Countries of the World
• *Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present
• *Dynasties of the World
• *Encyclopedia of World History
• *Hutchinson Chronology of World History
• *Historical Dictionary of Taiwan
• *Modern China: an Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism
• *Oxford Companion to Military History
• *Oxford Companion to World War II
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
  The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
  Through its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. The Encyclopedia contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture. It offers coverage of standard geographic and ethnic units—such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies—in the modern period. Significant institutions such as the International Red Cross and the League of Nations are treated at length. Comprehensive coverage enables readers to broaden their research outside a particular time or region and to explore topics within the context of modern world history.
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century

Selected Websites

• Ancient China (British Museum)
• Asia Since 1900 (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)
• Asia for Educators (Columbia University)
• Asian History Sources (Voice of the Shuttle)
• Asian Studies - WWW Virtual Library
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II; A Collection of Primary Sources
  With the material that follows, the National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.
• Chinese History Virtual Library
  The Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library was founded to facilitate easy access to sources of
  modern Chinese historical information on the internet.
• Digital South Asia Library (U of Chicago)
  The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.
• Documents & Texts from Chinese History
• Historical Maps of Asia (Perry Castaneda Collection, U of Texas)
• History Resources - WWW Virtual Library
• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
• Japanese Historical Maps (UCBerkeley)
• Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography (UCSD)
• Stanford Guide to Japan Information Sources
• China and the United States
  From the National Security Archive. China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998 publishes together for the first time recent unclassified and newly declassified documents pertaining to the formulation and implementation of the United States′ policies toward the People′s Republic of China and Taiwan over the last four decades, indexed for maximum accessibility.
• Tibetan and Himilayan Digital Library
  The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world.
• Vietnam Center and Archive
  The Vietnam Archive mission is to collect and preserve the documentary record of the Vietnam War.In addition to its mission of collecting materials concerning Vietnam, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asia, the Vietnam Archive currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and the Virtual Vietnam Archive.