InfoGuides: Core Sources in Asian History: Begin Your Research

Begin your research

This InfoGuide contains primary and secondary source resources and research strategies for Asian History, including the Indian Subcontinent, South Asia, SouthEast Asia, China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula.

Use this guide to discover Asian History resources available to you at Mason and online.

Find Secondary Sources -Research tools to assist finding secondary sources
Find Books and Imprints - Electronic collections of primary source books and other published sources
Use Periodical Publications -Electronic collections of primary source magazine and newspaper collections
Search Legal and Government Documents - Electronic collections of political and legal resources including government documents
Access Specialized Collections -Selected primary source collections by topic.(e.g. African American, Native American, Civil War etc.)
Finding Archival Collections -Research tools to assist finding manuscript sources in repositories
Get Help - Chat with a librarian or setup an appointment with the History Librarian

Top 5 Resources to Start

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature from 1955 to present (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America. Note: with full-text links to 420,000 journals.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996 This link opens in a new window
Access full text of reports issued 1975-1996 created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts, and publications. See World News Connection for broadcasts from 1996 to 2013. See FBIS Electronic Index, below, for a subject search option.
World News Connection This link opens in a new window
Online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, including news agencies, newspapers, and radio and television stations. World News Connection covers content from 1995-2013. For earlier coverage, see Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1975-1996.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Provides full-text, peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Features content going back as far as 1887.
World Newspaper Archive, South Asia This link opens in a new window
Features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during the colonial era, 1864-1922. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka). Languages include English, Bengali, and Gujarati.

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