InfoGuides: Core Sources in Asian History: Find Books and Imprints

Library Catalogs

Mason Library Catalog
Search for print and electronic books, films, music and more.
WRLC Catalog
Search the Washington Research Library schools book collections for titles not owned by Mason.
Center for Research Libraries
The University Libraries is a member of The Center for Research Libraries (CRL). This international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries provides our scholars with deep and diverse collections including many foreign language and ethnic newspapers as well as many archival collections available via microfilm.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Provides records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries, such as books, music, videos, microform, digital content, and medieval manuscripts.

To find books in a catalog, try searching for your keywords and one of these LC Subject Headings for primary sources.

--correspondence; --description and travel; --interviews; --maps; --narratives; --collections; sources; --pictorial works; --diaries; --biography, --quotations; --discovery and exploration

Selected Specialized Resources

Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 1,700 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals from 1975 to the present. Part of Web of Science. Use the dropdown editor labeled "Editions" to select Arts & Humanities Citation Index in the search box.
Humanities and Social Science Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 This link opens in a new window
Offers a wide range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Content includes indexing to journals and specialized magazines, and includes citations to book reviews. Coverage dates range from 1907 to 1984.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. Coverage: 1890-1982.

Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
Latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, with access to previous edition.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 300 Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works. Texts are updated after new editions of the print book are published.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Offers exclusive, authoritative research guides developed by scholars and librarians worldwide to address a variety of subjects, including African Studies, Anthropology, Atlantic History, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Criminology, Education, International Law, International Relations, Latin American Studies, Management, Music, Political Science, and Sociology.

Center for Research Libraries e-collections This link opens in a new window
Includes pamphlets, manuscripts, periodicals, government documents, and other resources related to Chinese mass education in the PRC; Medieval slavery and manumission; 18th & 19th-century Brazil; 1848 Revolution in France; and South Asia.
Digital Library for International Research This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic and full-text primary and secondary source information, covering both print collections and research collections in other media in Europe, the Near and Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and West Africa. Includes bibliographic materials from Inner Asia and the New World.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
A digital preservation repository and access platform for long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.