Journals and Databases - APPROACHES TO EAST ASIA | EAS 2005

E-Journal Search

Search for e-journals and other serials (i.e., magazines, and newspapers) by title, ISSN, or browsing. Use the PittCat Journal Finder that is in the top navigation of PittCat, or run a regular PittCat search.

Scholarly Articles

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a digital library that provides online access to academic journals, books, and primary sources in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It is a trusted source for scholarly research and provides access to over 6,000 academic journals, more than 2 million images, and over a thousand books.
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
Bibliographies of topics in Atlantic History, Childhood Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, and Social Work.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
This online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases.
China Academic Journals This link opens in a new window
China Academic Journals (CAJ) is a full-text database covering approximately 6,600 journal titles from the People's Republic of China. It provides over 8 million full-text and full-image periodical articles dealing with the humanities and social sciences published from 1994 to date. Database is updated daily and searchable in both English and Chinese.
This resource may contain content that is currently unavailable due to publisher restrictions.
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Airiti Library This link opens in a new window
Includes journal articles, dissertations and theses, conference papers, and e-books from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, the United States, the UK, etc. in Chinese or in English, published from 1991 on.

Film and Media Studies & Steaming Databases

American Film Institute Catalog This link opens in a new window
The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993 with full or short records for films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. Search the compiled records by keywords.
Chinese Filmscript and Advertisement Collection 1946-1985 This link opens in a new window
Scripts of documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), from the collections of Duke University Library.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Titles included in full text range from the scholarly (Film Comment, Framework ) to the popular (Variety, Sight and Sound) and the title and coverage range is expanded with every release of the data.

Internet Archives Nippon Film Collection
Open Access Film Collection from Internet Archives

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to thousands of independent and documentary films ─ titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers.

National Screening Room from Library of Congress
Most content in the National Screening Room is in the public domain and is fully downloadable. Permissions were granted for the inclusion of copyrighted motion pictures, which are only available as streaming files.

Socialism on Film This link opens in a new window
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.

East Asian Films and Videos Resources

General bibliographic resource
- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Asianfilm.html#mainland

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (Media)
- http://u.osu.edu/mclc/bibliographies/media/

Japanese Animated Film Classics
- http://animation.filmarchives.jp/index.html
- Some full-view available online (some with English subtitle)

Japanese film database
- http://jfdb.jp/en/

Film News in East Chinese Newspapers 早期華文報紙電影資料庫
- http://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/chinesefilms/search.php
- 22,000 records on film advertisements, news and reviews published between 1900 and 1950 in eight selected Chinese newspapers from late Qing to the Republican era in four cities: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin
dGenerate films
- Reviews and introductions of independent films from mainland China
Korean movie database
- http://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/

HANCinema – the Korean movie and drama database
- http://www.hancinema.net/#&panel1-1
Finding International Films
- https://telescopefilm.com/

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APPROACHES TO EAST ASIA | EAS 2005: Journals and Databases

E-Journal Search

Scholarly Articles

Film and Media Studies & Steaming Databases

East Asian Films and Videos Resources