If you need more information contact Jennifer Dorner at 503.725.4125 or dorner@pdx.edu.
Finding Books
When searching for books on a topic, your best choices in the Library catalog (VIKAT) are keyword searching and subject searching. Subject searching requires you to have some knowledge of the terms assigned to book topics by librarians. Some examples are listed below:
Education China
Education, secondary China
Special education China
Education and state China
Higher education and state China
Confucianism social aspects
Continuing education China
Confucianism and education
Communism and education
Keyword searching is a more flexible way of combining search terms to retrieve books on your topic. When using keywords, be sure to think of synonyms (or related terms) for your search terms. You can also combine terms with the word AND to make your results more relevant. For example:
women and education and china
Remember, too, that you are not just limited to what we own in our Library. Whenever you are searching, you have the option of expanding your results by clicking on the SUMMIT button in the upper right hand corner of the results screen. This automatically repeats your search in the SUMMIT catalog of the ORBIS/CASCADE Alliance. If you find an item in that catalog that you'd like to see, click on the REQUEST THIS ITEM link and follow the directions on the screen.
If you cannot find what you need in the our catalog (VIKAT) or the catalog of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance (Summit), then you might try WorldCat.
WorldCat
Contains more than 30 millions records for materials cataloged by the Library of Congress and OCLC member libraries, including most academic and many public libraries in the U.S. Catalog includes books, serials (journals, magazines and newspapers), musical scores, recordings, videos, computer software, films, maps and manuscripts. Locations for all materials are cited. Can be searched by author, title, subject, year, language, material type.
Finding Magazine & Journal Articles
To find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, you will need to use one of the Library's print indexes or article databases. An index or article database will allow you to look for articles by title, by author, or by a few keywords that describe your topic. Most of the Library's electronic databases can be accessed from off-campus with your ODIN account.
Academic Search Premiere
A multidisciplinary database that includes full-text access to many of the journal articles. EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite has a broad scope and is an excellent starting source for finding journal articles.
Historical Abstracts (1969-present)
Citations to articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations drawn from over 2,000 journals in history, related humanities, and the social sciences. Includes citations to book reviews (appearing in 100 major history journals) and dissertations.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971-present)
Published by the Association for Asian Studies, the online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), provides citations to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Humanities Index
Cites articles from scholarly English-language publications in the Humanities field, including History.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as far back as 1907. Citations to more than 1,300,000 articles, including over 240,000 book reviews. This retrospective index has broad subject coverage from the both the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
Education Abstracts Full Text
Coverage of 423 core periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks in the field of education. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology. Indexes journals back to 1983, full text available for most journals from 1996.
Using Bibliographies
Our reference collection includes published bibliographies. These are usually book-length collections of journal and book citations on specific topics. Many citations are annotated and include abstracts of the works cited. Bibliographies are an excellent place to begin your research, since someone has gathered the citations for you.
China / Peter Cheng, compiler.
Reference: Z3106 .C465 1983
Includes annotated entries on works dealing with the history, geography, economy, religion, etc., of China. This resource is not comprehensive, but includes carefully selected representational monographs. There is a short section on education.
China: A Critical Bibliography / by Charles O. Hucker
Reference: Z3101 .H8
An annotated list of books, articles, and chapters that contribute significantly to the academic study of traditional and modern China. There is no separate section on education, but there are sections on history, intellectual and aesthetic patterns, social patterns, etc.
Cumulative Bibliography of Asian Studies 1941-1965, Vol. 1
Reference: Z3001 .C94
Cumulative Bibliography of Asian Studies 1966-1970, Vol. 1
Reference: Z2001 .C94 1966-70
Precursor to the online Bibliography of Asian Studies. Provides coverage of books and articles published from 1941-1965. China is included in Volume 1 of each set, and there is a subsection for Education in each volume.
Finding Background Information
The Encyclopedia of Comparative Education and National Systems of Education
Reference: LB43 .E53 1988
International Encyclopedia of National Systems of Education
Reference: LB43 .I574 1995
World Education Encyclopedia
Reference: LB15 .W87 2002