Bibliography of Asian Studies
This bibliography is comparable to the print Bibliography of Asian Studies. This source is an index to western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. Coverage: 1971-present.

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, the history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages since 1955. How to export to RefWorks

JSTOR Includes many journals in Asian studies.

Project Muse Includes many journals in history and Asian studies.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. See guide to collections for Asian studies.

Asian American History and Culture (Sharpe Online Reference)

Books on Chinese history at the Library

• selected books: China History
• The Cambridge History of China  (online)

For more library resources, see our pathfinder on Chinese history

Primary sources

• Maps of China
• Historical Photographs of China
• Chinese Pamphlets (1947-1954)
• Hong Kong Government Reports Online (1842-1941)
• Ling Long Women's Magazine
• Sidney D. Gamble photographs
• Virtual Shanghai
• Modern China studies (documents of the first half of the 20th century)
• Hong Kong and the West Until 1860
• Visualizing China, 1850-1950
• East Asia Image Collection

Books on Japanese history at the Library

• selected books: Japan History
• The Cambridge History of Japan (online)
• Blackwell Companion to Japanese History (online)
•  Japan Knowledge Plus . Includes the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (in English), as well as a number of dictionaries (see how to search the English-language Kodansha Encyclopedia in Japan Knowledge Plus)

For more library resources, see our pathfinder on Japanese history

Primary sources

• Japanese Historical Text Initiative
• Birth of the Constitution of Japan
• Nippon in the World (Selected items from the Modern Japanese Political History Materials owned by the National Diet Library)
• U.S. Government decision to Drop the Atom Bomb (Truman Library)
• Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Periods
• Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection (Japanese War Crimes Trial)
• Japan National Archives digital collections

Books on South Asia at the Library (selected)

• South Asia History
• The New Cambridge History of India (online)
• India History
• Pakistan History
• Bangladesh History
• Nepal History

Primary sources

• Digital South Asia Library
• Images from the Indian Office (British Library)
• Panjab Digital Library
•  Centre of South Asian Studies Oral Histories Collection
• Documents of the British Empire
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
• South Asian American Digital Archive

Books on South East Asian history at the Library (selected)

• The Cambridge History of South East Asia (online)
• Southeast Asia History
• Indonesia History
• Vietnam History
• Philippines History
• Thailand History
• Burma History

Primary sources

• Southeast Asian Images and Texts
• Southeast Asia Digital Library
• Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu
• The Dutch East Indies in photographs, 1860-1940
• Indonesia Independent photographs, 1947-1953
• Indonesian Newspaper project
•  George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901
• National Archives of Singapore
• Online Burma Library
• Cambodian Genocide Program
• Thai Newspaper Collection during World War II
• CIA Vietnam documents

Library Catalog
Use the catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and goverment documents we have at the library.

MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

If we don't have an item, you can request materials be sent to Kresge Library for you:

MeLCat is a catalog of Michigan libraries, where you can place a request.

Illiad is an interlibrary loan system, where you can fill out the details of the materials you want.

Refworks allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.

History research guide

Ask a Librarian

• by phone at 248-370-4426
• via chat with reference IM
• via email at Email Us!
• in person in Kresge Library.

Research Consultation
Request an individual session to get help with your research. You can expect the session within 2-3 days.