Confucius: Library Resources

 

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Databases

 

ATLA Religion Database

This database from the American Theological Library Association contains a collection of major religion and theology journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups.  Some full text is available.

·        Use the “Advanced Search” tab to view search histories.

·        Use AND, OR, and NOT to connect concepts.

·        Use indexes to find the “magic words”:  subject, publications, name as subject and scripture.

·        Use an “*” on the end of your term to pick up variant endings.

·        Use fields!  Ex.:  ti (Muhammad or Mohammed)  

 

Academic Search Premier (1975 - present) 

Academic Search Premier provides citations and a lot of full text to articles (both popular and scholarly) in periodicals and newspapers.  Some hints:

·        Use the “Advanced Search” tab.

·        Use AND to separate concepts.

·        Use “?” for word endings, and “*” for word variants.

·        Limit by date and/or full text (if you’re in a hurry!).

 

WorldCat

WorldCat contains records of books from libraries worldwide.  Use WorldCat to locate books on your topic that are at other libraries.  You can then order the books you need on interlibrary loan.

·        Use subject or title if you get too many results with keyword.

·        Notice this button to the right of the search box:    This button will take you to page where you can search many indexes.

·        Limit your search (by type of material, language, audience, etc.) in order to eliminate extraneous items.

·        Use an “*” on the end of your term to pick up variant endings.

·        Use “n” with a number to locate words in a certain proximity to each other.  Ex.:  chicken n3 egg will find chicken within three words of egg.

·        Use quotes to do phrase searching.  Ex.:  “Near East”

·        This symbol:       indicates our library has the item.

 

 

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Web Sites

 

General

Chinese Cultural Studies

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/other.html

Art of Chinese Calligraphy

http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html

 

Confucianism

The Analects by Confucius: Internet Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html

Sacred Texts: Confucianism

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/

Confucian documents

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/index.htm

 

Taoism

Taoism information page

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/

Taoism and the arts of China (Chicago Art Institute)

http://www.artic.edu/taoism/

 

Buddhism

Buddhist Studies Art Resources

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library 

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

Buddhist Tradition: Rutgers Univ. Virtual Religion Index

http://virtualreligion.net/vri/