HIST/EALC 126: Global Asian Diasporas (HC)

The resources here will provide you with scholarly articles for your essay.  When you select and read articles, be aware of the following issues:

• Peer Review - Articles submitted to scholarly journals are reviewed by researchers in the field  for significance and accuracy. Authors receive critiques of their work and have the opportunity to improve them before publication. This is in contrast to magazine articles and much content on the Web that generally receives only copy editing at most.

• Scholarly Dialog - Researchers build on and react to the work of others in their field.  Who does your author quote? Is she or he in agreement or opposed to previous ideas?  What does your author want to add to the argument around the issues? 

• Succinct argument - People compete to have their articles published in scholarly journals.  Space is at a premium, so authors need well-argued interpretations that convey their ideas clearly and briefly.

The databases below allow you to search for journal articles by subject. Use the filters to focus your search results by such categories as  publications years.

When you find a title of interest, if the full text is not immediately available (as in JSTOR and Proquest), use the    button to check for Haverford's holdings. If the journal is not listed in Tripod, use the Find It request form or the Interlibrary Loan Request Form on Tripod to have a copy of the article sent to you.

Discipline-Specific Indexes

These indexes are particularly good for accessing the scholarly literature of specific disciplines, i.e., articles written by historians, Asian studies scholars, and other researchers.

General Indexes Covering All Subject Areas

When searching in journal databases, these strategies will get better results:

*  Truncation:  Shorten search words with an asterisk to get all the forms 
          war*  will get war/s, warrior/s, warlike, etc.

OR:  Link synonyms with OR and group them with parentheses
          (immigra* OR international*)

AND: Combine topics that you want to see together
          guatemala* AND women AND indigen*

" " Phrase: Use quotation marks to search for words together in that order
          "human rights"   "environmental history"

Focus: Choose where the database is searching.  It may be set automatically for keyword.  You can make the search more precise by looking instead for title words only or for subjects.

Results: Look at the articles retrieved and change search terms for additional results