Olin Library: Useful Information
for Historians of Southern Asia and the Indian Ocean Region
Alan Nathanson, Bibliographer/Reference Librarian
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x3869, anathanson@wesleyan.edu [recall that the final date
for choosing topics is Thursday, 4 Oct]
Useful reference works: hardcopy only, physically
available in Olin Library, first floor reference section
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South Asian civilizations : a bibliographic synthesis
/ Maureen L. Patterson Z3185 .P37 1981
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Palmer's index to the Times newspaper (London) AI21
.T46 1790/1795
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Historical Atlas of South Asia / Joseph Schwartzberg
[in reference area atlas cases]
Microforms Room and Periodicals Room
Useful Periodicals: Bound volumes in stacks,
current issues arranged alphabetically in periodicals room
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Journal of World History D1.J62
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Mariner's Mirror VK1.M4 [@
Trinity in Periodical Stacks]
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The Journal of Asian Studies DS501
.J68
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Modern Asian Studies DS41
.M63
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Past & Present
D1 .P38
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The Indian economic and social history review
HC431 .I338
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
PJ3 .L6
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South Asia DS331 .S65
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Journal of Asian History DS1 .J69
Useful primary sources in Olin:
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Hakluyt series G161.H2
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The collected works of Mahatma Gandhi DS481.G3
A13 [entire set on reserve]
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Harijan; a journal of applied Gandhiism, 1933-1955
(in nineteen volumes) DS401 .H37 [stacks]
Useful secondary sources:
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...DS400s... South Asia
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...DT10, DT400s... Africa, East Africa
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...DS500s... Southeast Asia
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The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia [4 volumes] DS525
.C36 1999
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The New Cambridge History of India [20+ volumes] DS436 .N47
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The Cambridge History of Africa [8 volumes] DT20.C7
Useful online databases/journals: via Olin’s
“index
and database” webpage
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Historical abstracts
Massive periodicals and scholarly monograph database,
covering work published from 1954 to the present, with good annotated entries.
This is a good database to use while you cogitate over your research topic.
Sample searches: mahatma gandhi = keyword, then mahatma gandhi =
subject, then add “diet” in keyword.
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BAS: Bibliography of Asian Studies
Published by the Association for Asian Studies, the 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. This database is useful once
you’ve narrowed your topic, to help expand your bibliography. To
determine whether materials located in this database are available at Wesleyan,
check the Olin catalogue or go directly to WorldCat.
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Citations Index -- Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences
A major database of articles and book reviews, stretching
back to 1945, searchable by topic, author, or place.
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WorldCat
The OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) Online Union
Catalog, with more than 30 million bibliographic records representing the
holdings of 15,000 libraries worldwide. Use this database once you’ve
narrowed your topic down, to locate possible materials at other libraries.
You can then order those materials via Interlibrary
Loan [ILL] Also contains select searchable databases for Book
Reviews, Dissertations, and Articles.
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JStore
Includes scholarly journals such as the American Historical
Review,
History and Theory, and the Journal of Asian Studies,
searchable by keyword, author, title, and much more. Think of this
as an online library stack shelf, an endpoint once you have found material
in a bibliographic database. It is not a reference or bibliographic
database.
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PCIFullText
A major online periodical archive that makes the full
image of periodical articles in the humanities and social sciences, from
1770 to 1995, available in digital form. Over 120 journals/periodicals
and growing. Particularly good for articles contemporary to the period
being studied. Like JStore, this is not a reference work as
such.
Some useful online sites: