Information Literacy Resources: Instructional Resources to Create Your Own Plan

Research Guide Potals: http://guides.nccjapan.org/researchguideportal

The NCC Research Guides bring together a wealth of information resources for research on Japan. Librarians and scholars at academic institutions throughout North America assess, compile, and create guides to streamline research.

Finding Ditital Resources: http://guides.nccjapan.org/digital

Guides to East Asian Databases

• Eureka: Searching the Eureka Database (Rosina Leung) -- or as a pdf
• Bibliography of Asian Studies: Guide to the Bibliography of Asian Studies

Guides to Japanese Commercial Databases

• CiNii: Guide to Searching CiNii
• How to Use Legalbase - contributed by Rob Britt (Legalbase is an index to Japanese case reports)
• Hōritsu Hanrei Bunken Jōhō 法律判例文献情報: How to Use HHBJ - contributed by Rob Britt (HHBJ indexes both Japanese cases and journal articles on Japanese law.)
• MagazinePlus: Guide to Searching (Kristina Troost)
  Powerpoint Presentation on MagazinePlus pt.1 and pt. 2 (Yoko Hirose, Nichigai) added 2002/8/28M
• Nikkei Telecom21: Guide to Nikkei Telecom21
• Yomiuri Shinbun Archives: How to Use the Yomiuri Shinbun Archives
• The Kodansha Encyclopedia: The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan through Japan Knowledge

Ask EASL Guides to Japanese Library OPACs

• NII Webcat: The Three Faces of NACSIS Webcat -- Sharon Domier

Harvard College Libraries Guides

• Introduction to Data Resources for Japan

National Diet Library Research Guides

• Japanese-language guides to a wide selection of disciplines and resources, including government, economics and industry

Ask EASL Guides to Chinese Databases

• Wenyuange Siku quanshu created by Dr. Hilde De Weerdt. Please contact Dr. De Weerdt at hdeweerd@utk.edu for any requests or comments
• Guide to China Academic Journals

• Art History (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)  
   
• Doing Research in Japan (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Finding Books and Articles (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Geography (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• History (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Law (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Names and People (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Newspapers (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Political Science (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Publishing (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Statistics (from 19. Research Methods in Japanese)
   
• Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery from Japanese Libraries (from 11. Japanese E-Resource Training Session)
   
• Japanese Electronic Resources (from 11. Japanese E-Resource Training Session)
   
• Library Catalog/Union Catalog Summary (from 11. Japanese E-Resource Training Session)
   
• Major Japanese Newspapers: Online & Print Resources with UC's Holdings (from 11. Japanese E-Resource Training Session)
   
• Article Databases Summary (from 11. Japanese E-Resource Training Session)
   
• China Data Online (from 9. Chinese Electronic Resource Training Session
   
• Chinese Databases (from 9. Chinese Electronic Resource Training Session
   
• Evaluating Web Resources (from 16. Identifying and evaluating web sites)
   
• Taxonomy of Periodicals (from Lesson Plan 2. Bibliographical & Research Methods)
   

Online Tutorial: Using GIF (the Global Interlibrary Loan Framework) to Borrow Materials from Japan

This 8 1/2 minute tutorial demonstrates how a patron at a participating North American library can use the Global Interlibrary Loan Framework (GIF) to request a book and a journal article from a Japanese library. It illustrates the initial step in the process, which is to use NACSIS WebCat Plus to discover which libraries in Japan hold a particular item. In addition, it shows the steps involved in determining which Japanese library might be able to loan the item. It also offers recommendations for how to make the request at a North American library.

The tutorial is in the form of a movie, with audio. It opens in a new browser window. To view it, you may be prompted to enable javascript and/or download the Flash movie viewer.

This is version 1.0 of the tutorial, which we will modify as needed in the future. It has one known problem: there is an abrupt transition between the display of a sample ILL request form and the next portion of tutorial. No content is missing, however.

For additional information on the Global Interlibrary Loan Framework, please see the project page.

Please send all comments on the tutorial to dawn.lawson@nyu.edu. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

JapanKnowlege created 13 YouTube clips to assist you using their product. Those are available at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Japanknowledge?feature=mhee