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In addition to answering questions at the AskEASL website, the volunteer librarians also provide written guides for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). At present, most of these guides deal with computer questions or bibliographic databases. More guides will be added as you let us know your needs.
Before you start:
The free software to read Adobe Acrobat files is available from the Adobe site. Please update your software to 5.0, it will solve a lot of problems. Remember to download the Asian font packs as well or you may have trouble with some of the documents.

AskEASL Guides to East Asian Databases

Searching the Eureka Database (Rosina Leung) 2002/07/25 -- or as a pdf

Bibliography of Asian Studies (WinWord doc) (Cathy Chiu) 2002/08/28 -- or as a pdf

AskEASL Guides to Japanese Commercial Databases

 
How to Use Legalbase - contributed by Rob Britt

(Legalbase is an index to Japanese case reports)

http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/jlr/HowToUseLegalbase/HowToUseLegalbase.htm

How to Use HHBJ - contributed by Rob Britt

(HHBJ indexes both Japanese cases and journal articles on Japanese law.)

http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/jlr/HowToUseHHBJ/HowToUseHHBJ1.htm

BookPlus
Database Basics -- (Tokiko Yamamoto Bazzell) uploaded 2001/7/17
MagazinePlus
Guide to Searching (Kristina Troost) linked 2002/6/25
Powerpoint Presentation on MagazinePlus pt.1 and pt. 2 (Yoko Hirose, Nichigai) added 2002/8/28
Janaru Indekkusu
Database Basics -- (Ellen Hammond) uploaded 2001/9/7
Nacsis-IR
Database Basics -- (Keiko Okuhara) uploaded 2001/9/7
Nikkei Telecom 21
Database Basics -- (Sanae Isozumi) uploaded 2001/9/7
WebWho
Database Basics -- (Kazuko Sakaguchi) uploaded 2001/9/7
Writer's Who's Who
Database Basics -- (Tokiko Yamamoto Bazzell) uploaded 2001/9/7
Zasshi Kiji Sakuin
Database Basics -- (Lynne Kutsukake) uploaded 2001/7/17
Guide to Searching-- (Sharon Domier) uploaded 2002/3/22

AskEASL Guides to Japanese Library OPACs

“Searching NDL’s Web-OPAC” -- (Sharon Domier) uploaded 2001/5/10
“Searching Todai’s Web-OPAC” -- (Sharon Domier) uploaded 2001/5/10
Book Contents Database at Todai -- link to English help screens
"Searching NACSIS Webcat" -- (Sharon Domier)
"The Three Faces of NACSIS Webcat" -- Sharon Domier  Word file     PDF file

AskEASL Guides to Japanese ILL

GIF Project - Index page - it also includes links to the following:

Make Sure that your Japanese Language Interlibrary Loan Requests Get Filled
 A Guide for Researchers -- (Sharon Domier) uploaded 2002/5/10
 A Guide for ILL Practitioners -- (Kathryn Ridenour) uploaded 2002/5/17
Using NACSIS-IR to Verify Holdings Information for Articles and Books -- Sharon Domier 2003/3/17


AskEASL  Links to Building & Maintaining Library Collections for Japanese Studies

Book Vendors for Japanese Language Materials -- (Kristina Troost)
Japanese Collections & their Strengths in the U.S. -- (Kristina Troost)
Cooperative Collection Development Agreements for Japanese materials -- (Kristina Troost)
Selecting and Acquiring Japanese Language Materials for Small and Medium Collections -- (Sharon Domier) 2001/05/16

AskEASL Guides to Chinese Databases

Grace Wiersma, MIT, has volunteered to make the .pdf documents for Chinese language contributions.
Wenyuange Siku quanshu 四庫全書電子版 -- contributed by Hilde De Weerdt [deweerdt@fas.harvard.edu] for Harvard-Yenching Library. This Microsoft Word document is available in a number of formats: Big5, Unicode.   If it doesn't open automatically for you, save it as a file and then open from within Word.
Electronic Si Ku Quan Shu Glossary -- prepared by Sarah S. Elman, UCLA
Electronic Si Ku Quan Shu Buttons/Icons -- prepared by Sarah S. Elman, UCLA
These two guides are meant to supplement the main user guide.

 
SSReader -- guide being written by Calvin Hsu.

 
Chinese Journal Database -- guide written by librarians at the University of British Columbia.
English language Guide to CJD
Chinese language Guide to CJD

 
PerioPath (National Central Library, Taiwan) -- written by Erminia Chao, BYU. Revised 2002/8/22

Special Collections in Chinese Studies

  • Puban Collection at the University of British Columbia -- text in both English and Chinese.

    • AskEASL Guides for Computer Literacy


    AskEASL Reference Work

    To participate in the AskEASLGuides component of AskEASL please contact:

    Sharon Domier
    East Asian Studies Librarian
    University of Massachusetts
    Amherst, MA 01003
    sdomier@library.umass.edu

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      This page is maintained by Sharon Domier.  Last updated: 15 July 2004