Stanford's principal Western-language collection for
Asian studies, housed in Green Library and SAL, emphasizes East Asia
(China, Japan, and Korea), with only general coverage of Southeast Asia; the collection on South Asia
(principally India and Pakistan), dormant since the early 1970s, was
reactivated about 1995.
The Green collection, which in late 2001 absorbed the
Hoover Institution collection on twentieth-century political, social,
and military conditions and events, covers the gamut of interests.
Other, more specialized campus libraries may also have relevant
holdings, including the Art Library, the map collection in the Branner
Earth Sciences Library, the Cubberley Education Library, the Jackson
Library in the Graduate School of Business, the Crown Law Library, and
the Music Library.
As of September 2003, Green's holdings on East Asia
included approximately 52,000 monographs, with roughly 1000 titles
added per year. The library subscribes to at least 400 nongovernmental
Asia-focused serials and 200 East Asian government serials in addition
to worldwide population and other censuses as available. Green and SAL
hold at least another 250 noncurrent serials on East Asia.
Socrates provides catalog access
to all Stanford library materials except East Asia Library (EAL) titles
catalogued before 1984; a user's guide to Socrates is available at the
same URL. Non-Roman scripts are currently available only in the Research Libraries
Information Network (RLIN) database using Internet Explorer. Other
institutions' catalogs are also available online: Melvyl for the University of
California; RLIN for most major U.S. research universities; and OCLC for most
RLIN libraries and many other major institutions worldwide.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the
authoritative bibliography in its field; 1971– is available to Stanford
IP addresses here; hard
copy is also available for 1956–1991. Because BAS is very
slow—most papers are indexed about six years after original
publication—the locally-compiled Bibliography
of East Asian Studies indexes about 125 of Stanford's serials
for 1990– and is updated monthly.
Numerous discipline-specific bibliographies are
available, either in print or online; please consult the Web pages for
those disciplines.
Other locally-created finding aids for Western-language
sources include an annotated bibliography of Western-language sources
on the PRC economy during 1978–1994 (Z3108.E2 W44 1995 EA Ref).
Stanford has extensive sources
for in-depth research, primarily microfilmed U.S. and British
government archives dealing with political, diplomatic, social, and
economic conditions and events in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc.,
from the early nineteenth century onward; many such sets are
accompanied by printed guides to their contents.
The Hoover Institution collections also include very
impressive holdings of primary source materials, including virtually
all SCAP publications for occupation-era Japan and numerous newspapers
published in Japanese-American internment camps.
The Hoover
Institution Archives have substantial Asia-relevant holdings;
detailed finding aids have been compiled for many archival sets.
Selected collections are listed for China and Japan.
A list of recent
acquisitions on East Asia is compiled biweekly.
If you need any help, please contact Zhaohui Xue in Room
416 of the East Asia Library, by phone at (650) 725-3439, or by e-mail .
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