Kraemer Family Library

HIST 499: China and Japan

Listed below are several sources and tools either owned by Kraemer Family Library or accessible from the Kraemer Family Library web site. All electronic resources may be searched from any computer connected to the UCCS network. For more information about remote access, check with the librarian at the Reference Desk or click on the link, Off Campus Access.

Reference Collection

The Reference Collection is a great place to start your research. Reference books provide basic introductions to broad subject areas, unfamiliar concepts, ideas, events, people, and places and often contain bibliographies that identify major primary and secondary sources on a topic. The Reference Collection is located right behind the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of El Pomar Center. Use the Kraemer Library Catalog to locate more reference books, both in print and electronic formats.

REF JX231 D6 American Foreign Relations
REF Z6465 U5 G84 2003 E183.7 American Foreign Relations since 1600: a guide to the literature
REF DS4 .E53 2002 Encyclopedia of modern Asia
REF D740 E516 2005 Encyclopedia of World War II: a Political, Social, and Military History
REF DS778.A1 K55 1971 Biographic dictionary of Chinese communism, 1921-1965
REF DS733 .D54 1979 Dictionary of Chinese history
REF DS805 .C36 1993 The Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan
REF E176.1 U16 2007 U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy from 1789 to the Present

Online Reference Collection

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search hundreds of multidisciplinary encyclopedias and specialized reference sources at once.

Books at Kraemer Library

Kraemer Library Catalog
Provides access to books, audio visual materials and other print resources at the Library.

Subject searching
Subject searching uses controlled vocabulary and will retrieve relevant items on your research topic. Many broad subject headings are subdivided into more focused subject headings that will help you narrow your search for information.

Example:

Great Britain Foreign Relations China
Great Britain Foreign Relations Japan

Looking for Primary resources? Check for subject headings with the following words or use these words in keyword searches.

...correspondence
...diaries
...interviews
...personal narratives
...public opinion
...sources

Imperialism public opinion

Keyword searching
Keyword searching allows you to search for any word(s) in the subject, title, author, and content notes for all item records in the catalog. Keyword searches are not as concise as subject searches and may retrieve irrelevant items. However, keyword search is very useful...

...if you don't know the appropriate subject heading for your topic.
...the subject heading is too general or too specific.
...if you are searching for a new trend or concept.
...if you are looking for chapters within books on your topic.

Finding Books not owned by Kraemer

Prospector
Search and request books and AV materials from over 20 research and public library collections throughout the state of Colorado and Wyoming. Items requested through Prospector will arrive at Kraemer within 3-5 working days. When the items are available for pickup from the Circulation Desk, you will be notified by e-mail.

WorldCat
An international catalog that UCCS students, staff and faculty may use to request items not available through UCCS or Prospector. You need an ILLiad account to request items in WorldCat. Items can take 2 weeks or more to be delivered.

Microfilm Collections

MICROFILM E183.8.C5 U55
United States. Dept. of State. Notes to foreign legations in the United States, 1834-1906. China
United States. Dept. of State. Diplomatic instructions of the Department of State, 1801-1906. China
United States. War Dept. Military Intelligence Division. Correspondence of the Military Intelligence Division relating to general, political, economic, and military conditions in China 1918-1941
United States. Dept. of State. Records of the United States Legation in China, 1849-1931
China. Legation. United States. Notes from the Chinese legation in the United States to the Department of State, 1868-1906

MICROFILM E183.8 J3 U55
Miscellaneous documents relating to Japan's economic, industrial, military, and diplomatic activities, used as background materials by the International Prosecuting section, 1929-1945

MICROFILM DS777.519 C5
Chinese press summaries and related publications, 1944-1950

MICROFILM DS889.16 S9
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers historical monographs, 1945-1951: history of the nonmilitary activities of the occupation of Japan, volumes 1-55.

MICROFICHE D843 O67
Origins of the Cold War

Finding Articles on your Topic

Researching off campus? You'll need to install the Library VPN to access the library's resources. Directions for Installing the Library VPN.

Historical Abstracts EBSCOhost
A comprehensive bibliographic reference to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life); provides coverage of 2,000 journals published throughout the world.

JSTOR
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

Empire Online* Adam Matthew Digital
Contains primary sources spanning five centuries from a translation of Columbus's 1492 voyage to 21st Century works on Imperialism"; thousands of images of unique source material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books. All items are included in their entirety and the sources encourage multiple viewpoints. Includes detailed indexing that enables the sources to be explored in a variety of ways (by period, by date, by person and subject).

Project MUSE
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Dissertations and Theses
Indexes the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Abstracting of dissertations begins with 1980 and abstracting of theses begins with 1988.

PAIS Archive 1937-1976
Contains references to material that provides a historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies including the Depression, Prohibition, World Wars I and II, the Atomic Age, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnamese conflict, Watergate, and more.

Asia Studies
This databases bring together full-text reports on modern Asia and the Pacific covering a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. It also includes book reviews. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Expanded Academic ASAP
This database abstracts a broad range of scholarly and general periodicals in most subject areas including history with some full-text coverage. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Good source for book reviews.

New York Times The entire newspaper is available electronically through the Pikes Peak Library District. If you have a PPLD card and pin number you can access this database remotely.

Journals available at UCCS

To determine if Kraemer Family Library has access to a certain journal in print or electronic format, use the Find Journals By Title or ISSN link on the Kraemer Family Library home page.Finding articles not available through Kraemer Library.

Journals not available at UCCS

ILLiad
If the Library doesn't have access to the article you want, you can still get it through interlibrary loan. With an ILLiad account, you can place your requests online.

Need Research Help?

Contact the Kraemer Library REFERENCE DESK at 719-255-3295 or e-mail the desk at refdesk@uccs.edu Or contact Sue Byerley: 719-255-3290; sbyerley@uccs.edu.