Check out the Course Reserves.

34 Thematic Essays on Japanese Art
(with images and bibliographies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

The Oxford Companion to Architecture

Oxford Art Online

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. Specific Buildings:

Yokosuka Museum of Art

2. Architects

Isozaki Arata, "Shigeru Ban", Ken Yeang, Kenzo Tange, Tadao Ando

Architects -- Japan

 

3. in the context of building types:

Architect* and Japan* and (domestic* or resident*)

Japan* and ("tea house*" or "tea room*" or tearoom*)

japan* and architect* and garden*

gardens japan

japan* and architect* and temple*

*architect* searches for architect, architecture, etc.

4. in the contexts of style/period

(Shoin or Sukiya) and architect*

edo and architect*

Buddhist architecture

Digital

ARTstor (including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

Artifact (Tufts University)

Great Buildings Collection (from the magazine Architecture week, a vast collection of current and historical "photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, and web links.)

Digital Archive of European Architecture

International Architecture Database

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

3.. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

3. Architecture (the Avery Index)

(the principal architectural database)

 

Other Related Databases:

4. ARTbibliographies Modern

5. Bibliography of Asian Studies

 

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

C. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)