This webpage provides resources to help you find more information on the themes and topics of the course.
Most of the databases on this page are restricted to UW students, staff and faculty. To connect to these databases from home you will need to first click on the Off-Campus Access link in the upper-right hand corner and login.
Have questions or need research help? Please contact Deepa Banerjee, the South Asian Studies librarian via email at dbaner@u.washington.edu.
FINDING BOOKS, GOVERNMENT REPORTS AND JOURNAL TITLES
FINDING SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES
Use research databases to find articles on a topic. Since most databases cover a specific subject area, choose those that best fit your research topic. For a complete list of databases see Research Databases on the UW Libraries Homepage.
To find a copy of the article, use the Check for UW Holdings button available on most databases to locate a copy in the library. If there is no button, search the UW Libraries Catalog for the title of the journal to locate a copy. Be sure to have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year) of your article.
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested via Interlibrary loan.
Databases useful for this topic:
Expanded Academic ASAP - UW restricted
Contains abstracts and full-text articles for approximately 1,500 scholarly journals and popular magazines. Coverage includes 1980 to the present on all areas of study, including literature and history. You can limit your search to Peer Reviewed publications only by choosing Advanced Search Options.
ProQuest Research Library - UW restricted
Contains abstracts and full text articles for a large collection of scholarly journals and popular magazines. Like Expanded Academic Index, this database covers all areas of study, but also inlcudes newspapers. Coverage begins from 1986 to present. You can limit your search to scholarly and peer reviwed journals only.
PAIS International - indexing and abstracting for scholarly journals, books, articles in books, some government publications, and other resources; includes German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese sources as well as English .
Research Library Complete - UW restricted
Indexing and abstracting for scholarly and general interest journals; much full text; English only.
Web of Science UW restricted
Science, social sciences, and arts and humanities citation indexes.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - UW restricted
A database with an extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical and reference resources.
Global newsbank - UW restricted
News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
NewsBank infoweb - UW restricted
NewsBank Infoweb includes: Global NewsBank, a fulltext news database drawing from a variety of English language news sources around the world, mainly 1996 to present; NewsBank Newsfile Collection, a fulltext database of selected news stories from over 500 U.S. newspapers, 1991 to present; and AccessUN which provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.
Television News Archive - UW restricted
Network news broadcasts, video of CNN news.
Ethnic newsWatch - UW restricted
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America
IMAGE RESOURCES OR MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive Photos, Text, Audio, Graphics UW restricted
Over two million photographs dating back to 1826, more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920's, two million Associated Press news stories from 1997, and a professionally produced collection of more than 45,000 maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags, illustrations, etc. are included. Updated with more than three thousand photos daily.Please use the keyword Kashmir AND Earthquake to search this database.
E JOURNALS
Background note, Pakistan - UW restricted - (Business Source Premier) 01/01/2004 to present
Background note, India - UW restricted - (Business Source Premier) 01/01/2004 to present
Contemporary South Asia - UW restricted - (Taylor & Francis Journals) 03/01/2000 to present
Himal : the South Asian magazine
South Asian popular culture - UW restricted - (Academic Search Premier) 04/01/2003 to 1 year ago
TIME Asia ( TIME Asia archives can be searches as well)
USEFUL WEB RESOURCES
SARAI - South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
South Asian Search Engine - search engine for South Asia, arranged by very broad topics (academics, administration, Afghanistan, etc.).
Back issues of "Dawn" Newspaper from Pakistan
Back Issues of "The Herald" ( Subscription required)
Herald is Pakistan's most widely read and respected monthly news-magazine
http://www.kashmirrelief.org/dispatches.html
http://www.pak-economist.com/default.pk?ref=columbia.edu&tsearch=kashmir+earthquake
Google Scholar Web resource for finding scholarly articles.
SAMPLE KEYWORDS
Kashmir and Earthquake
Kashmir and Earthquake and Relief
Kashmir and Earthquake and Reconstruction
