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Lesson Plan Five

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Using Japanese Periodical Indexes for Your Research

Class:

Library Instruction Session for New/Continuing Graduate Students

Instructors:

Beth Katzoff and Yuan Yuan Zeng, revised by Beth Katzoff (July 8, 2005)

Library Instruction Session

Subject of the Lesson

This lesson covers the use of periodical indexes to locate Japanese articles in both scholarly and popular works for dissertation research. We cover both scholarly and popular literature because of the changing needs of researchers. Depending on the research topic, popular literature may provide the researcher with valuable insight into his/her topic (one example: gender and women's studies).

This lesson will cover two periodical indexes:

1. Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (雑誌記事索引, Zassaku - Japanese Periodicals Index from the National Diet Library)
2. Magazine Plus (from Nichigai Associates)

To keep in mind - While Zassaku generally covers scholarly literature from the holdings of NDL; Magazine Plus includes scholarly and popular literature and actually includes the information from the Zassaku database.
Important considerations for using these databases include:

1. Accessibility (time of day of use, on or off campus)
2. Free internet use vs. paid subscription

We will use Zassaku and Magazine Plus to demonstrate:

• Two interfaces for Zassaku
  - Japanese
  - English since 9/04
• Accessibility of Zassaku through the NDL site and Magazine Plus
• Zassaku is free from NDL site and available from any computer with Internet access and Japanese capability
• Zassaku unavailable from NDL site during maintenance (4am-7am Japan time or 2pm-5pm Eastern Standard Time)
• Zassaku available through subscription to Magazine Plus (available any time)

Audience:

New or continuing graduate students in Japanese Studies (mainly in history, literature, and political science)

Learning Objectives:

(note: this lesson addresses ACRL Standards, 1, 2, 3. Of the SAILS Skill Sets, it addresses Sets 1, 3 - 11)

Students should be able to

1. Identify and obtain articles on research topic from start to finish (from identifying topic to getting the articles)
2. Search Zassaku from NDL-OPAC site (free and available from home, http://www.ndl.go.jp), Magazine Plus (on computer with University IP address,)
3. Distinguish between scholarly and popular literature - Zassaku vs. Magazine Plus
4. Obtain the items from the University library or through ILL

Content Outline:

1. Introduction (description of Zassaku, Magazine Plus)
2. Searching
3. Identify articles for research in history, literature or political science - based on keyword (identifying various keywords), journal name, and author search. Distinguish between scholarly and popular literature (handout or online guide) and learn to critically analyze information sources (handout or online guide)
4. Search for article on University OPAC or Worldcat and RLIN. Request through ILL when not held by the University Library
5. Question and Answer, one-minute paper evaluation

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