Links

China

Columbia University Asian Topics - China
National Bureau of Asian Research
Northwest China Council
People’s Daily

 

Japan

Columbia University Asian Topics - Japan
Stanford Guide to Japan Resources
Japan Times
Japan Policy Research
Asahi News
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

 

Writing Links

Chicago Style Citations
JSTOR (Linfield Access)
JSTOR (UMUC Access)
World History Source Project

 

Bibliographic Management

Zotero is an excellent program for managing data for bibliographies, footnotes, and reference lists.  It is a plug-in for the Firefox web browser that allows users to either type in author,  title,  and other publication data manually or enter it automatically from library catalogs.

To install it, simply select "add-ons" from the Firefox tool menu.  Click on "Get Add-ons" and type "Zotero" in the search box. When Zotero appears, click the "Add to Firefox" button. After restarting firefox "Zotero" will appear in the lower right of the browser window.  Clicking on "Zotero" here will open the database for editing.

My college uses WorldCat to search library catalogs worldwide.  Here is what I do to automatically enter information from WorldCat to Zotero: Use WorldCat as usual to find a book or other media you would like to save in Zotero. From the library catalog record window, click "Cite/Export."  Then choose "Export to Endnote" in the resulting pop-up window.  That's all it takes to automatically enter all the publication data into Zotero. When it is time to enter the information into a paper, Zotero lets you choose from several different citation styles and paste formatted entries right into your bibliography.
Please visit www.zotero.org for complete instructions.

 

Favorite Internet Freebies

Downloads

Email: Thunderbird
E-book and PDF management: Calibre
File Synchronization: Unison
Media player: VLC
More sophisticated image editing: GIMP
Office: LibreOffice
Photo editing: Picasa
Web Browser: Firefox
Web Pages: Kompozer

Online in the "Cloud"

Bibliography: Zotero with online synchronization enabled
Calendar: Google Calendar
Email: Gmail
File Synchronization: Dropbox
Note-taking: Evernote
Task Management: ToodleDo

 

Managing Electronic Documents

Calibre is a free program for managing documents. As iTunes does for music, Calibre creates a folder hierarchy for arranged by author and title which is then keyword searchable.

I use it mostly for organizing pdf files that I accumulate, but it is also good for reading public domain ebooks using it's built-in EPUB reader.

If the Calibre library is stored in a Dropbox folder, documents are easily accessible on multiple devices.