Selected Asian American Studies Journals
Although you'll find many resources related to the study of Asian America throughout our A-Z Databases (also linked below), I've also curated some specific journals that focus on Asian American policy, education, and cultural studies.
- AAPI nexus : Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, policy practice and communityPublished by UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center Press, AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
- Amerasia JournalEstablished in 1971, Amerasia is a leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American and Pacific Islander studies.
- Asian American Law JournalAALJ explores the unique legal concerns of the South Asian American, Southeast Asian American, East Asian American, and Asian Pacific American communities, while recognizing the diversity and intersections within Asian American identities.
- Asian American literature discourse & pedagogiesAsian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies focuses on the production, collection, and distribution of accessible high quality research on Asian American Literature for students, teachers, and the general public.
- Asian American policy reviewFounded in 1989, the Harvard University Asian American Policy Review is the first non-partisan academic journal in the country dedicated solely to analyzing public policy issues facing the Asian Pacific American community.
- Journal of Asian American StudiesThe official journal of the Association of Asian American Studies.
- Verge: Studies in Global AsiasFounded in 2015, Verge is a major journal in transnational Asian and Asian American Studies.
A-Z Database List
View a full list of databases provided through the UCSB Library.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database covering thousands of journals and other publications. Includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, and indexing/abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
- Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Citations are drawn from roughly 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books.
- Alternative Press Index Archive
Widely regarded as the leading guide to the alternative press in North America. Contains over 470,000 citations are drawn from roughly 700 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Indexes such important periodicals as: Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist Review, and Women's Review of Books.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
Contains citations to articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Web of Science covers thousands of research journals across hundreds of disciplines as well as some conference proceedings and books. To search only Arts & Humanities Citation Index, use the “Editions: All” selection tool and uncheck unwanted databases. Note that some humanities fields may overlap into the social sciences and sciences.
- Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window
Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Some 50% of these plays have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Indexes primarily western-language articles and book chapters on all topics pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia (especially humanities and social sciences).
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes full text of journals and books in a wide range of subject areas. Also includes high-quality primary sources and images from around the world, including artworks, maps, photographs, and more (including those from Artstor).
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes journal articles, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Provides access to essential humanities and social science research. Hosts journals and books from leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. Note that UCSB does not subscribe to all of the journals or books on the Project Muse platform; items whose full text is accessible are denoted by a green check mark.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Full text database. Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Covers thousands of research journals across hundreds of disciplines, as well as conference proceedings and books. Expand “Additional Info” for tips on limiting to just Social Sciences Citation Index.
