Manga research knowledge base

Developing tools for manga research is one of the main objectives of the Let's Manga project, and the tool we're most proud of is our online bibliography. The Let's Manga knowledge base of academic articles, books, and interesting non-academic manga tidbits exists outside of this site as a group on the social bookmarking service Diigo.

There are nearly 5000 entries in the knowledge base at present. The vast majority of items center on manga, but we also bookmark interesting references to work on other Japanese popular media (such as anime) when we stumble upon them. We bookmark anything that may be useful for manga research, academic articles and books as well as non-academic news articles, blog posts, etc. that are insightful or fascinating enough to warrant a second look by researchers. Academic sources have the default tag 'academic', non-academic sources are tagged 'non-academic'. We bookmark items in any language we can read, meaning that the vast majority of entries are in English, followed by Japanese, plus a smattering of entries of German, French, Dutch, and other European languages.

• Go straight to the knowledge base
• We recommend first browsing the tag list for the subject you need (or just looking at the tag cloud below or on the front page), then using the search box on the upper right of every Diigo page to search inside tags, titles, or annotations. When searching by tag, try adding some of the suggested tags appearing above your search results to refine your search. The Diigo database has some incredibly useful features, so many that it can be a little overwhelming at first. We recommend taking a look at these tips on how to browse and search the knowledge base.
• Didn't find the manga research reference you need? Other good starting points include the AMWESS, AnimeResearch, Ohio State University's list of resources, and the AMRC-L mailing list. The list of knowledge base items tagged manga_research contains several smaller or more specialized bibliographies, among other manga research-related links (conferences, researchers' homepages and so forth). 
• Please let us know how useful the knowledge base was to you -we're always on the lookout for ways to improve on what we have. Suggestions for entries are of course very welcome. If you're interested in contributing entries to the database directly, just join the Diigo group and bookmark away.