Searching for books

Jonathan: Japanese investment in the US

KW search for 'japanese investment' produces 10 hits.
LCSH candidates: 'Investments, Japanese' [a Subject search gets 48 total]; 'Pacific Area -- Foreign Economic Relations'
??so what to DO with these possible sources? How to cache them for later retrieval? (Export and save... but how to MANAGE such a bibliography? here's where Pirarucu might help...)
NB that the KW search missed 'japanese manufacturing investment'
'Investments, Japanese -- United States' gets 10
what I notice is how little from late 90s and this decade... why?

Caroline: Korean War: Sino-Soviet-Korean relations

Subject search for 'Korean War' yields 277 hits
an annotated bibliography, 1998, and another from 1986
Korean War -- China (8 hits)
Korean War -- Diplomatic History (7 hits)
seemingly, nothing on Soviet participation per se

KW 'soviet union AND north korea' gets 14 hits, and yields the LCSH 'Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union'
two that look especially toothsome:

Chong, Chin-wi, 1938-
P`yongyang between Peking and Moscow : North Korea's involvement 
in the Sino-Soviet dispute, 1958-1975 
University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1978.
DS935.5 .C6.

Lankov, A. N. (Andrei Nikolaevich)
From Stalin to Kim Il Sung : the formation of North Korea, 1945-1960 
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.
DS935.5 .L36 2002

Jenny: SARS

The challenge arises from the currency of the topic, so it's sensible to ask what SARS is a kind of and build up some background material to put this outbreak into context.
KW 'corona virus' or 'coronavirus' gets nothing
'virus and China' gets nothing
'virus and outbreak' gets 5 (well, 4) hits, including West Nile, Hantavirus (which looks interesting), and Ebola
Subject 'Virus Diseases' gets 48 hits... and --Epidemiology yields

Emerging viruses / edited by Stephen S. Morse
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
RA644.V55 E44 1993

Viruses -- History yields

Oldstone, Michael B. A
Viruses, plagues, and history 
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
RC114.5 .O37 1998

Caroline: what's a "good" search?

in google, "sino-soviet-korean" gets nothing
"china soviet korea" gets 397,000
Tried ' "chinese archives" "korean war" ' and got 122 hits ...perhaps some worthwhile

' SARS origins "south china" ' yields 63 hits --one Elizabeth Rosenthal's NYT story, widely reprinted
CDC , WHO both have SARS coverage (and see other CDC links)
...but who has 'standing' in an issue like this? A matter of level.

a quick "japanese investment in the US" google search immediately makes us think: real estate? manufacturing? stock market?
Japan Economic Institute of America archives, 1997-2000

...has come to the conclusion that it must phase out operations over the course of the current fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2001. Several considerations dictated this difficult decision: reduced and uncertain funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to the tight budget situation of the Japanese government, lower revenues from JEI's publications and from other activities, and the difficulty of finding additional funds from alternate sources for continued operations.

The sort of thing I love to find: The Geography of Japanese Direct Investment in the United States --see its bibliography
...and Congressional Research Service Reports - 1987-1990 exemplifies the fugitivia the Web has hidden away, bits of the Puzzle.
Japanese Investment in the U.S., U.S. Investment in Japan by Hiroaki Sato (handy summary? how to evaluate?)