For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for Asian Studies Helen Attar Ph. 8303 5345
This is a guide to resources for Asia as a whole. There are related Asian Studies guides for : China Japan
Asia Resources on the World Wide Web This extensive list of online resources has been compiled since July 1996 by Raymond Lum, for publication in the Asian Studies Newsletter
In addition the library now has access to thouands of electronic journals. Just type the journal title into the catalogue and the link to the online version will be there if we hold it. See also Current affairs, economics, politics and development in this guide.
Asia Yearbook (Far Eastern economic review) Ref 330.9505 F21y
Encyclopedia of modern Asia, David Levinson ed. 6 vols. 2002 Reference collection 950.03 L665e
Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. 1988 Reference collection 950.03 E56
Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations. L. Frederic. 10 vols. 1977-1984 Reference collection 950.03 L888e
Encyclopedia of Asian culture, ed. P.N. Chopra 1999 Reference collection 950.03 C549e
Databases and Bibliographies
Asia
Bibliography of Asian studies 1971- 1941-1965, 1966-1970- also at Ref 950.05 B582 ESSENTIAL - no matter which other databases you regularly use! No full text, but journal titles and book titles can be searched in our library catalogue. Many of the journals are online via the library.
General and interdisciplinary
Academic OneFile 1980- More than 20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large proportion of which are full-text from more than 8000 journals with international interdisciplinary coverage.
Academic Search Premier 1985- International, interdisciplinary with full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals.
JSTOR is a collection of the digitised full text versions of the backfiles of over 600 core scholarly journals from their first issue until 3-5-years ago. Not current.
Project Muse. gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc from about 1998-
Web of science citation database 1995- Much more than science! Includes the Social Sciences citation index and the Arts and Humanities citation index.
Periodicals index online Database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years. Links to full text in PAO....... Periodicals archive online - an archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences where full text searching is available across a smaller body of journal titles.
ARROW Discovery Service - where you can search 163,516 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures from 26 Australian Universities and other repositories, including Australian Digital Theses.
