Asian Studies : a guide to library resources For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact your Research Librarian for Asian Studies and History Helen Attar ph 8303 5345 There are related guides  for China, Japan, and Indonesia Contents WWW Sites Handbooks, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Databases, Indexes & Bibliographies: General and interdisciplinary Current affairs   etc Social conditions and Women Finding Books in the library catalogue                                             WWW Sites Handbooks, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries Databases, Indexes & Bibliographies: General and interdisciplinary Current affairs   etc Social conditions and Women Finding Books in the library catalogue Last update Oct 20 2009   WWW sites Organisations and gateways Asian studies WWW virtual library from ANU 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. East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of internet resources Asian Studies Resource Library at Monash University Online journals and media Go Asia Pacific from the ABC International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter ( IIAS Newsletter) Asia observer Asia Times online Handbooks, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries CIA world factbook Asia Yearbook (Far Eastern economic review) Ref 330.9505 F21y Encyclopedia of modern Asia,  David Levinson ed. 6 vols.  2002 Ref   950.03 L665e  Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. 1988 Ref 950.03 E56 see also encyclopedias for China at Ref  951.003, Japan at  Ref 952.003 etc Databases, Indexes & Bibliographies General and interdisciplinary Bibliography of Asian studies 1971- also at Reference Collection 950.05 B582 The most comprehensive coverage of articles and essays in Asian studies. Not many extra features, no full text, but best for scholarly coverage. Academic OneFile Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats Coverage 1980- Academic Search Premier Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. World Magazine Bank 250 more popular publications from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, USA  etc Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT. Includes full text for some journals 1995-,  notably  Asian studies review. Limited  user licences. If you can't get onto APA-FT, go to APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service  Current affairs, news, economics Asian recorder 1955- Ref 950.5 A883 China core newspapers full-text database = Zhongguo zhong yao bao zhi quan wen shu ju ku = 中国重要报纸全文数据库 A comprehensive, full-text database of newspapers in mainland China since 2000. Business Source Premier Full text for more than 2,800 scholarly business journals.  Coverage includes all subject areas related to business. More than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Social conditions and  Gender issues Sociological Abstracts: sociological literature 1974- with abstracts Studies on women & gender abstracts   1994- Finding books in the library catalogue Use these terms in subject heading and guided keyword searches. Australia    Foreign relations   Asia Australia   Relations    Asia, Southeastern Asia   Relations   Australia Asian Australians Race relations Australia Asians Australia Social life and customs National characteristics, Australian (browse countries) Nationalism, China  (browse countries) Political corruption  (browse countries) Asia? values  (in keyword) Business networks  Family-owned business enterprises  Human rights Asia   (browse countries) Social values Asia   (browse countries) Women Asia Social conditions  (browse individual countries) World politics 21st century