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Asian Giants: Japan, China & India

For any further help in finding or using these resources please come in to see or contact the Research Librarian for Asian Studies

Helen Attar ph 8303 5345

 

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WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Catalogue







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update 
July 24 2009










 

Guides for China and Japan  contain specific reference tools and websites for those countries

 

WWW sites

Organisations and gateways - Asia

Asia Society

Asian studies WWW virtual library from the ANU

East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of internet resources

Foreign affairs online (from the US)

Asia: Political Resources on the Net

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources 

Keele Guide to Asian Government and Politics Sources on the Internet

Organisations and gateways - India

Census of India 2001

India Government: Who's Who

National Portal of India

India and the path to environmental sustainability

The High Commission of India in Australia

Embassy of India, Beijing

Embassy of India, Tokyo

Online journals and media

International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter ( IIAS Newsletter) (archive)

Asia observer

Asia Times online

India review

Newspapers and news services on the Library's web page, where the Newspaper indexes section includes Factiva, an essential full text source of Australian and international news.
Once you have linked to the database, choose the grey tab for REGION and make sure you have the correct date range selected.

Handbooks, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

CIA world factbook

Encyclopedia of modern Asia, D. Levinson, 6 vols, 2002
Reference collection 950.03 L665e

Asia Yearbook (Far Eastern economic review)
Reference collection 330.9505 F21y

Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia, M. Leifer. 3rd ed. 2001
Reference collection 320.95903 L527d.3

Encyclopaedia of India, 32 vols, 1992-1994
Reference collection 954.003 C549e

Indexes to Journal Articles

Bibliography of Asian studies 1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970- also at Reference collection 950.05 B582

Academic Onefile 1980-
an international interdisciplinary index covering approximately 8000 current journals, many of which have full text on-line.Access to more then 20 million peer-reviewed articles, a large proportion of which are full text.

Academic Search Premier 1985-
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 international journals across all subject areas.

Business source premier which covers business and economic affairs.
Many records have full text attached.

Asian recorder 1955-
Reference collection 950.5 A883

Newspapers

Newspapers and news services on the Library's web page, where the Newspaper indexes section includes Factiva, an essential full text source of Australian and international news.
Once you have linked to the database, choose the grey tab for REGION and make sure you have the correct date range selected.

Searching the Catalogue

use the Guided keyword option and search
for all of these in subject heading
Asia relations 
in the top box and
any of these in the second box
China Japan India
(or whichever countries/region you need)

Asia Economic relations 
Asia Commerce China...or individual countries
Environmental China...or individual countries

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization)
ASEAN

To search for foreign aid, use the subject headings:
Economic assistance.....which can be subdivided by country
Economic development projects

Terrorism Asia
National security

Asia Politics and government....
or use names of individual countries eg
China Politics and government