Databases for Asian Studies
AsiaAsia-studies full-text online
A database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. It brings together thousands of
full-text reports covering 53 countries and a multitude of business, government,
economic, and social issues. Bibliography of Asian studies 1971-
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.
Earlier volumes in print 1941-1965, 1966-1970- in Main Collection 950.05 B582 China academic journals full-text database = Zhongguo qi kan quan wen shu ju ku = 中国期刊全文数据库 1994 to present
A comprehensive, full-text database of mostly Chinese language journals. Sourced from core journals and speciality journals from mainland China. For help in using the database you will find the CNKI User Guide here. General and interdisciplinaryAcademic OneFile 1980-
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text. Academic Search Premier 1985-
Coverage includes a core collection of peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences and the humanities. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Directory of Open Acess Journals
See in particular:
Asian Social Science
Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies JSTOR
Date coverage varies depending on individual titles, but overall coverage ranges from the late 19th century onward. Full-text access to selected scholarly journals in Social Sciences, Education and African and Asian Studies. Note that JSTOR is primarily an archive of back issues and does not cover current journal literature.
Project Muse
Gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the Social Sciences, Humanities etc. from about 1998- 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. Web of science 1980-
Indexes a wide range of journal articles in the Sciences, Social sciences & Humanities. Choose the General Search option to search for journal articles. Choose Cited reference search to find articles that have cited a previously published work. Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It has the broadest coverage available of scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature. Australian databases with good regional coverage Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
Includes full text for some journals 1995-, notably Asian studies review. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
Covers newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals, many with full text online. TVNews August 2007-
Indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. Of particular interest: Asia Pacific Focus and Asia Pacific News. NewspapersIf you are looking for full-text newspaper articles make a start with Factiva or consult the Newspaper Indexes guide for more resources.
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. For help in using the database you will find the CNKI User Guide here. StatisticsGo to Statistics guide on the Library's web page. CEIC
Provides economic data and statistics. Product information available here. China statistical yearbooks database = Zhongguo tong ji nian jian quan wen shu ju ku = 中国统计年鉴全文数据库
Collects all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses, covering various kinds of census and survey data, such as investment, population, postal, information industry, trade, culture and sport. Last update: 24 Sept 2010 Helen Attar
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