Article Indexes/Databases
The Bibliography of Asian Studies and the Asian Studies section of JSTOR are the chief database for Asian Studies materials:
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971, is produced by the Association for Asian Studies http://www.aasianst.org/. University Libraries maintains a subscription to BAS online.
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Back files of scholarly journals. Starts with the journals' inception. |
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China Data Online is a full text database of statistical information. It does not offer indexing to journal articles:
China Data Online is a comprehensive database and web site focusing on economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases about China's population and economy at the county and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Also includes statistical yearbooks, census data, industrial and marketing surveys, and an atlas of China. |
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The following databases also provide access to Asian Studies materials:
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Contains full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications and includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. |
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1984 - present |
Expanded Academic ASAP
Access to articles from over 500 full-text journals in all disciplines. |
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The Humanities Abstracts database cites articles from nearly 468 English-language periodicals in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. |
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1984 - present |
Ingenta
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The ingenta Library Gateway is a searchable database of more than 11 million citations from over 20,000 journals. |
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Access restricted to licensed institutions . Please login to proxy server for access from off-campus. International, interdisciplinary bibliography of periodical literature with emphasis on the social sciences, arts and humanities. Covers more than 2.1 million records with assigned German and English subject headings from over 8,700 periodicals. Updated monthly. |
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Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database. |
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Project MUSE
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Access to articles from over 40 journals in the humanities starting in 1995. |
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Readers' Guide Retrospective, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. |
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1890 - 1962 |
One of the most comprehensive databases available through the ProQuest® online system, Research Library provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. The database can be customized to meet the specific needs of many different types of libraries and information centers. |
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1971 - present |
The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies file describes material on the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe, books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. More than 658,000 records cover from 1992 to the present, with bimonthly updates. Includes English-language materials. |
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1992 - present |
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Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. |
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1966 - present |
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SIRS Knowledge Source™ is an online resource that provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents and graphics from SIRS highly-acclaimed reference databases -- SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance via one graphical interface. |
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Web of Science (including Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Science Citation Index)
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,000 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured |
This database brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. It provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries. edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cutural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthroplogy, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. |
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1800 - present |
eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
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The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. |
For business and economics databases relating to Asian Studies use the following resource:
UC Internet Business and Economics Library
Compiled by Wahib Nasrallah http://www.libraries.uc.edu/research/subject_resources/business/index.html
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Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America, some dating back to 1985. |
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Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. The database contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference proceedings, maps and theses. |
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Historical Abstracts is a reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country and journals of regional history, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. Historical Abstracts also cites new books reviewed in key English-language history and review journals. Dissertation citations relevant to the serial's subject scope are derived from Dissertation Abstracts International. |
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1955 - present |
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The MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. This database annually indexes over 45,000 books and articles. |
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Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, education, and language. |
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The database includes full text of over 290 journals covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. |
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
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Columbia International Affairs Online CIAO is designed to be a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available. |
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Full Text; 1991 - present |
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. |
Use in conjunction with SYBWorld: The Essential Global Reference http://www.sybworld.com/views/home.html
“The most current and reliable source of political, economic and social information on the planet.”
An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information. |
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1975 - 1996 |
Use in conjunction with World News Connection:
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World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide Web, that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources, WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. The information is obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. New information is entered into WNC every government business day. Generally, new information is available within 48-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. |
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International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains more than 100,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database yearly. |
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1989 - present |
PAIS Archive is a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Providing selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world, it contains approximately 1,000,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976. PAIS Archive complements the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database. |
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1915-1976 |
The PAIS International database covers the literature of public affairs -- current issues and actions which affect world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database provides access to articles, books, and documents addressing important political, economic and social issues. PAIS concentrates on topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. |
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1972 - present |
Country reports on 106 countries. Covers data on the economy and forecasts of political and business risk indicators. |
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Political Science: A SAGE Full Text Collection
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Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 18,000 articles. |
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1982 - present |
This database provides time series for 207 countries with 550 developmentindicators. The database has annual data from 1960 to the present. In addition to economic data, WDI online covers demographics, education,defense, government, energy, health, literacy, telecommunications, tourism, internet users, life expectancy, social, transportation, and pollution. |
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The print edition of this internationally respected title was first published more than 50 years ago and has become widely acclaimed as the premier source of information on the academic sphere world-wide. The online version of The World of Learning builds on this success by providing a full range of sophisticated search and browse functions, and regular updates of content. The result is a site that offers an unprecedented level of access to global institutions of higher education and learning, and to the people who work within them. |
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. More than 600 journals are indexed annually. The database includes more than 1.3 million bibliographic records for journal articles, more than 200,000 essay citations, and more than 400,000 book review citations. Links are provided to 100,000 full text articles from more than fifty journals. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association. |
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1949 - present |
ATLA Religion Index
(Formerly Religion Index) Religion Index, produced by the America Theological Society, is a comprehensive reference database designed to support religious and theological scholarship. It contains more than one million citations from 1,400+ international journal titles and 14,000 multi-author works and book reviews related to religious studies. |
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The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library. The Unit was established in 1983 to continue the compilations and publications of the Index Islamicus bibliography and to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have been part of the curriculum at Cambridge University since the early 17th century. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications, with some going back to 1906. |
Religion and Philosophy Collection
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The database includes full text of over 290 journals covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. |
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Contemporary Women’s Issues
The database provides full-text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 190 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science. |
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The Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database (FSSWD) includes the discontinued Inventory of Marriage and Family (produced by the National Council on Family Relations), the Australian Family & Society Abstracts, the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada and the U.S. Military Family Resource Center Documents Database. FSSWD includes nearly 600,000 records representing professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, internet documents, government reports, videos, pamphlets and even unpublished material such as poster sessions and statistical documents. Subjects covered include: families and family therapy, marriage, gender roles, aging, divorce, minorities and demography. Records may be directly exported into ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager. Many of the records are linked to full text. |
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1970 - present |
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Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's. Incorporated the publication Women "R." |
Women’s Studies International covers the core disc. Women’s Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented and include ISSNs. |
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