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Selected databases for Asian studies

  • Bibliography of Asian studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and Southern Asia published worldwide. Coverage: Citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften. Start date: 1971.
  • PERIND : periodicals index on Singapore, Brunei and ASEAN. Covers literature, linguistics, philosophy, religion, history etc from 1984. Book reviews are included.
  • BERITA : Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN database is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database produced by Ohio University that indexes articles from published and unpublished material that concern Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole. Also included are materials regarding the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Source documents are monographs, journal articles, articles in books and conference papers.
  • INTAN MAS produced by the Northern Territory University Library, is a bibliographic database containing references to the literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, on Australia's relations with South-East Asia, and with ASEAN and its member nations (Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar). It comprises bibliographic references to books, journal articles and dissertations from 1989
  • SMC : Singapore/Malaysia collection produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items from published and unpublished material relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity). A good deal of the SMC source material consists of microfilmed items of public records, government documents, rare serials, newspapers and manuscripts and. theses, company reports, current journals and directories. The items are mostly in English and bear imprint dates from as early as 1596. SMC is particularly strong in source material tracing the various aspects of the development of the Malay States, Singapore and the Bornean regions (excluding Indonesian Borneo); from their founding through the period of colonial government, up to independence and after.

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