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Key databases for Asian Studies  
BAS : Bibliography of Asian Studies
References to articles, books and reviews, published internationally from 1971 to the present. It is especially relevant for the humanities and social sciences.
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Asia-Studies Full-text Online
Full-text reports covering business, government, economic, and social issues. The average study is 100 pages long and contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts.
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APECLIT via Informit
References to published and unpublished items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and related topics. Australian content
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APA-FT : Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit
References to articles on the social sciences and humanities. Includes full text articles from 1994/1995 onwards, from the top 200 journals indexed.

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More databases useful for Asian Studies (A - Z)  
ASIANRES via Informit
A gateway to websites relevant for research on the Asia/Pacific region.
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CAJ : China Academic Journal Full-text Database
Articles from journals published in China, some have English text. Access is to sub-series F: archaeology, film studies, history, literature and philosophy.

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Note: If you choose the Chinese interface, search terms must be in simplified Chinese. Full-text can be viewed using CAJ Viewer which is free to download from the site or Adobe Acrobat Reader with simplified Chinese font. Select PDF format to view full-text articles on PCs in the library.

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Dissertation & Theses Full Text via ProQuest
Major source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full text is available from 1997 to present.

Note: It contains very large files; may be slow to download off-campus.

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Expanded Academic Index ASAP via Gale
Full text and abstracts to over 1500 multidisciplinary journals.
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Factiva
Full text newspaper articles and pictures from over 8,000 international newspaper and newswire publications.

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Google Scholar
An academic version of the famous search engine.
 
JSTOR
Full text of major journals in this field. Does not include the current five years of issues.
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Project Muse
Full text of peer-reviewed humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from over 60 scholarly publishers.
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Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
Contains the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Useful for subject and citation searching for any discipline.
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WNC : World News Connection
Complements Factiva by accessing thousands of non-U.S. media sources obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
 

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