Arts of Asia
Guide to resources for the Art of East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Himalayan Asia, and Central Asia.
Subject Guide
Best Database Choices for South Asia Studies
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Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1971 - present
Lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.
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WorldcatWorldcat - a listing of cataloged titles world wide
South Asia Studies Databases
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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA SerialsLists articles on all aspects of religious studies from journals in many disciplines. Includes citations to book chapters and to book reviews. ATLASerials adds the full text of many journals.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1971 - present
Lists journal articles and book chapters on all subjects related to Asia. Most articles are in western languages. Includes book reviews.
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Digital South Asia LibrarySouth Asia reference resources, images, maps, statistics, etc. from University of Chicago.
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East India Company This link opens in a new windowEast India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.
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Encyclopaedia of IslamComprehensive encyclopedia of Islamic religion and of the culture and history of the Islamic regions. Click on "Login" to enter. Requires special fonts that can be downloaded from the site.
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowFind articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present, published in over 2,000 journals from many countries. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see America: History & Life.
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Index Islamicus This link opens in a new windowSearch for books and articles in periodicals about Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.
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NexisUni This link opens in a new windowNews and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.
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Times of India Archive This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1838 - 2010
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. -
Web of Knowledge/Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIncludes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.
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WorldCat (OCLC)WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.
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World CatSearch this listing of millions of titles of books, journals, videos, etc
