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| 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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| APECLIT via Informit References to published and unpublished items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and related topics.  |
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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. Journals available in Full Text Journals indexed |
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| 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 Chinese Interface (please remember to click 退出 after each use) English Interface (please remember to click log out after each use) Search terms must be in simplified Chinese. Full-text access to Journal articles published in China in all subject areas. The subscription is funded by the China Studies Centre of the University of Sydney. Note: Some articles have English abstracts. Full-text can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader with simplified Chinese font, or CAJ Viewer which is free to download from the site. Not all fulltext articles are in pdf format. |
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| Cambridge Companions Online Cambridge Companions are lively introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. They contain essays written to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature. Access to Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics, and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, and Companions in Music. |
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China: Culture and Society, 1793-1980 Over 1,000 pamphlets from the Wason Collection at Cornell. Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929) they are primarliy in English and include works on the Chinese diaspora, foreign relations and settlers in China, missionaries, opium, civil conflict and rebellion. Search all our Adam Matthew databases |
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| China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 via Adam Matthews With manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, students are given an incredible insight into the changes wrought upon China during this period. |
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| Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 (Archives Direct) British government Confidential Print files, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, cover the Middle East From Egypt to Afghanistan, from 1839 - 1969. |
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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. For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+. Note: Click Logout when finished. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. |
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| Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980 (Archives Direct) via Adam Matthews The complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. Eye-witness accounts and detailed reports on life in China, 1949-1976. In depth analysis of the Communist Revolution and all the major figures. Material on the Korean War, the Cold War, US relations and the Cultural Revolution. |
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| Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 (Sections I, II, and III) (Archives Direct) via Adam Matthews DO 133, DO 134, FO 371 and FCO 37 files from The National Archives, Kew. Also covers neighbouring South East Asian countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Burma. |
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| Google Scholar An academic version of the famous search engine. |
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| ISEAS ebooks 215 ebooks published by the Institute Of Southeast Asian Studies between 2001 and 2009. |
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| 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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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factivafor access to ANZ titles prior to these dates. |
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| Scripta Sinica (Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku漢籍電子文獻資料庫) The Scripta Sinica database contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history (内容包括經,史,子,集四部，其中以史部为主, 經,子,集部为輔) |
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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. |