Databases, Bibliographies, & Other Research Tools

I. Databases

General

Academic Search Complete

Ohio U. patrons - all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=2072
Academic Search Complete is possibly the best article database for beginning researchers. It provides full-text documents from over 4,600 scholarly publications covering a wide range of fields and disciplines. An additional 6,800 peer-reviewed publications are indexed and abstracted.

Article First

Ohio U. patrons - all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=56
OCLC Article First provides indexes and abstracts to journal articles and reviews from over 12,000 periodicals.

JSTOR

Ohio U. patrons - Athens, Eastern, and Lancaster campuses only
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=1683
JSTOR is an electronic depository featuring full-text, digitized articles from hundreds of academic journals covering a variety of topics. Included in this database are articles from numerous multi-disciplinary and discipline-specific journals with a focus on Southeast Asia, such as Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, The Far Eastern Quarterly, The Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Modern Asian Studies, and many others. All articles may be fully downloaded (in pdf format) and printed free of charge.

Lexis-Nexis Academic

Ohio U. patrons - all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=60
Lexis-Nexis Academic is a leading database that provides full-text documents from almost 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications from around the world. Of special note is the "news search function," which enables researchers to scan and download full-text articles, contemporary and archival, from national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Note: it is best to use the "guided news search" function.

MagPortal

http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=2797
MagPortal provides access to full-text articles from a wide range of scholarly and semi-scholarly magazines.

Ohio Link--Electronic Journal Center (EJC)

Ohio U. patrons - all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=2273
The EJC provides access to full-text articles and reviews from hundreds of academic journals currently available through Ohio Link.

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)

Ohio U. patrons - all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=295
PCI indexes millions of articles and reviews published in a wide range of scholarly journals covering the arts, humanities, and social sciences between the 1770s and 1990s.

World News Connection (WNC)

Ohio U. - Athens campus via password (includes off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=131
WNC is an invaluable research tool, particularly for anyone in need of English-language translations of non-Western media sources. WNC content is provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Domestic and overseas FBIS analysts monitor and translate into English thousands of non-Western newspapers, press reports, and television and radio broadcasts, including several open-source materials from Southeast Asia. SEA source materials include: BurmaNet News, Democratic Voice of Burma (Myanmar/Burma); National Radio of Cambodia, Reaksmei Kampuchea, Samleng Yurvakchon Khmer (Cambodia); Antara, Bisnis Indonesia, The Jakarta Post, Kompas, Media Indonesia, Suara Pembaruan, TVRI Television (Indonesia); Bernama, Malaysiakini (Malaysia); Business World, GMA 7 Television, Manila Bulletin, The Manila Times, Philippine Daily Inquirer (Philippines); and Khao Sot, Krungthep Thurakit, Matichon, Matichon Sut Sapda, Prachachat Thurakit, Tong Hua Daily News (Thailand).

Asian and Southeast Asian-Specific Databases

Berita

Ohio U. patrons ­ Athens campus only
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=611
Produced jointly by the staff of the Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University and RMIT Publishing in Australia, the Berita database indexes a substantial number of books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and other unpublished sources relevant to the study of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as other parts of Southeast Asia. The database covers a wide-range of subjects and disciplines. English and Malay-language resources are given special emphasis. However, Chinese, Dutch, French, and German-language sources are included as well.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)

Ohio U. patrons ­ Athens campus only
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=74
The Bibliography of Asian Studies is a premier article database containing over 600,000 records on a wide range of topics (particularly in the humanities and the social sciences) relevant to the study of East, South, and Southeast Asia. BAS includes citations to select Western-language journal articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, and anthologies published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Cambodian Genocide Database

http://www.yale.edu/cgp/databases.html
Provides online access to searchable databases containing bibliographic citations, full-text articles, biographies, English translations of key historical documents, and photographic archives documenting the Cambodian Revolution and the Democratic Kampuchea regime (1975-1979).

Database of Labour Laws

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/labourlaw/
Created by the Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, the Database of Labour Law is a vast compendium of the regulatory environment in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Selective Works on Myanmar History, Culture, Archaeology and Literature After Independence

http://www.lib.washington.edu/asp/myanmar/main.asp
Created by the University of Washington, this is a full-text database featuring hundreds of full-text documents, written primarily in the Burmese language. Emphasis is on vernacular histories and reports published after 1950.

Southeast Asian Archaeology Scholarly Website

http://seasia.museum.upenn.edu/
Created by the University of Pennsylvania, the chief aim of the Southeast Asia Archaeology Scholarly Website is to disseminate scholarship on the archaeology and anthropology of Southeast Asia. The website has two components: a bibliography, comprised of more than 4,000 sources, and a skeletal database, containing some 7,500 citations to works on Southeast Asian archaeology and history. Special attention is given to mainland Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asian Serials Database

http://anulib.anu.edu.au/sasi/new/index.php
A joint project involving Australian National University and the KITLV Library in the Netherlands, the Southeast Asian Serials Database provides access to bibliographic information on articles and reviews from over 100 academic journals with a special focus on Southeast Asia.

Thai Khadi Research Database

http://tkri.tu.ac.th/index.htm
Provides full bibliographic data and abstracts for all Western and Thai-language research undertaken by students and scholars associated with the Thai Khadi Institute. Coverage includes 1974 to the present.

Thai Journal Index

http://content.lib.washington.edu/thaiindexweb/index.html
Based at the University of Washington, the Thai Journal Indexing project aims to expand access to Thai-language journal articles. To this end, it provides abstracts from a select number of scholarly journals (six at this point). All abstracts are in Thai. However, the use of Romanized Thai-language titles and names allows researchers to conduct searches in English. Full-text articles can be obtained through inter-library loan.

II. Bibliographies

Burma (Myanmar)

The Living Bibliography of Burma Studies: the Secondary Literature

http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/secondary.pdf
Contains a select, but substantial, bibliography of western-language, secondary source materials on Burma. The bibliography was compiled by Professor Michael Charney, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Cambodia

Bibliography Cambodia (Compiled by the Library of Congress)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cambodia/kh_bibl.html Select bibliography of mainly Western-language, secondary sources on Cambodia.

East Timor

East Timor: Bibliography and Articles

http://www.uc.pt/timor/bibhtml.htm
Includes a select bibliography and a handful of full-text articles on East Timor.

Bibliography East Timor

http://www.easttimor-reconciliation.org/bibliography.htm
Select bibliography of English, Indonesian, Portuguese, and Tetum-language sources on East Timor.

Indonesia

Bibliography Indonesia

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/indonesia/id_bibl.html
Compiled by the Library of Congress, this site includes a select bibliography of secondary sources on Indonesia.

Documents, Journals, etc. From the Period of the VOC

http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/indo/nedbib.html This bibliographic resource, compiled by the Australian National University, amounts to a vast index to articles and books on the history of the VOC and its relationship to island Southeast Asia, and Indonesia in particular.

Laos

Laos Bibliography

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/blaos.html
Select bibliography of Lao and Western-language secondary sources on Laos.

Laos Bibliography (Compiled by the Library of Congress)

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/laos/la_bibl.html
Select, yet substantial, bibliography of Lao and Western-language source materials on Laos.

Singapore

A Sense of History: A Select Bibliography on the History of Singapore

http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/sh/
Based on the 1998 print edition, A Sense of History consists of a select, though substantial, bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the history of Singapore and Malaysia. Included in this bibliography are Western, Malay, Chinese and Japanese-language sources.

Thailand

Thai Politics Bibliography

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/thaipol/Bibliog.htm
Contains a select, yet substantial, bibliography of Western-language sources on modern Thailand. The bibliography was compiled and annotated by Michael Nelson, Center for the Study of Thai Politics and Democracy, King Prajadhipok Institute, Nonthaburi, Thailand in cooperation with the University of Leeds.

Thailand Bibliography

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/bthaiab.html Select bibliography of Thai and English-language sources on Thailand. "Thailand Bibliography" was compiled by Professor Charles Keyes, an established scholar and a pioneer in the field of Thai studies. Special attention has been given to the social sciences and humanities.

Thailand Bibliography

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/thailand/th_bibl.html
Select bibliography of Western-language source materials on Thailand.

Vietnam

Vietnam Bibliography

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/bvietnam.html
Select bibliography of Vietnamese and Western-language secondary sources on Vietnam.

Vietnam: An Ethnographic Bibliography

http://www.anthro.ku.dk/Ressourcer/Forskningsbibliografier/vietnam.htm
Compiled by Dr. Charles Keyes, the main purpose of this select bibliography is to offer guidance to graduate students in Anthropology interested in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Vietnam

http://www.yale.edu/seas/bibliography/home.html
Sponsored by the Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies, this site amounts to a select, annotated bibliography of English and Vietnamese-language sources of relevance to the study of the Vietnam war. Here special attention is given to the "Vietnamese" perspective.

Vietnam War Bibliography

http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/
FacultyPages/EdMoise/bibliography.html
Compiled by historian Ed MoÏse of Clemson University, this site consists of an extensive bibliography of mainly secondary sources on the Vietnam war.

Specialized Bibliographies

Southeast Asia Women Studies Bibliography

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/seatabl.html
Compiled by the University of California at Berkeley, this electronic resource amounts to an extensive bibliography of Western and Southeast Asia-language materials of relevance to research on women studies in Southeast Asia. The bibliography contains references to sources from all the countries of Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia: A Sociolinguistics Bibliography

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/messeas/seabib.html
Created by linguist H. Schiffman, A Sociolinguistics Bibliography amounts to a select bibliography of sources related to the study of Southeast Asia languages.

III. Other Useful Research Tools

Access Asia

http://www.accessasia.org/ A project of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Access Asia is a clearinghouse for information on contemporary Asian affairs and policy related issues. It includes a very useful specialist/research database, which enables users to track down individual specialists and various research organizations based on geographic concentration and areas of expertise.

CIAO--Columbia International Affairs Online

Ohio U. patrons ­ Athens campus only
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=68
CIAO Online, based at Columbia University, provides a broad range of full text professional papers, think pieces, and other publications in the field of political theory and international affairs.

Economist Intelligence Unit (E.I.U.)

Ohio U. Patrons ­ all campuses (including off-campus access)
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/scripts/redirect.html?id=792
Contains extensive economic and financial data for all the nations of Southeast Asia (with the exception of East Timor) from the mid-1990s to the present.

Thammasat University Libraries

http://library.tu.ac.th/newlib2/index.asp
TU Libraries electronic resources page contains links to hundreds of theses, books, and government documents, all in fully downloadable PDF format. Included in this collection are scores of rare legal documents (i.e. royal proclamations and law codes), some dating back to the late 19th century.

Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia

http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue0/index.html
Based at Kyoto University, the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is an electronic journal featuring professional papers, reviews, bibliographies, and other academic publications related to the study of Southeast Asia. Both current and back issues of the journal are accessible.

Vietnam, Laos, et Cambodge: Sources et aides à la recherche

http://iao.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/francais/Goscha/indexrv.html
Compiled by well-known historian Christopher Goscha, this site is includes a select, yet impressive, bibliography, as well as important information on researchers, archives, libraries, and research centers of relevance to the study of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The text is in French.