Research Guides: Southeast Asia Research Guide: Books & Articles

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OneSearch includes the library catalog plus a huge index of academic journals on most topics. It also includes conference papers, maps, government documents, music scores, DVDs, archives & manuscripts, and more.

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The library gives access to many journal, magazine and newspaper articles through online databases. These databases can be searched by keyword, title or author and they can be browsed by date and publication.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
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This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 545,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.).
Religion & Philosophy Collection
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The Religion and Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. There are over 240 full text journals.
Newspaper Source Plus
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Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing nearly than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.
Academic Search Complete
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Provides full text for 3,288 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
PAIS International
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PAIS International is an index to the world's public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. It has references and in some cases abstracts of articles from over 3,660 journal titles, books, gray literature, internet material, conference proceedings, government and ngo documents and statistical publications.
Ethnic NewsWatch
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Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language. The titles in Ethnic NewsWatch represent the diversity of the American population in ways that are generally not seen in the mainstream media.

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LexisNexis
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Provides full text of hundreds of news sources including newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.
Newspaper Source Plus
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includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing nearly than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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Contemporary Southeast Asia

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Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)

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Asian Perspectives

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Open Access Resources

These databases provide unrestricted access to publications. These databases can be searched by keyword, title or author and they can be browsed by date and publication.

Scholarspace
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ScholarSpace is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii at Manoa community. ScholarSpace stores the intellectual works and unique collections of the UH at Manoa academic community and also provides a permanent web location for those accessing these resources. Click here for more information.
eVols
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eVols is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii community and researchers around the world. eVols provides a home for material which the Library or the University digitizes as part of grant projects and digital library program initiatives. Click here for more information.
Southeast Asia Visions
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A collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection.
Southeast Asia Digital Library
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Includes images (photographs, digitized manuscript pages), videos, books, manuscripts, reference materials (rare grammars and dictionaries). Resources organized by country, language and institution.
South East Asia Posters
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Posters from Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, and many more. The collection houses various types of posters, from socio-political, environmental, to radio and TV promotion.
OAPEN
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A collaborative initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Explorations : a graduate student journal of Southeast Asia studies
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Explorations is a student production of the Southeast Asian Studies Student Association in association with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and with financial assistance provided by the Associated Students at the University of Hawaii.

JSTOR & PROJECT MUSE

JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journals articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Project MUSE is a trusted provider of authoritative humanities and social science books and journals from more than 200 of the world’s most distinguished university presses and scholarly societies.

Dissertations & Thesis

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.