Selected databases for Asian studies

• Bibliography of Asian studies contains about 420,000 references to books, journal articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc, published from 1971 until today.
• PERIND : periodicals index produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity) From 1980 on. PERIND is a multidisciplinary database indexing approximately 270 core journal titles published internationally and in Singapore. The journals are mainly in English with a small number in Malay. They include book reviews, review articles, editorials, letters, speeches, lectures, interviews, obituaries, panel discussions, commentaries, legislation notes, case notes and clinical case studies. Most journals date from 1980, though medicine is covered from 1975and law from 1932. Note that PERIND started as an index to periodical literature but beginning from mid-1997, it covers also book chapters and conference papers (both published and unpublished).
• BERITA : Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN database is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database produced by Ohio University that indexes articles from published and unpublished material that concern Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, or South-East Asia as a whole. Also included are materials regarding the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Source documents are monographs, journal articles, articles in books and conference papers.
• INTAN MAS produced by the Northern Territory University Library, is a bibliographic database containing references to the literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, on Australia's relations with South-East Asia, and with ASEAN and its member nations (Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar). It comprises bibliographic references to books, journal articles and dissertations from 1989.
• SMC : Singapore/Malaysia collection produced by the National University of Singapore Library, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts items from published and unpublished material relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN (as an entity). A good deal of the SMC source material consists of microfilmed items of public records, government documents, rare serials, newspapers and manuscripts and theses, company reports, current journals and directories. The items are mostly in English and bear imprint dates from as early as 1596. SMC is particularly strong in source material tracing the various aspects of the development of the Malay States, Singapore and the Bornean regions (excluding Indonesian Borneo); from their founding through the period of colonial government, up to independence and after.

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