General databases
- BAS: Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Includes scholarship (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. 1971-current. The reference section of the library also has BAS from 1960-1990 in physical form (ref DS 501 B49 1960) - JSTOR This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A digital archive of important scholarly journal literature from many fields. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A broad, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary search tool. Covers 1973 - current. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowSearches through citations, subject headings, and some abstracts
The premier database for linguistics and literary studies, this index includes articles, dissertations, books, book chapters, and more. Covers 1926 - current. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present.
East Asian studies databases in English
- Asian Studies databases best betsComprehensive list of databases for Asian studies.
- BAS: Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Includes scholarship (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. 1971-current. The reference section of the library also has BAS from 1960-1990 in physical form (ref DS 501 B49 1960) - Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
A comprehensive set of declassified government documents, 1942-current. - China Data Online This link opens in a new windowContains monthly and annual socioeconomic statistics at the national, province, county, and city-levels from China. Includes annual statistical yearbooks and industrial statistics. Carleton access is limited to the "China Statistics" portion only. Covers 1949 - current.
- Haldore Hanson's China Collection This link opens in a new windowSearches through citations
Haldore Hanson, Carleton College class of 1934, worked as a freelance war correspondent when Japanese troops invaded China in 1937. This is the collection of photographs he took while working in China between 1937 and 1938.
- Historical Maps of Asia (Perry-Castañeda Map Library)Digitized historical maps of Asia (UT-Austin)
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (Korean)Note that this is an encyclopedia in Korean that contains comprehensive entries of Korean culture, including famous figures, historical events, cultural traditions, etc.
- Journals of Himalayan StudiesA list of core journals on Himalyan Studies by Digital Himalaya.
East Asian studies databases in Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese
- China Research Gateway This link opens in a new windowThis database is "a centralized means for discovery and access to an unparalleled breadth of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, patents, and more (East View)."
- China Academic Journals 中國學術期刊 This link opens in a new windowChina Academic Journals and Century Journal Project of CNKI provides full text and full images of Chinese-language journals.
- HKInChiP 香港中文期刊論文索引* This link opens in a new windowIndex for articles in more than 150 periodicals published in Hong Kong since 1990, with some titles as early as the 1950s, in current events, economics, politics, and the social sciences.
* An index database - Korean History & Culture Research Database (한국역사문화 조사자료 데이터베이스) This link opens in a new windowFull-text of excavation reports, research reports about geography, history, ethnic customs and architecture.
- TEPS: Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services 臺灣電子期刊服務網* This link opens in a new windowTEPS, provided via NetLibrary of OCLC, is the largest online database for periodical articles published in Taiwan. The database has access to over 450 Taiwanese periodicals in multiple disciplines, and it keeps growing and expanding.
* An index database, not a fulltext database
South Asian Studies databases in English
- Asian Studies databases best betsComprehensive list of databases for Asian studies.
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This link opens in a new windowBritish government documents concerning politics, economic and industrial development, trade, migration, education, administration, language, aid, agriculture and irrigation, and media.
- India, Raj and Empire This link opens in a new windowHistory of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, through the diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.
- Digital South Asia LibraryIncludes dictionaries, colonial maps, gazetteers, images, Statistical Abstracts, and gramophone recordings (and more) dating back to the 19th century.
- Centre of South Asian Studies: oral history collectionA collection of interviews conducted in the 1970s and 1980s with both Indian and British people describing their experiences of life in British India, the events leading up to independence in 1947 and the early years of independent India and Pakistan.
- Journals of Himalayan Studies This link opens in a new windowA list of core journals on Himalyan Studies by Digital Himalaya.
- Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
An index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. Covers 1900 - current.
