Databases by Subject
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Databases for Asian studies
- Alternative Press Index
- Coverage: 1991 - current
- Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Subjects covered include anarchism, labor, socialism, feminism, ecology, gay and lesbian issues, political and social change.*Password required for full text. Contact Reference Desk x6662.
- Asian American Drama
- Coverage: 1891 - current
- 70 full text plays by 17 Asian American playwrights, searchable by title, author, character, scene, subject, theater, production company, and more. Includes biographies, photos, playbills, and other images.
- Bibliography Of Asian Studies
- Coverage: 1971 - current
- Western-language mongraphs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia.
- The Encyclopaedia Of Islam
- Coverage: historical
- Offers basic searching of the full-text of nearly 12,000 pages of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the print edition.
- Historical Abstracts
- Coverage: 1967 - current
- Covers world history.
- Index Islamicus
- Coverage: 1906 - current
- Indexes books, journal articles, conference proceedings about Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere.
- JSTOR
- Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years
- Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.
- Project Muse
- Coverage: 1993 - current
- Project Muse provides access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press journals. Offers current and back issues.