Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. BAS is now available on the AsiaPortal.
This database with access to the full archives of Renmin Ribao has been negotiated as a European license, administered by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It gives access to the whole archives of Renmin ribao up to the latest issues. Fully searchable- either in single or combined search; fully downloadable and printable; Interchangeable between text files and jpg image files; DAILY updated content in Chinese. The database is now available on the AsiaPortal.
The e-books collection from ISEAS has been updated with 19 new titles. ISEAS- Yosuf Ishak Institute is a leading research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment.
We have arranged a trial to this archive covering four national Kabul-based newspapers, including English-language Kabul Times and Pushto publications Anīs, Hewād, and Iṣlāḥ. The content is available from their respective foundation up to 2019 as pdfs.
Together, the archives of these newspapers provide a chronicle of events from the fall of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, the establishment of the People’s Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the Soviet invasion, the rise of the Mujahedeen, the establishment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, invasion by the United States and the ensuing period of reconstruction from the view of the capital.
New Mandela
New Mandela provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one another.problems with the access to Kinoden has been solved.
Colonial Journals of the Royal Tropical Institute consists of ninety serials and journals related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.
Colonial Sources of the Royal Tropical Institute consists of 2863 publications related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) publishes a variety of reports, based on primary and secondary data, especially on economics and social aspects of the country.
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial or underground poetry journals, from China accessible online in this collection with thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including literary criticism and polemics.
Chinese Historical Newspaper database The database license was cancelled early 2020 for budget reasons.
JapanKnowledge
For the similar reason of expected cuts in budget, we have also decided to reduce the number of simultaneous users to JapanKnowledge to 4. This means that for all the Japanese databases we now have a limited number of concurrent users, ranging from 1 to 4. The limit is always stated on the presentation page of each database.
