Databases

Asia-studies full-text online is a database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. This database brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 50 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Available via Alexander Street Press.

Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.

No full text. Chiefly scholarly. Indexes articles and book chapters, including many journals not indexed elsewhere. Covers primarily humanities and social sciences for East, South, and Southeast Asia. Indexes publications from 1977-present. Primarily English language. Also known as BAS.

The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials such as films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes and rare journals from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000.

Available via the iG Library home page.

This resource provides access to all Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) publications from 1980 to 2013 covering a wide variety of subjects focused mainly on Southeast Asia. ISEAS is one the main publishers of academic works in Southeast Asia.

A digital archive of historical photography for Southeast Asia, drawing scattered historical photographs of Southeast Asia into a single accessible source and a standard digital format. The archive incorporates elements from a broad spectrum of social sciences, including history, geography, anthropology and political science. Includes a text-based search engine.

Southeast Asia Visions, a collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. The site provides online access to more than 350 books and journal articles written in English and French. The works in the collection were selected for the quality of their first-hand observations and, together, provide a comprehensive representation of Southeast Asia. Along with their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color. The objectives of this project are both to meet the curricular needs of courses taught at Cornell University and to make these texts and images accessible via the Internet to students and scholars worldwide. It presents scholars an excellent opportunity to look anew at pre-modern Southeast Asia.