Asian Studies: Databases

Rich and growing collection of historical and contemporary primary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences from and about South Asia.

Designed for academic institutions, this database provides coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals. It supports research in the key areas of academic study by providing peer-reviewed journals, full-text periodicals, reports, books, and more.

Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.

This citation database covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. The database also includes access to the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

Provides digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. A source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals with over 120 publishers currently participating.

A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Discover the best of Oxford University Press's reference titles on a dynamic digital platform.

Literature Online (LION) is a foundational, focused, and targeted resource for literary programs with full text journals and reference material to help contextualize primary works and authors. LION includes literary figures that have held our attention for a century. The depth of the material, from Beowulf to Pulitzer and Nobel winners, ensures that students and teachers can cover every topic with confidence. LION has a heritage as a leading resource with authoritative, quality publications.

The British library digitised collection includes, The Royal Manuscripts and Botany in British India, Over fifty Thai manuscripts and the Chakrabongse Archive of Royal Letters and Malay manuscripts and early maps of Singapore.

The Wayback Machine is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include Open Library & archive-it.org. Your use of the Wayback Machine is subject to the Internet Archive's Terms of Use.

A searchable full-text and full-image interdisciplinary Chinese journals database. Series F covers the subject areas of literature, history and philosophy. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

A searchable full-text and full-image interdisciplinary Chinese journals database. Series G covers the subject areas of politics, military affairs, and law. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

A comprehensive database of dissertations and theses in China. The Library subscription is to Series F covers the subject areas of literature, history and philosophy. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

A comprehensive database of dissertations and theses in China. The Library subscription is to Series F covers the subject areas of literature, history and philosophy. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers with a rich digital archive of leading international journals in the humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content. This resource can be used to survey comprehensively the history of scholarship in a particular field. Rarity of source material means that there will be some gaps in the collection.

SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents.

Japan Links, a comprehensive directory of useful websites. Web Japan provides information about Japan including facts, fun and new trends, traditional and pop culture, science and technology, food, travel, and lifestyle.

Our language blogs enhance the learning experience by combining cultural information with vocabulary lessons.

Our language blogs enhance the learning experience by combining cultural information with vocabulary lessons.

Provides access to high quality films of leading British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews.

Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register.

A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers.

Alexander Street are curated, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Repository for selected research produced at the University of Otago. Includes Book, Book chapters, Journal Articles, Theses, Working Papers and more.

A window into the cultural, heritage and historical material within the University of Otago's Hocken Collections and Special Collections.

Special Collections contains books and manuscripts which span the earliest examples of European printing (1473) through to modern first editions and publications from the 20th and 21st centuries.