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Southeast Asian Studies

Databases Available to the Duke Community

  • Bibliography of Asian Studies
    Indexes the scholarly literature on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
  • AccessUN
    The premier index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.
  • Columbia International Affairs Online CIAO
    Offers full texts and/or abstracts of books, journals, conference proceedings, and research reports in the field of International Affairs. Subject coverage includes global issues, world politics and political science, religions, nationalism, terrorism, diplomacy, security, and the world economy.
  • Current world information knowledgebase
    Contains statistics and information on demographics, economics, social life and government for countries around the world.
  • EIU:  Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports  
    A full-text database that provides an overview of economic, political, market, investment, and trading conditions for more than 180 countries in all regions of the world.
  • Foreign Broadcast Information Service electronic index
    An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world.
  • Global newsbank 
    A collection of full text news articles from more than 1,500 international sources.
  • Historical abstracts
    Contains citations and abstracts to literature on the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
  • InfoTrac OneFile 
    Provides access to an extensive collection of journals, newspapers, magazines, and newswires.
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals 
    Indexes articles and book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals published worldwide, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe  
    Provides full text access to a wide range of U.S. and international news, business, and legal information sources. Academic Universe is particularly strong in legislative, government, company, financial and demographic information, market research, and industry reports. Academic Universe provides online access to continuously updated archives of state and federal statutes, regulations, and case law. It also covers reference directories, medical and health resources, biographical information, and polls and public opinion surveys.
  • LexisNexis Statistical
    Provides indexing and complete abstracting of statistics produced by various agencies.
  • MLA International Bibliography  
    Provides citations to research in literature, literary criticism, linguistics, modern languages, drama, folklore, film and video. Covers American, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, European, Asian, African, and Latin American literature and folklore.
  • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)  
    Indexes international information on politics, public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Covers journals, books, government publications, and directories.  Covers 1972 to present.