LibGuides: Pacific and Asian Studies: Find Articles

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JSTOR A digital library with an archive of scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Reference of principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.

ASIANRES - ASIAN Resources (Informit)
This directory mainly collects Australian scholarly works. Asia is defined as the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and South-east Asia.

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Project MUSE Provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs. Includes full text articles of over 100 research journals from a variety of fields, with special strength in the humanities. Subjects covered include French, German, Greek and Roman, History, Linguistics, Literature, Medieval Studies, Music, Pacific and Asian, Public Administration, and Russian.

Digital South Asian Library
Is part of the Center for Research Library Collections and includes dictionaries, maps, images, indexes and statistics of the South Asian Countries. The Interlibrary loan service at UVic may provide access to the relevant print materials.

Sociological Abstracts Abstracts and index of the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Subjects covered include Anthropology, Pacific and Asian Studies, Social Work, and Sociology.