0109, 2014

Opening up your research: a guide to self-archiving

By David Pearson|September 1, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Financial and Management Studies, Gender, History, Information Literacy, Japan, Korea, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

Making your research available on open access services increases citation and helps ensure greater impact, argues Deborah Lupton. In this post she has advice for sociologists in particular on different ways to self-archive, formatting and how to overcome barriers such as complex copyright legislation. Read the full article here. Deborah Lupton is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. She blogs at This Sociological Life and tweets @DALupton and is currently writing

1908, 2014

An Introduction to the World of Shan Manuscripts

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|August 19, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, Linguistics, Literature, Religions, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

Sample of Shan Manuscript Covers The tradition of producing manuscripts has been an important custom among Shan communities for centuries. The production of manuscripts is in fact a way of publishing, as was also the case in other countries before the era of printing press, but the tradition still continues in Shan communities even in the age of eprint or online publication (although this tradition of making manuscript is now fast

0108, 2014

South East Asia – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 1, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General Ethnicity, borders, and the grassroots interface with the state : studies on Southeast Asia in honor of Charles F. Keyes / edited by John A. Marston. Early mainland Southeast Asia : from first humans to Angkor / by Charles Higham. Lost Kingdoms. Hindu-Buddhist sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. John Guy. Diaspora : the story of the South Asian muslim diaspora in Southeast Asia today / by Farish A.

1507, 2014

Trial access to Asian Films Online from Alexander Street Press

By Jiyeon Wood|July 15, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, China and Inner Asia, Films and Sound Recordings, Japan, Korea, Linguistics, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Music, Media and Film Studies, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia, Unknown|0 comments

We have trial access to Asian Film Online Volumes I and II from Alexander Street Press until 15th August 2014. Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts.This will be useful for scholarship in Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, political science, postcolonial theory and criticism, anthropology, and linguistics. Asian Film Online: Volume I features more than 600 hours of film across the region with

0907, 2014

South East Asia – April to June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General The aesthetics of grammar : sound and meaning in the languages of mainland Southeast Asia / edited by Jeffrey P. Williams Transnational dynamics in Southeast Asia : the greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits economic corridors / edited by Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane, Christian Taillard. Cold War Southeast Asia /Murfett, Malcom H. (Ebook) Brunei The history of the Sultans of Brunei accession to the throne / Pehin Jawatan Dalam

1306, 2014

Democracy Index 2013

By Victoria Bird|June 13, 2014|Africa, China and Inner Asia, Development Studies, Japan, Korea, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

Today, the BBC have highlighted the newly published 6th edition of the Democracy Index, from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), focusing on France. The report reflects the situation, as perceived by the EIU at the end of 2013. You can download this report for free from the Economist Intelligence Unit, although you do have to register for access. The report highlights a broader stagnation in the progress of the spread

0904, 2014

South East Asia – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 9, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General Troubling borders : an anthology of art and literature by Southeast Asian women in the diaspora / edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam, and Kathy L. Nguyen. Opium and empire in Southeast Asia : regulating consumption in British Burma / Ashley Wright. Burma/Myanmar Revealing Myanmar’s past : an anthology of archaeological articles / Myint Aung. War and tactics in traditional Myanmar : a study

0704, 2014

Journal back-files on open access, including Journal of the American Oriental Society

By Mary Fisk|April 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

(via the AWOL blog) – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/ The prestigious Journal of the American Oriental Society has made its out-of-copyright material available on open-access. Content covers research by American scholars and Orientalists on the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Open-access volumes cover Vol.1 (1843) to Vol. 42 (1922) Click here to go to Journal of the

0503, 2014

South East Asia – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General Buddhist narrative in Asia and beyond : in honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on her fifty-fifth birth anniversary / edited by Peter Skilling and Justin McDaniel. Ceramics of seduction : glazed wares from Southeast Asia / Dawn F. Rooney ; editors: Narisa Chakrabongse, Alice Williamson ; photography: Andrew Smart. Gambling with the land : the contemporary evolution of Southeast Asian agriculture / Rodolphe De Koninck, Jean-François