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Description		Asia-Studies Full-Text Online is a portal that provides access to reports, working paper series, and journals from Asia's most prestigious research institutions, covering business, economic, government, political, and social issues related to the nations of Asia-Pacific. Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies to name a few. Statistical reports on Asian countries are also available. The 53 countries covered by the database include all of Asia from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics and on east through Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands. Russia and Azerbaijan are also included, while the countries of the Middle East and the Arabian peninsula are not.
Dates covered		Dates of coverage vary according to the journal, or report series. The earliest material dates from 1979. Most of the reports begin in the mid-1990s, with more complete coverage after 2000. Statistical reports are available from 1999 to the present.
Updating frequency		Additions to the database are made monthly.
Sources		The following research organizations provide the reports and publications in the database: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat (APEC), Singapore Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila Australia South Asia Research Centre Australian APEC Study Centre, Melbourne Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Jakarta East-West Center, Honolulu Institute of Developing Economies - Japan External Trade Organization, Tokyo Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore Institute of S.E. Asian Studies, Singapore Japan Focus, Ithaca Lingnan University, Hong Kong Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney Mongolian-German Technical Cooperation (MIT-GTZ), Mongolia Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Manila Southeast Asia Research Centre University of Hong Kong APEC Study Center and Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy (HIEBS), Hong Kong PEC
Type of coverage		Reports, papers, and individual journals and newsletters are provided as full text in PDF format.
Print Counterpart or related resources		The database contains several major publications that are also issued in print, such as the Asian Development Outlook, Asian Development Review, and the Asia Economic Monitor. See IRIS for library holdings of specific individual titles.
Provider		Vendor and provider: International Information Services Content provider: Content is provided by the research institutions listed above under Sources.
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