Monday, September 27, 2010

Evaluation of a Web Resource: Bibliography of Asian Studies

Institution: Association for Asian Studies

 
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is a great Web site source for teaching and research in Asian Studies. It is an online library, and it contains close to 747,000 books and journal articles. They are all about different countries in Asia. Bibliography of Asian Studies started their Asian journals and articles database since 1971. It offers two types subscription: organizational subscription and individual subscription. Researchers can just fill out the online form to subscript. The subscript can search their journal articles by either title or country -subject. The articles are displayed alphabetically, so it is very easy for research.  
The searchers can search by simple search, advance search and browse journals. Searchers can also use bookbag to save articles that they saved.  The Bibliography of Asian Studies also has their history to let people understand BAS’s past.
This Web side can help people to understand more about Asia culture. Readers can search any Asian countries that interested them.  The reason why I choose this Web site, I like Asia culture a lot. I think the BAS can help people who are interested in Asian culture in this class. 

Link #1    About the Bibliography of Asian Studies online
This link is about all kinds of basic information about the organization. It has many links also, connected to web history, scope notes, fast-track journal list, subject classification, and organization of entries, help and acknowledgment. The subscription form link is located here too. People can go through that link to subscript.
Link#2     BAS: Browse by Journal Title
This link is for someone who wants to search their journal article by the title.  The title is listed alphabetically, and it contains how many totals record and years.

  
Link#3     Advance Search the Bibliography of Asian Studies online
This link is for advance search for more specific information to find articles. People can type in author, title, and journal or subject to find the database.  People can also type in time period and types of books or journals to be more specific.
Evaluation:
This web is very easy to search the articles that researchers want. It has many ways to find the articles like search by title, country and advance search like published time, types of items and number of the pages. Those are very convenient to search. And the whole web’s layout is clear not confusing, people can easily find what they want at the first time they surf.

Work cite:
Bibliography of Asian Studies. Association for Asian Studies (1971).http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bas/. 9/23/10

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