General encyclopedias, handbooks etc. Essential Sources leaflets for subjects you are studying, such as Economics or Politics. From 1956 to 1968 it formed part of the Journal of Asian Studies shelved at DS 1 J86.
Arrangement is classified with subject and author indexes.
Indexing some 1700 periodicals, this covers all areas of the social sciences, from 1981 forwards, and is updated weekly. Web of science can be used in conjunction with the more specialised indexes that exist in most subject areas. It is also possible to recreate the tables of contents pages from periodicals. UnCover offers various current awareness services, plus document ordering facilities for which you can set up an account. Updated daily, so even more current than Web of Science but access over the Internet may be slow.