Full text is available for about one half of the journals included and is, optionally, searchable. The Bibliography of Asian Studies is the standard bibliographical tool for Western-language publications in the field of East, South, and Southeast Asian Studies. It contains over 420,000 references to books, journal articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 to the present. It features citations to articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases.
Entries are accessible by subject, country, journal title, or via keyword searches.
Note that indexing of journals is from their first issues, some of which go back to the 18 th century. When complete, it is expected to contain records of approximately fifteen million journal articles from 3500 journals. PCI covers journals from North America, the United Kingdom and the rest of the English-speaking world and journals in other European languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish. PCI includes the complete table of contents for each issue of each journal. This database displays the tables of contents from about 7,000 journals and books.