Laurance S. Rockefeller Libary Go to Library Home Page

Asian Studies

The Archive of Research in Archetypal Symbolism
This is an encyclopedic collection of 17,000 alchemical images and corresponding study sheets that draw on East-West traditions from 50,000 BCE to 2,000 CE .  Selected subjects of special interest for the CIIS community include: psychology, anthropology, archaeology, expressive arts, drama therapy, somatics, archaeomythology, mythology, theology, thealogy, spirituality, religion, philosophy, ecology, and cosmology.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco)
CIIS students, staff, and faculty are invited to use the Library collections of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco for their research.
Asian Studies (Virtual Library) (Internet)
This resource is a directory of over 10,000 scholarly information resources on the Internet. It deals with the Asian continent as a whole, as well as with individual Asian regions, countries, and territories. A distributed catalog, with 48 editors in 16 countries.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia, published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. 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 (such as RLIN, OCLC, etc.) Off-campus use requires password.
UC Berkeley East Asian Library
One of the most comprehensive collections of materials in East Asian Languages in the United States. The library has grown from 75,000 volumes at its founding in 1947 to more than ten times this number today. Currently it receives about 4,000 serial titles. Its combined holdings in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other East Asian languages form one of the top two such collections in the United States outside of the Library of Congress. Anyone may enter the Library and browse the collections. To borrow materials, a card is necessary. You may join the CA Alumni Association (you need not be a UCB alum) for $50 or purchase a library borrowing card for $100. Many materials found in the UC Berkeley Libraries may be requested via CIIS Library's Interlibrary Loan service.
UC Berkeley South/Southeast Asia Library
Includes the reference collection, a small non-circulating collection of basic works on the South/Southeast Asia region, and a collection of high-use periodicals. Anyone may enter the Library and browse the collections. Information about campus locations of circulating S/SE Asia collections detailed on the web site.
Password: Resources available to current CIIS staff, students and faculty. Enter last name and ID number to access off-campus.

CIIS Library Home  CIIS Library Site Map Top of Page

Contact us with your feedback or research questions.
June 11, 2007