Asia-Pacific Digital Collections

• About SASI
• About the A-P Digital Collections

History and Scope

The Asia-Pacific Digital Collections began in 1995 with the Library's Southeast Asia Digital Data Project initiative aimed at enhancing access to the wealth of print information held at the ANU Library on Southeast Asia. Two separate initiatives were undertaken as part of this Project:

• the creation of an index to major academic and current affairs journals, chiefly from Indonesia and Malaysia, and
• the creation of a database of digitised texts of selected works on the Asia-Pacific from the Library's Rare Books Collection.
  

These developments resulted in the creation of the "Southeast Asian Serial Index" and the "Digital Collections".

Southeast Asian Serials Index (SASI)

Currently SASI indexes academic and current affairs journals published primarily, but not exclusively, in Southeast Asia. It also includes some major European publications. The number of journal titles indexed in SASI grew substantially in 1997 when the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) Library, in Leiden, The Netherlands, together with their Jakarta office, joined SASI as contributing partners. More information on this index can be found on the SASI site.

Digital Collections

Scanned images and/or text of the following works have been added to the database:

• Giles Pickford Photographic Collection [late 1800s to c. 1940]
• Handleiding ten dienste van de inlandsche bestuursambtenaren No. 13/0. E. Epidemie-Ordonnantie en Ontsmettingsreglement Uitgave van het Departement van Binnenlandsch Bestuur. Weltevreden - Landsdrukkerij, 1919.
• Manuscript poems of Kang Youwei relating to the "South Sea" ±d«n®ü¥ý¥Í¿ò¸Ö¤â½Z
  circa 1900
  
• Notice respecting the Natives of New Guinea by William Marsden. London, 1831.
• Some Notes on Java by Henry Scott Boys. Allahabad, 1892.

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