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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
25 Nov 1999
Journal of the Burma Research Society (JBRS) on CD-ROM
Book Promotion & Service, Bangkok, Thailand
Supplied note:
"iGroup, one of Asia's leading information management companies have
recently launched, Journal of the Burma Research Society (JBRS), on
CD-ROM. The full content, once thought lost altogether was
painstakingly compiled from various sources, in time for it's launch
date of December 1st 1999.
JBRS is made up of 59 volumes, published over a period of 70 years,
with a total of 377 authors represented and 631 subjects included. The
CD-ROM comprises of 136 Journals with more than 1300 articles, 30,000
pages of text and over 500 photos, graphs, charts and maps concerned
with Burma.
Like Journal of the Siam Society, JBRS was and still is the premier
research journal on Burma. The journal was originally published by The
Burma Research Society. From the start the Burma Research Society [active at
the Bernard Free Library, in Rangoon,
1910-1980 - ed.]
represented a fusion of the energy and initiative of a generation of
both Burmese and Europeans - early leading luminaries being John
S.Furnivall, Charles Duroiselle, U May Oung, Gordon Luce and U Pe
Maung Tin. The society's meetings and Journal were a forum for
enthusiastic debate and research on Burma for seventy years.
[...]
Searches of JBRS can be carried out by author, title, subject, volume
number and publication year."
[An advert for the CD-ROM publication. The site also offers a sampler of
online articles in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format from the JBRS
Vol 1 (1911). - ed.]
URL http://www.jbrs.book.co.th
Link suggested by: Tristan Barter (tristanb@book.co.th)
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