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About CSEAS

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Library

The Library has the one of the largest and best collections in Japan on Southeast Asian area studies. The holdings of over 200,000 items include an increasing number of resource in the languages of Southeast Asia and various special collections. One of these is the Charas collection, which is outstanding for its more than 4,000 Thai "cremation volumes," considered the largest such collection outside Thailand. In addition, the Marcelino Foronda collection (approximately 7,000 volumes) and the Lamberto Ocampo collection (approximately 1,000 volumes) contain extensive Filipiniana materials including rare documents. In recent years, the Library has also been acquiring important research materials in microform and other formats such as VCDs, DVDs, ephemeras, etc. Microform holdings include historical research tools such as Cornell University's Echols Collection, the Dutch East India Company's Mailrapporten and colonial Memorie Van Overgave for Indonesian studies, the British Colonial Office (CO) 273 series for Malaysian studies, and the United States Department of State microfiche collection on the Marcos Years, 1964-86.

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Publication

 CSEAS publishes a quarterly journal called Tonan Ajia Kenkyu (Southeast Asian Studies, SEAS) to which the Center's research staff, as well as visiting and outside scholars, have contributed.
 The Center also publishes two research series in both English and Japanese - Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Kyoto Area Studies on Asia. Under the first series, 24 books have been published in Japanese (published for CSEAS by Sobun-sha) and 21 in English (published for CSEAS by the University of Hawai'i Press). Under the second series, 24 Japanese volumes have been published for the Center by Kyoto University Press and 22 English volumes have been jointly published by Kyoto University Press and Trans-Pacific Press (Melbourne). Both series originally published exclusively the works of the Center staff, but are now open to outside contributors. There is increasing demand for effective outlets of scholarship on Asian studies by Asian scholars. In respond to such demand we started a new series,Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies from Kyoto University Press and National University of Singapore Press in 2009. We hope that this new series will be another step towards securing paths for scholars both within and outside Japan to make available high quality Asian scholarship to a wider audience.
 Besides the quarterly journal and monographs, the Center publishes a Research Report Series which includes the proceedings of symposia and reports of joint research projects.
 In March 2002 the Center published the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (KRSEA), a biannual internet review journal of Southeast Asian books and affairs. KRSEA provides a venue to learn about important publications and debates in Southeast Asia, deepen international intellectual exchange, and enhance the visibility of national language-based writing.

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 In 2007, Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies started. This is a series published jointly by the four area studies institutions on Kyoto University campus: the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS); the Graduate School for Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS); the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS); and, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). Faculty members, young scholars and graduate students affiliated with these institutions are all wecome to contribute a paper in this series.
 The series focused on the bibliographical research on Southeast Asian Studies related resources CSEAS Bibliographical Series (in Japanese) have been published from 2006.
 Besides pullication above, CSEAS also publishes the Center's Newsletter, the CSEAS Report, Yoran (Report in Japanese) and the CSEAS brochure.

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Information Processing Office

CSEAS has been implementing many collaborative activities with domestic and international organizations and researchers in the field of area studies. To encourage these activities, the Information Processing Office was created to serves as the supervisor of all information-based infrastructures, including the transmission of such information. Concretely, this means the maintenance and management for the computing system and acting as consultant for the development of various systems.

 Links to major and current databases and joint projects: 
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

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GIS Lab

The GIS lab which was established in 2004 for GIS research and education. ArcGIS 9.0 for English runs in 6 machines at present and they are utilized for lectures, as well as research. Open source on Linux OS such as GIS software and server, Minnesota Map Server, Z39.50 Gateway Server and SQL Server are also available at the lab.

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Map Room

CSEAS holds about 40,000 sheets of maps of Southeast Asia and the surrounding areas of India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, China, Korea Peninsula, Australia, Pacific Islands and Japan. The publication dates of these maps vary from the pre-war period to more recent years when the aerial survey became available.

The CSEAS staff has been collecting satellite images since 1978, and today the Center holds about 3,500 scenes. In anticipation of the establishment of a new geographical information system, these maps ? as well as other data ? are now being digitalized.

Aerial photos of Southeast Asia and environs, Human Ecology Files and the CSEAS DVD collections are also available in the CSEAS Map Room. For the details of each collections, see “The CSEAS Map Room Collections and Databases” at Map Room website.

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