ABIA Update
Search the ABIA index! * By ELLEN RAVEN
The International Institute for Asian Studies offers a fast and easy route to information on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. From the enigmatic script of the Indus civilization in Pakistan to the reliefs of the Borobudur, from Buddhist paintings along the Silk Road to contemporary Asian art shows, the ABIA Index database brings detailed bibliographical information to your desktop to help you find the latest publications.
Next to prehistory and archaeology, arts and architecture, the database also covers such fields as textiles and ceramics, inscriptions and palaeography, coins and seals. The database is compiled by a team of specialists at expertise centres cooperating in a global ABIA network coordinated by the IIAS in Leiden. Selections from the database are collected in the ABIA Index in print. Volume 1 appeared in 1999 and is available at the IIAS; ABIA Index 2 is expected to be out by the early autumn of this year. *
The database can be visited at http://www.abia.net; searching and downloading is free of charge.