Southeast Asian Series Index
The Southeast Asia Serials Index (SASI), a joint Australian National
University (ANU) Library/KITLV Library project, was officially launched at the
65th IFLA Council and General Conference, Bangkok, August 20-August 28, 1999,
by Dr. R.G.Tol, Chief Librarian (KITLV).
SASI was pioneered by staff of ANU Library (Asia Pacific) in 1995 as the
Indonesian Serials Database. In 1998, the Library of the Royal Institute
of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) in Leiden, The Netherlands, joined the
project and a full-time indexer was appointed at the ANU Library to work on
the database.
The KITLV Library provides indexing to 30 of the total of 78 journals, using
English language keywords, except for specialised vernacular terms. To date
22,305 articles have been added to the index, and the site has been visited
6635 times within the past 12 months, 787 of these being repeat visits.
SASI is the only online service providing access to information on Southeast
Asia through the indexing of major academic and current affairs journals
published in a range of countries, mainly Indonesia, but including Malaysia,
Japan, Australia, and The Netherlands.