Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowBibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. It contains nearly 900,000 records on all subjects, especially humanities and social sciences (including but not limited to art, history, language, literature, religion, anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics) pertaining to East, Southeast and South Asia. Coverage is from 1971 to the present.