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:'''[https://www.asia-directories.org/focal/ The Asia Directories Database] 1863-1941. Nearly a complete sequence. Missing 1866, 1867, 1872, 1875, 1884, 1915, but 1875 and 1915 are available Archive.org '''. From The Institute For European Global Studies, the University of Basel. (More details<ref> [https://europa.unibas.ch/de/forschung/globalgeschichte-europas/global-information-at-a-glance/ Global Information at a Glance: Power, Law, and Commerce through the Lens of Asia Directories] Europainstitut, Universität Basel.</ref>)
:There is a Search Person function “Search the Database” (across the top of the webpage). This The quality of the Search results will be dependent on how good the transcription (presumably by OCR) has been.
:To browse individual volumes: Click on “Discover the Asia Directories”. Then click on “All years are selected” and there will be a drop down menu from which you can select the year. Then click on filter, near the Right hand side of the webpage. As an example [https://www.asia-directories.org/focal/discover/?tags%5B%5D=1919&filter=Filter 1919]
:To download, go back a step to where you have selected the year you require. Click on View souce. Currently (2023/01) it says Needs Login, but that does not appear to be a requirement. Click through to a page for [https://adc.ei-basel.hasdai.org/records/6cabe-xqc59 1919]. There may be several versions of the page available. Click on the latest. You can download from this page. You can also read on line from this page, but the book reader is smaller than that reached by the first quoted method. For 1919 the originating library is Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, however this volume does not appear to be available online on that Library’s website.
:[https://adc.ei-basel.hasdai.org/ Alternative access to the database](A University of Basel page.)
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