iGroup, one of Asia's leading information management companies have recently launched, Journal of the Burma Research Society (JBRS), on CD-ROM. The full content, once thought lost altogether was painstakingly compiled from various sources, in time for it's launch date of December 1st 1999.

JBRS is made up of 59 volumes, published over a period of 70 years, with a total of 377 authors represented and 631 subjects included. The CD-ROM comprises of 136 Journals with more than 1300 articles, 30,000 pages of text and over 500 photos, graphs, charts and maps concerned with Burma.

Like Journal of the Siam Society, JBRS was and still is the premier research journal on Burma. The journal was originally published by The Burma Research Society. From the start the Burma Research Society represented a fusion of the energy and initiative of a generation of both Burmese and Europeans - early leading luminaries being John S.Furnivall, Charles Duroiselle, U May Oung, Gordon Luce and U Pe Maung Tin. The society's meetings and Journal were a forum for enthusiastic debate and research on Burma for seventy years.

The Burma Research Society was inaugurated on 29 March 1910 at a meeting held at the Bernard Free Library, Rangoon. Its aims were " the investigation and encouragement of Art, Science and Literature in relation to Burma and the neighbouring countries ". In 1980, the Society celebrated its seventieth anniversary with a conference at Rangoon University, but was closed down soon after and its Journal ceased publication.

Searches of JBRS can be carried out by author, title, subject, volume number and publication year. The CD-ROM contains 2 Versions: Academic Version and Web Version. Upon installation, users can choose either version. The Academic Version comes with user friendly search options, advanced sorting of search results and customised print out features for reference purpose. The Web Version can accept either Internet Explorer or Netscape as its browser for searching the database and viewing articles. It can also act as a web server so that any type of computer in your network (Mac, Unix or Windows) can use the database in searching and viewing articles through their installed web browser.

More information and an online trial of JBRS can be found at http://www.jbrs.book.co.th. For ordering information and special discount rates please contact Tristan Barter of Book Promotion & Service Co., Ltd. at tristanb@book.co.th.