Contains nearly 825,000 entries covering books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all subjects (but primarily in the humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, South, and Southeast Asia. Citations are drawn not only from the 100 most important Western-language journals in Asian studies, but also from thousands of other journals. The Bibliography also contains hundreds of thousands of citations to monographs published between 1971 and 1991, and to edited volumes published since 1971.

British Online Archives (BOA) builds upon a long and illustrious history of archival publishing and preservation that stretches back almost sixty years, operating under its parent trading company, Microform Academic Publishers. The BAO Collections are divided into twelve broad topics. Within each of these, there are smaller collections that make up the topical divisions:

• Anglo-American Relations
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900
• Colonial & Missionary Records
• Communist Party of Great Britain
• First World War: Difference Perspectives
• Industrial Revolution
• People & Protest in Britain and Abroad, 1800-2000
• Political History
• Records of the Raj
• Religion
• Science & Medicine

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) holds approximately five million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Current acquisitions emphasize materials produced outside the United States, especially publications and archives from developing regions. CRL's Area Microform Projects are important sources of this material. Included in this resource are:

• The Cooperative Africana Materials Project (CAMP) is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and CRL to promote preservation of the publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa. To access all CAMP collections, click here.
  
• LAMP (formerly known as the Latin American Microform Project) acquires, preserves, and maintains collections of unique, rare, and bulky or voluminous Latin American research materials for its subscribers. To access all LAMP collections, click here.
  
• The Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) preserves collections of unique, rare, hard to obtain, and often expensive research material for Middle East studies. To access all MEMP collections, click here.
  
• The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) strives to cooperate with libraries and archives worldwide to preserve unique or endangered materials for the study of South Asia. To access all SAMP collections, click here.
  
• The Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM) provides subscribing institutions with better coverage of research materials related to the study of Southeast Asia. To access all SEAM collections, click here.
  
• The Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP) acquires unique, rare, and unusually bulky or expensive research material pertaining to the field of Slavic and East European studies. To access all SEEMP collections, click here.

From 16th-century origins as a trading venture to the East Indies, through to its rise as the world’s most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amid allegations of greed and corruption, the East India Company was an extraordinary force in global history for three centuries.

• This digital resource allows students and researchers to access a vast and remarkable collection of primary source documents from the India Office Records held by the British Library, the single most important archive for the study of the East India Company.


• From before the Company’s charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947, the East India Company resource tells the story of trade with the East, politics, and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting lives – from those of powerful political figures to ordinary people in Britain and Asia and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire.


• This incredible story is told through the manuscript records of the period, with over 1.2 million pages of content digitised. This ambitious project transforms the accessibility of these archival documents, with enhanced viewing and browsing tools allowing for easy navigation.


• This is simply an essential resource for scholarship of British imperial history, maritime trade, global commerce, and the history of the first great multinational corporation.

Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947. This module consists of the complete IOR classes A, B, C, and D and their associated Z-class indexes, comprising 932 volumes, including the East India Company’s charters, statutes, and treaties; minutes of the meetings of the Courts of Directors and Proprietors; the minutes and memoranda of the Council of India; the minutes and memoranda of the general committees and offices of the East India Company; and indexes to selected documents.

Module 2: Factory Records for South Asia and Southeast Asia. This consists of 919 volumes from 34 factories or factory groups.

Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan, and the Middle East. This consist of 641 volumes from 7 factories or factory groups.

Empire Online is a powerful and interactive collection of over 70,000 images of primary source documents, sourced from leading archives around the world. This project has been developed to encourage researchers to explore colonial history, politics, culture and society. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism. There is a good balance between highly indexed manuscript and full text printed material, with a broad range of document types written by women and men from the European and non-European perspective. The Image Gallery also showcases stunning color photographs and illustrations from the collection.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. Access is available to the 2nd (new) edition, the 3rd edition, and the Encyclopaedia of Islam Glossary and Index of Terms. Additionally, access is provided to the Historical Atlas of Islam, 1st and 2nd editions.

Section I. Independence, partition, and the Nehru era, 1947-64 - - Section II. South Asian conflicts and independence for Bangladesh, 1964-71 - - Section III. Afghanistan and the Cold War, emergency rule in India, and the resumption of civilian rule in Pakistan, 1972-80.

These three collections consist of the British Government's files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. This was a turbulent era in the region's history. The partition of 1947 and the splitting apart of Pakistan in 1971 were accompanied by loss of life and enormous population movements, as refugees fled violence or ethnic conflict. India fought Pakistan twice in Kashmir, in 1947-8 and 1965, and China in the Himalayas in 1962. Stable and democratic government proved elusive outside India, the region experiencing a succession of coups: in Pakistan in 1958 and 1977, in Afghanistan in 1973, 1978 and 1979, and in Bangladesh in 1975 democracy underwent a flowering and then a withering in Nepal, where King Mahendra established a partyless autocracy in 1959. Even in India, which had successfully established a democratic, secular state at independence, the government of India Gandhi became increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent in the 1970s, imprisoning hundreds of opponents.

From the perspectives of the Cold War superpowers of the era, South Asia was a decisive military and ideological battleground. Britain maintained naval bases in Ceylon after its independence and established a significant RAF presence in the Maldives in 1971 an American airbase was set up on the British island of Diego Garcia. Pakistan became a significant ally of the United States, which supplied arms and military technology it also joined CENTO, an alliance intended to stop Soviet expansion into the Middle East. In contrast, India under Nehru followed a neutral course, being instrumental in the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement, until it was forced to look to western aid when faced with a hostile China. The 1970s also saw both India and Pakistan develop nuclear weapons.

Rare Printed Books from The Valmadonna Trust Library, London. The Valmadonna Collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India is a unique and unparalleled resource for the study of oriental printing and lithography, Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. IDC Publishers will make the entire corpus of Indian Jewish literature accessible to researchers for the first time.

During World War I, Indian nationalists took advantage of Great Britain's preoccupation with the European war by attempting to foment revolution in India to overthrow British rule. Their activities were aided politically and financially by the German Government. Indian nationalists in the United States were active in the independence movement effort through fundraising, arms buying, and propagandizing through the Hindustan Ghadar newspaper published in San Francisco. This resource contains General Records of the Department of Justice, including classified subject files Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as Records of U.S. Attorneys and Marshals.

Provides historical material from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland covering South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. India, Raj and Empire traces social and urban history, Indian politics, the growth of Nationalism, and colonial administration. The Raj typically refers to areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, as well as the princely states ruled by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown - which in this resource includes Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore. Thematic areas that can be browsed:

• The East India Company: Government and Administration c.1750-1857
• Agriculture and Trade c.1750-1857
• Society, Travel and Leisure c.1750-1857
• The Mysore and Maratha Wars Indian Uprising 1857-58
• The Raj: British Government and Administration of India after 1858
• Agriculture and Trade after 1858
• Society, Travel and Leisure after 1858 India: Literature, History and Culture.

Over 16,000 pages of State Department Central Files on India and Pakistan from 1963 through 1966 make this collection a standard documentary resource for the study of the political relations between India and Pakistan during a crucial period in the Cold War and the shifting alliances and alignments in South Asia.

Independent India’s first years were marked with turbulent events--partition, a massive exchange of population with Pakistan, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the integration of over 500 princely states to form a united nation. This collection identifies the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of the Subcontinent between 1945 and 1949, and places them in the context of the complex and dynamic regional strategic, political, and economic processes that have fashioned India in the postwar period.

For generations of British and Indian Officers and men, the North-West Frontier was the scene of repeated skirmishes and major campaigns against the trans-border Pathan tribes who inhabited the mountainous no-man's land between India and Afghanistan. This collection contains Army Lists Orders Instructions Regulations Acts Manuals Strength Returns Orders of Battle Administration Summaries organization, commissions, committees, reports, maneuvers departments of the Indian Army and regimental narratives. This collection is a welcome addition to the new-flourishing literature on the military history of South Asia and the growing field of serious study of the British military experience in India.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has been the pre-eminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology. It has won numerous awards, including the Dartmouth Medal, the New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book award, and Library Journal's award as one of the 50 Reference Sources for the Millennium. Now for the first time, the entire set of 10 print volumes is available as a single, integrated online database, with additional features from Alexander Street Press. The second release includes the entire set of 10 print volumes (over 9,200 pages) as well as complete indexing for genre, subject, instrument, place, person, ensemble, and cultural group, as well as links to the associated audio examples for each volume. Vol. 1, Africa - vol. 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean - vol. 3, the United States and Canada - vol. 4, Southeast Asia - vol. 5, South Asia: the Indian Subcontinent - vol. 6, the Middle East - vol. 7, East Asia: China, Japan, Korea - vol. 8, Europe - vol. 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands - vol. 10, the World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools.

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, leading scholars have produced a literary guide to the most important and significant sources in an area of study they know best. The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. The citations promote discoverability as they link out to the sources via your library collection or through Google books and more. Bibliographies are currently available in the following areas:

• Anthropology
• Classics
• Philosophy
• Islamic Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Biblical Studies
• Buddhism

A companion archive to India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949, this collection traces the end of British India and the emergence of modern Pakistan. Representative documents with valuable details include the Economic Survey, dated April-June 1949, and issued by the Board of Economic Inquiry, West Punjab, Lahore, and Dacca Newsletter, dated July 1949. The collection is sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State. The records are under the jurisdiction of the Legislative and Diplomatic Branch of the Civil Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

PressReader provides instant online access to today's newspapers and popular periodicals from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes more than 6,000 U.S. and international titlesfrom over 100 countries in over 60 languages. Just like reading a print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. The service also provides up to a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire backfile.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II to local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers reveals the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.

Newspapers include: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger; The American Israelite; The Atlanta Constitution; Atlanta Daily World; The Baltimore Afro-American; The Baltimore Sun; The Boston Globe; Chicago Defender; Chicago Tribune; The Christian Science Monitor; Cleveland Call and Post; Detroit Free Press; The Guardian and The Observer; Hartford Courant; The Jewish Advocate; The Jewish Exponent; Los Angeles Sentinel; Los Angeles Times; New York Amsterdam News; The New York Times; New York Tribune/Herald Tribune; Norfolk Journal and Guide; Philadelphia Tribune; Pittsburgh Courier; San Francisco Chronicle; St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Times of India; The Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post

Provides extensive coverage of the case law, statutes, regulations, and bills of India. Additionally, the database provide significant coverage of secondary Indian legal material, including Constituent Assembly Debates, commission and committee reports, legal articles, treaties, and policy documents. Finally, the database provide full text of the Court of Appeals and the High Court judgements for over 20 countries, with emphasis on the courts of South Asian and African countries.
Users need to click on the Login link at the top of the webpage and then click the Guest Login link to access the database.

The South Asia Archive is a specialist digital platform providing global electronic access to culturally and historically significant literary material produced from within - and about - the South Asian region. It is not merely a repository, but a vehicle for targeted research, and one which has been intelligently structured to ensure efficient content discovery.

• Documents have been selected and catalogued by subject specialist editors, with expert commentaries provided to guide users through serial content.
• The archive contains millions of pages of digitized primary and secondary material in a mix of English and vernacular languages dating back to the start of the eighteenth century, up to the mid-twentieth century.
• It is derived from original archive materials held by the The South Asia Research Foundation.
• It provides online access to previously unavailable resources in South Asian studies.
• It is a versatile resource with benefits for researchers, lecturers, and students across a diverse range of subject areas.

Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive will advance research and offer opportunities for fresh insight across wide-ranging academic disciplines. This expanding online resource was created in partnership between Readex, a division of NewsBank, and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Providing exact digital replicas of newspapers, the World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices and more, these historical newspapers offer students, teachers and scholars new perspectives on local, national and global issues as well as on daily life around the world.

The South Asian Newspaper Collection is comprised of searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featured are titles from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center, formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center is a 501c nonprofit organization dedicated to seeking out, preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature. Joining digital technology with scholarship, BDRC ensures that the ancient wisdom and cultural treasures of the Buddhist literary tradition are not lost, but are made available for future generations. BDRC is committed to seeking out, preserving, organizing, and disseminating Buddhist literature. Founded in 1999 by E. Gene Smith, BDRC is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and hosts a digital library of the largest collection of digitized Tibetan texts in the world. Current programs focus on the preservation of texts in Pali, Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan.
For complete access and help see staff in the Asian Reading Room.