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.

CrossAsia offers access to specialized information from the entire spectrum of humanities and social sciences from and about Asia. CrossAsia supports the Asia-related studies in research and teaching in Germany and beyond. It has developed outstanding, partly unique services for Asia-related research. Examples include the steadily growing set of licensed full-text databases with nationwide remote access; the CrossAsia Search, which, in addition to its own printed and electronic holdings, provides central access to Asia-related original-language bibliographic records in catalogues of national and international libraries; a full-text search which searches in the data pool of the Integrated Text Repository (ITR) with full-texts extracted from licensed databases; and Open Access E-Publishing services for eJournals, eBooks, and electronic primary and secondary publications. The CrossAsia portal was designed as a central access point for scientific information in the Asia-related studies. The portal has been set up by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Together with Heidelberg University Library and the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin runs the Specialised Information Service on Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien), which provides significant impetus for the development of the CrossAsia portal. On the CrossAsia website, Thematic Portals include Manchu Collection; "Bibliothek Otsuka“ – the Ōtsuka collection; Berlin-Krakow Project; Fung Asseng and Fung Ahok; Chagatai manuscripts (The Hartmann Collection); Chinese Medical Manuscripts; Travels in Southwest China; Japanese Students in Germany; Naval Kishore Press; and Odisha Bibliography. Digital collections include: the East Asia Collection; the Southeast Asia Collection; Berlin-Krakow Project; Qianlong’s “Battle Copper Prints;” Historical Mongolian Maps; Lao Manuscripts; Northern Thai Manuscripts; Literature on South Asia; Slide collection Sontheimer; Early Bengali Literature; and Documenta Nepalica.

The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. “Endangered” means material that is at risk of loss or decay, and is located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited. “Archives” refers to materials in written, pictorial or audio formats, including manuscripts, rare printed books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, photographs and sound recordings. The Endangered Archives Programme primarily funds digitization projects to record and preserve the content of archives. Our projects create digital material in a format that facilitates long-term preservation, and at least two copies of these are stored: a primary copy that remains at an appropriate repository in the country of origin, and a secondary copy held at the British Library. The EAP website provides access to these digital collections for research, education, and enjoyment. Digital collections reflect archives from many African, Caribbean, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, South American, South Asian, and Southeast Asian countries.

HathiTrust is a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions. Initially conceived as a collaboration between the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system, and the University of Virginia in order to establish a repository for those universities to archive and share their digitized collections, HathiTrust quickly expanded to include additional partners with a fast growing treasure of digitized collections.

Additional content and features are available to researchers and staff with patron accounts. Log In by clicking on the button in the upper right of the Hathi Trust website and following the instructions. Additional information is available here: HathiTrust Authentication Help

The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide “universal access to knowledge.” IA provides free access to collections of digitized materials, including millions of books; archived websites; software applications and games; music; movies and videos; and moving images. Projects include OpenLibrary, a catalog with more than 20 million online edition records and access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books; and the Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the World Wide Web. A collection of more than 166,000 digitized items from the Library of Congress is also available.

The Rekhta Foundation has the objective of promoting and disseminating Urdu literature, especially Urdu poetry to an audience beyond those conversant with the Urdu script. The site is the largest online repository of Urdu poetry anywhere, with over 30,000 Ghazals and Nazms of over 2,500 Urdu poets of over the last three centuries. It has started an initiative to digitize Urdu literature, both poetry and prose, in order to preserve rare and popular Urdu books. Apart from sourcing books from personal collections of various people, it is also associated with reputed libraries and organizations to digitize their collections. Urdu authors and publications are from all over the world, such as India, Pakistan, and the United States. Other resources available through Rekhta include an extensive Urdu dictionary, videos and audio clips of poets reading their works, and Urdu serials. The website is accessible in English, Hindi, and Urdu. Urdu-language content is in Arabic, Devanagari and Roman scripts.

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.

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. This major collaborative initiative is aimed at addressing the current scarcity of digital resources pertinent to South Asia studies and at making collections more widely accessible both to North American scholars and to researchers worldwide.