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General Resources
- Asia for Educators is an initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.
- East Asian Resources from the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, brings together information about search engines, information sources, media, government websites and more.
- CrossAsia Fulltext Search is a service for discovering primary and secondary textual resources hosted in the CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository (ITR). Currently, it contains the full text of about 418,000 titles with 67,2 million archived pages.
- Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) was developed by an engineering team from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries, and brings together digitized collections from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions.
- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (IGCS) is an archived guide created by the Sinological Institute at Leiden University, Netherlands, with links to academic institutions, new media, scholarly journals and full-text databases.
- South and Southeast Asian Studies contains recommended electronic resources and library guides from the Columbia University Libraries.
- Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library is an archived digital library that originally kept track of leading information facilities in the field of Tibetan studies.
Journals
- CiNii Research is a Japanese database that enables users to search not only for academic journal articles, but also for research data and project information. Most recent version also integrates book and dissertation search options.
- Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals in a wide range of disciplines, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong.
- MCLC Resource Center is the online face of the print journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. It publishes articles and book reviews, and also houses bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese culture.
Maps
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCLMC) at the University of Texas-Austin comprises more than 350,000 items representing all areas of the world. Sections on Asia, Pacific and the Middle East, as well as Topical Maps, might be of particular interest.
- David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 200,000 maps from around 1550 to the present. It focuses on rare maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, wall maps, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials.
- Old Maps Online is an online search catalog that allows visitors to locate and explore historical maps from libraries around the world. One of the goals of the project is to build a community of maps enthusiasts and crowdsource information. Creating an account lets users georeference, upload and favorite maps they find on the web.
- EdMaps is a free online cartographic resource that collects links to scanned or custom-made maps of various regions and countries of the world. World Historical Maps section contains maps and atlases of China, India, Japan, Korea, Middle East and more.
- Map Collections of the Library of Congress make up one of the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collections in the world with over 5.5 million maps, 80,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, over 500 globes and globe gores, 3,000 raised relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including over 19,000 CDs/DVDs.
History & Culture
- Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the Silk Road theme to explore cultural interactions across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the 17th century.
- World History Archives by Hartford Web Publishing offers documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. A mix of academic and non-academic sources on various parts of Asia, organized by region and topic.
- Treasures of the Asia Collections is a digital exhibit designed to showcase some of the many items in the Cornell University Library's collection documenting the cultures of Asia.
- Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization across the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
- Tibetan Oral History Archive Project (TOHAP) is a digital online web archive of oral history interviews in Tibetan and Chinese, with accompanying written transcripts and glossary in English, that documents the social and political history of modern Tibet.
Film
- Cambridge South Asian Archive at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge holds approximately 50 individual collections of digitized films, made between 1911 and 1956, offering a unique perspective on contemporay life in South Asia.
- Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies, with over 150 films available for viewing online.
- Chinese Movie Database is a searchable database of films produced in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1905 to the present.
- Chinese Film Classics is a project, a book, and a website dedicated to making early Chinese films and cinema history more accessible, led by UBC professor Dr. Christopher Rea.
- HanCinema - The Korean Movie & Drama Database was founded by Cédric Collemine during the summer of 2003 in Korea as a way to present and organize Korean films, directors and actors to non-Korean reading audience.
- Japanese Animated Film Classics operated by the National Film Archive at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the site was established to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japanese animation (1917-2017).
- Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese Cinema is a retired, non-profit initiative created and maintained by Japanese film enthusiasts from England and Holland. It contains film and book reviews, interviews, best of lists etc.
- The Indian Movie Database (TIMDB) is a data-driven approach to understanding and studying Bollywood, the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, India. TIMDB offers a comprehensive and up-to-date dataset of over 10,000 movies.