On-line Resources
Useful URLs by Subject
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- Japanese Studies
- Korean Studies
- Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- South Asian Studies
General
Last updated April 2013
DICTIONARIES
Oxford English Dictionary online (O.U.P.)
Oxford language dictionaries online (O.U.P. Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish)
Oxford Reference Online (Contains dictionaries in every subject: Art and Architecture, Classics, Computing, English Dictionaries & thesauruses, English Language Reference e.g. Dictionary of Abbreviations, Grammar, History, Literature and many more. Also includes bilingual dictionaries: French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Welsh and Irish).
DISSERTATIONS
EThOS (Electronic Thesis Online Service)
Ph.D. theses submitted at almost 100 UK universities are obtainable from EThOS, a service set up to provide access to all theses from participating institutions whether paper based or electronic. It achieves this by harvesting e-theses from Institutional Repositories and by digitising paper based theses as they are ordered by researchers using the system. Over 250,000 theses are already available in this way. Please note that the service is still in beta testing and that it does not yet supply theses submitted at the universities of Cambridge or Oxford although they are listed on EThOS. The service is managed by the British Library.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
A good starting point for discovering freely available electronic theses and dissertations beyond the UK. NDLTD facilitates searching across institutions.
(Accessible via cam domain or using RAVEN password outside the cam domain.)
The University Library subscribes to this database which includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations, representing 700 leading academic institutions worldwide from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. There is a charge for ordering a dissertation from this source which is payable to ProQuest. The cost is dependent on the format selected.
E- BOOKS
Cambridge Companion Online
RAVEN password is needed outside the Cambridge University network.
Cambridge Histories Online
RAVEN password is needed outside the Cambridge University network.
E-books at Cambridge
Contains full-text electronic books published in the series 'Cambridge Companion to...' , Cambridge History of...', Routledge publications, Oxford Reference Online and many other databases.
Electronic resources at Cambridge
Cambridge University Library
RAVEN password is needed for use outside the Cambridge domain.
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Google Books
Book search works just like web search. A keyword search searches the entire content of the book.
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
University of California Press Books
Free e-books published between 1982 - 2004 are availabale to the public (FULL TEXT).
E-JOURNALS
LIBRARIES/INSTITUTIONS
British Library Document Supply Centre
For ordering journal articles or books. Alternatively, you could do it through the Inter-Library Loan Department at the Cambridge University Library. Staff and PhD students of the Faculty can order inter-library books through the Faculty Librarian.
Cambridge University Language Centre Resources
Please note that most of the resources are not borrowable, but are available on instant access for use in the Language Centre.
Inter-library loans via the Cambridge University Library.
World of Learning
Tool for finding out addresses of higher educational institutions around the world and email addresses of the people who work within them. Regularly updated. You will need a RAVEN password if you want to use it outside the Cambridge domain.
INTERNET RESOURCES/SEARCH ENGINES
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
- Search diverse sources from one convenient place
- Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
- Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
Intute
Supported by the Art & Humanities Research Council. Actively this service maintains an expanding database of over 100,000 high quality websites and Internet resources that are relevant to academic work in Arts & Humanities, Social Scieneces, Science Engineering and Technology, and Health and Life Sciences. Offers virtual training.
Online Cultural Training Resource for Study Abroad
This material was developed to support and enhance a student’s ability to make successful cultural adjustments both before going overseas and upon returning home from studying abroad. It was produced primarily for traditional-aged, undergraduate US-American university students. Those preparing to participate in a study abroad program will find the first seven sections useful while those who are about to, or have, returned home from an international program can refer to the final four sections. The focus is generally on the concept of culture and how it impacts one’s ability to understand and function in a new and unfamiliar environment. It concentrates on the skills, attitudes, and behaviors which all study abroad students, regardless of their specific destination, will find useful.
Asian general
Last updated April 2013
Asia Findouter
Provides access to China, India and Singapore search engines.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Standard bibliographical tool in the field of Asian studies. Contains over 640,000 references to individually authored monographes, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. published since 1971. Searchable by keywords and can be browsed by country/subject or by journal title. RAVEN password is needed outside the Cambridge domain.
Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
CrossAsia
The East and Southeast Asia Virtual Library developed by the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its project partners. It offers access to research information in East and Southeast Asian studies. Main features include meta-search of more than 16 library catalogues in Western and Asian languages; 'Databases' provides access to selected databases (articles) which are subject to licence (users have to register with CrossAsia); 'Online Guide East Asia': a collection of links to electronic resources of interest to East and South Asian Studies; 'Digital Collection': portal to digitised sources of special collection area of the Staadsbibliothek in Berlin.
Chinese Studies
Last updated April 2013
CATALOGUES
Cambridge University/Chinese Collection
Provides comprehensive information on how to find Chinese publications (monographs and journals etc., printed or online) held in Cambridge and in the UK. It also provides links to important websites (dictionaries, online bookshops, online books and journals, maps, government websites etc.)
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Chinese
COPAC (The Union Catalogue of the Consortium of Research Libraries)
Searchable in romanised form but links to full Chinese vernacular bibliographic records are also available.
School of Oriental & African Studies Library
Sinological Serials in European Libraries Project (SSELP)
Use this site to look for holdings of Chinese journals and newspapers in European libraries.
UK Union Catalogue of Chinese Books - Chinese & Romanised search
Contains all Chinese publications (including serials) available in participating UK libraries.You can perform simultaneous search of all library catalogues or select the library of your interest. (use 'HELP' button for instructions).
Union List of Chinese Serials in Cambridge
WorldCat
Includes a vast number of Chinese monographs as well as European publications on China. Searchable in Chinese. RAVEN password is required to use this database outside the Cambridge domain.
SUBSCRIPTION-BASED ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture Available from CAM DOMAIN only.
Cambridge History of China Available from CAM DOMAIN only.
Chinese ANcient Texts (CHANT) Accessible from CAM DOMAIN only.
Concordances to texts and epigraphy.
China Digital Library (中华数字书苑) Accessible from CAM DOMAIN only. For further instruction on searching the database click HERE
It comprises five full text databases:
1. EBook Database comprising: 电子图书 (Ebooks) (144,670 titles); 国学要览 (Ancient Books) (6,294 titles); Beijing Review (1958-2008) (2,325 issues)
2.
Newspaper Database (10 titles)
3. Reference Database (10 titles)
4. Yearbook Database (10 titles)
5. Fine Arts Database (1 category)
You will be promted to download a software to be able to access the database. We have downloaded this software on all computers in the Photocopy Room of the Library
Chinese Academic Journals Accessible from cam domain only.
Provides access to China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ) and Century Journals Project (CJP) databases. These full text databases contain online journals in Literature, History and Philosophy, Economics, Politics and Law, Military Affairs, Education and Social Sciences, Electronics and Information Science. For a FULL LIST of available journals click HERE for the UL's Chinese Department website.
Oxford Chinese Dictionary online Available on and off campus (RAVEN password).
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services Available on and off campus ( RAVEN password).
TEPS is an on-line database offering full-text Taiwan periodicals around the world. Currently TEPS contains more than 900 Taiwan Periodicals in various disciplines.
INSTITUTIONS
Cambridge University Library Chinese Department
Cambridge University Language Centre - Chinese
Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
University of Oxford: East Asia
INTERNET RESOURCES/REFERENCE TOOLS
Chinese studies on the World Wide Web
An excellent collection of websites for students and researchers provided by the Chinese Department at the Cambridge University Library.
Findouter China
Web directory for China.
History Timeline
Useful reference tool for looking up brief description and map of each dynasty, dates and
the Chinese characters of dynasties and emperors.
Internet guide to Chinese studies
Contains essential full text databases (classical and modern), digital research libraries such as the National Library of France and others, research papers and theses online. Searchable by keywords.
Intute: Chinese Studies
Collection of Web resources for the study of the Chinese language, literature, or the history and culture of China.
China Education and Research Network
Roel Sterckx's Early China Resource Collection
Contains links to websites and on-line bibliographies useful for the study of early Chinese thought & religion, literature, and cultural history.
Hebrew and Semitic Studies
Last updated April 20123
INSTITUTIONS/LIBRARIES
British Library Hebrew Collection
Cambridge University Language Centre - Hebrew
Cambridge University Library - Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
Cambridge University Library - Near and Middle Eastern Section
University of Oxford: Hebrew & Jewish Studies
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
Click on 'Cambridge Collections Online' and search for the book or search the Newton Catalogue. Available on and off campus via RAVEN login.
Click on Cambridge Collections Online and search for
Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
INTERNET RESOURCES
The Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
Mapping Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire
Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Japanese Studies
Last updated April 2013
CATALOGUES OF JAPANESE MONOGRAPHS AND SERIALS
CiNii Books: English interface; Japanese interface
Most up-to-date union catalogue. It contains the bibliographic record of most Japanese publications with their holding libraries. Bibliographic records appear in this database immediately after they have been catalogued. Searchable in Japanese. Search can be limited to UK libraries, participating European countries, Asia. Japan etc. If you wish to search the Japanese collection of the Cambridge University Library only, use the 'Advanced search' screen and enter Cambridge's Library ID: FA012976. To limit your search to a specific library, you can look up individual Library IDs HERE. (Please note that not all monographs in SOAS Library can be retreived in this database.) Unrestricted access.
CiNii Articles: English interface ; Japanese interface
This is a service that provides information on scholastic articles, with an emphasis on Japanese papers. It allows users to find articles by navigating a large volume of information including periodicals published byJapanese scholastic societies, research bulletins published by Japanese universities, and the National Diet Libraryperiodicals index database.Through joint collaborations, it also provides links to full text documents and other services.
European Union Catalogue of Japanese Books (Vernacular, WWW, Allegro version). Bibliographic records are derived once a month from NACSIS-CAT/CiNii, so its content is not as up-to-date as the above.
National Diet Library (国立国会図書館)
Includes thousands of digitized books, both modern and classical.
Newton Catalogue
Includes the Japanese Collection of the Cambridge University Library. Although most Japanese bibliographic records published since 2004 can also be retrieved in Japanese (keyword search only), for best result search in Romaji.
UK Union Catalogue of Japanese Books (Vernacular)
A bibliographic database of Japanese publications and their holding libraries in the UK derived from NACSIS Webcat (CiNii). Can be searched in Romaji (e.g. Toukyou, Butsukou etc.), Kanji or Katakana. For best best result, search in Kanji or Katakana. (Please note that not all the SOAS records are included.)
Union catalogue of Early Japanese Books in Europe: in English ; in Japanese
SUBSCRIPTION-BASED E-RESOURCES
accessable via the Cambridge University Library's Electronic Resources site
Cambridge History of Japan(Available on or off campus. RAVEN password required off campus.)
You will need to search for the title 'Cambridge History of Japan' within the 'Cambridge Histories Online' database.
JapanKnowledge + NK (Accessible on or off campus. Click ''Login-Enter'))
Portal to Japanese encyclopaedias, dictionaries and databases. The version that we are subscribing to, JapanKnowledge+NK, also includes Nihon Kokugo Dai Jiten (N), the largest Japanese language dictionary, and Kokushi Dai Jiten (K), 古事類苑 (Koji Ruien) with “search” function and the whole 古典文学ライブラ リー. From March 2013, 日本人物文献目録and 日本架空伝承人名事 典 will also be added. It also includes full text online articles from 週刊エコノミスト including the latest issue published on Mondays.
Kikuzo II (Accessible on campus only. Click “Enter (SSL)”. If you want to read today’s articles, add today’s date in both columns.)
Database which enables the user to search and read articles carried by The Asahi Shimbun (and Shukan Asahi and Aera) over the past 130 years. Along with "Historical Photo Archives", articles from the Meiji, the Taisho, and the Showa era have been included to the current database. To read the most recent articles of Asahi Shinbun (+ Shukan Asahi and Aera), select today’s date in the box of 発行日 and select “のみ”. Shukan Asahi is published on Fridays and Aera is on Mondays.
Nikkei Telecom 21 (Available on and off campus. Click 'Log-in' after ticking the terms and conditions agreement button and then click on 'SETSUZOKU'.)
Comprehensive online business database covering Nihon Keizai Shinbun and related newspapers and other publications. The service includes full text search of Nikkei's four business newspapers, company information search, Who's Who search and Time Nikkei flash news. There is an English menu which provides not only round-the-clock Nikkei news translated from the Nikkei's newspapers but also full contents of the Nikkei Weekly which is an English paper published by Nikkei. Not searchable by keyword from text.
Yomidasu Rekishikan
Only previous day's and older articles from the Yomiuri Shinbun are accessible online via this service. Available on and off campus (with Raven password). On the first screen, choose “Heisei” then in the search screen, choose “一致” instead of “範囲” in the 検索期間（search period） box and then add the date of the previous day (yesterday).
Zasshi kiji sakuin
Important research tool for finding journal articles. It is a major index to scholarly journals, academic bulletins and magazines published in Japan and held in the NDL. It contains citations of journal articles, and NOT the full text articles themselves. Since it is not a 24 hour service, beware of the time difference!
USEFUL SITES TO FIND FULL TEXT E-JOURNALS
JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online)
An electronic archive system which accumulates and stores intellectual products of Japanese academic institutions in electronic form and discloses them free of charge. Includes journal articles, thesis, disssertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers etc. The metadata can be searched cross-sectionally. In October 2008 it contained 540,000 contents from 84 Japanese institutional repositories.
Japanese Journal Resources Navigator: TOCs, Indexes, Abstracts and Full Text (日本語学術雑誌情報源ナビ：目次サイト、記事索引・抄録、全文情報データベース)
J-Stage
In Japanese and in English. Contains free online journals and proceedings in all subjects including Humanities and social sciences.
PORTA (国立国会図書館デジタルアーカイブポータル)
In Japanese and in English
FREE E-RESOURCES for research
Aozora Bunko
Aozora Bunko
has made 4000 Japanese ebooks available from its public domain archive via the Internet Archive's OPen Library. Titles include famous japanese authors (e.g. Natsume Soseki, Mori Ogai, Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Murasaki Shikibu etc.) Searchable in Japanese ot English.
Ajia Rekishi Shiryo Senta (JACAR: Japan Center for Asian Historical Records)
(アジア歴史資料センター): in Japanese ; in English
Digital archive of primary sources. This site provides access to official documents, dating from the Meiji era through 1945, of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy. In an effort to share history as it has been documented, JACAR's archives showcase the original records, including full images of the documents, all in digitized form, on an unprecedented scale.Can be browsed & searchable by keywords.
Digital Library from the Meiji Era
(近代デジタルライブラリー (National Diet Library)
251,00o volumes from the Meiji and Taisho era are available over the Internet. Excludes Showa Zenki (138,000 volumes).
Early Photography of Japan
Early Photography of Japan is a virtual collection of more than 40 souvenir photograph albums and illustrated publications with over 2,000 images from Widener Library, the Fine Arts Library, and Harvard-Yenching Library. These images primarily document the early history of commercial photography in Japan and are representative of what is often called Japanese tourist photography or Yokohama shashin. They reflect the Western image of traditional Japanese culture before the dramatic transformation brought about by modernization during the Meiji period (1868-1912).
Japanese Bibliography
Published online by Columbia University. Listed materials are intended as a guide to the Japanese bibliography and reference materials in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, to which all call numbers refer. Provides an excellent introduction to Japanese reference material in Premodern History, places, people, dictionaries, and on various subjects.
Kokubungaku Kenkyu Shiryokan Denshi Shiryokan including Kornicki-ban Oshu shozai Nihon kosho sogo mokuroku
FREE E-RESOURCES for undergraduates
Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912
Bridge to Japan
Provides useful links to Japanese information resources. The list includes links to computer and software sites related to the Japanese language, Japanese search engines, on-line Japanese bookshops, directories to libraries, companies, organisations in the UK and in Japan, postcode search, telephone directory, language-learning related websites, radio stations, Shinto encyclopaedia and many more.
Cambridge University Language Centre - Japanese
Intute
Collection of high quality web-resources supported by the Arts & HUmanities Research Council, and maintained by Mimas at The University of Manchester.
Japan Foundation London language Centre
Japan Web Navigator
Created by Japan Information Network. Covers news, government and politics, business/economy, travel, science, education and a whole lot more Information on study in Japan is also found
Japanese Classic Literature Genji Net (古典総合研究所)
This Research Institute is based in Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo. It's focus is on creating text database for the Genji Monogatari, developing programs to perform quantitative analysis of the database as well as automatic word analysis and automatic quote analysis.
Japanese Literature in Translation
The database covers Japanese literary works translated into other languages mainly from the end of World War II to the 1990s. It is searchable by author, title, translator, or other keywords. Terms may be input in either Japanese or roman letters.
Japanese Text Initiative
(from the University of Virginia and the University of Pittburgh)
Collection of online texts of classical Japanese literature in Japanese characters. Primary audience is English-speaking scholars and students. Where possible, the Japanese texts will be accompanied by English translations. Includes dictionary.
Jim Breen's wwwjdic
Online dictionary for undergraduate study. It can translate Japanese words/texts from the Internet, it can find Kanji by radicals and can search for words (English to Japanese, Japanese to English).This website is very popular among undergraduate students.
Pre-modern and early-modern Japanese at Cambridge
Provides useful information on undergraduate teaching and research at Cambridge. Useful for prospective students.
Rikai
You can practise your reading skills here by pasting online newspaper articles onto this site. It will give you the reading of characters in hiragana. It also gives the meaning in English.
INSTITUTIONS
University of Oxford: East Asia
Korean Studies
Last updated April 2013
KINDS (Korea Integrated News Database)
Includes popular daily newspapers (national and regional), and also weekly, monthly magazines, internet newspapers, specialist newspapers and TV stations. Free service.
Korea.net - Gateway to Korea
English-language information on Korea created by the Korean Information Service. Provides information under categories, such as news, government, economy and culture.
Korea.Web
Created by Frank Hoffmann. Links to government core institutions for Korean studies. Useful as a subject guide. Also a good place to find a list of Koreanists, Internet discussion list of Korean studies, and to search for academic positions.
Naver News Library
Provides free digital access to news archive services for four major newspapers in Korea :(Tonga Ilbo (東亞日報) 1920-1999; Hankyoreh 1988-1999; Kyŏnghyang Sinmun (京鄕新聞) 1946-1999; Maeil Kyŏngje (每日經濟) 1966-1999). Enables users to perform searches in a wide range of categories according to subjects and document types, dates, keywords etc.. The platform offers experience similar to reading the original newspaper.
NDSL (National Digital Science Links) = Kwahak Kisul Chŏngbo T'onghap Sŏbisŭ
NDSL (National Digital Science Links) provides a database of science and technology resources, freely available to the public by KISTI (Korea Institute of Science Technology Information). As of Mar. 2009, approximately 43 million academic articles are available for full-text access in four languages: 42 million in English, 514,000 in Chinese, 90,000 in Japanese, and 263,000 in Korean.
INSTITUTIONS
University of Oxford: East Asia
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Last updated April 2013
SUBSCRIPTION-BASED E-RESOURCES
Index Islamicus ( Available on and off campus by RAVEN login)
A bibliography of books, articles and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world. Printed version is published annually. Searchable by keywords etc.
Cambridge Companions Online (Available on and off campus by RAVEN login) Click on 'Cambridge Companions Online' and search for the books below. You can also retrieve these e-books via the Newton online catalogue.
In the field of Middle East the collection contains:
1. Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
2.Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology
3. Cambridge Companion to Muhammad
4. Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an
Cambridge Histories Online Available on and off campus by RAVEN login.) Click on 'Cambridge Collections Online' and search for the book. You cannot retrieve these e-book via the Newton online catalogue.
In the field of Middle East the collection contains:
1. Cambridge History of Arabic Literature
2.
Cambridge History of Iran
3.
Cambridge History of Islam
4. Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
5.
Cambridge History of Turkey
ON-LINE DICTIONARIES
English-Farsi Dictionary from farsdict.com
English-Persian (Farsi) Online Dictionary (from Lingvosoft)
Online English-Persian Dictionary
FREE E-RESOURCES
Al-eman
Islamic website. Searchable in Arabic by keywords or full sentences. Provides ebooks on different Islamic topics, such as the Qu'an, the Hadith, Arabic linguistics, literature, religion, classical dictionaries etc. It has an Audio Library which can be listened to online.
Al-waraq
High quality, scholarly full text database. The use of some parts of the database is free but registration is required . Its digital library contains ebooks, Qur'anic texts, biographies, classical literature, language, philosophy and religion, dictionaries and much more.
Intute
Collection of high quality web-resources maintained by Mimas at The University of Manchester, supported by the Arts & Human ities Research Council.
Iraqi Academic Scientific journals
Full-text database of all scholarly journals published by the Iraqi universities and research institutions are. All journals in IASJ are peer-reviewed. At the moment IASJ is launched in a Beta version with only 71 journals published by 18 institutions. The service will be further developed and will cover all journals, more than 200 journals publisher by 40 academic institutions in Iraq. The database can be also browsed.
Jara'id
A chronology of nineteenth century periodicals in Arabic (1800-1900). OPen access research tool.
Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB)
An information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Parstimes Guide to the Middle East
EThOS Digital Islam
Contains 971 Ph.D. Islamic Studies theses online from UK universities. Available for downloading.
Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Online - Wellcome Library
INSTITUTIONS
British Library Middle East Collections
Cambridge University Library Near & Middle Eastern Department
Oxford University Bodleian Library Oriental Collections
Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Cambridge
Turkish Studies Institute
Contains books and academic conferences on current Turkish issues, events, global directory of scholars on Turkey and it provides an on-line resource centre on Turkish-Israel relations.
University of Cambridge Language Centre : Arabic
University of Cambridge Language Centre : Persian
DATE CONVERTERS
South Asian Studies
Last updated April 2013
Cambridge History of Southeast Asia
Cambridge University Library Royal Commonwealth Society Collections
Cambridge University Library Centre of South Asian Studies
Digital South Asian Library
Contains images with descriptions from India & Afganistan.
Internet Resources for South Asian Studies
Indologist Page
Contains online resources for Indiological scholarship. The site includes SARIT (search and retrieval of Indic texts; archive of Indic e-texts and Indiological software; an archive of articles, papers, and other writings prtinent to Indiological studies; list of external websites & resources of value to Indological research.
John Smith's Home Page
Contains a variety of texts, fonts and programms likely to be of interest to Indologists.
Sanskrit Manuscript Project, Cambridge
The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the Sanskrit manuscript collections of the University Library, Cambridge.
South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
A Columbia University site for modern and classical South Asian studies Includes image archive..
South Asia through Official eyes (SATOE)
Provides links to universities, libraries, government information and many useful internet resources.