Major NGO with a host of publications available on its website

CrossAsia portal was designed as a central access point for information in Asia-related studies, maintained by the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It includes licensed full-text databases, 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 the CrossAsia Open Access Repository for primary and secondary publications

Portal maintained by University of Heidelberg for academics around the world to make available their research in Asian Studies

US based think-tank which promotes research on Asia. Access to a wide range of online publications & its Strategic Asia database of statistics (1990-)

Major research institute since 1968, maintains useful Asia Portal of resources. Note: NIAS is scheduled to close end of 2023 due to lack of funding

Qalamos provides direct access to metadata and digitised copies of Oriental manuscript collections in Germany. It comprises approximately 135,000 manuscript datasets from Asian and African script traditions (primarily Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, Turkish)

International collaborative research project exploring 20th century anti-colonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. Outputs include a directory of key publications, browsable by geography, date, theme, language

The Library catalogue and annual Asia and Pacific bibliography are good starting points for literature searching

Archive contains some digitised films, interviews and recordings relating to 20th century political, economic and social history

Useful portal to S. Asian resources, maintained by the University of Chicago

Rich dataset from ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics) that spans the years 1966-2015 and provides data on agriculture and some socio-economic variables for over 500 districts across all Indian states

FID4SA (Specialized Information Service South Asia) is provided by Heidelberg University Library. The repository enables scholars worldwide the opportunity to make their publications available open access, and includes monographs, articles, lectures, etc., from the field of South Asian Studies and Indology

Over 900 digitised items, mostly books and documents from the period c.1800-1940

Database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles maintained by the Universities of Bonn, Halle, Munich. Covers the period 1797-2000. Particularly useful for tracing European language articles

Part of the Princeton digitised archive collections. Comprises booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, and flyers, mostly from the second half of the 20th century. These items were produced by a variety of individuals and organizations including political parties, NGOs, think tanks, activists, and promote their views, agendas, policies, events, and activities. Includes a substantial sub-collection of Hindu nationalist material

Open access to 9 newspapers from South Asia through East View Global Press Archive. Mostly 20th century (one 19th century title). Includes titles from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, including The Lahore Chronicle (1850-1953)

Hosted by JSTOR, SAOA is a growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in the arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia. Currently around 30 000 digitised items contributed by libraries in North America & South Asia, in English and other languages of the region.

Major research centre in Singapore

Great archive of digitised Singapore & Malay newspapers (1831-). Full text of the Straits Times (1845-) & around 30 other newspapers from Singapore & Malaysia. Many more newspapers from the region are indexed in the database

Based at Northern Illinois University & backed by a consortium of US libraries, it provides open access to primary & secondary documentation from and about the region

Project to create a digitised resource of pre-1900 maps of Singapore and SE Asia

Over 350 digitised accounts in English or French of European travellers in pre-modern SE Asia, drawn from Cornell University Library

Digitised collections from University of Wisconsin Library

Open access collection of over 100 SE Asian titles from the 19th & 20th centuries

Digitised Chinese, Japanese & Korean manuscripts & prints (7th-19th century) from the Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)

Project conceived in 2015 between Harvard & NTU Library (Taiwan) to digitise manuscripts, rare books, maps & photographs from China & Japan

Links to digitisation projects of major US research libraries

Growing collection of full text resources on Afghan history & culture 1870-1930, maintained by New York University Libraries

Multilingual repository of digitised sources hosted by University of Oslo, covering 1979-2011

Free access to over 75 journals

Small selection of photos, the earliest from 1890s

Annotated & classified links to over 30 000 full text documents

Harvard University project to provide authoritative biographical information on individuals, primarily from 7-19th centuries

Covers of various comic books held in the collections of the East Asia Library,. Stanford University. Most published 1950-1970s. They offer insight into propaganda and cultural attitudes of the period

Portal maintained by Cambridge University Library that contains extensive links to Web resources

Maintained by Heidelberg University. Free access to a growing collection of documents, newsletters, periodicals, statistics, etc., covering social & political issues

Collection of open access Chinese scholarly journals. See also the larger and well-known portal China Open Access Journals (COAJ) - -currently unavailable at time of writing (May 2021)

Project by the University of Bristol, gives access to over 8000 historical photographs of China covering the period 1850-1950

Free access to the full text parliamentary papers & official publications, including the Administrative report; Hong Kong sessional papers; Hong Kong Hansard; Hong Kong government gazette

Digitised ethnography game based on the fieldwork of anthropologist Andrea Enrico Pia. It uses original ethnographic material (fieldnotes, interviews, pictures and videos) to chronicle one day in the life of Peng, a young Chinese migrant. The player is put in Peng’s shoes on his journey from his native village to Beijing in search of employment and tells the story of his day

Digitisation by University of Pittsburgh of 37 Chinese texts covering 1930s-1970s

New (2024) portal for Chinese language open access monograph publishing, initially from HK universities & focusing on arts and humanities

Very useful portal to open access resources relating to China, compiled by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Resources include digitised books, newspapers, photos, manuscripts & other primary sources and much else.

New (2023) website from the Chinese Academy of Sciences for open access Chinese research outputs. Includes social sciences material such as articles, dissertations & books from CAS bodies and other partners.

US based independent policy research organisation (2008-) with a focus on China & publications freely available

Established 1963 at Chinese University of Hong Kong, a mecca for scholars around the world. The USC closed in 2021, but its outstanding collections are due to be digitised over the next few years

Extensive collection of open access Uyghur books & other documents

Digitised collections of the British Indian Association (c.1851-1930)

Based in New Delhi and part of the global Carnegie network, Carnegie India focuses research on three main policy areas: technology and society, political economy, and security studies

Census tables from 1991 census onwards and much additional information (e.g. Linguistic Survey of India)

Founded in 1973, CPR is one of the leading public policy think tanks in India

Official website for access to open datasets from the Indian government

Loving guide & index to the periodicals of India from Rahul Sagar. Period is early 19th century up to c.1947, with links to online where available.

Includes books, doctoral theses and serials held in over 100 Indian universities and colleges. A rich source of bibliographic information on titles available in India

Commercial site offering free searching of journals published in India

Huge resource covering all topics & languages

Searchable database indexing Indian Social Science literature in Indian libraries, mainly journals, working papers & theses

Full text access to around 75 titles published by faculty member

Multidisciplinary database covering scholarly publications from Indonesia.
Managed by the Ministry of Research and Technology. Garuda indexes over 12,000 journals across 40 subject areas.

Funded by the National Library of Indonesia, Neliti is a very useful portal to a wide range of research (books, articles, reports, datasets, etc.) on Indonesia and the wider SE Asia region

Large e-journal platform managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (though covers all subject areas), 90% of articles are open access

Directory of useful websites maintained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Open access repository for scholars in Japan, research covers all subject areas. Some items offer English translations.

Extensive digitised collections from the national library of Japan

Maintained by the National Institute of Informatics (NII) it provides access to a number of key Japanese catalogues and online research repositories. They include the CINII scholarly and academic publications navigator database; KAKEN (Service for disclosing the deliverables of grants-in-aid for scientific research) NII-DBR (Academic Research Database Repository). Materials indexed include articles, papers, e-prints; theses and books. A growing number can be accessed in full text online. Most items are in Japanese only

Draws on expert analysis of political, economic and social developments in the region

Useful website aggregating official North Korean media content, with archives from 1997 onwards. It is also possible to generate charts of word occurrences from about 1990 wards. Some content requires a subscription

Major portal to academic open access journals from Korea

Aims to provide a portal to e-resources digitised by the leading national institutions in Korea, including the National Library of Korea. All subjects are covered. The database includes the national bibliography, the official gazette 1894-1910, a collection of Korean newspapers prior to 1945, recent PhD theses submitted at Korean universities, and a growing number of out of copyright e-books, journal articles and indexes

Library of Congress gives free access to over 34,000 index records for 18 Korean language journals published since 1948, covering social, political, & economic topics. Indexing is in English, so even without knowledge of Korean you can get an overview of the content

Public policy research institute

Founded in 1999 in the wake of Reformasi, a movement sparked by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad’s 1998 firing of his deputy Anwar Ibrahim. Viewed by many as the only independent news outlet in the country

Leading Malay think tank offers freely available research in the social sciences relating to Malaysia

A small number of open access academic journals

Free access to around 130 Nepalese journals

Collaborative effort between Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Higher Education Commission (HEC)

Respected source for news on Philippines & SE/E. Asia more generally

Growing collection of scholarly digital materials

Currently offering about 80 full text titles

Free to search e-library of books, journals & theses mainly from Taiwan & China. Access to full text requires payment in most cases

Well established project providing a freely available database of Thai academic literature covering all subject areas (articles dating back to 1991)

Portal to open access academic journals from Thailand

Part of the wider INASP Journals Online project in Asia, VJOL makes available over 100 open access academic journals in English or Vietnamese