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Other Libraries

Many other universities have strong Asian studies and Asian language programs. You may find it useful to look through the subject guides that are part of their library web sites. Quite a number of these institutions have excellent Asian language library collections. Many of those print library materials may be borrowed through MSEL's interlibrary services.

The sites are compiled by librarians and specialists and can point you to a variety of online resources, databases, electronic dictionaries, government information, etc.

This is a selected list, with institutions in North America are listed first, followed by those in Asian countries. Some of the library web sites provide comprehensive lists of Asian Studies related libraries and institutions.

Also listed below are sites of Asian Studies library associations and research institutions that have produced some excellent guides.

NOTE: Developments are being made to address coding of non-Roman scripts, including the increased use of Unicode. In the meantime, since different coding is used in web sites, viewing in Internet Explorer (5.0 or higher) or with specific software to interpret the codes will give good results.

North American Libraries

Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC.
(Japanese studies section is especially good)

East Asian Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT
(well organized, including links to web resources and research aids in vernacular and western languages)

C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

Wason Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

East Asian Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(well organized; hints on conducting research; useful instructional information on using CJK sources)

East Asian Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
(Includes digital map collection of historic maps; Asian Film Connections )

Indiana University
(has a number of subject bibliographies on specific topics)

Korean Collection, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(Home page of the Korean Heritage Library; excellent resources at the Library. Also provides link to the Committee on Korean Materials/Internet Resources Subject Guides.)

Asian Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
(houses an extremely comprehensive collection of books, journals, and microform in vernacular languages for East Asia, Southeast Asian and South Asian languages; most materials must be used on-site only)

Asian Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(features page of "Subject Resources for Asian Studies (in non-Asian languages)")

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto, Canada
(Internet resources extremely well organized by subject and type; news and media links are extensive; easy to use tool for East Asian, Chinese,Japanese, and Korean studies)

Research Libraries in Asia and in other Countries

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
(you will find college and university library servers organized by country for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia; project also covers other regions of the world)

China Education and Research Network
(all aspects of education in China; resources section includes lists of libraries and lists of colleges and universities organized by region)

University of Hong Kong (HKU)
(provides links to other university libraries in Hong Kong)

University Services Centre for China Studies
(can browse holdings of this excellent collection of social science materials on China; includes online texts for government documents, news media, data sets and statistics, etc.)

The Tokyo Institute of Technology
(provides links to a list of university libraries, nicely presented by city or region)

International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
(includes access to databases compiled by the Center)

Oriental and India Office, British Library
(extremely rich historical collections; worldwide web links especially good for finding resources in the U.K. and Europe; links to recent projects, the Japanese Union Catalogue and the UK Union Catalogue of Chinese Books)

Oriental Studies at Oxford University
(libraries that support the study of Asia)

Asian Studies Library Associations/Research Institutes

Council on East Asian Libraries
(subject guides; links to East Asian Studies Libraries sites; electronic sources)

The East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia

European Association of Sinological Librarians
(EASL allows you to easily view lists of links organized by subject)

National Institute of Informatics
(Previously NACSIS, which has compiled many databases; can search articles and journals, union catalog of university libraries. Provides many links, including list of Japanese university libraries)

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Academia Sinica
(highest academic institution in Taiwan; can search library catalog through Telnet; links to home pages of affiliated institutes in math and physical sciences, life sciences, and humanities and social sciences)

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, at Kyoto University