Many archival and library collections are now preserving, digitizing, and providing access to significant primary historical resources.

Since non-profit sites do not have the advertising or public relations budgets available to commercial sites, researchers are often unaware of them.


Asian Studies
Provides access to a clearinghouse of information on Asian studies, edited by T. Matthew Ciolek of the Coombs Computing Unit of the Australian National University (ANU) for the World-Wide Web Virtual Library. Contains an overview of the site, which keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Asian studies. Gives a breakdown by country for facilities. Includes instructions on submitting information to the archive.http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Ames Library of South Asia  From the University of Minnesota  http://ames.lib.umn.edu/IMAGE/

e-Asia Digital Library  University of Oregon Libraries through the generosity of Nissho Iwai. Dr. Robert Felsing, East Asian Bibliographer, is the originator and coordinator of the e-Asia project. The e-Asia database of web-accessible full text currently holds approximately 3,000 items. The largest database by far is that of Chinese materials with Japan a distant second. Databases for Taiwan and the Koreas are small and in the formative stage.   http://e-asia.uoregon.edu/