Asian Studies: Online Resources

Access Asian news through articles, audio, and video.

Read Japanese news online in English.

This site provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in Central Asia.

Guide to general and country specific resources

Resources on language and culture in Southeast Asian countries. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University.

Guide to resources on East Asia. Five College Center for East Asian Studies.

Library of Congress

Library of Congress Area Studies: Asian Division

This site guides users to a multitude of resources for Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences. This site, supported by the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University, will be phased out sometime after January 2011.

Online access to information on government and law for countries in Asia. Library of Congress: Law Library.

Links and information on governments of Asian nations. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Information on social and environmental impacts of over 5000 companies, operating in over 180 countries. Topics covered include discrimination, environment, poverty and development, labour, access to medicines, health and safety, security, trade.

Access to links and information on world languages.

Contains multimedia resources on arts and culture, policy and business, and education throughout Asia.

Explore digital multimedia resources of the Himalayan Region. Includes music, video, images, and journals.

This database contains mostly post-WWII Japanese literature that has been translated into other languages.

Explore online images, videos, and manuscripts of Southeast Asia. Northern Illinois University.

Access to digital works of literature and science. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

New York University Libraries.

Cornell University Library.

Online access to images, manuscripts, and other information about the Library of Congress' holdings from Asia & the Pacific.