Research Guides: Southeast Asian Studies: Information by Country

Brunei Darussalam

Education & Libraries

Academy of Brunei Studies
The Academy of Brunei Studies (APB) was established in 1990 as a multi-disciplinary centre for study and research covering all aspects of life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a multidisciplinary at the University of Brunei Darussalam, granting bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees.
Brunei Darussalam Newsletter
This is an official monthly newsletter published by Brunei's Prime Minister's office. The newsletters cover developments related to Brunei's current affairs, government policies and legislation, culture, economy, and education.
Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies Group
The Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group is a committee under the Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Since 1975, it has published Berita, a biannual journal for scholarship pertaining to Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei.

Cambodia

U-M Resources

Kay Boyle (Cambodia) Papers
Materials collected during American writer Kay Boyle's time in Cambodia from 1966-1980, reporting on the impact of the Vietnam War.

Digital Archives

Cambodia: Records of the US Department of State, 1960-1963
This series includes over 9,000+ items primarily from the U.S. Department of State related to its intervention in Cambodia from 1960-1963. Many of the documents pertain to the legacy of Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012), Khmer nationalism, loyalty to the monarch, struggle against injustice and corruption, and protection of the Buddhist religion.
Corpus des Inscriptions Khmères
This repository, operated by the École Française D'extrême-Orient (EFEO), contains a large collection of digitally-available Khmer inscriptions from the pre-Angkorian and Angkorian periods.

Databases

Cambodia Urban Database
The Cambodia Urban Database is a resource developed by the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) that compiles high-quality materials and data on urban studies in Cambodia to make this knowledge more accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners.
Khmer Manuscripts Database
This database, maintained by the École Française D'extrême-Orient (EFEO), contains a large collection of Khmer literature, religious texts, and other manuscripts that survived the destruction of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Education & Libraries

Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
Founded by filmmaker Rithy Panh, the Bophana Center collects archival images and sounds of Cambodia, and offers free public access to this unique heritage with the aim of promoting artistic creation and fostering personal cultural production.
Cambodia Development Research Institute
The Cambodia Development Research Institute (CDRI) produces a variety of digitally-available research reports, policy briefs, and other publications on questions of development in the Mekong region.
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) is a leading independent, non-governmental organization that works to promote democracy and human rights in Cambodia. Through research and analysis, the organization aims to develop innovative policy, and advocate for its implementation.
Cambodian Genocide Program, Yale University
The Cambodian Genocide Program, as part of Yale's Genocide Studies Program, has been dedicated to the study of the genocide committed under Pol Pot's leadership of the Khmer Rouge regime. Under this initiative, the program has acquired considerable archival material and recorded several oral history interviews, which are digitally available to the public.
Center for Khmer Studies Library
The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) Library, founded in 2001, is the largest public academic library in Cambodia. The Library has a physical location in Phnom Penh, as well as an online catalogue and digitized materials.
The Center for Khmer Studies
The Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) seeks to promote research and training in the social sciences, arts, and humanities focused on Cambodia and the larger Mekong region. The Center's website hosts a variety of digitally-available serials, monographs, reports, and Khmer-English translations.
Documentation Center of Cambodia
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) was founded and constituted in 1995 after the U.S. Congress passed the Cambodian Genocide Justice Act in April 1994. DC-Cam has received numerous accolades and awards for its work in support of memory and justice for victims of the Cambodian genocide. The Center's website hosts a large database of archival materials regarding the history of the Khmer Rouge regime and genocide, as well as ongoing research about the enduring effects of the genocide on the well-being of survivors and their descendants.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, established at the site of the S-21 Prison, hosts a digital archive of documents pertaining to prisoners, survivors, victims, and staff members of the prison during the Khmer Rouge regime.

East Timor

Digital Archives

Timor Archives: Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor
The Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor (CHART) aims to identify and preserve archival materials related to Timor-Leste. The project regularly publishes blog posts that include digitized copies of this archival material, accompanied by analysis and commentary of their contents.
Preserving East Timor's Endangered Archives
This digital archive project preserves 3,335 documents and 228 audio files from East Timor’s Commission on Return, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) which conducted public hearings and legal trials for crimes pertaining to Indonesia's violent occupation of East Timor (1975-1999).

Databases

La'o Hamutuk— Timor-Leste Institute for Development Monitoring and Analysis
La'o Hamutuk (Walking Together in English) is a Timor-Leste non-governmental organization that monitors, analyzes, and reports on the principal international institutions and systems engaged in Timor-Leste as they relate to the physical, economic, and social reconstruction and development of the country

Education & Libraries

East Timor Law & Justice Bulletin
The East Timor Law & Justice Bulletin publishes regular reports on legal and political news in the country. The website also provides access to resources on the country's land legislation and United Nations Police security reports following political unrest in the country in 2006.
Timor-Leste Studies Association
The Timor-Leste Studies Association was established in June 2005 (following the “Cooperating with Timor-Leste” Conference at Victoria University) to connect scholars working on Timor-Leste. In addition to forming a scholarly community, TLSA also hosts an annual Timor-Leste Studies Research Conference.

Indonesia

U-M Resources

Batak Texts, Bartlett Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology hosts the Bartlett Collection, created by Professor Harley Harris Bartlett (1886-1960) in Sumatra during two separate visits in 1918 and 1927. The collection contains Batak texts and manuscripts written on bamboo, bone, and bark paper.
Borobudur Collection (1950s-2003), University of Michigan History of Art Visual Resources Collection
The Borobudur collection is composed of approximately 4,000 color and black-and-white slides depicting the Borobudur temple. The collection contains slides from the Southeast Asia Art Foundation (SAAF) Archive and from Patrick Young's expedition to the Buddhist temple in 1983.
Breezewood Collection (1940-1972), University of Michigan History of Art Visual Resources Collection
The Breezewood collection is comprised of approximately 3,500 photographs depicting Thai art and architecture, as well as important examples of Burmese, Cambodian, Cham, Indian, and Indonesian art. The photographs were taken in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
Images from Indonesia, University of Michigan Digital Collections
The University of Michigan database of images from Indonesia was created by the Language Resource Center and Digital Content and Collections. These images are primarily intended for learners and instructors of Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia's national language, but those who are interested in other Southeast Asian languages and related disciplines may find them useful as well.

Notable Collections in Hatcher Graduate Library (Serials & Microforms)

Adatrechtbundel (Micro-F X866)
Algameen dagblad van Nederlandsch-Indie (Micro-F X 480)
Colonial Economy in the Netherlands Indies (Micro-F 5604)
Confidential US State Department Central Files (Film 35129)
Damesweekblad voor Indie (Film X 1245)
Dutch Political Conflict with the Republic of Indonesia (Micro-F 5591)
East Timor Question (Micro-F 4105)
Excerpta Indonesica (Micro-F X328)
Indonesia,Memories van Overgave (Micor-F 868)
Indonesian Hajj (Micro-F 5460)
Indonesian Political tabloids collection (Film 35225)
Javanese language manuscripts of Surakarta,Central Java (Film 30161)
Political reports and dispatches from the outer islands of the Netherlands East Indies, 1898-1940 (Micro-F 3792)
Sources for the study of colonial Indonesia and Dutch colonial policy (Micro-F 4073)
War and decolonization in Indonesia (Micro-F 4112)

Databases

GARUDA (Garba Rujukan Digital)
This database, operated by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology), offers digital access to publications, reports, and conference proceedings produced by Indonesia-based publishers.
Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics
The Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics maintains a repository of raw data and reports pertaining to labor, economics, trade, development, and population health in the country.
Neliti
Neliti is an Indonesia-based academic research repository that offers digital and often open access to several Indonesian journals and academic presses.

Digital Archives

Archives Unbound: Sukarno and the Army-Pki Rivalry in the Years of Living Dangerously, 1960-1963
The records in this collection cover the internal and foreign policies, personalities, and events during the Sukarno regime. These records consist of essential memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, memoranda of conversations, reports, and news articles and cover all aspects of U.S. relations with Indonesia, Indonesian internal affairs, and Indonesia's relations with its neighbors.
Indonesia Independent, Photographs (1947-1953)
This digital collection includes over 4,500+ images taken in Indonesia by photographers Cas Oorthuys and Charles Breijer during the end of formal Dutch colonization and dawn of Indonesian independence.
Sin Po Collection: Monash University Collections Online
Monash University Library's Asian Collections has very strong holdings of Indonesian newspapers in print and microfilm, including many historical newspapers, such as Sin Po. Sin Po was a Chinese-Malay publication that was first published as a weekly newspaper in Jakarta in 1910, with the political aim of promoting Chinese nationalism and taking a strong stance against Dutch colonialism
Southeast Asian Pop Music KITLV
This collection contains a large selection of Indonesian pop music. The available records include recordings from the nostalgic Keroncong songs of the Dutch East Indies, like 'Bengawan Solo' sung by Rudi van Dalm, to the old-fashioned folk music modernized by adding electric guitars, keyboards and drums as in the so-called 'Pop Keroncong' sung by Koes Plus.
Thesaurus of Indonesian Islamic Manuscripts
This online collection, hosted by the Center for Research and Development of Religious Literatures And Heritages, Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs, offers a digital catalogue of Islamic Indonesian manuscripts.

Education & Libraries

Aceh Books, Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections
This digital collection offers full-text access to more than 1200 publications on Aceh, the province located at the northern end of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The titles date from the 17th till the turn of the 21th century and are in a variety of languages such as Indonesian, Acehnese, English and Dutch.
American Gamelan Institute
The American Gamelan Institute hosts a website with a library of resources pertaining to research and study of Gamelan and other performing arts in Indonesia.
The Balinese Digital Library
This Internet Archive entry offers access to over 2,000+ digitized Balinese Lontar (palm leaf) manuscripts.
Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a research and policy institute focused on issues of politics, democracy, and governance in Indonesia. The website offers digital open access to several of the Centre's datasets and research publications.
Inside Indonesia
Established by the Indonesian Resources and Information Program (IRIP) in 1983, Inside Indonesia is an outlet that aims to aims to provide coverage of human rights, environmental, social and political issues in Indonesia. Many of its articles are available in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Letters from Tamansiswa Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Library
This category contains all digital scanned of letters from Tamansiswa Dewantara Kirti Griya Museum Library in Yogyakarta in partnership with the institution under 2017 Content Digitization program.
Lontar Foundation Digital Library
The Lontar Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Lontar's primary aim is to promote Indonesian literature and culture through the translation of Indonesian literary works. The Foundation hosts a digital library that offers digital access to several of these translated works.
National Scientific Repository (RIN) Indonesian Institute of Sciences
Indonesia's National Scientific Repository (RIN) offers digital open access to datasets and research publications created by researchers across the country.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
First constructed in 1996, this website is dedicated to Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Intended primarily as a research tool, the website contains photos and video, biographical and bibliographical information, short stories, essays and interviews in translation, news reports and book reviews, abstracts, articles and letters, a list of publishers, and many off-site links.

Laos

U-M Resources

Non-Book Publication

CONFIDENTIAL U S STATE DEPARTMENT CENTRAL FILES. LAOS, 1960 -January 1963. Internal Affairs (Film 33409)

Digital Archives

Laos: Records of the US Department of State (1963-1966)
This archive treats the political affairs of Laos in the 1960s, when the United States supported the government of Souvanna Phouma in the face of North Vietnamese aggression. It offers a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats including special reports on political and military affairs; studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; and transcripts of political meetings and assemblies.
Buddhist Archive of Photography, Luang Prabang, Major Project Phase I
This collection consists of over 15,000+ digitized photographs that had been preserved in a monastery in Luang Prabang. Notable in having survived the destruction of the Vietnam War, the photos were taken by monks and others involved in the city's ritual life, and depict over 120 years of history of Buddhist life in Laos.
Buddhist Archive of Photography, Luang Prabang, Major Project Phase II
Phase II of the above digital archive.
Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection
Consisting of slightly over 3000 images, the Joel M. Halpern Laotian Slide Collection is a unique portrait of life in Laos. Taken by Professor Halpern, an anthropologist, in Laos from 1957-1969, they depict royal ceremonies, rural scenes, and American aid to highland communities.
Laotian Elections Web Archive
The Laotian Elections Web Archive covers elections for the country of Laos, and currently includes archived websites on the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2011. Items archived include government, news media, and non-profit websites.
William W. Sage Collection on Laos
This collection includes the items of William Sage, who was a prominent international humanitarian aid worker, and was stationed in Laos through the 1960s and 1970s. The consists of subject files, photographs, slides, audiotapes, and manuscripts on Sage's work and writings.
Women and Folktales Project
The Luang Prabang Film Festival and the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) launched the Women and Folktales Project to empower ethnic minority women in Laos and document and disseminate their traditional stories using film. The project filmed seven women, from Hmong, Kmhmu, and Tai Lue villages around Luang Prabang, recounting 19 traditional folktales in their native languages. These films were translated into Lao and English and subtitled. They are archived with LPFF and at the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre’s library, and available on YouTube at the above link.

Education & Libraries

Center for Lao Studies
The Center for Lao Studies serves both as an academic and a resource center for scholars, the general public, and persons of Lao heritage around the world. They facilitate several events and programs to promote Lao studies, and digitally publishes several report, articles, and research items on important issues in the field.
Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts
The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts makes images of over 12,000 texts from throughout Laos easily accessible for study. There is a wide diversity in the manuscript collection, covering a large geographical area and historical timeframe, diverse literary traditions, and several languages and scripts. The texts come from the Lao, Lan Na, Tai Lue, Tai Nuea, and Tai Dam traditions.
Hmong Cultural Center
Based in Minnesota, the Hmong Cultural Center is an NGO that seeks to promote awareness and education of Hmong culture in the U.S. The Center hosts its own museum and Resource Center Library, which is the site of the most comprehensive collection of Hmong-related literature in North America.
Hmong Studies Consortium, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Hmong Studies Consortium aims to promote critical Hmong scholarship in a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and to build professional connections between Hmong Studies scholars. The Consortium is interested in research related to all Hmong communities globally, including those in China, Southeast Asia, and the diaspora outside of Asia (U.S., France, Germany, French Guiana, Australia, etc.), as well as transnational Hmong connections.

Malaysia

Databases

Department of Statistics Official Portal
The Department of Statistics Official Portal offers digital access to data and visualization tools monitoring the country's national economic performance and social development.
Malaysian Academic Library Institutional Repository (MalRep)
MALRep is a discovery service that enables searching of the Malaysian Academic Library Institutional Repository from information databases using Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Service (OAI-PMH).
Malaysian Academic Library Union Catalog (MalCat)
MALCat is a discovery service that enables online searching of the Malaysian Academic Library Union Catalog.

Digital Archives

Malay Concordance Project
The Malay Concordance Project aims to help scholars share resources for the study of classical Malay literature by providing access to a growing corpus of classical Malay texts, now comprising 165 texts and 5.8 million words, including 140,000 verses.
Sejarah Melayu: A History of the Malay Peninsula
The Sejarah Melayu Library is a digital collection of books related to the history of the Malay archipleago and its surrounding region, as well as manuscripts, travelogues, general histories, academic papers, encyclopedias, and dictionaries.
State Papers Online Colonial
State Papers Online Colonial is a digitization program of the Colonial Office files of the British Government. These documents record Britain's administration and governance of countries under Britain's colonial rule, their international relations across the period, and the changing demographics and daily life of their inhabitants. The relevant series in this collection focus on Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei.

Myanmar/Burma

Databases

Myanmar Law Library
The Myanmar Law Library is a robust database that offers digital open access to Burmese law documents, including presidential orders, laws and regulations, case law, relevant international laws, as well as ancient Burmese law codes.
Myanmar Water Portal
The Myanmar Water Portal is a Myanmar-based NGO that seeks to share resources and educational materials about water politics in the country, with the aim of creating a new generation of water leaders and activists. The website hosts a resource library, research, news, and editorials about water and resource politics in Myanmar.

Digital Archives

Online Burma/Myanmar Library
The Online Burma/Myanmar Library is a free, non-commercial, open, multi-source, searchable, online research library focused on Burma/Myanmar. It provides information on and for Burma/Myanmar, and holds approximately 50,000 links to documents and websites, over a quarter of which are in Burmese.
Myanmar Manuscript Digital Library
This archive, hosted by the University of Toronto aims to make available manuscripts and rare print editions from individual libraries throughout Myanmar. It is the platform for an ongoing digitizing project of collections from the U Po Thi and National Library of Myanmar Bagaya Monastery.
Burmese Epigraphy
Funded by the European Commission's ASIA— Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language, and State Project, this resource provides digital open access to a large collection of ancient Burmese inscriptions and manuscripts.
Burma/Myanmar Elections Web Archive
The Burma/Myanmar Elections web archive brings together a collection of websites that document the General Elections of 2010, the by-elections of 2012, and the General Elections of 2015. This archive includes websites by political parties, pro-democracy groups, human rights organizations, foreign NGOs, news agencies, and minority groups.

Education & Libraries

The Anglo-Burmese Library
The Anglo-Burmese Library is dedicated to the collection, indexing and preservation of records and histories of families in colonial-era Burma and the preservation records and information related to the 1942 evacuation out of Burma.
Burma Studies Group
The Burma Studies Group (BSG) is a subcommittee of the Southeast Asian Council (SEAC), operating within the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The purpose of the BSG is to form a scholarly, nonpolitical, and nonprofit professional association of all persons interested in Burma studies; to promote interest in and scholarly study of Burma; to provide means for the publication of scholarly research and other materials designed to promote Burma Studies; to promote cooperative activities and exchanges of information within the field of Burma studies, and to facilitate contact and exchange of information between scholars and scholarly organizations in North America interested in Burma studies and those in other countries.
Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University
The Center for Burma Studies seeks to collect and preserve information and artifacts of all kinds concerning the study of Burma/Myanmar, and to make these materials broadly available for research and study. The Center publishes the biannual Journal of Burma Studies and organizes academic conferences and meetings to present research in the field.
Democratic Voice of Burma
The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) publishes daily independent news and information across Myanmar and around the world by satellite TV and the internet. DVB was founded in 1992 and is registered as a non-profit association in Thailand. Most resources available in Burmese and English.
Inya Institute
The Inya Institute is a Yangon-based higher learning institute dedicated to advancing the social sciences, the arts and humanities as they are related to Myanmar. It is a non-profit that seeks to build research and intellectual capacity for young local researchers, and to foster scholarly exchange between local and international researchers.
Insight Myanmar Podcast
The Insight Myanmar Podcast, launched in 2019, publishes long-form interviews with activists, journalists, scholars, and others with insight pertaining to the political crisis in Myanmar.

The Living Bibliography of Burma Studies: The Secondary Literature
This bibliography, published by the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research includes major academic and research works related to Burma studies, organized by topic, time period, and region.

Oxford Tea Circle
Tea Circle was established in November 2015 as a forum for new and emerging perspectives on Burma/Myanmar during its current period of political and economic transition. It highlights analysis, research, opinions, book reviews, multi-media presentations and other types of submissions from a global audience of contributors.

Philippines

U-M Resources

Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States Related to Philippines History
This guide below lists some of the available archival and library collections in the United States related to Philippine history, Philippine-American history, and Filipino-American history.
Martial Law Materials at University of Michigan, Hatcher Library
This resource lists some of the newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, newspapers, and other publications available at Hatcher Library at the University of Michigan produced by organizations and individuals opposed to Martial Law in the Philippines . Much of this material is housed in the “Joseph A. Labadie Collection” in the Library’s Special Collections and Archives.

Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Library
This guide provides an overview of the relationship between the University of Michigan and Philipines, as well as a list of the collections on the Philippines held at the University's libraries and museums.
Philippine History Collection, University of Michigan Special Collections
The Philippine history collection consists of published works, manuscript items, and photographs documenting many aspects of Philippine history, with particular emphasis on the period between 1899 and 1913, when Dean Conant Worcester served as a member of the United States Philippine Commission and Secretary of the Interior for the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.

Philippine Newspapers on Microfilm and in Special Collections at Hatcher Library, University of Michigan
This resource lists Philippine newspapers on microfilm held in Hatcher Library and some of the newspapers available in the University’s Special Collections.

Philippine Photographs Digital Archive, University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center
The digital photographs archive consists of over 2,100 from the following Special Collections Research Center photograph collections. In general, the images depict Filipinos, buildings, dwellings, and monuments in and around Manila, Filipino political and military leaders, members of American commissions and military units based in the Philippines, and numerous landscape scenes, particularly on Mindanao and in Lanao Province.
Revolutionary Cuba and Philippines Collection (1849-1925), University of Michigan William L. Clements Library
This collection consists of 883 letters, documents, an orderly book, printed items, and other materials concerning revolutionary conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines, American involvement particularly, dating largely from the 1890s-1900s. This collection's contents include detailed information from Cuban and Philippine revolutionaries at home and in exile; U.S. Army activities related especially to the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and postwar occupations; American, Cuban, Filipino, and Spanish consular and governmental officials; and civilians (including families of U.S. Army soldiers' and sailors' family members) involved in the events.
Reconnect/Recollect Project
ReConnect/ReCollect is a U-M based project that engages a diverse coalition of faculty, librarians, archivists, curators, collections managers, students, and members of the Filipino and Filipino American communities with the aim of developing models for culturally-responsive and historically-minded stewardship of the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan.
The United States and its Territories (1870-1925): The Age of Imperialism
The United States and its Territories, drawn from the University of Michigan Library's Southeast Asia collection, comprises the full text of monographs and government documents published in the United States, Spain, and the Philippines between 1870 and 1925. The primary focus of the material is the Spanish-American war and subsequent American governance (approximately 1898-1910). The text collection is complemented by digitized images from key photograph collections drawn from the Special Collections Research Center.

Databases

PIDS Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines
The Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P) is an online knowledge resource that contains socioeconomic studies and materials produced by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and other academic and research institutions. Users can access socioeconomic materials in various formats—journal articles, books, working papers, policy notes, research papers, newsletters—from multiple sources.
Social Weather Station
The Social Weather Station a private non-stock, nonprofit social research institution that conducts survey research on topics of socioeconomic concern in the Philippines. It's website provides open access to this data, and subsequent reports and publications.

Digital Archives

Agrarianism in Empire: Select images of the Philippines from the Gerow D. Brill papers
This online collection includes digitized photos of glass negatives taken by Gerow D. Brill during the early years of the US Occupation of the Philippines. The images come from the Gerow D. Brill papers of the Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The digital collection focuses on themes of imperialism, agricultural extension, and development.
American Historical Collection
The American Historical Collection (AHC), established in 1950, consists of some 13,518 books, 18,674 photographs, and other materials related to the American experience in the Philippines and the relationship of the two countries. It is one of the the largest, most diverse and most complete collection of materials of this kind in the world.
Bonifacio Papers
This blog provides access to historical documents and academic work related to the life and legacy of Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro, a leader of the Philippine Revolutionary and Independence movements.
Filiterature
This database built by researchers at the University of Antwerp and represents a first step in the mapping and centralization of resources from and about the Philippines. It includes literary works published in Spanish in the Philippines between 1872-1973 and literary works published in the rest of the world in Spanish about the Philippines between 1872-1973.
El Renacimiento
This is a folder that provides access to digitized issues of El Renacimiento, a Spanish and Tagalog newspaper printed in Manila at the turn of the 20th century. Issues in this collection span from 1903-1908.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Philippine Elections Web Archive
The Philippine Elections web archive documents the Philippine general elections of 2010 and 2019. To document this election, the following have been included in the archive: websites of candidates, political parties and the news media captured around the time of the Philippine General Election of 2010.
Martial Law Museum & Library
The Martial Law Museum & Library provides digital access to a large collection of materials pertaining to the Martial Law period. The aim of this website is to highlight this documentary record, and to make documents, scholarship, and visual materials from this period available to scholars, students, researchers, librarians, the Filipino public, and people all over the world.

Education & Libraries

Filipinas Heritage Library
The Filipinas Heritage Library is a special library dedicated to books and other materials authored by Filipinos or about the Philippines, with a focus on Philippine history and culture.
Ibon Foundation
IBON is a research-education-information development institution. IBON undertakes the study of socio-economic issues that confront Philippine society and the world today. It explores alternatives and promotes a new understanding of socio-economic issues that best serve the interests and aspirations of the Filipino people.
Karapatan Monitor
KARAPATAN is an alliance of individuals, groups and organizations working for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Philippines. Its founders and members have been at the forefront of the human rights struggle in the Philippines since the time of Marcos’ martial law regime.
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ)
The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is an independent, nonprofit media agency that specializes in investigative reporting. It was founded in 1989 by nine Filipino journalists who realized, from their years in the beat and at the news desk, the need for newspapers and broadcast agencies to go beyond day–to–day reportage.
Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The Center for Philippine Studies (CPS) was originally established as a Program in 1975 by an Act of the Hawai’i State Legislature to recognize the contributions of Filipinos to the history of Hawaiʻi, and to highlight the academic expertise on the Philippines at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Singapore

U-M Resources

Singapore Periodicals Index (CD-Rom REX29)

Databases

Singapore National Library Board Spatial Discovery
This online database offers access to digitized maps that illustrate the changing landscape of Singapore, urban planning, and more using 7,500 high resolution copies of maps overlaid on modern map or satellite image.
Singapore Statutes Online
Singapore Statutes Online (SSO) is a service offered to the public by the Legislation Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore, providing free online access to Singapore's legislation.

Education & Libraries

National Archives of Singapore
The National Archives of Singapore offers online access to a selection of audiovisual materials, government files, maps, oral history overviews, photographs, posters, speeches and press releases from its holdings.
Roots Singapore National Heritage Board
Roots offers digital access to the item catalogue of holdings from museums from across Singapore's National Heritage Board.

Thailand

University of Michigan Resources

Breezewood Collection (1940-1972), U-M History of Art Visual Resources Collection
The Breezewood collection is comprised of approximately 3,500 photographs depicting Thai art and architecture, as well as important examples of Burmese, Cambodian, Cham, Indian, and Indonesian art. The photographs were taken in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

University of Michigan Library Thai Movie Collection
This resource provides a list of Thai movies available at the University of Michigan Library.

Hemenway Family Collection (1819-1927), U-M William L. Clements Library
The Hemenway Family Collection includes materials from an American missionary family based in Thailand through the mid-19th century, as well as several smaller collections from American travelers to Thailand in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
William J. Gedney Collection, U-M Library Special Collections
William J. Gedney, professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan from 1960-1980, was a pioneering scholar of Thai linguistics, establishing Thai-language study at the University. The collection includes over 6,000 monographs, manuscripts, and serial titles focused on Thai history and culture, with an emphasis on Thai Buddhism and the history of the Chakri dynasty. The collection also includes a number of Khmer and Pali-Thai manuscripts that have been microfilmed to ensure preservation.

Digital Archives

David K. Wyatt Thai Database
The David K. Wyatt Thai Collection is composed of primary and secondary materials on Thailand, including some of the rarest of rare Thai-language monographs, cremation volumes and manuscripts. The physical collection is housed the Vernon R. Alden Library at Ohio University, while digitized surrogates are searchable in English and Romanized script in ALICE.
Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts
The Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts offers online access to 6,000+ manuscripts in Lanna and other northern Thai dialects. The collection has a strong focus on indigenous (Southeast Asian) and secular traditions, in addition to containing possibly the oldest dated Pali manuscripts in Southeast Asia.
Lanna Manuscripts
This database makes available a collection of hundreds of digitized manuscripts reproduced from 41 monastic libraries in Northern Thailand and one public library in Bangkok (the Siam Society). The project is led by the EFEO, as part of its cooperation with the Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre in Bangkok, and is aimed at students and researchers interested in philology, literature and history of Thailand, and Northern Thai Buddhism.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Thai Elections Web Archive
The Thai Elections Web Archive covers the general elections of 2011, 2014, and 2019. The collection includes the archived websites of political parties, newsmedia outlets, and non-governmental organizations.
Recalling a Translocal Past: Digitising Thai-Mon Palm-Leaf Manuscripts
This digital archive is composed of 50+ Mon-language palm leaf manuscripts collected from temples in Central and Northern Thailand.
Recalling a Trans-Local Past: Digitising Mon Palm-Leaf Manuscripts of Thailand (Part 2)
Part 2 of the Mon palm-leaf manuscript digitization project.
Thai Rainbow Archive
This digital archive includes a total of 648 publications created by Thai gay, lesbian, and transgender community organizations and magazines from the 1980-2000s.

Databases

Mekong River Commission Data and Information Services
The MRC is an intergovernmental organization for regional dialogue and cooperation pertaining to water diplomacy in the Lower Mekong River Basin. The MRC website publishes data pertaining to the conditions of the Mekong River spanning over 100 years.
Thai Data Points
Thai Data Points publishes original research, analysis, and commentary on developments in Thai politics produced by social scientists.
Thailand Development Research Institute
The Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) is a public policy research institute that provides technical analysis to public agencies to help formulate policies to support economic and social development in Thailand. Its website publishes quarterly articles and publications based on its research.

Education & Libraries

The Critical Nature: CSDS Policy Analysis Series
Published by the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn, Critical Nature presents focused on resource politics and environmental justice in Southeast Asia.
Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Repository (CUIR)
The Chulalongkorn University Intellectual Repository (CUIR) is a digital collection of full text academic works by members of Chulalongkorn University. Included in the repository are theses and dissertations, academic papers, sets of learning materials and lecture notes, best practice manuals, CAR Archive, Center of Visual Studies and E-Journals.
Leeds University Thai Politics Bibliography
The Thai Politics Bibliography is a robust research resource for reference material and academic sources on developments in Thai electoral politics.
Siam Society
The Siam Society is a Thai cultural organisation with an international scope. It promotes the study and knowledge-sharing about the cultures, history, arts, and heritage conservation of Thailand and its neighbouring countries in South-East Asia. The Siam Society offers digital access to a selection of items from its library.

Vietnam

U-M Resources

Colonel Henry Tufts Papers (1968-1975), University of Michigan Libraries Special Collections
Colonel Henry Tufts was a commanding officer of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command who investigated the My Lai Massacre and My Son cases. The papers include extensive documentation and communication related to these investigations.
Labadie Collection, University of Michigan Digital Collections
The Labadie Collection includes a number of political posters, pamphlets, and newsletters pertaining to U.S.-based resistance and objection to the Vietnam War.
Thánh Gióng Slides (1970), University of Michigan Libraries Special Collections Research Center
This collection consists of 21 35mm slides with color illustrations depicting the traditional Vietnamese story of Thánh Gióng, accompanied by two pages of descriptive information.

Databases

Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN)
DEPOCEN is an independent research organization focused on issues from macroeconomic policies, public finance, public policy, and development in Vietnam. It regularly publishes findings from this research in reports and working papers on its website.

Digital Archives

Assessment and Preservation of the Old Vietnamese École Française d'Extrême Orient Archive in Ancient Ideographic Nôm Script
This digital archive preserves the previously endangered Nôm archive at the Institute of Social Science Information (ISSI) in Hanoi, Vietnam. The database includes over 100 manuscripts written in Nôm, the ideographic national script used in Vietnam for over 1,000 years since the country's independence from China in 939.
Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library
This digital library provides open access to over 400 records pertaining to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, including internal government records, interviews with U.S. officials, and reports written by military service members.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Vietnamese Elections Web Archive
The Vietnamese Elections Web Archive covers elections in Vietnam and currently has archived sites for the 2011 parliamentary and presidential elections. This web archive includes candidate, government, NGO and news media websites.
Maurice Durand Han Nom Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts
The collection offers digial access to publications, transliterations, photographs, research notes, and microfilm created, assembled, or used by Maurice Durand during his academic and administrative career. The material focuses on the literature and linguistics in the 18-19th centuries.
National Archives Access to Archival Databases (AAD): Vietnam War
The National Archives has digitized and provided open access to 1+ million internal government records pertaining to its involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as its intervention in Southeast Asia more broadly at the time.
Open Research: David Marr
The Australian National University Archives has digitised Professor David Marr’s unique collection of posters and other graphic material related to Vietnam and the Indochina conflict. Collected throughout his career, the series contains prints and originals from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Open Research: John Spragens' Vietnamese Research Material
The Australian National University Archives has digitised Professor John Spragens' Vietnamese research material, composed mainly of Vietnamese-language newspapers published in the 1960-1970s.
Pentagon Papers
Officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force," the Pentagon Papers were commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. The National Archives has now provided open digital access to the report, composed of approximately 7,000 declassified pages.
South Vietnam: Records of the Office of the Defense Attaché, 1973-1975
The Defense Attaché Office (DAO) Saigon was activated in January 1973, and was responsible for managing American military affairs in Vietnam after the cease-fire, including reporting on operational matters and producing intelligence information This collection comprises the DAO's Historian's Office files. Requires U-M login.
Vietnam Group Archive, Michigan State University
The MSU Vietnam Group Archive includes roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images. Most of these materials date from 1955-1962, when Michigan State University led a range of US-funded technical assistance programs in South Vietnam for the purpose of producing a stable non-Communist ally in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam Nôm Manuscripts Field Digitization Project, Temple University Libraries
This collection contains digital facsimiles of Nôm manuscripts scanned in Vietnam as a collaboration between the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society at Temple University, and The General Library of Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam, with support from the Temple University Libraries.
Vietnam War Digital Archive, Wilson Center
This repository consists of documents on the Vietnam War, including telegrams, minutes, and discussion notes range from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1970s, and come from Chinese, Soviet, Albanian, Vietnamese, and other Communist bloc archives.

Education & Libraries

National Library of Vietnam - Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation
The National Library of Vietnam (NLV) in Hanoi holds a special collection of some 4,000 ancient texts in Hán and Nôm, the former ideographic writing systems of Vietnam. Since 2006, the NLV has co-operated with The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation (VNPF) to preserve this important cultural heritage through the creation of a digital library.
Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
The Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War and supports education regarding the American Vietnam Experience. The website hosts 7 million pages of digitized materials, including photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, and maps.
Vietnamese Propaganda Photo Collection
The “Communist Propaganda from North Vietnam” is a visual collection made up of photographs and leaflets collected by members of the Teachers Committee for Peace in Vietnam. The TCPV was formed in 1965 by U.S. teachers and students who opposed the war in Vietnam, and sought to educate others about the conflict.
The 88 Project for Free Speech in Vietnam
The 88 Project advocates for Vietnamese political activists have been persecuted by the state. The Project maintains a database of persecuted and arrested activists, publishes interviews with activists, and reports on human rights abuses in Vietnam.