Southeast Asian Studies

Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia

International refereed open access journal based at the University of Toronto. It provides a venue for the interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia. The journal examines all aspects of photographic history, theory and practice by centering images in or of Asia, conceived here as a territory, network, and cultural imaginary.

(National Archives) - Selection of nearly 50 million historic electronic records created by more that 20 federal agencies, including unpublished source material and internal reports on the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnam War.

Historical and current Aceh titles from the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) collection.

Adam Matthew publishes unique primary source collections from archives around the world.

AARP database of information resources in 25 countries (including much of Southeast Asia) which are significant in their unique coverage of aging-related issues.

Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.

Dedicated to the collection, indexing and preservation of records and histories of families in colonial-era Burma
and the preservation and updating of the "Trek Out of Burma" - i.e. the 1942 Evacuation and Casualty lists.
(Access to the database requires contacting Fe Susan Go (fsgo@umich.edu), Southeast Asian librarian, International Studies, University of Michigan).

It is a specialized library that collects a large number of research materials related to Asia that have been scattered throughout the university and supports research on Asian regions.

Various website access to media directories; related academic resources and related academic of scientific search engines.

On-line bibliography of dissertations completed at Australian institutions. Arranged by country and geographic region.

Links to online biographies of major contemporary Vietnamese personalities.

Old and endangered manuscripts and archives from Southeast Asia, including collections from Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos and Thailand.

The Collection of the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation from ECHO – Cultural Heritage Online.

Repository for all Southeast Asian materials digitized under the auspices of the TICFIA Grant. Contents of this database include: palm leaf manuscripts from Cambodia and Thailand; Indonesian television archive, interview of political prisoners of East Timor.

Launched in 2008 the database contains all election results from different countries. For Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philipppines are represented. Other countries will follow soon.

Since 2000, CIA has installed and maintained an electronic full-text searchable system named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool), at NARA II in College Park, Maryland. The CREST system is the publicly accessible repository of the subset of CIA records reviewed under the 25-year program in electronic format (manually reviewed and released records are accessioned directly into the National Archives in their original format). Over 11 million pages have been released in electronic format and reside on the CREST database, from which researchers have printed about 1.1 million pages.
Previously, in order to directly access CREST, a researcher was required to visit the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. CIA recognized that such visits were inconvenient and presented an obstacle to many researchers. Therefore, in January 2017, the CIA published the records of the CREST collection online.

(formerly Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars) - All volumes of BCAS from 1968 to 1983 are now accessbile online at no charge. More volumes will be added soon.

USAID: gateway to USAID-funded, machine-readable data.

The Miguel de Benavides Library of the University of Santo Tomas has launched a Project codenamed Lumina Pandit II which aims to the conservation of the rich heritage collection of the Library and Archives, the publication of its historical collection catalogues and the digitization of its resources.

Survey of Lao Manuscripts in selected monastaries located in Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Bolikhamxay, Khammouane, Savannakhet and Champasak.

Digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents.

Digitising Manuscripts Safeguarding Cultural Diversity. Digital Repository.

Online bibliographical overview of Dutch scholarly activities in the field of South Asia, Tibet and classical Southeast Asia from the early 17th century up to the present.

Scientists from the Universities of Göttingen, Hamburg, Münster, Heidelberg and Berlin (Humboldt University) are involved in several projects that investigate the relationship between religion and modernity in Southeast Asia.

Focusing on EU-Asia relations since its founding in 1989. As a policy research centre, its aim is to promote understanding between the European Union and Asia.

The Global Jukebox is presented as a free, non-commercial, educational place for everybody, students, educators, scholars, scientists, musicians, dancers, linguists, artists and music fans to explore expressive patterns in their cultural-geographic and diasporic settings and alongside other people’s.

Organization promoting research in all aspects of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia in order to foster closer fellowship among medical historians and greater cooperation among scholars and students, especially those practicing in the region.

Full text collection of ethnographies from world cultures. This database can be searched by keyword, subject and ethnic word. A microfiche set is available in the Graduate Library Serials/Microforms Services. Restricted to UM users.

The Indochina Resource Center was founded in 1971 to inform the American people, legislators, and the media about the war in Indochina. The IRC also disseminated information about the countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam where U.S. military personnel were fighting or bombing. The IRC changed its name to the Southeast Asia Resource Center in 1976. In 1982 the organization was absorbed by Asia Research Center.

Full text and keyword retrieval of newspapers published during the Dutch and Japanese administration in Indonesia starting with the collection from the Netherlands Institute for War Documentatio,1940-1946 and moving on to other institutes holdings in the Netherlands.

New series of publications from Australia National University's program for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia.

Contains detailed information of Cambodian manuscripts.

This digital collection consists of 2863 publications related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.

This digital collection consists of ninety serials and journals related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century.

The Southeast Asian materials at the Library of Congress comprise over 370,000 titles in over 100 languages. This guide provides an overview of these materials, search strategies, and how to access digital collections, e-resources and websites.

Provides access to the digitized and digital born collections of Leiden University Libraries.

The IDE Library boasts a wide selection of materials and resources to assist research dealing with the economics, politics and social issues of developing countries and regions in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and East Europe.

The online journal of the Migration Policy Institute. The Migration Information Source provides fresh thought, authoritative data, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.

This archive, hosted by the University of Toronto and supported by Robarts Library, aims at bringing together and making manuscripts and rare print editions available online from individual libraries throughout Myanmar. It is the platform for an ongoing digitizing project, initiated and conducted by William Pruitt and an international team of Myanmar and Pali scholars, and supported, since 2012, by the Pali Text Society, as well as by Yumi Ousaka of the Sendai National College of Technology, the KDDI Foundation, the Mitsubishi Foundation, the CARI Foundation, and JSPS Kakenhi.

Research blog provides a forum for discussion and exchange on content, sources and new research on history of decolonization in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

The Archive aims to preserve country statistical office and central bank websites that often contain ephemeral statistical data on topics such as economic conditions, population, education, housing, environmental conditions, transportation, health, social services, vital statistics, and more.

International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, the Netherlands) initiative for browsing academic English langauge books published on Asia in the previous 12 months.

Provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one another.

Discover Singapore's urban transformation through the maps from various government agencies such as Singapore Land Authority, Urban Development Authority, Maritime Port Authority of Singapore and more. Learn about the changing landscape of Singapore, urban planning and more using 3,000 high resolution copies of maps overlaid on modern map or satellite image.

Open initiative to develop and implement a sustainable Open Access model for academic books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from across Europe.

Worldwide virtual library of language resources.

Good visual teaching resource.

Online archive of oral history collections concerning the Cold War and decolonization in Asia, with a particular focus on East, Southeast, and South Asia. Based on oral history interviews and archival research across Asia.

First news portal where journalists and members of the public can gain access to news and local experts from the research world in Asia.

A project that is funded by TICFIA, this database contains language reference materials from Southeast Asia, with the initial focus on the non-Roman script languages used throughout mainland Southeast Asia. In this site, one can also find the different scripts as well as main transliteration versions used by institutions.

SPAFA Library collection database.

Conversations with Remarkable Mystics. Photographs by Victoria Vorreiter.

The clear strength of the University Library's South Asian, Tibetan and Southeast Asian Department is its manuscripts, the most significant being the Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts, including the earliest dated illustrated Sanskrit manuscript in the world.

Online resource for students, scholars and policy-makers interested in South China Sea regional development.

Provide educators, students, scholars and members of the general public with a wide variety of materials published or otherwise produced in Southeast Asia. Drawn largely from the collections of universities and scholars in this region, SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources.

These collected texts, which run to close to 40,000 pages of unpunctuated, manuscript Classical Chinese constitute one of the most important primary texts of the Ming dynasty, and contain a wealth of materials unrecorded in other sources.

Newsletters from Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG). SEALG is a group of scholars and librarians concerned with library provision for South-East Asian studies, aware of the difficulty of obtaining material from South-East Asia, and willing to explore means of co-operation. The group is one of a number of library groups together covering the whole of Asia and reporting to the National Council on Orientalist Library Resources (NCOLR).

A scientific and educational society set up in 1990 by a group of geographers to organize the inaugural SEAGA Conference in Brunei Darussalam.

From the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. Brings together primary and secondary resource, research and teaching materials held by the library and faculty.

This guide lists rare books and manuscripts in various Southeast Asian languages (e.g., Balinese, Burmese, Vietnamese) open for research in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress.

Established by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). The idea is to provide a high quality graduate education in agriculture and coordinate research programs related ot the needs and problems of Southeast Asian region.

This research guide lists periodicals, newspapers, and serials in Southeast Asian and other Asian languages (e.g., Burmese, Malay, Chinese) available in the Asian Reading Room and European languages in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room.

The University of Freiburg pursues a transdisciplinary concept of research on Southeast Asia. The disciplines involved include Political Science, Socio-cultural Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Islamic Studies and History.

Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

Digital resources of posters produced from the different countries of Southeast Asia. At the moment, Indonesia has the most posters digitized.

European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia drawn from the Echols Collection, Cornell University Library. Provides on line access to books written in English and French. It also includes phorographs,drawings, maps and images.

Research guide on Tai manuscripts and early printed books in the Southeast Asia Rare Book Collection at the Library of Congress. The Asian Division has a rich collection of Tai manuscripts and early printed books in a variety of languages: Thai, Lao, Kham Mư̄ang, Shan, and Tai Khoēn.

Students and Scholars research results in full bibliographic citation; abstracts in both Thai and Western languages.

Brings together all of Indonesia's Islamic manuscripts in Arabic and local languages such as Javanese,Malay and Sundanese. Every digitized manuscripts have a geographic location so that researchers can find the original manuscripts.

Image bank for the university's collections. Southeast Asia group includes digital images of Borobudor, the SAAF collection, etc. Restricted to U-M users.

Primary focus of this site is on the Spanish-American War and subsequent American governance on the Philippines (1898-1910). Full text monographs, government documents published in the Philippines, Spain and the United States. This searchable full text database is complimented by digitized images from key photograph collections.

The Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies in Bonn is primarily contemporary and social science oriented. Research focuses are ethnological topics, social and political transformation dynamics, knowledge society, migration, globalization, political ecology, civil society, Indonesian literature.

Full-text access to USAID evaluations, reports, etc.

Vietnam's ideographic writing systems of the 10th and early 20th century mostly in Ha Nom is digitzed and searching is done by broad subjects entries. Administrative documents during the Tay Son emperors were written in Ha Nom.

The digital library contains hour long footage and in-depth interviews with key decision makers and veterans on both sides of the Vietnam Conflict.

Access to the world's significant primary materials. The project was the vision of James Billington to provide international and inter-cultural understanding of the world.