Selected Resources for: South Asian Studies
| Subject Librarian: David Faust E-Mail: faust011@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the study of India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, Tibet and Afghanistan. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesBibliography of Asian Studies  References principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - broad, but not comprehensive. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
Index Islamicus  Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It covers all aspects of Muslim life - history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literatures. Over 2,500 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. The bibliography covers numerous disciplines such as bibliography, history of the Islamic book, education, religion and theology, philosophy, science and mathematics, architecture, music, theater and drama, geography and ecology, anthropology and sociology, archaeology, cookery, epigraphy, economics, history, political thought, politics and current affairs, and the languages and literatures of countries and regions worldwide.
Periodicals devoted solely to the fields of Islam are indexed completely. Other journals are indexed only for articles on Islamic subjects. |
| JSTOR Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sage Complete Journal Package Complete title listing of all Sage journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| South and Southeast Asian Literature In English This is a machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of the writings from 1825 to the present, written by authors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji, including fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Factiva Full text source of global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images. Covers multiple-language content of 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Background and financial information is also available on 25,000 publicly traded companies and along with market data on equities, funds, and indices. Search the full-text of the Wall Street Journal and other general, business and trade magazines and newspapers. Limited to 7 simultaneous users. Inside-Out: Complete Reference For Factiva.Com Factiva.Com How To Get Results Journal titles not included in this academic version of Factiva [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Guide to Indian Periodical Literature If you can't find something online, all is not lost! Come to the Ames Library and look at this excellent index to Indian journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ProQuest Newsstand This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include a few South Asian publications, as well as many US and international ones. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| World News Connection Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies| India Bibliography comprising annotated entries on works dealing with India's history, geography, economy and politics; and with its people, their culture, customs, religion and social organization. Attention is also paid to current living conditions—housing, education, newspapers, clothing, etc.—that are all too often ignored in standard bibliographies; and to those particular aspects relevant to individual countries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| South Asia Research Documentation Services (SARDS) 2 SARDS 2 is an electronic database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles published in journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings, Festschriften, etc. The focus of SARDS 2 is on the humanities and social sciences. To date, over 67.000 citations are electronically searchable, covering the period from 1797 until 2006. All entries can be downloaded and easily printed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps| Digital South Asia Library Maps Page See historical maps online, including The Historical Atlas of South Asia, by Joseph Schwartzberg [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Historical atlas of South Asia A digitized version of this classic atlas is online and hard copies are available in the Ames Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin hosts this well-organized directory of maps (worldwide coverage) directly viewable on the web as .jpeg files. Most are reference maps produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and therefore carry no copyright. Privately produced maps are made available via links. Note that many of the images are too large to be printed on letter-sized paper. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| UC Atlas of Global Inequality The mission of the UC Atlas of Inequality is to provide online teaching resources and tools to enable student exploration of global change. Aspects of 21st Century global integration and inequality present great challenges to university teaching. The UC Atlas of Global Inequality attempts to address these challenges using the Internet, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and new graphical capabilities of digital media to enhance learning in Geography, Sociology, Economics, Health, Technology and Environmental Studies. The Atlas integrates data, maps, and graphs to create an interactive website for accessing and analyzing information addressing global change and inequality. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Biographical Sources
| Biography Reference Bank (Please note: this resource only allows four (4) simultaneous users. If you are denied access, please try again later) Biography Reference Bank combines the complete content of Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated with the complete and enhanced content of Biography Index Plus. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Biography Index Plus is a bibliographic database that cites biographical material appearing in periodicals indexed in other Wilson Company databases and additional selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Country Studies
| Background Notes Issued by the US Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, these electronically accessible publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states and other territories. The Background Notes are updated and/or revised as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database of this Department of State website. Paper copies of earlier editions are available in the Government Publications Library in Wilson. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CIA World Factbook Provides a standard set of facts for all countries of the world. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| India, a Reference Annual Clicking this link downloads a searchable pdf version of the entire 1200+ page book - print editions are available in the Ames Library. This is an annual compendium of information and statistics on a wide variety of themes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Library of Congress Country Studies The Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of India online A four-volume survey of the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day. Includes more than 600 entries, arranged alphabetically. For students and general readers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford Art Online "The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day." This is the online version of The Dictionary of Art (Grove's). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Guides
| Travelers Accounts of the Cities of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka This guide serves as an index to the DS 412 and 413 (Travel accounts) section of the Ames Library of South Asia for those works which have separately identified chapters or sections dealing with a particular city. Since most travelers to South Asia visited Agra, Benares, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, and Madras, which makes such accounts extremely easily accessible, accounts of these six cities are not provided in this guide. However accounts of Benares which were not written in English have been included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Women in Pre-Independent India A searchable illustrated database of writings by or about women in pre-independence India. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
BlogsGateways & Megasites
| Digital South Asia Library " The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| India Environmental Portal The India Environment Portal is initiated and managed by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) promoted by the National Knowledge Commission (NKC), Government of India. The India Environment Portal is seeks to be a one-stop shop of all that you want to know about environment and development issues. The India Environment Portal employs a unique and built thesaurus of environmental and geographic terms. Each topic is classified and sub-classified. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Indian Water Portal The India Water Portal is an open, inclusive, web-based platform for sharing water management knowledge amongst practitioners and the general public. It aims to draw on the rich experience of water-sector experts, package their knowledge and add value to it through technology and then disseminate it to a larger audience through the internet. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) PAIR presents freely available Internet resources for research and study of modern East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences. Resources are from various sources including academic, government, commercial, trade and industry, and non-governmental organizations. The catalog includes current information and data such as bibliographies and databases, data sets, newspapers and journals, government reports, and organization sites. Resources are in English and/or one or more of 27 Asian languages. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Open Access Resources
| Online Museum Resources on Asian Art (OMuRAA) OMuRAA identifies online visual resources -- including collections databases, digital image libraries, archived websites of special exhibitions, online presentations of focused collections, and websites for teaching with and about art -- and indexes them in ways that are familiar to teachers and students in world history, world literature, and general art courses. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Multimedia Materials
Image Resources| Ames Library of South Asia Digital Images Database of images digitized from the rare book collection of the Ames Library of South Asia -- Images include peoples of South Asia, historical maps, landscapes, monuments, infrastructure projects (such as canals & railroads), and the Quetta earthquake of 1935. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Ames Library's Stereoscopic Views of India Database of 103 stereoscopic views of India from around 1900. The originals are in the Ames Library of South Asia. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Exhibits from the Ames Library of South Asia Exhibitions consist of images drawn primarily from the Ames Library of South Asia rare book collection. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
News Sources| PressDisplay Full-page digital archive updated daily with current news from 650 national and international newspapers. Rolling 90-day archive. A number of newspapers feature translation, audio and more (example: Le Figaro). Tip: Quickly browse sources using the Select Title-dropdown in the upper right corner. Includes over 20 newspapers from India, but lacks coverage of the rest of the region [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Samachar.com Aggregates current India news from many sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites| Directory of Indian Government Websites Provides access to Indian government websites at all levels and from all sectors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Government of India: Union Budget and Economic Survey The Union Budget provides insight into the Government of India's spending priorities. The Economic Survey is the government's perspective on the economy. Both are available as full-text .pdf files for the current and previous years. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| National Portal of India This Government of India portal, produced under the National e-Governance Plan, provides access to access to information and services being provided by the various Indian Government entities covering a wide array of subjects. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources| Afghanistan, Central Statistics Office Provides a range of official socio-economic statistics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Provides a wide range of official socio-economic statistics [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Census of India The Census of India site provides not only statistics, but maps. The Ames Library of South Asia also holds many volumes of the Census of India. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Nepal, Central Bureau of Statistics Provides a wide range of official socio-economic statistics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Pakistan Government, Statistics Division Provides a wide range of official socio-economic statistics via the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS), Population Census Organization (PCO) or Agricultural Census Organization (ACO). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Sri Lanka, Department of Census and Statistics Provides a wide range of official socio-economic statistics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| UNdata This database provides international statistics on all major social and economic subjects. You can enter the name of a country in the search box to get started. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| World Bank Data and Maps Central reference point for tables and maps made available on the Internet by the World Bank. Also includes information on methods, modelling tools and technical assistance for users of World Bank statistics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Zotero Free web-based bibliographic citation tool. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Writing Guides
| QuickStudy -- Citing Sources QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Student Writing Center Provides writing help for students at all stages of the writing process. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Student Writing Support Quickhelp Web-based help on references & citations, the writing process, style & grammar, punctuation, avoiding plagiarism, and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
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India: Development, Globalization and ContestationLearning Abroad in India
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