Digital Collections/CRL
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Digital Collections
Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia: Short Guide to Online Archives for Students
Southeast Asia Advanced Research Pages: Digital and Microform Collections (Univ. of Washington) links to many digital collections.
ASEAN Digital Library (Assoc. of Southeast Asian Nations)
BookSG: A digital collection of Singapore and Southeast Asia's print heritage. Not full text searchable.
East India Company (1599 to 1947) offers India Office Records from the British Library. Contains royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings, expedition reports, etc.
Empire On-Line. Brief overview of contents.
Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France. The major source for French language material.
Neliti: Indonesia's Research Repository offers 300,000 books, datasets and journal articles from Southeast Asia.
South and Southeast Asian literature: classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present comprises literature written originally in English by writers who either were born in or identify themselves culturally with South/Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Myanmar, and Singapore. Focuses on late-colonial and postcolonial era literature, but also includes some earlier work.
Southeast Asia Digital Library offers digitized sources and lists of documents digitized elsewhere (under Region/Country)
Southeast Asia Visions is a collection of European travel accounts of Southeast Asia (- 1909)
SOUTHEAST ASIAN DIGITAL MATERIALS IN THE ASIAN DIVISION (Library of Congress)
Southeast Asian Images & Texts includes digital secondary and primary sources
Women and Social Movements, International. User guide.
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820 focuses on womens' voices of the colonized.
- Asian Empires, 1842-2001:
- Anti-Imperialist Activism of Indonesian Women, 1951-1965
- The Japanese Empire in East Asia, 1842-2001
- French Feminists and Empire, 1880-1900
- Italians Consider the International Problem of Trafficking in Women, 1928-1936
- United States Empire, 1820-2004:
- Filipino Women and American Empire, 1904-2004
- U.S. Women Aid Workers in Indochina, 1955 to 1970
Britain
Foreign Office files for South East Asia, 1963-1980 (UK)
United States
U.S. intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991 offers declassified documents on U.S. intelligence community. Covers People's Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.
O.S.S./State Department intelligence and research reports.
Online Version; HOLLIS record with brief overview
Descriptions of included collections
pt. 1. Japan and its occupied territories during World War II
pt. 2. Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, 1945-1949
pt. 8. Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and the Far East generally, 1950-1961
Center for Research Libraries and its Southeast Asia Materials Project (SEAM)
The Center for Research Libraries in Chicago is an important repository of South Asian and other material. A considerable amount is available online. Search the CRL catalog using the Advanced search which has a Language field. Much is only in print or microfilm for which you fill out an Interlibrary Loan form as usual. You can limit to online material by adjusting Reproduction Type to Online.
For digital items, when you hit the link in the Available Online box (for example), you may find that the digital material is open access and you can look at it. For LLMC material go through HOLLIS Databases. Sometimes you get a “Member Restricted Resource” page. Harvard is a member, but for technical reasons we cannot use the Shibboleth Login that is offered. So what you do is to take the url, say https://dds.crl.edu/crldelivery/13287 and change it to https://dds-crl-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/crldelivery/13287
That is you put .ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ after the https://dds-crl-edu
If you don’t want to do this manually, there is an app (called the Bookmark) you can insert on your browser bookmarks bar. It’s labelled Check Harvard Library, and it automatically inserts that url fragment when you hit the bookmark. General instructions. Installation is slightly different in different browsers. We can help if you have any trouble.
Sometimes when you hit the link in the Available Online box you are taken to the login page of a different database, for example LLMC (example). Here you go to LLMC in HOLLIS Databases and log in with Harvard Key in the ordinary way
The records in the CRL Catalog can be searched in HOLLIS Everything, NOT HOLLIS Library Catalog, but there is no option for online access.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Topic Guide: Southeast Asia