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ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES
Asia (General)

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (compiled by Association for Asian Studies; coverage 1971-; the single most important record of research and scholarly literature on Asia written in Western languages; requires IU log-in)
• Historical Abstracts (index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present; requires IU log-in)
• Publications on the Asian collections (Library of Congress)

Central Eurasia

• Afghanistan Analyst Bibliography 2011, 6th ed. (compiled by Christian Bleuer, PhD candidate; extensive bibliography biased toward current events, recent history, Islam, war, ethnicity, development, government, and related issues; frequently revised and expanded)
• Afghanistan Law Bibliography 2013, 4th ed. (compiled by Tim Mathews, PhD candidate)
• Annotated bibliography of the history and culture of Eastern Turkistan, Jungharia/Zungaria/Dzungaria, Chinese Central Asia, and Sinkiang/Xinjiang (for the 16th-20th centuries CE, excluding most travel narratives) (by Prof. Nathan Light, 2005)
• Archäologie und Kunst Mittelasiens
• Bibliography of Tun-huang Studies (online database in Chinese; print edition out-of-print; Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library)
• Crimean Tatar history and literature (bibliographic survey compiled in 1999 by Mubeyyin B. Altan)
• Early Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes: Bibliographic Notes (Frühe Reiternomaden Eurasiens: Bibliographische Notizen) (compiled in 1998 by Markus Mode)
• Imagining the Uyghur literary tradition (annotated bibliography for Uyghur literature compiled by Prof. Nathan Light, 1998-2003)
• Online Bibliography of Ottoman-Turkish Literature (Turkish version)
• Ottoman tax registers (Tahrir Defterleri) (bibliography of published tax registers from the Economic History of the Ottoman Empire website)
• Uyghur history, literature and culture (annotated bibliographies compiled by Professor Nathan Light; last updated 2005)
• Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is in the process of compiling detailed bibliographical guides for Central Eurasian countries (part of the Slavic Information Resources):
• Kazakh National Bibliography
• Kyrgyz National Bibliography
• National Bibliography of Tajikistan
• Tajikistan Research Bibliography (Last updated 2013.)
• Turkmen Bibliography
• Uzbek National Bibliography

East Asia

• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (IGCS) (last updated 2009; selected, annotated links to bibliographic and other internet resources for Greater China)

Islamic Studies

• Abstracta Iranica
• Bibliographical resources in Middle East Studies (compiled by Jonathan Rodgers, University of Michigan; although not comprehensive, the bibliographies are nevertheless extensive and highlight many of the major resources)
• Guide to Near Eastern collections (Library of Congress)
• Index Islamicus (requires IU log-in)
• Islamic Studies - Oxford Bibliographies (written by top scholars, each entry provides a balanced, authoritative introduction to a subject and its subtopics, followed by annotated lists of the key literature; requires IU log-in)
• Middle East and Islamic Studies (Duke University Libraries; see resource tabs)
• Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS) (a systematic, non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa; requires IU log-in)
• Guide to Research in Islamic Art and Architecture (compiled by András Riedlmayer, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University)

Russia and Eastern Europe

• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) (1990-; requires IU log-in)
• Bibliographic research guide to Soviet history (particularly valuable for its list of sources)
• Estonia National Bibliography (part of the Slavic Information Resources compiled by the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (1991-2007; compiled by the Berlin State Library in cooperation with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme; the project ended in 2007 and no further records are being added)
• Magyar Nemzeti Bibliográfia (National Bibliography of Hungary) (here is a detailed introduction to the bibliography, created by the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• REESWeb (Virtual Library for Russian and Eastern European Studies)
• RusGUSS (bibliographic database of German publications on Russia and the Soviet Union and its successor states from 1974 to 2003; over 175,000 entries; Bibliographischer Datenpool Slavistik provides alternative access to the database, including an English interface)
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (1980-; contains citations, many with abstracts, to humanities and social sciences books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from over 12,500 periodicals published primarily in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe; requires IU log-in)
• Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP) (includes Estonia, Hungary, and Islamic Central Asian republics; among other collections, SEEMP includes the Soviet Central Asian Pamphlet Microfilming Project, a collection of rare and unique pamphlets [1925-1940] in the Yakut, Kumyk, and Chuvash languages)
• Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Harvard (Harvard College Library)

Tibet

• Byara Database: Bibliographic Source for Tibet-Related Periodicals in the People's Republic of Chinca (Includes over 12,000 bibliographic entries of articles published in Tibetan. Most titles are translated into English, and keywords have been added to enhance the search capacity of the database. Many of the abstracts have also been translated into English.)
• Columbia Online Research Guide for Modern Tibetan Studies (excellent, comprehensive resource compiled by Professor Gray Tuttle, Columbia University)
• Tibetan Bibliography Database (compiled by Erwan Temple; approximately 40,000 entries)