Libraries

EURASIA

• ArchNet: Islamic Architecture Community (online resources for architecture; click on country links in list of documents and images)
• Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia (online resources for the politics and economics of transition states in the post-communist world)
• Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) (bimonthly "compendium of news and analysis on politics involving Islam in the former Soviet Union," with focus on north Caucasus region; published by Gordon M. Hahn, 2009-present, at the Monterey Terrorism Research & Education Program, Monterey, California, USA)
• Meeting of Frontiers (developed by US Library of Congress; devoted to the history of the American-Russian contact zone)
• Numismatics (links): Oriental Coins Database; Successors of Chingiz Khan and Their Coins; Coins of Central Asia [pre-Islamic]; Coins and History of Asia; Xinjiang Coins
• Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC) (general resources by country, maintained by University of Texas at Austin)
• Sino-Platonic Papers (an occasional paper series available online in full-text from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania)
• Smithsonian Institution (the Smithsonian Collections Search Center allows you to search over 2 million descriptive records with 210,500 images, video and sound files, electronic journals, and other resources from dozens of Smithsonian museums, archives and libraries in the USA [e.g., search by keywords such as Turkestan, Mongolia, Tibet, etc.])
• Центральная Евразия / Central Eurasia Project (initiative launched by a team of development analysts/researchers under the leadership of Vladimir Paramonov, which covers contemporary political, economic, security, and energy issues in Central Eurasia; information primarily in Russian with some English)
• World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency) (summary information for each country)

CENTRAL ASIA

• Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan
• American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) (supports scholarly study of the South Caucasus states--Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia--in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences)
• Archaeological Information System of Central Asia (AISCA) (database under development)
• ArchNet: Central Asia (links to selected online resources for Central Asian archaeology)
• Caucasus WWW Virtual Library (ceased in January 2011; much useful content still accessible through the Internet Archive)
• Central Eurasia Project (Open Society Foundations / Soros Foundation)
• Central Asia Online (sponsored by United States Central Command / US Department of Defense)
• Central Asian Network for Gender Studies (updated irregularly)
• Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia (EFCA) (mobilizes public and private resources to support local initiatives in community development, private enterprise, education, and pblic administration)
• History of Civilizations of Central Asia (online edition of volumes 1-6, published by UNESCO)
• Kyrgyzstan: Country in Transition (information about Kyrgyzstan's political transformation since independence; website developed by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• Центральноазиатский исторический сервер (Kyrgyz website; ceased [?], but includes some useful information on ethnic groups, etc.)
• Uzbekistan in Figures (UinF) (statistical information; joint project of the United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan)
• World Digital Library: Central and South Asia (UNESCO) (contains historical texts, images, and maps pertaining to Central Eurasia)

AFGHANISTAN

• Afghanistan Online (privately maintained and not a scholarly website, but covers a wide range of topics in detail; in English)
• Richard Strand's Nuristan (Contains previously unpublished material on the linguistics and ethnography of Nuristan and neighboring regions, collected and analyzed by Richard F. Strand since 1967.)
• Survey of Afghan People: Afghanistan in 2015 (The Asia Foundation's Survey of the Afghan People is Afghanistan's broadest and longest-running public opinion poll.)

AZERBAIJAN

• Azərbaycan (general portal developed by non-profit Heydar Aliyev Foundation; in Azeri, Russian, and English)
• Azerbaijan Historical Portal (includes some digitized texts)

BALTICS

• Estonian Folklore (excellent up-to-date resources)

HUNGARY

• Resources (selected links collected by the East Central European Center, Columbia University)
• Cold War History Research Center (Corvinus University)
• Kultura (website for Hungarian culture from Nemzeti ErÅ‘forrás Minisztérium / Ministry of National Resources)
• Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution

MONGOLIA

• Archaeology and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia (inventory of surface archaeology based on nearly 20 years of field seasons in Mongolia; includes digitized images and maps)
• China Mongolian Studies Information Net (collected resources from "web, library and personal resources"; joint project of Inner Mongolia University Library and Mongolian Studies Research Center, Inner Mongolia University)
• Genghis Khan on the Web (eclectic collection of links to English-language web resources)
• Juniper: Base de Données des Etudes Mongoles et Sibériennes (resource database developed by Centre d'Etudes Mongoles et Sibériennes of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes [EPHE])
• Mobility, Empire and Cross Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia (scholarly project led by Professor Michal Biran of the Hebrew University)
• Mongol Khans (provides basic chronological information; compiled by non-specialist)
• Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (unique, eyewitness record by Takezaki Suenaga of the 1274 and 1281 Mongol invasions)
• United Nations Development Programme Mongolia (UNDP Mongolia)

TIBET (China)

• Alternative Tibétaine = Tibetan Alternative (news and political analysis; in French and English)
• China Tibet Information Center (CTIC) (official news and cultural information)
• Digital Himalaya (digital archive of ethnographic resources for the Himalayan region)
• Islam & Tibet: Cultural Interactions (8th-17th centuries)
• Outlook Tibet (Tibetan news, culture, etc.)
• Reisen in China und Tibet (in German)
• Tibet archaeology and all things Tibetan (website of John Vincent Bellezza, a scholarly specialist in the archaeology and cultural history of Upper Tibet)
• Tibet Environmental Watch
• Tibet links (from International Campaign for Tibet)
• Tibet Online (maintained by the international Tibet Support Group community)
• Tibet Oral History Project (TOHP) (transcripts and videos of interviews with Tibetan elders living in exile)
• Tibet Society (UK)
• Tibetan Mongolian Museum Society
• Tibetan Political Review ("dedicated to advancing constructive discussion of the important political issues facing the Tibetan nation")
• Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library (ceased in January 2011; much useful content still accessible through the Internet Archive)
• TibetSites: Archive of Websites on Tibet (extensive collection of websites on all topics related to Tibet; includes primarily English-language resources devoted to modern Tibet)
• Online Index of Chinese Buddhism (annotated list of online resources for the study of Buddhism in China and, more broadly, Central Eurasia)

TURKEY

• Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Presidency of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey)
• Economic History of the Ottoman Empire (developed by Professor Metin M. CoÅŸgel at the University of Connecticut)
• Historians of the Ottoman Empire (essential bio-bibliographical database [in development]; contributions in Turkish and English)
• History from Below in the Ottoman Empire and the Modern Middle East: An Archive (digitized collection of documents and images concerning laborers and popular history; not updated since 2009)
• Osmanli Web Sitesi = Ottoman Web Site (information organized by sultanate; in Turkish and English, but Turkish content is more complete)
• Ottoman History Podcast (now over 100 episodes; weekly internet radio program in English and Turkish featuring interviews and scholarly lectures concerning the history, politics, and culture of the Ottoman Empire; began in 2011)
• Ottomans.org
• Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Society)
• Türk Tarih Kurumu (Turkish Historical Society)

XINJIANG (China)

• East Turkistan Information Center
• Silkroad Foundation
• Uighurbiz.net
• Uyghur American Association (links to other websites)
• Uyghur Culture and History (general and scholarly resources; website no longer updated)
• World Uyghur Congress
• Xinjiang Research Lab (scholarly resources of Jun Sugawara, ILCAA)