Libraries

This list does not include academic university departments.

ASIA (General)

• Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (network of anthropologists, students, and social science researchers working on contemporary societies in the Middle East and Central Eurasia)
• Asia Center, Harvard University
• Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
• Association for Asian Studies
• Chatham House (Russia and Eurasia)
• Crossroads Asia: Conflict, Migration, Development (website contains scholarly research e-publications; content in German and English)
• Digital Silk Road Project (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS)
• Harvard-Yenching Institute
• Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
• Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences (many publications available as PDFs HERE; introductory material only for recent publications)
• Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands
• Istituto per l'Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino (IPOCAN), Rome, Italy
• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), National Archives of Japan (digitized documents of the Japanese government from the Meiji era to the end of the Pacific War; useful for the Qing, Mongolia and Tibet; interface in English and Japanese)
• National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) ("independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting US relations with Asia")

AFGHANISTAN

• Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU)
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
• Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska-Omaha

BALTICS AND FINLAND

• Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS)
• Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum (Estonian Literary Museum) (national scientific and research institution for collecting, preserving, studying, and displaying the national cultural heritage of Estonia; includes useful list of links in the Estonian-language portion of website)
• Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura (Finnish Literary Research Society)
• Kotimaisten Kielten Keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland)
• Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society) (national institute for research and promotion of Finnish oral tradition, the Finnish language, and Finnish literature; maintains extensive lists of online materials)

CENTRAL ASIA / CAUCASUS

• Aigine Cultural Research Center (Kyrgyzstan) (resources include video recordings of a Manas epic performance is available)
• American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC)
• Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dell'Asia Centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC) (Italian Society for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies)
• Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (Azərbaycan Milli Elmlər Akademiyası [AMEA])
• Cambridge Central Asia Forum (interdisciplinary study of development in Central Asia)
• Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (Karadeniz ve Orta Asya Ülkeleri Araştırma Merkezi, KORA)
• Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads (archaeology)
• Central Asia and Caucasus Research Institute (中央アジア・コーカサス研究所) (Japan)
• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) / Silk Road Studies Program (many links to Central Eurasian resources)
• Central Asian Numistatic Institute (CANI)
• Centralasiatisk Selskab (Danish Central Asian Society)
• Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
• Central Eurasian Studies Society (ユーラシア学研究会) (Osaka University, Japan)
• Central Eurasian Studies World Wide (CESWW) (ceased in 2008, but some useful resources)
• Eurasia Heritage Foundation (Фонд "Наследие Евразии") (Russian NGO; political and socioeconomic processes in the NIS)
• European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)
• Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie centrale (IFÉAC) (French Institute for Central Asian Studies)
• Institute of Oriental Studies (Z.M. Bünyadov adına Şərqşünaslıq İnstitutu) (National Academy of Sciences, Baku)
• Institute of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies (IREECAS) (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
• International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) (Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
• Japan Association for Central Asian Studies (JACAS) (日本中央アジア学会)
• Observatorio Asia Central (in Spanish)
• Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies (OASIES) (Columbia University, NY)
• Oxford Society for the Caspian and Central Asia (TOSCCA) (ceased in 2011?)
• Project on Islam in Eurasia (Harvard University)
• Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan (Stichting Onderzoekcentrum Turkistan en Azerbaidzjan, SOTA) (rarely updated)
• Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) (British association which promotes "greater knowledge and understanding of Central Asia and countries from the Middle East to Japan")
• Société Européenne pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale (SEECHAC)
• Society of Inner Asian Studies (内陸アジア史学会) (Chuo University, Japan)
• Uzbek Academy of Sciences

HUNGARY

• International Association for Hungarian Studies
• Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

MIDDLE EAST

• Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
• Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)
• Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB)

MONGOLIA

• American Center for Mongolian Studies
• Center for Northeast Asian Studies (東北アジア研究センター) (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Deutsch-Mongolische Gesellschaft (German-Mongolian Society)
• Mongolia Society
• Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Монгол Улсын Шинжлэх Ухааны Академи)
• Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

TIBET (China)

• Center for Research on Tibet (Case Western Reserve University, OH)
• Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes (Centre for Himalayan Studies)
• China Tibetology Research Center
• Tibetan and Himalayan Library (comprehensive website with many resources)
• Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (Microsoft's Internet Explorer does not work with this website--must use another browser)
• Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre (TPPRC)

TURKEY

• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
• Centre d'Etudes Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBaC)
• Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA)
• Institute of Turkish Studies (USA)
• İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü (Istanbul Research Institute)
• Karadeniz Araştırmaları Merkezi (Black Sea Research Center) (KaraM)
• Orient-Institut Instanbul (affiliated with Max Weber Foundation)
• Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) (USA)
• Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (IRCICA)
• Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies (UK)
• Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

XINJIANG (China)

• International Dunhuang Project (IDP) (information and image database of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the "Eastern Silk Road")