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Bibliographical Resources (Central Eurasian Studies)
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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)
- 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 2011, 3rd 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
- Central Eurasian Reader (online access to vol. 1 only; an important, biennial bibliographical review covering many topics)
- Crimean Tatar history and literature (bibliographic survey compiled in 1999 by Mubeyyin B. Altan)
- Digital Dunhuang bibliography (in Chinese)
- 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 (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
- Uzbek National Bibliography
- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (IGCS) (last updated 2009; selected, annotated links to bibliographic and other internet resources for Greater China)
- 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)
- Middle East 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)
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies (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)
- Guide to Research in Islamic Art and Architecture (compiled by András Riedlmayer, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University)
- 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 East 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: a research guide (Harvard College Library)
- Bya-ra: A Tibetan Research Database (approximately 12,000 entries)
- Columbia 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)
