Research & Subject Guides: HIS 301.02: Indian Ocean World: Web Sites

Using Google To Your Advantage

Primary Sources are increasingly being digitized by universities and libraries. Try a Google or Yahoo ADVANCED SEARCH. Put .edu or .gov in the DOMAIN search box. Include “primary source” in your search terms.

Web Sites

Digital South Asia Library (Center for Research Libraries)
Online collection of scholarly reference books and general titles, pedagogical books, journals, newspapers, indexes, bibliographies, images, maps, and statistical information from the colonial period through the present.
TROVE: National Library of Australia
Search over 90 million digitized items from Australian libraries, including pictures, unpublished manuscripts, books, oral histories, music, videos, research papers, diaries, letters, maps, archived websites and Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954.
Philippine History (De La Salle University - Manilla)
South Asia Resources Database (Australian Research Council)
Southeast Asia Visions (Cornell)
Collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast. Over 350 online books and journal articles in English and French. Also includes some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps.
South Asian Statistical Data (Columbia)
Selective guide to resources for statistical data on South Asia from Columbia University. Some resources are restricted to Columbia affiliates, but many online resources are open to everyone.