Internet resources for World

This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts,
temple, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East
Asian Buddhist canonical sources. While there is obviously
a basic layer of East Asian terminology, since much of
what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the
Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of
this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary
is pan-Buddhist in character. This project, which was
initiated in 1986, is to the best of our knowledge, the
most comprehensive compilation of Buddhist terms presently
available in English.

U.S. National Library of Medicine has understaken a great
number of digital projects to create free online archives of
biomedical resources that are in the public domain, and make
them freely available worldwide. This web page has a list
of the NIH digital projects and allows users to browse and
identify relevant digital resources by subject.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories, or OpenDOAR, is
\an authoritative directory of academic open access
repositories\. An institutional digital repository helps
to capture, manage, preserve and disseminate the
intellectual output created by community members
of the host institution. OpenDOARS makes it easy to
identify institutional repositories, either by
\Search(ing) for Repositories\ or browsing the \repository
list\ . But more than that, the portal makes it possible
to \Search Repository Contents\, by which users can
conduct federated keyword searches at the document level
across repositories.

The website is established by Columbia University Libraries,
it provides electronic version of Guba Hua Gong Diao Cha Lu
reproduced from a microfilm of the original printed copy
held in the Special Collection of Starr East Asian Library.

此站由新加坡国立大学图书馆设立。主要包括“历史文献中的南洋古
国”、“中外交通史籍中的南洋”，及早期南洋文献、华人移民史料、英属殖
民地华人史料等。

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Harvard University played
a significant role-as underwriter, participant, collector,
and repository-for pace-setting expeditions around the
world. For Internet users, Expeditions and Discoveries
provides selective access to Harvard's multidisciplinary
records of those expeditions. Expeditions and Discoveries
delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as
well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of
manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626
and 1953. It offers important-often unique-historical
resources for students of anthropology, archaeology,
astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine,
oceanography, and zoology.

This website hosted by the U.S. National Park Service makes
available five e-books respectively aabout the history of
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians,
Black Americans, and Mexican Americans in California.

This resource, published in six parts, makes available the
complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades. The documents
combine eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries,
annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of
newspaper articles and conference reports, economic
assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
There is a constant exchange of information between London
and British diplomatic outposts in China and a continual
dialogue on issues relating to East Asia between Britain
and America as well as with European and Commonwealth
partners. Sino-Soviet relations also become a very
important consideration in the Cold War era.

VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.

HathiTrust is a big digital repository that brings together
the immense collections of 22 major US universities. The
digital collections of Hathi now contain fulltext of more
than two million books. Due to copyright concerns, only 16%
of the books can deliver their fulltexts to readers. Certain
amount of fulltexts can be accessed by members of registered
institutes.

This database project studies the first wave of postcards
with a Chinese subject. Users not only find images of the
postcards, but also their historical context information
about what they are, who produced them and where, how they
were used, and what's their significance. The growing
collection focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China
with the bulk back to the time of the late imprial (before
1911). It has stopped updating in 2004 and the 462 images
the site hosts are available to view and download.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is a database of
over 70,000 images in the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's historical collections. The collections include
portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre
scenes, posters, and other graphic art, which illustrate
the social and historical aspects of medicine from the
Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval
medical practice and 19th-century slum conditions to World
War I hospitals and the international fight against drug
abuse and AIDS. That said, the majority of the images date
back to earlier time periods from before World War II. The
geographical coverage of the database is international,
but the majority of the images is sourced from Europe and
the United States.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-
based collection of historical materials from Harvard's
libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary
immigration to the United States from the signing of the
Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to
the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200
books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from
manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800
photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and
other writings capturing diverse experiences, the
collected material provides a window into the lives of
ordinary immigrants.

The Internet Archive is a is a non-profit library of
millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities,
and the general public to historical collections that exist
in digital format.

This searchable Flickr database contains over 12 million
historical copyright-free images (photos and drawings) that
are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages
scanned by the Internet Archive. Streaching half a
millennium (1500-1922), the vast range of images shows how
the portrayals of things have changed over. The database is
created by Kalev Leetaru, an American academic.

This is a sub-collection of the Moving Image Archive (of the Internet Archive). It has digitized feature films, shorts, silent films, and trailers from around the world.

This digital library contains digital movies uploaded by users of the Internet Archive, which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

Modeled after the Library of Congress Classification
Schedules, this guide categorizes 1700+ entries of
databases, websites and archives in an order that's
convenient for research.It includes contemporary, modern and
premodern time periods. Unfortunately, the guide has stopped
updating itself since 2009.

Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily during pre-War
Singapore, was started by Mr See Ewe Lay in December 1881
and lasted 52 years before it finally ceased in March 1932.
Lat Pau is an invaluable historical source for research into
pre-war Singapore as well as Chinese overseas during that
period. Unfortunately the earliest issues of the newspaper
were lost and now the issues extant at the system cover only
the period August 19 1887 to March 31 1932.

This Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories is part of
Delta State University Archives' Oral History Collection.
The oral history project was funded by the Mississppi
Humanities Council and was completed in 2000. The
Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories consists of
interviews focusing on the history and culture of the
Chinese people in the Mississippi Delta.