Academic Resources

Looking for resources for research, homework, or independent study?

Art

Oxford Art Online – Asian Art – Contains, topical essays, artwork, and biographies of individual artists broken down into information by country.
Asia Art Archives – collects primary and secondary materials surrounding recent art in Asia.
Museum of Fine Arts – Art of Asia –The Museum of Fine Arts contains a large collection of Asian art, including the largest collection of Japanese art outside of Japan. Northeastern students receive free admission to the museum.
Peabody Essex Museum – Asian Art Collections – Located in Salem, PEM has a large collection of art from East Asia. Highlights from their collections are avaliable to view online.
Northeastern Kanopy – Asian Studies – Video streaming service, has many documentaries and eductional films, can be searched by subject.

Northeastern Library Asian History Subject Guide – Northeastern University’s Asian history subject guide contrains references and links to archives for history on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Chinatown Atlas – An interactive digital humanities project documenting the history and growth of Boston’s Chinatown over time.
Boston’s Asian American Community History – Several collections, hosted by Northeastern Library Archives, includes digitized and non-digitized materials from community organizations such as the Chinese Progressive Association and Asian American Resource Workshop.
Filipino Americans and the Farm Labor Movement – an instructional video and curricular materials from the California History-Social Science Project. Also contains more links to resources about Filipino Americans.
South Asian American Digital Archive – Digital archive hosting, photographs, stories and histories of South Asian Americans. Search their collections or view their online projects.

Asia Society – Asia Society Policy Institue and Center on US-China Relations. Provide information about policy, arts and culture, education, sustainability, business, and technology. Education, they also have events.
Brookings Institute – Center for East Asia Policy Studies – Reports, news and policy papers about East Asia politics.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – Asia Program – Discusses topics related to the environment, economics, and energy in Asia with a focus on policy.
The National Bureau of Asian Research – compliles policy-relevant research on Asia with a U.S.-Asia relations focus.
RAND – Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP) – The RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy (CAPP) crafts multidisciplinary, analytic, and regional expertise reports on policy issues of the Asia Pacific.

Please keep in mind, with any resource guides from outside universities, there is the potential that access will be restricted to some sources
Berkley Asian History Library Guide – Provides databases and academic portals for primary sources, sorted by region and subject matter.
University of Wisconson – Madison Subject Guides for East Asia and South/Southeast Asia
Princeton List of Digital Archives outside Univesity – South Asia

For Academic Journals on Asia, search the Northeastern journal subscription catalog: Search the Catalog Here

Check out CSGS’ small lending library of academic books on relevant topics from faculty and speakers located in 201 Renaissance Park.