Catalogs & Databases

In this section are catalogs, databases, and search engines devoted partially or fully to Mongolia, Inner Asia, or subjects of importance to researchers in the region. Use the "Catalog" and "Database" links in the sub-menu to the left to see full lists of the various catalogs and databases available online. Below is a quick list of the more important catalogs, databases, and search engines available for Inner Asian Area Studies research. If you find a catalog or database that is not listed in this section but may assist other researchers, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
 
ACMS Library Catalog

Some book records have not been entered into DLIR union catalog. You can see a bibliography list of un-catalogued books right here

 
Other Library Catalogs

WWU Library Catalog
Western Washington University (WWU) library maintains the largest collection of books on Mongolia in North America, numbering 8,200 titles, including works on the Buryat, Kalmyk, Oirat, Daghur, Dongxiang, Engger (Eastern Yugur) and other Mongolian groups.

Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (RIFIAS) Catalog
Search the catalog of RIFIAS based at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Library of Congress Catalog
The Library of Congress has a collection of over 2,000 Mongolian language monographs, and nearly 100 serial titles in Mongolian. The collection is searchable in the online catalog using LC-ALA transliteration for Mongolian or by LC subject headings in English. In addition the catalog contains records for the holdings in Western and other Asian languages related to Mongolia. [Source: Library of Congress]

WorldCat
Search the world union catalog containing records for millions of items.

 
Databases

JSTOR
Database of full text articles from several hundred academic journals. ACMS patrons have unlimited access to JSTOR from the ACMS library computers.

DOAJ
Database of open access journals. 

DOAB
Directory of over 1000 open access textbooks and research works.  

Inner Asian Studies Search Engine
Search the web using a Google custom search of resources related to Inner Asian Studies.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches academic articles cited or available in full or partial text on the internet. It is a useful tool for verifying citations.

Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)
The Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is developed by area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University.

Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (RIFIAS)
Consisting of a general collection and several special collections, the RIFIAS Library is one of North America's premier resources for teaching and research in the history, languages, literatures, geography, religions, and cultures of Inner Asia.

The World Digital Library
The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

The OAIster database
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster boasts more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.