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Center for Chinese Studies Library
This Library is one the premier research collections on contemporary mainland Chinese affairs in the United States. Acquisitions are closely cooredinated with those of the East Asian Library and the East Asian Collections of the Hoover Institution.
East Asian Library
The East Asian Library focuses on the humanities and social sciences. Materials include full-text electronic databases, books, periodicals, newspapers, maps, manuscripts, and very early examples of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean woodblock printing.
South/Southeast Asia Library
The South/Southeast Asia Library (S/SEAL) is the Berkeley campus library reference center in the fields of South and Southeast Asian social sciences and humanities.
The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri
The papyri were excavated at the turn of the last century at the Greco-Roman site at Tebtunis. The Center is part of the Bancroft Library.

International Library Collections

African Collections at UC Berkeley
The Africana Collections cover only Sub-Saharan countries and includes many publications from adjacent islands. This broad collection is located in all campus libraries.
Architecture Visual Resources Library
This slide collection represents the pictorial and visual history of architecture and urbanism through the ages, including the arts, design, technology and topographic data.
Berkeley Natural History Museums Online Maps
Berkeley Natural History Museums Online Maps displays point distribution maps of natural history museum specimen by geographic locations. Specimen informatin is collected from museums worldwide using the DIGIR protocol & sent to this application.
Canada Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the Canadian collections in the Berkeley Library and other online resources
Canadian Government Information
Since November 1959, Doe Library has been a selective Canadian Government Depository Library for a substantial amount of legislative information, statistical data and annual reports from government agencies.
Center for Chinese Studies Library Collection
The focus of the CCSL collection is primarily on post-1949 Chinese politics, economics and the social sciences. Materials related to the pre-1949 period, or post-1949 Chinese literature and culture are collected by UC Berkeley's East Asian Library.
Clausen Center for International Business & Policy
The Center mission is to insure the provision of international-related support to the Haas community through research, outreach & learning experiences. One research tool is "Datastream International" available on a dedicated terminal in the Long Library.
Collections at the Botanical Garden
The current plant holdings of the garden comprise one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States. The garden arrangement is geographic by continent of origin or region, such as the Japanese Pool and the Chinese Herb Garden.
Doe/Moffitt Library Government and International Organization Collection
The Library acquires state, federal, foreign governments and international organizations publications through depository, exchange, and cooperative programs in a variety of formats, with extensive holdings in development, human rights, and economics.
Doe/Moffitt Library: Asia & Pacific Government Information
This collection focuses on the government publications from the countries of East Asia, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Doe/Moffitt Library: European Government Information
This collection of European government information is one of most comprehensive in the United States. The guide includes links to gateway sites to European Governments with information about finance, statistics, economics and demography..
Doe/Moffitt Library: European Union Internet Resources
This collection guide is to an extensive number of online sources of information for European Union documents.
Doe/Moffitt Library: General Foreign Government Resources
This collection guide is a comprehensive list globally organized by Region or Affiliation, Elections and Current Events, Rulers, Legislative Bodies, Constitutions Laws & Treaties, and Diplomacy.
Doe/Moffitt Library: Government Research Guides
This collection guide is to online resources for government documents by subject.
Doe/Moffitt Library: IGO Full-Text Databases & Publications
Many International Governmental Organizations now routinely publish documents & publications on the Internet.
Doe/Moffitt Library: International & Foreign Documents Collections
The Library participates in selective and full depository programs, exchange agreements and purchasing plans to build its foreign and international government documents collections in a full-range of subject areas.
Doe/Moffitt Library: International Government Information at UC Berkeley
The UC Berkeley libraries are full depositories for documents and publications from the United Nations, the European Union, the Asian Development Bank and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Doe/Moffitt Library: International Organizations Resources
UCB Libraries are full depositories for document and publications from the UN, EU, the Asian Development Bank and the OSCE. This page lists web directories and research guides.
Doe/Moffitt Library: International Statistics
Links to major international statistical databases produced by International Governmental Organizations (IGOs) on various topics. Includes both free and licensed databases paid for by UC Berkeley.
Doe/Moffitt Library: Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
A list of web guides and directories to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for searching by subject or geography.
Doe/Moffitt Library: United Nations Internet Resources
This collection guide is to online sources of information for United Nations documents. It focuses primarily on bibliographic tools and catalogs for locating UN materials.
Dutch Resources
An online bibliographic guide to the Dutch and Belgium collections in the Berkeley Library and other online resources
Earthquake Image Information System & Steinbrugge Image Database
This is a database that can be searched by name of earthquake and geographic location.
Emma Goldman Papers Project
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. For the last part of life, she participated in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.
French Studies Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the French collections in the Doe and Moffit Libraries and other online resources.
German Studies Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the German and Austrian collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Hebraica and Judaica Collection
The Judaica collection, which includes Hebraica and Israel Area Studies, supports the research and instructional activities of faculty and student in a number of interdisciplinary fields, as well as the joint Ph.D program in Judaic Studies with GTU.
Islamica Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the Islamica collections at UC Berkeley and other online links with an emphasis on cultural and religious resources.
Italian Studies Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the Italian collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Latin American Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the Latin American studies collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Mammal Networked Information system (MaNIS)
The Mammal Networked Informatin System is a collaboration of seventeen North American institutions developing a metwork of distributed databases of mammal speciment data.
Medieval Collections
An online bibliographic guide to Medieval collections in the Berkeley Library and other online resources, such as historical, cultural and manuscripts and the visual arts.
Near East Collections
An introductory page with contact information to the Library staff responsible for cataloging the near eastern collection.
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The collections of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology are vast and diverse spanning many cultures, countries and historical periods.
Québec Internet Resources
An online bibliographic guide to Québec Internet resource collections in the Berkeley Library.
Robbins Legal History Collection
The Robbins Collection on legal history specializes in several categories: religious, secular, civil law and English common law.
Romance Language Collections
An online bibliographic guide to the Romance Language Collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Scandinavian Resources
An online bibliographic guide to the Scandinavian collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources. The countries represented include: Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Slavic and East European Resources
The UC Berkeley collections in the area of Slavic and East European Studies contain a wealth of information to support campus programs and general research.
South Asia Collections
An online bibliographic guide to the South Asia collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Southeast Asia Collections
An online bibliographic guide to the Southeast Asia collections at UC Berkeley and other online resources.
Spanish and PortugueseStudies Collection
An online bibliographic guide to the Spanish, Portuguese, Catalonian and Andorrian collections in the Doe and Moffit Libraries and other online resources.
Swiss Collections
An online bibliographic guide to Swiss collections in the Berkeley Library and other online resources, including Swiss newspapers and magazines.
The Jan T. Kozak Collection of Images of Historical Earthquakes
A collaborative effort between Dr. Jan T. Kozak, a geoscientist of the Institute of Rock Structures and Mechanics in Prague & Katherine Frohmberg of the UC Earth Sciences Library have collected over 800 slides of illustrations of historical earthquakes.
University & Jepson Herbaria
The University Herbarium & Jepson Herbarium represent the largest collection of herbarium in a US public university. All plant groups are represent. This collection is international in scope.
War Crimes Studies Center
The War Crimes Studies Center supports scholarship to further the understanding of war crimes. The Center activities include training judges, monitoring tribunals, and locating and collecting documention.
West European Studies Collections
An online bibliographic guide to West European Internet Resources.

Berkeley Online International Resources

African Studies
An online resource guide to African studies at Berkeley including other resource links plus email lists.
Asia Studies
An online resource guide to Asian studies at Berkeley. The guide includes resource links for East Asian Studies and South and Southeast Asian Studies
Bay Area International Health Resource Guide
This resource guide provides information and referrals for graduate students, scholars, and organizations interested in the resources for the study & practice of international health at Berkeley.
Conversations with History
In these lively and unedited video interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work.
East Asian Library Online Resources List
East Asian Library online guide to resource materials in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.. Also, the guide recommends the new web site for the Historical Japanese Map collection from the Mitsui Collection.
Latin American Studies
An online resource guide to Latin American Studies at Berkeley with links to othe resources.
LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW
Libweb currently lists over 66600 pages from libraries in over 115 countries. This site is updated daily at midnight, pacific time.
Natural Resources Web Resources
Natural resources web resources to international organizations and foreign country databases on agriculture, food & nutrition and wildlife management.
Near Eastern Studies
An online resource guide to Near Eastern studies at Berkeley.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers courses with International content and perspective for intellectually active adults over 50.
Selected Political Maps of West Africa
A selected collection of political maps of West Africa
Southeast Asian Studies
An online resource guide to the study of Southeast Asian Studies at Berkeley. The guide includes online resources to newsgroups and other links.
The World at Berkeley: International Alumni Clubs and Chapters
An online list of international alumni clubs with contact names and information.
The World at Berkeley: Resources for Alumni, Students, and Parents
An online guide to a wide variety of UC Berkeley resources with international content for alumni, students, and parents.
UC Berkeley Events Webcast
Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for live viewing and on-demand replay over the Internet.
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
An internet guide for sources for foreign affairs information..

IAS Unit Resource Pages

Berkeley APEC Study Center
This resource page provides links to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum and other trade-related international organizations.
Canadian Studies Program
The Canadian Studies Program resource guide provides links to information and organizations both on campus and off-campus, in all disciplines with a focus on Canada.
Center for African Studies
The Center resource page has links to Library Resources, other online resources in the arts, and a variety of organizations.
Center for Chinese Studies
This page contains links and a description of the Chinese collections in the East Asian Library and the Center for Chinese Studies Library.
Center for Japanese Studies
The Center supports the East Asian Library Japanese collection. This collection is one of largest holdings outside of Japan. The East Asian Library is one of only two US depositories designated by the Japanese government for its official documents.
Center for Korean Studies
The Korean Language collection in the East Asian Library is quite extensive with some very rare books in the Asami Library and with over 4,000 volumes of Korean woodblock-printed imprints from the Yi Dynasty.
Center for Latin American Studies
The Center's resource page is very extensive with online links to country sites, Berkeley resources and off-campus sites.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The Center resource page has links their Lecture series, speakers bureau, undergraduate major program, Slide Library and the UCB Near Eastern Collection.
Center for South Asia Studies
The Center resource guide links to a variety of both Berkeley sites and general sites with information related to South Asia.
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
The Berkeley campus is home to a vast array of Southeast Asian resources available on the web in a various subjects: Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, Geography, History, Linguistics, Music and a number of bibliographic library guides.
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
The ECAI digital atlas is a globally federated collection of hundreds of networked digital projects created by libraries, museums and archives, and by scholars in history, the humanities and the social sciences.
Human Rights Center
Human Rights Center resource page provides links to information and bibliographies on current issues in the field of human rights.
IAS Dean's Office
A list of web sites to all International and Area Studies Area Research Centers and International and Comparative Research Centers.
Institute of East Asian Studies
The Institute provides descriptive links to a wide variety of resources in the study of East Asia at UC Berkeley.
Institute of European Studies
The Institue of European Studies resource guide to links for UCB Library country or region specific collections and European Union documents.
Institute of International Studies
This page contains links to other information resources, at Berkeley and beyond, of interest to those studying international affairs.
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The Institue provides online resource links for the campus, other National Resource Centers, Professional Organizations, Regional institutions and K-12 educators information about Slavic, East European and Eurasian topics..
Office of Resources for International and Area Studies
K-12 Outreach resource website for teaching curricula in international and area studies
Research Center for Romance Studies
The purpose of the Center is to disseminate research relating to the literary and linguistic history of Romance languages.
Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project
The goal of this linguistic project is the publication of an etymological dictionary of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the ancestor language of the large Sino-Tibetan language family.
Univ of Cal International & Area Studies Electronic Publications Program
This is a new system-wide, peer-reviewed electronic publications program. Articles, monographs, and edited volumes are published in the Digital Collection and approved by the UC Press.
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