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CRL to Purchase Five New Collections
11 Jan 2019

CRL voting member libraries have approved the acquisition of five primary source collections with an estimated list price value of $218,070. Once acquired, the collections will be available through interlibrary loan from CRL.

SAOA to Digitize Indian Newspaper Reports for Open Access
1 Jun 2018

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), administered by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), has recently begun digitizing the Indian Newspaper Reports containing weekly translations and summaries of local Anglo-Indian and vernacular-language newspapers from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, from throughout South Asia.

SAMP Digitizes Leftist Telugu Magazine Nalupu
31 Oct 2017

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) has digitized the magazine Nalupu (Black) for the entire run of its publication, April 1989-June 1993.  This is one of the pioneering magazines which brought together discussions of caste and class politics in the Telugu-speaking regions of India.

South Asia Open Archives Digitizes Historical Material
11 Sep 2017

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a newly established cooperative effort of nearly 25 libraries from the US and the Subcontinent to make collection of historical research materials on South Asia freely available via the web..

ICON Adds Readex News Metadata
26 Oct 2016

Readex's metadata for digitized newspapers provides valuable data on publication history and product coverage in key databases for academic research.

SAMP Open Archives Initiative Founded
29 Feb 2016

The South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) at CRL has recently launched the SAMP Open Archives initiative to create and maintain a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. This major collaborative initiative is aimed at addressing the current scarcity of digital resources pertinent to South Asian studies and at making collections more widely accessible both to North American scholars and to researchers elsewhere in the world.

Afghan publications preserved by MEMP and SAMP
22 Apr 2015

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) and the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP) contributed funds for the preservation of seventeen newspaper and serial titles published in Afghanistan.

LLMC Digitizes Primary Legal Sources on Myanmar (Burma)
19 Feb 2015

LLMC (Law Library Microform Consortium) has digitized a collection of early legal publications from Myanmar (Burma).  The material covers 1872-1955.

CRL and LLMC Renew Partnership
9 Jan 2015

CRL's ongoing Global Resources Law Partnership preserves, digitizes and provides access to critical primary source government and legal publications.

CRL Supports LC Preservation of World News
2 Dec 2013

In recent years, CRL’s Area Studies Microform Projects supported the preservation of more than 300 newspaper titles collected by the Library of Congress overseas offices, ensuring scholarly access to more than 450,000 pages of news from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.   

SAMP Preserves D’avat
29 Feb 2012

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) has microfilmed six years of the newspaper D’avat, which was published in New Delhi, India.

SAMP Acquires Ceylon Times 1924–30
16 May 2011

SAMP has acquired 84 microfilm reels containing issues of Ceylon Times from 1924 to 1930.

Retrospective Collections from South and Southeast Asia Cataloged
3 Mar 2011

CRL has completed cataloging of more than 30,000 titles from South and Southeast Asia.

SAMP Meeting April 1, 2011
14 Jan 2011

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) will hold its annual Business Meeting Friday, April 2, 2011.

Dastan-i Amir Hamzah Available from SAMP
1 Dec 2010

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) has made available on microfilm and in electronic format a nearly comprehensive set of the Dastan-i Amir Hamzah, published by Newal Kishore Press.

SAMP acquires Rahbar-i Dakan
14 May 2008

The South Asia Microform Project (SAMP) announces the availability of Rahbar-i Dakan, one of the most influential Urdu papers published in India, for the period 1925–46. SAMP preserved the rare and fragile paper from the collection of the Urdu Documentation Centre in Hyderabad. For more details, see the CRL catalog record for this title.