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NSC Archaeology Unit -The Archaeological Unit of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, was formed in 2010. Associate Professor John Miksic became its head on 1 July 2011. The AU pursues projects designed to foster collaborative research in the archaeology of civilisation in Southeast Asia, and its links with its neighbours in Asia. The AU conducts excavations in Singapore, concentrating on the material culture of the period from 1300 to 1600, but also maintains an interest in the lives of Singapore's inhabitants during the colonial period of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The AU also collaborates with institutions in the Asia and Pacific regions to conduct research and training, and to disseminate published and unpublished reports on archaeological research.

Hong Kong Maritime Museum - With its focus on the South China coast and adjacent seas and the growth of Hong Kong as a major port and shipping centre, the Museum aims to stimulate public interest in the world of ships and the sea, highlighting major developments in, and cross-fertilization through the centuries between, Chinese, Asian and Western naval architecture, maritime trade and exploration, and naval warfare.

Southeast Asian Archeology - Archaeological information and research data on Southeast Asia.

Museum of Underwater Archaeology (MUA) Resource Centre is an online research tool initiated by the Museum of Underwater Archaeology, an online museum based in the US which features exhibits, project journals, reports from the field, and guest blogs from maritime archaeologists around the globe.

In addition to helping underwater archaeologists publish their work online, the MUA continues to develop tools that assist archaeologists with their research. Their first effort in this regard is the Gray Literature Bibliographic Database.

You can browse this collection by clicking the link on the MUA home page here: http://www.themua.org

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)

Asia Research Institute (National University of Singapore)

Asia Major (Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Cambridge Journals Online)

Sino-Platonic Papers (University of Pennsylvania)

The Digital Research Tools Wiki (DiRT) collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers. [description from website]

Tribute Missions to China, 960-1126 - Compiled and researched by Robert M. Hartwell, this file contains tables on the various tribute embassies that arrived at Chinese borders between 960 and 1126. Data include frequency of contacts with various foreign states, the duration of ventures to China, the periodicity of such enterprises, and the multiple functions of “diplomatic” missions.

Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu (An open access resource) - This work identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia contained within the Ming Shi-Lu and provides them to readers in English-language translation. In addition to the more obvious Southeast Asian polities of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, this database also includes references to the many Yunnan Tai polities which have subsequently been incorporated within the Chinese state. The fact that many of these references predate European sources on Southeast Asia underlines their importance to historians of the region.

Conference Proceedings of "Penang and the Indian Ocean: An International Conference" (held September 2011) - An institutional initiative to provide an integrated framework to harness the development potential of three core areas: academic, heritage and culture, and business towards transforming Penang into THE secondary city in the region - the choice for the location of a variety of enterprises, attractive to a wide range of groups.