This is the website of a three-year collaborative project organized by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in order "... to improve electronic access to vital resources for understanding South Asia. ... The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) project will produce: 1.On-line information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction; 2.Delivery on demand of page images from South Asia, scanned from both paper and microform sources; 3.Internet-based indexes to highly select journals in the regional languages of South Asia; 4.Use of Unicode electronic character encoding for non-roman language data disseminated under the project; 5.An international cooperative venture whose contributing members will include leading universities in the U.S., Britain, and South Asia as well as libraries with a focus on South Asian studies ...".