Catalog of the Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) was founded in 1994. It provides research materials and facilities for students of Tamil studies in a variety of fields spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American Universities, colleges and independent research libraries.
Digital South Asia Library (University of Chicago) is perhaps the most valuable and important website for South Asian studies, it contains numerous free dictionaries, images, indexes, statistics, government documents, etc.
Library of Congress has one of the largest and richest collections of South Asian materials in North America.
South Asia Library Consortia (University of Chicago) contains a number of excellent sites and resources pertaining to South Asian studies including bibliographies, indexes, etc.
South Asian Periodicals Index (University of Wisconsin - Madison) provides bibliographic citations to the extensive periodical literature published in and about South Asia. An ever growing resource, the South Asian Periodicals Index strives to be inclusive in terms of subject matter, geographic heritage and linguistic origin.
The Urdu Research Library Consortium (URLC) makes partially accessible the private Urdu collection of Mr. Abdus Samad Khan considered "one of the world's finest for early Urdu periodicals and printed books" from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Out of the 26,000 monograph titles in the URLC collection, approximately 6000 titles can be searched in the database.