• Cyrillic sources collected by the Library (parts of the Iran, India and Japan archives).
• Sources collected by the former Modern China Studies Committee since 1954.
• The Russian Collection (591 Russian titles donated between 1977 and 1979 by the Soviet Academy of Science Asian Studies and Social Science Information Research Institutes).
• Western titles from the Enoki Collection (a broad offering of Central Asia-related sources owned by the late Enoki Kazuo).
• Western titles from the Iwami Collection (Islam-related sources owned by the late Iwami Takashi).
• A portion of Armenian and Georgian holdings.

Reminders:

1. You may search title, series, author, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, content and annotations.
2. Diacritical marks not contained in Unicode need not be entered. There are many transliterations of Arabic words.
   　　For, Мух̣аммад-Ка̄зим　will yield　Мухаммад-Казим, sinceа̄ is not contained in Unicode.
   
3. The engine also accommodates the old (pre-1918) Russian style However, revised Russian searches will yield only old Russian titles, title page datas and authors. Other data searches require old Russian entries. 　
   1. The script eliminated by the 1918 revisions （іѢѣѲѳѴѵ） can be searched with either old or revised character entries.
      　 Conversion to revised characters may be done with і→И, ѣ→е, ѳ→ф and ѵ→и
      　 However, the conversion may not be applied to non-Russian titles.
      　　For example, изслѣдованіе will yield изследование, but факсимилѣта（Bulgarian title） will not yield факсимилета.
      
   2. Searches can be made without hard consonant endings.
      　　 For example: Ивановъ will yield Иванов. 　　
4. A portion of the results will enclose the name of the publisher in quotation marks (" "). For example: "Наука".
5. The engine will accommodate English searches, but not Cyrillic.