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Friday, December 15, 2006

OA portal and repository for South Asian studies

Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg has launched Savifa: The Virtual Library of South Asia.  Here are some details from an article in today's Telugu Portal

Savifa is...a bilingual English-German site.  It contains "information and literature" from and about South Asia and seeks to act as a subject gateway within the broad range of the regional sciences.

Up to now, some 1,300 resources have been catalogued and annotated in SavifaGuide, mostly in English, but also in many Indian languages, such as Urdu, Bengali, Assamese and Tamil.

Meanwhile, SavifaDok is an Open Access document server and electronic platform for publishing and archiving academic literature in the field of South Asian studies. It publishes books, articles and research papers as well as multimedia documents.

This publication platform offers free access to full-text documents....

Savifa is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and aims at serving as a gateway to both print and electronic media....