Contact
Gillian Evison (Head of Oriental Section)
tel: +44 (0)1865 77033
Please see individual subjects for contact details. If your enquiry is about Special Collections or if you are unsure which subject is relevant to your enquiry, please email: oriental@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Collection overview
The Oriental Section is responsible for the following collections within the Bodleian Humanities, Social Sciences and Special Collections Libraries.
- Far-Eastern subjects: comprising China and Inner Asia; Japan and Korea.
- Near and Middle-Eastern subjects: comprising the Ancient Near East; Egyptology; Hebraica, Judaica and Semitics; and the Middle East .
- South and South-East Asian subjects: comprising South Asia and South-East Asia.
Libraries and reading rooms
Principal collections
Associated collections
Sackler Library (Archaeology, Art History, Egyptology and Ancient Near East Studies)
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies (at Rhodes House)
Pitt Rivers Museum (Anthropology and World Archaeology)
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Important e- Resources
Electronic resources are increasingly important in providing information sources for Oriental Studies although their extent varies considerably by region. Bibliographic databases, full-text resources and electronic journals all feature on SOLO and OxLIP+. For more guidance, please see the individual subject pages listed above.
