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Although not really a production of the e-Asia Digital Library, this online magazine directed toward grades K-12 is closely affiliated with the Digital Library project. Notable for its use of Flash. e-Asia, the magazine, is funded by the Comittee on Councils, Association for Asian Studies and is a joint project of the University of Oregon and Pacific University.

Although published in 1988, the Checklist of Missionary Collection is still an extremely useful guide to materials found in the Special Collections Department of the University of Oregon Library. Difficult to find copies of this small pamphlet. Although updated, this checklist does not have the complete missionary holdings, which have expanded since 1988.

This compilation by Martin Schmitt, Catalog of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1971) is difficult to find in its print edition. This catalog includes many items of interest to students of East Asia, and it remains valuable despite the fact that it is now thirty years out-of-date..

MIssionary accounts are a superb source of early Western information about East Asia. This account --- The Blackbearded Barbarian (The Life of George Leslie MacKay of Formosa) --- like most missionary accounts, reflects a religious framework. For historians, however, the commentary on life in Formosa in the early 20th century is invaluable.