The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This program builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia.

The original Web design for the Digital South Asia Library and the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia was by Rebecca Moore.

Further details on the program as outlined in the grant proposal are available in PDF form or HTML form. The proposal for the first phase of DSAL is available in HTML form.

Participants in the South Asia Information Access project for DSAL can find planning documents and reports here: Participants.

Cataloging information for adding DSAL resources to local catalogs and opacs can be found here: Catalog records.

Swift Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Navi Mumbai India provides most of DSAL's data entry services..