The East- and South-East Asian collections of the reference library with approx. 10,000 volumes of reference works is categorised according to countries and partly language groups, and within those according to subject subgroups. The literature on Buddhology occupies a shelf of its own. (shelving system)
A selection of the current, unbound original-language periodicals and newspapers is available. The unbound original-language periodicals from the subject area of science and medicine can be consulted in the
Periodicals Reading Room.
The following catalogues of the overall holdings and of the reference library of the East- and South-East Asian collection can be consulted in the reading room:
- WorldCat: online catalogue containing original-language holdings starting from the year of publication 1990
- Chinese author and title catalogue up to the cataloguing year 1983
- Chinese author and title catalogue from the cataloguing year 1984 to 1989
- Author and title catalogue of the Siku quanshu
- Japanese author and title catalogue up to the cataloguing year 1989
- Korean author and title catalogue up to approx. the cataloguing year 1995
- Thai and Vietnamese author and title catalogue up to approx. the cataloguing year 1985.

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