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Ancient Asia: Journal of the Society of South Asian Archaeology
Annual of Urdu Studies - v. 1, 1981 - V. 29,2014 (ceased in 2014)
Ars Orientalis - a scholarly journal on Asian art and archaeology - v. 1 - 41 , 2011 are available open access
Asian Art
Asian Culture and History
Asian Ethnology - Formerly called Asian Folklore Studies and Folklore Studies - all volumes are available on this site
Asian Folkore Studies now called Asian Ethnology
Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Asian Studies - formerly called Asian and African Studies
Asiatische Studien: Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft v. 1 to 62, 2008
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde - "focused in particular on the linguistics, anthropology, and history of Southeast Asia, and more specifically of Indonesia"
Bodhi: An interdisciplinary journal
Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient - 1901-2012
Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture - religions in Japan
Bulletin of Tibetology - 1964-2010
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie - "scholarly journal founded in 1985 by Anna Deidel and Hubert Durt specializing in religious studies and intellectual history of East Asia"
Center for the Study of Japanese Religions Newsletter
Centre of Jaina Studies Newsletter (SOAS University of London)
e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions - v.1, 2013
Études mongles & sibériennes
European Bulletin of Himalayan Research - scholarly articles on topics including history of religions in Karakorum, Hindukush, Ladakh, southern Tibet, Kashmir, north-west India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and north-east India.
International Journal of Dharma Studies
International Journal of Sino-Western Studies
Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
Inter-Religio : network of Christian organizations for interreligious encounter in Eastern Asia
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (Previously published as Contemporary Religions in Japan)
Japanese Religions
Journal Asiatique - 1822-1850, 1852-1896, 1903-1938, 1940
Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies
Journal of Oriental Studies (Institute of Oriental Philosophy Journal) - v. 10, 2000 to v. 27, 2017
Journal of South Asian Studies
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies - note articles are not made available open access until 60 months after publication
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Journal of the Tibet Society
Jouvert: a journal of postcolonial studies - see especially v. 3, special double issue: "Religion between culture and philosophy"
Orientalia Suecana
Religious Studies in Japan
Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines
Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
SAGAR: South Asia Graduate Research Journal (Austin, Texas) - "articles and English translations of texts in South Asian languages. In 2013 began using a peer-reviewed process.
Silk Road: Journal of the Silk Road House - "history and cultures of Eurasia, especially in pre-modern time
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Studia Orientalia Electronica - "is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal publishing original research articles and reviews in all fields of Asian and African studies. The main areas of interest are: African studies, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Semitic Studies, Altaic studies, East Asian Studies, South Asian Studies, Arabic Linguistics, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Japanese Studies."
The Tibet Mirror - selected full text for 1927-1963
Zeitschift für Indologie und Iranstik - Also available from Internet Archives
Zeitschrift der Deutchen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft - v.1 - v.163, 2013, includes Supplement v. 1-11