Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 2008 – 2010   Project description: SARDS3 is constructed as a cooperation project of the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies – Department of Indology – at the University of Bonn, the Institute for Ancient Studies – Seminar for Indology – at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the Department of Asian Studies – Institute for Indology and Iranian Studies – at the LMU Munich.   SARDS3 is an online database which, based on SARDS2, in th end is supposed to contain approximately 93,000 literature citations of bibliographically dependent research papers from journals, conference proceedings, Festschriften and other collective publications relating to the fields of Indology and South Asian Studies. SARDS3 is supposed to achieve an almost complete documentation of the entire South Asian studies dependent research publications for the period of 1797 to 2000. The selection for retrospective cataloguing is going to be carried out half by looking into subject segmentation, so by taking into account the respective research foci, half by purely pragmatic aspects based on journal titles held primarily at the respective locations (Bonn, Halle, Munich). In this regard, it is possible to draw upon the rich holdings of the specialist libraries of the selected locations, which have been continuously maintained since the 19th century (all together amounting to around 80,000 volumes).   Supplementary information and publications:   Homepage of the SARDS3 Project SARDS3 Database