The South Asian Microform Project, also known by South Asian Materials Project and SAMP is one of six programs headed by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Global network.
[2] In 2019 SAMP partnered with JSTOR providing over 500,000 digitized pages freely available as of March 2020.
[3] Early foundations of SAMP began in 1962 by academic scholars and librarians who felt the need to preserve physical material.
These individuals formed the Inter-University Committee on South Asian Scholarly Resources at the University of Chicago, led by chairman Robert E. Frykenberg of the University of Wisconsin History Department.
They primarily specialized in collecting documents that were difficult to achieve, expensive, or of limited quantities.