The Asian Studies WWW Monitor(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html) is an electronic journal which is published since June 1994 by the RSPAS, ANU and which regularly monitors new developments in the Asian Studies' cyberspace.
The Monitor acts as a current awareness bulletin for a broad range of readers: academics, students, librarians, journalists, business people, government administrators and the wider community. All sources of online information reported by the 'Monitor' are inspected and rated on a 5 point scale [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal] in terms of their scholarly/factual quality and usefulness to the social sciences studies of the Asian continent, its regions and countries.Data collected by 'The Monitor' indicate that, at present, about 55% of the networked Asian Studies materials are worthy of a serious attention. This is an improvement over the situation some 18 months ago on the Asian Studies WWW sites, when the percentage of worthwhile materials was oscillating around the 40% mark.
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Table 1
The Quality of Asian Studies WWW Resources
[187 materials (1 Mar 98-31 May 98) considered for publication in
"Asian Studies WWW Monitor "]
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Essential 24 13%
V.Useful 24 13%
Useful 57 30%
Interesting 17 9%
Marginal 11 6%
Useless * 46 25%
rating not available 8 4%
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Total 187 100%
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* rejected (i.e. very bad, useless, irrelevant) materials
Src: Ciolek, T.Matthew. 1998. Table 034, Asia Web Watch: a Register of
Statistical Data.This regular column of the AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter has the pleasure of listing those Asian Studies resources which have been submitted to the Monitor during the previous 3 months and which received a rather rare 'Essential' rating.
The most valuable online materials which came to our attention during the period 1 March 1998 - 1 June 1998 are:
14 May 1998
Tamil Electronic Library
www.geocities.com, USA
Supplied note: "Tamil Electronic Library is a comprehensive website devoted
to Tamil language, its culture and literature. In addition to distribution
Tamil fonts free for use on PC/Mac/Unix platforms, the website provides
information on Tamil fonts, softwares, guidelines to set up webpages in
Tamil, electronic texts of ancient literary works in Tamil script, data
sheets on Tamil literary classics, resources for learning Tamil on the net,
recently published books, bookshops, research centers, book publishers and a
extensive collection of websites (over 450) of particular interest to
Tamils, etc. etc."
URL http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/index.html
Link submitted by: Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram (kalyanasundaram@epfl.ch)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
12 May 1998 Tamilnation Tamil National Forum, United Kingdom Supplied note: "The Tamilnation website exists to nurture the growing togetherness of more than 70 million Tamil people, living in many lands and across distant seas, a growing togetherness rooted in an ancient heritage, a rich language and literature, a vibrant culture, in deeply held beliefs, and in an economic life together, a growing togetherness consolidated by struggle and suffering, and given purpose and direction by a determined aspiration to live in equality and in freedom, in an emerging post-modern world." [A well organised, and extensively annotated guide to Tamil-related resources - ed.] URL http://www.tamilnation.org Link submitted by: Nadesan Satyendra (ns@sathyam.demon.co.uk) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 08 May 1998 RRojas Databank RRojas Research Unit, United Kingdom Supplied note: "An academic site for research on South East Asia and Latin America. The main expertise is on China, Indonesia, and Chile. The site offers statistical resources [on the political economy of development studies - ed.], analytical research, paper, notes, lecture notes and books, authored by Dr. Robinson Rojas and others. This academic site is part of Biz/Ed managed by the University of Bristol, U.K." URL http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~rrojas Link submitted by: Dr. Robinson Rojas (rrojas@mail.ndirect.co.uk) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 06 May 1998 Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) On Line Association for Asian Studies, University of Michigan, USA Supplied note: "The AAS is happy to announce that the on-line BAS is now available for demonstration. [...] This demostration will be open for use by anyone until the end of May. After that, libraries interested in subscribing may request additional demonstration time (to be provided by password). Pricing information is available on the AAS home page at http://www.aasianst.org/bassub.htm An order form and draft licensing agreement will be posted there shortly. We are currently looking into whether subcriptions via agents is appropriate." Site contents: about 420,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 until the present day. Search the Bibliography of Asian Studies; Browse the BAS by Subject; Browse the BAS by Journal Title; Browse the BAS by Country. [Simple, informative and superbly fast tool - ed.] URL http://bas.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/demo/ Link submitted by: John Campbell (jccamp@umich.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 06 May 1998 AsiaSociety.org Special Reports Asia Society, New York, USA Supplied note: "Announcing a new site area in which we'll be featuring timely and newsworthy content. In our inaugural report we celebrate Asia Pacific American Heritage Month with: the online publication of 'Bridges with Asia: Asian Americans in the United States'; information on our upcoming "What's Asia Got to do with the United States" national initiative; and a new collection of hundreds of links to Asian American Resources. Stay tuned throughout the month as we continue to add more information and resources." URL http://www.asiasociety.org/special-reports/ Link submitted by: Hylton Jolliffe (hyltonj@asiasoc.org) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 21 Apr 1998 Global Plant Protection Information System (GPPIS) FAO, Rome, Italy Self decription: "The current Global Plant Protection Information System (GPPIS), is an Internet/WWW based version of FAO's earlier [1987] work. GPPIS is a global implementation and extension of the Pacific Plant Protection Information System (PPPIS) developed by FAO and the South Pacific Commission (SPC). GPPIS replaces PPPIS and fulfills FAO's constitutional mandate in the area of nutrition, food and agriculture. [...] GPPIS is a [...] a dynamic framework for collective knowledge processing." Supplied note: "Although the name is 'Global', 99% of the information contained at this site refers to crop pests of the Pacific". URL http://pppis.fao.org Link submitted by: Bob Macfarlane (bmacfarlane@hort.cri.nz) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 20 Apr 1998 Asian Studies WWW Monitor - 4th Anniversary RSPAS, The Australian National University, Australia Supplied note: "'The Asian Studies WWW Monitor' (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994, originally under a title 'What's New in WWW Asian Studies". It forms a key part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html). The Monitor is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU. The Journal regularly monitors new developments in the Asian Studies' cyberspace and compiles timely, accurate, consistent and impartial summaries and evaluations of the latest web sites and other online information systems relevant to social sciences research of Asia and Pacific region." [During the 4 years of operations the journal published details of content & evaluation of research usefullness of 2061 web, gopher and ftp resources. During that time the WWW edition of the journal (currently 5 volumes, 51 issues) was accessed 153,229 times. On 20 Apr 1998 the e-mail edition of the journal (asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au) had 581 subscribers - ed.] URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 17 Apr 1998 Databank for China Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China Self description: "Databank for China Studies was established to collect computerised soical science data for People's Republic of China and open to the academic community. Our aim is to promote data sharing in the China research and to serve the community with more quality datasets at lower costs. Since established in 1995, it houses over twenty large and and medium sized datasets from China." Site contents: Databank Introduction, Data Sharing Policy, Data Usage Policy, How to Obtain Data and Documentation, Data Resources, Application Forms. [Please note the changed (since 1997) URL - ed.] URL http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/databank/databank.asp Link submitted by: Dr DU Weichang (wdu@cuhk.edu.hk) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 16 Apr 1998 Modern Chinese Literature and Film Bibliography Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Supplied note "The Modern Chinese Literature Homepage at http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/chinalit, with a mirror site at Yale, previously edited by Charles Laughlin (Yale) and Michel Hockx (SOAS), has been discontinued, mainly due to constant lack of time on the part of the editors. We would like to use this opportunity to recommend [...] an excellent new site for both classical and modern Chinese literature, edited by Kirk Denton [denton.2@osu.edu] at Ohio State." Site contents: Author Studies; Catalogues; E-text; Film; General; Lu Xun; On-line; Reference; Translation Collections; Translations by Author. [Site maintained in conjunction with the scholarly journal 'Modern Chinese Literature' (http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/mclc.htm) - ed.] URL http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm Link submitted by: Michel Hockx (mh17@soas.ac.uk) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 14 Apr 1998 IGCS - Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies Inst. of Chinese Studies, Kiel Univ., Germany Supplied note: "The China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for China Studies at http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/netguide.htm now includes an extensive section called 'Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies', maintained by Matthias Kaun from Kiel University, Germany. This section will be developed as a complex system that contains pages under the following headings: (1) Libraries (China, HK, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, USA, Europe); (2) Library Associations; (3) Bookdealers in the field of Asian Studies; (4) Conferences, Reports and Guides; and (5) Media (Journals and Newsletters, Discussion Lists, Materials). The provided links are annotated and eventually will contain information on the holdings of the libraries, their collecting priorities, cataloguing systems, etc. The integrated search facility is able to search both the Library section in Kiel and the IGCS main site in Heidelberg." [Both information systems are a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) archipelago of expert web sites - ed.] URLhttp://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/netguide/netguide.htm Link submitted by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 11 Apr 1998 Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War University of Hawaii, HI, USA Supplied note: "A web site on democide (genocide and mass murder), democracy, and war. This includes data, sources, statistical analyses, books, and articles. The democide data covers major pre-20th century episodes of democide, and all democide for all nations 1900-1987." Site contents: Web Site Introduction; Personal; Murder by Government--Democide; 20th Century Democide; Statistical Evidence for Understanding and Explaining Democide; Individual Megamurderers and Mortacracies; Lesser Megamurderers; The Miracle that is Freedom; Data and Results on Dimensions of Nations; Conflict and Violence; Conclusions and Policy Recommendations; Some Links to Related Material. [An online version of a book: Rummel, R.J., The Miracle That Is Freedom: The Solution To War, Violence, Genocide, And Poverty. Martin Monograph Series No. 1 Moscow, Idaho: Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, University of Idaho, 1996. The site offers, among other data and analyses, ample material on Asian countries - ed.] URL http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/ Link submitted by: Rudy J. Rummel (rummel@hawaii.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 10 Apr 1998 A Hundred Harvests: the History of Asian Studies at Berkeley Library, University of California at Berkeley, USA Supplied note: "For over a hundred years, Asian studies have been a vital and evolving part of teaching and research on the Berkeley campus. 'A Hundred Harvests: the History of Asian Studies at Berkeley', was an exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library, which has now been transformed into a 'virtual exhibit' on the web. Through archival holdings and matchless library collections showcased in the exhibit, the story unfolds of the scholars and philanthropists who founded and nurtured the Asian studies programs that today are consistently rated among the best in the country." [A detailed, elegant and 'well-connected' (in both meanings of the term) site - ed.] URLhttp://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/AsiaExhibit/harvest.html Link submitted by: Vanessa Tait (vtait@library.berkeley.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info. 10 Apr 1998 Islamic Law (ISLAW) Catalogue Orientalisches Institut (OIL), University of Leipzig, Germany Supplied note: "Since the beginning of April 1998, our "ISLAW - Catalogue" has been online, which is a first try to collect all per Internet existing sites about the Islamic Law and the Law of the Islamic States - as far as possible." Site contents: Topics - Constitution and Basic Documents; Government and Politics; Legal System in Brief; Business and Investment Law; Laws and Regulations; Miscellanies; Agreements and Treaties; Human Rights; Opposition and Minorities; UN-Resolutions and Reports. Countries - Afghanistan; Algeria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Bosnia - Herzegovina; Brunei; Comoros; Djibouti; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Jordan; Kazachstan; Kuwait; Kyrgyzistan; Lebanon; Libya; Malaysia; Mauretania; Morocco; Oman; Pakistan; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; Somalia; Sudan; Syria; Tajikistan; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; UAE; Uzbekistan; Western Sahara; Yemen. Useful links - International Conventions, Memberships, Agreements and Documents; Menus for Several Countries; Islamic Sites and Links; Organizations und Services; Articles and Books about Islam; Quran and Hadith; Prayer and Rituals; Fatwa; Opposition and Minorities; Newspapers and Magazines; Bookstores; Libraries; Bibliographies; Dictionaries and Handbooks; Search Engines; Browsers and Software; Commercial Providers; [A simple, fast loading and massive specialist information system - ed.] URL http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~orient/islaw.htm Link submitted by: Thoralf Hanstein (oil@rz.uni-leipzig.de) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 08 Apr 1998 State of Israel - Government Gateway The Government Internet Committee and the Government Publictions Office, Israel Self-description [with typos reprinted verbatim - ed.]: "The Sites goal is to be a one point entery to the Government sites, and to concentrate the information and serices given by the Government via the Itnternet. or information and proposal address feedback@itpolicy.gov.il." Site contents: Organisational Index; Functional Index; Direct Government Services; Local Authorities; National Institutes; About this site; Advanced Search; Telephone Index; Other governments world-wide. [A well constructed, amply annotated and no-nonsense system, enlivened by surreal typing errors - ed.] URL http://www.israel.gov.il/eng/mainpage.htm Link submitted by: Ammon Till (amnont@beitberl.ac.il) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info. 07 Apr 1998 China: 5,000 Years -- Modern Section The Huntington Archive, Ohio State University, USA Supplied note: "An electronic exhibition of the Modern Section of the Guggenheim Exhibition--China: 5,000 Years--is now open to the public. The electronic exhibition is hosted by The Huntington Archive, Dept of History of Art, Ohio State Univ., USA." Site contents: 1. 'Innovations in Chinese Painting (1850-1950)' - 158 images; 2. 'The Modernist Generations (1920-1950)' - 52 images; 3. 'Art for New China (1950-1980)' - 44 images; 4. 'Transformations of Tradition (1980 - the present)' - 41 images; 5. Introductory text for each section; 6. Catalogue entries for each work of art. [It is only when the nonobvious and nonintuitive navigation links are mastered, that the site reveals its richness and beauty - ed.] URLhttp://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/intr/china.html Link submitted by: Janice Glowski (glowski.1@osu.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 03 Apr 1998 Country Studies/Area Handbooks Online The Library of Congress, Washington D.C, USA Self-description: "A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. [...] Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists." Site contents in Apr 1998 - 85 countries. [The date in round brackets indicates the year of publication by the Government Printing Office, the code 'f/o' means 'forthcoming online' - ed.]. The studies of Asian countries include: Armenia (1994), Azerbaijan (1994), Bahrain (1993), Georgia (1994), Iran (1987), Iraq (1988), Israel (1988), Jordan (1989), Kuwait (1993), Lebanon (1987), Oman (1993), Qatar (1993), Saudi Arabia (1992), Soviet Union [former] (1989), Syria (1987), Turkey (1987), United Arab Emirates (1993), Bangladesh (1989), Bhutan (1993), Cambodia (1990), China (1988), India (1996, f/o), Indonesia (1994), Japan (1994), Kazakstan (1997, f/o), Korea, North (1994), Korea, South (1992), Kyrgyzstan (1997, f/o), Laos (1995), Maldives (1995), Mongolia (1991), Nepal (1993), Pakistan (1995), Philippines (1993), Singapore (1991), Sri Lanka (1990), Tajikistan (1997, f/o), Thailand (1989), Turkmenistan (1997, f/o), Uzbekistan (1997, f/o), Vietnam (1989). Revised editions in progress - Afghanistan, Brunei, Burma, China, Malaysia. Volumes planned - Australia, Pacific Island Nations. [Maps and charts are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0) format. Search across all countries or any combination of countries is provided - ed.] URL http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Link submitted by: Steven A. Leibo (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu) and Robert L Worden (rwor@loc.gov) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 02 Apr 1998 Tibet Information Network (TIN) Web Site Tibet Information Network, London, UK Supplied note: "Tibet File gives essential background information on Tibet including a glossary of Tibetan and Chinese terms, population statistics, administrative terms and a bibliography. Reports from Tibet provides a selection of TIN News Updates, reports and photographic images on line [...]. Details of the two TIN subscription services as well as up-to-date listings of all TIN publications and ordering information are included on the Web site. The latest publication to be featured, 'A Poisoned Arrow: The Secret Report of the 10th Panchen Lama', has been described as the most important text in modern Tibetan history." [Efficient, factual, no-nonsense site by an independent monitoring service - ed.] URLhttp://www.tibetinfo.net Link submitted by: Tibet Information Network (tin@tibetinfo.net) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 30 Mar 1998 Central Asian Studies World Wide Forum for Central Asian Studies, Harvard University, USA Self-description: CASWW "is meant to provide a global perspective on Central Asia studies, and to provide a key point of access to highly dispersed resources in this field. It seeks to provide basic information which is useful to both 'beginners' and 'experts', encompassing all fields of the social sciences and humanities wherever in the world people engage in such study." Site contents 1. Statement of Purpose; 2. Entrees into Central Asian Studies; 3. The Institutional Dimensions of Central Asian Studies; 4. Making Contact; 5. Some Key Reference Tools; 6. Collaboration in Building This Website; 7. Appendices. [The site is under heavy construction. Note: the 44Kb (sic !) home page takes ages to download, and is difficult to navigate and work with - ed.] URL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~casww/ Link submitted by: John S. Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide 27 Mar 1998 Chinese Medical Classics E-Texts University of Venice, Italy Supplied note: "The 'Chinese Medical Classics Text Series', published by the Nihon Naikyoh Igakkai in 1997, includes the Suwen (209Kb), Lingshu (168 Kb), Nanjing (31 Kb), Shanghan lun (180 Kb), Jingui yaol?e (81 Kb), Shennong bencao jing (36 Kb), Bian Que - Canggong liezhuan (from the Shiji) (20 Kb) - encoded in Japanese characters. With consent of its editor, the whole series is available here converted into Chinese traditional characters (Big5)." URLhttp://helios.unive.it/~pregadio/ikei.html Link submitted by: Fabrizio Pregadio (pregadio@unive.it) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 26 Mar 1998 DK Agencies - Indian Publications Database D.K. Agencies (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India Self-description: "As a service organization of nearly 3-decade-long standing, DKA have come to have a [...] database that comprises far more than a hundred thousand Indian titles in English language alone! Here, however, we have set out the more recent works, i.e., the ones that have poured into DKA's Acquisition Programme since 1991 barring, though, a few older records as well." [Search-Fields: Author; Title; Place of Publication; Publisher; ISBN; Subject; Nature of works (eg. Conference publications and Reference books). The search fields support wildcards and Boolean queries - ed]." [A rich, fast and elegant database - ed.] URL http://www.dkagencies.com/booksearch/ Link submitted by: Surya P. Mittal (surya@pobox.com) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 26 Mar 1998 Okinawa: The American Years 1945-72 Department of History, Texas A&M--Commerce, TX , USA Supplied note: "This web site is an electronic version of a forthcoming study about the island, and documents the 27-year American military occupation of the island that began with the battle for Okinawa. Historical material presented in this site includes: A Chronology; Photos; Editorial Cartoons; Biographical Essays of Major American, Okinawan, and Japanese figures; Annotated Bibliographies [Archives, Books, Film, Newspapers, Oral, Histories - ed.]; Links to Related Sites [American Sites Japanese Sites, Okinawan Sites, Military Sites, Research Sites, Newspapers - ed.]." [A thorough, thoughtful and exemplary research site - ed.] URL http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/history/sarantakes/Okinawa.html Link submitted by: Nick Sarantakes (nick_sarantakes@tamu-commerce.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 18 Mar 1998 The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Seattle, WA, USA Self-description: "A nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that conducts advanced research utilizing the world's premier specialists on Asia and Russia. It also serves as the international clearinghouse on expertise and important policy issues concerning the region." Site contents: NBR Analysis [online essays on economic, political, and strategic issues in the Asia-Pacific region, including Russia and Central Asia - ed.]; NBR Bulletin [online newsletter]; NBR Briefing [online briefs]; AccessAsia NBR [an international clearinghouse of Asia-affairs experts - ed.]; Publications NBR; Policy Activities; Corporate Services; AsiaLinks [300+ unannotated links to institutes and centers worldwide conducting policy-relevant research on Asia - ed.]; AsiaNews [a collection of partially annotated links to Australia, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and US online news on Asia - ed.]. URL http://www.nbr.org Link submitted by: Daniel Waugh (dwaugh@u.washington.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. 17 Mar 1998 The Anthropological Index Online Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, The University of Kent, UK Supplied note: "A [free] service to scholars in all branches of anthropology and archaeology. [...] The Library of the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum (Museum of Mankind) receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. The Library's holdings cover all areas of cultural and social anthropology, ethnography and material culture, from mainstream theoretical journals to specialist interest publications. All geographical regions are covered, and the Library has particularly strong coverage of Eastern and Central Europe, with journals often nor available elsewhere. The Anthropological Index covers articles in all languages, and provides English translations of citations from non-Roman scripts and from smaller languages." URL http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html Link submitted by: David Zeitlyn (d.zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents 10 Mar 1998 The Chinalaw Web China Law Society & the University of Maryland School of Law, USA Self-description: "The mission of the Chinalaw Web is to provide information about Chinese law and the legal system in greater China. The Chinalaw Web includes an in-depth analysis of the three different legal jurisdictions in China; the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. The site includes translations of Chinese laws and regulations from mainland China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC) as well links all Hong Kong law and over thirty legal articles on various topics related to Chinese law." Site contents: Chinese Law in English, Chinese Law in Chinese, Chinese Law Explained, Chinalaw Services, Information on China, News from China, Other Law Related Sites, Other China Related Sites. URL http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/ Link submitted by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 06 Mar 1998 The Chinese Biographical Database (CBD) Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho, USA Supplied note: "An interactive, scholarly moderated online database, [...] an interdisciplinary, multilingual tool. There is no authorization needed or charge to users. The database is not for downloading but for online usage and growth. [...] The CBD is based on multiple tables of which 11 are now online: Basic Biographical Information, Career, Alternate Names, Family, Education, Youth Activities, Affiliations, Official Positions, Historical Events, Locator Table, and Sources. There are more than 20 searches (queries) and 9 report forms. [...] The range of biography includes artists, officials, educators, industrialists, scientists, military leaders, politicians and many other career types. [...] We encourage our colleagues to join us in supplying new figures, information and particularly - new sources (in English or Chinese). Although we have concentrated on post-1850 figures, the chronological scope of the database is open-ended." URL http://exodus.lcsc.edu/cbiouser/ Link submitted by: Marilyn A. Levine (mlevine@lcsc.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 06 Mar 1998 Caucasus + Central Asia + Russia: Online Books Centrum voor Politieke Wetenschappen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Site contents: Journals: Caucasian Regional Studies [Ed. by The International Association for Caucasian Regional Studies] Vol.1 (1996), No. 1 (English & Russian versions) Books: (1) Bruno Coppieters (ed.), Contested Borders in the Caucasus, 1996, VUBPress (English & Russian versions) (2) Alexei Malashenko, Bruno Coppieters and Dmitri Trenin (eds.), Etnicheskie i regionalnye konflikty v Yevrazii. Vol. 1: Tsentralnaya Aziya i Kavkaz, 1997, Ves Mir, Moscow. (In Russian, Win 1251 Encoding) (3) Alexei Zverev, Bruno Coppieters and Dmitri Trenin (eds.), Etnicheskie i regionalnye konflikty v Yevrazii. Vol. 2: Rossiya, Ukraina i Belorussiya, 1997, Ves Mir, Moscow. (In Russian, Win 1251 Encoding) (4) Bruno Coppieters, Eric Remacle, Alexei Zverev (eds.), Etnicheskie i regionalnye konflikty v Yevrazii. Vol. 3: Mezhdunarodnyi opyt razresheniya etnicheskikh konfliktov, 1997, Ves Mir, Moscow. (In Russian, Win 1251 Encoding) URL http://www.vub.ac.be/POLI/publi/ Link submitted by: Bruno Coppieters (bcoppiet@vub.ac.be) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study 04 Mar 1998 Election Commission of India (ECI) Election Commission of India, Delhi, India Site contents: States; Parties (National Parties - Bahujan Samaj Party, Bhartiya Janata Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India [Marxist], Indian National Congress, Janata Dal, Samata Party; State Parties; Registered Unrecognised Parties); Candidates; Poll Schedules; Poll Updates; Press Releases; Manuals; Instructions; Directories; References; Forms; FAQ (Election Machinery, Parliament, Delimitation of constituencies, Electoral Rolls, Conduct of elections, Counting and declaration of result); Search. URL http://www.eci.gov.in/ Link submitted by: Fritz Blackwell (blackwel@wsu.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
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