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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

04 March 2009

Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database (INBUDS)

http://www.inbuds.net/eng/index.html

5star

Database Center of the Japanese Association for Indian and Buddhist Studies (JAIBS), Tokyo, Japan.

Self-description:
"The Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database is an online database gathering scholarly articles published in Japan relating to Indian and Buddhist Studies. Key words from each article are input as data, making an online search possible based on either a key word or the author's name. Construction of the Database began in 1984 and continues to the present. [src: http://www.jaibs.jp/]."

Site contents:
* Search INBUDS; * About INBUDS (History, Supporting Institutions, On the Copyright, Reports of Activities, Related Articles, Asking of Contribution); * List of Recorded Media; * Update Information; * Links to PDF Data; * Links to Related Websites; * Technical Information (Data Compression, Formats, Character Code); * Manual for Gathering Data; * Downloading the Database; * [a link to] JAIBS web site [http://www.jaibs.jp/] * [a link to] the SAT Daizokyo [85 volumes of Taisho Shinsho Daizokyo - ed.] text database [http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/].

[A multi-lingual site, with contents in Japanese and navigational features in Korean, Chinese (GB), Chinese (BIG5), in English - ed.]

URL http://www.inbuds.net/eng/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.inbuds.net/eng/index.html

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Wednesday, March 04, 2009