* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

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.


29 April 2010

Asia Security Studies Programme - Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)

http://www.foi.se/FOI/Templates/ProjectPage____7387.aspx
4star
29 Apr 2010

Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm, Sweden.

Self-description:
"The Asia Security Studies Programme pursues studies in a range of fields within the core geographical focus on East Asia, South Asia and the Persian Gulf. The research programme has the following themes:
# Nuclear policy and non-proliferation issues, # Development of armed forces in a strategic perspective, # Defence and foreign policy, # Terrorism and activities of non-state groups, # Regional conflicts, # Relations between external powers and interference, # Economics, # Energy.
A number of experts at FOI work directly with the Programme, while other researchers are affiliated and collaborate on a temporary basis. The Programme cooperates with other research institutes in Sweden and abroad on a regular basis."

Site contents:
* About;
* Publications [freely downloadable, PDF format] (2010: # The Israeli Threat, An Analysis of the Consequences of an Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Facilities - Sam Gardiner, # Militancy in Pakistan's federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Afghanistan - Magnus Norell (ed.), # Yemen in Crisis - Consequences for the Horn of Africa - Alexander Atarodi, # The EU Arms Embargo on China: a Swedish Perspective - Jerker Hellstroem, 2009: # Blue Berets Under the Red Flag - China in the UN Peacekeeping System - Jerker Hellstroem, # China's Emerging Role in Africa - a Strategic Overview - Jerker Hellstroem, # Pakistan -- Consequences of Deteriorating Security in Afghanistan - Kristina Zetterlund (ed.), 2008: # Concequenses of Military Actions Towards Iran, Full Report - Rydqvist, Zetterlund m.fl., # Japan as a Power: Discarding a Legacy - Ingolf Kiesow, John Rydqvist, 2007: # The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: Powerhouse or Paper Tiger? - Ingmar Oldberg, # Concequenses of Military Actions Towards Iran, A Preliminary Assessment - John Rydqvist et.al., 2005: # Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia - a Security Assessment, User Report - Sandstroem, Emma., 2004: # Perspectives on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, Kiesow, I., # China's quest for energy; impact on foreign and security policy, Kiesow, I., # Energy in China: Coping with increasing demand - Sandklef, Kristina. 2003: # The Role of Oil and Consequences in Asia of the American-Iraqi War - Kiesow, I. # Energy in Asia: An Outline of Some Strategic Energy in Asia - Kiesow, I. # Afghanistan and Central Asia after September 11 - The Security-Political Development - Sandstroem, Emma 2002: # From Taiwan to Taliban; Two Danger Zones in Asia - Kiesow, I. (ed.) 2001: # Ballistic Missile Defence in Asia, Kiesow, I. # Ambitions and Perils in the Western Pacific - Kiesow, I.);
* Current projects (# A new global nuclear balance, # Interference from Turkey, Iran, India and China in Afghanistan, # China's ethnic minority policies and the impact on international relations, # Regional organisations in the Gulf region and their influence on security policy);
* Experts;
* About FOI;
* Products & Services;
* Publications [FOI reports];
* Projects;
* Pressroom;
* Contact Us.

URL: http://www.foi.se/FOI/Templates/ProjectPage____7387.aspx

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Jerker Hellstrom (jerker.hellstrom--at--foi.se),
forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Government
* Scholarly usefulness: [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource: [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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

26 April 2010

Daruma San in Japan, Japanese Art and Culture

http://darumasan.blogspot.com/
4star
26 Apr 2010

darumasan.blogspot.com, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Self-description:
"Daruma San in Japan, Japanese Art and Culture . . . The Daruma Museum and Gallery Pages . . . Daruma san (Darumasan, Bodhidharuma, Bodhidharma, Daruma Daishi, Dharuma, Dharma). Daruma san is a unique representative of Japanese Culture and its depictions in the various Arts and Crafts. This is a blog [est. Feb 2004 - ed.] for educational purposes only. Dr. Gabi Greve, Gabriele Greve, Darumamuseum, darumapedia, World Kigo Database, Japan."

Site contents:
* Worldkigo Top [http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/];
* Washoku Top [http://washokufood.blogspot.com/];
* Search (Contents from A to S, Contents from T to Z, Search the Daruma Museum [i.e. this very blog - ed.] - All Entries);
* Newsletters (Daruma Museum - Japanese Culture, World Kigo Database - Latest Additions, Washoku - Japanese Food Saijiki);
* My Daruma Links (ABC - Daruma - Main Museum Index - Darumapedia, My Daruma Photo Gallery, My Daruma discussion forum, Daruma Doll Museum, Daruma Pilgrims Gallery - People and Places, Fudo Myo-O Gallery - Deities of Japan, Ceremonies and Festivals of Japan, Asian Dragon Art Gallery, My Glossary of Art Terms, Ask Me - any question about Japan !)
* World Kigo Database - WKD (All about Haiku and Kigo)
* My Haiku Links (My Happy Haiku Gallery, My Asian Haiku Travelogue, Saijiki - Memorial Days of Famous People, Haiku Topics and Keywords);
* Other Art Links (Daruma - Magazine for Antiques. All about Buddha Statues - Mark Schumacher. All about Japanese Pottery - Robert Yellin);
* Monthly Archives [from Feb 2004 onwards].

[A blog site (i.e. a site whose informational architecture is based on the passage of time) that desperately wants to act like a wiki site (i.e. a site whose architecture is based on semantic connections and/or alphabetic word-order) - ed.]

URL: http://darumasan.blogspot.com/

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Gabriele Greve (gokurakuatworldkigo--at--gmail.com)

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Online Guide
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness: [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource: [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, 6,460 external links]


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

21 April 2010

[Digitised Colonial] Bengali Periodicals and Newspapers

http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/thematicportals/periodicals/overview.html

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21 Apr 2010

The Virtual Library South Asia (SAVIFA), South Asia Institute/Library, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Self-description:
"Starting in 1993, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) [http://www.cssscal.org/ - ed.] has undertaken the task of microfilming and digitising a huge amount of textual sources, including all the major journals of colonial Bengal. This unique collection also extends to rare Bengali books, Assamese journals and books, as well as visual art and popular culture (such as specimens of historical Bengali advertising). In the course of a Memorandum of Understanding between the CSSSC and the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University [http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/index.php], the textual part of this collection is from now on going to be made available on Savifa, the virtual library South Asia [http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/index.php?la=en - ed.]."

Site contents:
[background and publication details of paper and microfilm copies, plus online access to PDF copies of the Bengali periodicals listed below]:
* A
(# Abodhbandhu (Calcutta, c1867-1869), # Adrsta [Adrishta] (Calcutta, c1896-1897), # Aitihasik Citra (Calcutta, 1905-1910), # Alochana (Calcutta, 1884-1886), # Anjali (Chattagram, c1898-1899), # Antahpura (Calcutta, c1901-1903), # Anubiksana (Calcutta, c1875-1876), # Anusandhan (Calcutta, c1887-1892), # Aryakayastha Pratibha (Faridpur, Pratibha Press, 1910-1922), # Arati (Maimansingha, 1900-1909), # Arunodaya (Calcutta, 1857-1858), # Aryadarshan (Bowbazar (43 Malanga Lane) 1874-1885));
* B
(# Bamabodhini Patrika (Calcutta: Bamabodhini Sabha, 1863-1922), # Bandhaba and Bandhaba Nabaparyaya (Dhaka, 1874-1906), # Bangamahila (Calcutta: Board of Principals, Corbagan Balika Bidyalaya, 1875-1877), # Basantaka (Calcutta: Board of Principals, Chorbagan Balika Bidyalaya, 1874-1875), # Bedabyasa (Calcutta, 1886-1894), # Bharati / Bharati o Balak (Calcutta, 1877-1926), # Bhisak-darpana (Calcutta, 1896-1914), # Bhramar (Calcutta, 1874-1875), # Bibidhartha samgraha (Calcutta, 1851-1861), # Bicitra (Calcutta, Bichitra Niketan, 1927-1939), # Bijnana darpana (Calcutta: 20 Sukiya Street, 1882-1884), # Binapani (Calcutta, 1893-1897), # Birbhumi (Keernahar (Birbhum), 1899-1906), and Birbhumi Nabaparyaya (Keernahar (Birbhum), 1910--1926));
* C-J
(# Cikitsa-sammilani (Calcutta, 1885-1894), # Dasi (Calcutta, 1892-1897), # Grhastha (Calcutta: Grihastha Publishing House, 1909-1913), # Grhasthamangala (Calcutta, 1928-1931), # Government Gazette (Calcutta/Srirampur: Baptist Mission Press, 1850 and 1859-1875), # Hindu-patrika (Calcutta, 1896-1926), # Janayuddha (Calcutta, 249 Bowbazar Street, 1944-1945), # Janmabhumi (Calcutta, 1890-1932));
* K-N
(# Kayastha patrika (Calcutta, 45 Grey Street, 1902-1904), -- later under the title Kayastha patrika nabaparyaya (Calcutta, 45 Grey Street, 1910-1927), # Kayastha Samaj (Calcutta, 1 Cornwallis Street, Kayastha Samaj Karyalaya, 1923-1926), # Krsak (Calcutta, 1901-1930), # Mahajanabandhu (Calcutta, Calcutta Sugar Merchants Association, 1900-1912), # Mahila (Calcutta, 1897-1915), # Masika Basumati (Calcutta, 166 Baubajar Street, Basumati Baidyutik Rotary Machine, 1928 -1944), # Mukti (Purulia: Desabandhu Press, Mukti Press, 1925-1979), # Nabajibana (Calcutta, 1884-1889), # Nabyabharat (Calcutta, 1883-1925));
* P-R
(# Pantha (Calcutta, 120/2 Masjidbadi Street, Aghornath Datta, 1898--1915), # Paricarika (Calcutta, 1880-1905), # Paricarika Nabaparyaya (Coochbehar, 1917-1926), # Prabasi (Allahabad, Purnachandra Das; Calcutta, Prabasi Karyalay, 1901-1964), # Pradipa (Calcutta, 21/1 Sukiya Street, Pradip Karyalaya, 1897-1906), # Punya (Calcutta, 1897-1906), # Purnima (Hooghly, Sabitri Jantra, 1893-1910), # Rahasya sandarbha (Calcutta, Baptist Mission Press, 1862-1874), # Ramadhanu: chelemeyeder sacitra masika-patrika (Bhabanipur, 16 Townsend Road, 1927-1988), # Rangmashal (Calcutta, 1937-1946));
* S-U
(# Sahitya (Calcutta, 3 Beadon Square, 1890-1924), # Sakha (Calcutta, 1883-1892), # Sandesa (Calcutta: U. Ray and Sons, 1913-1926), -- later under the title Sandesa nabaparyaya (Calcutta: U. Ray and Sons, 1931-1936), # Svasthya (Calcutta: Durgadas Gupta, Svastha Karyalaya, 1898-1902), # Svasthya Samacara (Calcutta, 1912-1928), # Tattvabodhini Patrika (Calcutta, 1843-1931), # Udayana (Calcutta, 1933-1935), # Ugraksatriya Pratinidhi (Calcutta: Ugraksatriya Pratinidhi Karyalaya, 1891-1893), # Utsaha (Rajsahi, 1897-1902)).

URL: http://www.savifa.uni-hd.de/thematicportals/periodicals/overview.html

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
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 30

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

19 April 2010

www.wanfangdata.com: Chinese Studies; Business; Medicine; Science; Technology

http://www.wanfangdata.com/

5star
19 Apr 2010

Wanfangdata Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.

Self-description:
"Being the leading information contents provider in China, Wanfang Data has been a task force of the Institute of Scientific & Technological Information of China (ISTIC), the Chinese Ministry of Science & Technology, since 1950s. It focuses on digital resources, such as journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, patents, standards, Chinese companies, etc, providing information on Chinese studies (arts/humanities/social sciences), TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Chinese Business, Law, Government, Defense, Military, Science, and Technology.
Branches have been set up all around China, e.g. Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Wuahan, Xiian and Hongkong, etc. With a North America-based office and local web Servers, Wanfang Data offers quality customer support and reliable internet access. [...]
Featured database: # Chinese Studies Online (CSO), # China Business Reference (CBR), # Chinese Medicine Premier (CMP), # China Legal Collections (CLC), # Science & Technology of China (STOC)."

Site contents:
* Our Products ([Contents and access details of:] # China Medical Association Journals (CMAJ), # China Online Journals (COJ), # English Online Journals (ECOJ), # Dissertations of China (DOC), # Academic Conferences in China (ACIC), # English Conferences in China (ECIC), # Chinese Companies & Products (CECDB), # Chinese Companies & Products (English version), # Chinese Listed Companies, # Chinese Scientific Institutes, # Chinese Patents, # National/Industrial Standards);
* News and updates;
* Cross-Database Search;
* Customer Support;
* Trial Request;
* About Us;
* Contact us for new products: # China Local Chronicles, # China Knowledge Search and Analysis System;
* Newsletter subscribe/unsubscribe.

[A bilingual (CN, EN) website. Online access to the databases is via a subscription - ed.]

URL: http://www.wanfangdata.com/

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wanfangdata.com/

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 106,000]

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

14 April 2010

[Asia-related digital datasets in] UK Data Archive (UKDA)

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

5star
14 Apr 2010

UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK

Self-description:
"The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Founded in 1967, it now houses several thousand datasets of interest to a wide range of researchers and provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, learning and teaching. UKDA is a designated Place of Deposit by The National Archives allowing it to ingest and preserve public records. UKDA is based at the University of Essex in Colchester.

The speciality of the UKDA is research data created in the domains of the social sciences and humanities, though more recently it has worked with environmental and medical data sources. Among its family of services are the Economic and Social Data Service, History Data Service, UK Census portal, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Data Support Service, Secure Data Service, Survey Resources Network, and Survey Question Bank. It also provides strategic co-ordination of the EC CESSDA-PPP project."

Site contents:
* Finding data;
* Catalogue search, (Help on searching, About catalogue, Glossary of terms, Browse by subject, Major studies, Major depositors, New releases, HASSET thesaurus, Search UKDA-store, Other archives);
*About the data; * Sharing; * Support; * R & D; * News; * A-Z index; * Site map; * Contact; * Login; * Search;
* Data [Incl. select Asia-related data sets listed in http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/search/allSearch.asp?ct=xmlAll&q1=Asia
Each of the data sets below carries a page with Study Description/Documentation and Download/Order details - ed.]]
# SN 2942 Polity II : Political Structures and Regime Change, 1880-1986 [History Data Service] [...] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ANGOLA] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BADEN] [BANGLADESH] [...];
# SN 5690 East India Company: Trade and Domestic Financial Statistics, 1755-1838 [History Data Service] [...] [BRITISH ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS WITH ASIA, 1760-1833. STATISTICS RELATING TO THE TRADE AND DOMESTIC FINANCES OF THE COMPANY] [...];
# SN 2823 World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992 [ESDS] [...] [CAMBODIA] [DENMARK] [DOMINICA] [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC] [EAST ASIA] [ECUADOR] [EGYPT] [EL SALVADOR] [EQUATORIAL GUINEA] [...];
# SN 3655 Polity III : Regime Type and Political Authority, 1800-1994 [History Data Service] [...] [AMERICA] [ANGOLA] [ARGENTINA] [ARMENIA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [AZERBAIJAN] [BADEN][...];
# SN 6302 International Energy Agency World Energy Statistics, 1960-2008 [ESDS International] [...] [VIET NAM] [YEMEN] [ZAMBIA] [ZIMBABWE] [ASIA] [LATIN AMERICA] [MIDDLE EAST] [GEOTHERMAL ENERGY] International macro data [...];
# SN 4956 OECD International Development (Debt and Aid) Statistics, 1975-2007 [ESDS International] [...] [UNITED NATIONS] [WATER SUPPLY] [ANGUILLA] [ARAB COUNTRIES] [ASIA] [CARIBBEAN] [CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1918-1992)] [EUROPE] [EUROPEAN UNION] [...];
# SN 3441 Correlates of War Project: International and Civil War Data, 1816-1992 [History Data Service] [...] [ANGOLA] [ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA] [ARGENTINA] [ARMENIA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (PRE-1918)] [...];
# SN 6286 United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, 1962-2008 [ESDS International] [...] [CARIBBEAN] [CAYMAN ISLANDS] [CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC] [CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA] [CHAD] [CHILE] [CHINA] [CHRISTMAS ISLAND] [COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS] [...];
# SN 2139 ECPR Party Manifestos Project, 1921-1987 [History Data Service] [...] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [CANADA] [...];
# SN 3505 Foreign Ethnographic Collections in Scotland, 18th-20th Century [History Data Service] [...] [AFRICA] [AMERICA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [SCOTLAND] [ACCESS TO FACILITIES] [ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS] [...];
# SN 2093 Vital Statistics Time Series, 1749-1982 [History Data Service] [...] [AFRICA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [ENGLAND] [EUROPE] [MULTI-NATION] [NORTHERN IRELAND ...
# SN 1963 Elections in Western Nations, 1828-1982 [History Data Service] [...] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [CANADA] [...];
# SN 2130 Soviet Agricultural Data, 1940-1982 [History Data Service] [...] [ASIA] [BELARUS] [EUROPE] [KAZAKHSTAN] [RUSSIA] [UKRAINE] [...];
# SN 869 Cross-National Time Series, 1815-1973 [History Data Service] [...] [ALGERIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BADEN] [BAHAMAS] [...];
# SN 1085 Cross-National Data Analysis Learning Package, 1919-1939 [History Data Service] [...] [ALBANIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [BENIN] [...];
# SN 1076 Polity Data : Persistence and Change in Political Systems, 1800-1971 [History Data Service] [...] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ANGOLA] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BADEN] [BAVARIA] [...];
# SN 4003 Globalisation, Technology and Wage Inequality, 1870-1970 [History Data Service] [...] [International historical Statistics] [Africa] [Asia] [Oceania] [1750-1988] [...];
# SN 321 Diplomatic Exchange Data, 1815-1970; Symmetric and Asymmetric Files [History Data Service] [...] [ALGERIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BADEN] [BAHRAIN] [...];
# SN 320 Diplomatic Missions Received by Each International System Member, 1817-1970 [History Data Service] [...] [ALGERIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (PRE-1918)] [...];
# SN 766 Domestic Conflict Behavior, 1919-1966 [History Data Service] [...] [ALBANIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRALIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [BENIN] [...];
# SN 3454 Demography of Sri Lanka, 1900-1954 [History Data Service] [...] [ASIA] [SRI LANKA] [AGE] [CAUSES OF DEATH] [CENSUS RECORDS] [...];
# SN 2101 Treatymaking in the Interwar Period, 1921-1942 [History Data Service] [...] [ALBANIA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [BOLIVIA] [BRAZIL] [...];
# SN 3009 Soviet Government Officials, 1922-1941 : a Handlist [History Data Service] [...] [ASIA] [EUROPE] [USSR] [CIVIL SERVANTS] [GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS] [...];
# SN 2700 Interwar Trade Dataset, 1900-1939 [History Data Service] [...] [AFRICA] [AMERICA] [ANGLESEY] [ARGENTINA] [ASIA] [AUSTRALASIA] [AUSTRIA] [BELGIUM] [BOLIVIA] [BRAZIL] [...].

URL: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./ Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 9,090]

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

13 April 2010

Rebellion, Defeat and Exile: The 1959 Uprising in East Timor [E-book]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26857195/Rebellion-Defeat-and-Exile-The-1959-Uprising-in-East-Timor

5star
13 Apr 2010

www.scribd.com, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Self-description:
"[Rebellion, Defeat and Exile: The 1959 Uprising in East Timor by Ernest Chamberlain (2009) - ed.] Relates in detail the 1959 'Viqueque' Rebellion in Portuguese Timor - including the background and aftermath. Sources include interviews with the few remaining participants in the Rebellion - and Indonesian, Portuguese and English-language material. An annex (E) provides detailed profiles of those rebels exiled to Angola. Comprehensive bibliography and index are included. To reduce file size, some maps, photographs and annexes have not been included."

URL: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26857195/Rebellion-Defeat-and-Exile-The-1959-Uprising-in-East-Timor

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]

Link reported by: Ernest Chamberlain (chamber--at--pipeline.com.au)

[Military historian "Ernie Chamberlain is a retired Australian brigadier, having served for 36 years -- including as Australian Defence Attache in Jakarta in the mid-1990s. Since retirement in 1998, he has spent some years in Timor -- including advising Defence Minister Roque Rodrigues and F-FDTL commander Taur Matan Ruak on defence policy and planning (2004-05)." Src: SBY's Timor History, 12 March 2010, http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/]


* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* 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 30

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

Forgotten Men: Timorese in Special Operations during World War II [E-book]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29688334/Forgotten-Men-Timorese-in-Special-Operations-during-World-War-II

5star
13 Apr 2010

www.scribd.com, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Supplied note:
"For those interested in the WWII history of Timor, the recently published (January 2010) text of "Forgotten Men: Timorese in Special Operations during World War II" ( ISBN 978-0-9805623-2-3, about 102,000 words - 185 A-4 pages) has been uploaded to Scribd for free access ie see [the URL below]. - ec."

Self-description:
" [Forgotten Men: Timorese in Special Operations during World War II by Ernest Chamberlain (2010) - ed.] 'Forgotten Men' is a 102,000-word 'non-commercial'; monograph (ISBN 978-0-9805623-2-3) focusing on the service of Portuguese subjects with the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD)/Z Special Unit during World War II. The monograph was written to support submissions (2007-2009) seeking recognition for their service by the Australian Government - see Preface and pp.86-87. The story of the more than 600 civilians evacuated from Timor to Australia during the War is also related - including those interned. The work is extensively footnoted, and readers are encouraged to read the primary source documents. Hard copies of this book are available in the National Library of Australia, the State Library of Victoria - and with several other libraries and academics in Australia and overseas. Copies are also with the Australian Department of Defence, Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Commando Association, the Mary Mackillop East Timor Centre etc."

URL: http://www.scribd.com/doc/29688334/Forgotten-Men-Timorese-in-Special-Operations-during-World-War-II

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]

Link reported by: Ernest Chamberlain (chamber--at--pipeline.com.au)

[Military historian "Ernie Chamberlain is a retired Australian brigadier, having served for 36 years -- including as Australian Defence Attache in Jakarta in the mid-1990s. Since retirement in 1998, he has spent some years in Timor -- including advising Defence Minister Roque Rodrigues and F-FDTL commander Taur Matan Ruak on defence policy and planning (2004-05)." Src: SBY's Timor History, 12 March 2010, http://timorarchives.wordpress.com/]

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* 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 30

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12 April 2010

[Online] Publications on Indo-Portuguese History and Culture

http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza

4star
12 Apr 2010

Professor Teotonio R. de Souza: [Online] Publications on Indo-Portuguese History and Culture

www.scribd.com, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Supplied note:
"Teotonio R. de Souza was born in Goa in 1947. Studied at the University of Poona for Master's and PhD in History (1970-1977). Professed member of the Society of Jesus (1967-1994), collaborated in founding the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa in 1979. PhD guide in History of the Goa University (1985-1994) and visiting Professor of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth (Poona) and Vidyajyoti (Delhi). Recovered Portuguese citizenship in 1995. Since 1996ĂŠProfessor and Head of the Department of History of the Universidade Lusofona in Lisboa. Is fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History since 1983 and of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa since 2000. More details of [his] CV may be consulted at http://bit.ly/6flQ9 and the ResearchID with important online publications at http://bit.ly/aBMS9z
Several of his important publications (particularly dispersed and hard to get research articles) during the past 3 and half decades may now be consulted at http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza and http://recil.grupolusofona.pt/items-by-author?author=Souza%2C+Teot%C3%B3nio+R.+de [not covered by this abstract - ed.] They cover the historical and cultural impact of the Portuguese colonial presence in Asia, and more particularly in India. - trs."

Site contents:
* Historical Explorations & Online Documents
(# O 6o ConcIlio de Goa e a Instrumentalizacao PolItica de S. Francisco Xavier; # Easteriography and Goan History; # Marine Insurance in Indo-Portuguese Trade; # Bocarro's Account of Goa-based Trade in the Early 17th Century; # Goa Inquisition for Colonial Disciplining; # Hajj Without Spice: Akbar and the Portuguese; # Rojnishi & Indo-Portuguese History; # Rojnishi: Maratha history in Portuguese records of Lisbon; # Embassies and Surrogates: Case-Study of a Malacca Embassy to Siam in 1595; # History of Goan Culture: Post-Orientalism; # Our Inspirers: Maria Couto & Fr. Romuald; # Time & Memory: Ringing in the New; # To the Nations and Nation: Francis Xavier and Joseph Vaz; # Bhorpis (gypsies) in Goa; # Inquisition, Jesuits and Archbishops; # Goa Jesuits: 250 Years Ago and Since; # J.H. Cunha Rivara and Native Goan Elites; # A Kind of Absence (Author: Joao da Veiga Coutinho); # Praying Doves and Preying Vultures; # Church in Goa: Servants, slaves and rebels; # Medieval Goa (2009); # T R de Souza on Google Scholar [Jul 2009, List compiled by John Pimenta]; # Goan Ethnography and Colonial Anthropology; # Ganv thuim marodd: Goan ethnographic heritage; # Nothing Need Worry the Church of Goa; # India - 50 (1997); # The Portuguese Saints; # The Political Economy of the Church (2009); # Dare not Silence the Truth; # Vasco da Gama and the Later Portuguese Colonial Presence in India; # The Church in Goa (1999); # A Igreja na India (Esboco Historico) (2000); # As impressoes portuguesas da India; # Indo-Portuguese numismatics and the Goa Mint (1976); # Municipalismo colonial e municipalismo nativo em Goa: conflitos e convergoncias de interesses; # Missionacao Portuguesa no Indico; # The Mirage of Elections; # Lusofonia: O caso de Goa; # 25 years of ISIPH seminars [Indo-Portuguese History]; # Charles R. Boxer: Historiador, Mestre e Amigo (2004); # Um Missionario da Civilizacao Hindu em Portugal (2000); # My kingdom is not of this earth; # The Make-up of a Guru; # Diamond Mines of the Deccan (1996); # The Mhamais of Goa; # The Portuguese in Goa; # Confessionarios or Manuals of Confession: Missionary tools and their colonial uses -- The case study of Goa (2005); # Mito e Arte em Santa Monica de Goa; # Myth and Art at Santa Monica in Goa; # Goa: Roteiro Historico Cultural; # Estado da India 500 anos; # Corruption: The Mother of Poverty; # Saints for all Seasons?; # Lingua portuguesa ou Lingua a portuguesa?; # Cunha Rivara 200 PT; # Cunha Rivara 200; # Goa Archives - Fourth Centenary; # How the Church Flourished in Goa; # Mhamais of Goa; # Goan Identity: One, several or none?; # Goans in Europe: Losing their Identity; # Os bispos acorianos no Oriente portuguos; # Goa and the Pinto Conspiracy of 1757; # The Voiceless in Goan Historiography; # Dying and Killing for Forged Identities?; # De Ceuta ao Japao; # Christmas for Secular Believers; # Never the same again; # Cursing the Parents, Cursing the Past. No way forward!; # Guddhameva Jayate!; # Goa: Lusotopic, Lusophonic or Lusophilic?; # Pluricronias; # Goa: Daughter's Story; # Goa: Conversions & Citizenry; # Metahistory; # African Slavery in Goa; # MOIRA 1875; # Hindus and Goan Colonial Economy; # Padroado portuguos no Oriente; # Dishonouring Our Freedom Fighters; # Church Politics in Goa; # Between Empires - Review Article; # Historical Archives; # Unwrapping Goan Identity (2008)).

URL: http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]

Link reported by: Teotonio R. de Souza (teodesouza--at--netcabo.pt)

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness: [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource: [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 300

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09 April 2010

Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America

http://www.asian-nation.org/

5star
09 Apr 2010

www.asian-nation.org, Amherst, MA, USA.

Self-description:
"Welcome to Asian-Nation, an authoritative, one-stop information resource [est. 26 Apr 2001 - ed.] and sociological exploration of the historical, demographic, political, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. You can think of Asian-Nation as an online version of 'Asian Americans 101'."

Site contents:
* Culture (# Asian Cultural Icons - Hot or Not? # Import/Sport Compact Racing Scene, # Adopted Asian Americans, # Asian American Sports Stars & Athletes, # Asian Cuisine & Foods, # Assimilation & Ethnic Identity, # Best Colleges for Asian Americans, # Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery, # Gambling, Addiction, & Asian Culture, # How Asian Americans Portray Ourselves, # Martial Arts, Video Games, & Hip-Hop, # Multiracial/Hapa Asian Americans, # Religion, Spirituality, & Faith, # Second Generation of APAs, # Sex & The Asian Man, # Writers, Artists, & Entertainers, # Young, Gay, & APA, # Test Your Asian IQ, # Games & Diversions);

* Ethnic Groups (# Bangladeshi & Pakistani Americans, # Cambodian Americans, # Chinese Americans, # Filipino Americans, # Hmong Americans, # Indian Americans, # Japanese Americans, # Korean Americans, # Laotian Americans, # Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islander Americans, # Taiwanese Americans, # Vietnamese Americans);

* History (# The First Asian Americans, # Japanese American Internment, # The 1965 Immigration Act, # Celebrate APA Heritage Month, # 14 Statistics About Asian Americans, # Academic Side of Asian American History, # 442nd: Rescue of the Lost Battalion, # Korematsu's Legacy & the Treatment of Arab Americans);

* Issues (# Behind the Headlines: APA News Blog, # Socioeconomic Statistics & Demographics, # Interracial Dating & Marriage, # The Model Minority Image, # Affirmative Action, # Anti-Asian Racism & Violence, # Asian Americans, Polls, & the 2004 Elections, # Asian American Gangs, # Asian Small Businesses, # Doctors: The APA Dream Profession, # Employment & Occupational Patterns, # Ethnic Communities & Enclaves, # Health & Wellness, # Immigrant Characteristics & Statistics, # Immigrant Contributions & Impacts, # Immigrants in the Postindustrial Economy, # Participating in Politics, # Population Statistics & Demographics, # Women & Gender Issues);

* Links (# Arts, Writing, & Entertainment, # Asian American Women, # Civil Rights, Law, & Justice, # General Links & Resource Directories, # Health, Wellness, & Spirituality, # History, Museums & Exhibitions, # International News & Resources, # Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender, # Media, # New, Politics, & Current Events, # Non-Profit Community Organizations, # Online Communities & Portals, # Personal & Group Blogs, # Popular Culture, # Products & Services, # Professional Associations, # Research, Policy, & Academics);

* Viet Nam (# Early History & Legend, # The Lessons of Colonialism, # The American / Viet Nam War, # A Modern Day Exodus, # Unleashing the Rising Dragon, # A Personal Journey -- The South, # A Personal Journey -- The North, # Send a Free Viet Nam eCard, # Tet, A Celebration of Rebirth, # Viet Nam's Freedom of Press, # Vietnamese Amerasians in America, # The Vietnamese American Community);

* About & FAQs;

* Blog # Recent Comments (Immigration Reform: What Not To Do, Links & Announcements 24, Online Survey: Sexual Coercion, White Backlash: Yes, It's Real, New Books: Globalization and Transnational Dynamics, Asian American/Ethnic Studies Positions Available, Interview with Asian American Filmmaker Christopher Wong, Academic Research: Asian Americans as Model Minorities, Links & Announcements 23, Online Survey: Asian-White Biracial Americans, Posts from Years Past: March, International Womens Day: Reflections on Asian Women), # Popular All-Time Comments, # Popular Last 365 Days Comments, # Archives of Posts by Date, # Search the Archives, # Browse the Archives);

* Contact;

* Site Map;

* Asian-Nation Blog RSS Feed.

URL: http://www.asian-nation.org/

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asian-nation.org/

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Online Guide
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 9,100]

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08 April 2010

Tools and Resources for Japanese Bibliography

http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/

4star
08 Apr 2010

Columbia University in the City of New York, NY, USA.

Self-description:
[No self-description was provided]

Site contents:
* Report on Japanese Electronic Dictionaries (Nov. 2005);
* Basic Bibliography for Research on Japan;
* Japanese Bibliography ("Bib 95");
* Special Projects by members of Bib 2000, 2002, 2003;
* FAQ on Nat'l Diet Library's "Digital Library of Meiji Period";
* Henry Smith's Home Page (CV and Selected Publications [with links to PDF versions of articles], Full Text of Learning from Shogun (1980), Articles on the Ako Incident (The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Ronin) and the Chushingura tradition);
* Chushingura and the Samurai Traditon (Spring '02) (Syllabus, Web site);
* Buildings and Cities in Japanese History, Spring '98 (Syllabus, Web Page Training Handout, Student Web Projects, Final Course Report, Edo Screens, Syllabus Spring '92);
* Slide Shows on Major Monuments of Japanese Culture (The Grand Shrine of Ise, The Riddles of Horyuji, The Tale of Genji Scroll);
* Syllabi for Graduate Symposia (Meiji Culture: Space, City, Image (Spring '94), The History of East Asian Writing (Fall '95), Material Culture in the History of Modern Japan (Spring '96), The History of Visual Culture in Meiji-Taisho Japan (Spring '98));
* 19th-Century Japan (Course syllabus, Autumn '02 Map of Old Provinces (kuni) vs Modern Prefectures (ken));
* Tokyo: History, Form, and Spirit (Fall '98) (Course syllabus);
* Expanding Edo Art: A One-Day Workshop at Columbia University, Feb 20, 1999. (Final Report on Workshop, by Miriam Wattles).

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/ (formerly at http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/).

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [it is not clear whether the site is archived]

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]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource: [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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07 April 2010

SavifaDok: Digital Repository South Asian Studies

http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/index.php?la=en

5star
07 Apr 2010

The Virtual Library South Asia (SAVIFA), South Asia Institute/Library, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Self-description:
"SavifaDok [est. 2006 - ed.], the Open Access document server of Savifa - the Virtual Library South Asia, is an electronic platform for publishing and archiving academic literature in the field of South Asian studies. The publication platform offers free access to full-text documents and adheres to the principles of Open Access as well as the goals of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).
People with a research interest in South Asia have the possibility to publish their work in electronic format and make it available through the World Wide Web. Thereby, SavifaDok guarantees long-term availability and visibility of your documents in library catalogues (e.g. KVK-Karlsruher Virtual Catalogue) and search engines by using standardized addresses and metadata. We publish books, articles and research papers as well as multi media documents."

Site contents:
* Search (Field search, Search tips);
* Full-Text-Search [powered by Google];
* Browsing (Documents in SavifaDok sorted by: Document Types, Institutions, Subjects, Countries, Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), Series, Collections, Journals);
* Publishing (5 reasons why to publish your work on SavifaDok, Who can publish on SavifaDok? What kind of documents are accepted? How to publish on Savifa?);
* New Publications (The 10 newest publications: # Tears and Laughter: Promoting Gross National Happiness Through the Rich Oral Traditions and Heritage of Bhutan, Evans, A. Steven [digitized:] 06.04.2010, Article; # Literacy For All: One of the Means to Achieve Gross National Happiness, Zangmo, Tashi 06.04.2010, Article; # Achieving Gross National Happiness Through Community-based Mental Health Services in Bhutan, Dorji, Chencho, 06.04.2010, Article; # Svasthya Samacara, vol. 10 (1921) - vol. 16 (1927) 29.03.2010, Journal);
* Profile (# About SavifaDok, # Geographical Scope: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maledives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Tibet, # Subject matter: Languages and literatures, History and archaeology, Indology, Religion and philosophy, Art, art history and performing arts, Politics, Sociology, Anthropology, Media, film and radio, Education and research, Geography, Economics, Traditional law, # Document types: Dissertations, Theses, Monographs, Articles, Journal Series, Research Papers, Pre-prints, Term Papers);
* FAQ (What is SavifaDok? How can I publish documents? Which file formats can be saved? Is there a possibility to modify or delete documents on SavifaDok? What does long-term availability mean? Can the documents be quoted in academic work? In which databases, catalogues and search engines will the documents be referenced? How can the documents be viewed and printed?);
* Viewer [software for PDF- and PostScript documents];
* Partners 9Vascoda [http://www.vascoda.de/], Open Archives Initiative (OAI), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), Suedwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund (SWB), Suedasien-Seminar des Orientalischen Instituts of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta);
* Contact;
* Intern.

[A site with a bi-lingual (DE,EN) navigation structure - ed.]

URL: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/index.php?la=en

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

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 30

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06 April 2010

Nichibunken - International Research Center for Japanese Studies

http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm

5star
06 Apr 2010

International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Self-description:
"The principal tasks of Nichibunken and the scholars affiliated with it are of three broad types. One, the business of scholars as individuals, it goes without saying, is to conduct their own research. Two, as an institute and as individuals, it is our job to provide assistance to researchers overseas in their studies of Japan. Three, it is our job to advance scholarship through interdisciplinary and international team research projects that we carry out together with scholars from within and from outside Japan."

Site contents:
* Outreach Programs and Events (Event News, Public Lectures, Public Symposium Lectures, Public Visitation Day, Tokyo Public Lectures, Nichibunken Forum, Special Public Lecture, Comprehensive Research Project on Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture, Event Registration, Internet Broadcast);
* Research Activities (Faculty Activities and Current Events, Research Department, Research Spheres and Research Foci, Team Research, Theory and Methodology Seminars, Findings of The Team Research Project, International Research Symposia, Civilization Research Project, Archives - Team Research Projects, Archives - Past Lectures and Research Meetings, Archives - Recent Publications, Graduate Education - Doctoral Program in Japanese Studies, Graduate Education - Special Research Students);
* Nichibuken Databases (# Search Engine, Cross-Referenced Search for Nichibunken Databases, Chronological Search, Keyword Search by Kigo (Season Word) (35,811 items),
# Web OPAC: Nichibunken Library Database (435,917 institutions), Z39.50,
# Japanese Studies Institutions Overseas: Database of Japanese Studies Institutions Overseas (1,655 items), Links - Alphabetically & Geographically,
# Nichibunken Publications Article Titles, Japan Review (197 items), Nihon kenkyu (437 items), Nichibunken Forum Report (122 items),
# Nichibunken Collection Rare Books & Research Materials: Rare Books (42 items), Catalogue of the pre-1900 printed books on Japan in European languages housed in the library of International Research Center for Japanese Studies (1,057 items), Foreign Images of Japan (56,911 items), Early Photographs (5,431 items), Japanese Art in Overseas Collections (5,883 items), Heian jinbutsu shi Information (927 pages), Heian jinbutsu shi tanzaku Information (947 items), SODA Collection: Pictorial and Miscellaneous Materials,Rare Books (1,104 items), Miyako nenju gyoji gajo (Picture Album of Annual Festivals in the Miyako) (103 items), Maps Database in the collection, WebGIS Japanese maps, Zuroku Bei-O kairan jikki (317 items), Kinsei kijinden: Sei and Zoku (97 items), Illustrations of Historic Places in Kyoto (24 items), Enpon (Ukiyo-e Erotic Books) (428 items), Chirimen Books (77 items), Database of illustrations of Modern Folklore (149 items), Emakimono (Picture Scrolls) (18 items), Noma collection (Rare European Medical Books) (28 items), A Heijipicture scroll volume digital diagram of a restored building, Collection from the Research Center for the History of Sino-Japanese Relations,
# Japanese Studies Research Materials: Folktale Data of Strange Phenomena and Yokai (Monstrous Beings) (35,701 items), Old Maps of Nagasaki (141 items), Civil Judgement Files (543,609 items), Mysterious Stories of Kannon Bodhisattva in Ukiyoe (100 items), Otake Dainichi-nyorai engi emaki (History of the Otake Buddha) (150 items), Bibliography of Family History ((8,154 items) and Historical Demography (1,603 items), Renga (197,228 items), Waka (190,423 items), Haikai (25,652 items), Art and Pictorial Collection nof Strage Phenomena and Yokai (Monstrous Beings) (11 items), Archaeological Spatial Analysis by Geographic Information System (GIS), High-resolution aerial photo (WebGIS), Database of Japanese Lexicon Research Publications, Lexical Association Example Database of Renga, Kojiruien Full Text Database, Kojiruien (Dictionary of Historical Terms) Database,
# Organization cooperation: Database of Ukiyo-e held at the Library of Congress (2,741 items), Nara Ehon (Nara picyure Books) (4 items), E'iri Genji monogatari Database, Ukiyo-e Geijyutsu (The Bulletins of International Ukiyo-e Society) Database);
* General Information (Address and Contact, Greetings from the Director, History, Activities, Nichibunken Topics, Transportation, Faculty and Staff, Facilities, Statistical Data, Library Use, About Research Cooperation, Research Cooperation, The Office of Research Exchange, Office for Virtual Resources, The Graduate University, Video of Nichibunken);
* Library Use;
* Employment and Study;
* Sitemap;
* Links (Links for Japanese Studies - Japan, Links for Japanese Studies - Around the World, Scholarly Periodicals, Scholarships /Fellowships, Research Projects, Faculty Personal HP, Inter-University Research Institutes Corporation, National Institutes for the Humanities, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies);
* Search;
* What's New.

[A bi-lingual (JP,EN) website - ed.]

URL: http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/welcome_e.htm

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study /Corporate Info / Online Guide
* Publishe:r [academic - business - govt. - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 10,200]

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01 April 2010

Asia-Studies Full-text Online

http://www.asia-studies.com/

5star
01 Apr 2010

International Information Services, Hong Kong, China.

Self-description:
"Asia-Studies Full-Text Online is the premier database [est. 2004 - ed.] for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region's most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 55 countries [and territories] on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.
Examples of specific subject coverage include finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies, to name a few. The average study is 50 pages long, and contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts. Most contain statistical tables, charts, and/or graphs. [...]
Studies are arranged for easy browsing by subject, study provider, and alphabetical order. In addition, all studies are indexed in a comprehensive database that is quickly searchable using free text. Each month, the home page highlights new and noteworthy studies and updates. The database search engine offers advanced search features for experienced researchers while delivering excellent results for novices. It forgives spelling errors and automatically stems.
Asia-Studies Full-Text Online is sold by subscription, with a number of service plans available. [...].
Update Frequency - weekly;
Database Size - Over 12,000 Studies;
Study File Format - PDF Full-text;
Document Browsing & Retrieval Method - Search Engine, Alphabetical Index, Publisher Index, Statistical Flow Chart."

Site contents:
* Search; * About; * Subscribe; * Contact;
* Browse Asia-Studies Humanities [Articles and papers from Asia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management - UNISA, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies - ANU, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Heritage Journal - Singapore, Himalayan Lingusitics, Journal of Global Buddhism, Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, Teo Reo - Linguistic Society of New Zealand, Virginia Review of Asian Studies];
* Search All Studies; * Highlights;
* Browse Studies by Providers (American Chamber of Commerce PRC, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperaton, Asian Development Bank, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Australian APEC Study Centre, Australia South Asia Research Centre, China Media Research, China Perspectives, CEFC, Center for International Forestry Research, East-West Center, Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Institute of Policy Studies, Institute for Security and Development Policy, Institute of S.E. Asian Studies, SG, International Journal of Korean Studies, Lingnan University, Lowy Institute, MIT-GTZ, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Philippine Institute for Development Studies, Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations, Southeast Asia Research Centre, Stanford Journal of E. Asian Affairs, University of Hong Kong);
* Statistics (Key Indicators, Multi-country Studies, Asia-wide Statistics);
* Sign Up for Free A-S Monthly; * Submit Paper for A-S Monthly.

URL: http://www.asia-studies.com/

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asia-studies.com/

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

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* 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]: 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