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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.

06 January 2011

DK: A reliable source for Indian Books, South Asian books and MARC 21 records

http://www.dkagencies.com
5star
06 Jan 2011

D.K. Agencies (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India

Self-description:
"With a modest beginning in the international book-market: as promoters of indigenous publications, in 1968, we have gone on to take a leap forward -- without ever looking back. Today, we are among the top-ranking service organizations in India, superbly coping with a global clientele -- ranging from North American libraries to Latin American societies, from Austral-Asian universities to Afro-Asian academies, West European research centres to Scandinavian institutions of learning. [...] Indian book industry is today a giant [there are over 40,000 publishers - ed.]. It produces every year about 7,000 books in English language alone, besides many-times-more modern Indian languages' publications. # DK's search/selection mechanisms identify even the most obscure title or the obscurest of publishers because their motivated "Selection Division" is always on its toes tracking down the newest of books/monographs, their specifically-created cell monitors all scholarly events and their proceedings, their continually updated database is almost an exhaustive source of information on all current/in-print titles. # DK's specialised procurement efforts fulfil over 95% of the ordered items whether published by private publishing houses, government (central, state, local), research institutions, learned bodies, or even individuals. high-priced, very low-priced or even unpriced."

Site contents:
* Search (Simple Search, Advanced Search, Special Search [UNICODE Compliant]);
* Browse Subjects By Language And Country [incl. Assamese language books, Nepali lang. books from India, Nepali lang. books from Nepal, Oriya lang. books, Panjabi lang. books, Sanskrit lang. books, Tamil lang. books from India, Tamil lang. books from Srilanka, Bengali lang. books from Bangladesh, Bengali lang. books from India, English books from Bangladesh, English books from Bhutan, English books from India, English books from Nepal, English books from Pakistan, English books from Sri Lanka, Gujarati lang. books, Hindi lang. books, Kannada lang. books, Malayalam lang. books, Marathi lang. books, Telugu lang. books From India, Tibetan lang. books, Urdu lang. books from India];
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[An Alladin's Cave of brilliant online data and services. Since 23 Apr 1998 D.K.Agencies site is the official Associate of the "Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library" (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.]

URL http://www.dkagencies.com

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

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
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 Thursday, January 06, 2011