The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
25 Jan 2001
Coombsweb: Asian Studies Server - the 7th Anniversary
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS),
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"7 years of operations. Over 21,400,000 page views since th[e] site
was launched. 'The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and
electronic publishing.' At the time of its launch (25 Jan 1994) it was
the 2nd WWW site at the ANU, 5th WWW site in Australia and the 850th
WWW site in the world. Currently the Internet comprises over 22
million Web servers.[...] On 15 Dec 2000 Coombsweb attracted 28,905
external linkages. This is 23.1% of hypertext links leading to the ANU
as a whole, and over 187% of the volume of links leading to the
National Library of Australia."
Site contents:
RSPAS Electronic Journals & Newsletters (Asian Studies WWW Monitor,
Pacific Studies WWW Monitor, RSPAS Print News); Online Research Tools
(Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, Demography & Population
Studies WWW VL, Indonesia WWW VL, Pacific Studies WWW VL, Papua New
Guinea WWW VL, Vietnam WWW VL, Coombspapers Anon. FTP Archive,
Coombsweb Electronic Mailing Lists); Hosted Web Sites (The AnthroGlobe
Bibliographies, Asian Studies Association of Australia); Links to other
RSPAS/RSSS websites.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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