25 Sep 2001

The Online Burma Library (OBL)
Burma Project, The Open Society Institute and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Supplied note: "An online database with classified and annotated links to thousands of full-text documents on Burma is now, at last, up and running. [...] OBL "is an evolving project designed to make full texts of Burma documents accessible online to Burmese and non-Burmese researchers, academics, educators, students, journalists, officials, diplomats, activists, colonels et al. It functions as a linked, annotated catalogue to much of the Burma material already on the Internet and will eventually house a number of archives (in addition to the Burma Press Summary which is already on the site) and directories such as the Burma Action Database (formerly Burma Action Directory)."
Site contents: Main Library (by subject):(Aung San Suu Kyi, Civil war, History, the Environment, Political parties, Internal displacement, Human rights, the Burmese military, Ethnic groups in Burma, the United Nations and Burma, the Economy, 30 other categories); Reading Room (by source): (Burma Community homepages, directories, general information on Burma, portals, breaking, current and archived news, multilingual resources, profiles, maps, discussion groups, electronic newspapers etc.); Alphabetical list of subjects; Burma Press Summary.
URL http://www.burmalibrary.org
Link reported by: David Arnott (darnott@iprolink.ch), forwarded by Geoff Wade (gwade@hkucc.hku.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* 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