05 Dec 2001

Project South Asia (PSA)
Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, MO, USA.
Self-description: "A digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan."
Site contents: About PSA; Project Director and Staff; Board of Editors; Information for Contributors, Have Suggestions?; Search; [documents archive for] - Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Drama, Economics, Folklore Studies, Geography, Health Sciences, History, International Affairs, Kashmir Studies, Languages, Law, Literature, Music, Numismatics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religions, Sociology, Women's Studies; Teaching South Asia; Maps; Images; Course Syllabi; Study Abroad; External Links; Conferences.
[An important and promising collaborative initiative, launched in Feb 2000. The website, when completed, will contain an (1) on-line historical dictionary of South Asia; (2) an encyclopedia of indexed on-line essays; (3) annotated bibliographies of works in the field and other reference materials; (4) an image bank of historical and contemporary South Asian political figures, cityscapes and landscapes, secular and religious architecture, the arts, and maps; (6) a digital archive of documents, texts, translations, and other primary sources; (7) course syllabi; (8) information about the study and teaching of South Asian languages, especially Hindi; (9) details about study and internship abroad programs in South Asia. The Project's goal is to include materials that will be of utility to a wide range of users, emphasizing those materials and resources that are not currently available on the Internet, and are not easily accessible through inter-library loan or other similar means - ed.]
URL http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia
Link reported by: Dr Karl Schmidt (schmidt-k@mail.mssc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - 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