30 Oct 2002

The Coombsweb: National Institute for Asia and the Pacific Server
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description: "Over 8 years of operations; 29,938,000 page views since this site was launched. [...] The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and electronic publishing. At the time of its launch (25 Jan 1994) Coombsweb Server was the 2nd WWW site at the ANU, the 5th site in Australia and the 850th site in the world. Currently the Internet comprises over 38 million Web servers. The Coombsweb is the world's oldest Asian Studies online research facility. Its Web pages are designed for transmission speed, not fancy looks."
Site contents: * Search; * Electronic Journals & Newsletters; (Asian Studies WWW Monitor: E-Journal [Est. Apr 1994.], Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: E-Journal [Est. Apr 2000.], RSPAS Print News: E-Journal [Est. Jun 1998.]) * Online Research Tools (Search ANU Asian Studies WWW pages [over 15,000 web documents.], Search ANU Pacific Studies WWW pages [over 9,000 web documents.], Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [Est. 24 Mar 1994.], Demography WWW Virtual Library [Est. 07 Mar 1994.], Indonesia WWW Virtual Library [Est. 03 Dec 1995.], Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library [Est. 21 Jun 1995.], Papua New Guinea WWW Virtual Library [Est. 01 Jun 1996.], Vietnam WWW Virtual Library [Est. 12 Jan 1996.], Coombspapers Anonymous FTP Archive [Est. 3 Dec 1991.], The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies [Est. 07 Dec 2000.], The Endeavour Project: a hypermedia edition of the Journals of James Cook's first Pacific voyage [Est. Apr 1999.]); * Coombsweb Scholarly Mailing Lists (Pacific-Islands-L [pacific-islands-L@coombs.anu.edu.au, est. 1994], Tibetan-Studies-L [tibetan-studies-L@coombs.anu.edu.au, est. Dec 1995]) * Links to Asian-Pacific Studies at ANU and Canberra (National Institute for Asia and the Pacific: Charter, Aims & Prospectus, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, East Asian History - International Journal, RSPAS Bookstore Online, ANU Faculty Asian Studies ANU Asia-Pacific, ANU Asian Studies in Asia Network, ANU Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, ANU Asia Pacific Press, ANU Library Asia-Pacific Cluster, ANU Library E-Prints Collection, Asian Collections - National Library of Australia, Pacific Collections - National Library of Australia, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), * Live Asia-Pacific News [newsfeeds by Moreover Technologies (www.moreover.com)] (China, Tibet, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea).
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/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
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 21,150