21 Oct 2002

Mapping Asia
Mapping Asia Consortium, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, UK
Self-description: "Mapping Asia [est. mid-2001] is a tool to improve access to UK library holdings for researchers working in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Mapping Asia provides: * Collection descriptions of resources held in university, special and public libraries; * Access to holdings of newspapers in any language published in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa; * Information on the range of linguistic expertise in Asian languages available across the UK."
Site contents: Background [dead link on 21 Oct 02 - ed.], Collections [dead link on 21 Oct 02 - ed.]; Asian Newspapers database [of catalogue records, excluding catalogues of the British Library Newspaper Library www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html - ed.]; Language Skills [under construction on 21 Oct 02 - ed.], Links (Electronic newspaper portals - Asia: General, East Asia, Near & Middle East and North Africa; UK library groups ; Research Support Library Programme - RSLP projects); Contributors [access via password]; Countries covered [dead link on 21 Oct 02 - ed.].
URL http://www.asiamap.ac.uk
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Phoebe Harkins (p.harkins@wellcome.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30