21 Mar 2003

Asian Studies Search Engines
Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This document keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)."
Site contents: * Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engines: Asian Studies WWW Monitor (coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html), Pacific Studies WWW Monitor (coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html), Inbox Robot for latest news about Asia (www.inboxrobot.com), OAIster database of e-prints (oaister.umdl.umich.edu), H-Asia logs of discussions (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/), H-SEAsia logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~seasia/), H-Japan logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~japan/), H-US-Japan logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~usjp/), H-ANZAU logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~anzau/), Encyclopedia Britannica (www.britannica.com); * Simple engines: The Top Eight Databases - Google database [2 bln WWW pages, 425 mln images, 4,500 news sources and 700 mln Usenet messages] (www.google.com), Altavista (www.altavista.com), Asia Research Organization Engine (AROSE) (www.nbr.org), Excite database (www.excite.com), Fast database (www.alltheweb.com), HotBot-Lycos database (hotbot.lycos.com), The Wayback Machine (www.archive.org), WiseNut (www.wisenut.com); * Simple engines: Asia Databases - Afghanistan, Arabic, Armenia, Asia Hotels, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Hong Kong W, India, Indonesia, Islam Japan, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Middle East, Nepal Web, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, Vietnam) * Multi-threaded Engines; * Simple: Other Databases; * Using the Search Engines: Practical Knowledge; * Search Engines Registers; * Online Guides & Query Systems.
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3000