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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
10 Sep 2003
Digital Books Index
Digital Books Index, Westport, CT, USA
Supplied note: "A fairly new site, Digital Books Index, which is free to users
but commercially run (that is, there are links both to free
texts and to Palm, MSReader, and other fee-to-read etexts), is
attempting to round up such online resources. Besides the
Gutenberg Project, academic etext/facsimile collections indexed
so far: California (SunSite), Duke, MIT (Internet Classics),
Virginia, Michigan (HTI), North Carolina, Oregon, Rochester
(Camelot), Tufts (Perseus), Cornell, and Yale, also the National
Academy Press and Library of Congress; Brock, McMaster, Toronto,
York, and Creighton in Canada; Bristol in the UK and the British
Library; Trinity College Dublin; Adelaide and Sydney in
Australia; also 200 university presses. Bartleby, Bibliomania,
NetLibrary, and several book publishers are also indexed - am."
[The site offers simple, swift and * direct* access to online digital books.
Extensive subject headings used to classify more than 73,000 titles records include:
Anthropology, Ethnology;
Archaeology;
Bibliography: Collections, Catalogues;
Bibliography: Subjects;
History & Area Studies: Asia & Central Asia,
China,
India,
Middle-East;
History: Discovery, Exploration: Middle East, Asia & Pacific
History: Economic;
Human Rights;
Islam (History, Religion, Culture);
Judaica (Jewish History, Religion, Culture);
Literature & Texts: Persian / Arabian, Indian;
Reference;
Religion, Culture, History: Islam, Judaica, Buddhism;
Religion: Hinduism, Shinto & Japanese Spiritual Practices, Taoism / Daoism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, Jainism, Bahaism;
Travel: Europe & Mid-East, Asia & Pacific;
Womens Studies, History & Issues - ed.]
URL http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.digitalbookindex.com
Link reported by: Al Magary (al[use"@"]magary.com), forwarded by h-travel[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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 300
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