02 Sep 2004

Acronyms used by Asian Studies' scholars: a dictionary
RSPAS, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description: "This document compiles acronyms and names of leading institutions, organisations, networks, and research projects of relevance to Asian Studies. [...] You are cordially invited to send addenda and corrections to this list [...which forms] a part of Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html). "
Site contents: A list of over 300 acronyms and their details: *Acronym, * Entity [and its URL], * A Part Of, * Country. The entries range from 'AAI' (Asia-Australia Institute, UNSW, Australia) to 'IAUNRC' (Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana U,. US) to 'SUPRA' (Support Program for Advanced Asian Studies, NIAS, Denmark) to 'YCIAS' (Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale U., US)
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Acronyms.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract)
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
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