15 Feb 2006

Acronyms used by Asian / Pacific Studies' scholars: a dictionary
RSPAS, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description: "This document [first published in Aug 2004, with 300 entries - ed.] lists acronyms, names and web addresses of over 1,040 leading associations, institutes, networks, NGOs, organisations, periodicals, programs, and research projects of relevance to Asian & Pacific Studies. [...] You are cordially invited to send addenda and corrections to this list [...which is] a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html)."
Site contents: [File structure:] *Acronym, * Entity [and its URL], * A Part Of, * Country. The recorded entries range from 'AABC' (Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Australia), to 'IAUNRC' (Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, US), to 'LTWA' (Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, India), to 'PRDLA' (Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance, Hong Kong), to 'SAALG' (South Asia Archive & Library Group, UK), to 'ZMO' (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany).
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ACR/Acronyms.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/ACR/Acronyms.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* 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]: under 300