04 Mar 2009

Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database (INBUDS)
Database Center of the Japanese Association for Indian and Buddhist Studies (JAIBS), Tokyo, Japan.
Self-description:
"The Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database is an online database gathering scholarly articles published in Japan relating to Indian and Buddhist Studies. Key words from each article are input as data, making an online search possible based on either a key word or the author's name. Construction of the Database began in 1984 and continues to the present. [src: http://www.jaibs.jp/]."
Site contents:
* Search INBUDS; * About INBUDS (History, Supporting Institutions, On the Copyright, Reports of Activities, Related Articles, Asking of Contribution); * List of Recorded Media; * Update Information; * Links to PDF Data; * Links to Related Websites; * Technical Information (Data Compression, Formats, Character Code); * Manual for Gathering Data; * Downloading the Database; * [a link to] JAIBS web site [http://www.jaibs.jp/] * [a link to] the SAT Daizokyo [85 volumes of Taisho Shinsho Daizokyo - ed.] text database [http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/].
[A multi-lingual site, with contents in Japanese and navigational features in Korean, Chinese (GB), Chinese (BIG5), in English - ed.]
URL http://www.inbuds.net/eng/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.inbuds.net/eng/index.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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 1,000