21 Apr 2009

Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Electronic Journal - The 15th Anniversary
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies."
Supplied note:
"THE JOURNAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY - SOME VITAL STATISTICS
Months online: 180
Issues produced: 296
Reviews/Abstracts published: 5,497 (approx. 30.5 reviews/abstracts a month)
MILESTONES IN THE LIFE OF THE E-JOURNAL:
Issue # 296. April 2009 - 8,070 subscribers - The 15th Anniversary of the e-journal's launch. Google page rank no. 21 out of approx. 21,100,000 web pages dealing with 'asian studies'. Since its inception in October 2005, the blog has attracted approx. 70,000 visitors (approx. 2,250 a month).
Issue # 290. December 2008 - 7,680 subscribers, 1,720 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 274. December 2007 - 6,840 subscribers, 1,640 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 257. December 2006 - 5,910 subscribers, 745 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 243. December 2005 - 4,960 subscribers, 780 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 239. October 2005 - a blog, The Best of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor, [http://asia-www-monitor.blogspot.com/] is established.
Issue # 225. December 2004 - 4,370 subscribers, 587 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 204. December 2003 - 3,480 subscribers, 494 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 184. December 2002 - 2,375 subscribers, 474 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 171. June 2002 - 1,760 subscribers, 489 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 161. January 2002 - provided with a simplified way to subscribe to the email edition of the Monitor.
Issue # 160. December 2001 - approx. 950 subscribers, 268 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 132. December 2000 - approx. 850 subscribers, 224 external web links lead to the e-journal.
Issue # 102. December 1999 - approx. 750 subscribers.
Issue # 071. December 1998 - approx. 650 subscribers.
Issue # 052. April 1998 - approx. 580 subscribers to the email edition of the Monitor (now, in 2009, asia-www-monitor--at--anu.edu.au).
Issue # 050. April 1998 - new issues are produced once every 10-14 days.
Issue # 042. December 1997 - provided with the new name (= 'Asian Studies WWW Monitor') & ISSN (= 1329-9778).
Issue # 038. October 1997 - new issues are produced once every two weeks.
Issue # 004. January 1995 - new issues are produced once every month.
Issue # 001. April-June 1994 - new issues of 'What's New - WWW Asian Studies' are produced once every three months. - tmc"
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (matthew.ciolek--at--anu.edu.au)
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/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 3,000