02 Dec 2009

Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations (ORASO)
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"'Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations: a quarterly scorecard (ORASO).' This document [est. Oct 2008 and edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, as a part of the 'Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library' (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)] is updated four times a year (March, June, September and December). It systematically monitors and collects information about the relative online rank (i.e. the so called 'PageRank' [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank]) of the top 30 Asian Studies' institutions, organizations, specialist information resources, and research networks indexed by the Google Search Engine [www.google.com].
The PageRank of a given web address measures the site's relative importance within the world-wide archipelago of other web sites dealing with a given topic. The lower the PageRank, the greater is the deemed importance or relevance of the indexed site."
Site contents:
[Page ranks attained over the last 18 months, i.e. September 2008 till December 2009 by]:
* Asian Studies - Clark University [www.clarku.edu/departments/asianstudies/]
* Asian Studies - Pacific University [mcel.pacificu.edu/as/home/as.html]
* Asian Studies - University of Oregon [asianstudies.uoregon.edu]
* Asian Studies - University of Waikato [www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/humanities/asian-stds]
* Asian Studies - University of Western Australia [www.asianstudies.arts.uwa.edu.au]
* Asian Studies - Area Studies in the Yahoo! Directory [dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Area_Studies/Asian_Studies]
* Asian Studies Center (ASC) - University of Pittsburgh [www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc]
* Asian Studies Center - Michigan State University [www.asianstudies.msu.edu/]
* Asian Studies Centers, Programs - Asian American Net [www.asianamerican.net/centers.html]
* Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) - University of Texas at Austin [asnic.utexas.edu]
* Asian Studies Program - La Trobe University [www.latrobe.edu.au/asianstudies]
* Asian Studies Program - University of Florida [www.clas.ufl.edu/asian]
* Asian Studies WWW Monitor e-journal [coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html]
* Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html]
* Asian Studies | The WWW Virtual Library [vlib.org/AsianStudies]
* Asian studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Studies]
* Association for Asian Studies (AAS) [www.aasianst.org]
* Chao Center for Asian Studies - Rice University [asia.rice.edu]
* Department of Asian Studies - Cornell University [lrc.cornell.edu/asian]
* Department of Asian Studies - University of British Columbia [www.asia.ubc.ca]
* Department of Asian Studies - University of North Carolina [www.unc.edu/depts/asia]
* Faculty of Asian Studies: web site 1 - Australian National University [www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies (same as asianstudies.anu.edu.au)]
* Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) - University of California [ieas.berkeley.edu]
* International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) [www.iias.nl]
* Jackson School: Student Services Office - University of Washington [jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/asianba.html]
* Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) [nias.ku.dk]
* School of Asian Studies - University of Auckland [www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/asia]
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLRankings.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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 30