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"The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1443-8976) was established 12 April 2000. It is modelled on its sister publication Asian Studies WWW Monitor which was established in April 1994. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library.
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1443-8976
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: May-Jun 2001
Vol. 2, No. 3(12)

For earlier materials browse the Past Issues - Archive
or search the Pacific Studies WWW Monitor database [forthcoming].
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 6
Entries rejected: 4

04 Jun 2001
3star
iTonga.Net: Tonga's Online Magazine
Kami Communications, ?Tonga.
Self-description: "Welcome to Tonga's First Online magazine. We recognize that the Internet has extended the reach of the media allowing us to address a virtual Tongan community that extends beyond our borders, embracing the large Tongan populations in Australia, New Zealand and the West Coast of the USA as well as the isolated Tongans in the most unexpected places."
Site content: Editorial; Glimpses; Travel News; Music; Fashion; Art; Poetic license; Lotu; Business; Profiles, Essays, Archives.
URL http://www.itonga.net/
Link reported by: Filihau ASI TALATINI (asitalatini@tongaonline.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 May 2001
5star
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ (PCANZ) Archives
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ Archives, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Supplied note: "We have just launched our Foreign Mission Archives site [at the URL below] [...] Our holdings include the NZ Presbyterian Church's work in Vanuatu from the 1860s until today. In Asia, the work was in South China (Canton) [, and India]. [...] In due course we will have included other fields of work in Indonesia and Papua/New Guinea. That is some time down the track."
Site content: INFORMATION PAGES (The Mission Organization, An Overview of the Material, The Importance of this Material, Arrangement of the Material, Researching the Original Material); SUBJECT CATEGORIES (Synod of Otago & Southland Mission Committee Papers 1867-1901, Northern Presbyterian Church Missions Committee Papers 1888-1901, Foreign Missions Committee Papers 1901-1935, Missions Committee Papers 1936-1948, Overseas Missions Committee Papers 1949-1975, Canton Villages & South China Mission Papers, Kwantung Synod Papers, Madras Indian Mission Papers, Punjab Indian Mission Papers, Kwantung Synod Papers, New Hebrides Mission Papers, NZ Chinese Mission Papers); MISSION HISTORIES (Canton Villages & South China Mission History, Madras Indian Mission History, Punjab Indian Mission History, New Hebrides Mission History, NZ Chinese Mission History); MISSION PHOTOS (Madras Indian Mission photos, NZ Chinese Mission photos, Canton Villages Mission photos, Punjab Indian Mission photos, New Hebrides Mission photos, Ts'ung Fa Hills Itineration Tour [China], A Trip to Paonta [India]); MISSION SOUND ARCHIVES [excerpts from historic Missionary addresses recorded in 1939]; IN MEMORIAM [short biographical tributes with photos: Dr Joseph Ings M.B.,Ch.B.(Edin) 18??-1906), Dr Owen L. Eaton M.B.,Ch.B. (1909-1939), Dr Alfred. T. Howie M.B.,Ch.B. (1902-1936), Mrs Flora Murray (18??-1886), Mrs Agnes Watt (1846-1894), Rev William V Milne (1877-1937), Rev Thomas Smaill (1857-1902), Dr Robert Lamb MB.,Ch.M. (1862-1907) - ed.]; SEARCH.
[The ISP who hosts the site are clumsy people who relentlessly push their e-adverts. However, if these are ignored, the reader will be greatly rewarded by the wealth of high quality materials published by the PCANZ Archives - ed.]
URL http://nzfmc.freeyellow.com
Link reported by: Yvonne Wilkie (archive@clear.net.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

08 May 2001
3star
Austrian South Pacific Society (OSPG)
Oesterreichisch Suedpazifische Gesell. (OSPG), Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, U. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Site contents: Allgemeines; Veranstaltungen; Artikel; Projekte; Novara; Wissenschaftl. Arbeiten; Bilder/Graphiken; Karten/Statistiken; Zeittafel; Sonstiges; Links.
[A site in German, English interface apparently is under construction - ed.]
URL http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/oceania.htm
Link reported by: Hermann Mueckler (hermann.mueckler@univie.ac.at)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

04 May 2001
5star
Journal of Pacific History (JPH) online
www.findarticles.com, LookSmart/Gale Group, USA
Supplied note: "The JPH and a number of other academic journals are available online at www.findarticles.com, with the advantage that they can be searched by word in all texts."
Self-description: "The [JPH] serves historians, prehistorians, anthropologists and others interested in the study of mankind in the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii and New Guinea), and is concerned generally with political, economic, religious and cultural factors affecting human presence there. It publishes articles, annotated previously unpublished manuscripts, notes on source material and comment on current affairs. It also welcomes articles on other geographical regions, such as Africa and Southeast Asia, or of a theoretical character, where these are concerned with problems of significance in the Pacific."
[Self-description by FindArticles.com: "FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals." - ed.]
URL http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2375/mag.jhtml
Link reported by: John Ballard (john.ballard@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

04 May 2001
3star
Nancy Sullivan Ltd. consulting
PO Box 404 Madang, Papua New Guinea
Supplied note: "[A] web site for an anthropologist working as a consultant in Papua New Guinea. The company works in tourism, conservation, training and workshop development, and of course anthropological research of many kinds. Nancy Sullivan has been in PNG 13 years and has a variety of employment/consulting experiences, including media production. Her cultural expertise is indigenous media production and the formation of national public culture in Melanesia. Check it out. Also on the page are links to her various general-audience articles."
URL http://www.nancysullivan.org
Link reported by: Nancy Sullivan (nsullivan@global.net.pg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 May 2001
3star
Asia-Pacific Background Briefing
Radio National, Australian Broadcacting Corporation (ABC), Sydney, Australia
Summaries and Full Transcripts (in html, RTF & Word 6.00 formats) of the ABC Radio National's weekly investigative documentaries.
Site contents [Only Pacific issues are listed here]: Fiji: Encore for a Coup (4/2/2001); Reef Rights [on the Great Barrier Reef] (26/9/1999); PNG: Stuck In The Middle With Who? (10/5/1998); Red Ships [on Chinese shipping companies] (19/4/1998); Papua New Guinea Drought (9/11/1997); Islands Of Debt (31/8/1997);
URL http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/index/default_Asia-Pacific.htm
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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