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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Jan 2001
Vol. 8, No. 3 (135)

31 Jan 2001

Terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below]."
[An analysis of statistical tables with details of 38,753 terrorist incidents which took place between 1988-1998 - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper192.htm
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

30 Jan 2001

The Times of Central Asia (TCA)
The Times of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Supplied note: "An independent weekly newspaper published in Bishkek with a daily online edition covering economic, political and financial events and analysis in Central Asia. [...] TCA also consolidate news from our web sites and publish a comprehensive media review of various newspaper published in central Asia translating from local languages into English."
URL http://www.times.kg
Link reported by: Giorgio Fiacconi (gigio@elcat.kg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

30 Jan 2001

Asia Pacific Consensus Forecasts
Consensus Economics, London, UK
Supplied note: "Consensus Economics is the world's leading international economic survey organisation and polls over 400 economists each month for their views and forecasts. Our simultaneous monthly surveys cover forecasts for the principle macro and a few micro-economic variables for over 70 countries as well as topical issues of interest."
[A commercial site. Information is published (and sold) in PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.consensuseconomics.com
Link reported by: Che-Wing Pang (editor@consensuseconomics.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

30 Jan 2001

Asian Studies WWW Monitor Database
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Site contents: An updated edition of a full-text database [currently 3268 records] accessing seven years (1994 - 2000) of archived issues of the AS WWW Monitor. The Monitor systematically tracks, annotates and evaluates world-wide online developments in Asian Studies.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

30 Jan 2001

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)
California Digital Library, University of California, CA, USA
Self-description: "[A] digital 'thematic collection' within the CDL's OAC [California Digital Library's (CDL) Online Archive of California (OAC) - ed.] documenting the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps. Curators from the eight participating OAC members selected a broad range of primary sources to be digitized, including: photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories. Over 10,000 digital images have been created complimented by 20,000 pages of electronic transcriptions of document and oral histories. Access to the digital content will be provided through USMARC catalog records in MELVYL (the UC online union catalog) and by Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids in the OAC. Electronic texts have been marked up according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard."
Site contents: About Japanese American Relocation; Project Info; Collection Guides (Repository Information for: U. of California, Berkeley, U. of California, Los Angeles, U. of the Pacific, Japanese American National Museum, California State U. at Fullerton, California Historical Society, California State Archives, U. of Southern California); Oral Histories, Search).
URL http://jarda.cdlib.org/
Link suggested by: Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

29 Jan 2001

HKUST Library Pinyin Conversion Project
University Library, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, HK, China.
Supplied note: "The HKUST Library has recently completed all phases of its Pinyin Conversion Project. The full description of the Project inluding computer programs used in phase II which convert personal name headings in bibliographic records is now accessible on our Library Web server [at URL below]: We continue to make available all the programs that we have developed for our conversion project at the above site."
Site contents: HKUST Library Conversion Project (Background and Project Plan, Phase I: Conversion of Bibliographic Records, Phase II: Conversion of Personal Name Headings in Bibliographic Records, Phase III: Conversion of Authority Records); Software (Program documentation, Copyright and License, Download [2.0 MB, requires Windows 95/98/NT/2000]).
URL http://library.ust.hk/pinyin/
Link suggested by: Louisa Kwok (lblouisa@ust.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

29 Jan 2001

National Conference on Asian Pacific American Librarians
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Supplied note: "The first ever National Conference on Asian Pacific American Librarians will be held on Jun 13-15, 2001 in San Francisco."
URL http://bioac.uky.edu/ncapal/
Link reported by: Liz Bryson (bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu), forwarded by Arlene Cohen (acohen@uog9.uog.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Jan 2001

South and South East Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA)
ABIA, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "The Annual Bibliography on Indian Archaeology (ABIA) was initiated [...] in 1928. The new [computerised] ABIA, renamed South and South East Asian Art and Archaeology Index, [...] commenced in 1997."
[The database uses a very confusing and non-intuitive interface - ed.]
URL http://www.abia.net
Link reported by: Janaki Fernando (natliob@slt.lk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

25 Jan 2001

TerraNet, Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "TerraNet: Indonesian Portal on Environment and Sustainable Development."
URL http://www.terranet.or.id
Link reported by: Sherry Suryantie (ssuryantie@lead.or.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Jan 2001

Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies (MIALS)
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Supplied note: "This site lists [...s]tudy programs, profiles and research interests of adjunct members and staff at MIALS [est. 1998 - ed.], and theses titles on Asia kept at the University of Melbourne."
[The two online databases: 'MIALS Research' and 'Asian Theses' are valuable tools indeed - ed.]
URL http://www.mials.unimelb.edu.au
Link reported by: Janie Fung (janie@unimelb.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Jan 2001

Coombsweb: Asian Studies Server - the 7th Anniversary
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "7 years of operations. Over 21,400,000 page views since th[e] site was launched. 'The pioneer site for Asia-Pacific research and electronic publishing.' At the time of its launch (25 Jan 1994) it was the 2nd WWW site at the ANU, 5th WWW site in Australia and the 850th WWW site in the world. Currently the Internet comprises over 22 million Web servers.[...] On 15 Dec 2000 Coombsweb attracted 28,905 external linkages. This is 23.1% of hypertext links leading to the ANU as a whole, and over 187% of the volume of links leading to the National Library of Australia."
Site contents: RSPAS Electronic Journals & Newsletters (Asian Studies WWW Monitor, Pacific Studies WWW Monitor, RSPAS Print News); Online Research Tools (Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, Demography & Population Studies WWW VL, Indonesia WWW VL, Pacific Studies WWW VL, Papua New Guinea WWW VL, Vietnam WWW VL, Coombspapers Anon. FTP Archive, Coombsweb Electronic Mailing Lists); Hosted Web Sites (The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies, Asian Studies Association of Australia); Links to other RSPAS/RSSS websites.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

25 Jan 2001

World Employment Report 2001
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland
Self-description: 'The World Employment Report 2001: Life at Work in the Information Economy' finds "that at the end of 2000 some 160 million workers are unemployed, most of them first-time jobseekers. [...]. Of these 160 million unemployed workers, about 50 million are in the industrialized countries [...]. In addition about 500 million workers are unable to earn enough to keep their families above the US$ 1 a day poverty line. These are almost entirely in the developing world [...] Over the next ten years, although the growth rate of the world's labour force will slow down, there will be still some 460 million new, young jobseekers. Only 3 per cent of them will be in all parts of Europe and North America. Two-thirds will be in Asia [...]."
[An annex to the Report lists statistics on (a) Information technology indicators (Internet hosts, Internet users, Estimated PCs, Main telephone lines, Mobile cellular subscribers, Digital cellular subscribers, Television receivers, Cable TV subscribers); (b) Labour force participation rate; (c) Employment to population ratio; (d) Unemployment rate, in all countries of the world including those in Eastern Asia, South-central Asia, South-eastern Asia, Pacific Melanesia, Other Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the years 1990, 1995, and 1999 - ed.]
URL http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/wer/index2.htm
Link reported by: Andy Carvin (acarvin@benton.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

24 Jan 2001

Tibet University, Lhasa
Tibet University, Lhasa, Tibet, People's Republic of China
Self-description: "Tibet University (TU) [...] was established in July 1985 based on the former Tibet Teachers college. [...] TU is famous throghout China and abroad because of its unique location and special cultural characteristics. TU presently offers degrees in seven major areas of study; Tibetan Language; Chinese and English; Politics and History; Mathematics and Physics; Chemistry, Biology and geograghy; Tibetan Art and Music; Economics Management. There are a total of 19 subjects, 2 of which students can obtain Masters Degrees, and 10 of which they can obtain Bachelor Degrees. There are currently 1400 students enrolled at TU. [...] The Tibetan language education program is highly supported by the University's leadership. TU boasts a staff of 320 full-time teachers, 35 vice-professors and approximately 170 lectures. Since 1952, nearly 10,000 men and women, in various areas of specialty, have been trained for service in the Tibet Autonomous Region. [... TU's research is conducted at:] 'The story of king Gesa' Research section, The cosmic Rays Research section, The Population Research Section, China-Korea Tibetan Cultural Arts Research Section."
[A site with Chinese pages starting at www.utibet.edu.cn, one page in English (see excerpts cited above), and one Tibetan page apparently under construction - ed.]
URL http://www.utibet.edu.cn/introduc.htm
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

24 Jan 2001

Tibet Information Network (TIN)
Tibet Information Network, London, UK
Self-description: "An independent news and research service reporting on Tibet today."
Site contents: Reports [and annotated photographs - ed.] from Tibet: (Culture, Economy, Education, Environment, Outside Tibet, Patriotic Education, Policies and Leaders, Prisoners and Protest, Religion, Tourism, Women); News updates [35-40 a year, with online editions since Jan 1997, also available for free via email - ed.]; TIN publications [incl. 37 TIN Background Briefing Papers published since 1988 - ed.], About TIN/Contact; Tibet File (Selected books on Tibet, Travel to Tibet, Chronology, Glossaries, Population statistics (for Tibetan counties in the Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan); Tibetan counties & prefectures [their lists, maps]; Images from Tibet); Search; External Links (Aid and Development Agencies, Media Sites, China Related Sites, Images and Film, Tibet Related Sites, Books, Human Rights, Travel & maps, Libraries and Academic Sites).
Supplied note: "Those of you who speak/read Tibetan and/or Chinese, might like to know that Tibet Information Network (TIN) has for some time been providing summaries of selected TIN News Updates on our website, [see the URL below], translated into both Tibetan and Chinese. No special software is needed to read this material. [...] The most recent material to appear has been translations into Tibetan and Chinese of sections of our latest research publication 'China's Great Leap West.'"
[A superbly organized and designed online research tool - ed.]
URL http://www.tibetinfo.net/
Link reported by: Richard Oppenheimer (tin@tibetinfo.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

23 Jan 2001

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (JAIS)
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Self-description: "The Journal [... ISSN: 0806-198X] has been established to promote the study of Arabic language and literature and Islamic civilization through the publication of research articles, review articles, and occasional communications and shorter reviews. [...it is] a publication of the Section of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Bergen, in cooperation with the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Charles University, Prague [with a parallel JAIS site at enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais - ed.]. It is innovative in adopting an electronic mode of publication in addition to paper publication. In most other respects, however, it functions as a traditional scholarly journal."
Volumes published so far: Vol. I 1996-97; Vol. II 1998-99; Vol. III 2000.
[A peer-reviewed journal in html and pdf formats. It created a very useful (and still evolving) reference scheme for precise identification of the whereabouts of cited information in unpaginated and losely structured electronic/web files (www.uib.no/jais/elec_cit.htm) - ed.]
URL http://www.uib.no/jais
Link reported by: Joseph Norment Bell (joseph.bell@msk.uib.no)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

23 Jan 2001

Ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir: Questions & Answers
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper184.htm
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Jan 2001

FotoAsia - Online Stock Library of Asian Images
FotoAsia Pte Ltd, Singapore
Self-description: "FotoAsia has one of the largest collections of royalty-free Asian stock photographs. With thousands of images from multicultural Singapore to cosmopolitan Hongkong to exotic Nepal, it is the ideal place for all things Asian."
[An e-commerce site. While the collection of images on sale is, currently, not very exciting, the site's interface is superbly easy to use and quick - ed.]
URL http://www.FotoAsia.com/
Link reported by: (info@fotoasia.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

22 Jan 2001

Tibetan Architecture Documentation Centre (TADC)
Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala, India
Self-description: "TADC was founded in 1991 [...] to act as a significant guiding force for disseminating information about Tibetan Architecture as a living and evolving practice. [... and as] the focal point for debate and documentation of the idiosyncrasies, styles and practices of contemporary architecture as practiced by Tibetans or in the service of the Tibetan community worldwide. [...] Structure of TADC: [...] 1. Library of Specialist Books [...] 2. Slide Library [approx 12,000 slides - ed.] 3. Documentation [...] 4. [Online] Database [...] 5. Special activities [exhibitions, seminars, conferences and workshops to promote good practice in contemporary Tibetan architecture - ed.]."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/TibPages/tib-tadc.html
Link reported by: Tenzing Lobsang (ltwa@del6.vsnl.net.in), forwarded by T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Jan 2001

Varnamala: Indian-English Poetry
www.expage.com, Bhubaneswar, Orissa,India
Self-description: "The Varnamala emerged as a non-profit literary-cultural Society in January 1988. It brought out Varnamala: A Journal of Creativity, an occasional print-medium publication in bilingual (English-Hindi) edition. Noted Indian poets writing in various major Indian languages including Indian-English have been the contributors. They include Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Sochi Rautroy, Harbhajan Singh, Vinda Karandikar, Shamser Bahadur Singh, Navakanta Barua, C.Narayana Reddy, Seshendra Sharma, Ayappa Paniker, Ramakanta Rath, Sitakant Mahapatra, Chandrakant Sheth, Vinod Kumar Shukla, Chandrakant Deotale, Jayanta Mahapatra, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Nabaneeta Devsen, Ramachandra Sharma,Nilmani Phookan, Surjit Patar, Soubhagya Kumar Misra,Tamilanban, Amitabha Dasgupta, K.Satchidanandan, Asok Vajpeyi, Bibhu Padhi and others. [...] The print-journal has taken a new avatar as a web-journal."
[The site is edited by Rajendra Kishore Panda - ed.]
URL http://www.expage.com/ineng1
Link reported by: John O. Perry (joperry2@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Jan 2001

Korean American Digital Archives (KADA)
East Asian Library, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Self-description: "[M]aterials that document the record of the Korean American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea. Over 11,000 pages of documents, 1300 photographs, and several oral history sound recordings [in mp3 format - ed.] reveal the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965."
[The KADA's database uses a counter-intuitive interface. The Archives are a part of the impressive Korean Heritage Library (KHL) (www.usc.edu/isd/locations/ssh/korean/) - ed.]
URL http://www.usc.edu/isd/locations/cst/idala/collections/collections_kada.html
Link reported by: Ken Klein (kklein@usc.edu), forwarded by Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

21 Jan 2001

Vietnam Study Tour, May-Jun 2001
The Sage Colleges/Suny, Albany, NY, USA
Self-description: "Vietnam: A Journey of Learning and Reconciliation with the Sage Colleges May 24 June 8, 2001. Second Annual Trip. A travel program led by Steven A. Leibo Ph.D. (International History) and Edward Tick Ph.D. (writer and specialist on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) [...] We will visit Vietnam's two major cities, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi, as well as numerous small villages [incl. those in the Mekong Delta - ed.] and country sites. Our journey will juxtapose sites important to the war with sites representing Vietnam's beauty and ancient civilization. We will immerse equally in our own personal and American histories and the Vietnamese culture itself."
URL http://www.sage.edu/RSC/programs/globcomm/division/activities/viettrip.html
Link reported by: Steven Leibo (sleibo@sage.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Jan 2001

Russia Online, Inc.
Russia Online, Inc., USA
Supplied note: "We supply information (books, periodicals and maps) from Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. We offer materials in Russian and other languages from the former Soviet Union, including Azeri, Tatar, Uzbek, etc."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.russia-on-line.com
Link reported by: James Beale (webmaster@russia-on-line.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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