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31 Mar 2009

Journal of South Asia Women Studies (JSAWS)
Asiatica Association www.asiatica.org, Milano, Italy
Supplied note: "Dear Friends and Colleagues, I am happy to announce Vol. 11/1 of the [...] *Journal of South Asia Women Studies* (established in 1995) [...] In this issue: * Note from the Editor: The New Political Scenario in Nepal and in Afghanistan and The Fairy Tale of the 'Good Taliban' * Paper: 'Female Rishis and Philosophers in the Veda?', by Michael Witzel * Book Reviews - eg."
Self-description: "The purpose of the [electronic - ed.] journal is manyfold. This journal [ISSN 1084-7478] is open to all bona fide scholars in South Asia women studies. We aim to publish our work quickly and democratically. Subjects: law, civil rights, gender issues, religion, philosophy, politics, feminism and ecofeminism, classical and modern literature, poetry, dance, music, drama, language, translations, history, folklore, customs, medicine, architecture, discoveries and cultural or social products by women, etc. The journal is also a platform for dialog on interfaith issues, and for dialog on issues of importance to Asian women. We want to promote an international debate on the subject, and create a channel of communication between science and media, between scholarly production and NGOs activities, and between positive and religious thought and/or ethical thought. We want to publicize the scholarly study of women in terms of human rights. Women Studies, and particularly "Third World" Women Studies, means to be involved in ethical and social issues. Areas of study: India, Nepal, Tibet, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines. The journal includes unpublished articles, abstracts, reviews, and news (such as on published books, on papers, conferences, meetings, events, Ph.D. projects, etc.)."
URL http://www.asiatica.org/jsaws/
Link reported by: Enrica Garzilli (garzilli--at--asiatica.org)
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.asiatica.org/jsaws/
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 300

31 Mar 2009

Maharashtra District and State Gazetteers
Gazetteers Department, Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai, India.
Self-description:
"[This set of online Gazetteers] not only includes a comprehensive description of the physical and natural features of a region but also a broad narrative of the social, political, economic and cultural life of the people living in a district. The topics on physical features, material resources, history, customs and manners of the people, trade, agriculture, industries, communication [incl. information on historical roads and trade routes of the region - ed.], administrative departments, voluntary social organisations and places of interest in a district are covered. [...] Compilation and publication of the revised District Gazetteers edition was started in 1949."

Site contents [free access, online documents in PDF and html formats]:
* District Gazetteers (1 Aurangabad 1977; 2 Poona 1954; 3 Jalgaon 1962; 4 Ratnagiri 1962; 5 Satara 1963; 6 Kolaba 1964; 7 Nagpur 1966; 8 Parbhani 1967; 9 Amravati 1968; 10 Beed 1969; 11 Sangli 1969; 12 Nanded 1971; 13 Osmanabad 1972; 14 Chandrapur 1972; 15 Dhule 1974; 16 Wardha 1974; 17 Yavatmal 1974; 18 Nashik 1975; 19 Buldhana 1976; 20 Ahmednagar 1976; 21 Solapur 1977; 22 Akola 1977; 23 Kolhapur 1960; 24 Bhandara 1979; 25 Thane 1982; 26 Greater Bombay Part I 1987; 27 Greater Bombay Part II 1987; 28 Greater Bombay Part III 1987); * Gazetteers (in Marathi); * Supplements; * Source Material for a History of the Freedom movement in India; * State Gazetteers (1 Botany Part - I, Medicinal Plants 1953; 2 Botany Part - II, Timbers 1957; 3 Botany Part -III, Miscellaneous Plants 1961; 4 History Part - 1, Ancient Period 1967; 5 History Part - 3, Maratha Period 1968; 6 Maharashtra:Land and its People 1968; 7 Language and Literature 1970; 8 History Part -II, Medieval Period 1972; 9 Fauna 1974; 10 Botany and Flora of Maharashtra 1987; 11 History of Bombay: Modern Period 1987); Reprints of Gazetteers [of the British regime (1874 to 1913)] ((1-3 Gazetteer of Bombay City and Island (1909) Part I-III; 4 Ratnagiri and Sawantwadi District Gazetteer (1880); 5 Khandesh District Gazetteer (1880); 6 Thana District Gazetteer Part I (1882); 7 Thana District Gazetteer Part II (1882); 8 Thana District Gazetteer Part III (1882); 9 Nashik District Gazetteer (1883); 10 Kolaba District Gazetteer (1883); 11 Satara District Gazetteer (1884); 12 Solapur District Gazetteer (1884); 13 Poona District Gazetteer Part I (1885); 14 Poona District Gazetteer Part II (1885); 15 Poona District Gazetteer Part III (1885); 16 Kolhapur District Gazetteer (1886); 17 Ahmednagar District Gazetteer (1884); # Gazetteers of Central Provinces and Berar; 1 Wardha District Gazetteer (1906); 2 Yeotmal District Gazetteer (1908); 3 Buldhana District Gazetteer (1910); 4 Akola District Gazetteer (1910); 5 Amravati District Gazetteer (1911); 6 Nagpur District Gazetteer (1908); 7 Bhandara District Gazetteer (1908); 8 Chanda District Gazetteer (1909); # Gazetteer of The NizamÕs Dominions (Marathwada Region); 1 Aurangabad District Gazetteer (1884)); * About Department.
URL http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

30 Mar 2009

The snooping dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan movement
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Self-description:
"Computer Laboratory: Technical reports: UCAM-CL-TR-746
The snooping dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan movement
Shishir Nagaraja, Ross Anderson
March 2009, 12 pages.
Abstract:
In this note we document a case of malware-based electronic surveillance of a political organisation by the agents of a nation state. While malware attacks are not new, two aspects of this case make it worth serious study. First, it was a targeted surveillance attack designed to collect actionable intelligence for use by the police and security services of a repressive state, with potentially fatal consequences for those exposed. Second, the modus operandi combined social phishing with high-grade malware. This combination of well-written malware with well-designed email lures, which we call social malware, is devastatingly effective. Few organisations outside the defence and intelligence sector could withstand such an attack, and although this particular case involved the agents of a major power, the attack could in fact have been mounted by a capable motivated individual. This report is therefore of importance not just to companies who may attract the attention of government agencies, but to all organisations. As social-malware attacks spread, they are bound to target people such as accounts-payable and payroll staff who use computers to make payments. Prevention will be hard. The traditional defence against social malware in government agencies involves expensive and intrusive measures that range from mandatory access controls to tiresome operational security procedures. These will not be sustainable in the economy as a whole. Evolving practical low-cost defences against social-malware attacks will be a real challenge. Full text PDF (0.3 MB) http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-746.pdf."
Excerpts:
"Email attachments appear to have been the favoured strategy to deliver malicious pay-loads. This worked because the attackers took the trouble to write emails that appeared to come from fellow Tibetans and indeed from co-workers. The use of carefully-written email lures based on social context to get people to visit bogus websites has been called 'social phishing'; in this incident, such email was used to spread malware and we therefore call this strategy social malware. [...]
In this note we described how agents of the Chinese government compromised the computing infrastructure of the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They used social phishing to install rootkits on a number of machines and then downloaded sensitive data. People in Tibet may have died as a result. The compromise was detected and dealt with, but its implications are sobering. It shows how diffcult it is to defend sensitive information against an opponent who uses social engineering techniques to install malware.
[...] Although the attack we describe in this case study came from a major government, the techniques their agents used are available even to private individuals and are quite shockingly effective. In fact, neither of the two authors is confident that we could keep secrets on a network-connected machine that we used for our daily work in the face of determined interest from a capable motivated opponent. The necessary restrictions on online activity would not be consistent with effective academic work. [...]."

Site contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Attacks on the Dalai Lama's Private Office (2.1 The attack vector, 2.2 The payload, 2.3 The attackers' operational security) 3. Analysis and Countermeasures (3.1 Countermeasures for NGOs, 3.2 Countermeasures for companies); 4. Conclusions.

[See also a recent newspaper article: Christian Science Monitor, http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0329/p99s01-duts.html
Cyber spy network with global reach raises alarms. By Tom A. Peter, posted March 29, 2009.
A group of hackers based almost exclusively in China has hacked into 1,295 computers in 103 countries. Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto revealed that cyber spies infiltrated systems in foreign ministries, embassies, international organizations, [...]. Thirty percent of the targeted computers could be considered "high-value" targets. [...] - ed.]
URL http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-746.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the report was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

27 Mar 2009

Journal of Eurasian Studies (JOES)
Mikes International,The Hague, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "Today we launch a new quarterly [ISSN 1877-4199 - ed.], entitled Journal of Eurasian Studies. It is published by the Foundation Mikes International and has an international editorial board comprised of distinguished scholars and professionals from the UK to Inner Mongolia. The journal can be accessed at the following address: [at the URL below] - bo."
Self-description:
"The roots of this electronic periodical go back to a Mikes International Salon evening on October 7, 2007 in The Hague. Those present at that reunion decided to establish the GABOR BALINT DE SZENTKATOLNA SOCIETY, within the Mikes International Foundation (established in The Hague in 2001), in order to facilitate and promote the free-spirited research of the history of Hungarians, origins of the Hungarian language and related fields. The Society was named after Gabor Balint de Szentkatolna to honor the great Hungarian linguist and scholar."
Site contents:
January - March 2009 // Volume I., Issue 1. EurasianStudies_0109.pdf (4 MB) * FARKAS, Florian - Dear Reader (in English); * OBRUSANSZKY, Borbala - Gabor Balint de Szentkatolna (in English); * ALIMBAY, Nursan - Community as a Principle Organizational Form of Social Relations of Nomads (in English and in Russian); * ARADI, Eva - A Brief Introduction of a Great Explorer - Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) (in English); * BERCZI, Szaniszlo - Ancient Eurasian Heritage Preserved in Japan I. - Shrines, White Horses and Festivals; * FARKAS, Florian - Wolf Totem (in English); * MARACZ, Laszlo - Objection to the Forceful Finnization of the Ancient History and Language of the Hungarians (in English); * MARCANTONIO, Angela - Debate on the Status of the Uralic Theory: Critical Responses (in English); * OBRUSANSZKY, Borbala - Tongwancheng, the City of the Southern Huns (in English).
URL http://www.federatio.org/joes.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Borbala Obrusanszky (obori--at--monornet.hu), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

25 Mar 2009

Asian Politics and Policy (APP) journal
Center for Asian Politics and Policy (CAPP), Washington, D.C., US
Self-description:
"Asian Politics & Policy (APP) is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization, a related organization of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The journal is administered by the Center for Asian Politics and Policy (CAPP) in Washington, D.C. and is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell beginning in 2009. Asian Politics & Policy is dedicated to publishing quality articles on issues related to the domestic and international affairs of Asia. The objective of the journal is to inform readers of political dynamics and policy innovations in Asia, the growing trend of economic and political integration in East Asia, and the changing relations among Asian countries and between Asia and other parts of the world.
In addition to research articles, Asian Politics & Policy will provide book, website and blog reviews. Asian Politics & Policy is internationally oriented, with its editorial board members from prestigious universities and research institutions in China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN nations, India, Australia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The journal has its editorial offices located in China and the United States."
TOC: Vol 1, Issue 1 January 2009: Articles * William Ratliff, "In Search of a Balanced Relationship: China, Latin America and the United States" * Taku Tamaki, "An Unholy Pilgrimage? Yasukuni and the Construction of Japan's Asia Imaginary" * John Anthony Tures, "Rattling the Hesam: International Distractions from Internal Problems in Iran" * Robert Ken Arakaki, "2008 Malaysian Election: The End of Malaysia's Ethnic Nationalism?" * Ting Yan, "Political Sophistication among the Mass Publics of Confucian Asia" * Mahjoob Zweiri and Mathew Wootton, "The Durability of Managed Rivalry: Iran's Relations with Russia and the Saudi Dimension" * Ina Acharya, "Working under Monarchy: Political Leadership and Democracy in Nepal."
[The site provides information about the new journal. So far, there is no online access to the published articles and book reviews - ed.]
URL http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1943-0779
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Daniel Aldrich, Associate Editor, APP (daniel.aldrich--at--gmail.com), forwarded by Vincent K Pollard (pollard--at--hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other/Business
* 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

24 Mar 2009

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India, New Delhi, India
Self-description:
"The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), under the Ministry of Culture, is the premier organization for the archaeological researches and protection of the cultural heritage of the nation. Maintenance of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national importance is the prime concern of the ASI. Besides it regulate all archaeological activities in the country as per the provisions of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958. It also regulates Antiquities and Art Treasure Act, 1972. For the maintenance of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national importance the entire country is divided into 24 Circles. The organization has a large work force of trained archaeologists, conservators, epigraphist, architects and scientists for conducting archaeological research projects through its Circles, Museums, Excavation Branches, Prehistory Branch, Epigraphy Branches, Science Branch, Horticulture Branch, Building Survey Project, Temple Survey Projects and Underwater Archaeology Wing."
Site contents:
* ABOUT US (History, Activities, Organisation);
* MONUMENTS (World Heritage Sites, Ticketed Monuments, Alphabatical List);
* EXCAVATIONS (Excavations Sites, Branches & Circles);
* CONSERVATION & PRESERVATION (Structural Conservation, Chemical Preservation);
* EPIGRAPHICAL STUDIES (Sanskrit and Dravidian, Arabic and Persian);
* MUSEUMS (Agra, Aihole, Amravati, Badami, Bijapur, Bodhgaya, Chandragiri, Chanderi, Chennai, Deeg, Delhi, Gwalior, Halebid, Hampi, Jageshwar Kalibangan, Kangra, Khajuraho, Koch Bihar, Kochi, Konark, Kondapur, Lucknow, Lothal, Murshidabad, Nagarjunakonda, Nalanda, Old Goa, Ratnagiri, Ropar, Sarnath, Sanchi, Sri Suryapahar, Srirangapatna, Tamiluk, Thanesar, Vaishali, Vikramshila);
* LEGISLATIONS (The Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904, The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Rules, 1959, The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972, The Antiquities and Art Treasures Rules, 1973, The Treasure Trove Act, 1878 Forms - AMASR Rules, The Antiquities and Art Treasures Rules 1973);
PHOTO GALLERY (# World Heritage Monuments: Ajanta Caves, Ellora Caves, Agra - Fort, Agra - Taj Mahal, Konark - Sun Temple, Mahabalipuram, Churches of Old Goa, Khajuraho, Hampi, Fatehpur Sikri, Pattadakkal, Elephanta Caves, Great Living Chola Temples, Sanchi, Humayun's Tomb, Qutb Minar, Mahabodhi Temple, Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, Champaner, Mountain Railway of India, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. # Excavations: Sanauli, Dholavira, Bhirrana).
* PUBLICATIONS (Indian Archaeology - A Review [online, PDF format], Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India [titles only] Architectural Survey [titles only], Ancient India [titles only] , New Imperial Series [titles only], Annual Reports [titles only], Guide Books [titles only], Picture Post Cards [titles only], Cunningham's Report [titles only], Inventory of Centrally Protected Monuments [titles only], Special Publications [titles only], Epigraphical Publications [titles only], Other Publications [titles only]);
* UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY (History, Fieldwork, Training, Seminars/Conferences, Publications);
* TRAINING; * CENTRAL ANTIQUITY COLLECTION; * CENTRAL ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY; * ACTIVITIES ABROAD; * HORTICULTURE [The gardens maintained by the ASI - ed.]; * RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT; * PHOTO GALLERY; * CONTACT US; * SITE MAP; * SEARCH,. * FAQ, * RELATED LINKS.
[A bi-lingual (Hindi, English) site - ed.]
URL http://asi.nic.in/index.asp
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://asi.nic.in/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study/Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 83,200 external links]

23 Mar 2009

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [The 15th Anniversary]
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library was established at the RSPAS, ANU on 24 March 1994, i.e. it has been operating for over 37% of the Internet's history. The AS WWW V is an authoritative, continuously updated hypertext guide and access tool to 'Asian Studies' scholarly resources on the Internet. The AS WWW VL presently is (or - for a period of time - has been) edited by a world-wide distributed team of volunteer "virtual librarians". They are (in alphabetical order):
# David Arnott (darnott--at--iprolink.ch), Online Burma/Myanmar Library, Switzerland; # John Burton (john.burton--at--anu.edu.au), The Australian National University, Australia; # Tim Beal (tim.beal--at--vuw.ac.nz), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; # Eva Baloch-Kaloianov (a8805224--at--unet.univie.ac.at), Department of Chinese Studies, Vienna University, Austria; # T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au); # Eduardo Contreras (eduardoc--at--mail.utexas.edu), University of Texas, Austin, US; # Michael Cookson (michael.cookson--at--anu.edu.au), The Australian National University, Australia; # Nixi Cura (nixicura--at--yahoo.com), Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, US; # Richard B. Dasher (rdasher--at--stanford.edu), Stanford University, US; # Martin Gieselmann (martin.gieselmann--at--ccc.villa-bosch.de), University of Heidelberg, Germany; # John Goulde (goulde--at--sbc.edu), Asian Studies Program, Sweet Briar College, US; # Brian Hobbs (webmaster--at--fivedeck.com), www.fivedeck.com, US; # Moo-Young Han (myhan--at--phy.duke.edu), Duke University, US; # Irena M. Goltz (c/o tmciolek--at--ciolek.com, Australia; # Rob Hurle (rob--at--coombs.anu.edu.au), The Australian National University, Australia; # Rohan Hettiarachchi (rohan--at--tip.nl), University Hospital of Amsterdam (AMC), Netherlands; # Matthias Kaun (matthias.kaun--at--sbb.spk-berlin.de), Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, East Asia Department, Berlin, Germany; # Siu-Leung Lee (webmaster--at--asiawind.com), InTechTra/Asiawind, US; # Eleanor Lisney (elisney--at--yahoo.com), Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, US; # Hanno Lecher (contact via http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/lecher/), Leiden University, The Netherlands; # David Magier (magier--at--columbia.edu), Columbia University, US; # Rita Merkle (rmerkle--at--gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de), University of Heidelberg, Germany; # Susan MacDougall (susan.macdougall--at--alianet.alia.org.au), Canberra, Australia; # Serge Noiret (serge.noiret--at--iue.it), European University Institute, Florence, Italy; # Frank Poyas (nzvl--at--austudies.org), Australian Studies Network, USA & Australia; # Vincent K Pollard (pollard--at--hawaii.edu), Asian Studies Program, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawaii, US; # Kevin M. Roddy (kroddy--at--hawaii.edu), Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, US; # Mitch Rice (mitch--at--bloomington.in.us), Mongolia Society, US; # David Rosenberg (rosenber--at--middlebury.edu), Middlebury College, US; # Andrew Abella dela Serna (andrew--at--alleba.com), alleba.com, New York, NY, US; # Mahendra B. Shrestha (shrestha--at--catmando.com), AMAA Network Consultant, US; # Pao Saykao (drpao--at--lexicon.net), Vicnet, Australia; # Gene R. Thursby (gene.thursby--at--yahoo.com), University of Florida, US; # Katerina Teaiwa (katerina.teaiwa--at--anu.edu.au), The Australian National University, Australia; # Frank Unlandherm (unlandhe--at--columbia.edu), Columbia University, US; # Vern Weitzel (vern.weitzel--at--undp.org); # Nelson Wong (nelsonyswong--at--gmail.com), Malaysia; # Robert Y. Eng (eng--at--jasper.uor.edu), University of Redlands, CA, US.
Their self-imposed task, which has been performed flawlessly and harmoniously over the last fifteen years is to maintain accurate, comprehensive, current, and annotated catalogs of online resources selected on the strength of their reliability, authority and usefulness to inquiry and analysis regarding Asian societies, politics, economies, histories, and cultures.
In early March 2009 the The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library site had rank no 2 at www.google.com out of 21,500,000 'asian studies' pages world-wide - tmc."
Site contents:
* Asian Studies WWW VL - Asian Continent:
(Search Asian Studies WWW VL [Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engines, SIMPLE engines: The Top Eight Databases, SIMPLE engines: Asia Databases, MULTI-THREADED engines, SIMPLE engines: Other Databases, Using the Search Engines: Practical Knowledge, Search Engines Registers, Online Guides & Query Systems], Asian Studies WWW Monitor [ISSN 1329-9778, est. 21 April 1994], The Best of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor Blog, Acronyms used by Asian / Pacific Studies' scholars: a dictionary, Asia: E-Lists Register, Asia: E-Journals Register, Asia: Meta-Resources Register, Asia: Online Bookshops, Asia: Public Health VL, Asian Continent VL as a whole, Asia-Pacific Library Conferences, Asia-Pacific Live Newsfeeds at global, regional and country level, Asian/Pacific Studies Subject-Oriented Bibliographies, The AnthroGlobe Bibliographies, Asian Studies Online: a Timeline of Major Developments, Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs, Chinese and Japanese Art History VL, Chinese Cultures Abroad Directory, Political Asian & Middle Eastern Cyberspace and its Watchers: a Register, Study Abroad Asia VL);

* Asian Studies WWW VL - Regions:
(2004 Tsunami Disaster - scholarly and factual analyses, Caucasus VL, The archival site of Central Asia VL, History VL: Central Asia, South Asia VL, The archival site of South East Asia VL, South China Sea VL, East Asia VL, Middle East VL, Pacific Ocean VL);

* Asian Studies WWW VL - Individual Countries and Select Areas/Territories:
(The archival site of Afghanistan VL, History VL: Afghanistan, The archival site of Armenia VL, History VL: Armenia, The archival site of Australia VL, History VL: Australia, The archival site of Azerbaijan VL, Bahrain VL, History VL: Bahrain, Bangladesh VL, The archival site of Brunei VL, Burma/Myanmar VL, The archival site of Bhutan VL, The archival site of Cambodia VL, Chechnya VL, China VL, History VL: China, The archival site of East Timor VL, The archival site of E. Turkistan VL, Georgia VL, The archival site of Hawai'i VL, Hawai'i Politics VL, Hong Kong VL, India VL, History VL: India, Indonesia VL, History VL: Indonesia, Iran VL, History VL: Iran, Iraq VL, History VL: Iraq, Israel VL, History VL: Israel, The archival site of Palestine VL, History VL: Palestine, Japan VL, History VL: Japan, Jordan VL, History VL: Jordan, Kashmir VL, The archival site of Kazakhstan VL, North Korea VL, South Korea VL, The Korean Keyboard, Kurdistan VL, Kuwait VL, History VL: Kuwait, The archival site of Kyrgyzstan VL, Laos VL, Lebanon VL, History VL: Lebanon, Macau VL, Malaysia VL, The archival site of Maldives VL, Mongolia VL, Nepal VL, The archival site of New Zealand VL, History VL: New Zealand, N. Cyprus VL (Turkish Rep.), History VL: Cyprus, Oman VL, History VL: Oman, Pakistan VL, Papua VL (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea VL, The archival site of Philippines VL, Alleba Filipino Directory VL, History VL: Philippines, Qatar VL, History VL: Qatar, The archival site of Russian Far East VL, History VL: Russia, Saudi Arabia VL, History VL: Saudi Arabia, The archival site of Siberia VL, History VL: Russia, The archival site of Singapore VL, Sri Lanka VL, Syria VL, History VL: Syria, The archival site of Taiwan VL, The archival site of Tajikistan VL, Thailand VL, Tibet VL, Tibetan Studies Resources Blog, Turkey VL, History VL: Turkey, The archival site of Turkmenistan VL, United Arab Emirates, History VL: UAE, The archival site of Uzbekistan VL, History VL: Uzbekistan, Vietnam VL, Yemen VL, History VL: Yemen);

* About the AS WWW VL Project; * AS WWW VL Timeline; * Editors of the AS WWW VL; * Associates of the AS WWW VL; * Seven Golden Rules; * Contents' Rating; * Acknowledgements & Awards; * Register New Resources; * Send Feedback & Corrections.
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 19,600 external links]

21 Mar 2009

Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas [a documentary film]
www.creatingbuddhas.com, US
Supplied note: "Hello. My name is Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a not-for-profit documentary filmmaker. I recently created and produced a new Tibetan film about the rare tradition of fabric thangkas titled: 'Creating Buddhas: The Making and Meaning of Fabric Thangkas' - igl."
Self-description:
"Fabric thangka is a silk embroidered and appliqued art form in Tibetan Buddhism and is also known as Applique Thangka, Brocade Thangka, and Silk Thangka. [...] Trained in Dharamsala, India for nine years, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo [aka Leslie Freilich. Her richly illustrated web site, 'Silk Thangka' is at http://silkthangka.com/ - ed.] is one of the few female makers in world and one of the only fabric thangka makers in the west. This film also explores Leslie's life-changing journey of discovering fabric thangka, her apprenticeship in Dharmasala, India, the step-by-step by process of producing a fabric thangka, and the history and spiritual importance in Tibetan Buddhism. [...] 'Creating Buddhas' is a one hour not-for-profit film."
Site contents:
* About; * Trailer; * DVD; * Screenings; * Filmmaker; * Cast; * Contributors; * Acclaim.
URL http://www.creatingbuddhas.com
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost (leiden49--at--yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

19 Mar 2009

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies / Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer Suedostasienwissenschaften (ASEAS)
Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS), Vienna, Austria.
Self-description:
"[The journal, est. 2008 - ed.] is a core project of the Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS) [http://www.seas.at/] in Vienna. [...] As an interdisciplinary journal, ASEAS [ISSN 1999-2521 (Print), ISSN 1999-253X (Online)] intends to cover a variety of aspects of South-East Asia (archaeology, culture, economics, geography, linguistics, politics, society, etc.) from both historical as well as contemporary perspectives. Topics should be related to South-East Asia, but they do not need to be restricted to the geographical region, as in the case of - for example - linguistics, diaspora groups, forms of socio-cultural transfers, and so forth, where spatial and political borders of South-East Asia are crossed. ASEAS is published biannually both in print and as an online Open Access-Journal. The print version is intended for universities, research institutions, public libraries, and so forth, which wish to include ASEAS into their archives."
Site contents:
* Current Issue [ASEAS VOL 1(2) 2008]; * Previous Issues (ASEAS vol 1(1) 2008); * Submissions; * Order subscription; * Search.
URL http://www.seas.at/?page_id=98
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. In a few month time they shoul become available from the http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.seas.at/ address - ed.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

18 Mar 2009

DDBC Place [Chinese historical geography] Authority Database
Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC), Taipei, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"Information on place names from Buddhist sources with latitude and longitude. [Downloadable Google Earth files with the places' coordinates] KML [and real-time online Google maps] output."
URL http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/place/
[DDBC Place Authority Database is is still in the early phase of development. It's current interface is in a mix of Chinese and English. The site, at present, has no documentation or explanatory notes attached to it. However, even in its embroynic form it is a very impressive and very promising research tool. The author of the site, Dr Marcus Bingenheimer - MA (Sinology) and PhD (History of Religions) from Wuerzburg University and an MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya University - is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan, where he supervises various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture. - ed.]
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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 30

18 Mar 2009

DDBC Time [Chinese calendar] Authority Database
Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC), Taipei, Taiwan.
Supplied note:
"This is to announce the release of our open-source Chinese calendar database.
Computing with Chinese calendar dates, e.g. for use in web-services or for data-mining of classical texts, relies on a robust and trustworthy database. Since some of our projects in the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College were in need of dynamic conversion of Chinese calendar dates, we looked for such a database. Unfortunately, though numerous conversion tools do exist, we were unable to find an existing dataset that was both openly available and reliable, and therefore had to build our own from scratch,
The DDBC Time Authority Database is based on the Julian Day Number (JDN) format. For conversion into Western dates, we use the proleptic Gregorian calendar with the year 0. The database contains detailed Chinese calendar data from the beginning of the Qin dynasty [16th Nov. 221 BC] to the end of the Qing [18th Jan. 1912 AD - ed.]. Its major purpose is to provide complete Chinese calendar information that can be used by external services and applications. The database is made available as web-service, SQL or CSV dump and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.
Should you be interested in this please visit http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/docs/open_content/ for download and documentation.
There is also a web-based query interface that can be used as a standalone service: [at the URL below] - mb."
URL http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/time/
[The site is primarely in Chinese, with elements of it's interface expressed in English - ed.]
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Marcus Bingenheimer (m.bingenheimer--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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 30

18 Mar 2009

Centre for Eastern Studies (CES) / Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich (OSW)
Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw, Poland.
Self-description:
"The Centre for Eastern Studies (CES) was established in 1990. CES is financed from the [Polish] state budget. Its task is to monitor and analyse the political, economic and social situation in the Central and Eastern European countries, in the Balkans, in the Caucasus and in Central Asia. The main objects of CES research [are]: * the internal situations and stability of the countries in the area of CES' interests, * the systems of power, * relations between particular political centres, * foreign policies, * issues related to NATO and EU enlargement, * the ways the states of the region aspire to integrate with Western structures, * energy supply security, * existing and potential conflicts, and other issues pertaining to the security of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia."
Site contents:
* About us
* Publications (# News - daily summaries of the news from the region, # EASTWEEK - analytical newsletter on Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, and Central Asia, # Central European Weekly, # Policy Briefs, # CES Commentary, # CES Studies - large analytical studies, 6 times a year, # CES Report - annual summary of the most significant political and economic processes in the region);
* Links (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Central Europe, Transcaucasus, Central Asia, General);
* Search (simple & advanced).
URL http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/eindex.htm
[A bi-lingual (PL, EN) site - ed.]
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the existence of archived copies of the site not could not be ascertained at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Antonina Michalowska (antonina.michalowska--at--osw.waw.pl), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 1,000

17 Mar 2009

The China Beat - Blogging How the East Is Read
thechinabeat.blogspot.com, US.
Self-description:
"The China Beat [est. Jan 2008 by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine - ed.] examines media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers."
Site contents:
* Current News (China Report - News and Commentary on Current Events, A Year of Anniversaries: 2009 1919, 1949, 1979, 1989..., Global China, Tales from Taiwan); * Media Watch (China Behind the Headline, Taelspin - The China blogosphere, Watching the China Watchers, China Around the World); * Conversations (China on My Mind, China Annals); * Reviews Coming Distractions, In Case You Missed It); * Miscellaneous (The Five-List Plan, This Day in History, Frivolous Fridays, Self-Promotion Saturdays); * Archives (The 2008 Beijing Olympics, The 2008 Tibet Riots and Protests, It's Not Just 8/8/08); * Recent Comments; * Blog Archive (2009 - 68 posts), 2008 - 290 posts).
URL http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Kristina K. Troost (kktroost--at--duke.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 77,000 external links]

13 Mar 2009

Digital Edition of Samuel Beal's Translation of the Datang xiyu ji [by Xuanzang (600-664)]
Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC), Taipei, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"Digital Edition of Samuel Beal's Translation of the Datang xiyu ji, Xuanzang (600-664) (Author), Samuel Beal (1825-1899) (Translation and Annotation), Marcus Bingenheimer (Digital Edition), Digital version available since: 2002.
This version correctly cited as: Samuel Beal: "Si-yu-ki. Buddhist Records of the Western World - Translated from the Chinese of Hiuen Tsang (AD 629)." Digital Edition by Marcus Bingenheimer (Version 2.0)
This project was jointly sponsored by National Taiwan University and the Chung-hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies. It took us alomost a year to digitize Samuel Beal's translation of the Datang xiyu ji (T.2087). Because of its length and the many OCR-unfriendly diacritics the work was perhaps not the best choice to start with. Nevertheless, by now most problems with the data are solved and I can offer a no-frills HTML [the file is compressed for speedy download - ed.] file. "
Site contents:
* zipped HTML file of Beal's Xiyuji.
URL http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/~mb/tools/beal/indexBeal.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

13 Mar 2009

Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers
Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC), Taipei, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at Dharma Drum Buddhist College. The project is funded by the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
Gazetteers or local histories are a distinct genre of Chinese historiography. Usually written by scholars interested in a region, city or temple, gazetteers are compilations of a variety of texts. They are treasure houses containing topographical descriptions, biographies, poems, maps, portraits, miracle stories and much more. The aim of the project is to tap into this wealth of information in order to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history. The gazetteers collected here stem mainly from two twentieth century compilations of woodblock reprints.
# Zhongguo Fosi Shizhi Huikan. Taipei, 1980-1985. Compiled by Du Jiexiang. 110 vols
# Zhongguo fosizhi congkan. Hangzhou: Guangling shushe 2006. Compiled by Zhang Zhi. 130 vols.
Our aim is to digitize more than hundred fifty temple gazetteers until 2010 and make the image database freely available. At least ten gazetteers will be available as full text, marked up for dates, person and place names. This data, together with that from other projects is aggregated in our authority databases. Until 2011 we will continue to work on this archive in various ways. We will link its content to previous research on gazetteers, conduct bibliographical research on the edition history of the gazetteers. We also hope to collect additional material (photos, videos, travelogues etc.) to enrich the content."
Site contents:
* Browse the Gazetteers; * Gazetteers sorted by creation date; * Gazetteer Map KML [A Google Earth file with lat/long coordinates of 100 monasteries - ed.] * Temple Gazetteer Team (Marcus Bingenheimer [Tools for Buddhist Studies, List of Publications and Online Versions], Duncan Hua, April Ke, Zhimiao Lin, Chuanqin Peng, Xiuwen Wang, Erica Yu).
URL http://dev.ddbc.edu.tw/fosizhi/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Mar 2009

International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS)
ladakhstudies.org, Whitland, Carmarthenshire, UK.
Self-description:
"The functions of the International Association for Ladakh Studies [est. 1987 - ed.] are to provide contacts between all who are interested in the study of Ladakh, and to disseminate information about proposed and completed research and publications. To do this the IALS organises colloquia (usually every other year), arranges publication of the proceedings, and publishes a biannual newsletter, 'Ladakh Studies.'"
Site contents:
* Membership; * Publications (Ladakh Studies [About the journal, TOCs], IALS Colloquia Proceedings [TOCs], Other publications from IALS members, Proposed publications); * Colloquia [the 14th IALS Colloquium will take place at the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies, Choglamsar, Ladakh, from 16th to 19th July 2009 - ed.]; * News & Noticeboard; * Gallery; * Ladakh Links (Official Links, NGOs working in Ladakh, News Sources for Ladakh, Links to Himalayan Studies, Other Sites of Interest); * About the IALS; * Who's who; * Map; * Ladakh Studies Blog.
URL http://ladakhstudies.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ladakhstudies.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Online guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

09 Mar 2009

Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS)
www.ideasproject.org, Colorado Springs, CO, US
Self-description:
"The goal of the Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies [IDEAS] is to unify digitizing efforts already in progress at various campuses into a shared searchable database, open to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. IDEAS focuses on the generally underrepresented area of Asia in an attempt to make multi-media materials more widely available for specialists and non-specialists alike. The scope of the IDEAS project will allow for the continued addition of new materials over time, encouraging participation in both use as well as development of the database through faculty and staff workshops. IDEAS is the first multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, pan-Asian searchable database in the country. [...]
The IDEAS project is the result of a collaboration between Colorado College, Earlham College, Lake Forest College, and St Olaf College, [...] If you would like more information on how to become part of the IDEAS project, please contact Sarah Withee, swithee--at--coloradocollege.edu, project leader."
Site contents:
* About Us; * Teaching Resoures (incl. Bibliography of resources related to teaching with images, Using PowerPoint with ContentDM); * Copyright information; * Submit a Collection; * Submit an Image; * Image Specs; * Search (incl. Keywords Search, Collection Search [Japanese Religion Images, Asian Cultures Collection, Religious Sites in Maharashtra [2003], Asian Takeout [a multi-media database], Rinden Kanost Collection [China, 1928], Beijing 1988, ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum Project, The Streets of Singapore [2006], Festivals of the Minaksi Temple [Madurai, Tamilnad]], Advanced Search).
URL http://www.ideasproject.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

06 Mar 2009

Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO)
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
Self-description:
"JAIRO is a succeeding service of JuNii+ (test version) (Japanese) in which academic information (journal articles, theses or dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, research papers, etc.) accumulated in Japanese institutional repositories can be searched for cross-sectionally. The National Institute of Informatics (NII) collects metadata of institutional repositories, according to an application from the person in charge of the management of the institutional repository of each institution. As of October 2008, JAIRO allows about 540,000 contents in 84 institutional repositories to be searched for."
Site contents:
* Search - simple and advanced;
* Type of documents [numbers in brackets indicate the number of public access, full-text deposits]: Journal Article (165,571); Thesis or Dissertation (32,634); Departmental Bulletin Paper (230,691); Conference Paper (40,439); Presentation (1,583); Book (15,068); Technical Report (2,458); Research Paper (9,941); Article (23,596); Preprint (215); Learning Material (3,629); Data or Dataset (457); Software (8); Others (66,514);
* Participating institutions: Aichi Univ. of Education (1,002); Akita Univ. (1,209); Asahikawa Medical College (1,165); Chiba Univ. (21,781); Doshisha Univ. (10,117); Fukushima Univ. (1,938); Gunma Univ. (3,486); Hamamatsu Univ. School of Medicine (742); Hirosaki Univ. (1,198); Hiroshima Bunkyo Women's Univ. (304); Hiroshima City Univ. (200); Hiroshima Institute of Technology (183); Hiroshima International Univ. (29); Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin Univ. (79); Hiroshima Univ. (17,568); Hiroshima Univ. of Economics (914); Hitotsubashi Univ. (14,469); Hitotsubashi Univ. (Special Collections); (5,235); Hokkaido Univ. (26,024); Hokkaido Univ. of Education (782); Hosei Univ. (1,980); Hyogo Univ. of Teacher Education (1,483); Ibaraki Univ. (627); Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (646); Iwate Univ. (2,604); Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (6,367); Kagoshima Univ. (4,793); Kanagawa Institute of Technology (947); Kanazawa Univ. (14,387); Kanto Gakuin Univ. (535); Keio Univ. (12,961); Kinki Univ. (540); Kitami Institute of Technology (927); Kobe Univ. (7,060); Kochi Univ. (1,016); Kochi Univ. of Technology (290); Kokushikan Univ. (3,143); Kumamoto Univ. (5,973); Kure Univ. (122); Kwansei Gakuin Univ. (469); Kyoto Institute of Technology (603); Kyoto Univ. (42,357); Kyushu Institute of Technology (1,153); Kyushu Univ. (10,161); Meiji Univ. (1,036); Mie Univ. (6,495); Muroran Institute of Technology (355); Nagasaki Univ. (15,118); Nagoya Institute of Technology (156); Nagoya Univ. (7,603); Nara Institute of Science and Technology (3,827); Nara Univ. of Education (656); Nara Women's Univ. (422); National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya (470); National Univ. Corporation Gifu Univ. (4,473); Niigata Univ. (5,703); Ochanomizu Univ. (18,182); Oita Univ. (9,293); Okayama Univ. (9,718); Onomichi Univ. (425); Osaka Kyoiku Univ. (2,712); Osaka Univ. (11,760); Otaru Univ. of Commerce (1,902); Ritsumeikan Univ. , Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Univ. (63); Saitama Univ. (2,707); Seigakuin Univ. (133); Shimane Univ. (4,341); Shinshu Univ. (2,141); Shizuoka Univ. (2,555); The Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima College of Nursing (104); The Jikei Univ. School of Medicine (1,738); The Univ. of Tokyo (12,286); Tohoku Univ. (28,568); Tokyo Dental College (649); Tokyo Gakugei Univ. (3,877); Tokyo Institute of Technology (147,100); Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies (1,747); Tokyo Univ. of Marine Science and Technology (487); Universiry of Hiroshima Jogakuin (80); Univ. of Fukui (1,051); Univ. of Miyazaki (1,236); Univ. of Toyama (2,303); Univ. of Tsukuba (20,192); Univ. of the Ryukyus (3,962); Utsunomiya Univ. (3,266); Waseda Univ. (13,131); Yamagata Univesity (2,022); Yamaguchi Univ. (4,142); Yokohama National Univ. (3,048).
* About JAIRO.
[A bi-lingual (JP, EN) site which acts as a gateway to hitherto unidexed, or inadequately indexed Deep Web of the scholarly information in Japan. In Mar 2009 JAIRO provided access to 592,804 full text documents held by 89 organisations. - ed.]
URL http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/en/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents/Online Guide
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 8000]

05 Mar 2009

Indology: Resources for Indological Scholarship
indology.info, Cambridge, UK
Self-description:
"[Indology.info] functions as an adjunct to [the INDOLOGY discussion forum]."
Site contents:
* The INDOLOGY discussion forum [INDOLOGY--at--LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK];
* The Scope and Guidelines of the INDOLOGY list;
* SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts;
* FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about INDOLOGY;
* E-texts / Software: an archive of Indic e-texts and Indological software (Introduction, Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, Other e-text projects, including digital repositories, Individual texts presented by scholars, Tamil, Tibetan, Electronic Indological Books and Journals);
* Papers: an archive of articles, papers, and other writings pertinent to Indological studies.
* Books: an information service detailing Indological books listed by Amazon;
* Links: a list of external websites and resources of value to Indological research (Online South Asian bibliographies, Academic projects in indology, Online Dictionaries and Thesauri, General, Digital Art and Manuscript Images, Online exhibitions, Learned Societies, Institutions' home pages, Electronic Journals, Multilingual software, text processing tools, fonts, etc., Indological publishers and bookshops, Library catalogues);
* John Smith's home page : a variety of texts, fonts and programs likely to be of interest to Indologists.
[A site, formerly at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html, is edited by Dominik WUJASTYK, University of London and International Institute of Asian Studies (IAS), Leiden - ed.]
URL http://indology.info/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://indology.info/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents/Online Guide
* 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

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

03 Mar 2009

Shao Center Chinese Overseas Resources
Shao Overseas Chinese Center, Ohio University Libraries Athens, OH, US
Supplied note:
"We would like to bring to your attention several resources that have been developed or compiled by the Shao Center [i.e. at Dr. Shao You Bao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research Center at Ohio University - ed.] for both the WCILCOS website [i.e. the World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies (WCILCOS) http://www.overseaschineseconfederation.org/main/index.php] and for the Shao Center website, which we hope will aid your research and documentation work.
These databases are for public sharing, and are aimed at improving public access to resources in the field. They are collaborative projects involving the members of the community. They are currently in a beta stage, being work-in-progress and constantly having to be updated. Some might be incomplete or have duplicates, but we are working to correct and to update them.
When using some of the databases, please refer to the instructions if they are available, for more efficient usage. We are still trying to improve these resources, and hope for your comments and suggestions. They shall be duly recognized.
* Databases
Database for Publications on Overseas Chinese [http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/overseas.php]
Database on Scholars and Librarians in Chinese Overseas Studies [http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/scholar.php]
Database for Overseas Chinese Newspapers & Journals [http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/newspaper.php]
Distribution of the Ethnic Chinese Population around the World (# Search [http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/population.php] # Directory [in fact, Population Statistics - ed. http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/shao/ch_databases_popdis.html] # Map [http://cicdatabank.library.ohiou.edu/opac/population_map.php])
* Other Resources/Directories
Directory of Chinese Overseas Media (in Chinese) [at the WCILCOS website, http://www.overseaschineseconfederation.org/main/news.php]
Directory of Chinese Overseas Films [http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/shao/visual_media.html]
Directory of Chinese Overseas Syllabuses [http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/shao/syllabuses.html]
Directory of Chinese Overseas Resource websites [at the WCILCOS website, http://www.overseaschineseconfederation.org/main/sourcesonoc.php]
Directory of Databases pertaining to Chinese Overseas Studies [at the WCILCOS website, http://www.overseaschineseconfederation.org/main/databases.php]
Please feel free to let us know how these resources can be improved and expanded, or contact us if you have questions or if you think we are missing something. We also hope to collaborate on the creation of new resources of use to the community. - kwk."
[A bi-lingual (EN, CN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/shao/main.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/shao/main.html
Link reported by: Keng We Koh (koh--at--ohio.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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

02 Mar 2009

Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) Publications Program
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Self-description:
"The Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) [http://www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/] promotes and disseminates research on Japan, fosters communication among diverse disciplines, and encourages new approaches in the understanding of Japan and its place in the world. Founded in 1947, CJS is the oldest interdisciplinary center in the United States devoted exclusively to Japanese Studies. CJS is also part of The University of Michigan's East Asia U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, along with the Center for Chinese Studies and the Center for Korean Studies. [...] CJS Publications Program Founded in 1950, CJS's Publications Program publishes research on Japan. Works appear in three series (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, and Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) and as nonseries publications. [...] In addition, the Center makes books available in electronic format. In addition to having out-of-print books available online, we publish the peer-reviewed series Michigan Classics Online, and Faculty series, which contain online books and archival material edited by Center faculty members. Much of the archival material is in Japanese, and all books in English are available in searchable and downloadable formats."
Site contents:
* Monograph Series [Bibliographic details and abstracts only. The last five monographs include: 64 - A Page of Madness - Aaron Gerow; 63 - Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan - William Wayne Farris; 62 - Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way - R. Keller Kimbrough; 61 - White-haired Melody - Furui Yoshikichi. Translated by Meredith McKinney; 60 - The Bluestockings of Japan - Jan Bardsley];
* Classics Series [Bibliographic details only. The last five classics include: 25 - Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow - Ishimure Michiko, Translated with a New Introduction and Notes by Livia Monnet 24 - Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan - Irwin Scheiner; 23 - Sanshiro - Natsume Soseki, Translated and with a Critical Essay by Jay Rubin; 22 - Victors' Justice - Richard H. Minear; 21 - The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji - Norma Field];
* Papers Series [Bibliographic details only. The last five Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies include: 26 - My Life - Sumii Sue, Interviewed by Masuda Reiko. Introduction by Livia Monnet. Translated by the Ashi Translation Society; 25 - The Tale of Saigyo - Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Meredith McKinney; 24 - A Student Guide to Japanese Sources in the Humanities - Yasuko Makino and Masaei Saito; 23 - Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan - Edited by Steven D. Carter; 22 - Japanese Educational Productivity - Edited by Robert Leestma and Herbert J. Walberg];
* Nonseries Publications [Bibliographic details and abstracts only - Japan in the World, the World in Japan - Edited by the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan; Tanizaki in Western Languages - Adriana Boscaro, With a List of Films Based on Tanizaki's Works Compiled by Maria Roberta Novielli; Japan Election Data - Steven R. Reed; Supplementary Grammar Notes to An Introduction to Modern Japanese, Part 2 - Mutsuko Endo Simon; Supplementary Grammar Notes to An Introduction to Modern Japanese, Part 1 - Mutsuko Endo Simon; Windows on the Japanese Past - Edited by Richard J. Pearson, Coeditors, Gina Lee Barnes and Karl L. Hutterer; A Practical Guide for Teachers of Elementary Japanese - Mutsuko Endo Simon];
* Electronic Publications:
** Michigan Classics Online (# Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema By David Bordwell, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1988. # Concerned Theatre Japan Edited by David G. Goodman, with a new introduction by the editor. Originally published from 1969 to 1973. # The Social Democratic Movement in Prewar Japan By George O. Totten III. Originally published in 1966. # To the Distant Observer By Noel Burch, with a new introduction by Harry Harootunian. Originally published in 1979. # Japanese Cinema - Film Style and National Character By Donald Richie, with a new introduction by the author. Originally published in 1971);
** CJS Faculty Series (# Motion Pictures Reprint Series - Edited by Abe Mark Nornes);
** Out-of-Print Books Online (In Mar 2009 there were 53 items in this collection, including: ( # [1984] - The American automobile industry - rebirth or requiem? / edited by Robert E. Cole; # [1950] Bibliographic materials in the Japanese language on Far Eastern archeology and ethnology / Richard K. Beardsley, with John B. Cornell and Edward Norbeck; # [1950] A bibliography of Japanese dialects / Robert H. Brower. # [1990] The Buddhist poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess - Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu / Kamens, Edward);
* Ordering Information.
URL http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Aaron Gerow (aaron.gerow--at--yale.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
International students: ANU CRICOS Provider Number is 00120C