THE ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR    ISSN 1329-9778 URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Edited by: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek "The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. This timely, reliable and impartial information is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. Daily contents" summaries and evaluations published in this web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. SUBSCRIBE to the MONITOR ! 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To input new material use Announce New/Improved Web Sites page. THIS ISSUE Entries accepted for publication: 6 Entries rejected: 15 The email edition of this Journal has now over 8,360 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts. Mailing list admin. page. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database Google Search past issues of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor Search WWW Search The Monitor Coverage: 2000-2008. Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. Asian Studies WWW Monitor friends, sceptics and undecideds, I will be away from my office, and indeed from Canberra, burning bright with 'wanderlust' from today till late October 2009. The MONITOR's operation will be reassumed on my return to work. Meanwhile, do not hesitate to send me further news of various valuable Asian Studies' web/email resources that you would like to commend to the MONITOR's attention. - with best regards and wishes of deeply-rooted yet sustainable contentment, T. Matthew Ciolek, 11 September 2009. 11 Sep 2009 China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) Zhejiang University Libraries, Hangzhou, China. Self-description: "The objective of this [2004 - ed.] project is to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet. This task is accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text. The text file is created, where possible, through optical character recognition. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7x365, without regard to nationality or socioeconomic background. Typical large high-school libraries house fewer than 30,000 volumes. One million volumes is the approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon University. The total number of different titles indexed in OCLC's WorldCat is about 48 million. One million books, therefore, is more than the holdings of any high-school, equivalent to the library at a substantial university and a significant fraction of all available books. [...] National Science Foundation is providing funding for Scanners, Computers, Servers, and Software. These resources from NSF are augmented by almost twenty to one since China and India will be providing the necessary manpower (2,000 man years each, over a four year period)." Site contents: * Vision; * Current Status (Processing); * Technical Details (Data Production, Metadata, Database Creation, Specifications of Transferring Resource, Sample); * Content Selection; * People; * Partners; * Funding Sources; * CopyRt Disclaimer; * FAQ; * Contact Us; * Jobs; * Content (#Services, #Help, #About CADAL, #Login, #Mode; Search, Browse. #Searches: Quick, Advanced, Image, Video, Calligraphy. #Book Types: Ancient, Minguo, Journal, Modern, Dissertation, Painting, Video, English. CADAL Center, #CALIS (China Academic Library & information System), #Zhejiang University DCD Laboratory, #CADAL Team). [A bi-lingual (EN, CN) site. The search box on the site is extremely slow, hence it is not clear whether it at present (Sep 2009) delivers links to freely accessible online books - ed.] URL http://www.cadal.cn/enc/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: tmciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ possibly Study (e.g. full text books) * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * 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 11 Sep 2009 China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL) Zhejiang University Libraries, Hangzhou, China. Self-description: "The objective of this [2004 - ed.] project is to create a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet. This task is accomplished by scanning the books and indexing their full text. The text file is created, where possible, through optical character recognition. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7x365, without regard to nationality or socioeconomic background. Typical large high-school libraries house fewer than 30,000 volumes. One million volumes is the approximate size of the combined libraries at Carnegie Mellon University. The total number of different titles indexed in OCLC's WorldCat is about 48 million. One million books, therefore, is more than the holdings of any high-school, equivalent to the library at a substantial university and a significant fraction of all available books. [...] National Science Foundation is providing funding for Scanners, Computers, Servers, and Software. These resources from NSF are augmented by almost twenty to one since China and India will be providing the necessary manpower (2,000 man years each, over a four year period)." Site contents: * Vision; * Current Status (Processing); * Technical Details (Data Production, Metadata, Database Creation, Specifications of Transferring Resource, Sample); * Content Selection; * People; * Partners; * Funding Sources; * CopyRt Disclaimer; * FAQ; * Contact Us; * Jobs; * Content (#Services, #Help, #About CADAL, #Login, #Mode; Search, Browse. #Searches: Quick, Advanced, Image, Video, Calligraphy. #Book Types: Ancient, Minguo, Journal, Modern, Dissertation, Painting, Video, English. CADAL Center, #CALIS (China Academic Library & information System), #Zhejiang University DCD Laboratory, #CADAL Team). [A bi-lingual (EN, CN) site. The search box on the site is extremely slow, hence it is not clear whether it at present (Sep 2009) delivers links to freely accessible online books - ed.] URL http://www.cadal.cn/enc/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: tmciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ possibly Study (e.g. full text books) * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * 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 08 Sep 2009 East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia (EALRGA) East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia (EALRGA), Canberra, Australia. Self-description: "EALRGA East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia incorporating JALRGA the Japanese Library Resources Group of Australia [...] Since 2005 the EALRGA Newsletter [ISSN 1832-7648] is published on this web site on an open access basis. Back issues are available in hard copy. Please contact Ms Wan Wong, the EALRGA Treasurer, by email wwong--at--nla.gov.au concerning purchase of individual issues in print." Site contents: * EALRGA Committee; * Membership Information; * EALRGA Electronic Forum; * EALRGA Newsletter current issue: No. 54 (July 2009) # A message from the EALRGA Newsletter Editor by Bick-har Yeung. # Asian Treasures from Religious Collectors by Andrew Gosling. # Providing a Reference Service in Chinese Studies at Monash University Library by Dennis Kishere. # Online Anywhere in Australia: Using the NLA's Chinese e-Resources by Dipin Ouyang. # Online Chinese Yearbooks: A New Tool for Chinese Studies by Wayne Tian. # The Asian Languages Collection at Curtin University Library by David Wells. # Chinese Language Electronic Databases to which Australian Research Libraries Subscribe by Bick-har Yeung. Conference Reports: # A Report on the Library Panel at the JSAA biennial conference in Sydney, 13-16 July 2009 by Michelle Hall and Mayumi Shinozaki. # Conference Report: the Joint Conference of JSAA and ICJLE in Sydney, 13-17 July, 2009 by Ayako Hatta. # Conference Report: Library Session at the 6th Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference by Jung Sim Kim. # 2009 Melbourne Conference on China: 60 Years of the People's Republic - Transformations and Challenges by Yangzi Sima. Library News: # News from the Asian Studies Research Collection Monash University Library by Aline Scott-Maxwell. # "J. M. (Jack) Braga (1897-1988), Macau, and the Braga Collection in the National Library of Australia" by Andrew Gosling. # A Message to EALRGA Members from Hana Kim by Hana Kim. # Brief news from East Asian Collection, University of Sydney Library by Nancy Li. # News from the East Asian Collection, the University of Melbourne Library by Bick-har Yeung. # Upcoming Conferences and Workshops. * EALRGA Newsletter Archive (Previous Issues; No. 53 (Dec 2008), No. 52 (Dec 2007), No. 51 (July 2007), No. 50 (Dec 2006), No. 49 (June 2006), No. 48 (Dec 2005), No. 47 (June 2005), No. 46 (Jan 2004), No. 45 (May 2002), No. 44 (Nov 2001), No. 43 (May 2001), No. 42 (Oct 2000), No. 41 (May 2000), No. 40 (Nov 1999), No. 39 (May 1999), No. 38 (Nov 1998), No. 37 (July 1998), No. 36 (Mar 1998), No. 35 (Nov 1997), No. 34 (July 1997), No. 33 (Mar 1997), 1995 and 1996 newsletters); * Links to Related Sites (Other library associations with an interest in East Asia, Useful sites, Asian Studies Associations, Related WWW Virtual Library Projects). URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/index.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/index.html Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (andrewgosling--at--netspeed.com.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study/Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * 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 07 Sep 2009 The Berzin Archives - The Buddhist Archives of Dr. Alexander Berzin www.berzinarchives.com, Berlin, Germany. Self-description: "The Berzin Archives is a collection of translations and teachings by Dr. Alexander Berzin [B.A. degree in 1965 from the Department of Oriental Studies, Rutgers University in conjunction with Princeton University; M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1972 from the Departments of Far Eastern Languages (Chinese) and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University. - ed.] primarily on the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Covering the areas of sutra, tantra, Kalachakra, dzogchen, and mahamudra meditation, the Archives presents material from all five Tibetan traditions: Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, and Bon, as well as comparisons with Theravada Buddhism and Islam. Also featured are Tibetan astrology and medicine, Shambhala, and Buddhist history." Site contents: * Approaching Buddhism (Spiritual Teachers, Introduction to Buddhism, Buddhism in the World Today, Modern Adaptation of Buddhism); * Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism (Level 1: Getting Started, Level 2: Lam-rim (Graded Stage) Material, Level 3: Lojong (Mind Training) Material, Level 4: Deepening the Understanding of the Path, Level 5: Analysis of the Mind and Reality, Level 6: Major Indian Mahayana Texts); * Advanced Meditation (Tantra Teachings, Kalachakra, Dzogchen, Mahamudra); * Daily Practice (Vows and Commitments, Prayers and Tantra Practices); * Historical, Cultural, and Comparative Studies, (History of Buddhism and Bon Comparison of Buddhist Traditions, Buddhism and Islam, Asian Non-Buddhist Traditions, Tibetan Astrology and Medicine); * eBooks (Published Books, Unpublished Manuscripts, Bibliographies); * Audio (Weekly Courses, Approaching Buddhism, Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, Advanced Meditation, Daily Practice, Historical, Cultural, and Comparative Studies); * Author (Short Biography of Alexander Berzin, Becoming Involved with Buddhism, Published Works of Dr. Berzin, Dr. Berzin's Teaching Schedule); * About Us (Message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Message from Ling Rinpoche, Message from Tsenzhab Serkong Tulku, About the Berzin Archives, Berzin Archives Team, Acknowledgments, Accessibility); * News (New Material, Work in Progress, Dr. Berzin's Teaching Schedule); * Help Us (Appeal for Support, Donations, Urgent Needs, Practical Help, Remaining Work); * Glossary (Glossary English Terms, Glossary Tibetan Terms, Glossary Mahamudra Tibetan Terms, Glossary Astro Tibetan Terms); * Miscellaneous * Search. [A site in English. Also available in German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese and Russian - ed.] URL http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/index.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/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]: Other * 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 3,000 04 Sep 2008 Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales - Issue Aug 2009 www.transoxiana.org, Buenos Aires, Argentina Supplied note: "Transoxiana 14 - Agosto 2009 * Editorial - Paola Raffetta * Memorias del Periodo Colonial en Memorias Perdidas 2009 y Hanbando - Maria del Pilar alvarez (IIGG, UBA, Buenos Aires) * Iranian Elements in Kasmir and Tibet: Sasanian and Sogdian Borrowings in Kashmiri and Tibetan Art - Matteo Compareti (Venezia) * Dioses, Heroes y Chamanes Eelida Herrera (Buenos Aires) * Cazadores, Guerreros y Soldados: Los paradigmas miticos detras de una guerra - Ana Silvia Karacic (USAL, Buenos Aires) * Paulo sob investigacao: A historia da pesquisa e as questoes atuais - Brian Gordon Lutalo Drumond Kibuuka (Wittenberg) * Augustos y Soberanos: Ideal de Sociedad y Civilizacion en la China Arcaica - Julio Lopez Saco (UCV, Caracas) * Tongwancheng, the city of Southern Huns - Borbala Obrusanszky (Research Group on Hungarian Ancestral History) * On the Origin of One Dynasty of the Ancient Chach - Erbulat A. Smagulov (Almaty), Sergey V. Demidenko (Moscu), Aisulu A. Erzhigitova (Shymkent). * Early Turks: Male Costume in the Chinese Art Second half of the 6th - first half of the 8th cc. (Images of 'Others') - Sergey A. Yatsenko (Moscu) Discusion * Some Notes on Ancient and Medieval History of Chach - Shamsiddin Kamoliddin (Tashkent) Resenas de libros * Doi, Mary Masayo. Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan. - Por Matthew J. Forss (Goddard College, Plainfield, VT) * Marcelo Gullo. Revista de libros: "La insubordinacion fundante. Breve historia de la construccion del poder de las naciones". - Por Mariela Szirko (Buenos Aires) - pr." Site contents: * Current Issue; * Past Issues; * Reviews; * Permanent Call for Papers; * Webfestschrift Series 2004 - Webfestschrift Scarcia: L'Onagro Maestro Miscellanea di fuochi accesi per Gianroberto Scarcia in occasione del suo LXX sade - P. Raffetta, Ed., 2003 - Webfestschrift Marshak: Eran ud Aneran Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday - Compareti, Raffetta, Scarcia, Eds.); * Links (Sources, E-Journals, E-Libraries, E-Texts, Casas de Estudio, Eurasia y Asia Central, India, Iran, Antiguedad, Zoroastrismo, Anatolia, Egipto, Revistas electronicas sobre Egipto Varios); * RSS feed [www.transoxiana.org/rss-feed.xml] ['Transoxiana: Journal Libre de Estudios Orientales' is a free e-journal in English, Spanish, and Russian (est. 2000, ISSN 1666-7050) published in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact 'Transoxiana' by email at editor--at--transoxiana.org - ed.] URL http://www.transoxiana.org Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.transoxiana.org Link reported by: Paola Raffetta (editor--at--transoxiana.org) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * 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 3,000 [in fact: 1,440] 01 Sep 2008 Epigraphia Indica / Carnatica / Birmanica / Moslemica - free e-books The Universal Library Project, The Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, US Supplied note: "[...] I would like to suggest a report on www.archive.org This site [i.e. The Universal Library, with 31,382 items in early Sep 2009 - ed.] while heavily dominated by Western popular culture, but it also contains gems like an uploaded set of much of _Epigraphia Indica_ which seems to have been scanned and put up by Dr Z.A. Desai, a retired Director of the Archaeological Survey of India. - sg." Site contents: * Epigraphia Birmanica - Umya - Downloads: 167. * Epigraphia Indica - Downloads: 1,821. * Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 16 - Nilakanta Sastri - Downloads: 690. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 5 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 1,356. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 7 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 368. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 9 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 820. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 10 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,047. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 11 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,169. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 13 - Dasia, Z.A [sic] - Downloads: 1,264. * Epigraphia Indo - Moslemica - G.Yazdani - Downloads: 231. * Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 3 - B. Lewis Rice - Downloads: 418. * Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 215. * Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 - Desai, Z.A - Downloads: 231. URL http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=epigraphia ["About the Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections. "] Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - as above. Link reported by: Sumit Guha (sguha--at--history.rutgers.edu) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 30 Copyright (c) 2009 by T. Matthew Ciolek 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