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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Self-description: "A little while ago eight people experienced in narcotics addiction and enforcement wonderd why over the past hundred years there has only been improvement in the availability of all kinds of drugs. Not in curbing the supply and demand. The Institute of Narcotics Studies and Analysis is the result. We take up projects, advise, survey, analyse and try to find solutions for all kinds of headaches that narcotics causes. Aims & Objects of INSA: [...] a) To act as an apolitical, independent and academic organisation for conducting studies on all aspects of the subject of narcotics. b) To conduct research on understanding impact of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances on public health. c) To promote and conduct research on the development of the current global policies concerning narcotics from a broad inter-disciplinary perspective including social, cultural and economic aspects. [...]." Site contents: * Afghanistan (# Afghanistan's Narcotics Tangle - Old sins cast long shadows - by Romesh Bhattacharji); * Tajikistan (# Tajikistan: Another Victim of Drug Trafficking - by Devendra Dutt); * The people who thought up INSA ("# Mr. Anil Sharma: A Chartered Accountant by profession, actively involved with various organisations working in social sector. # Mr. AP Kala: He is the Director General, Central Economic Intelligence Bureau, New Delhi. He was earlier Director General, Revenue Intelligence, Special Director, Directorate of Enforcement, Additional Director General of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Dy. Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau and Chief Commissioner of Customs, Mumbai Airport. # Mr. Dalbir Singh: He was earlier Additional Director General of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Dy. Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau and Chief Commissioner of Customs, Jaipur and Chairman,Customs and Central Excise Settlement Commission. # Mr. Devendera Dutt: Former Member (Customs, Narcotics and Anti-Smuggling) Central Board of Excise and Customs, Project Coordinator for UNODC Precursor Control Project for SAARC Countries, Director, Drug Advisory Programme of Colombo Plan and Deputy Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau, # Dr. Rajat Ray: He is the Head of the Deptt. of Neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Professor & Chief, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, M.D.(Psychiatry) and Member of International Narcotics Control Board, Vienna. He has co authored and written 21 books/papers on drug addiction and related matters in the last five years. # Mr. Jogendra Singh: Chairman, Customs and Central Excise Settlement Commission. Former Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau, Additional Director General, Revenue Intelligence and Chief Vigilance Officer, Central Board of Excise and Customs. # Mr. Romesh Bhattacharji: Once Narcotics Commissioner of India, Additional Director General of Revenue Intelligence and Chief Commissioner of Customs, Amritsar. # Mr. R K Tiwari: Former Member, Central Board of Excisee and Customs, Chief Commissioner of Customs, Pune, Dy. Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau and Director(Opium). Also, has been advising UNODC ROSA on number of Legal matters about narcotics. # Mr. Vijay Shankar: Member of the 'Centre State Relations Commission'. An Indian Police Service officer has served in several Intelligence Agencies and was till recently Director, Central Bureau of Investigation. People interested in joining us could address any one [above] and copy the e mail to Mr. Devendera Dutt at devendra.dutt--at--gmail.com "); * Arunachal (# Arunachal's Opium Valleys - by Romesh Bhattacharji); * Photo Albums (# Afghanistan's Narcotics Tangle - satellite pictures of opium cultivation taken in 2000 and 2001 in Nangarhar and Kandahar, Afghanistan; # Arunachal's Opium Valleys - pictures of illicit opium cultivation in Lohit and Anjaw districts of Arunachal Pradesh, India.); * Aims. [A site recently established and largely under construction - ed.] URL http://narcswalpurgis.tripod.com/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [The site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: Romesh Bhattacharji (rbhattoo--at--gmail.com) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/ Corporate Info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * 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 17 Dec 2004 The Silk Road e-journal The Silkroad Foundation, Saratoga, CA, US. Self-description: "Our journal [published by the Silkroad Foundation www.silkroadfoundation.org, Journal editor: Daniel C. Waug, University of Washington (Seattle)] is dedicated to public education about the history and cultures of Eurasia, especially in pre-modern times. While we invoke the historic "Silk Road" in our title, our view of the Silk Roads is an expansive one, encompassing pre-history, the era beginning with the establishment of trans-Eurasian trade and cultural interaction some two millennia ago, and the subsequent history of those interactions down through the centuries. Modern evocations of cultural traditions are of interest, especially in the areas which historically have been the domain of pastoral nomads. We publish articles by well known scholars and those who have other expertise on the regions and material of interest. Where possible we are communicating the results of the latest research, including new archaeological investigations. The journal also serves as the means to alert readers about upcoming programs connected with Silk Road topics." Site contents: * Current Issue! Volume 6 Number 2 Winter/Spring 2009 (# From the editor's desktop, # Korea and the Silk Roads - by Staffan Rosen, # Alexander the Great and the Emergence of the Silk Road - by Yang Juping, # Centaurs on the Silk Road: Recent Discoveries of Hellenistic Textiles in Western China - by Robert A. Jones, # Dialogue among the Civilizations: the Origin of the Three Guardian Deities' Images in Cave 285 Mogao Grottoes - by Zhang Yuanlin, # Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Possible Religious Symbolism within the Late-Song Paintings - by Lauren Arnold, # Shrine Pilgrimage among the Uighurs - by Rahilä Dawut); * Volume 6 Number 1 Summer 2008 (# From the Editor's Desktop: Museums, Entrepreneurship and the Politics of Cultural Identity, # China and Islamic Civilization: Exchange of Techniques and Scientific Ideas - by George Saliba, # Caravan Routes of Iran - by Frank Harold, with photographs by Ruth Harold, # Some Buddhist Finds from Khotan: Materials in the Collections of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg - by Julia Elikhina, # The Buddhist Monuments of Adjina-tepa - by Vera Fominikh, # Mediating the Power of the Dharma: the Mongols' Approaches to Reviving Buddhism in Mongolia - by Vesna A. Wallace, # Tricky Representations: Buddhism in the Cinema during Socialism in Mongolia - by Manduhai Buyandelger, # The Tea Horse Road - by Jeff Fuchs); * Volume 5 Number 2 Winter 2008 (# From the Editor's Desktop: Beyond the Sensational: The Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums' "Origins of the Silk Road", # The 'Silk Roads' Concept Reconsidered: About Transfers: Transportation and Transcontinental Interactions in Prehistory - by Hermann Parzinger, # The Dream and the Glory: Integral Salvage of the Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck and Its Significance - by Xu Yongjie, # The Byzantine Element in the Turkic Gold Cup with the Tiger Handle Excavated at Boma Xinjiang - by Lin Ying, # Xiongnu Elite Tomb Complexes in the Mongolian Altai: Results of the Mongol-American Hovd Archaeology Project 2007 - by Bryan K. Miller Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan Tseveendorj Egimaa and Christine Lee, # Excavation of a Xiongnu Satellite Burial - by Jessieca Jones and Veronica Joseph, # The Tahilt Region: A Preliminary Archaeological Survey of the Tahilt Surroundings to Contextualize the Tahilt Cemeteries - by James T. Williams, # Food as Culture: The Kazakh Experience - by Alma Kunanbaeva); * Volume 5 Number 1 Summer 2007 (# From the Editor's Desktop: Richthofen's "Silk Roads": Toward the Archaeology of a Concept, # Georgia: A Culinary Crossroads - by Darra Goldstein, # Food, Medicine and the Silk Roads: The Mongol-era Exchanges - by Paul D. Buell, # In Search of Mongolian Barbecue - by Debra McCown, # Investigation of a Xiongnu Royal Complex in the Tsaraam Valley. Part 2: The Inventory of Barrow No. 7 and the Chronology of the Site - by Sergei S. Miniaev and Lidiia M. Sakharovskaia, # A Chinese Inscription from a Xiongnu Elite Barrow in the Tsaraam Cemetery - by Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, # On Ancient Tracks in Eastern Anatolia - by Frank Harold, with photographs by Ruth Harold, # Dzchingis Khan und seine Erben (Chingis Khan and His Legacy) - reviewed by Florian Schwarz, # Conference Report: Marking the Centenary of Dunhuang - by Daniel Waugh, # Upcoming programs); * Volume 4 Number 2 Winter 2006 - 2007 (# From the Editor, # News from Ancient Afghanistan, # Bamiyan 2006: The Fifth Excavation Campaign of Prof. Tarzi's Mission - by Zemaryalai Tarzi, # Balkh and the Plains of Turkestan - by Frank Harold, with photographs by Ruth Harold, # Further Evidence for the Interpretation of the 'Indian Scene' in the Pre-Islamic Paintings at Afrasiab (Samarkand) - by Matteo Compareti, # Mapping Early Buddhist Sites in Western Tibet: Recent Findings from Tsamda County, China - by Karl E. Ryavec, # Han Lacquerware and the Wine Cups of Noin Ula - by Francois Louis, # Trade and Commerce on the Silk Road after the End of Mongol Rule in China, Seen from Chinese Texts - by Ralph Kauz, # Hunting Hounds along the Silk Road-Which Way Did They Go? - by Sir Terence Clark, # A Thousand Years on the Silk Road: Epic Poetry and Music from the Kyrgyz Republic - by Rysbai Isakov, Akylbek Kasabolotov, and Helen Faller); * Volume 4 Number 1 Summer 2006 (# From the Editor, # Boris Il'ich Marshak, 1933-2006 - by Daniel Waugh, # The Rock Art of Mongolia - by Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, # The Origins of the Great Wall - by Nicola di Cosmo, # Archaeological Investigations of Xiongnu Sites in the Tamir River Valley: Results of the 2005 Joint American-Mongolian Expedition to Tamiryn Ulaan Khoshuu, Ogii nuur, Arkhangai aimag, Mongolia - by David E. Purcell and Kimberly C. Spurr, # The Challenges of Preserving Evidence of Chinese Lacquerware in Xiongnu Graves - by Daniel Waugh, # The Date of the TLV Mirrors from the Xiongnu Tombs - by Guolong Lai, # Foreign Tribes in the Xiongnu Confederation - by Zagd Batsaikhan, # Investigation of a Xiongnu Royal Tomb Complex in the Tsaraam Valley - by Sergei S. Miniaev and L. M. Sakharovskaia, # Archaeology of the Mongolian Period: A Brief Introduction - by D. Tumen, D. Navaan and M. Erdene, # Tombs of Chingisids Are Still Being Found... An Interview with Senior Archaeologist, Professor Dorjpagma Navaan, # The August Hermann Francke and Hans Kör Collection: Archaeological Finds from Khotan in the Munich State Museum of Ethnography - by Ulf TODO, # Digital Collections: New Additions to Silk Road Seattle); * Volume 3 Number 2 December 2005 (# From the Editor - by Daniel Waugh, # The International Dunhuang Project, # Monuments in the Desert: A Note on Economic and Social Roots of the Development of Buddhism along the Silk Road, # Solidi in China and Monetary Culture along the Silk Road, # Silk Road or Paper Road?, # East Meets West under the Mongols, # Two Travelers in Yazd, # Kyrgyz Healing Practices: Some Field Notes); * Volume 3 Number 1 June 2005 (# From the Editor - by Daniel Waugh, # Xinjiang: China's Pre- and Post-Modern Crossroad - by Dru Gladney, # Uyghur Art Music and the Ambiguities of Chinese Silk Roadism in Xinjiang - by James A. Millward, # The Polychrome Rock Paintings in the Altay Mountains - by Wang Binghua, # Viticulture and Viniculture in the Turfan Region - by Xinru Liu, # Annotated Bibliography of the History and Culture of Eastern Turkistan, Jungharia/Zungaria/ Dzungaria, Chinese Central Asia, and Sinkiang/Xinjiang - by Nathan Light, # Bactrian Camels and Bactrian-Dromedary Hybrids - by Daniel Potts, # One of the Last Documents of the Silk Road: The Khataynameh of Ali Akbar - by Ralph Kauz); * Volume 2 Number 2 December 2004 (# The Maikop Treasure - by Aleksandr Leskov, # In Celebration of Aleksandr Leskov - by Aleksandr Naymark, # Greeks, Amazons, and Archaeology - by James F. Vedder, # Archaeological GIS in Central Asia - by Mariner Padwa & Sebastian Stride, # Archaeological GIS and Oasis Geography in the Tarim Basin - by Mariner Padwa, # An Archaeological GIS of the Surkhan Darya Province (Southern Uzbekistan) - by Sebastian Stride, # Methods and Perspectives for Ancient Settlement Studies in the Middle Zeravshan Valley - by Bernardo Rondelli & Simone Mantellini, # Reasoning with GIS : Tracing the Silk Road and the Defensive Systems of the Murghab Delta (Turkmenistan) - by Barbara Cerasetti, # Evolving the Archaeological Mapping of Afghanistan - by Mariner Padwa, # Storing and Sharing Central Asian GIS: The Alexandria Archive - by Eric Kansa, # The Search for the Origins of the Jew's Harp - by Michael Wright, # Excavation and Survey in Arkhangai and Bulgan Aimaqs, Mongolia July 20-August 17, 2005); * Volume 2 Number 1 June 2004 (# From the Editor - by Daniel Waugh, # Archaeological Explorations of Bronze Age Pastoral Societies in the Mountains of Eastern Eurasia - by Michael D. Frachetti, # On the Antiquity of the Yurt: Evidence from Arjan and Elsewhere - by David Stronach, # The Burial Rite: an Expression of Sogdian Beliefs and Practices - by Guitty Azarpay, # Palmyra as a Caravan City - by Albert E. Dien, # The "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road," the "Silk Road" of Southwest China - by Yang Fuquan, # Klavdiia Antipina -- a Tribute to the Ethnographer of the Kyrgyz - by John L. Sommer, # Mongolia: a different view - by Morris Rossabi, # British Library Symposium on "The Kingdom of Khotan to AD 1000: A Meeting of Cultures" - by Richard Salomon, # Guidelines for Contributors); * Volume 1 Number 2 December 2003 (# From the Editor - by Daniel Waugh, # The Archaeology of Sogdiana - by Boris I. Marshak, # Returning to Varakhsha - by Aleksandr Naymark, # Sogdians in China: A Short History and Some New Discoveries - by Etienne de la Vaissiere, # The Pre-Islamic Civilization of the Sogdians (seventh century BCE to eighth century CE): A Bibliographic Essay (studies since 1986) - by Frantz Grenet, # Bamiyan: Professor Tarzi's Survey and Excavation Archaeological Mission, 2003 - by Zemaryalai Tarzi, # 'Knowing the Road That Leads You Home': Family, Genealogy, and Migration in Post-Socialist Kazakhstan? - by Saulesh Yessenova, # Among the Kazakhs of Xinjiang - by Bob Jones, # Announcements); * Volume 1 Number 1 January 15, 2003 (# Welcome to the First Issue! - by Roger L. Olesen, # Sheba@Saba- Trading.com: A Yemeni Trading Link Three Thousand Years Old - by Diana Pickworth, # The Origin of Chess and the Silk Road - by Horst Remus, # The Mongols and the Silk Road - by John Masson Smith, Jr., # Age of Mongolian Empire: A Bibliographical Essay - by Paul D. Buell, # Lecture Summary:"Genesis of the Indo-Iranians: Archaeological and Linguistic Aspects" - by Professor Elena Kuzmina, # Letters). URL http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/toc/newsletter.html Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [The site was not archived at the time of this abstract. Access to http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/toc/newsletter.html has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt] 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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * 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 15 Dec 2009 Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Self-description: "SASNET is a national network for research, education, and information about South Asia based at Lund University. Its aim is to promote a dynamic networking process in which Swedish researchers co-operate with researchers in South Asia and globally. The SASNET network is open to all the sciences. Priority is given to interdisciplinary cooperation across faculties, and more particularly to institutions in the Nordic countries and South Asia. SASNET believes that South Asian studies will be most fruitfully pursued as a cooperative endeavour between researchers in different institutions who have a solid base in their mother disciplines. The network is financed by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) and by Lund University." Site contents: * Site search; * Researchers [Search Swedish researchers by Area of research/Country of interest]; * Institutions [Departments in Sweden engaged in research on South Asia: links to 48 Swedish Universities and Research institutions, links to 220 departments & units]; * SASNET news; * SASNET newsletter ([latest issue] Newsletter 104: 2 December 2009. Newsletter's Structure: SASNET NEWS, Research Community News, Educational News, Conferences and workshops, Lectures and seminars, Business and Politics, South Asia related Culture, New and updated information); * Planning grants (Guest Lecture Programme Interdisciplinary Workshop Grants Networking Grants); * Student forum; * Conferences (Conferences and workshops Conference Reports); * Travelling advice (Practical information (currency converter, time zones, weather, maps, calendars, online translator, etc.), Health and Malaria situation, South Asian Telephone Directories, Travel advice from the Swedish Foreign Office, Travel advice from the British Foreign Office, Schengen Visa, Swedish Embassies in South Asia, South Asian Embassies in Sweden, or closest representation, South Asian Airlines & Railways, Swedish Travel agencies on South Asia, Lonely Planet Online, and Survival Guide to Kabul Official Tourist boards, Friendship societies, Cross-cultural training/Language training); * Research (South Asian Studies Research Community News, Mailing lists related to South Asia, Grants to Swedish research projects from Sida/SAREC, Swedish Research Council, etc, Vacant research positions/fellowships, Appeals for research collaboration, Other South Asia related research news Nordic Centre in India Consortium (NCI), Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS), Dissertations on South Asia related subjects at Nordic universities from 2007, Research reports, books and publications, Working papers on the Internet, South Asia related research networks); * Links (Academic research on South Asia: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Australia, Germany, Japan, Russian Federation, Austria, Great Britain, Lithuania, Singapore, Belgium, Greece, Mexico, South Africa, Bulgaria, Hungary, The Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Iceland, New Zeeland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Israel, Romania, Thailand, France, Italy, Poland, United States, Links to Major South Asian Universities and colleges, Other South Asian research institutes, Links to International organisations and development agencies working with South Asia, Swedish Developmental organisations working with South Asia, Scholarly Associations); * Library (Internet Library of South Asian Studies: Information Networks, Countries, Maps & Statistics; Books & Journals, Topics, Development Research & Policies). URL http://www.sasnet.lu.se/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sasnet.lu.se/ Link reported by: Lars Eklund (sasnet--at--sasnet.lu.se) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/ Corporate info./ Study/ News * 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 3,000 (in fact, 1,480) 14 Dec 2009 The Golden Elixir: Taoism and Chinese Alchemy www.goldenelixir.com, Stanford, CA, US Supplied note: "Originally established in 1995, the Golden Elixir website has gone through several rebirths and has been hosted by several universities (Venice, Berlin, and Stanford). In its present form, the website contains introductions, essays, translations, and illustrations related to Taoism and Chinese alchemy. These materials are addressed to both academic and non-academic audiences. The website is also the home of Golden Elixir Press, an independent publisher of books on Taoism, Chinese alchemy, and closely related subjects. In the same way as the website, the press publishes books for both specialists and the general public. - fp." Site contents: * TAOISM (## An Introduction to Taoism, ## Short Essays on Taoism [#Yin and Yang - by Fabrizio Pregadio, # Macrocosm and Microcosm, # Chart of the Great Ultimate (Taiji tu), # Taoist Views of the Body, # Inner Gods, # Tao Hongjing (456-536), # Isabelle Robinet (1932-2000): A Bibliography], ## Entries from The Encyclopedia of Taoism [# Daode jing (Scripture of the Dao and Its Virtue) - by Isabelle Robinet, # daojia (Taoism; "Lineage[s] of the Way") - by Isabelle Robinet, # daojiao (Taoism; Taoist teaching; "Teaching[s] of the Way") - by T.H. Barrett, # Daozang and Subsidiary Compilations - by Judith M. Boltz, # jiao (Offering) - by Poul Andersen # jindan (Golden Elixir) - by Fabrizio Pregadio, # Lingbao (Numinous Treasure) - by Stephen R. Bokenkamp, # Quanzhen (Completion of Authenticity) - by Vincent Goossaert, # Shangqing (Highest Clarity) - by Isabelle Robinet, # Tianshi dao (Way of the Celestial Masters) - by Terry Kleeman], ## Taoist Texts [# Zhuangzi (Book of Master Zhuang), # Huainan zi (Book of the Master of Huainan), # Laozi zhongjing (Central Scripture of Laozi), # Baopu zi neipian (Inner Chapters of the Book of the Master Who Embraces Simplicity)], ## Illustrations and Tables [# Yin-Yang and Eight Trigrams, # Chart of the Great Ultimate (Taiji tu), # Original Breath, # Immortals, # Inner Gods, # Talisman of the Center, # Five Agents (wuxing), # Eight Trigrams (bagua)]); * ALCHEMY ## An Introduction to Taoist Alchemy - by Fabrizio Pregadio, ## Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality), ## Short Essays on Chinese Alchemy [# Cinnabar Fields, # Zhouyi cantong qi (Token for Joining the Three in Accordance with the Book of Changes)], ##Alchemical Texts [1. Internal Alchemy (Neidan): # Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality): Poem 3, # Wuzhen pian (Awakening to Reality): Poem 7, 2. External Alchemy (Waidan): # Early Taiqing (Great Clarity) Texts: Rituals, # Early Taiqing (Great Clarity) Texts: Methods, # Early Taiqing (Great Clarity) Texts: Benefits of the Elixirs] ## Illustrations [# Chart of the Fire Phases, # Dragon and Tiger, # The Yellow Court, # Neidan Emblems, # The Body as a Mountain] * GOLDEN ELIXIR PRESS (Details of the following publications:] # Awakening to Reality The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy Fabrizio Pregadio viii, 102 pp. Golden Elixir Press, 2009 # Chinese Alchemy: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in Western Languages Fabrizio Pregadio 50 pp. Golden Elixir Press, 2009 # Index of Zhonghua Daozang (Taoist Canon of China) Fabrizio Pregadio, ed. viii + 108 pp. Golden Elixir Press, 2009 # Index of Zhengtong Daozang (Taoist Canon of the Zhengtong Reign-Period) Fabrizio Pregadio, ed. 53 pp. Golden Elixir Press, 2009, Free download (PDF, ca. 600 KB)); * LINKS (# Part 1: Materials in Western Languages: Essays and Translations, Associations and Journals, Websites on Taoism, Buddhism, Other Traditions, # Part 2: Materials in Chinese and Japanese: Texts in Chinese, Reference Works, Associations and Journals); * CONTACT; * RECENT ADDITIONS (incl. 'Taoist Internal Alchemy' and the 'Wuzhen pian' (Awakening to Reality); * SEARCH. [The website's founder and editor, Dr Fabrizio Pregadio, is presently a Visiting Scholar, Stanford University - ed.] URL http://www.goldenelixir.com Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Fabrizio Pregadio (pregadio--at--stanford.edu) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/ Online Guide/ Corporate info. * 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 30 13 Dec 2009 American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) www.arisc.org, Chicago, IL, US Self-description: "The mission of The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) is to encourage and support scholarly study of the South Caucasus states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) in all fields from the earliest times to the present. ARISC will provide an ongoing American scholarly presence in each country in order to facilitate research and will establish and nurture ties between institutions and individuals. Further, ARISC will promote and encourage intellectual inquiry across boundaries within the South Caucasus and between the South Caucasus and adjacent areas. The exchange of scholars and scholarly information will be encouraged by the support of conferences, fellowship opportunities, publications, teaching resources, and other forms of cooperation for use both in the United States and in the host countries where the Institute is located." Site contents: * About Us; * Publications (# Online Publications and Journals: #"All Quiet on the Karabagh Front?" PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 66 - Georgi Derluguian, # The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1. The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia - Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan; With contributions by Alan Greene and Leah Minc. # Democracy's Plight in the European Neighbourhood: Struggling transitions and proliferating dynasties - Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs (Editors) Centre for European Policy Studies - 30 October, 2009 # Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) - Robia Charles UC Berkeley: Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (Summer 2009), # link to: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD) [http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/cad/index.cfm], # link to: Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA) [http://www.cria-online.org/Home.html] # link to: Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies (JCACS) [www.usak.org.tr/EN/dmenu.asp?id=55, in PDF format, Vol: 1 No: 1 (2006) - Vol: 3 No: 6 (2008)]; * Resources (Institutions & Regional Studies Programs, Culture, Archaeology, Art & Architecture, Linguistics, History, Political Science); * Projects; * Membership [2009 Institutional Members: Brown U., Dartmouth College, Indiana U., New York U., Purdue U., SUNY, Stony Brook, U. of Chicago, U. of Illinois, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Texas, Austin]; * News (Upcoming ARISC Events, Other Upcoming Events, Baku Center Now Open, JSTOR Now Available, Calls for Papers); * Search. URL http://www.arisc.org/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.arisc.org/ Link reported by: American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (info--at--arisc.org), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ Study/ Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 1,000 11 Dec 2009 Arts of China Consortium (ACC) The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), New York University, NY, US. Self-description: "The Arts of China Consortium (ACC) [formerly Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library] was founded in 2002 to promote the study and understanding of Chinese art history, archaeology, and visual and material culture, and to support the research and professional activities of its members. To encourage more informal dialogue among members, ACC conducts an e-mail listserv and maintains this website to provide information on graduate programs in Asian art, lectures/symposia/conferences, grants/fellowships, positions available, and web links to facilitate research and pedagogy. In keeping with the broad range of members' research and pedagogical practice, posted entries relate to the visual and material culture within the historical boundaries of China and Japan. [...] ACC is currently working towards gaining affiliation with the College Art Association and the Association for Asian Studies, where ACC hopes to organize annual thematic panel sessions. This site is a component of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] and the East Asia WWW Virtual Library [http://ea-vl.sbc.edu/]." Site contents: * Acc Info + Index; * Positions Available (Including Post-docs) ([1-9 December 2009]: (# Baliol College, U. of Oxford: post-doc, humanities or social sciences; # Dickinson College: Japanese language and literature or visual culture; # Indiana U. , Bloomington: post-doc, "Rupture and Flow: The Circulation of Technoscientific Facts and Objects"; # Lingnan U. : one or more of one or more of Asian art, non-Western art, Hong Kong visual culture, fashion, design, architecture and built environments, photography, museum studies and arts policy, and history of the visual arts; # Merton College, U. of Oxford: Junior Research Fellowship, Chinese archaeology; # New York U. , Abu Dhabi: anthropology, archaeology, art history, or history of Middle East, Central Asia, or South Asia; # Rhode Island School of Design: 19th-21st c. architectural history with global focus; # Smith College: Teaching and Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art); # U. of Aberdeen: archaeology, specializing in either northern Eurasia, the Eastern Arctic of North America, the Northwest Pacific rim (especially Japan and Korea), Scandinavia and Finland; # U. of California, Los Angeles: post-doc, "Cultures in Transnational Perspective"; # U. of Florida: contemporary Chinese Chinese film/art and language; # U. of Pittsburgh: Korean-Japanese Transnational Postdoctoral Fellowship, art or visual culture); * Calls For Papers/Participation [several latest calls are listed - ed.]; * To Attend: Conferences, Symposia, Seminars, Lectures [several latest events are listed - ed.]; * Graduate Student Directory; * Fellowships And Grants # American Oriental Society: Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Art; # Embassy of Japan in Germany; # Hispanic Scholarship Fund; # Intercollegiate Studies Institute; # Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund; # Western Washington University: Mongolia and the Mongols; # World Bank: Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund); * Links To Other Websites Related To Asian Art (museums, books, research + reference, pedagogy); * Twitter /RSS feed. [A site, which since 1996 has been superbly edited by Nixi Cura (nixicura--at--yahoo.com) - ed.] URL http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/ Online Guide * 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 1,000 08 Dec 2009 Kern Collection about Indonesia [in The National Library of Australia] The National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra, Australia Supplied note: "The printed and online December 2009 issue of The National Library Magazine contains an article by Andrew Gosling, "Indonesia before independence through the Kern Collection" [at the URL below] In 1959 the National Library of Australia acquired the Kern Collection, its most important collection of pre-20th century books and manuscripts about the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). The Library integrated the material into its Rare Books, Manuscripts and General Collections. Rudolf Aernoud Kern (1875-1958) was a distinguished civil servant in the Dutch East Indies from 1896 to 1926, and later an academic at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Throughout his life he wrote prolifically on Indonesian topics. Kern also collected widely on the bibliography, history, language, law, religion, ethnography, archaeology, and fine arts of Indonesia. Highlights of his collection include rare 17th century books and pamphlets about the history of eastern Indonesia as well as rare dictionaries and grammars of Southeast Asian languages. Kern's greatest scholarly interest lay in the language and culture of the Sundanese people of West Java. In his collection there is a set of 130 transcripts of Sundanese manuscripts, which are seen to represent Sundanese traditional literary culture. Several of the originals have been lost and their transcriptions in Canberra may be the only extant copies available. - ag." URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2009/dec09/story-5.pdf Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/ Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (andrewgosling--at--netspeed.com.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * 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 30 08 Dec 2009 Deadly Vanguards: A [2009] Study of al-Qa'ida's Violence Against Muslims The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC), U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, US. Self-description: "Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Occasional Paper Series. Deadly Vanguards: A Study of al-Qa'ida's Violence Against Muslims. December 2009. Scott Helfstein, Ph.D. Nassir Abdullah Muhammad al-Obaidi [...] Since the inception of al-Qa'ida, the organization has claimed to represent Muslim interests around the world declaring itself the vanguard of true Islam, and the defender of Muslim people. Unfortunately for al-Qa'ida, their actions speak louder than their words. The fact is that the vast majority of al-Qa'ida's victims are Muslims: the analysis here shows that only 15% of the fatalities resulting from al-Qa'ida attacks between 2004 and 2008 were Westerners. This report [850KB, PDF format - ed.] used Arabic media sources to study the victim's of al-Qa'ida's violence through a non-Western prism. This allows researchers to avoid accusations of bias associated with Western news outlets or U.S.-based datasets. [...] All of the sources used in this exercise are available as an appendix to this report to ensure that other researchers can reproduce these results. The results show that non-Westerners are much more likely to be killed in an al-Qa'ida attack. From 2004 to 2008, only 15% percent of the 3,010 victims were Western. During the most recent period studied the numbers skew even further. From 2006 to 2008, only 2% (12 of 661 victims) are from the West, and the remaining 98% are inhabitants of countries with Muslim majorities. During this period, a person of non-Western origin was 54 times more likely to die in an al-Qa'ida attack than an individual from the West. [...] Irrespective of statements made by [al-Qa'ida's second in command Ayman] Zawahiri and others, the figures, drawn from exclusively Arabic news sources, show that the Muslims they claim to protect are much more likely to be the targets of al-Qa'ida violence than the Western powers they claim to fight." Site contents: * [Introduction]; * Methodology: Arabic Primary Source Material; * Analytics: The Real Victims (Figure 1: Casualties, Annual Figure 2: Casualty Percentage, Annual Figure 3: Casualties, Monthly Figure 4: Casualties, By Country (Excluding Iraq) Figure 5: Casualties, Excluding Afghanistan and Iraq, Annual Figure 6: Number of Attacks by Fatality Figure 7: Casualties 1995-2003, Including and Excluding the 9/11 Attack); * Conclusions; Appendix: Data Tables (Attacks and Casualty Sources, Arabic, 2004-2008, Attacks and Casualty Sources, English, 2004-2008, Major al-Qa'ida Attacks and Casualty Sources, Arabic, 1995-2003, Major al-Qa'ida Attacks and Casualty Sources, English, 1995-2003). [Other recent CTC [http://www.ctc.usma.edu/] Publications include: #Radical Islamic Ideology in Southeast Asia; #"Embattled in Arabia: Shiis and the Politics of Confrontation in Saudi Arabia" by Toby Jones; #Militant Ideology Atlas; #Stealing al-Qa'ida's Playbook; #Dysfunction and Decline: Lessons Learned From Inside al-Qa'ida in Iraq; #The CTC Sentinel: Cutting Edge Research; #CTC Report on Terrorism, Deterrence, and Nuclear Weapons; #The Globalization of Martyrdom; #Iranian Influence in Iraq: Politics and "Other Means"; #Bombers, Bank Accounts, and Bleedout: al-Qa'ida's Road in and Out of Iraq; #Sunni and Shi'a: Differences That Matter. A handy overview of the Helfstein, Abdullah & al-Obaidi paper is provided by a 12/03/2009 Yassin Musharbash' article in Spiegel Online International (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,660619,00.html) entitled: 'Surprising Study On Terrorism - Al-Qaida Kills Eight Times More Muslims Than Non-Muslims' - ed.] URL http://www.ctc.usma.edu/Deadly%20Vanguards_Complete_L.pdf Internet Archive (web.archive.org/) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: Richard Fernandez (wretchardthecat at hotmail dot com) in December 7th, 2009 issue of his Belmont Club Blog [http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/] * 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]: V. Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 07 Dec 2009 Asian Studies Search Engines [a guide] Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia Self-description: "This document [est. Aug 1997] keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)." Site contents: * Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engine (Search: # Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library web sites worldwide, # Asian Studies WWW Monitor [coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html], # Pacific Studies WWW Monitor [coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html], # Inbox Robot for latest news [www.inboxrobot.com], # OAIster database of e-prints [oaister.umdl.umich.edu], # H-Asia logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/], # H-SEAsia logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~seasia/], # H-Japan logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~japan/], # H-US-Japan logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~usjp/], # H-ANZAU logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~anzau/], # Asian Law Centre bibliographies [www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/bibliography/], # Asian Law Centre WWW links [www.law.unimelb.edu.au/db/useful_links/alc/], # H-Levant logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~levant/], # H-Mideast-Medieval logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~midmed/], # H-Turk logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~turk/], # H-Islamart logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~islamart/], # H-Buddhism logs [www2.h-net.msu.edu/~buddhism/]); * The Top Search Engines (Search: # "Aliweb" database (www.aliweb.com, UK), # "Altavista" database (Compaq Co., USA), # "AllTheWeb" database (www.alltheweb.com, USA), # "Bing" database for web pages, images, videos, news and maps (Microsoft, USA), # "Excite" database (www.excite.com, USA), # "Google" database (www.google.com, USA), # "The Internet Archive" Collection (The Internet Archive, USA), # The "Wayback Machine" (The Internet Archive, USA), # "Yahoo" database (www.yahoo.com, USA); * Asia Search Engines (Search: # NBR web site and publications catalogue (www.nbr.org, USA), # Arabic Web space (www.4arabs.com, US), # Asia Hotels Database (asiarooms.com, TH), # Australia Web space (www.anzwers.com.au, AU), # Bangladesh Web space (1), (www.bangla2000.com, BD), # Bangladesh Web space (2), (www.bangladeshdir.com, BD), # China Web space (www.surfchina.com, US), # India Web space (1), (www.searchindia.com, US), # India Web space (2), (www.123india.com, IN), # India Web space (3), (www.Search4i.com, IN), # Islamic Web space (islamic-world.net, MY), # Laos Web space (www.laoworld.com, US), # Malaysia Web space (www.cari.com.my, MY), # Nepal Web space (www.nepalsearch.com, US), # New Zealand Web space (www.searchnz.co.nz, NZ), # Philippines Web space (1), (www.alleba.com, CA), # Philippines Web space (2), (www.yehey.com, PH), # Singapore Web space (www.sg, SG); * MULTI-THREADED engines (Search: # Ixquick: a metasearch engine (www.ixquick.com, US/Netherlands), # Dogpile Multi-Engine Web Search Tool (www.dogpile.com, USA), # MetaCrawler Multi-Threaded Web Search Service (www.metacrawler.com, USA), # Search.com (search.com, USA)); * Search Engines: Practical Knowledge # FinderSeeker: The Search Engine for Search Engines (www.finderseeker.com, USA), # Finding Images on the Web (www.bu.edu, USA), # Search Engine Showdown (www.searchengineshowdown.com, USA), # Web Search Engines FAQS: Questions, Answers, and Issues (www.infotoday.com, USA); * Online Guides & Query Systems (# Research Resources for the Social Sciences (www.socsciresearch.com, Canada), # SOSIG - Social Sciences Information Gateway Database (U. Bristol, UK)). URL http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * 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, 12,200] 04 Dec 2009 Sri Lanka Association for Buddhist Studies (SLABS) www.beyondthenet.net, Colombo, Sri Lanka Self-description: "The Association [est. Aug 2002 - ed.] is meant to be an academic and professional organization for those who are engaged in teaching and research in the field of Buddhist studies in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist studies in Sri Lanka are carried out, mostly, in an isolated manner, by individual scholars or by small groups of scholars associated with the departments of Buddhist studies of the Sri Lanka university system. It was felt that there must be more inter-action and co-operation among these scholars with a view to bringing about more benefit to the to the field of study as well as the scholars themselves. [...] The goals of the Association, [...], are: to function as the united Organization of Buddhist scholars and professional in Sri Lanka for the purpose of the advancement of Buddhist studies and research in the field; fostering interaction and cooperation among Buddhist scholars, professionals and academic organizations; to strengthen the bases of Buddhist education, and to disseminate Buddhist teachings within and outside Sri Lanka." Site contents: * About Us; * The Constitution; * Board and Avisory Panel; * Newsletters (Jan - Aug 2004 Vol. 2 No. 1 & 2, Jan - Apr 2003 Vol. 1 - No. 1, May - Aug 2003 Vol. 1 - No. 2); * Articles (Abstracts of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference of Sri Lanka Association for Buddhist Studies, 17-19 Nov 2006, Dependent Co-origination: The Buddhist Approach to Reality - Asanga Tilakaratne, Justice, Kamma and Dhamma: Does Kamma in Buddhism Make Justice Redundant? - Asanga Tilakaratne); * News and Views; * Notice Board; * Membership Form; * Members List; * Contact Us; * [Outreach/online education pages:] Buddha - Dharmma - Sangha - Audio - Links - Saddha - The Dhamma Way - The Noble Quest - Miscellany - How you can help - Meditation - What's New - Talk to Your Author. URL http://www.beyondthenet.net/SLABS/SLABS_main.asp Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.beyondthenet.net/SLABS/SLABS_main.asp Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 03 Dec 2009 Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore Self-description: "The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre [NSC] at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies [http://www.iseas.edu.sg], Singapore, pursues research on historical interactions among Asian societies and civilisations. It serves as a forum for comprehensive study of the ways in which Asian polities and societies have interacted over time through religious, cultural, and economic exchanges and diasporic networks. The Centre also offers innovative strategies for examining the manifestations of hybridity, convergence and mutual learning in a globalising Asia. It sees the following as it main aims: 1. To develop the 'Nalanda idea' of building for contemporary Asia an appreciation of Asian achievements and mutual learning, as exemplified by the cosmopolitan Buddhist centre of learning in Nalanda, as well as the 'Sriwijaya idea' of Southeast Asia as a place of mediation and linkages among the great civilisations. 2. To encourage and develop skills needed to understand the civilisations of Asia and their interrelationships. 3. To build regional research capacities and infrastructure for the study of the historical interactions among the civilisations and societies of Asia." Site contents: * About Us (Mission, Download the Nalanda-Sriwijaya brochure (pdf), Staff Profiles); * Projects (Comparative Diasporas, Buddhist History and Archeology in Southeast Asia, Comparative Study of Religious Networks in Asia, Perceptions of Asia, Chinese Commercial Networks, India-China Interactions during the Late-Qing and Republican Periods, Web Project [online resources on intra-Asian historical interactions]); * Publications ([TOCs and sporadically the full text of] Nalanda-Sriwijaya Publication Series, NSC Working Papers, Staff Publications, Others; * About ISEAS; * Upcoming Events (Conferences, Workshops, Lecture Series incl. 'Workshop - Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives, Date: January 27-29, 2010, Venue: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore); * Past Events (Conferences, The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Lecture Series, The ACM-NSC Lecture Series, The NSC-Buddhist Lodge Lecture Series, Other Events); * Photos [under construction]; * Fellowships (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Fellowship Program 2010); * Newsletter (ISEAS News Issue 1, July 2009 [in PDF format]); * Research tools (Bibliographic Databases [under construction], Web Links [under construction], [links to] Research Institutions, [links to] Academic Journals, [a link to] Digital Research Tools Wiki (DiRT) [http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/]); * Press [news about the NSC]; * Contact Us. URL http://www.iseas.edu.sg/nsc/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: Geoffrey Wade (gwade--at--iseas.edu.sg), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info. / Study/ Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 02 Dec 2009 Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations (ORASO) ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Self-description: "'Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations: a quarterly scorecard (ORASO).' This document [est. Oct 2008 and edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, as a part of the 'Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library' (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)] is updated four times a year (March, June, September and December). It systematically monitors and collects information about the relative online rank (i.e. the so called 'PageRank' [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank]) of the top 30 Asian Studies' institutions, organizations, specialist information resources, and research networks indexed by the Google Search Engine [www.google.com]. The PageRank of a given web address measures the site's relative importance within the world-wide archipelago of other web sites dealing with a given topic. The lower the PageRank, the greater is the deemed importance or relevance of the indexed site." Site contents: [Page ranks attained over the last 18 months, i.e. September 2008 till December 2009 by]: * Asian Studies - Clark University [www.clarku.edu/departments/asianstudies/] * Asian Studies - Pacific University [mcel.pacificu.edu/as/home/as.html] * Asian Studies - University of Oregon [asianstudies.uoregon.edu] * Asian Studies - University of Waikato [www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/humanities/asian-stds] * Asian Studies - University of Western Australia [www.asianstudies.arts.uwa.edu.au] * Asian Studies - Area Studies in the Yahoo! Directory [dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Area_Studies/Asian_Studies] * Asian Studies Center (ASC) - University of Pittsburgh [www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc] * Asian Studies Center - Michigan State University [www.asianstudies.msu.edu/] * Asian Studies Centers, Programs - Asian American Net [www.asianamerican.net/centers.html] * Asian Studies Network Information Center (ASNIC) - University of Texas at Austin [asnic.utexas.edu] * Asian Studies Program - La Trobe University [www.latrobe.edu.au/asianstudies] * Asian Studies Program - University of Florida [www.clas.ufl.edu/asian] * Asian Studies WWW Monitor e-journal [coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html] * Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] * Asian Studies | The WWW Virtual Library [vlib.org/AsianStudies] * Asian studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Studies] * Association for Asian Studies (AAS) [www.aasianst.org] * Chao Center for Asian Studies - Rice University [asia.rice.edu] * Department of Asian Studies - Cornell University [lrc.cornell.edu/asian] * Department of Asian Studies - University of British Columbia [www.asia.ubc.ca] * Department of Asian Studies - University of North Carolina [www.unc.edu/depts/asia] * Faculty of Asian Studies: web site 1 - Australian National University [www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies (same as asianstudies.anu.edu.au)] * Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) - University of California [ieas.berkeley.edu] * International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) [www.iias.nl] * Jackson School: Student Services Office - University of Washington [jsis.washington.edu/advise/catalog/asianba.html] * Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) [nias.ku.dk] * School of Asian Studies - University of Auckland [www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/asia] URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLRankings.html Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 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