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Asian Studies WWW Announcements: mid April 1998
Vol. 5, No. 51

20 Apr 1998

Asian Studies WWW Monitor - 4th Anniversary
RSPAS, The Australian National University, Australia
Supplied note: "'The Asian Studies WWW Monitor' (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994, originally under a title 'What's New in WWW Asian Studies". It forms a key part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html). The Monitor is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU. The Journal regularly monitors new developments in the Asian Studies' cyberspace and compiles timely, accurate, consistent and impartial summaries and evaluations of the latest web sites and other online information systems relevant to social sciences research of Asia and Pacific region."
[During the 4 years of operations the journal published details of content & evaluation of research usefullness of 2061 web, gopher and ftp resources. During that time the WWW edition of the journal (currently 5 volumes, 51 issues) was accessed 153,229 times. On 20 Apr 1998 the e-mail edition of the journal (asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au) had 581 subscribers - ed.]
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

20 Apr 1998

Development Resource Centre, New Zealand
DRC, Wellington, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Supplied note: "A specialist information and education centre in New Zealand providing information, training and consultancy services on [predominantly Pacific region - ed.] development issues and practice. Formed in 1993 by a group of development organisations, the DRC reaches a range of New Zealanders across a number of sectors - formal education, development consultants, NGOs, business, government bodies, media, and the general public. The DRC now has extensive up-to-date electronic and hard copy resources, draws on a range of expertise in development practice and education, and offers a flexible menu of services to suit specific needs."
Site contents: About DRC, Education Kits, Education Services, Information Services, Links, NZ Development Organisations, Publications, Search, Videos, What's New.
URL http://www.converge.org.nz/drc/
Link submitted by: Philip Hewitt (phil@drc.org.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

20 Apr 1998

Silk Road Foundation
Silk Road Foundation, Saratoga, USA
Self description: "A non-profit organization, established in 1996, to promote the study and preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road. The Silkroad Foundation provides resources, information, and interactive exchange toward the pursuit of educating the Bay Area community about Inner Asia and the Silk Road."
Site contents: Foundation Info, Chronology, Xinjiang Studies, Dunhuang Studies, Travel, Conference, Festival, Lectures, Articles, Bibliography, Music, CD-ROM, Folklore/Mythology, Sports/Games, Otherlinks, Search, Be-a-friend.
URL http://www.silk-road.com/
Link submitted by: Adela C.Y. Lee (alee@silk-road.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

18 Apr 1998

Language Research in the Pacific-Asia Region - CFP
South Pacific Journal of Psychology, Australia
Supplied note: "On behalf of the editorial board of the South Pacific Journal of Psychology (http://hiplab.newcastle.edu.au/pacific/), the Language Editorial Group is soliciting contributions for a special issue, Volume 10(2), on language research in the Pacific-Asia region. Please see web page for details."
URL http://hiplab.newcastle.edu.au/pacific/language/
Link submitted by: Paul A. Watters (pwatters@mpce.mq.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Apr 1998

Crosslink E-Journal
Presbyterian Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand
Supplied note: "The monthly newspaper for Presbyterian, Methodist, and Cooperative Venture Churches in Aotearoa New Zealand."
Site contents: News; Issues; Features; People; Mission; Credits; Archive
[An elegant and factual specialist online publication - ed.]
URL http://www.presbyterian.org.nz
Link submitted by: Nik (nik@websmith.co.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

17 Apr 1998

6th ICCE-International Conference on Computers in Education, Oct 1998
Asia-Pacific Chapter of AACE, Taipei, Taiwan
The 6th ICCE-International Conference on Computers in Education, Beijing, China; October 14-17, 1998 will focus on the 'Global Education on the Net'. The Conference is organised by Asia-Pacific Chapter (http://www.apc.src.ncu.edu.tw/) of the Assoc. Advancement Computers Education, Charlottesville, VA, USA. The APC is dedicated to "Advancing Knowledge and Learning with Information Technology in the Asia - Pacific Region."
URL http://www.njtu.edu.cn/icce98/
Link submitted by: Assoc Advancement Computers Education (aace@curry.edschool.virginia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Apr 1998

Taipei Ricci Institute website
Taipei Ricci Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
Supplied note: "Activities, publications, choices of [online] articles by researchers of the Taipei Ricci Institute. Areas of concentration: China and Christianity; Taiwanese society; Peace studies; Minorities; Contemporary Chinese Art."
[The Taipei Ricci Institute was funded by Fr Yves Raguin, along with other Jesuits, in 1966. This was followed by the setting-up of the Paris Ricci Institute in 1972 and the San Francisco Ricci Institute in 1984 - ed.]
URL http://www.tec.org.tw/english/ricci/
Link submitted by: Benoit Vermander (benoit@tpts4.seed.net.tw)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Apr 1998

Databank for China Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China
Self description: "Databank for China Studies was established to collect computerised soical science data for People's Republic of China and open to the academic community. Our aim is to promote data sharing in the China research and to serve the community with more quality datasets at lower costs. Since established in 1995, it houses over twenty large and and medium sized datasets from China."
Site contents: Databank Introduction, Data Sharing Policy, Data Usage Policy, How to Obtain Data and Documentation, Data Resources, Application Forms.
[Please note the changed (since 1997) URL - ed.]
URL http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/databank/databank.asp
Link submitted by: Dr DU Weichang (wdu@cuhk.edu.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Contents' rating [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - feeble]: Essential

17 Apr 1998

Annotated Guide to WWW Search Engines
WWW.CIOLEK.COM Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This document 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 (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)."
Site contents: Multi-threaded engines, Simple engines: Comparisons, Simple engines: The Top Six Databases, Simple engines: Other Databases, Search Engines Registers, Web based Guides & Query Systems.
[A general purpose site - ed.]
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Link submitted by: T.M.Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Apr 1998

Gabriela Network: A Philippine-US Women's Solidarity Organization
Gabriela Network, New York, USA
Self-description: "Founded in 1989, GABNet works on issues arising from US policy decisions which impact negatively on women and children of the Philippines. GABNet has launched educational campaigns on militarism and prostitution, labor export and the sex trade, and the mail-order bride industry. It works with GABRIELA Philippines, the country's largest and most militant women's alliance."
Site contents: About Gabriela, 'kaWomenan' Newsletter, Events, Contact us, Filipinas Not For Sale!, Links [under construction].
URL http://www.gabnet.org
Link submitted by: Efabillar (efabillar@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Apr 1998

Modern Chinese Literature and Film Bibliography
Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Supplied note "The Modern Chinese Literature Homepage at http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/chinalit, with a mirror site at Yale, previously edited by Charles Laughlin (Yale) and Michel Hockx (SOAS), has been discontinued, mainly due to constant lack of time on the part of the editors. We would like to use this opportunity to recommend [...] an excellent new site for both classical and modern Chinese literature, edited by Kirk Denton [denton.2@osu.edu] at Ohio State."
Site contents: Author Studies; Catalogues; E-text; Film; General; Lu Xun; On-line; Reference; Translation Collections; Translations by Author.
[Site maintained in conjunction with the scholarly journal 'Modern Chinese Literature' (http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/mclc.htm) - ed.]
URL http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm
Link submitted by: Michel Hockx (mh17@soas.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

15 Apr 1998

Tamil Language Courses, U.Texas, Autumn 1998
University of Texas, Austin, USA
Self-description: "Beginning Fall 1998, The Department of Asian Studies will offer TAMIL language courses. Two sections of TAMIL 506 will be offered in the Fall, and then the sequence will continue with TAMIL 507 in the Spring of 1999."
[A document with very little information, with no link to other Departmental pages (let alone to anywhere else), and with no email address of a contact person (or the page maintainer). In short, an electronic zombie - ed.]
URL http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/tamil.html
Link submitted by: Dr Kamal R. Adhikary (kamal@asnic.utexas.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

15 Apr 1998

A lesson in economic intelligence
In.Tech, Star Publications (M) Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Self-description: "The Internet makes information gathering and analysis easier and more cost-effective. Using the Asian economic crisis as an example, the [article] outlines how to use the Internet for economic intelligence."
[Practical advice and discussion by an author who is a Malaysia-based Internet strategist - ed.]
URL http://thestar.com.my/intech/980303/edna1.html
Link submitted by: Dr. Edna Reid (efreid@pacific.net.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Apr 1998

White Lotus Press, Thailand
White Lotus Press, Bangkok, Thailand
Self-description: "We carry books about the following Asian areas and subjects: New and out-of-print books and also old maps and prints (16th to 19th century): Asia general, Burma, Vietnam, Yunnan, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, India [incl. Andaman & Nicobar Islands - ed.], Northeast India, Central Asia (defined as areas along the silk routes), Himalayas; Natural History: Flora and Fauna, Ecology, Performing Arts, Textiles, Religion and Philosophy, Ceramics, Linguistics."
[An effective, informative and fast-loading site - ed.]
URL http://thailine.com/lotus
Link submitted by: Dr. Walter E. J. Tips (drtips@lox2.loxinfo.co.th)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

14 Apr 1998

Kanaky Online
Kanaky Online, New Caledonia
Self-description: "Ce site est encore en construction, son but est d'informer sur la situation actuelle de la lutte pour l'independance du Peuple Kanak en Nouvelle-Caledonie."
Supplied note: "A monthly newsletter published by AISDPK in Paris which will be online from now on." It is in French for now but should be in English as soon as we manage to get a team of translators together (volunteers?)
Contents: Il y a dix ans.... le massacre d'Ouvea; Kanaky et Noumea la Blanche; 1998 une annee cruciale; Chronologie du mouvement independantiste; Rencontre avec la delegation du FLNKS; Quelques nouvelles de la solidarite."
[A promising site under heavy construction - ed.]
URL http://altern.org/kanaky/
Link submitted by: (kanaky.online@pobox.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

14 Apr 1998

IGCS - Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies
Inst. of Chinese Studies, Kiel Univ., Germany
Supplied note: "The China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for China Studies at http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/netguide.htm now includes an extensive section called 'Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies', maintained by Matthias Kaun from Kiel University, Germany. This section will be developed as a complex system that contains pages under the following headings: (1) Libraries (China, HK, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, USA, Europe); (2) Library Associations; (3) Bookdealers in the field of Asian Studies; (4) Conferences, Reports and Guides; and (5) Media (Journals and Newsletters, Discussion Lists, Materials). The provided links are annotated and eventually will contain information on the holdings of the libraries, their collecting priorities, cataloguing systems, etc. The integrated search facility is able to search both the Library section in Kiel and the IGCS main site in Heidelberg."
[Both information systems are a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) archipelago of expert web sites - ed.]
URL http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/netguide/netguide.htm
Link submitted by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

11 Apr 1998

South Asian Securities Markets
SasiaNet - South Asian Securities Information Network Ltd., Colombo, Sri Lanka
Supplied note: "SasiaNet [...] was formed to serve investors, brokers, investment advisors, listed companies and other direct and in-direct participants and decision makers in South Asian securities markets. SasiaNet's primary objective is to enable its customers to make better informed and more profitable securities investment decisions and to facilitate better valuations of securities listed by companies."
Site contents: Colombo Stock Exchange; National Stock Exchange; Bombay Stock Exchange; Karachi Stock Exchange; Dhaka Stock Exchange.
[A demo of a commercial site. Has problems with its Java-enhanced interface - ed.]
URL http://www.sasianet.lk
Link submitted by: Ashok Senadeera (ashok.senadeera@dpmc.lk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

11 Apr 1998

Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War
University of Hawaii, HI, USA
Supplied note: "A web site on democide (genocide and mass murder), democracy, and war. This includes data, sources, statistical analyses, books, and articles. The democide data covers major pre-20th century episodes of democide, and all democide for all nations 1900-1987."
Site contents: Web Site Introduction; Personal; Murder by Government--Democide; 20th Century Democide; Statistical Evidence for Understanding and Explaining Democide; Individual Megamurderers and Mortacracies; Lesser Megamurderers; The Miracle that is Freedom; Data and Results on Dimensions of Nations; Conflict and Violence; Conclusions and Policy Recommendations; Some Links to Related Material.
[An online version of a book:
Rummel, R.J., The Miracle That Is Freedom: The Solution To War, Violence, Genocide, And Poverty. Martin Monograph Series No. 1 Moscow, Idaho: Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, University of Idaho, 1996.
The site offers, among other data and analyses, ample material on Asian countries - ed.]
URL http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/
Link submitted by: Rudy J. Rummel (rummel@hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

11 Apr 1998

Theological College of the GKI in Irian Jaya
Hogeschool Holland, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "Theological College of the Evangelical Christian Church in Irian Jaya - Abepura, Jayapura. Education for a BTh in theology or in religious education. [...] The Gereja Kristen Injili di Irian Jaya is the oldest and largest church of the province of Irian Jaya. In this province Christianity has a majority (80 % is Christian). The College cooperates with the Hogeschool Holland in Dieman, the Netherlands and the Christelijke Hogeschool, Ede also in the Netherlands."
Site contents [in bahasa indonesia]: History of the College (1954-1966, 1966-1997, Heads of the school) Seminar and excursion Summer 1998; Searches and thematic indexes
[A fine and down-to-earth system - ed.]
URL http://www.hhit.hsholland.nl/levonet/stft_gki
Link submitted by: Rev. Dr. A. N. Ipenburg (ipen@jayapura.wasantara.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

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