Asia on the Web: Digital Resources for Asian Studies

Introduction

This guide, jointly produced by staff of the National Library and the Australian National University Library, is a sampler of the vast quantity of resources now available via the World Wide Web. A comprehensive overview of digital resources for Asia would involve a far larger project than has been undertaken here. The focus has been gateway sites (which will lead to a plethora of other available resources), digital collections and Australian resources. Some sites have been included to indicate the types and range of digital resources now available. General comprehensive sites, such as Yahoo and Google, have been omitted as these are well known and not Asia-specific. General Asia resources are listed first, followed by select resources for East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, and for some countries from each region. Sites for specific countries and regions that are accessible through the general Asia sites have not been listed separately for each country or region. Both freely accessible sites and subscription only sites have been included.

This guide has been prepared originally for the Asia Research Forum held in the National Library in October 2005. It will be revised and kept up-to-date by the staff of the two libraries.

Barbara Nelson (Menzies Library, ANU)

Wan Wong (National Library of Australia)


ASIA

(Resources are free unless otherwise indicated)

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR), based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Can be browsed by country and topic or searched by keyword.  Includes more than six thousand professionally selected, catalogued and annotated online resources with Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences. Covers Central Asia (including Iraq and Iran), South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, strong on government sites. A cooperative project of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/

2. Portals to the world, by Library of Congress

Links to electronic resources from around the world. Entries are listed alphabetically within broad subject categories for each country or region, or the whole collection can be searched by keyword. The links are selected and annotated by Library of Congress subject experts and are intended to provide authoritative, in-depth information.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

3. Asian WWW Virtual Library, hosted at the Australian National University

Provides links to individual pages for regions and countries in Asia, as well as a Meta-Resources Register, an E-Journals Register and the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. This subject guide to essential, authoritative, free, networked scholarly information resources is part of the WWW Virtual Library project, a distributed system maintained by volunteers.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

4. Wikipedia in Asian languages

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Databases

1. Aardvak Asian resources for librarians: Asian databases

Includes listings of both free and subscription databases. The list can searched by keyword, or browsed by country or topic. Created and maintained by IGroup, a multinational company based in Hong Kong.

http://www.aardvarknet.info/user/subject26/index.cfm?all=All

2. Bibliography of Asian studies (subscription)

Entries can be browsed by country/subject or searched by author, subject, journal title, or keyword. BAS includes citations to western-language publications on all subjects (particularly social sciences and humanities) relating to East, Southeast, and South Asia, published worldwide from 1971 onwards, including periodical articles, book chapters and conference proceedings, and individual monographs from 1971 through 1991.

http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/b/bas/

3. Proquest reference Asia (subscription)

Can be browsed by regions or subjects, or searched by keyword, publication and content type. A gateway service to geo-political, economic and business reference information on The Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, ASEAN Secretariat, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam. It includes news and current awareness sources; country information and statistics; biographical and institutional directories; policy and analytical materials; selected websites and content newly created for the service, covering national government structures, processes and activities.

http://asia.proquestreference.info/pqrasia

4. Repositories of Primary Resources: Asia and the Pacific

Listings, by country, of archive and other primary resource collections.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/asia.html

News

BBC World Service

News in 43 languages including 6 South Asian languages and 5 other Asia Pacific languages.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml

Australian resources

1. ICEAPS International Centre of Excellence in Asia Pacific Studies at the Australian National University

This website provides information on the Centre's aim and activities as well as links to major sites of Asia-Pacific studies in Australia. ICEAPS is a Federal Government initiative which aims to raise the profile of Asia-Pacific Studies in Australia.

http://iceaps.anu.edu.au/

2. Australian Consortium for the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network at Griffith University (ACASIAN)

Consortium has 22 universities as members. Specializes in GIS databases for Asia (especially China) and the former Soviet Union.

http://www.asian.gu.edu.au/index.html

3. University of Melbourne Theses on Asia, compiled by the University of Melbourne Library

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/asian-theses.html

E-journals

1. Intersections: gender, history & culture in the Asian context, published by Division of Arts, Murdoch University

http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/

2. International Institute for Asian Studies newsletter, from the Institute in the Netherlands

http://www.iias.nl/index.php?q=search/node/newsletter

3. Graduate journal of Asia-Pacific studies, University of Auckland

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/sites/index.cfm?P=5687

4. Asia-Pacific law & policy journal, published by University of Hawaii

http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/

5. Studies on Asia, by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University

http://www.isp.msu.edu/studiesonasia/

 


CHINA

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Internet Guide for Chinese Studies, compiled by Institute University of Heidelberg.

Although with a small European bias in some places, this is comprehensive and kept up-to-date by a dedicated librarian

http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/

2. Selected Internet resources on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, compiled by Chinese University of Hong Kong Library. Especially strong on vernacular resources

http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/electronic/region.htm

Full text journal databases

1. China: Index to Chinese Academic Journals Online (CNKI), a free index to over 6,000 Chinese language journals in all subject areas from 1993. Full text available to subscribing libraries (currently ANU, ANL and Melbourne University Library).

http://www.cnki.net  (search using Simplified Chinese)

2. Taiwan: PerioPath, by the National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan

A free index to over 2,700 journals published in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau that are in the National Central Library, Taiwan. Coverage is from 1994. Full text available for document delivery

http://readopac.ncl.edu.tw/html/frame1.htm (search using traditional Chinese)

3. Hong Kong: Index to Chinese Periodicals in Hong Kong (HKInChiP), by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

It is an online index for journal articles of over 150 Chinese and bilingual Chinese and English language periodicals published in Hong Kong mostly from 1990, although some journals are indexed back to 1950s. Full text available to Hong Kong researchers only

http://hkinchippub.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/  (search using traditional Chinese)

4. Hong Kong Journals Online, by University of Hong Kong Library

A full-text image database providing access to over 40 academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong.  Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. Earliest issue covered goes back to 1872

http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/

Australian resources

1. ANU Asia-Pacific Digital Collections, including the Cultural Revolution Archive

http://anulib.anu.edu.au/subjects/ap/digilib/

2. Chinese Heritage of Australia Federation project, hosted by La Trobe University

Goals include the recovery and presentation of historical materials and indexes concerning Chinese Australians and translation of Chinese-language historical documents

http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/

3. Digitisation at National Library of Australia: Taiping Rebellion materials in the London Missionary Society collection

http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/

Digitisation projects

1. Digitisation projects at National Library of China

NLC has digitised journals from the Republican period (1912-1949), some rare books including Dunhuang materials, minority language materials, dissertations, and local gazetteers.

http://www.nlc.gov.cn

2. China through western eyes (CTWE), University of Hong Kong Library Digital Initiative

A project to digitize and provide online access to materials written by Westerners about what they saw and encountered in China from about the 16th century until 1911.  Eventually CTWE will hold approximately 173,000 scanned pages from 389 titles in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Latin.

http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/db/ctwe/search.shtml

3. Han zi dian ji wen xian [Full text Chinese classics] by Academic Sinica, Taiwan

Full text of Chinese classics in 17 databases, some freely available. Major subject areas are history and literature.

http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3 (search using Traditional Chinese)

4. CHinese ANcient Texts database (CHANT), by Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, Institute of Chinese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Full text of Chinese ancient texts going back to oracle bones focusing on the comparison between different versions for textual analysis. For subscribing libraries only

http://www.chant.org

E-journals

List of e-journals related to Chinese studies compiled by the European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/chinaresource/ejournals/

China Heritage Newsletter: An up-to-date digest of recent developments in all major areas related to Chinese heritage

http://www.chinaheritagenewsletter.org

Online archive

Digital archive for Chinese studies (DACHS), by Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg

Archive of social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/

Blogs

Zhongguo bo ke wang

http://www.blogcn.com/

 


JAPAN

 

Integrated academic resources

Global Environment for Networked Intellectual Information (GeNii)

Academic content portal of the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Includes a union catalog, dissertation, repository of e-journals and online publications, etc.

http://ge.nii.ac.jp/genii/jsp/index.jsp

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Stanford guide to Japan information resources, by Stanford University http://jguide.stanford.edu/

2. University of Tokyo Library Index to Resources on Internet
http://resource.lib.u-tokyo.ac.jp/iri/url_search.cgi

3. Web Japan: Gateway to general information about Japan with useful online maps, statistics and region / city home pages.

http://web-jpn.org/index.html

Full text resources

1. Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

Digital archive set up under Japan National Archives to enable access through the Internet to materials from collections kept by various ministries and agencies of the Japanese Government on the modern history of relations between Japan and various other countries, primarily neighboring Asian countries

http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/index.html

2. Aozora Bunko: Full text of 4,800 literary works out of copyright, or contemporary works where the author relinquished copyright

http://www.aozora.gr.jp/ (In Japanese)

3. Net De Hyaka Encyclopaedia (Subscription)

A web-based encyclopaedia containing 83,000 terms and 10,000 graphics. This is an  online version of the Digital Gekkan (Digital Monthly Encyclopaedia) and Sekai Dai Hyakka Jiten (World Encyclopaedia Dictionary) published by Heibon sha in Japan. 

4. Nikkei Telecom 21 (Subscription)

A web-based database in Japanese with some English, offering access to full-text articles from major Japanese newspapers from 1985. It gives access to real-time news, financial market updates and corporate data on a wide range of Japan's listed and unlisted companies.

5. Nikkei Net Interactive (Subscription)

Web-based (English language) Japanese news and financial market updates, including corporate information on all Japanese listed Overseas Trading Companies (OTC).

Databases

1. Index to Gordon W. Prange Collection at University of Maryland

The Prange collection consists of  magazines, newspapers and books published in Japan during the post-war occupation period from 1945 to 1949

http://www.prangedb.jp/ (Free registration is required. In Japanese)

2. Book Plus (Subscription)

A web-based database offering access to 1.68 million bibliographical records of Japanese publications from 1925.  Tables of contents and content summaries are also provided for books published after 1986

3. WHO (Subscription)

A biographic and bibliographic dictionary containing information on 440,600 eminent Japanese from all walks of life. It also offers citations to 1.9 million publications. Coverage starts from 1868

Periodical indexes

1. Zasshi kiji sakuin Most comprehensive periodicals index, going back to 1948. Created and maintained by the National Diet Library. Freely available online.

http://opac.ndl.go.jp/

2. Nichigai Magazin Plus
Updated twice a month, it provides in-depth coverage of mainstream journals after 1975; complements Zasshi kiji sakuin. Access by subscription only. NLA, ANU and Monash University Library have subscription

http://web.nichigai.co.jp/

Australian resources

1. Australia–Japan Research Project: by Australian War Memorial

http://ajrp.awm.gov.au/

2. Directory of Japanese studies in Australia and New Zealand. Canberra : Japan Foundation in association with the Australia-Japan Research Centre, 2004 edition Rev. ed. Free full-text available at:

http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/pdf/ajrc/Jap_studies_directory.pdf

 

Digitisation projects

1. The Japanese Text Initiative: full text of classical Japanese literature, by the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library

http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/

2. Kindai Digital Library

Digitisation of the whole of National Diet Library’s holdings on the Meiji (1868-1912) period. A total of 102,000 titles in 169,000 volumes. Project due to be completed at end of 2005

http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/index.html

3. Japanese Historical map digitization project at East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley

Over 600 maps were digitized from 2,300 map collections. The collection was acquired from Mitsui family in 1949.

http://www.davidrumsey.com/japan/

 

E-journals

1. Electronic journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (EJCJS)

www.japanesestudies.org.uk

2. Early modern Japan: an interdisciplinary journal, published by Ohio State University

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/583

 


KOREA

Integrated academic resource

The National Digital Library

Integrated search of  libraries’ catalogues (including national, parliament and academic libraries) and document supply service for science & technology materials

http://www.dlibrary.go.kr/

Comprehensive subject gateway

1. Korea Knowledge Portal

Encompasses various portals and sites for national affairs, news and encyclopedia

http://www.knowledge.go.kr/200509/html/main/main.jsp (searching in Korean only)

2. Korea.net: Gateway to Korea

Up-to-date information on Korea provided by Korean government for foreign visitors. Site available in other languages

http://www.korea.net/

3. Korean Internet resources, by University of Hawaii at Manoa Library

http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/korea/internet.htm#Directories

4. Korean resources, by University of Michigan Library

http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/

Periodical indexes

1. KINDS (Korean Integrated News Database System), by Korea Press Foundation

Free full-text searching of over 10 million articles from 181 media sources covering all major newspapers in South Korea. Some newspapers date back to 1896

http://www.kinds.or.kr/ (for Korean language sources)

http://www.kinds.or.kr/eng/index.jsp (for English language dailies)

2. DBpia: index and abstract of Korean journals, by Kyobo (the biggest publisher in Korea)

Commercial database covering all subject areas. Full text by subscription only

http://www.dbpia.co.kr/

Databases

1. KISS (Korean Studies Information Services), by Korean Studies Information Co.

Commercial database of dissertations from 1200 institutions. This company also has an e-book product.

http://kiss.kstudy.com/

2. KERIS (Korean Education Research Information Service)

Free searching of articles published by universities, dissertations published in Korea and overseas universities, union catalogue of monographs and ebooks in university libraries; includes searching of Japanese university libraries. Free sign up, but full text of some dissertations are only available for fee

http://www.riss4u.net/index.jsp

Subject resources

1. Korean History On-line: portal to the resources of the Data Center for Korean History

http://kh2.koreanhistory.or.kr/front/index.jsp

2. Korean Studies database

Resources on modern history from 1945

http://www.kdatabase.com/index.aspx

3. Korean history: a bibliography compiled by Kenneth R. Robinson, ICU, Japan; hosted by Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii

http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm

4. Korea Economic Institute (Washington D.C., U.S.A.)

Has economic data for both North and South Korea, plus links to related sites

http://www.keia.org/

5. Click Korea: access to Korean art & culture, hosted by Korea Foundation.

Also has sections on Korean studies information

http://www.clickkorea.org/index.asp

Blogs

Korean Blog

http://www.koreanblog.com/

 

NORTH KOREA

Comprehensive subject gateway

1. North Korea information (payment required for full text)

http://www.kplibrary.com/

2. Official web page of DPRK, by Korean Friendship Foundation

http://www.korea-dpr.com

3. DPRKorea Infobank

http://www.dprkorea.com

Periodical index

KP journal

Index to 18 academic journals published in North Korea. Full text available for fee

http://www.nkdb.com/

Subject resources

1. North Korea biography (payment required for full text)

http://www.kppeople.com/

2. Information Center on North Korea

Has resources on North Korea and Reunification issue

http://unibook.unikorea.go.kr

E-journal

Pyongyang Report, available from Tim Beal, University of Victoria Wellington

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/%7Ecaplabtb/dprk/pyr_index.html

 


SOUTHEAST ASIA

Databases

BERITA (Subscription)

Produced by staff of the Southeast Asia Collection, Ohio University Library. Indexes materials not indexed elsewhere, including books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and selected unpublished sources covering Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Southeast Asia as a whole. Covers all subject areas. Materials are predominately in English and Malay.

Subject resources

1. Modern literature of Southeast Asia: research portal, by Prof Teri Shaffer Yamada, California State University, Long Beach

http://members.freespeech.org/southeast-asian-literature/

2. Southeast Asia women’s studies bibliography, by University of California Berkeley library

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/seatabl.html

Australian resources

Southeast Asian Serials Database, jointly by Australian National University Library and the KITLV Library in the Netherlands

Provides access to bibliographic information on articles and reviews from over 100 academic journals with a special focus on Southeast Asia.

http://anulib.anu.edu.au/sasi/new/index.php

 

E-journals

1. Kyoto review of Southeast Asia, by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue5/index.html

 


INDONESIA

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Indonesia Internet Sites, by the Jakarta Office, National Library of Australia. Especially strong in vernacular resources. Kept up-to-date by a dedicated librarian

http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/indo/indsites.html

2. Indonesian homepage

http://indonesia.elga.net.id/

3. Portal Republik Indonesia

Official government web site

http://www.indonesia.go.id/

4. Access Indonesia Project, jointly by the University of Southern California and Institute of Technology, Bandung

Aims to identify, collect and collate information on Indonesia using advanced technology (Web-GIS, multimedia, etc.). Has some full-text resources.

http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~indo/

Periodical index

Excerpta Indonesica, by KITLV (Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology), the Netherlands

A searchable database that provides access to references with abstracts for periodical articles, books, book chapters, and bibliographies on Indonesia in the field of social sciences and humanities. Older issues are also on CD-ROM

http://tlvlbs.leidenuniv.nl:8080/IMPLAND=Y/SRT=YOP/LNG=EN/DB=1.7/

Databases

1. Indonesian Learned Periodicals Database (Subscription – Informit)

Indexes more than 1,280 Indonesian journals on all subject areas, as well as seminar papers on science and technology that were organised in Indonesia. Covers 1980-April 1998

2.  Indonesian Research Report Database (Subscription – Informit)

Indexes research reports and survey reports in Indonesia.  Covers 1980-April 2000

3. Indonesian Digital Library Network, hosted by Institute of Technology Bandung Library

Theses and dissertations on science and technology from Indonesian universities. http://idln.lib.itb.ac.id/

Subject resources

1. Bibliography of sources for the study of the Dutch East Indies, by the University of Washington Libraries

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/incol.html

2. Indonesian law

Full text of Indonesian law for 1950 onwards

http://bebas.vlsm.org/v01/RI/uu/index.html

3. International Islamic Digital Library, by National Library of Malaysia

http://www.iidl.net/

Australian resources

1. Intan Mas database (Subscription)

Online access to references on the literature on East Timor, Eastern Indonesia, and Australia's relationships with Southeast Asia, and with ASEAN and its member nations. Books, journal articles and dissertations in Bahasa Indonesia and Western languages are included. By Charles Darwin University

2. Meta-guide to Indonesia: annotated bibliography of post-1990 bibliographies on Indonesia, by George Miller. Hosted by Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html

3. Balinese manuscript collection index

http://anulib.anu.edu.au/online/bali/

 

E-journals

1. Indonesian studies newsletter of the Asian Studies Association of Australia

http://intranet.usc.edu.au/wacana/isn.html

2. Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, ANU

http://rspas.anu.edu.au/economics/bies/

3. Caraka the messenger, a newsletter for Javanists, Leiden University

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/caraka/

Online archive

Apakabar database

ca. 175,000 postings from Indonesia public affairs discussion list (1990-2002)

http://www.library.ohiou.edu/indopubs/briefhistory.html (English or Indonesian)

 


THAILAND

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Thailand: an annotated directory of Internet resources, compiled by Robert Y. Eng

Part of the website "East & Southeast Asia : an annotated directory of Internet resources". Very comprehensive and up-to-date with highlighted resources

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/thailand.html

2. Thailand Quest.com

An information and resource guide including news clips on Thailand

http://www.thailandquest.com/

3. National News Bureau, Public Relations Department, Thai government

http://thainews.prd.go.th/newsenglish/index.php

Databases

1. Research Library of National Research Council of Thailand

A national depository of research reports, theses. Can search for research reports, theses, journals and journal articles (144,520 volumes as of August 2005) 

http://www.riclib.nrct.go.th/index_e.html

2. Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University

Access to the University’s digital resources and other online resources such as index to theses and journals articles

http://www.car.chula.ac.th/

3. Databases on statistics, population, education, public health, labour force, etc., by Chulalongkorn University

http://www.data.cusri.chula.ac.th/

4. Technical Information Access Center (TIAC)

Provides science & technology information including theses

http://www.tiac.or.th/

Periodical index

Thai journal index, hosted by University of Washington Library

Index to 6 Thai language journals. Not current

http://content-dev.lib.washington.edu/thaiindexweb/index.html

Reference tools

Online Thai-English dictionary from NECTEC (National Electronics and Computer Technology Center)

http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/

Subject resources

1. Thai politics bibliography, compiled by Dr Michael Nelson at the King Prajadhipok’s Institute, Thailand

An annotated list of useful English language resources

http://el.kpi.ac.th/kpien/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=5&id=18&Itemid=27

2. Thai women studies bibliography, by University of California Berkeley Library

A list of comprehensive English language resources (printed and electronic)

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SoutheastAsia/seathai.html

3. Union catalogue of these on Thai economy, by Thailand Development Research Institute

http://www.info.tdri.or.th/

4. Hmong Studies Center (U.S.A.)

Has useful and extensive links on Hmong studies

http://www.hmongstudies.org/

5. Royal Thai Government web site

http://www.thaigov.go.th

 


VIETNAM

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. Vietnam: an annotated directory of Internet resources, compiled by Robert Y. Eng

Resources are grouped by broad categories, some with sub-categories. Part of the website "East & Southeast Asia : an annotated directory of Internet resources".

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/vietnam.html

2. Vietnam Studies Group, Sub-Committee of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, hosted by the University of Washington

Provides resources and information for scholarly research, study, and teaching about Vietnam.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/southeastasia/vsg/

3. VietGATE: gateway to the online Vietnamese community

Categorized by subject and also searchable. Self-described as the definitive guide to all things Vietnamese on the Internet.

http://www.vietgate.net/

News

1. SaigonBao.com

A comprehensive list of media, including newspapers, radio and television, published in Vietnamese or related to Vietnam, and published in Vietnam or overseas.

http://www.saigonbao.com/

2. Radio Australia : Vietnamese service

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/viet/

Australian resources

1. Australia Viet Nam Science-Technology Link, supported by Coombs Computing Unit at the Australian National University

Hosts a discussion list and has links to other resources and to full text documents. Designed to assist Vietnamese scientists find their own solutions to development problems.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/avsl.html

2. Tien ve

An online centre for the arts (including literature, music, visual and performing arts) whose principal activities are presenting new creative works and organizing debates on aesthetic and artistic issues.

http://www.tienve.org/

Online archives

1. The Viet Nam pictures archives

Multimedia archive with access to images and sound distributed among the following categories: scenery, people, arts, monuments, history and poetry.

http://www.ibiblio.org/vietnam/vnpic.html

2. Virtual Vietnam Archive, hosted by the Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University

Provides public access to a large, significant collection of records of the Vietnam War.

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/

Reference tool

VDict (Vietnamese dictionary online)

Includes the indexes of many Vietnamese dictionaries; supports Vietnamese-English, English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-French, French-Vietnamese, Vietnamese to Vietnamese and English-English (Wordnet).

http://vdict.com/

Subject resources

1. Cô?ng Thông Tin Diê?n Tu? Chi?nh Phu? (Vietnam Government information portal)

Portal to all Vietnam government department websites.

http://www.egov.gov.vn/

2. VietLaw

Lists nearly all Vietnamese legal documents from 1945 up to today.

http://www.luatvietnam.com.vn/

3. VECON Vietnamese Economics Network

Contains links to references, Internet resources, directories, glossaries and a billboard. The main purpose is to further communications among economists doing research on Vietnam.

http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/%7Evecon/index.html

4. VNLP Viet Nam Literature Project

Presents works of Vietnamese literature at no charge in English translation, with supporting materials aimed at young people.

http://www.vietnamlit.org/

5. The Vi?t Nam Cultural Profile

Deals with several topics on Vi?t Nam, including geography, history, government, population, language, society, economy, religion and education. A collaborative project between Visiting Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Information of Vi?t Nam with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.

http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/Viet_Nam/Directories/Vi_ACYAIw-7879_ADs-t_Nam_Cultural_Profile/-1497.html

 


SOUTH ASIA / INDIA

South Asian studies- networks and web resources, Association for Asian Studies Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)

A paper and report on South Asia Library Information Network February 2004 (Published in the Asian Studies Newsletter, Feb 2004) by Rajwant S. Chilana. A very useful starting point for Internet resources, divided into Networks, Projects, Institutions, Associations, Subscription Databases, Online Collections, South Asian OPACs and Miscellaneous.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/Lib/i/salin2004.html

Comprehensive subject gateways

1. ASNIC India links and resources, provided by the Asian Studies program at the University of Texas

Includes essays and articles on the history, geography and culture of India.

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/india/

2. Electronic resources [for South Asia], maintained by University of California at Berkeley Library

Annotated list of links to electronic resources, including web sites, electronic texts and mailing lists, for South Asia. There are separate pages for South Asia, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/wsaonlin.html

3. Khoj India directory

This site has a directory structure and is also searchable. Part of the Open Directory Project, which claims to be the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web and aims to become the definitive catalogue of the web. It is constructed and maintained by volunteer editors.

http://www.khoj.com/

4. South Asia websites, British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)

A view from the UK.

http://www.staff.brad.ac.uk/akundu/basas/websites.html

5. Web dunia

A subject gateway available in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam.

http://www.webdunia.com/

Australian resources

1. Digital Colonial Documents Project (India), hosted by La Trobe University

Intends to promote study of the rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of the notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period. Includes searchable documents about British India and the Census of India Reports from 1871-1901. A joint project of La Trobe University, Curtin University, The University of New England and the University of Sydney

http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/dcd/default.htm

2. South Asia Resources Database, hosted by Curtin University

A database listing South Asian materials in Australian libraries. Part of the South Asia: Renovating the National Collection project.

http://recall.curtin.edu.au/data/saru/sard.htm

Digitisation projects

1. Digital Library of India, hosted by Indian Institute of Science, Carnegie Mellon University and ERNET

Over 80,000 titles have been scanned in Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Marathi, English, German, Greek and Arabic, and more than 50% of these are downloadable. Part of the Million Book Project, which is the first major project of The Universal Library hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.dli.ernet.in/

2. Digital South Asia Library, hosted by the University of Chicago

Provides digital materials, including dictionaries, for reference and research on South Asia. A project of the Center for Research Libraries.

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

3. The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress New Delhi Office

A digital collection of literary recordings, in seventeen of the languages spoken in the region, by leading South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights with photographs and biographic data. An on-going project, part of the Library of Congress' Archive of Recorded World Literature.

http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/

Online archive

GRETIL - Göttingen register of electronic texts in Indian languages, a project of the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen

A register and archive of electronic texts, mostly religious texts, language grammars, and reference resources, all freely available for scholarly purposes. Also provides access to a large number of transliterated texts, primarily in Pali, Sanskrit, and Tamil.

http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/

 

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