INASP Links & Resources
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Asia-specific: Major gateways

British Association for South Asian Studies-BASAS: Related WWW Sites
Provides links to General South Asia sites and resources, including media and newspapers, search engines and indexes, as well as country-specific sites. http://www.staff.brad.ac.uk/akundu/basas/  

Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
Hosted by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. this is an extensive list of on-line resources on Asia in general, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, together with links to journals/newspapers, dictionaries, libraries, videos, and art. http://www.aasianst.org/asiawww.htm

Asian Studies at the University of Texas
Provides links to Web sites on the individual countries of Asia, as well as more general and topic-specific resources, journals and newspapers, and more. http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic.html

Asian Studies Online Bookshops
An A-Z register of Web links to a large number of specialist publishers and booksellers with on-line information about Asian studies publications. Maintained by Irena M. Goltz. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/VLBookshops.html

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor
Edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, this is an excellent newsletter providing details of new Asian-focus Web sites and on-line resources, with each entry including a `self-description', a site contents outline, together with an evaluation in terms of scholarly usefulness. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Developed by the Australian National University, this is a major gateway to Asian and Asia-Pacific studies Internet resources, and provides access to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems, e-journals, and information retrieval tools; also includes links to individual country resources. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
Edited by T. Matthew Ciolek and Joe Bransford Wilson, this site keeps track of the major on-line sites and resources on Buddhism and Buddhist studies, including WWWs, databases, mailing lists, electronic newsletters and journals, and other networked resources. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

Centre for Library and Information Resources-Asian Institute of Technology (CLAIR/AIT)
Provides access to a wide range of resources and specialist databases, theses, and journals. etc. as well as the CLAIR on-line public access catalogue. http://www.library.ait.ac.th/ 

Council of East Asian Libraries (CEAL)
Useful information guides to the countries of East Asia, as well as links to major library collections on Asia (outsides Asia), library organizations, publishers, and commercial information providers. http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/ceal/  

Digital South Asia Library
A project of the Center for Research Libraries, this gateway site is a collaborative effort of leading US universities, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia. It provides a wide array of resources on South Asia, including dictionaries and other reference works, databases of photographs, maps, and manuscripts; statistical information from the colonial period to the present, electronic catalogues and finding aids, periodical indexes, electronic books and journals, and more. http://dsal.uchicago.edu/ 

India WWW Virtual Library
Provides extensive links to India information, the different states of India with Web pages, government sites, newsgroups and mailing lists, and Internet service providers in India. http://www.india.com.ar/  

Internet Resources for South Asian Studies
This links section on the Web site of the South Asia Library Group (SALG) is a good starting point for general and more specialist Internet resources, including on-line books, journals and newspapers. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/users/gae/NCOLR/salgsouth.htm

International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS)-Gateway to Asian Studies One of the best gateway sites for Asian Studies, with links to libraries, documentation centres, databases, as well as a directory of booksellers worldwide in the field of Asian studies. http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/

Libraries of Asia Pacific (LAP)
Aims to provide a single access point for information about the functions, services, and collections of libraries in Asia and the Pacific region. LAPs main section is a Directory of Libraries of Asia Pacific, and each library page has full address details, telephone and fax numbers, Email address, Web sites (where available) together with information on legislation, administration, size of collections, and services provided. http://www.nla.gov.au/lap/ 

South Asian Social Researchers' Forum (SASRF)
Provides links to general and more specialist Web sites likely to be of interest to those carrying out research in the social sciences, including links to associations, journals, and a number of Asian newspapers. http://www.staff.brad.ac.uk/akundu/sasrf/  

South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI) Maintained at Columbia University in New York, this extensive site includes links to libraries and bibliographic resources on South Asia, electronic journals and newspapers on South Asia, as well as the `International Directory of South Asia Scholars'. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/

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