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  • 公害問題の研究者、宇井純寄贈の公害に関する資料のインデックスをデータベース化したもの。
  • An online resource of information and services of common interest on National Aboriginal Organizations, 12 Federal Government departments with Aboriginal mandates, all Provincial Governments and organizations with Aboriginal responsibilities, as well as all related Aboriginal community information.
  • The Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory is the prime gateway to 505 high quality resources for the study of Judaism, including access to library catalogs and to databases like RAMBI (the Index of Articles in Jewish Studies).
  • Access to Russian Archives is an online database containing descriptions of approximately 80,000 archival fonds (record groups) from more than 20 guidebooks on Russian federal archives and 40 regional archives published from 1987 to 2004. Both printed and handwritten guides are available in digital formats, providing the most comprehensive access to the holdings of the entire Russian archive system in one simple, user-friendly electronic format.
  • Ad*Access contains images from over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955, concentrating on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
  • African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each …
  • Online archival collection of three African-American women: Elizabeth Johnson Harris, Vilet Lester and Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson. Includes letters about slavery, poems, vignettes, and memoirs.
  • International population reports, focusing on the numbers, proportions, and growth rates (past, current, and projected) of the elderly population. Summarizes socioeconomic statistics for both developed and developing nations, focusing primarily on people aged 65 years old and over.
  • Provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada and Mexico. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers).
  • American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, …
  • Large collection of materials related to the study of the American Presidency. Including complete Public Papers of the Presidents from Herbert Hoover (1929) to the present. Also includes large archive of sound and video clips of American presidents.
  • Contains a searchable speech bank with audio and movie clips as well as materials for scholars and teaching aids.
  • The University of Virginia's American Studies Programs's website of diverse resources, which includes access to primary sources and research projects.
  • A National Nonpartisan Center to Research, Reflect, and Report on American Government. The Scripps Library's collection is a specialized one focused on American politics and history with special attention paid to the American Presidency.
  • Self-description: "The maps included in this database are from the Special Collections of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library. The Antique Maps of China collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural …
  • Covers "...major sections of the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic information system for archival repositories in the Russian Federation, maintained in Moscow under the direction of Patricia Kennedy Grimsted with cooperation from the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv--before March 2004, Federal Archival Service of Russia) and the State Public Historical Library (GPIB). The present information, presented in English by the …
  • The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC allows you to perform a keyword, digitized image and location search. ARC's advanced functions also allow you to search by organization, person, or topic.
  • Contains nearly a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
  • Electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related. More texts are available in the Armenian and Russian sections of the library.
  • Japanese only. 日本国内の展覧会情報、美術家検索、展覧会検索データベースなど。
  • Self escription: "Country profiles provide a quick guide to the history, politics and economic background of Asian and Asia-Pacific countries."
  • This page is part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and represents the most comprehensive catalog of Asia-focus electronic serials.
  • Founded in 1941, the Association for Asian Studies—the largest society of its kind in the world—is a scholarly, non-political, and non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia.
  • These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus.
  • Balkanalysis.com is one of the leading independent news and analysis groups on the Balkans today, online since 2003 and utilizing a growing corps of writers and researchers from regional countries as well as from elsewhere in Europe and the United States. At present, our coverage focuses primarily on Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Kosovo, though other countries and supranational topics are covered too.
  • Self-description: "A comprehensive annotated bibliography of Chinese and Western sources on Taiwanese culture and literature." Site contents: (1) Taiwanese Literature, Literary History and Literary Criticism; (2) Selected Bibliography: Taiwanese Literature in German Speaking Countries 1970-2000; (3) The PRC and its neighbours: Taiwan; (4) Selected Bibliography: The Southern Min Language of Taiwan and Related Dialects.
  • Provides a selected bibliography to Chicana (and a few Latina) authors who, in Esquibel's words, "deal with romantic and/or erotically charged relationships between women, and/or lesbian or bisexual characters."
  • Self-description: "This is a working bibliography of translations from the Chinese Canon with the aim of later inputting these to enable parallel reading of the original and the translation. Generally, I have limited it to translations that were done from the Chinese, or with the help of a Chinese version (in case of doubt they were included). Translations from languages other than Chinese were in principle not included or mentioned only in …
  • The homepage of the Polish National Library in Warsaw. Provides free access to their online catalog and Polish periodical databases.
  • Hundreds of links to resources, internet sites, organizations and courses on the British Empire. Covers all areas: Africa, Asia,Middle East and North America.
  • Bunken, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive research establishment operated by a broadcasting station. Includes survey reports on the variety of subjects. NHK放送文化研究所の調査研究成果を公開。NHK世論調査、国民生活時間調査報告書など。
  • The Library of Congress has extensive and varied resources related to the campaign for woman suffrage in the United States. This selection of 38 pictures includes portraits of many individuals who have been frequently requested from the holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division and the Manuscript Division. Also featured are photographs of suffrage parades, picketing suffragists, and an anti-suffrage display, as well as cartoons …
  • 東京国立近代美術館、京都国立近代美術館、国立西洋美術館、国立国際美術館が2008年3月末までに収蔵した所蔵作品の総合目録が検索できるデータベース。一部画像有り。 This database covers the collections of the National Museum of Modern ArtTokyo, the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, the National Museum of Western Art Tokyo and the National Museum of Art Osaka. Some records …
  • Comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all things Canadian.
  • CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet, for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online database consisting of contemporary and historical texts from many areas, including literature and the other arts.
  • Provides a global perspective on Central Asia studies, and to provide a key point of access to highly dispersed resources in this field. It seeks to provide basic information which is useful to both "beginners" and "experts", encompassing all fields of the social sciences and humanities wherever in the world people engage in such study.
  • Provides graphic display of geographic data (down to the raion and city levels) on population and labor, social services, business, industry and agriculture, investments, transportation and communication, trade, finances and prices for the Russian Federation and other countries of Central Eurasia. Dates of coverage for the Russian Federation range from 1996 to 1998, and will soon be updated through 2000, including electoral data from …
  • The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project was launched on January 8th 2001, with funding from the Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The CHGIS is a database of historical administrative units for different periods in Chinese History, and provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units …
  • This guide is part of the official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and offers an annotated list of Internet sites dealing with Greater China (i.e. PR China, Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore). Topics include News Media, Politics, Business and Economy, Society, Philosophy and Religion, History, Literature, Culture, Language, Bibliographies, Academic Institutions, Libraries, E-Journals, Booksellers and Publishers, and more. (Editor's …
  • It has 8,500+ links to China/Chinese web sites, and it is updated daily.
  • "A very useful annotated bibliography [compiled by the Library of the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - ed.] with some short but valuable introductory notes, compiled in 1999 and last revised in October 2000. - hl." Site contents: (1) Archaeology; (2) Architecture; (3) Bronzes / Metalworks; (4) Buddhist and Daoist Art; (5) Calligraphy; (6) Ceramics; (7) Contemporary Art; (8) Furniture; (9) General Works; (10) Gardens; …
  • This site provides information about using the Chinese language on Apple Macintosh computers.--self description
  • Self-description: "[...] a bibliography of Western language works on Chinese popular religion published since 1995, arranged in 20 subject categories. The coverage is complete for the years 1995 to 1997; for the years 1998 to 2000 I am continuously adding new items. To my knowledge, this is the only such bibliographic resource for the study of Chinese popular religion." (Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778)
  • Self-description: "Unlike many Internet resources, this bibliography aims to incorporate both traditional style printed works and on-line resources.[...] Religious culture in China is taken by me to refer to those activities (includin g writing) in sinitic (or sinitic influenced) culture that give meaning to birth, disease, life and death, or that provide explanations and solutions to all kinds of problems by invoking an extra-human referent …
  • Self-description: "A dictionary-database of CJK characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history of pre-modern texts, from Zhou dynasty materials to 19th century writings. Including information on Chinese terminology derived from Confucianism, Daoism, secular literature, poetry, and historical works."
  • Database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. It also contains a large number of papers that are available free of charge, and the search function can be used without registration. In viewing paid content, special rates and other privileges are offered to …
  • A fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare and unique library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. Included are oral interviews with civil rights leaders, manuscripts and photographs relating to the Civil Rights Movement.
  • An essential online bibliographies of Chinese studies. The site contains: Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography; Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies; Dictionaries; Selected List Of Bibliographical & Geographical Aids ; Biographical Aids; Some Aids For Translating Chinese Official Titles & Institutions; Reference Guide to Classical Book Titles; The Four Parts; Bibliography of Chinese Classics & Literature In …
  • This website contains two databases of digital images from the holdings of the National Diet Library -- Digital Library from the Meiji Era and Rare Books Image Database -- and a third database for the Web Archiving Project (WARP), an experimental project that collects and preserves websites and online periodicals on the Internet as cultural heritage. (English available only on the menu page)
  • The database provides access to primary sources from the institutions listed as publishers documenting the peoples who have immigrated to this area along the Columbia River Basin. Focus is placed on recent immigrants to the area, including those of African, Asian, European or Latin American heritage.
  • This database provides constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet. Search by country name.
  • 'Since the 1990s, Japan has been debating new proposals to revise Nihon Koku Kenpō, the postwar constitution, and this debate has led to significant political activity and civic engagement . . . . Founded in 2005, the Constitutional Revision Research Project meets to discuss, analyze, and document the process of constitutional revision in Japan. In addition, the project seeks to situate the contemporary process of constitutional revision in …
  • This database contains some 5,500 items of American campaign memorabilia from 1789-1960 that comprise the Susan H. Douglas Collection at Cornell. Inlcuded are such items as ballots, buttons, broadsides, cartoons, maps and charts, pamphlets, posters, prints, ribbons, sheet music, songbooks, textiles, and wearing apparel.
  • Information about the CEAL, its activities and publications, about library resources on East Asia, and comprehensive listing of links for China, Japan, North and South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
  • The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
  • The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of 101 countries throughout the world. Library of Congress links to electronic resources from around the world. This Web site contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.
  • This is a list of CRL's uncataloged China studies related materials, and significant sets. Titles include "The Complete records of the mission of General George C. Marshall to China, December 1945-January 1947 [microform]"; "Dunhuang xie jing 敦煌寫經"; "Hunter Collection"; "Manchuria. Official gazettes"; "Missionary periodicals from the mainland China"; "Zheng fu gong bao 政府公報"; "Taiwan tu di ji nong ye wen ti zi liao. 50 vols …
  • Details CRL's uncataloged collections and lists significant sets related to Eastern Europe, including microfilm of newspapers, Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to the internal affairs and political relations of Poland, the Balkans States, and Yugoslavia. Also contains microfilm of press summaries in English from 1963 to June, 1972 (Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia)
  • This is a list of CRL's uncataloged Korea studies related materials, and significant sets. Titles include "Han'guk kundae sasang ch'ongso" ; "Han'guk kunse sahoe ky'ongje saryo ch'ongso" ; "Imanishi hakushi shushu Chosenbon : Tenri Toshokan shozo" ; "Korea. Chosen Sotokufu kanpo" ; "U.S. Department of State. Records relating to the internal affairs of Korea, 1930-1954" ; "United States. Embassy (Korea). Despatches from United States ministers …
  • The topic guides available here detail CRL's uncataloged collections and list significant sets in a subject arrangement. The entries in these guides are of two types: the main entry of a specific bibliographic item; or, a collection component, a geographic name, or grouping of materials that can be described in a scope note.
  • Holdings conists mainly of US Dept. of State documents regarding the Middle East from 1930-1960 in microform held by Center for Research Libraries
  • Finding aids on microfiche for Archives and manuscript collections in the USSR; Records of the U.S. Department of State relating to commercial relations between the United States and Russia/the Soviet Union, 1910-1949; Documents of the Russian parliament from 1906-1917. The microfilm also contains an index; British Parliamentary Papers on the Russian Empire, 1854-1899; microfiche of titles in the humanities and social sciences deposited in the …
  • This guide details U.S. government documents held by the Center for Research Libraries
  • A user can search a database containing brief explanations and images of cultural assets of Japan.
  • This selective English-language bibliography is based mainly on materials published in the United States. The main source for the selection of the monographs was the Library of Congress computerized catalog. Periodical articles were selected from ca. 70 periodicals, most of them published in America.
  • Self-description: "[...] a scholarly, non-profit, Internet resource for Daoist Studies that aims to foster international scholarly communication about the study of Daoism. [...] This website aims to publish information regarding the texts, practices, beliefs and social history of Daoism as part of this integral (though complex and diverse) living religious tradition."
  • The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 8,800 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to …
  • "The Degital Library from the Meiji Era enables you to see the digital images of books published in the Meiji and Taisho eras (1868-1926) on the Internet through a PC in your home or office. To make the search for a book more efficient, tables of contents as well as titles are searchable." -- pamphlet. 国会図書館が所蔵する明治・大正期刊行図書のデジタル・ライブラリー。約15万冊を公開。
  • This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources.
  • The Digital Library of Slovenia is a web portal providing ready access to knowledge and cultural treasures. It offers free searching of text, visual and sound resources, which means that you can read, watch and listen to the resources.
  • An ongoing database project of Chinese handscroll paintings in digital format. Currently the database includes some paintings collected by the Univ. of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, St. Louis Art Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The database project will expand to related areas of art, including Japaese and Korean paintings.
  • Digital editions of the older Serbian newspapers: Politika (1904-1941); Zenit (1921-1926); Novine srbske (iz carstvujusćeg grada Viene (1813-1821); Novine Čitališta beogradskog (1847-1848); Vila (1865-1868); Javor (1862-1863); Danica (1860-1872); Sedmica (1852-1858); Matica (1865-1870); Neven (1884-1914); Beogradske ilustrovane novine (1866); Orao (1875-1902); Srpska zora (1876-1881); Srpske ilustovane novine (1881-1882) Novi …
  • NGO's, trade unions, faith-based organizations, indigenous peoples movements, foundations and research centers, sustainable development, poverty, financial sector and microfinance, trade and business development services, rural development and appropriate technology, private sector development and policy reforms, legislation and rule of law and good governance, community development and social protection, gender equality and participation, …
  • This database provides access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern (U.S.) history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
  • Provides links to documents useful for the study of American history. Includes treaties, maps, charters, illustrations, and government publications.
  • The Current Bibliography, published annually within Dostoevsky Studies, was first compiled under the editorship of Martin Rice (1971-1985), followed by June Pachuta Farris (1986-current). It attempts to be the most complete and up-to-date international bibliography of recent Dostoevsky research published, and to be as nearly inclusive as possible of all material published from 1970 through the current year. However, with some exceptions, book …
  • It is a database of bibliographies on Dunhuang studies. A printed book was published in 2000 under the same title 《敦煌學研究論著目錄》(1908-1997), now it is made into an online searchabel database by Chungzheng University professors 鄭阿財教授 and 朱鳳玉教授。 There are 12,000 bibliographies on Dunhuang subject of periodical and newspapers articles, essays, dissertations, thesises, conference papers that were …
  • Established in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance, Dziennik Zwiazkowy continues to be published today as the Polish Daily News. This database includes the first ten years (1908-1917) of publication, which represent local, national and international issues of utmost concern to the Polish community of Chicago at that time.
  • This website provides the images of the art works preserved by National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties of National Museum. The images are divided into nine genres according to the characteristics. (Japanese and English)
  • EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. EarthTrends gathers data from the world’s leading statistical agencies, along with WRI-generated maps and analyses, into a single database for rapid searching and retrieving.
  • Annotated directory of resources for the political units of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), Asian Americans, and current hot topics such as the North Korean nuclear crisis and the Avian Flu epidemic. Grouped by country and by political, social, cultural and economic categories. …
  • The Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center promotes the learning and teaching of languages, cultures and humanities at the University of Kansas through the use of technology and other instructional media. Their online catalog makes their resources accessible to all.
  • Gateway to online sources for international law, search by keyword or browse by general topic areas.
  • Catalog of formally published online Canadian books and journals.
  • Literary texts in the western European languages other than English.
  • This database makes the 25 million immigrant arrival records in the Ellis Island Archives available to everyone. It also includes information about the immigration experience and genealogy.
  • This database includes over 9,000 images relating to the early history of advertising in the U.S. Materials digitized are from the Rare Book, MAnuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.
  • Covers all countries and cultures between Mauritania in the west and Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in the south.
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine is the most comprehensive work in the English language on Ukraine, its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage. This site was created and is updated/maintained by a team of scholars and editors from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) (University of Alberta/University of Toronto). Hundreds of specialists from around the world have contributed and continue to contribute to …
  • International section provides data, statistical reports, forecasts ans analyses. Analyses include country energy profiles, chronologies of energy events, international energy security, and other special topics.
  • This web page provides access to the images of Ukiyo-e preserved by the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum. (English only on the menu)
  • The site is designed to facilitate research on the politics and economics of transition states in the post-communist world. You will find thousands of links to governmental and non-governmental web sites based in post-communist states, fonts to install on your computer, and other resources.
  • Russian Internet TV
  • EUFocus: a bi-monthly newsletter that provides in-depth treatment of important European issues and the transatlantic relationship.
  • A bi-monthly publication, EU Insight provides timely coverage of EU news with special attention to EU/US relations
  • EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union (http://europa.eu). It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties.
  • A site with sound clips from a great number of the worlds languages and dialects.
  • Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. It covers areas in the …
  • Provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs, just in its core. LIMITED ACCESS (limited to 4000 records in a search).
  • Consumer information from the GSA a trusted, one-stop source for answers to questions about Federal agencies, programs and services. FCIC maintains close ties with more than 100 different federal offices, agencies and departments, as well as many consumer and trade organizations. It includes information about frauds, scams, and product recalls.
  • FedStats provides access to official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them. It uses the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. All of the statistical information available through FedStats is …
  • A part of "Prints & Photographs Online Catalog" (PPOC) provided by the Library of Congress. Includes "more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, by such artists as Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. Subjects include actors, women, landscapes, scenes from Japanese literature and daily life, and Western foreigners. Many schools and traditions are represented, but …
  • The Journal of the Slavic & East European Folklore Association. Published since 1997, SEEFA covers all aspects Slavic and Eastern European folkloric tradition. International in scope. Content in English.
  • A digitized version of the U.S. Department of State publication 'Foreign Relations of the United States' which is an official record of major U.S. Foreign Policy decisions as have been declassified and edited for publication. This collection is an incomplete run of the series from 1961-1960. Materials from the Truman Administration (1945) up through the Nixon Administration (1972) are available from the official U.S. Department of State FRUS …
  • A digitized version of the U.S. Department of State publication 'Foreign Relations of the United States' which is an official record of major U.S. Foreign Policy decisions as have been declassified and edited for publication. Online full-text materials range from the Truman Administration (1945) up through the Nixon Administration (1972). Other FRUS materials are also available from a digital library project at the University of …
  • Full-text journal articles delivery service. Self description: "This Digital Document Delivery Center provides free delivery of full-text copies of Chinese-language academic journal articles to any researcher in the United States. This award-winning Center is administered by the East Asian Library of the Univ. of Pittsburgh Library System, with a National Leadership Grant Award from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The …
  • Provides new, reports, publications, statistics and basic demographic data on gender, population dynamics, labor force structure, education, and health.
  • The National Institute of Informatics (NII), a provider of academic information services, is now in the process of constructing "GeNii", the National Institute of Informatics academic content portal, basing it around the core of content provided by the existing services and adding a search system with enhanced usability, and also including external links. GeNii (pronounced "Jeanie") connects four database services that cover academic papers …
  • Provides geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. Includes data on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities; statistics on such economic factors as wealth and infrastructure; and statistics on natural phenoma.
  • Created by Sweet Briar College Library, Gifts of Speech is dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary, women from around the world. The scope has expanded by including significant historical speeches by women as well. This is transcripts only.
  • Google U.S. Government Search finds web sites for Federal, State, Local, and Tribal government organizations within the United States. Description from Google: "The Google U.S. Government Search index includes U.S. federal, state and local sites with domains such as .gov, .mil as well as select government sites with .com, .us, and .edu domains (eg. .usps.com, .ca.us and ndu.edu). We add content from these sites to our search index on a …
  • Search for gov docs by keyword. Also includes alphabetical lists of foreign governments and international organizations.
  • GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. Use GPO Access to search or browse official, full-text information from the three …
  • The full-text searchable collection includes many Qing dynasty's official documents, rare books collection, and Chinese art collections outside of Taiwan. Database included titles of 十三經, 先秦諸子, 全唐詩, 宋元學案, 明儒學案, 四庫總目, 朱子語類, 紅樓夢, 白沙全集, 資治通鑑, 續通建.
  • A searchable database of scanned rare books collection of the Ming dynasty's woodblock prints housed by the National Central Library in Taiwan.
  • Contains links to the most recent statistical abstracts for the individual states of the United States. All sources contain statistical tables on a variety of subjects for the states as a whole, its component parts, or both.
  • Web site of the Chinese Taipei Film Archive, an organization sponsored by the Executive Yuan that is responsible for collecting, restoring, and preserving Taiwanese films. Includes film news, exhibitions and events, acquisition information for films and film related materials, film and book database, and publication guide.
  • Scan images of Ming dynasty rare books collection (part I) in the National Central Library of Taiwan.
  • H-ASIA is an international electronic discussion group established in l994 by Leibo and Conlon of the Univ. of Washington. It is a twenty-four hour academic seminar open to graduate students and professors interested in the subject of Asian Studies and specifically Asian history.
  • The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online provides access to digitized materials selected from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS). The HPSSS Online is a collection of summary transcripts of 693 interviews conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, the HPSSS includes vast amounts of one-of-a-kind …
  • This webpage consists of "Highlighting JAPAN through images" and "Highlighting JAPAN through articles." The image collection provides a windonw on modern Japan with an editorial emphasis on photography and other visual elements. The articles delivers in-depth information and analysis about modern Japan.
  • The data presented describes the population and economy of states and counties from 1790 to 1960, including state and county topics for individual census years. From this site it is possible to produce tables of data by state or county; sort data by selected categories; create ratios between any two data categories; and generate maps of selected data.
  • Historical Voices is part of the Digital Library Initiative II funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Historical Voices is one of the first fully functional, multi-media, interoperable digital libraries available online. The primary goals of each of these projects will be the development of a rich set of both online exhibits and educational curricula, utilizing audio files as a key …
  • The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
  • Shiryo Hensan-jo (the Historiographical Institute, HI) at the University of Tokyo has as its primary objective the analysis, compilation, and publication of historical source materials concerning Japan. (Japanese and English)
  • HPOL is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics of the twentieth century. The materials range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House. This project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching With Technology Program in …
  • An East and Southeast Asia history Internet guide arranged in categories under meta-sites, primary sources, timlines, searches, and general.
  • The database "contains peer-reviewed journal articles, proceedings, educational resources and any kind of scholarly works of Hokkaido University." -- from the introduction 北海道大学の「研究者や大学院生等が著した学術論文、学会発表資料、教育資料等を保存・公開するもの」。
  • Self description: "Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected 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. [...] Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. At its first release, more than …
  • Nara Women's University Digital Library consists of the image databases of rare materials owned by the University, mainly including materials regarding women's studies and children's literature (Japanese only)
  • This database website provides the digitized images and text, preserved by Tokyo Metropolitan Library. It contains 8,000 of Ukiyo-e images and 646 of digitized documents regarding the construction of Edo Castle. (Japanese only)
  • A collection of over 500 public domain images, originally developed to support teaching of American political thought
  • Official and up-to-date information and statistics regarding the countries of the world.
  • Self-description: "The database is recreating in virtual form the contents of a Buddhist library cave discovered in 1900 near the Silk Road oasis town of Dunhuang on the edge of the Gobi Desert. [...] The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) was established in early 1994 to foster collaboration between holders, conservators and researchers of material from Dunhuang. [...] The database is both catalogue and image bank, with details of over …
  • Electronic resources for information on world governments and country profiles. Contains some hard-copy resources.
  • The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES), Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyzes events occuring in the Middle East and the Balkans.
  • This website provides access to a database of information about the children's literature collection held by the National Diet Library. Most of the collection was published before 1950. (Japanese only)
  • Includes a large variety of data, some of which is free, some of which requires subscription. Includes global data, such as the World Economic Outlook Databases and International Financial Statistics; IMF financial data by country and by topic; Government Finance Statistics Yearbook, and many others
  • Find full-text information related to international relations, area studies, international business, and more. It includes grey literature, briefings, and summaries from think tanks, universities, and agencies.
  • Provides access to publications in international relations and security by research institutes, think tanks, and government and non-governmental organizations.
  • International Research Center for Japanese Studies offers a variety of image databases of rare books and research materials from the Center's holdings, such as digitized historical documents from the Heian Period, and texts and images of Japanese folktales concerning strange phenomena and monstrous beings (yokai). (Japanese and English)
  • Self-description: "This page is an online introduction to Uyghur history and culture, and to my research on the politics of Uyghur musical history. Many of the sources I have linked here are biased presentations, either assuming with the Chinese that what they call the Xinjiang (meaning 'New Territory') Uygur Autonomous Region was always a part of China, or presenting the Uyghur nationalist view that there should be a separate Uyghur state. …
  • Search or browse the database of Chinese Studies resources which have been selected, evaluated and annotated by subject specialists in almost 40 categories. The site target audience is lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education. Contents are heavily European focused.
  • This inventory is a database of metadata about Slavic, East European, and Eurasian digital projects. Inventories in which collection creators submit their own entries (subject to editing by the maintainer of the registry) are called registries. The inventory will shortly migrate to a database, and we will then welcome submissions (subject to editing) but also continue to create some of our own records for projects
  • The Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project records and preserves the voices of women visual artists in Iowa reflecting on their lives and their artwork.
  • This database assembles geographic, ecological, and human impact data concerning nearly 2,000 islands of the world.
  • The site contains primary documents, news and current affairs, and research and publications pertaining to international security issues. All content and newsletters are free and several newsletters can be subscribed to by email/
  • This database provides access to photographs taken by Jackson DAvis, an educational reformer and amateur photographer, who intended to depict the impovershed conditions of African American schools in the Southeastern United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
  • Japan Center for Asian Historical Records is a full-fledged digital archive that provides Japanese modern historical records of relations with various neighboring countries and regions, access through the Internet. (Japanese and English)
  • "[A] collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the World Wide Web" -- introduction.
  • This website aims to "uncover, chronicle, and transmit" the hisotry of North American Jewish women. Included are oral hisotry projects, biographical sketches, and primary sources.
  • Data resulting from the compliation of the work: Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust, by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack.
  • Search for towns in Central and Eastern Europe, using exact spelling or the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system. This search will display the latitude and longitude for each location, the distance/direction from the country's capital city, and links to maps.
  • Johnson's Russia List is collection of articles about Russia from news sources all over the world. Articles are selected (then translated, if necessary), distributed twice daily via the JRL listserve, and later posted online. Topics include the arts, humanities, culture, economics, the environment, politics, social problems and more. JRL provides a snapshot of events, issues, problems, issues, etc. as they unfold and are reported in the …
  • "Pipss.org is an online international social sciences journal devoted to the armed forces and power institutions of post-Soviet societies. The journal's focus is the comparative and multi-disciplinary study of the structures and forces that make up the security systems, administrations and institutions employing armed personnel in all the Republics of the Former Soviet Union (FSU)."
  • This web page provides access to the digitized historical photographs of the campuses of Keio University dating back to Keio's founding by Fukuzawa Yukichi in 1890. (Japanese only)
  • On-line encyclopedia of Russian History. Organized chronologically by century and decade. Thematic list also provided
  • Directory of newspapers and other news sources on the internet. Includes links to 19,520 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world. Every country has its own integrated page.
  • Self-description: "This [English-language publications - ed.] bibliography covers [...] not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans [..]. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the …
  • 「黒澤明デジタルアーカイブは全作品のシナリオをはじめ、今まで公開されていなかった、撮影現場での写真や記録、創作ノート、直筆メモなど、多数の貴重な資料の永続的な保存・保管・管理を目的として、デジタル・アーカイブ化されたものです。そのアーカイブ・コンテンツの一部を教育・研究での活用のため作成されたもの …
  • Kyoto University Digital Library consists of image databases of rare materials owned by the University as well as numerous full-text, searchable electronic documents, including Kyoto University publications. (Japanese and English).
  • Web site of the Latin American Network Information Center at the University of Texas at Austin's Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS). Lists and links to a Latin American country index and to a subject index that includes information on Latin American agriculture, art, literature, business, government, health, military, music, and travel. Provides access to the WWW Virtual Library and ILAS home pages and to other Latin American resources …
  • The goal of the "Library of Southern Literature" is to make one hundred of the most important works of Southern literature published before 1920 available world-wide for teaching and research. Currently, this collection includes over eighty titles that were digitized with special funding from the Chancellor and the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • The web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. Search by head character search, and full text search. The site includes Chinese characters radicals, Pinyin table, and abbreviations.
  • Provides video clips of Presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present. Can be searched by keyword or browsed by election year, type of commercial, political issues, and worldwide web strategies ("The Desktop Candidate"). Also provides teaching resources.
  • List of occasional papers on a wide range of topics. Mostly in Japanese. Some in English and Russian
  • The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection.
  • Self-Supplied note: "This website has annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites (and a few ftp and gopher sites)."
  • The King Papers Project is a major research effort to assemble and disseminate historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social movements in which he participated.
  • Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and the meeting of the Russian-American frontier in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest
  • In Japanese and English. This online exhibition includes about 500 photographs of famous buildings and sights in Tokyo, selected from photo books mainly issued in the Meiji era.
  • Migdal is a large unique Jewish non-profit organization that offers numerous services to the Jewish Community of Odessa, Ukraine as well as conducts cultural and educational exchange with Jewish Communities worldwide through exhibits, seminars, conferences, and other programs. So far we conducted exchange programs with our colleagues from Israel, America, Austria and Germany.
  • MERLN (the Military Education Research Library Network) is a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach. It represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of researchers and scholars. MERLN’s extensive electronic resources include the following: (1) Military Policy Awareness Links (MiPALs), …
  • 水俣病に関連する写真の他、新聞・雑誌記事の索引などが検索できるデータベース。
  • 国立国会図書館が所蔵する明治および大正期刊行図書の書誌情報及び目次情報の検索と、資料本文のデジタル画像が閲覧出来るテキストデータベース。
  • Mainly introduces representative items from the Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room of the National Diet Library.
  • Multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual academic journal devoted to Nabokov studies. Content in English, French, German, and Russian. Parallel sites in English and Russian
  • Nagasaki University Digital Collection contains digitized rare documents and image databases preserved by the University. The latter includes two collections of old photographs of Japan from the late Edo and Meiji Period and the Glover Atlas, an early-20th century collection of beautiful color engravings of native fish.
  • Nagoya TV has a collection of over 8,000 Ukiyo-e prints, including the works that have been posted on this web site. The collection not only contains prints beginning with Hishikawa Moronobu, who is considered to be the founder of Ukiyo-e, going all the way to prints from around the end of the Edo Period, but also contains local prints such as Kamigata-e, Nagasaki-e, Yokohama-e Kaika-e (blossoming prints), as well as more recent prints from …
  • The National Archives and Records Administration(NARA) is an independent U.S. Federal agency that preserves the nation's history by overseeing the management of all Federal records. This website provides extensive information on NARA, how to research their resources, and provides a linkk to "the digital classroom," where primary sources and educational programming tied to educational standards for teaching US history can be found.
  • The Digital Archive of the National Archives provides access to the descriptions and digitized images of the historical records preserved by the National Archives of Japan. (Japanese and English)
  • National Library of S. Korea. The site has many different databases.
  • NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies. The National Association of Social Workers Foundation (NASWF) is a charitable organization created to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities through the advancement of social work practice.
  • The National Atlas is the electronic verson of the National Atlas of the United States of America, providing a dynamic and interactive atlas. It includes maps about agriculture, the environment, government, history, geology and more.
  • This site is one of the most comprehensive and easy to use for accessing the legislative and executive branches of the federal government as well as legislative committees dealing with Indian issues. Includes links to Native media sources and to tribal governments and sites.
  • This digital library contains image data from the books in the collection of the National Institute of Japanese Literature. (English available only on the menu)
  • This database presents an examination of national popular culture in antebellum America, through access to histories of presidential campaigns from 1840 - 1860. as well as primary source material such as campaign biographies and campaign songbooks. Recordings of some songs are also available.
  • The National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara, is an organization committed to comprehensive research on the cultural heritage of Japan.Their database contains digitized texts and images of cultural properties preserved by the Institute. (Japanese and English)
  • NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, …
  • "Newspaper Article" is the newspaper-clippings data from the end of Meiji to Showa 45 (1970) created by Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration. This digital version of Newspaper Article web page provides well over 50,000of digitized newspaper articles. (Japanese and English)
  • This site provides access to more than 1,000 collections from more than 250 Ohio institutions containing primary sources important to the study of Ohio history.
  • OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of the National Diet Library provides access to the extensive holdings of Japan's national library, which collects books in all subject areas published in Japan.
  • Open CRS is a project of the Center for Democracy and Technology to provide a portal to several collections of CRS reports. CRS reports are provided by the United States Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service to the United States Congress and are research briefings on a variety of issues related to legislation, policy, and regulation activities of the United States Federal Government
  • United States historical documents from 1776 to 1965
  • Features the Penn World Tables, written by Alan Heston and Robert Summers and published online by Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of Toronto in Canada. The tables contain international comparisons of over 150 countries in 29 subjects.
  • People with a History presents the history of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people [LGBT]. It includes hundreds of original texts, discussions, and addresses LGBT history in all periods, and in all regions of the world. This website contains public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Includes primary resources, secondary resources, meta websites and specific websites.
  • A list of Russian regional archives
  • Provides video clips of political campaign advertisements from Presidential general and primary elections and California elections starting in 1994. Also includes resources for research and teaching.
  • An online journal of issues pertaining to the Polish military and Polish soldiers.
  • This site organizes information about postcolonial literature and issues both by geographical region and by topics such as political history, gender issues, religion, and theory. There are also links to primary texts, bibliographies, periodicals and other web resources.
  • Provides information about state and federal candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances, and interest group ratings.
  • This is a matadata periodical and newspaper index databases of Chinese and western language periodicals that are published in Taiwan. Database has: 中文期刊篇目索引影像系統, 中華民國出版期刊指南系統, 西文期列管藏系統, 全國報紙系統, 中國文化研究論文目錄, and 國家圖書館期刊影像資料庫.
  • A searchable database of Taiwan's E-newspapers
  • A collection of 15 bibliographical databases of proceedings and conference papers, periodical articles on science, humanities, and social science that were published in Taiwan. Plus periodical articles published in China that were collected in Taiwan. Full-text papers and articles are charged, but searches of bibliographies are free.
  • A private, international communications service to Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southwestern Asia, funded by the U.S. Congress through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In countries stretching from Belarus to Bosnia and from the Arctic Sea to the Persian Gulf. RFE/RL provides balanced, reliable information to bolster democratic development and market economies in countries …
  • 国立国会図書館が所蔵する貴重書等から特色ある資料を取り上げ、「和漢書」、「錦絵」、「絵図」の各種別、及び「重要文化財」についてカラー画像で表示するデータベース。2007年9月現在、916タイトル、約45,000コマの画像が収録。
  • A database of web resources for the Russian and East European area. Functionality includes keyword searching; browse by subject, geographical region, culture, time period; as well as a calendar for Russia & Eastern Europe related event around the world.
  • Online guide to published reference reference sources on Russia.
  • The Institute supports a wide range of sociological data about Russia's diverse populations and regions. Resources included: Sociological atlas of the Russia's Regions, online journal of social policy (SPERO), and The Russian Sociological Data Archive which consolidates data from 12 major sociological institutions in Russia -- ВЦИОМ (Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения), …
  • Scholarly website dedicated to the life and works of Leo Tolstoy. Includes digitized. Includes fully searchable versions of the 90 volume Jubilee edition of Tolstoy's collected works, annotated bibliographies of Tolstoy's Library at Yasnaia Poliana, and resources from the Lenin Library, all in searchable format.
  • Science Links Japan was launched in June 2006 by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), a core organization for implementing Japan's science and technology policy in line with the objectives of the Science and Technology Basic Plan. Science Links Japan is a topically arranged directory of online information resources for science and technology in Japan. Japan's scientific and technical information (STI) scattered across or isolated on the …
  • This set of reference grammars has been designed for advanced-level language users and linguists to compare semantic categories across languages. Each grammar also provides background information about the language and its speakers. In some cases the author has included a topic which provides greater illumination of the language (e.g. tongue twisters, slang/profanity, or a set of exemplary texts). These sections are indicated by a shaded …
  • メリーランド大学プランゲ文庫所蔵する占領期の日本で出版された雑誌・新聞・図書資料のうち、全雑誌、全号の表紙・目次等から著者名、記事・論文タイトル名、本文小見出し、分類番号、分類項目、検閲に関する情報、巻号、発行所(出版者)、発行年月日、発行地などをデータベース化したもの。会員登録が必要。
  • SEVENTEEN MOMENTS IN SOVIET HISTORY has been funded by a generous educational development grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). The project has been directed and created by James von Geldern (Macalester College) and Lewis Siegelbaum (Michigan State University), and the principal designer of the site is Krzystof Karski. The project was developed in collaboration with MATRIX, a center devoted to the application of new …
  • A serachable database of "Si ku quan shu zhong mu 《四庫全書總目》" (Zhong hua shu ju ed.) by Ji Yun 紀鈞.
  • 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.
  • The mission of the SEELRC (pronounced "see-l-r-c") is to improve the national capacity to teach and learn Slavic and East European languages. The Center accomplishes this by developing teaching and assessment materials as well as by supporting research and a variety of activities, including undergraduate and graduate education and exchange programs, conferences, seminars, and public outreach programs. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. …
  • An excellent repository of guides and recommended websites for the Slavic and Eurasian area. Arrangement by resource type and by country.
  • This site takes a discipline- (or area studies) based approach to information literacy. It attempts to ascertain and enunciate the core information literacies and competencies students and scholars of Slavic are expected to demonstrate (or at least possess) in order to be productive members of the field. It focuses on those literacies/competencies that, at present, are most often acquired, if at all, outside of the usual scholarly or …
  • The SocioSite is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It present the resources and information that are important for the international sociological scene. It links students of sociology to many interesting, sociologically relevant locations in cyberspace. The SocioSite is a comprehensive information system which is very easy to use. The SocioSite is a toolkit for social scientists. It contains high …
  • Library Resources for Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies
  • Website contains several official statistical publications for Slovenia, including census and regional statististcal data. Titles include Popisni atlas Slovenije, Statistične informacije, Statistični letopis, Slovenske regije v številkah, Pomembnejši stastični podatki o Sloveniji
  • Consists of links to the offical government statistic agency websites of many of the world's nations.
  • This University of Michigan Documents Center site is a comprehensive portal to statistics, including information on agriculture, business and industry, consumers, cost of living, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, finance and currency, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, transportation, and weather.
  • Information center for Swedish, foreign and international statistics.
  • This site showcases hundreds of Chinese propaganda posters. Of the three major websites devoted to this topic, Stefan Langsberger’s is perhaps the most comprehensive and well edited. Landsberger is a historian at Leiden University and has spent more than 25 years building a collection of roughly 1,300 Chinese political posters—one of the largest in the world. This site is an outgrowth of Landsberger’s doctoral dissertation on materials …
  • This website provides access to a collection of interviews conducted by Terkel, well known Chicago author and radio personality, in preparation for his books and radio programs.
  • This searchable database provides access to World War I and II posters held by the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Public Library. Collection contains over 6,000 items.
  • Self-description: "Sites that can be helpful for you for learning more about China and the Chinese language and culture." Site contents: * Chinese Grammar & Lessons; * Helpful Multiple Links; * Chinese Language Games ; * Chinese Dictionaries; * Chinese Festivals and Holidays; * Chinese Cities; * On the beauty of China; * Tour of China/Maps/Geography; * Chinese History; * Taiwan; * Chinese Cuisine; * Chinese Culture Links; * Help From Google …
  • Union catalog of rare books collection in Taiwan.
  • This information system is an Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate site and serves as an external resource link for Deborah Platt's Mysticism in World Religions. (editor's note)
  • Teaching materials for the exhibition "The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China". This is a very useful site for educators and students of Chinese archaeology. The gallery of images, chronology and the pronunciation guide are particularly helpful. Site contents: Objects and Commentary (Late Prehistoric China/Bronze Age China/Chu and Other Cultures/Early Imperial China); Teaching …
  • This database provides access to news stories relating to Boston's African American community as aired on WGBH's Ten O'Clock News, from 1974-1991
  • Theory.org.uk: Social theory for fans of popular culture. Popular culture for fans of social theory.
  • This website provides U.S. Congressional information, including bills/resolutions, the Congressional Record, committee reports, and international treaties.
  • The Dharma Dictionary is an ongoing project of Buddhist terminology and translation terms to bridge the Tibetan and English languages. It currently has a database of approx. 65,000 entries.
  • Tokyo National Museum website provides access to the digitized images of their collection. The users may search the images by type, region, or current display. (Japanese and English)
  • Toyo Bunko is the largest library and research institute dealing with Asian studies in Japan and one of the five largest in the world. The online catalog provides access to its wide-ranging holdings of source materials. (Japanese and English)
  • Provides in-depth analysis on all 28 countries of Central and Eastern, and Southern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Baltic, Central Asia, and other republics of the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. It provides timely analysis of current events in post-communist countries and insightful features on societies and cultures in transition. Access to the journal Transitions from 1997 to present, also includes archives of publications by the …
  • Lists treaties and other international agreements of the United States on record in the Department of State as being in force as of January 1 of the specified year.
  • Primarily based on the pamphlet collection of Rutgers professor Robert J. Alexander (1918- ), this database also includes items from the ephemera and grey literature collections of activist Frances R. Grant, University of Florida professor Harry Kantor, and Rutgers faculty members Remigio U. Pane, Samuel Bailey, and Tomas Eloy Martnez. The Frances R. Grant and Robert J. Alexander pamphlet collections, as well as their papers, which are also …
  • U.S. Census Bureau gathers and disseminates statistical information related to population, housing, health and nutrition, education, law enforcement, elections, employment, human services, poverty, business, transportation, energy, etc.
  • Digital Images of Japanese woodblock print collection housed in UCSF Library's Archives and Special Collections.
  • Contains global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication
  • The TransMONEE database includes statistical data (Excel file) for the regions of Russia, East-Central Europe, Balkans, and Central Asia. Data sets include: Population, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators.
  • Self-description: "This document describes the version numbering used in the Unicode Standard, the nature of the Unicode character repertoire, and how to cite and reference the Unicode Standard, the Unicode Character Database, and Unicode Technical Reports."
  • Contains official United Kingdom statistics on Britain's economy, population and society at the national and local levels.
  • Gateway to United Nations information, including General Assembly and Security Council documents, international laws and treaties, and proceedings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
  • Offers up to date news and other information on development in Russia and many other countries worldwide. Includes annual Human Development reports for the Russian Federation.
  • "The UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life." Includes reports (PDF) on UNDP programs
  • This site is the primary site for LAS resources at KU. It provides brief descriptions of the general LA collection as well as special research collections. It contains links to Collection Development Policies for Spanish Language and Literature, Portuguese Language and Literature, and for Caribbean and Haitian Creole. In addition to links to principal Internet resources, there are links organized by gateways, organizations, …
  • Links to federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies. Areas covered include benefits and grants, consumer guides, defense and international, environment, energy, agriculture, family, home, community, health, nutrition, history, arts, culture, jobs, education, money, taxes, public safety, law, science, technology, travel, recreation, voting, elections.
  • "Well thought out student/teacher resource offers material for understanding Chinese history, culture and society. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this web site is one of the best resources on Chinese civilization. It was designed with college students in mind, but can be used as a resource for teachers and upper-level high school students."--Outreach World
  • This searchable archival collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. …
  • A collaborative project by the Yuanzhi University (Taiwan), Univeristy of Washington (USA), Peking University (China), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National Central Library (Taiwan). Site contents: (1) Rare Books (currently listing the Menggu Chewangfu quben ; (2) Poetry (including the Shijing and the Database for the Literature and History of Tang and Song with access to Quan Tangshi (!),Songshi , Tang Song ci ; Historical atlases …
  • インターネット情報を文化遺産とし、保存する実験プロジェクト。収集対象:国・都道府県・政令指定都市のホームページ、市町村合併の際の合併協議会のホームページ、各種法人のホームページ、法人化前の国立大学のホームページ、国際的・文化的イベントのホームページ等。インターネット上で継続無料公開されている電子雑 …
  • Offers high quality national and international statistics, and global statistical programs; cross-country, cross-sector, thematic research outputs from the World Bank's main research unit; and information, analysis and advice on global trends in the world economy.
  • The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
  • "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding." --Site's own description
  • Web guide of Chinese history related sites.
  • Self-description: "《香港中文期刊論文索引》(HKInChiP)為在香港出版的中文和雙語期刊提 供論文索引,引用的期刊超過150種;所選取的論文平均自1990年開始,但部份學術期刊可上溯至1950年代。 1998年或以前所選取的文章,主要是與中國、香港、台灣、澳門四地 …
  • Supplied note: "The 24 October 2001 Issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, a subscription free [bi-weekly] Web journal [...] is now on-line at [the URL below] [...] The 24 October 2001 issue of The Analyst features four Analytical Articles, four Field Reports, and News Bites from the past fortnight. The Analytical Articles feature: The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline: off the drawing-boards and into the field - Robert M. Cutler [...]; Osama …
  • コミック・マーケット創立メンバーの一人で1980年から2006年までコミック・マーケット準備会代表を務めたマンガ評論家・故・米沢嘉博の蔵書コレクションその他を所蔵した専門図書館のサイト。
  • An integrated search engine built for major Buddhist sutras including: 大正新脩大藏經, 卍續藏經, 佛教大藏經, 高麗大藏經(新文豐), 明版嘉興大藏經, 大藏經補篇, 乾隆大藏經, 中華大藏經(中華書局), 卍正藏經, 磧砂大藏經, 敦煌大藏經, 大藏新纂卍續藏經. Can search word(s) of title and author, search sutra number, volume number, and pulication time frame.
  • The official site of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. It is dedicated to the life and works of author, translator, and lepidopterist. Parallel sites in English and Russian
  • Stanford's Student Journal of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The purpose of this journal is to enrich Stanford student life by creating a needed outlet for dedicated students to share their interests in Slavic Studies and to foster an interest among other students for further academic engagement in Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
  • Taiwan government publications database. It includes the central and local government 20+ publications of reports, statistics, and news items. The database is searchable by subject keyword, publication date, and document originate offices. Both image files and electronic texts can be viewed of the originals.
  • E-Tripitaka based on the Taisho edition.
  • Periodical index of 3,000 plus journals of Chinese and western languages that have been published in Taiwan and some from Hong Kong and Macao since 1994 to current. Database is searchable by article title, author, subject, keyword, periodical title, abstract, etc. Some has full-text.
  • A full-text database containing ancient classical texts, Taiwan local histories and archives. Database included are: Ershiwu shi 二十五史(25 Histories); Shisan jing 十三經(13 Classics with Commentaries); Classic novels and plays 小說戲曲暨其他 Ancient Chinese Texts (excerpts)漢籍全文資料庫; Ancient Chinese text (abstract) 上古漢語語料庫-摘要; Taiwan documentations 台灣文獻叢刊; Wen xin diao long …
  • For secondary school teachers to share their lesson plans, teaching materials, and research papers.
  • Includes 1,000+ China newspapers articles since year 2000. Publics can search the database's bibliogrpahy, free of charge.
  • Grey literature and proceedings from national and international conferneces or seminars on the latest research from academic associations, industrial organizations, governmental agencies, and international bodies in China.
  • Chinese word dictionary. The online version of the Zhongwen zi pu: Chinese characters: a genealogy and dictionary, which uses the new zipu system of character trees. The print version is distributed by Yale University Press and it is available from Amazon.com.
  • Online version of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia [Bolshaia sovetskaia entsiklopediia]
  • Online version of the smaller Brokgauz and Efron Encyclopedia [Malyi entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauza i Efrona]
  • The Goal of the Russian Virtual Library [Russkaia virtualnaia biblioteka] is to publish in electronic format classical and contemporary works of Russian literature according from authoritative sources.
  • "Russian poetry of the 1960's in hypertext" [Russkaia poeziia 1960-x godov kak gipertekst] includes works by Russian poets from the 1960's
  • Home page of the Russian National Library [Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka]. Provides access to catalogs and online exhibits
  • Online version of Vladimir Dal's famous 19th century dictionary of the Russian language [Tolkovyi slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo iazyka Vladimira Dalia].
  • "FEB-web" is short for The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore [Fundamental'naia Elektronaia biblioteka: Russkaia literatura i fol'klor], a project instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregistr Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and online since July 2002. FEB-web is, first and foremost, a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital …