Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (ASWWWVL)
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (ASWWWVL) was established in March, 1994 by Dr T.M.Ciolek, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. The ASWWWVL provides an authoritative, continuously updated hypertext guide and access tool to scholarly information resources on the Internet. It deals with the Asian continent as a whole, as well as with individual Asian regions, countries, and territories. The AS WWW VL is edited by volunteer “virtual librarians” who are either scholars, postgraduate students, or networked-information specialists employed by universities, libraries, and research institutes. Their task is to maintain accurate, comprehensive, current, and annotated catalogs of online resources selected on the strength of their reliability, authority and usefulness to inquiry and analysis regarding Asian societies, politics, economies, histories, and cultures. Together this team manages many tens of specialist information modules organized by topic, country and region. They offer access to over 10,000 Internet resources from around the globe, including archives, library catalogs, documents, bibliographies, electronic-journal registers and mailing lists. To help readers track new developments, country-specific virtual libraries are linked to the daily issues of the Asian Studies WWW Monitor online journal. Their collaborative philosophy enables individual editors to focus on his or her area of specialization, to build on colleagues’ expertise, and to avoid redundant web monitoring and web cataloging. Unlike general purpose Web searching tools such as Google, Yahoo, or Altavista, the ASWWWVL allows scholars to locate and access research-orientated online publications and resources. The ASWWWVL is a decentralized, distributed online resource catalog which consciously avoids hyperbole and “infotainment”, aiming instead at the narrow and selected audience of academics, librarians, journalists, and graduate students. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.