Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library: Vital
Statistics
by Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK
Head, Internet Publications Bureau
RSPAS, The Australian National University
A WWW Virtual Library is a global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with a given field of expertise.
Title: Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html Project commenced: 24 Mar 1994 Mission: Expert information services, by the experts, for the experts
Publisher: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
in conjunction with 39 other organizations
Policy: New individuals / sites / institutions are
always welcome to join this archipelago of networked knowledge
Number of mirror sites: 6
Number of information modules: 76
Total accesses to top page at the COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU site: 836,614 (till 31-Mar-98)
External hypertext links established to the top page: 3,942 (on 31-Mar-98)
Months of online operation: 48
Average access rate to top page at the COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU site: 17,429 hits per month
Editor-in-Chief: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
40 Co-editors:
Dr Kamal R. Adhikary (kamal@link.lanic.utexas.edu), Abdulrakhim Aitbayev (rakhim@lochbrandy.mines.edu), Adil T. Baguirov (azerbaijan@earthling.net), Dr Tim Beal (tim.beal@vuw.ac.nz),
Dr John Burton (John.Burton@anu.edu.au), Joaquim Ramos de Carvalho (joaquim@mercurio.uc.pt), Afelonne Doek (doek@rullet.leidenuniv.nl), Anthony and Rebecca Bichel (bichel@rockbridge.net), Irena M. Goltz (igoltz@dpie.gov.au),
Tobias Grote-Beverborg (grotebev@uni-koeln.de), Dr Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu),
Rohan Hettiarachchi (r.hettiarachchi@amc.uva.nl), Joe Hsu (joe@peacock.tnjc.edu.tw),
Antonio M. L. Inacio (ainacio@macau.net), Matthias Kaun (kaun@sino.uni-kiel.de),
Michael Laffan (misr@coombs.anu.edu.au), 'Alopi Latukefu (alatukef@mail.usyd.edu.au), Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de), Dr Siu-Leung Lee (webmaster@asiawind.com), W. W. Looi (webmaster@asianmall.com),
Dr David Magier (magier@columbia.edu),
Len Nadybal (lnadybal@bhutan.org),
Sergio A. Paoli (spaoli@fcaglp.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar), Nigel Parry (nparry@admin.birzeit.edu),
Dr Fabrizio Pregadio (pregadio@unive.it), Dr Frank Poyas (vlib@austudies.org),
Mitch Rice (mitch@bloomington.in.us),
Colin Rundle (colinr@defcen.gov.au),
Dr Gene R. Thursby (gthursby@religion.ufl.edu), Pao Saykao (drpao@lexicon.net),
Mahendra B. Shrestha (shrestha@catmando.com), Samvel Stepanian (sam@arminco.com),
Trin Tantsetthi (trin@inet.co.th),
Frank Unlandherm (unlandhe@columbia.edu), Vern Weitzel (vern@coombs.anu.edu.au),
Michael West Wiemer (jguide@fuji.stanford.edu), Nelson Wong (nelson@mtc.com.my),
Prof. Rihito YAMAMURA (ry@slav.hokudai.ac.jp)
Sany Zakharia (zakharia@wpi.edu),
David Zlotchenko (zlotchen@voyager.rtd.utk.edu) Collaborating countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy,
Macau, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Taiwan, Thailand, United States
For further details see: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAbout.html
(Ed. Note: This updated page was published on April 25, 1998.)
