Comprehensive

• International and Area Studies (Larry Schankman)
  • Lists and annotates top regional studies web sites
  • International news sources
• International Network Information Centers (U.Texas)
  • Sections on Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe
  • Considerable background information on individual countries
  • Includes references to discussion and newsgroups
• World Area Studies
  • Extensive list of area studies web sites for each region of the world
  • Multidisciplinary with links to history resources as well as culture, politics, and sociology
  • Cites sources which may be difficult to find elsewhere

African Studies

• African Studies Database (UMich Only)
  • Index to over 300 journals and books on the entire African continent since 1988
  • Includes scholarly material from African, European, and North American sources
  • Most entries have a brief annotation
• African Studies Web Server (Univ.Penn.)
  • Exhaustive annotated web links
  • Arranged by country
  • Subject approach ranges from economics and agriculture to population studies and wildlife

American Studies

• American Studies Electronic Crossroads
  • Sections include American studies as a curriculum, teaching technology, and the profession
  • Index to American Quarterly, 1975-95, abstracts of American Studies dissertations, 1986-95
  • The American Studies Web provides annotated links to culture, economics, politics, and history; more updated the the 1994 date suggests

Asian Studies

• Asia Library (University of Michigan)
  • First multilingual web site in North America with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English text
  • Current on-line news in all languages, reference tools and dictionaries, and economic data
• Asia-Pacific Network (MSU)
  • Links to area studies web sites, journals, newspapers, and film collections on Asian studies
  • Includes discussion of academic teaching materials
• Asia Society
  • Extensive annotations to web sites on Asian culture, religion, country politics and governments, language, education, and Asians in the United States
  • Contents of its printed Country Briefings
  • Society information
• Asian Studies Virtual Library (ANU)
  • Most comprehensive Internet source for culture, politics, economics, geography, news, and archaeology of Asian countries
  • Scope includes Asian continent, Caucasus, Middle East, and the Pacific
• Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engine
  • Keyword search of web sites in individual Asian countries
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (UMich Only)
  • Index to journal articles and monographs on Asian culture, economics, and politics since 1971
  • Searchable and browsable by subject, country, and journal title
  • Once titles identifed, search MIRLYN-Web for call number of text
• National Bureau of Asian Research
  • Scholarly articles and analyses on Asian culture, politics, and economics
  • Extensive data base of Asian specialists, searchable by country and discipline
  • Links to Asian research organizations
• Southeast Asia (UMich Library)
  • Printed Southeast Asian material in the University of Michigan Library
  • Links to the top Internet sites for Southeast Asian materials
• UCLA Center for East Asian Studies: Resources
  • Partially-annotated guide to web information on East Asia by country or subject
  • Subjects include demography, international affairs, Islam
  • Constitutions of the countries and some primary source documents, such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Canadian Studies

• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources (John and Laurie Blackwell)
  • Essays on the history of Canadian studies with links embedded in text
  • Bibliography of books, journals, reference works, and on-line resources
• See also Canadian Government

European Studies

• Russian and East European Studies (U.Pittsburgh)
  • Links to national homepages for Eastern Europe
  • Additional links by discipline (e.g. government, economics, language) and type (software, databases, discussion groups)
• Western European Specialists Section (ALA)
  • Meta-index to classical, medieval, and contemporary European studies with special focus on French, German, Iberian, and Italian
  • Numerous references to historic documents

Latin American Studies

• Latin American Network Information Center (U.Texas)
  • Largest of the Latin American guides
  • Arrangement by country includes governments and political parties
  • Subject arrangement covers language, culture, business, anthropology, food, and K-12 study projects
• Resources on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (UMich)
  • Journal indexes available through the University of Michigan Library
  • Major Latin American web sites

Middle East

• Arab Net
  • Overview, history, business, cultural, government, and tour information for each Arab country
  • Government information includes summaries of the national structure, foreign policy, education, health, and the military
  • News in Arabic and links to related web sites
• Middle East/North Africa Resource Guide (Univ.Utah)
  • Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia
  • Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline (anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
  • Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of foreign students residing in the U.S.
• Near East Division (UMich Library)
  • Links to major Near East studies centers, professional organizations, and news sources
  • Description of the University of Michigan Near East Collection

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Grace York, Political Science Librarian
University of Michigan Library
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