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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

20 January 2005

Official Document System of the United Nations

http://documents.un.org/

4star
United Nations, Secretary Office: New York, NY, US

Self-description:
"ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information."

Supplied note:
"Language: English, Chinese (UTF-8, Simplified), Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish. This database used to be available only by subscription but was now made accessible for free. Currently (Jan 2005) the database contains about 800,000 documents, some 100,000 will be added every year. Almost all documents are available in each of the UN's six official languages. The database features a simple and a very useful advanced search."

URL
http://documents.un.org/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO

* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential

* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]:
under 1,000
Please note that the above details were correct on 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Thursday, January 20, 2005