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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.


19 April 2010

www.wanfangdata.com: Chinese Studies; Business; Medicine; Science; Technology

http://www.wanfangdata.com/

5star
19 Apr 2010

Wanfangdata Co., Ltd., Beijing, China.

Self-description:
"Being the leading information contents provider in China, Wanfang Data has been a task force of the Institute of Scientific & Technological Information of China (ISTIC), the Chinese Ministry of Science & Technology, since 1950s. It focuses on digital resources, such as journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, patents, standards, Chinese companies, etc, providing information on Chinese studies (arts/humanities/social sciences), TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), Chinese Business, Law, Government, Defense, Military, Science, and Technology.
Branches have been set up all around China, e.g. Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Wuahan, Xiian and Hongkong, etc. With a North America-based office and local web Servers, Wanfang Data offers quality customer support and reliable internet access. [...]
Featured database: # Chinese Studies Online (CSO), # China Business Reference (CBR), # Chinese Medicine Premier (CMP), # China Legal Collections (CLC), # Science & Technology of China (STOC)."

Site contents:
* Our Products ([Contents and access details of:] # China Medical Association Journals (CMAJ), # China Online Journals (COJ), # English Online Journals (ECOJ), # Dissertations of China (DOC), # Academic Conferences in China (ACIC), # English Conferences in China (ECIC), # Chinese Companies & Products (CECDB), # Chinese Companies & Products (English version), # Chinese Listed Companies, # Chinese Scientific Institutes, # Chinese Patents, # National/Industrial Standards);
* News and updates;
* Cross-Database Search;
* Customer Support;
* Trial Request;
* About Us;
* Contact us for new products: # China Local Chronicles, # China Knowledge Search and Analysis System;
* Newsletter subscribe/unsubscribe.

[A bilingual (CN, EN) website. Online access to the databases is via a subscription - ed.]

URL: http://www.wanfangdata.com/

Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.wanfangdata.com/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 106,000]

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com