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Several key sites exist at various universities and research institutions that focus in great detail and exclusively on their respective regions.  The following list highlights these web compilations, recommended starting points for research in the area.  Other areas of this site can also provide the information that you need on the different regions.

Africa

Asia

    Asian Studies Virtual Library  From the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National University this site is "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."

    Brookings Institution Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

    Central Asian Studies World Wide Sponsored by the Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies. Lists thematic sites with extensive links to Central Asian studies resources.

    China Dimensions A variety of socioeconomic data including Geographic Information System databases that cover the administrative regions of China.

    Digital Asia Library Annotated links to electronic resources, searchable by keyword and browsable by subject. It is a cooperative venture of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

    Digital South Asia Library Links to digital reference resources, images, maps, statistics, bibliographies, indexes, books and journals.

    South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI) Resources by country, topic and organization.

    United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

    ISI EMERGING MARKETS  Online database covering financial, legal, industrial and macroeconomic information and daily news from emerging markets worldwide, including India and China. Access: available only in the library, on one PC (with a sign on it: Internet Securities). Click on start; choose Ginn Library home page, choose Research Resources, A-Z list of databases.

Eastern Europe

Europe

Latin America & Caribbean

Middle East

    Arabia.Com  Business, culture, news, with regional directory, database, and chat.

    Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. This all inclusive database includes Middle Eastern and Central Asian as well as East Asian and Pacific countries. It is "A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies." Published by Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

    Brookings Institution Saban Center for Middle East Policy

    Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. An encyclopedic database which is divided into three parts: country links, Subject categories and miscellaneous additional useful links. The subject categories include, history, culture, religion, economics, finance, business, energy, news and regional information. there is a search engine.

    Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

    Middle East Studies Internet Resources From Columbia University. A large database arranged by region, country and subject. "The scope of the collection is research -oriented, but it also provides access to other gopher and web sites with different or broader missions."

    Middle East Virtual Library Includes a searchable database of on-line resources for research on the Middle East.

    ISI EMERGING MARKETS  Online database covering financial, legal, industrial and macroeconomic information and daily news from emerging markets worldwide, including India and China. Access: available only in the library, on one PC (with a sign on it: Internet Securities). Click on start; choose Ginn Library home page, choose Research Resources, A-Z list of databases.

Russia and the NIS

Canada