AREA STUDIES LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• 50 States: Links to a wide variety of state information by Ray Weber.
• AfricaBib.org: AfricaBib consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database).
• Africafocus: Sights and sounds of a continent.
• The Africa Guide: Website specilizing in Africa travel information.
• Africa Research Central: Africa Research Central is your gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
• African South of the Sahara: African South of the Sahara Internet--Selected Internet Sources.
• African Studies: African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.
• African Studies Internet Resources: Columbia University's collection of African Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on Africa available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the African Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries.
• Africaresource: Educational resources and materials about Africa.
• Afrique francophone: Resources relating to francophone continental Africa, in French, with some links to English sites.
• Alaska's Digital Archive: Alaska's Digital Archive presents a wealth of historical photographs, oral histories, moving images, documents, and other materials from libraries, museums, and institutions throughout our state.
• Alaskool: The Alaska Native Curriculum and Teacher Development Project (ANCTD) brings together teams of teachers, elders, and community members in various parts of Alaska with university-based specialists to develop curricula on Alaska Native studies and language.
• AmericanSouth.org: AmericanSouth.Org is an on-going project undertaken at Emory University in collaboration with a large number of Southern research libraries that seeks to improve access to digital resources o­n Southern histories and cultures.
• Aneki.com: A source of country profiles.
• Anotated Asian Studies: Anotated directory of Internet resources on Asian Studies by Robert Y. Eng of Redlands University.
• ArabNet: Online resource on the Arab world.
• Asian-nation: Information source on the historical, political, demographic, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community.
• Background Notes: Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations.
• BBC News Country Profiles: Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
• Borderlands: The Borderlands Encyclopedia a multimedia instructional resource on contemporary issues of the U.S.-Mexico border.
• CAIN: This site contains information and source material on 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.
• Canadian Social Research: A portal to Canadian social research links.
• Center West: The Center of the American West, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is one of the region's most creative and innovative organizations in identifying and addressing such crucial issues as multiculturalism, community building, fire policy, and land, water, and energy use.
• Chinciv: A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
• City flags: Flags of various cities.
• Clan Flags: Scottish Clan flags.
• Countries of the World: 18 years of information from The World Fact Book.
• Country Studies: From the Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army covering 101 countries and regions.
• Cultural Profiles Project: Citizenship and Immigration Canada's cultural profiles project.
• Culture Canada: CultureCanada.gc.ca, a service from the Canada site, is the Government of Canada's one-stop web access to government Culture, Heritage and Recreation services.
• Culture.pl: Provided by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (AMI), an institution with the mission to promote Polish culture throughout the world.
• Digital Egypt for Universities: An exploration of Ancient Egypt from Aswan to the Mediterranean from University College London.
• Digital Library of Appalachia: The Digital Library of Appalachia seeks to provide online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.
• DSAL: Digital South Asia Library from the University of Chicago.
• East & Southeast Asia: Internet Resources: East & Southeast Asia, An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.
• Eurasia Research Center: The Eurasia Research Center Web Site features in depth research reports, news analysis, and links to newspaper articles and wire service reports with breaking news on the Balkans, Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus, formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
• Flags of All Countries: Part of a larger site, Geographic.org that offers geographical information on various coutries, this site will guide users to flags and also offers a "flag identifier" page.
• Flags.net: Flags of the world, including national flags, ensigns, military flags and head-of-state flags.
• FOTW: Flags of the world with more than 28,000 pages about flags and view more than 52,000 images of flags.
• Hanszell: Article about using Google for African Studies research by Hans Zell.
• HLAS: The Handbook of Latin American Studies from the Library of Congress.
• INCORE Internet Country Guides: Each guide lists sources which have unique, relevant and preferably substantive content relating to ethnicity and/or conflict in the country/region concerned.
• Inter-Source: Country facts and cultural information on the countries of the world.
• Iraq: The cradle of civilization at risk-Cultural heritage and historical monuments.
• KADA: Korean American Digital Archive.
• LANIC: The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin.
• MEI: The Middle East Institute.
• MENA: The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide.
• The Middle East, 1916-2001: A Documentary Record that is part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Menic: Middle East Network Information Center.
• MERIP: Middle East Research and Information Project.
• Middle East Studies: Middle East Studies Internet Resources.
• National Clearinghouse for U.S. Japan Studies: A tenant organization of the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University, the clearinghouse is funded by the generous support of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia: The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state.
• PEW Hispanic Center: The Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts with the mission to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation.
• PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet resources: Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University.
• Portals to the World: Portals to the World from the Library of Congress.
• Reenic: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.
• REESWeb: The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies.
• Russian Studies: The Bucknell Russian Studies Program.
• Russland: Centre for Russian Studies' Database.
• Sociosite: Megasite from the Sociological Institute at the University of Amsterdam edited by Albert Benschop.
• South Florida Studies and Reports Online: Online publications about South Florida that in some way describe, measure, assess, evaluate, discuss and generally provide information on various aspects of life in the region.
• Sustainable Tourism Certification Database : The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation's Sustainable Tourism Resource Database is a searchable online database containing information on tourism services and facilities in North America that link tourism activities with the conservation of natural areas.
• STDR: Sustainable Tourism Certifications Database.
• Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library: The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world.
• Travel Information: Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. State Department.
• The UC Atlas of Global Inequality: The Atlas of Global Inequality explores aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics.
• United States and Brazil: Compares the cultures of the two countries from the 18th century to date.
• WWES: West European Studies from WWW Virtual Library.
• World Fact Book: Annual publication of the CIA with profiles of over 250 countries.

Links last verified and updated 3/22/2007.

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