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The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS Adv MS 19.2.1) is one of the National Library of Scotlands greatest treasures. Produced in London in the 1330s, it provides a unique insight into the English language and literature that Chaucer and his generation grew up with and were influenced by. It acquired its name from its first known owner, Lord Auchinleck, who discovered the manuscript in 1740 and donated it to the precursor of the National Library in 1744.
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Directory of resources with brief annotations. Included are sections for Indexes & Directories a Digital Library News & Media sources the status of Women in Afghanistan Organizations and the Taliban, Osama bin Laden, and Al-Quida.
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"AccessAsia is the world's clearinghouse for information on contemporary Asian affairs and policy-related issues. The project maintains several databases, including a specialist database that tracks the expertise and current research of leading experts on contemporary Asian affairs."
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Extensive links about Afghanisan, the United States, and their relations.
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"This short guide aims to provide an introduction to resources for the study of Afghanistan's rich heritage from prehistoric to modern, representing many cultures, religions, and dynasties."
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"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. Electronic resources from Africa are organized by region and country. All materials are arranged to encourage an awareness of authorship, type of information, and subject."
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A comprehensive academic site including country-specific links to online resources.
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Annotated directory of resources.
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Information by country, includes regional and world rankings.
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News, opinion pieces, and information on 22 Arab nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
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AMEEL is an electronic library about the Middle East. It is a digital collection ofinformation.
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Searchable resource guide.
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Directory of resources divided into sections such as digital publications, Australian history, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Australian law and government.
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Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government of the Middle East.
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Sections include an overview, facts, leaders, and links to media resources.
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Profiles "provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives."
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The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, a unit of the University of Texas Libraries, is a specialized research library focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States.
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The BiblioNoticias series is an ongoing subject-oriented bibliography to which several new issues are added each year. The series is compiled by staff members at the Benson Latin American Collection.
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A searchable collection of statistics about Indonesia. Browsable by region.
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"The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is the only academic center in the United States focusing essentially on the Arab world--the region from Morocco to the Gulf."
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" is meant to provide a global perspective on Central Asia studies, and to provide a key point of access to highly dispersed resources in this field. It seeks to provide basic information which is useful to both "beginners" and "experts", encompassing all fields of the social sciences and humanities wherever in the world people engage in such study."
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Bibliography of sources.
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Gateway to country information and news.
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Over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library.
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Library homepages, catalogs, electronic resources, and other services.
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The online version of the series of books published by the Federal ResearchDivision of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Each entry details a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, then examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
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Life and customs in 100 countries.
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"The catalog includes freely available Internet resources for research and study of modern East, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the social sciences. Resources are from various sources including academic, government, commercial, tradeand industry, and non-governmental organizations. The catalog includes current information and data such asbibliographies and databases, data sets, newspapers and journals, government reports, and organization sites.. Resources are in English and/or one or more of 27 Asian languages."
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Resource for ancient Egyptian history, with images, text, and bibliographies.
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Links to notable documents in Middle Eastern History.
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East View is a large supplier of books, maps, serials, etc., in hard-copy and microfilm, from the countries of the Former Soviet Union, eastern, and central Europe.
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"The collection ranges across culture, history, social and economic development, science and art as well as offering regional and national 'sense of place' websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales."
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"EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The website also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews and book reviews."
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Provides information about the purpose, history, and documents of the European Union. Includes links to member countries.
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Provides access to the combined resources (both digital and non-digital) of the national libraries of Europe.
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"Our goal is to publish the best peer-reviewed scholarship within both established area and regional studies and new areas of inquiry that break down boundaries between traditional disciplines and regions."
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"Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002."
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An overview of collections, usage policies, contact information. Includes a description of the CPSU Archives project.
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"The Norwegian Council for Africa's award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 4000 websites on subject such as Development and Aid, Economy and Finance, Environment and Agriculture, Facts and Statistics, Health and Social Welfare, Human Rights, News and Media, Politics and Government, Schools and Universities, Security and Conflict, Sport and Culture, Women and Gender."
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IUCAT: IU Libraries' Online Catalog
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BBC News feature page.
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"The IEAS was established in 1974 by Dr. Kang In-duk, former Minister of Unification, South Korea, for twenty-seven years it has dealt with issues related to East Asia, focusing on the Korean peninsula and its surrounding powers.The institute has provided knowledges in various aspects of the Korean peninsula from a Koreans' view. It has given unique perspectives, enabled readers to understand the critical and delicate matters of the region through the eyes of Korean.In the new millennium, the IEAS will continue its effort to provide in-depth analysis concerning the Korean peninsula.
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On this site historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa are presented.
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Directory of online resources in chronological and topical catergories.
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Directory of resources in chronological and topical categories.
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Extensive guide to sites, featuring descriptive and evaluative annotations with many links.
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Government site of basic country information.
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This site provides "links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing nformation on Iraq concerning conflict, weapons inspections,and post-war reconstruction." From the United States Institute of Peace.
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Links to sites covering the arts, business, education, food, government, society, religion, ethics, science, travel and other areas.
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Includes searchable fax directories for most Slavic, Baltic, and East European countries.
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Kubon & Sagner is a long-established vendor for Slavic and East European books and serials.
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A valuable resource for texts, bibliographies, pedagogical resources, organizations and databases devoted to medievalia.
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Large directory of links, many annotated, are arranged by country
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An extensive collection of Internet resources, guides, and collections information produced by Library Web - Columbia University Library.
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A searchable directory of websites. For those who wish to target a particular country or region, there are direct links. Most sites are in English or English and Spanish.
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T"he goal of this project is to create a digital collection of Latin American travel accounts written in the 16th-19th centuries."
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Directory of links from Columbia University.
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Begun in 1997 "Libya On Line is the oldest and main web portal about Libya".
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Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
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Cornell University's contributions to the digital library of primary sources in American social history. The MOA is a collaborative effort of Cornell University and the University of Michigan to preserve and provide electronic access to historical texts covering the period from the antebellum through reconstruction. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints from Cornell's collections.
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"Columbia University's collection of Middle East Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on the Middle East and North Africa (in the broadest sense) available on the global Internet, created under the purview of the Middle East Studies Department of Columbia University Libraries. Electronic resources from the Middle East are organized by region, country and subject."
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Guide to Middle East Websites.
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Directory of links and other resources from the University of Texas at Austin.
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This site offers thirty-six digitized titles about Modern China published in the first half of the twentieth century, all in Chinese, with English metadata. From the East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh.
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Graphically compares the nations of the world.
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"The One World Nations Online Project is a portal of gateways to the countries in this world, a reference directory and an electronic magazine."