American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eaaass/)
'The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
is a nonprofit, nonpolitical, scholarly society which is the leading private
organization dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia, Central
Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe.'
Armenia House (http://www.armenianhouse.org/)
The non-profit 'ArmenianHouse.org is an electronic library featuring
a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and
anything else Armenia-related.' While the home page is trilingual (English,
Armenian and Russian) texts are available in Armenian and Russian. The purpose
is to provide an electronic library of the full range of Armenian literature
while helping young authors publish electronically.
Armenia Search (http://www.armeniasearch.com)
This site is based on the Open Directory Project (ODP) - 'is the most comprehensive
human edited directory of the Web, compiled by a vast global community of volunteer
editors.'
Armenia Subject
Index (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/HI/armenia.html)
This general portal page is maintained at Columbia University's Harriman
Institute-'the oldest academic center in the United States devoted to the
interdisciplinary study of the Russian Empire, the Soviet bloc, and the post
-communist states.'
Armenian Development
Agency (http://www.businessarmenia.com/IPA%5FDefault.asp)
With the Armenian Prime Minister as its chairman of the board, ADA attempts to
facilitate investment and promote commerce in Armenia. Its English language homepage
provides a country guide, information on laws and regulations, and materials
on all aspects of investment in the Republic.
Armenian Directory Yellow Pages
and Internet Website Directory (http://www.armenianyellowpages.com/)
The web version of the Armenian Directory Yellow Pages, which has served the
American and Canadian Armenian communities since the 1980s, provides basic information
and directories of organizations, people, businesses and organizations relating
to Armenia and the Armenians.
Armenian Library Consortium (http://www.libnet.am/index1.html)
Funded by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), this ambitious and vital
undertaking is involved with making the contents of Armenia's libraries,
both bibliographic records and texts, available digitally to the world. Records
are in both English and in Armenian script using UNICODE. The project will eventually
have a catalog of Armenia's holdings, a union catalog of world holdings,
digitized texts, and other aspects of a modern digitized library.
ArmenianLinks (http://www.armenialinks.com)
Armenia Links provides an up-to-date portal to popular, academic, and governmental
sites.
Armgate: Armenian Information and Resources (http://www.armgate.com)
An up-to-date general site which includes links to information on Churches, Armenian
Searches, news reports, and online directories.
Arminco (http://www.arminco.com/)
Although a commercial internet company, Arminco's homepage gives access
to related links and especially to the many organizational and individual web
pages it subscribers have mounted using its services.
CIA -- The World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
An annual publication of the CIA, contains up-to-date information on all aspects
of the political, social and military history of a particular country.
Central Asia Studies Worldwide (http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/index.html)
Sponsored by the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, CASWW provides
extensive resources for the scholarly study of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Cilicia.com (http://www.cilicia.com/)
This handy site maintained by Raffi Kojian provides a variety of narratives on
Armenia and the Armenians, from cuisine to biographies to language lessons. Also
presented is 'Rediscover Armenia,' an extensive and indispensable
guidebook to the Republic of Armenia.
Circle. Am: Rating and Statistics for Armenian
Web Resources (http://www.circle.am)
A new and timely portal page from Armenia but in English organized by subject
with ratings and statistics for each.
Country Reports about ... (http://www.countryreports.org/)
Offers links to sites about many countries by such subjects as government, the
military, economy, the weather, etc.
Development Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/)
"The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty." Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Hayastan.com: Armenian Internet Portal (http://www.hayastan.com/index.php)
An extensive, popular portal to Armenian sites, which provides links under a
variety of subjects as well as music downloads, dating information, chat, fora,
and even an Armenian-English, English-Armenian translator.
Infoplease (http://www.infoplease.com/)
Part of the electronic Learning Network, this homepage allows searches by country
which yield articles in almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical works,
etc. Additional reference links are provided as well.
Internet Access and Training Program (http://www.iatp.net/)
IATP is a program for the countries of the U.S. Bureau of Education and Cultural
Affairs, U.S. Department of State, which is funded under the Freedom Support
Act and Administered by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
to help the post Soviet countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia 'strengthen
indigenous institutions by providing US government program alumni and others
in Eurasia with free and open Internet access and training in the use of electronic
mail and the Internet."
Islamic Calendar
Converter (http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/msaumr/hijri)
This English language website not only converts the present Gregorian date, in
common use in the West, to its modern Hijra equivalent (in common use in the
Islamic World), it also provides a mechanism, based on software developed by
Waleed A. Muhanna, to convert all past dates from Gregorian-Hijra or Hijra-Gregorian.
Library of
Congress/American Library Association Armenian Transliteration Table(http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/armenian.pdf)
This is the bilingual (Armenian and English) site of the manuscript library known
simply as The Matenedaran, located in Erevan, the capital of the Republic of
Armenia, the largest repository of ancient and mediaeval Armenian manuscripts
in the world. The site describes, among other headings, collections, programs,
fund-raising initiatives and information for scholars who need to use its resources.
Library of Congress.
Virtual Reference Shelf (http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html)
The Library of Congress has mounted this useful site on its home page to give
scholars and researchers access to common online sources which are excellent
for initial stages of research. These online tools are organized by subject and
format, e.g., "Almanacs and Fast Facts," "Directories," "Libraries," etc.
Lonely Planet - Destinations (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/)
Search by country to find information on travel, attractions, history, culture,
and environment. of that location.
Net Armenie France (http://www.netarmenie.com/accueil/index.php)
A comprehensive French-language portal page maintained in Armenia, Canada and
France.
NetArmenie (http://www.netarmenie.com/accueil/index.php)
French language portal site with additional news items and features from and
about Armenia and its Diaspora, again organized by subject.
OneWorld.net (http://www.oneworld.net/)
Searchable by country, regions and topics. Includes current headlines and special
reports.
Petros Adamian Tbilisi State Armenian Drama
Theatre (http://amtheater.gq.nu)
English language homepage of the Armenian theater located in Tbilisi, Georgia
Princeton University
Library: Near Eastern Studies Resources (http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epressman/neareast.htm)
Princeton Library's site dedicated to Near Eastern Studies provides not
only invaluable information about Princeton's programs and collections,
but also extensive links to sites (libraries, universities, institutes, think
tanks, directories, gateways, newspapers, etc.) around the world concerning all
aspects of the discipline.
Questia - The Online Library of Books
and Journals (http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp)
From Questia Media America, Inc. for academics, students, librarians, publishers
and a wide variety of researchers, 'Questia is the first online library that
provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal
articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in
the collection.' A search under country name yields a wide variety of bibliographic
citations. Full text is often available to subscribers.
Russian and East European
network information center (http://reenic.utexas.edu/reenic/index.html)
REENIC (Russian and East European Network Information Center) at the University
of Texas in Austin provides useful portals as well as additional resources about
them to the post-Soviet countries of Eurasia and Central Asia.
United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several
languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization
as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations,
etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.
United Nations ReliefWeb (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/ByCountry/)
"ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)... serving the information needs of the humanitarian
relief community" Offers news updates to crisis situations around the world
and includes information about refugee camps and other relief efforts.
United States. Agency for International Development.
Development Experience Clearinghouse
(DEC) (http://www.dec.org/)
"The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects,
activities, and programs by making ... development experience documents available
to USAID offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's, universities and research institutions,
developing countries, and the public worldwide."
United States. Department of State (http://www.state.gov)
Numerous documents concerning diplomatic and international relations, travel
advice and warnings relating to the countries of the world are available on the
State Department's official site by searching under a particular country's
name.
United States. Library of Congress Country
Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
A series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress
under the Country Studies/Area Studies Handbook Program sponsored by the Department
of the Army.
World Desk Reference (http://uk.dk.com/)
Searchable by country, this is the online version of the handbook with more than
5000 illustrations and maps. |