GIAL Library

Language and Society LD 4350 and/or Language Program Planning LD 5352

CITATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY STYLE SHEET RESOURCES

LSA Style Sheet is available on the Web (http://www.lsadc.org/info/pubs-lang-style.cfm), in each December LSA Bulletin (JOURN 406 L269s), or in the Reference area (REF 808.027 L755L)

Electronic Styles: a handbook for citing electronic information is also helpful. (808.027 L693e)

COMPREHENSIVE COUNTRY STUDIES

Abstracts in Anthropology. REF 306.05

Anthropological Index Online http://www.therai.org.uk/index/aio.html At the moment AIO is supported by its institutional users, but it is free to individual users.

Atlas of World Cultures. David H. Price. REF 912.13058

BBC News World Edition: Country Profiles http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/country_profiles/html/ Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics, and economic background of countries. Includes audio and video clips from the BBC archives.

Country Information/ Background Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ Dept. of State web site. The GIAL Library also keeps the two most recent Background Notes in print in the filing cabinets located in the Journal Area.

Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.com/ Search Publications by title, author, category, serial publications and journals or online publications. Search the SIL Bibliography by author, country, serials or subject indexes. Software includes a link to the Lingualinks bookshelf.

Federal Reseach Division - Library of Congress Country Studies/ Area Handbook Series http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) http://jake-db.org/ If you want to know which databases index the journal you need to search, this site will help you!

Joshua Project Peoples by Country Profile http://www.joshuaproject.net/index.php Click on People Profiles.

National Geographic CDs - Accessible at stand-alone station in GIAL Library

National Library of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. REF 909.09671

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html Has maps from around the world.

SIL Electronic Survey Reports http://www.sil.org/silesr/ These are also catalogued on Athena and searchable by Ethnologue code.

AFRICA REGION

African Abstracts REF 016.96

African Bibliography REF 016.96

Africa Research Central http://www.africa-research.org

African Online Digital Library http://www.africandl.org/

Africa South of the Sahara: Libraries http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/libaf.html

African Studies Internet Resources http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/ Search by region and country, by organization, or by topic. Links to Africa studies programs, libraries, publishers, book dealers, and newspapers.

International African Bibliography REF 016.96

Languages of Tanzania http://www.african.gu.se/tanzania/weblinks.html Set of links to sites about languages in Tanzania.

NORTH AMERICA REGION

Aboriginal Canada Portal www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca Directory listing libraries and cultural institutionw with collection related to First Nations, Métis and the Inuit in Canada.

Canada's Digital Collection - First Peoples http://collections.ic.gc.ca/e/index.php Includes art images, sound clips, transcribed interviews. Searcable by subject, alphabetical listing, online educational resources for the classroom.

Native American Resources www.nativeculture.com/lisamistten/indians.html Information on individual native nations, languages, native media, powwows and festivals.

LATIN AMERICA REGION

AILLA The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America http://www.ailla.org/site/welcome.html Digital archives of recordings and texts including narrative, ceremonies, oratory, conversations and songs in the indigenous languages of Latin America. Grammars, dictionaries, ethnographies and bilingual teaching materials.

Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room http://loc.gov/rr/hispanic Includes country studies prepared by library staff, online edition of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and annual bibliogrpahy of monographs about Latin America published since 1939.

ASIA REGION

Operation China. Paul Hattaway. REF 305.800951

SEAsite - Southeast Asian Language and Cultures http://www.seasite.niu.edu/

PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/ http://lii.org?recs=020630 This site "offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources" primarily "for research and study of modern East, Central, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences." Browsable by country, or searchable. A cooperative project of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

A Virtual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/

Brunei

Government of Brunei Darussalem official Web site http://www.brunei.gov.bn/index.htm

Burma (Myanmar)

Myanmar.com http://www.myanmar.com/

Cambodia

Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness www.mekong.net/cambodia

Cambodia Genocide Program http://www.yale.edu/cgp/

East Timor

Bibliography of East Timor http://coombs.anu.edu.au/Biblio/biblio_etimor.html

United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/etimor.htm

Indonesia