Table 024 The Provenance of Asian Studies WWW Links and Subscriptions to Mailing Lists ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- No of hypertext links No of subscribers to to AS WWW VL* H-Asia** asia-www-monitor*** HA+awwwm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NORTH AMERICA 535 (53%) 1670 (72%) 240 (41%) 1910 (66%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL & STH AMERICA 7 (1%) 14 (1%) 4 (1%) 32 (1%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFRICA 2 (0%) 4 (0%) 0 (0%) 6 (0%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACIFIC 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (0%) 1 (0%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EUROPE 202 (20%) 267 (11%) 96 17% 363 (12%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASIA 66 (7%) 218 (9%) 67 (12%) 285 (10%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIDDLE EAST 12 [18%] 6 5 11 [4% of Asia] ------------------------------------------------------------- Israel 6 3 3 Turkey 6 2 1 Saudi Arabia 0 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- CAUCASUS 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------- CENTRAL ASIA 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH ASIA 1 [2%] 17 4 21 [7% of Asia] ------------------------------------------------------------- India 1 15 3 Nepal 0 2 0 Sri Lanka 0 0 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTH EAST ASIA 6 [9%] 34 32 66 [23% of Asia] ------------------------------------------------------------- Singapore 4 14 13 Malaysia 1 8 10 Thailand 1 6 4 Brunei 0 3 1 Indonesia 0 2 2 Philippines 0 1 2 ------------------------------------------------------------- EAST ASIA 47 [67%] 161 26 187 [66% of Asia] ------------------------------------------------------------- Japan 29 80 15 Taiwan 9 35 3 Korea 7 8 3 HK 2 30 3 China 0 6 2 Macau 0 2 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUSTRALASIA 115 (11%) 144 (6%) 110 (19%) 254 (9%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER (a) 73 (7%) n/a 60 (10%) 60 (2%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1000 (99%) 2317 (99%) 578 (100%) 2895 (100%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Altavista, 31 Mar 1998 (Digital 1998) ** H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu, 1 Apr 1998 (Conlon 1998) *** asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au, 5 Apr 1998 (a) net + org domains