Bank
of Hawaii economic reports - the Bank's periodic overviews of the economies of
particular Pacific island jurisdictions.
Bishop
Museum Library and Archives - approximately 110,000 volumes and
over one million photographs emphasizing the cultural and natural history of
Hawai'i and the Pacific, with special focus on anthropology, music, botany,
entomology, and zoology.
The interdisciplinary Centre
for Pacific and Asian Studies (CPAS) at the University of Nijmegen
in the Netherlands covers Oceania —including Australia and New Zealand—,
continental Asia and insular Southeast Asia. The Centre's site
includes full text access to the Oceania Newsletter, extensive
searchable bibliographic references on Oceania, Australia and New Zealand,
and a good collection of bookmarks.
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The European Centre on Pacific
Issues, ECSIEP, a service bureau for the Europe Pacific Solidarity
Network, seeks to improve the quantity and quality of information flow from
the Pacific to Europe. Its site includes good collections of links on
Pacific Islands, on small island developing states, and on the Lomé
Convention.
Guam
and Micronesia on the Web - an unannotated but comprehensive list of
websites in Guam and Micronesia.
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Jane’s Oceania
Home Page – Islander Jane Resture’s pages are quite different
from most of the pages I provide links to. Her incredible collection of
pages covers most of the countries of Oceania and includes only not only
history and maps, but photo galleries, poetry, religion, mythology and, on
her Pacific Islands Radio, music, to list but a few of the topics covered.
Ruth Bird's Law of
the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources, from LLRX.Com,
provides a good introduction to online legal resources from the Pacific
Islands.
Libraries
of Asia Pacific Directory, from the National Library of Australia,
provides contact information for libraries throughout the Pacific
islands. Most of the listed libraries do not provide online
access to materials and many do not have a listed website.
Micronesian
Area Research Center at the University of Guam - one of the largest
collections of historical materials relating to Guam and Micronesia; the
collection cannot be searched on the Internet, but the site gives a good
description of MARC's holdings and has useful links to other sites.
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Micronesian
Seminar - an
exceptionally rich website from a nonprofit institute run by the Jesuits of Micronesia, with a focus on community education, social research, and
history; includes an excellent collection of photographs; the library catalog of over 15,000 titles on Micronesia can be
searched online; particularly useful are the results from an annual online search for books, articles, dissertations and theses on Micronesia or particularly relevant to Micronesians. The results can be searched with a browser’s ‘find’ command.
The
Pacific Collection at the University of Hawaii - a superb collection of Pacific materials, including over 80,000 volumes relating to Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia and current Pacific-area journals, periodicals, reports, and
newspapers.
The bibliographic records for its holdings can be searched online in the
University of Hawaii's Hawai'i
Voyager catalog.
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Pacific
Islands Internet Resources - Michael Ogden's comprehensive, categorized collection of
Pacific Island websites; successor to Pacific Islands World Wild Web "Things".
The Pacific
Law Collection at the Monash University Law Library & Faculty
of Law. Monash is Australia’s largest university and home to
one of the largest collections of Pacific Island States and Territories
primary and secondary law materials in Australasia. The site describes
holdings at Monash and in other Australian collections; it does not make
documents available online.
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Pacific
Islands Legal Material at the University of Waikato Law
Library. This site is quite similar in intent to the Pacific Law
Resource Unit at Australia's Monash University, above, but
describes Pacific Island States and Territories holdings in New Zealand.
Pacific
Studies Virtual Library - a good collection of websites on the
Pacific Islands, with annotations, from the Australian National University.
Secretariat of the Pacific Community,
formerly the South Pacific Commission, is a technical advisory, training and research
organization for Pacific nations and territories, with information for and
about those nations and territories. See especially the Secretariat's Library.
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The South Pacific Applied
Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) has the goal of improving the well
being of the peoples of Pacific Island member countries through the
application of geoscience to the management and sustainable development of
their non-living resources; a virtual library at the site includes many
online technical reports and newsletters. (I find this link works
better in Internet Explorer than in other browsers.)
The South Pacific Regional
Environment Programme (SPREP) is the regional organization
established by governments and administrations of the Pacific region to look
after its environment. The Mission Statement of SPREP calls on the
organization "to promote co-operation in the South Pacific region and
to provide assistance in order to protect and improve its environment and to
ensure sustainable development for present and future generations".
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The South
Pacific Island Web Atlas, from the GIS Unit of the University of the
South Pacific includes maps and basic demographic and economic data.
Te
Puna Web Directory from the National Library of New Zealand, listing
Pacific Island web sites by country.
Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands Archives - an index to 2,169 reels of microfilm
documenting the United Nations Trusteeship in Micronesia can be searched
online through the University
of Hawaii's Voyager catalog; the actual microfilms are available at the
University, at the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Maryland, and in
the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated
States of Micronesia, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands.
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University of the South Pacific School
of Law is the preeminent institution for legal education and
research in the South Pacific region. The School's Pacific
Islands Legal Information Institute collects recent
judgments, legislation, and other legal materials from 15 countries and territories in the South
Pacific region.
World Wildlife Fund, South
Pacific Programme - information on the coral reefs and marine
ecosystems, forests, and wetlands of the South Pacific.
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