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- Archive-name: auto/comp.archives.admin/COOMBSPAPERS-Social-Sciences-Research-Data-Bank
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- ABOUT THE COOMBSPAPERS DATA BANK - the ANONYMOUS FTP ARCHIVE
- on the node coombs.anu.edu.au
-
- COOMBSPAPERS Social Sciences Research Data Bank was established on 3
- December 1991 to act as a world's leading electronic repository of the social science
- & humanities research papers and documents. These include offprints, departmental
- publications, specialist bibliographies, directories, abstracts of theses and other high-grade
- research material produced (or deposited) at the Research School of Pacific Studies and
- Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
-
- In addition, COOMBSPAPERS Data Bank is intended to serve also as a major
- Australian electronic repository of quality research materials dealing with the
- SouthEast and NorthEast Asian areas, as well as Buddhism, Taoism and other
- oriental religions.
-
- Its collection expands at a brisk pace and is available to Internet users
- world-wide 24 hrs/day, 7 days/week via the anonymous ftp or fetch procedure.
-
- The COOMBSPAPERS Data Bank is maintained and administered by the Coombs
- Computing Unit, RSSS/RSPacS.
-
- Currently (Apr 92) the electronic research collection comprises 162 ASCII files
- totalling approx. 9.1 Mb of data.
-
- Within the COOMBSPAPERS collection there are materials contributed by the following
- departments and units of the RSSS/RSPacS
-
- Aboriginal History Journal, Anthropology, Australian Dictionary of Biography,
- Cartography Unit, Demography, Economic History,Economic Policy Research Centre,
- Federalism Research Centre, International Relations, Linguistics,
- Modern Economic History od Southeast Asia Project, National Centre for Development Studies,
- Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Peace Research Centre, Philosophy, Political Science,
- Political and Social Change, RSPacS Director's Unit,
- Social Science Data Archives, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre,
- Thai-Yunnan Project, Urban Research Project.
-
- In addition there are also materials obtained/contributed via the network from/by
- other institutions, including:
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- Chinese-Japanese-Korean Computing and Database Facility (CJK-CDF), Cornell Univ., USA;
- Halifax Zen Center, Halifax, Canada; Oxford Text Archive, United Kingdom;
- SEANET listserv (BITNET); Sydney Zen Centre, Sydney, Australia;
- Univ. of Newcastle, Australia; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA;
- Univ. of Texas, USA; Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA;
- US Central Intelligence Agency, USA; USENET newsgroup soc.religion.eastern.
-
- Documents in the COOMBSPAPERS Data Bank are kept as ASCII (plain text)
- files. Some of the larger documents are stored in a compressed form to save the
- storage space and minimise network transmission times. All materials are
- freely available for noncommercial use by individual scholars, computer
- conferences, and libraries linked to the AARNET/ INTERNET and other
- academic networks and can be acquired world-wide from a sub-directory
- /coombspapers via anonymous FTP on the node coombs.anu.edu.au
-
- Not all materials forming the COOMBSPAPERS electronic research collection
- have to originate within the ANU's Research Schools of Social Sciences and
- Pacific Studies. In fact, any high grade social sciences/ humanities research
- material which is not already copyrighted by someone else may be deposited
- with this data bank. Scholars and researchers from all over the world are
- WARMLY INVITED to send their electronic documents for the safekeeping and
- dissemination by the COOMBSPAPERS Data bank. This can be done by lodging
- (via the FTP) an ASCII file with the /coombspapers/inboundpapers sub-directory
- at the coombs.anu.edu.au address. Please note that the Coombs Computing Unit,
- reserves the right to exclude from the data bank collection any document found to
- be unsuitable because of its scope, content, format or size.
-
- Details of the current holdings of the COOMBSPAPERS collection are given in
- it's INDEX file. They are also available via TELNET from one of the ARCHIE
- world-wide databases of files kept by the anonymous FTP sites
-
- Any inquires related to the above matters should be directed to:
-
- Dr T. Matthew Ciolek,
- Coombspapers Administrator,
- Coombs Computing Unit, RSPacS/RSSS,
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- ph +61 6 249 2214 e-mail (INTERNET) coombspapers@coombs.anu.edu.au
-