THREE SNAPSHOTS OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAMS IN UC AND A SURVEY OF DIGITAL RESOURCES

These centers organize a wide range of activities including international conferences, seminars and colloquia, publications, and visiting scholars’ programs A.2 Information Needs In this

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THREE SNAPSHOTS OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAMS IN UC

AND A SURVEY OF DIGITAL RESOURCES

A The Chinese Studies Programs in UC and Digital Resources for Chinese Studies 1

A.1 Program Profile UC has extensive programs in China studies, some ranked the finest in

the nation All UC campuses offer either undergraduate or graduate programs in Chinese

language and literature In addition, most UC campuses offer programs in a wide range of other academic disciplines such as history, archaeology, Buddhism, linguistics, art history, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, music, and film studies All UC campuses have to some degree established programs in Asian American studies Berkeley stands out especially strong in Chinese-American studies nationally Over the years, UC faculty members have expanded their interests to newer disciplines in Chinese studies such as geography, journalism, architecture, psychology, public health, and social welfare Because of the wide scope of Chinese studies programs in UC, there needs to be more Chinese digital resources to support their instructional and research needs

Among the eight campuses surveyed, six campuses offer Ph.D or Masters programs in Chinese studies, and two campuses offer undergraduate programs only Four campuses have organized research units (ORUs) to coordinate activities in Chinese studies, i.e Centers for Chinese Studies

at UC Berkeley and UCLA, Council for East Asian studies at UCSD, and Center for Asian studies at UC Irvine These centers organize a wide range of activities including international conferences, seminars and colloquia, publications, and visiting scholars’ programs

A.2 Information Needs In this survey, many campuses have identified the following digital

resources as critical for Chinese studies in UC:

 Full text databases

 Indexes of Chinese journals, newspapers and dissertations

 Online references resources: dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, yearbooks and

directories

 Chinese film and digital video resources

 Statistical information and census data

 GIS, geographic description, and gazetteers

 Photographic resources

 Government documents

1 The section on the Chinese studies programs in UC and digital resources for Chinese studies was prepared by Jean Han of UC Berkeley Library.

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A.3 Recommended Digital Resources for EADL

Those surveyed in this study recommended the following electronic resources:

Chinese eLibrary Full Text Database Paramus, N.J : eBookMatrix Publishing Corp

人民日报 People’s Daily 1948-2002, & other 5 major Newspapers /10Magazines published in China Provides full-text searching by keyword for major newspapers in China

Price: 10 users $30,000.00

Service method: Local host

聯合知識庫 United Daily News Database, Taipei http://www.udndata.com A full-text database

of 5 major newspapers in Taiwan since 1955

Price: $50,000 initial and US$25,000/year

中國人民大學書報資料中心複印報刊資料全文數據庫 The full-text database of Academic Journal Articles in Humanities and Social Sciences by the People’s University of PR China

From 1978 to present Network version

Price: RMB24,000

Service Method: Local host

China Dissertation Database http://china.eastview.com

There are 50,000 selected Chinese dissertations by discipline

Price: to be determined

Service method: local host or vendor host

超星數字圖書館 SuperStar Digital Library for Chinese Studies , http://www.ssreader.com

Contains some 80,000 Chinese e-books on many subjects including reference works, local gazettes, historical archives, etc

中国资讯庫 (China InfoBank)数据 http:// www.chinainfobank.com

Contains databases on Chinese economic, business & finance, law & regulation, statistics including government and quasi-governmental bodies as well as academic institutions One of the best sources for Chinese business information

Price: $1,288/yr

Service method: Local host or vendor host

漢達文庫 CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts) 4 databases Hong Kong : CHANT Center, the

Chinese University of Hong Kong http://www.chant.org

Contains four full-text databases of traditional Chinese texts from the Pre-Han period (pre 220 AD), 甲骨文 Jiaguwen, 簡帛 Jianbo, 金文學 Jinwenxue, 先秦兩漢魏晉南北朝 Six Dynasties (581 AD)

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Annual subscription: $600.00

Service Method: Local host or vendor host

四部叢刊電子版 (Internet version) 北京:書同文數字化技術有公司 Sequel to Siku Quanshu, the title was compiled and reproduced the best editions of 500 Chinese classical works in 1922-1936

Price: 10 users US$21,000

* Currently, five UC campuses (UCB,UCI, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD) are jointly negotiating with the publisher to purchase this database

古今圖書集成電子版 The Complete Collection of Classics of Ancient China Taipei: Great

Man Knowledge Management Group, 2003 A full-text database of the largest and most useful encyclopedia including all important classics of ancient China in astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politic, economy, art, education, agriculture, fishing, medicine, etc

Price: Single user $6,500

中國國家圖書館藏博士論文書目數據庫, 1982- Bibliography of dissertations created by the National Library of China

Price: RMB11,000.00

A.4 Freely Available Chinese Studies Database on the Internet

中文字谱 http://www.zhongwen.com/ Word Lists and Online Glossaries / Dictionaries

Mandarin Chinese http://www.deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/cdict.htm Annotated links to web-accessible resources for Mandarin Chinese

Chinese language information http://www.webcom.com/bamboo/chinese/

Chinese-English Dictionary http://www.mandarintools.com/cintro.html

Chinese characters and culture http://zhongwen.com/m/hellochat.htm

中文报刊指南http://www.wforum.com/online/newspapers.shtml Links to Chinese newspapers 中文报刊导航 http://www.hljdaily.com.cn/link.htm Links to Chinese newspapers, magazines, and radio stations

中国教育和科研计算机网 China education and research network http://www.cernet.edu.cn 中国国家图书馆 National Library of China (Beijing) web page http://www.nlc.gov.cn/

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An Internet guide for Chinese studies http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/

Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library

http://www.uni-kiel.de/netguide/netguide.htm

China: Internet Guide for China Studies http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/

中国法律资源网 China Laws http://www.lawbase.com.cn

佛教數位圖書館暨博物館 Buddhist Digital Library and Museum

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/DBLM/cindex.htm

BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network http://buddhanet.net

Taoism http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/

Chinese Movie Database http://www.dianying.com Covers movies made in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other regions from 1905 to the present Contains a movie index by film title Lists current Hong Kong Film Awards nominations Links to other resources on Chinese movies

China Dimensions http://sedac.ciesin.org/china/ Available data: China administrative regions GIS data, China maps and bibliography database, Population (census data) and data on public health, Economics, Public policies, etc

Chinese Biographical Database http://exodus.lcsc.edu/cbiouser/Default.htm

China’s Economy: Latest China Economic Data/Statistics, Chinese Economic Analysis/Reports

http://www.geoinvestor.com/statistics/china/economicdata.htm

Taiwan www virtual library http://peacock.tnjc.edu.tw/taiwan-wwwvl.html

National Central Library (Taipei)home page 國家圖書館全球資訊網 http://www.ncl.edu.tw

台灣漢學研究中心資訊網 http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ Home page of the Center for Chinese Studies in the National Central Library in Taiwan

政府公報全文影像查詢系統 (Taiwan) http://readopac.ncl.edu.tw/html/frame6.htm Full-text database of government publications in Taiwan

行政院主計處第三局統計相關網 http://www.dgbasey.gov.tw/dgbas03/bs8/others.htm

GAIS Global area information servers 網路資訊搜尋系統

http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/cgais.html, Taiwan

Taiwan Academic Network 台灣學術網路 http://www.ntu.edu.tw/TANet/

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National Science & Technology Information network 全國科技資訊網路

http://ssuxdb1.stic.gov.tw/html/sticinit2

National Palace Museum 國立故宫博物院 (台北) http://www.npm.gov.tw

Hong Kong www virtual library http://www.asiawind.com/hkwwwv1/

世界海外華人研究與文獻收藏機構聯合會 World Confederation of institutes and libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies http://overseaschineseconfederation.org/relevantlinks.html

A.5 UC’s Chinese collections Recommended for Digitization

 Chinese rubbing collection (UCB)

The East Asian Library at UCB has conducted a pilot project to digitize its Chinese rubbings for on-line publication so that researchers around the world can study them This digitization project follows MOAII standards, and the data now resides in CDL’s server A few sample rubbings are available for viewing at

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/xdlib/servlet/archobj?DOCCHOICE=eal/csr9.xml

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/xdlib/servlet/archobj?DOCCHOICE=eal/csr8.xml

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/xdlib/servlet/archobj?DOCCHOICE=eal/derivtest.xml

 Chinese Rare Books prior to 1795 (UCB)

UCB EAL plans to digitize selected Chinese rare books prior to 1795 A pilot project is currently under way to digitize about twenty titles of Song-Yuan imprints from the 10th to 14th centuries

 Chinese American archives and photographic collections, Ethnic Studies Library (UCB)

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (UCB project underway)

http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/cubhtml/cichome.html

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 is a part of the Library of Congress's American Memory

Project It illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California from 1850-1925 through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials selected from the Bancroft Library, the Ethnic Studies Library of UCB, and the California Historical Society of San Francisco

 Two unique Chinese collections in UCLA

(1) Tom Leung Kang Youwei Bao Huang Hui collection, which has been microfilmed

(2) China Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Incident Collection

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B Japanese Studies Programs in UC and Digital Resources for Japanese Studies

B 1 Program Profile Eight UC campuses offer degree programs related to Japan four

campuses offer Ph.D and Masters programs in Japanese studies; five campuses offer

undergraduate programs on Japanese Studies; three campuses offer major or minor programs on Japan within the scope of East Asia area studies

While language instruction is the core of East Asia area studies, the scope and the depth of the Japanese Studies programs of eight UC campuses vary greatly At the undergraduate level, the courses are offered through interdisciplinary studies programs The MA and Ph.D degrees on the other hand are offered through various disciplinary departments Besides the core courses on Japanese language, history and literature, a large number of courses are offered in a wide range

of disciplines Faculty affiliations are with Anthropology, Architecture, Art History,

Business/Economics, Law, Literature, Linguistics, History, Music, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, and Theater among other departments programs

B.2 Information Needs In recent years, Japanese studies programs in UC are shifting more

toward modern and contemporary Japan As the research interests of UC faculty expands, the need for flexibility in acquiring library research materials to support those interests has

broadened considerably The increased demand for original research materials means an

increased need for accessing primary sources that are not available through regular distribution channels Although hard copy is still the most essential resource for research materials, there is a rapid expansion of digital resources for Japanese studies This trend has created a strong demand for non-print resources among UC’s library patrons

According to this survey, the following types of resources are critical for Japanese studies

programs in UC:

 Full text journal article databases

 Full text newspapers databases

 Primary sources: access to government documents, local gazetteers, white papers,

opinion surveys, numerical data sets, serials published in pre-war periods, diaries and fliers

 Audio visual sources: films directed by well known Japanese directors and award

winning films, films on performing arts (Kabuki, No plays) and films adapted from literary works, animation and documentary films

 Topical sources on popular culture, gender studies, politics, leisure in contemporary Japan, globalization

B.3 Available Digital Resources According to Databases in Japan, 2001, the total number

of Japanese commercial databases available to overseas users is 437 in 2000 Only 7.1 % of them are distributed on the Internet The database category breakdown is as follows:

Science and Technology 86 19.7%

Economic/Business/Financial 164 37.5%

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General 175 40.1%

Currently, six UC campuses are jointly subscribing to one database through CDL: MagazinePlus,

an index to Japanese periodical literature Additionally, the following Japanese digital resources are subscribed to by at least one UC campus:

The above titles represent a small portion of the entire Japanese digital resources that are

available on the market There are several reasons for the current lack of e-resources in UC’s East Asian collections:

Price – Digital resources are expensive Usually, the prices for Japanese studies resources are not set for consortia use, if at all

Access method – IP access method is not provided for most of the digital resources The

majority of Japanese databases are accessed by password This method is not suitable for

seamless information delivery in an openly accessible network environment of UC

Contract – The contract is usually written in Japanese The database providers are usually very reluctant to spend their financial resources preparing the contract in English since the market for their products is fairly small In addition, some of the contract terms are unacceptable for U.S institutions For example, the place of a trial (should a lawsuit occur) will be held in Japan Operating system – The majority of CD-ROM products run properly only with Japanese

Windows

Japanese database providers have yet to commit their financial resources to develop products for

public use, as Database in Japan, 2001 survey indicates that Japanese database users prefer

Internet as their access choice In the meantime, Japanese librarians in the United States have formed a task force to tackle the issue of Japanese database access This group is communicating with librarians in Japan on some of their common concerns (such as flexible access methods) Librarians on both sides are trying to form a united front to sway the current market of Japanese databases towards a more user-friendly and less proprietary environment

In addition to commercially available databases, there are many useful scholarly databases in Japan developed by government agencies or academic institutions Those resources are not open

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for public use yet Their use is limited to individual institutions It is useful to identify these databases and include them in the proposed EADL digital collections Despite of these

limitations, there are encouraging new improvements in web-based information delivery from Japan in recent years, led by the National Diet Library and National Information Informatics Many government agencies, academic institutions and research centers are now publishing valuable scholarly information on the Web The recent increase of high-quality digital archives

by central and local governments and museums is worth our special mention It is important to harvest these digital resources, and provide efficient and effective ways to access them It is essential for CDL and UC’s East Asian librarians to develop strategies for acquiring and

harvesting such new digital information

B.4 Recommended Digital Resources for EADL

NACSIS-IR http://www.nii.ac.jp/ir/ir-e.html

Contains 39 bibliographic databases in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences by National Information Informatics with IP address recognition

Service Method: IP controlled access

NACSIS-ELS http://els.nii.ac.jp/els-e/nacsis-els-e.php3?top

A full test database of 450 academic journals by National Information Informatics, with IP address access

Nikkei Telecom21 http://telecom21.nikkeidb.or.jp/home/

A database of business information, statistics and news by Nikkei America Inc with IP address access

Price: $80/month basic fee + usage fee (cost varies per file)

Japan Knowledge http://www.nichigai.co.jp/web_service/j-knowledge2.html

A collection of 20 reference resources – encyclopedia, language dictionaries etc by Nichigai

Associates, with IP address access

Price: $1,500/year with 1 ID + $1,250 initiation fee

Asahi Shinbun http://www.asahi.com/information/products.html

Full text Asahi newspaper database ( 1926-1945) by Asahi Shinbunsha, in CD Rom format, but

can be networked

Price: $14,167

Service Method: Possible local host

Yomiuri Shinbun http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/cdrom/index.htm

Full text Yomiuri Shinbun (1874-1945) by Yomiuri Shinbunsha in CD Rom, but can be

networked

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Price: $22,917

Service Method: Possible local host

Oya Soichi Bunko https://www.oya-bunko.com

A periodical index to over 370 general and popular magazine titles since 1988 by Oya Soichi Bunko, with IP address access

Price: $3,100 /year with 3 ID

BookPlus http://www.nichigai.co.jp/

Contains table of contents information of Japanese books published after 1927 by Nichigai Associates, with IP address access

Price: $2,250/year with 3 ID

Who’s who in Japan after 1968 by Nichigai Associates, with IP address access

Price: $22,450/year with 3 ID and 8 sites

GIOSS-Net http://www.gioss.or.jp/

A bibliographical database for government documents generated by the central ministries since 1992

Price: $1,000/year membership fee

Service Method: Vendor host

Kanpo Kensaku http://kanpou.npb.go.jp/search/introduce.html

A Database of official government gazetteers since 1947 by Tokyo-to Kanpo Hanbaijo

Price: $17.50/search (no flat rate service offered)

Service Method: Vendor host

Legal Base http://jlic.softhouse-ilu.com/doc/index.php3

A database for judicial precedent, trial, law and ordinances since 1947 by Nihon Horitsu Joho

Senta, with IP address access

Price: $5,000 / year with 1 ID

Sakka Shuppitsusha Fairu 作家執筆者ファイルファイル

Biographical information of writers or journalists in Japan by Nichigai Associates, with IP address access

Sho no Jiten 賞の事典の事典事典

Contains information on Japanese prizes in various fields by Nichigai Associates, with IP

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Digital News Archives http://www.asahi.com/information/intro_forl.html

A database of Asahi Newspaper and biography since 1984 by Asashi Shinbunsha, with IP address access

Price: $2,380 / year with 1 ID

Yomidasu http://dbgwp.yomiuri.co.jp/help/yomidas.htm

A database for Yomiuri Newspaper since 1986 and biography by Yomiuri Shinbunsha, with IP address access

Mainichi News Pakku

A database for Mainichi Shinbun and its photo archives etc by Mainichi Shinbunsha, with IP address access

Netto de Hyakka ネットで百科で百科百科

Heibonsha’s world encyclopedia online by Nichigai Associates, with IP address access

Price: $11,840/year with 3 ID and 8 sites

B.5 UC’s Japanese Collections Recommended for Digitization Some of UC Japanese

collections are appropriate for digitalization because of their scholarly and artistic value For example, UCB’s Collection of Edo Edition Books are believed to be the largest outside Japan UCB recently digitized about 200 woodblock printed maps and books from the collection

UCB

5,500 Edo Period (1600-1867) woodblock printed books

2,300 Edo Period manuscripts

500 sheets of hand written poems (waka) sang in the Edo Period

500 front pieces of the first edition of the literary works published in Meiji and Taisho Periods (1868-1925)

1,000 miniature books published in Meiji Period (1868- 1912)

UCLA

4 manuscripts with hand colored illustrations from the 17th century (Utsubo Monogatari)

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