[Song-Yuan Listserv] Academia Sinica text database

Mon Aug 31 13:58:35 EDT 2009

Paul,
Thanks for filling us in on this, and I think this is definitely an idea 
worth pursuing. I've tried to access this in the past, as Beverly 
described, and given up. I know my institution could not afford the 
annual fee and there are doubtless many others in the same position.
Linda

psmith at haverford.edu wrote:
> Folks, I recently communicated with Liu Cheng-yun, and the upshot is that
> the fee to institutions is $2500 per year.  There are no individual
> subscriptions, as Peter points out.  I can't see asking Haverford to pay
> that much for me, and I'm not sure they'd do it.  But I'd like to suggest
> that we approach Liu Cheng-yun about treating The Society for Song-Yuan
> Studies as an institutional subscriber, with the Society collecting
> pro-rated access fees from our members.  I can imagine two ways of doing
> that:
> 
> 1] Ac Sin charges the Society $2500/year, which we bundle into the journal
> subscription fee with access to each journal subscriber.  I don't know how
> that would work out at the Berkeley end where the money is collected
> though.
> 
> 2] The Society collects a pro-rated fee from all members interested in
> gaining access to the database.  Many members might have access through
> their home institutions, so would not need Society access.
> 
> I'm sure there are other workable variations.  If the idea seems
> worthwhile we need someone to negotiate with Liu Cheng-yun; and then if
> that succeeds, we need to devise a way to collect fees, pay Academia
> Sinica, and allocate the necessary passwords.  I don't know Prof. Liu, but
> I think a good case can be made in the merits for treating the Society as
> a subscribing institution: it will generate additional if modest revenue
> on a fixed cost for Academia Sinica that they would not otherwise get, and
> it will make a valuable resource available to the larger Song-Yuan
> community irrespective of home institution.
> 
> Does this seem worth pursuing?
> 
> Best to all,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>>   <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252"
>>  http-equiv="Content-Type">
>> </head>
>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>> Beverly is correct. Academia Sinica operates through institutional
>> licenses (not individual subscription). My understanding is that
>> institutional subscription is a one-time fee of a few thousand dollars.
>> It will, I think, save libraries a great deal of money while providing
>> access to more works than most can afford.<br>
>> Inquiries can be directed to the Vice-Director of the Institute of
>> History, Prof. Liu Cheng-yun <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
>> href="mailto:cyliu at mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw"><cyliu at mail.ihp.sinica.edu.tw></a><br>
>> Peter Bol<br>
>> <br>
>> Beverly Bossler wrote:
>> <blockquote cite="mid:4A9BEF92.5000407 at ucdavis.edu" type="cite">Dear
>> all,
>>   <br>
>> My limited experimentation suggests that this may only be available
>> through Academia Sinica for those whose institutions have subscribed to
>> provide full rights to all of the database. I can find /Xu zi zhi tong
>> jian chang bian /by searching the shu mu on the Hanji dianzi wenxian
>> ziliao ku site, but cannot seem to get access to the full text (there
>> is a link to click for access to the full text, but when I do so
>> nothing happens). If I'm mistaken or doing something wrong, please let
>> me know!
>>   <br>
>> Best, Beverly
>>   <br>
>>   <br>
> 
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