From: tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: COOMBSPAPERS Social Sciences Research Data Bank
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 04:41:53 GMT

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:

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