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Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

Coombspapers
ANU Social Sciences Research Data Bank

World's oldest and most extensive Social Sciences and Asian Studies
File Transfer Protocol site

Edited by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

[Est.: 27th February 1995. Last revised: 19 April 2002. This facility is provided by the Australian National University (ANU). This page is a part of the Coombsweb - ANU Social Sciences Server.]

This document provides simplified access to the Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank - an anon.ftp archive on coombs.anu.edu.au. The archive was established on 3 December 1991 to act as an electronic repository of the social science & humanities papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material produced (or deposited) at the Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Please direct any inquiries to: tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au

In April 2002 Coombspapers electronic research collection comprised 1512 ASCII files totalling 61.1 Mb of data.
Section I - coombspapers' indices & documentation

Section II - coombsarchives
(archives of electronic materials from RSSS/RSPAS)
Section III - otherarchives
(archives of electronic materials originating from sources other than RSSS/RSPAS)
(Aboriginal Studies materials can be also found in coombsarchives section above: aboriginal-history-jrnl) (Asian Studies materials can be also found in coombsarchives section above: [asian-pacific-economic-literat, australia-japan-research-cntr, contemporary-china-centre, indonesia-project, land-management-project [PNG data], pacific-asian-history, pacific-islands-group, pacific-manuscripts-bureau, political-and-social-change [Philippines data], southeast-asia-economic-history, strategic-and-defence-studies [Pacific data], thai-yunnan-project)
Section IV - subj-bibl-clearinghouse
(social sciences & asian studies subject-oriented bibliographies)

Convenient access to these & other on-line bibliographies [archived elsewhere] is provided via the following link: Clearinghouse for Social Sciences Subject-Oriented Bibliographies
Details of the current holdings of the Coombspapers collection are given in its Index files and the "ANU-Coombspapers-Index" wais database (see above). They are also available via TELNET from one of the ARCHIE world-wide databases of files kept by the anonymous FTP sites (e.g. archie.au in Australia, archie.ans.net in USA [NY], archie.mcgill.ca in Canada or archie.funet.fi in Finland).

The Coombspapers files are fully mirrored (on daily or weekly basis) by: These arrangements allow people in North America, Asia and Europe to fetch copies of Coombspapers' materials without having to traverse the overloaded trans-Pacific link.

Maintainer: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)

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