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Unit:
INTERNET PUBLICATIONS BUREAU (IPB)
Head:Dr T. Matthew Ciolek
History:
- From August 1991 when the ANU was connected to the Internet till December 1996 RSPAS' online research information services were provided by joint RSPAS/RSSS computer services unit.
- In January 1997, in response to new research and teaching opportunities and challenges presented by the ever-growing body of electronic scholarly information, and in response to the of impact of the Internet-based communications on scholarly activities world-wide, the RSPAS has established a small, specialist body called Internet Publications Bureau (IPB).
- In January 1999 the IPB became a part of the Director's Section, RSPAS.
- In June 2009 the IPB became a part of the ANU College of Asia Pacific (CAP).
Functions:
The Bureau
- facilitates,
- promotes and
- supports
the College's professional uses of the Internet for scholarly communication, information storage/publishing, and high-grade
online research conducted via a plethora of online tools such as mailing lists, online databases and repositories of digital documents, web sites, blogs, wikis and search engines.
Internet Publications:
The Bureau is responsible for development and maintenance of several online scholarly tools. Among them, the most important are:
- Coombsweb - National Institute for Asia and the Pacific Server
Est. Jan 1994, coombs.anu.edu.au
Coombsweb is the world's oldest and most famous Asian Studies online research facility. It is also
and the most accessed [approx. 5 mln hits a year] and one of the most heavily linked-to websites within The Australian National University.
- Asian Studies WWW Vitual Library
Est. Mar 1994, coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Since its inception the site continues to keep high and very high a Google [www.google.com] rank out of many millions of
Asian studies' online documents world-wide. For the latest details see the "Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations - the Scorecard" statistics.
- Asian Studies WWW Monitor Electronic Journal
Est. Apr 1994, ISSN 1329-9778, coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Over 8,200 subscribers, and approx. over 4,000 additional readers world-wide.
- Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library
Est. Jun 1995, coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html
Since July 2008 the Virtual Library is edited together with Dr Katerina Teaiwa.
In mid-2009 the site had a Google [www.google.com] rank #1 out of 17,900,000 Pacific studies' online
documents world-wide.
- Coombspapers - ANU Social Sciences Anonymous FTP Archive
Est. Dec 1991, coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombswebPages/Coombspapers.html
An electronic repository of working papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material produced (or deposited) at the RSPAS.
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