ARL Announces: Digital South Asia Project (fwd)

[Dominik Wujastyk]

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>AAU/ARL Global Resources Program Expands to South Asia
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>       The University of Chicago and the University of Columbia Libraries
>have designed the Digital South Asia Project, a two-year initiative to
>develop the infrastructure for inter-continental electronic document
>delivery to and from selected South Asia libraries and to create new
>electronic reference resources. The pilot project will operate as one
>element of the AAU/ARL Global Resources Program.
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>       The Global Resources Program is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon
>Foundation and its mission is to improve access to international research
>resources.  Currently the Program is sponsoring or developing projects for
>six world areas:  Japan, Latin America, Germany, Africa, Southeast Asia,
>and South Asia.
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>Expected results of the Digital South Asia project include:
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>-- electronic indexing records for approximately 38,000 articles in Tamil
>   journals, 38,000 articles in Urdu journals, and 4,750 English journal
>   articles, published during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
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>-- electronic full text versions of three classic nineteenth-century South
>   Asia reference books printed in roman characters;
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>-- full-text electronic versions of five select titles from the Official
>   Publications of India, one of which will be a statistical source
>   structured as an electronic database;
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>-- a web site providing global access to the project's electronic
>   resources;
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>-- scanning capacity at research libraries in Madras, Hyderabad, and
>   Chicago; and
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>-- delivery on demand of page images of the Tamil and Urdu journal
>   articles indexed under this project via the Internet either directly to
>   scholars or through libraries.
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>       The project developers and principal investigators are James Nye
>(jnye at midway.uchicago.edu), Bibliographer for Southern Asia, University of
>Chicago Library, and David Magier (magier at columbia.edu), Director of Area
>Studies and South Asia Librarian, Columbia University Libraries.  The
>project will involve a partnership between the US libraries and the Roja
>Muthiah Research Library (Madras), and the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram
>(Hyderabad) in India.
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>       Additional information on the Digital South Asia Project or the
>AAU/ARL Global Resources Program is available via the ARL website at:
>http://www.arl.org> or by contacting Deborah Jakubs, Director of the
>Global Resources Program <jakubs at acpub.duke.edu>.
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