Global Digital Library Project:
Present and Future
Monday, August 6, 2007
Session 1.3: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
A Second Revolution in
Information Technology
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Cyberinfrastructure –
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Knowledge Communities –
a comprehensive
phenomenon that involves the creation,
dissemination, preservation, and application of
knowledge
virtual
organizations that work across institutional
boundaries and ultimately around the globe
BACKGROUND: Global Accounting
Digital Archive Network
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Digitization of Books and Journals
Digitization of Documents and Materials
not in Book or Journal Form
a. Digitization of diverse, scattered materials
b. Facilitating access to digital archives
c. Connecting the dots, digital & nondigital
AAA/EAA Global Accounting
Digital Archive Task Force
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Joint effort of AAA and EAA
Focus on easing access to digitized
materials
Identify archival sources
Establish and populate a website
Sponsor presentations
Panelists and Perspectives
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Large University Library:
Chuck Popovich (Ohio State University)
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Public Accounting Firm:
Eric Cohen (PwC)
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Accounting Academe:
Miklos Vasarhelyi (Rutgers)
Dan Jensen (Ohio State University)
AAA Publications Website
Publications
Browse AAA Electronic Journals
The Global Accounting Digital Archive Network
AAA Electronic Journals
Issues of Association-wide journals and Section journals from
recent years are available online in a searchable and
printable format.
About AAA Electronic Journals
Association-wide Journal Home Pages
The Accounting Review
Issues in Accounting Education
Accounting Horizons
Section Journal Home Pages
Structure of GADAN Webpage
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Digitized Materials: Sources and
Collections
Archival Information
Open Source
Commercial URL Listings
General Archiving Materials
GADAN Webpage
DIGITIZED MATERIALS
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The University of Mississippi Digital Accounting Collection
The Accounting Historians Journal complete from 1974 through 2005)
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(Including
University of Sidney: The Raymond J. Chambers Digital Materials
Archive
Kobe University Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration:
Database on Japanese Companies (Note: ID and Password needed to access
database; please contact Hidetoshi Yamaji at yamaji@rieb.kobe-u.ac.jp)
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Baruch College, City University of New York, Newman Library: Saxe
Lectures in Accounting
Google Scholar
New York State Society of CPAs: The CPA Journal (Archive: l989-to current
date)
Oxford University Library Services
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan: Professor Yasuhi Kawabata's Database
of 19th Century German Corporations (Protocol: English Language Referencing:
Japanese Language Reference, German Language Documents)
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Russian Accounting Collection
GADAN Webpage
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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University of Florida, George A. Smathers Library: Florida
Accounting Archives Collection Catalogue
Rutgers University, Rutgers Accounting Research Center:
Accounting Research Directory (Database of Accounting
Literature)
Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business: The
Accounting Hall of Fame (biographical profiles)
The SEC Historical Society
Columbia University Librairies Digital Program: Advanced
Papyrological Information System
GADAN Webpage
OPEN SOURCE
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Find Articles.Com (LookSmart, Ltd., San Francisco)
GBV Common Library Network (German
University Library Network; German Language)
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Institut Der Wirtschaftsprufer
Institute of Accountants; German Language)
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(German
Schmalenbach Business Review
(German &
Accounting History in a Nutshell
(Robert
English Language)
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Jensen’s Website, Trinity University)
GADAN Webpage
COMMERCIAL URL LISTINGS
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Readex, a Division on NewsBank, Inc.
(Provider of Web-based Historical
Content including the Archive of Americana®)
NewsBank, Inc (Provider of Web-based Information Resources including
Readex)
Accounting Research Network (hosted by the Social Science Research
Network SSRN)
JSTOR (Scholarly Journal Archive)
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ProQuest – Higher Education/Academic (Scholarly Content Archive)
EBSCO Information Services (Scholarly Content Archive)
GALE THOMSON (Scholarly Content Archive)
DBpia (Scholarly Article and Journal Archive; Korean Language)
SA ePublications: Business and Finance Collection (South African
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WISO Wirtschafts und Sozialwissenschatften
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Scholarly Journal Archive including The Accountant)
Scholarly Content Archive; German Language)
(Economic and Social Science
GADAN Webpage
GENERAL ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
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SCoRe: Search Company Reports
(A
Catalog of UK Collections of Printed Annual Reports)
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Ancient Egyptian Sources for the
History of Accountancy (Prepared by Stephen
Quirke, University College London)