Comments on: access to scholarly communication in Virtual China http://www.virtual-china.org/2006/08/27/access-to-scholarly-communication-in-virtual-china/ An exploration of virtual experiences and environments in and about China. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lyn http://www.virtual-china.org/2006/08/27/access-to-scholarly-communication-in-virtual-china/#comment-391 Lyn Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:53:51 +0000 http://207.47.0.153/?p=327#comment-391 Micah, good question. I don't know the answer. As for making a comparison between Chinese scholars paying for foreign databases and US scholars paying for academic journals, I imagine the former is financially out of the question for most Chinese scholars, while the latter is not all that common for US scholars, though certainly not unheard of, but not a major financial burden. Micah, good question. I don’t know the answer.

As for making a comparison between Chinese scholars paying for foreign databases and US scholars paying for academic journals, I imagine the former is financially out of the question for most Chinese scholars, while the latter is not all that common for US scholars, though certainly not unheard of, but not a major financial burden.

]]> By: Micah http://www.virtual-china.org/2006/08/27/access-to-scholarly-communication-in-virtual-china/#comment-390 Micah Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:12:48 +0000 http://207.47.0.153/?p=327#comment-390 When I first came to Shanghai I used dial-up internet by buying pre-paid cards at the kiosk below my apartment. Cards came in two kinds: (cheap) domestic internet, and (less cheap) international internet. So the inner-outer "internets" is not a paradigm without precedent. But maybe I'm not understanding correctly... I don't think you made clear the difference between Chinese students paying for access to foreign sites and American scholars paying for access to academic journals. Do you mean that Chinese students need to pay for access to online databases because their institutions can't pay for them? Do you really mean "foreign sites", or sites that requires subscriptions in general? When I first came to Shanghai I used dial-up internet by buying pre-paid cards at the kiosk below my apartment. Cards came in two kinds: (cheap) domestic internet, and (less cheap) international internet. So the inner-outer “internets” is not a paradigm without precedent. But maybe I’m not understanding correctly…

I don’t think you made clear the difference between Chinese students paying for access to foreign sites and American scholars paying for access to academic journals. Do you mean that Chinese students need to pay for access to online databases because their institutions can’t pay for them? Do you really mean “foreign sites”, or sites that requires subscriptions in general?

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