The East Asian Studies Program at UofT Needs Your Support!

Dear Friends of the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library,

It’s with great concern that we send you what is very distressing news about developments still unfolding at the University of Toronto and solicit your support. The Faculty of Arts and Science has recently proposed in its strategic plan to eliminate the Department of East Asian Studies, starting from the fall of 2011.

The Department of East Asian Studies, with a history for more than 70 years, has been very successful in promoting multi-disciplinary studies in the history, culture and society of the East Asian region. With an enrollment of over 1,000 students, it is one of the largest and most respected East Asian Studies Programs in North America.

The decision by the Faculty of Arts and Science to eliminate this successful department in the biggest university in Canada and at a time when Canada’s political, economic and cultural relations with East Asia are expanding and strengthening is truly regrettable and very unsettling.

The disestablishment of the department will not only harm Canadian research on East Asia, but will also dismantle an important education centre to teach and inform young Canadians about Asian culture and traditions. This will inevitably erode the chance for Asian Canadians to have their culture represented in Canadian society as a whole.

We need your help immediately to reverse and prevent this ill-conceived decision from going forward. If you value East Asian culture, if you care about strengthening East Asian Studies in Canada, and believe in cross-cultural dialogue, please help us with the following efforts:

1. Sign the online petition, ‘Save the East Asian Studies Program at the University of Toronto’ at http://www.petitiononline.com/saveeas/petition.html, and

2. Write to the President OR Vice President with a copy to the Dean of the University to oppose the dissolution of the Department of East Asian Studies. The relevant email and postal addresses appear below. Many thanks for your help and support.

Write a hard copy letter to:

Dr. David Naylor, the President of the University of Toronto

Mailing Address: Dr. David Naylor

Office of the President
University of Toronto
27 King's College Circle, Room 206
Toronto, ON Canada
M5S 1A1

OR

Professor Cheryl Misak, Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto

Email: provost@utoronto.ca

Mailing Address: Prof. Cheryl Misak

Simcoe Hall, Room 225
27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
Tel: 416.978.2122 Fax: 416.978.3939

With other contact info for cc:

Meric Gertler, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science

email: officeofthedean.artsci@utoronto.ca

Mailing Address: Dean Meric Gertler

University of Toronto

Faculty of Arts & Science

100 St. George Street

Toronto, ON CANADA M5S 3G3

You can find more information about this decision and the developing situation by following these links:

Save East Asian Studies at U of T:

URL: http://saveeastasianstudies.wordpress.com/

Against the integration of the EAS into the new School of Languages and Literatures

URL: http://saveeastasianstudies.wordpress.com/manifesto/

The Varsity article about the A&S changes:

http://thevarsity.ca/articles/31644

（星島日報）多大東亞系將與他系合併.師生震驚發起聯署盼收回成命
http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2010-07-15/headline1279183583d2606480.html

（星島日報）東亞系一旦湮沒.損失難以彌補
http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2010-07-15/headline1279183575d2606479.html

（世界日報）多大擬併東亞系 教授不滿

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122802167763519#!/photo.php?pid=56282612&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=122802167763519&aid=-1&id=28120065

（明報）多大擬砍東亞研究系逾900師生簽名反對文理學院面對6000萬財赤困擾
http://www.mingpaotor.com/htm/News/20100717/tba1.htm

Please also help us spread the message among your friends and whoever may be interested. Thank you all for your support!

Sincerely,

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Team

EDUROAM: A New Service for UofT Faculty, Staff and Students

UofT has recently launched a new service, Eduroam (Education Roaming), which allows faculty, staff and students to use their UofT wireless login credentials to use wireless networks when they are visiting other participating universities (a list for Canadian universities, and some background information about Eduroam).

Technical support for eduroam will be provided by one's home institution. For UofT faculty, staff or students to visit another participating institution, they should contact the Information Commons Help Desk (help.desk@utoronto.ca, 416-978-4357)for technical support to configure their laptop BEFORE they go to another university.

Visitors from other participating universities should be able to use their own credentials to login to the wireless when at UofT libraries. Visitors to UofT should contact their home institution's IT support for assistance.

UofT faculty, staff and students can consult the Information Commons Help Desk for any questions about Eduroam.

Some UofT information pages about Eduroam:

UTL Computers & accessing eResources: http://discover.library.utoronto.ca/services/computing-connecting

Gerstein's "All services" page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/services/all-services

Gerstein's Services to faculty page: http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/faculty/services-for-faculty





eduroam @ UofT: http://eduroam.utoronto.ca/

New Database Announcement -- China Data Online Now Available in UofT

The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is pleased to announce the addition of the Chinese statistics database,China Data Online (CDO), to our array of electronic resources.

From now and on, you can access the database on and off-campus through the UofT Library homepage. Please search for "China Data Online" under the "E-resources" tab to retrieve the CDO connection record.

CDO aggregates comprehensive Chinese statistics at the national, provincial and local levels with the earliest data traced back to 1949. The database covers:

• Monthly Statistics
• National/Provincial/City/County Statistics
• Monthly Industrial Data
• Yearly Industrial Data
• National/Provincial/City Yearbooks
• Economic census
• Industrial census
• Census 1982
• Census 1982(10%)
• Census 1990
• Census 1995(1%)
• Province Census 2000
• County Census 2000
• Census 2005(1%)
• Advanced Census Data search,
.............

Please feel free to share the CDO information with your UofT colleagues and students. For any problems or issues with CDO, please direct your questions to Lucy Gan (email:lucy.gan@utoronto.ca; phone: 416-978-1025).

Information on H1N1 Vaccination

See information in the webpage of the Pandemic Preparedness of UofT:

http://www.preparedness.utoronto.ca/pandemic/H1N1vaccine.htm

Sharing Some Selected Articles....

Below is a list of recently published articles authored by UofT faculty ( students, too?). Most of them are related to East Asian Studies in one way or another; some of them are about Asian immigrants studies. I've added full-text links to each title. However, since they are available in UofT proprietary databases, only current UofT faculty and students will be linked to the full text articles.

Arntzen, S. (2008). Japanese women poets: An anthology. Choice, 45(9), 1534-1535.

Brandt, L., & Rawski, T. G. (2008). China's great economic transformation. The China Business Review, 35(6), 30-33.

Cheng, C., Ames, R. T., Shen, V., et al. (2008). Philosophy of xunzi and antonio S. cua. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 35(1)

Clarke, D., Colantonio, A., Rhodes, A., & Escobar, M. (2008). Pathways to suicidality across ethnic groups in canadian adults: The possible role of social stress. Psychological Medicine, 38(3), 419-431.

Cohen, N. J., Lojkasek, M., YaghoubZadeh, Z. , Pugliese, M., & Kiefer, H. (2008). Children adopted from china : A prospective study of their growth and development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines (Print), 49(4), 458-468.

Dann, G. E., & Haddow, N. (2008). Just doing business or doing just business: Google, microsoft, yahoo! and the business of censoring China’s internet. Journal of Business Ethics, 79(3), 219-234.

Dobson, W. (2008). TRANSFORMING EAST ASIA: The evolution of regional economic integration. Pacific Affairs, 81(1), 99-100.

Grendler, P. (2008). Journey to the east: The jesuit mission to china, 1579-1724. Choice, 45(5), 877.

Heyman, G. D., Fu, G., & Lee, K. (2008). Reasoning about the disclosure of success and failure to friends among children in the united states and china. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 908-918.

Jia, L.X., Schaubroeck, J., & Lam, S. S. K. (2008). Theories of job stress and the role of traditional values : A longitudinal study in china. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(4), 831-848.

Kang, Y., Kenstowicz, M., & Ito, C. (2008). Hybrid loans: A study of english loanwords transmitted to korean via japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 17(4), 299-316.

Xue, N. (2008). Labeling chinese predicates with semantic roles. Computational Linguistics, 34(2), 225-255.

Ong, L. (2008). A chinese economic revolution: Rural entrepreneurship in the twentieth century. The China Journal, (60), 181-182.

Phan, M. B., & Luk, C. M. (2008). 'I don't say I have a business in chinatown' : Chinese sub-ethnic relations in toronto's chinatown west. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31(2), 294-326.

Ryder, A. G., Yang, J., Zhu, X., et al. (2008). The cultural shaping of depression : Somatic symptoms in china, psychological symptoms in north america? Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1965), 117(2), 300-313.

Sakamoto, I., Wei, Y., & Truong, L. (2008). How do organizations and social policies ‘Acculturate’ to immigrants? accommodating skilled immigrants in canada. American Journal of Community Psychology, 42(3-4), 343-354.

Shiu, H., & Stokes, L. (2008). Buddhist animal release practices: Historic, environmental, public health and economic concerns. Contemporary Buddhism, 9(2), 181-196.

Song, J. (. (2008). The making of 'undeserving' homeless women : A gendered analysis of homeless policy in south korea from 1997 to 2001. Feminist Review, (89), 87-101.

Stewart, M., Anderson, J., Beiser, M., Mwakarimba, E., Neufeld, A., Simich, L., et al. (2008). Multicultural meanings of social support among immigrants and refugees. International Migration, 46(3), 123-159.

Suzuki, M. (2008). Japanese learners' self revisions and peer revisions of their written compositions in english. TESOL Quarterly, 42(2), 209-232.

Open Access Publication

Prof. Leslie Chan (UofT Scarborough), supervisor for the New Media Studies program at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, publishes an article 'Open Access: Promises and Challenges of Scholarship in the Digital Age' in the latest issue of Academic Matters.

In this article, Leslie discusses the background of OA, its implications for universities, academics and libraries, and what actions to take to strengthen OA initiatives. The article also contains practical suggestions for scholars such as the following:

"The Directory of Open Access Repositories lists over 1,300 repositories worldwide, including 44 in Canada, and the number grows at the rate of about 1 new repository a day.[16] Self-archiving is possible because over 60 per cent of traditional publishers already allow authors to post copies of the peer-reviewed final version of their papers to institutional repositories or on their personal web sites[17] If the self-archiving right is not explicit, authors can request permission to do so. However, it is better to know your rights before you submit your paper. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently published an advisory[18] as well as an author addendum[19] that can be used as part of an agreement with publishers to ensure the right to self-archive. "

For scholars who are interested in pursuing OA, Leslie suggested the 'Green Road' (author self-archiving) and the 'Golden Road' (articles published in OA journals).

UofT has set up the T-Space to be used as a self-archiving repository that "showcases and preserves the scholarly work of UofT faculty".

If you need more information about OA resources, use the two online directories to get more inforamtion: the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the Directory of Open Access Repositories. Besides, the Unversity of Cambridge Library compiles an online inforamtion guide for Open Access publishing, which contains discussion of related issues and other useful resources.