研究成果公開

学術成果リボジトリ

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the basic humanities

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In most cases, scholarly work in the humanities does not result in economic compensation. Furthermore, there are many subjects for which it is difficult to produce thorough results. There is thus a great significance and potential in making public the results of one's work not only through the medium of print but also by means of maintaining a website and creating a public archive on the internet. This allows the author him or herself to modify and update even on a daily basis their work by adding new information. There are, however, normally limits to maintaining a personal website. The institutional repository begun at Chiba University is in many ways truly revolutionary in that it allows for a continuous preservations of fixed URLs to which have been added bibliographic data. Two important problems, however, remain: the ability to cope in a timely manner with revisions and updates - which, after all, is the great advantage of electronic text - and the preservation of a history of updates.