REPORT ON ACTA CLASSICA: ADDENDUM

INFORMATION ON SABINET

Acta Classica is now included among the journals registered with Sabinet Online. The journal can be accessed in two ways, as a researcher via an institution registered with Sabinet Online, or as a member of CASA.

1.         Institutional Subscribers

1.1       Sabinet sells subscriptions to SA ePublications to institutions here and abroad. The publications are offered to institutions in bundles, of which there are 191. As Acta Classica is often included in such bundles, the journal achieves wider visibility than just among classical scholars.

1.2       Access to the SA ePublications service can only be obtained through registration with Sabinet Online. Access is further controlled by User Codes and Passwords, by IP Authentication, or by the registration of a domain name.

1.3      A user from a registered institutional subscriber (such as a university library) can access the system and search for an article. Statistics are kept of all full-text documents thus opened, as well as the name of the institution.

1.4      A researcher can open the document and forward it by e-mail to him-/herself for later use. This is normal practice with other end-users, and is the case with hard copy versions of books and journals. Access to the electronic version of Acta Classica is subject, as in the case of the hard copy, to the principle of “fair use” and copyright law. At various places on the website of Sabinet the conditions of use of the contents of the service are advertised (see www.sabinet.co.za/img/site_termsandcond.pdf).

2.         Individual Subscribers

2.1      The Classical Association of South Africa handles individual subscribers who access the journal’s single-access page at: http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_classic.html.

2.2      Sabinet supplies the Association with a User Code and Password, and the Association manages the website itself. These codes are not passed on by Sabinet to any other users.

2.3      Each individual subscriber, on payment of the CASA subscription fee, receives the User Code and Password.

2.4      CASA may request a change of Password on a regular basis (once or twice a year), or when unlawful use is made of the website.

According to our contact person with Sabinet, Lynette Casey, we have a very good data base, with abstracts of articles going back to 1959. (For some reason or other, the first volume of 1958 has been omitted, but this will be remedied).

We have also signed an agreement with ProQuest Information and Learning Services (see par. 3.4 of main report). In the light of these developments I should like to recommend that one of the Additional Members of the Editorial Board be chosen with the specific task to manage the electronic publication of Acta Classica.