Support for Korean Studies e-Resources
Program Objectives
In response to the growing importance of online resources for academic endeavors, the Korea Foundation offers its “Support for Korean Studies e-Resources” program. Under this program, the Foundation provides support to selected universities to assist with the payment of the subscription/user fees required to access online Korean Studies resources so that these materials can be more readily available to Korea-related students, scholars, and relevant specialists.
Eligible Institutions
1) Libraries at four-year university institutions abroad that maintain a Korean Studies or Korean-language center, department, or program, or an East Asian studies program.
2) University/College Libraries or Public Libraries/Institutions that provide services for Korea-related students, scholars, and relevant specialists who could benefit from broadened access to such online resources.
Program Support
- 1. The program extends support to recipient institutions equal to 50% of the subscription/user fees required to access Korean Studies e-resources, up to a maximum of $5,000 per annum.
- 2. Program support is provided for a period of 12 months.
- 3. Applicable Korean Studies e-Resources include online databases, e-journals, e-books, and related online resources maintained by public institutions and private parties. Examples of popular Korean studies databases include e-Korean studies consortium DB(e-book, Kyobo Books Scholar, Hakjisa Newnonmun, EERIS e-article, KSDC DB, KOREA2Z, Korean History & Culture Research Database, and LawnB Legal Information service), Nurimedia DBpia / KRpia, KSI(KISS and KSI e-book, Chosun Ilbo, Dong-a Ilbo) and Korea Education Research Information Service(KERIS) RISS International.
Application Process
- 1. Applications must be completed and submitted via KF Online Application Portal (http://apply.kf.or.kr).
※ If it is not possible to submit your application online because of your lack of Internet access, you must notify the Foundation at least one week prior to the submission deadline (e-resources@kf.or.kr) ) to arrange for the delivery of your application by e-mail.
- Applicants should submit information about the university’s Korean Studies program, number of Korean Studies graduate students, faculty staff, and researchers, and proposed subscription to DB resources and related fee amounts.
- 2. Application period and Notification of Results: Please refer to Program Announcements on the application portal (http://apply.kf.or.kr) for the latest information.
- Subscription fee amounts for each DB resource must be determined and indicated in the program application.
- The results of the Korea Foundation's evaluation process will be posted on "My project-application status" of the portal along with an e-mail message sent to individual institutions.
Selection Criteria
- 1. Scale of the applicant’s Korean Studies program, in terms of number of number of graduate students and faculty members.
- 2. History of usage of Korean Studies e-resources (number of resources, users, and frequency).
- 3. Equitable allocation of program support, in terms of geographical regions and individual institutions.
Current support recipients are required to submit the 2015 e-Resource Support Program Annual Report in order to be considered for 2016 support.
