1. DragonSource 龙源 Forum on Chinese Digital Content CEAL Meeting, Toronto Wednesday, March 14, 2012

2. Features Browse-able from cover to cover – Scanned image – Text file (with copy & paste function) Searchable by: – Magazine/journal title – Article title or headline – Full-text

3. Coverage Thousands of magazines/journals to choose from: – Mostly popular magazines – Some scholarly journals Time span varies: – 读书 1979- – 大众电影 2001- – 收获 1999- (scattered issues 1999-2004) – 日本学刊 2006-

4. Strengths Currency – available as soon as it is published without time lag. Stable access to both current and back issues Easy to read – Cover to cover – Go directly to desired page Easy to navigate – ↓ ↑ to scroll down & up – → ← to go to next or previous page Easy to toggle between image version & Text version

5. Weaknesses Lacks several important functions: – Print – Email – Save Toggle from text version to image version does not go back to the same page The page number on the navigation bar does not correspond to the page number inside the magazine.