From boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl Tue Aug 1 02:27:02 1995 Return-Path: Received: from ikp.atm.com.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id CAA03762; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:27:02 +0200 Received: from [157.25.5.193] by ikp.atm.com.pl via SMTP (931110.SGI/940406.SGI) for isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl id AA03145; Tue, 1 Aug 95 02:30:22 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 02:30:22 +0200 Message-Id: <9508010030.AA03145@ikp.atm.com.pl> X-Sender: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl (Wladyslaw Majewski) Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Marek Car: >Wstepnie ustalono, ze wpisowe wyniesie 2 mln zl (starych), a dla >firm, ktore beda chcialy sie wystawic na towarzyszacej konferencji >wystawie - 20 mln st. zl. Niestety dla wielu osob, w tym dla mnie, sa to ceny prohibicyjne, zwlaszcza za liczne autoprezentacje uslug komercyjnych. Od troski o wlasciwa reprezentacje PSI na tej prywatnej konferencji CPI wolalbym, aby ktos poinformowal czlonkow PSI o jej przebiegu i przedstawil w sieci materialy z niej - ten sam organizator po konferencji Pozman na konferencji prasowej nie potrafil przedstawic tresci obrad, a materialy konferencyjne sa niedostepne nawet za wpisowe. Conajmniej chcialbym wiedziec, co uczestnikom konferencji powiedza zabierajacy tam glos czlonkowie PSI. Pytanie: czy organizator imprezy adresuje ja do uzytkownikow sieci, czy do firm myslacych o przylaczeniu sie do niej? Wladyslaw Majewski From boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl Tue Aug 1 02:27:05 1995 Return-Path: Received: from ikp.atm.com.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id CAA03767; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 02:27:04 +0200 Received: from [157.25.5.193] by ikp.atm.com.pl via SMTP (931110.SGI/940406.SGI) for isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl id AA03147; Tue, 1 Aug 95 02:30:26 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 02:30:26 +0200 Message-Id: <9508010030.AA03147@ikp.atm.com.pl> X-Sender: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl (Wladyslaw Majewski) Subject: Re: konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Marek Car: >Uprzejmie informuje, ze podczas piatkowego spotkania Rady Programowej >Konferencji "Internet w Polsce" ustalony zostal jej program. (.....) >- Dyskusja panelowa: "Perspektywy i bariery rozwoju Internetu w >Polsce" (Tomasz Hofmokl, Krzysztof Trzewik, Marek Car, Jerzy >Gorazinski, Wojciech Halka, Waldemar Pawlak ?) Dziekuje za szybka i obszerna prezentacje programu. Przepraszam za moje nieobycie, ale kim sa trzej panelisci, nie pojawiajacy sie w ciagu ostatnich 8 miesiecy na lista dyskusyjnych: Krzysztof Trzewik, Jezry Gorazinski i Wojciech Halka? Wladyslaw Majewski From yyniwick@cyfronet.krakow.pl Tue Aug 1 08:17:54 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nms by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id IAA12364; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:17:54 +0200 Received: from kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl (kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.4.10]) by nms (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA03503 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:19:56 +0200 Received: from [149.156.2.26] (jacek.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.2.26]) by kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA22373; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:16:54 +0200 X-Sender: geniwick@kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:23:50 +0100 To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: yyniwick@cyf-kr.edu.pl (Jacek Niwicki) Subject: Re: konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Cc: Multiple recipients of list At 2:28 1-08-95, Wladyslaw Majewski wrote: ... >Przepraszam za moje nieobycie, ale kim sa trzej panelisci, nie >pojawiajacy sie w ciagu ostatnich 8 miesiecy na lista dyskusyjnych: >Krzysztof Trzewik, Jezry Gorazinski i Wojciech Halka? > - Jerzy Gorazinski - v-ce Dyrektor Gabinetu Przewodniczacego Komitetu Badan Naukowych - Wojcuech Halka - V-ce Dyrektor Departamentu Techniki i Rozwoju w Ministerstwie Lacznosci Krzysztof Trzewik - niestety nie pamietam przepraszam _________________ (jn) Jacek Niwicki :) ACK CYFRONET 30-950 Krakow 61 ul. Nawojki 11 tel: (12) 333-426 fax: (12) 341-084 yyniwick@cyfronet.krakow.pl niwi@uci.agh.edu.pl _________________ From muhlig@helios.cto.us.edu.pl Tue Aug 1 08:24:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from helios.cto.us.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id IAA12721; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:24:36 +0200 Received: by helios.cto.us.edu.pl (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA20637; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:25:36 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 08:25:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Maciek Uhlig To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Subject: Re: konferencja "Internet w Polsce" In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Jacek Niwicki wrote: > At 2:28 1-08-95, Wladyslaw Majewski wrote: > .. > >Przepraszam za moje nieobycie, ale kim sa trzej panelisci, nie > >pojawiajacy sie w ciagu ostatnich 8 miesiecy na lista dyskusyjnych: > >Krzysztof Trzewik, Jezry Gorazinski i Wojciech Halka? > Krzysztof Trzewik - niestety nie pamietam przepraszam dyrektor w Centrum Systemow Teleinformatycznych Telekomunikacji Polskiej SA. Maciek Uhlig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maciej UHLIG, Computer Center, Silesian University Uniwersytecka 4 St., 40-007 KATOWICE, POLAND muhlig@us.edu.pl Voice: +48 (32) 588211 (1768) Fax: +48 (32) 596847 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Imagine all the people sharing all the world (John Lennon) ***** From motyl@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl Tue Aug 1 16:40:38 1995 Return-Path: Received: from tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id QAA26474; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:40:37 +0200 Received: (from motyl@localhost) by tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA19825; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:42:50 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:42:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tomasz Motylewski To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, M.Car wrote: > Wstepnie ustalono, ze wpisowe wyniesie 2 mln zl (starych), a dla Czyli bez tego nie bedzie mozna wejsc na sale ? I to ma byc popularyzacja Internetu ??? Zdecydowanie domagam sie w zwiazku z tym od uczestniczacych czlonkow PSI przedstawienia stanowiska jakie zajeli/zajma na konferencji oraz obszernego sprawozdania z obrad - najlepiej byloby nagrac je w calosci i opracowac stenogram. -- Tomasz Motylewski From yyniwick@cyfronet.krakow.pl Tue Aug 1 17:10:13 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id RAA27350; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:10:13 +0200 Received: from kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl (kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.4.10]) by nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA07324 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:12:16 +0200 Received: from [149.156.2.26] (jacek.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.2.26]) by kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.10) with SMTP id RAA22870; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:09:12 +0200 X-Sender: geniwick@kinga.cyf-kr.edu.pl Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:16:11 +0100 To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: yyniwick@cyf-kr.edu.pl (Jacek Niwicki) Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Cc: Multiple recipients of list At 16:41 1-08-95, Tomasz Motylewski wrote: ... >Zdecydowanie domagam sie w zwiazku z tym od uczestniczacych czlonkow PSI >przedstawienia stanowiska jakie zajeli/zajma na konferencji oraz >obszernego sprawozdania z obrad - najlepiej byloby nagrac je w calosci >i opracowac stenogram. Nagrac w calosci i opracowac stenogram. MAm watpliwosci. Proponuje spojrzec pod http://www.senat.gov.pl/cgi-bin/tr-asc?/posiedze/44/p.html Jest tam m.in stenogram z posiedzenia Senatu RP, na ktorym rozpatrywano m.in Ustawe o Lacznosci. Stenogram to : > Stenogram (bardzo duzy plik, ok. 530KB). Nie wspominajac juz o "latwosci" czytania stenogramu pozostaje kwestia ewentualnego nagrania - to latwe, a potem pracowitego przepisania. Malo realne. Osobiscie zdarzylo mi sie kilkakrotnie w zyciu robic liste dialogowa do czytania on line w trakcie projekcji filmu. Przecietny film trwa ok. 1.5 godz. Procedura stworzena przez bylo nie bylo amatora w tej dziedzinie listy dialogowej do czytania jest nastepujaca: a) ogladamy film rownoczesnie nagrywajac na tasme tekst b) siadamy do jakiejs klawiatury z magnetofonem pod reka - najlepiej pod noga (sa takie, gdzie nogami robi sie play, stop, rew itp - bardzo pomaga) c) piszemy tekst przebierajac nogami (doslownie) ewentualnie c) piszemy tekst odrywajac rece od klawiatury ewentualnie c) zatrudniamy - to trzeba miec wycwiczone druga osobe do obslugi magnetofonu i oczywiscie piszemy d) piszemy d).... Ja pisze uzywajac 10 (dokladniej 8) palcow obu rak i robie to dosyc szybko. i po ok. 4 - 5 godzinach mam tekst. dla ciekawosci co dalej to: e) tlumaczenie na inny jezyk f) wyswietlamy film i... tlumaczymy on line g) rozsypuja sie kartki z tekstem - a film leci sobie z predkoscia chyba 35 klatek na sekunde. Radocha Uwazam, ze nie przsadzajmy z tym doslownym wszystkowiedzeniu i w podtekscie doszukiwaniu sie ew. manipulacji itp. Popatrzmy na REALNE mozliwosci. Od dawna marzy mi sie aby Organizatorzy konferencyj roznych opracowywali i publikowali PO konferencjach rozsadne materialy POKONFERENCYJNE. Oczywiscie materialy PRZED Konfrencja tez mile widziane. Znajac troche z doswiadczenia dzialalnosc Centrum Promocji Informatyki NIE WIERZE aby materialy PO konferencji byly. Niestety z doswiadczenia wiem, ze materialy PRZED konferencja tez nie beda (obym sie mylil) dobre. Chce byc na Konferencji. Jezeli beda dobre i kserowalne (technicznie) materialy, to jest szansa zeskanowania (przynajmniej co istotniejszych) i udostepnienia dla chcacych sie zapoznac. Swoja droga to powinien zapewnic Organizator. Pozdrawiam P.T Czytelnikow i przepraszam za troche dlugi wywod o "technice tworzenia listy dialogowej" - ale ja to roblilem i wiem...... _________________ (jn) Jacek Niwicki :) ACK CYFRONET 30-950 Krakow 61 ul. Nawojki 11 tel: (12) 333-426 fax: (12) 341-084 yyniwick@cyfronet.krakow.pl niwi@uci.agh.edu.pl _________________ From muhlig@helios.cto.us.edu.pl Tue Aug 1 17:50:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: from helios.cto.us.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id RAA28724; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:49:59 +0200 Received: by helios.cto.us.edu.pl (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA25870; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:51:01 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 17:51:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Maciek Uhlig To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Jacek Niwicki wrote: > Znajac troche z doswiadczenia dzialalnosc Centrum Promocji Informatyki > NIE WIERZE aby materialy PO konferencji byly. Niestety z doswiadczenia > wiem, ze materialy PRZED konferencja tez nie beda (obym sie mylil) dobre. > > Chce byc na Konferencji. Jezeli beda dobre i kserowalne (technicznie) > materialy, to jest szansa zeskanowania (przynajmniej co istotniejszych) i > udostepnienia dla > chcacych sie zapoznac. > Swoja droga to powinien zapewnic Organizator. Moim zdaniem konferencja na temat promocji Internetu w Polsce powinna byc widoczna przede wszystkim w Internecie. Jest bardzo zabawne, gdy wsrod grona prelegentow znajdujemy osoby albo niewidoczne w sieci, albo znane z tego, ze w budowie Internetu przeszkadzaja. Ma to zapewne byc promocja Internetu dla wybranych (znajacych know how :-)). Ile ja sie podczas seminarium NASK w Miedzeszynie naprosilem, aby materialy z tego seminarium znalazly sie w WWW. I publicznie, i prywatnie. I nic. A, moim zdaniem, byly bardzo ciekawe i warte upublicznienia. /*Wszystkie materialy z konferencji ISOC mozna znalezc w sieci.*/ Teraz, smiem mniemac, bedzie podobnie. Bo panom monopolistom nie zalezy na tym, aby rozwijal sie Internet. Im zalezy na tym, aby rozwijaly sie ich zasoby finansowe. Udzial PSI w tej konferencji jest nieodzowny, ale powinien byc bardzo dokladnie przemyslany i rownie dobrze przygotowany. Maciek Uhlig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maciej UHLIG, Computer Center, Silesian University Uniwersytecka 4 St., 40-007 KATOWICE, POLAND muhlig@us.edu.pl Voice: +48 (32) 588211 (1768) Fax: +48 (32) 596847 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Imagine all the people sharing all the world (John Lennon) ***** From irjanas@pdi.lodz.pl Tue Aug 1 18:02:58 1995 Return-Path: Received: from gryzmak.pdi.lodz.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id SAA29173; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:02:54 +0200 Received: (from irjanas@localhost) by gryzmak.pdi.lodz.pl (8.6.10/1.34) id SAA06486; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:05:11 +0200 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ireneusz Janas To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Maciek Uhlig wrote: > Udzial PSI w tej konferencji jest nieodzowny, ale powinien byc bardzo > dokladnie przemyslany i rownie dobrze przygotowany. Macku! Wszystko to bardzo piekne tylko jest male "ale". Otoz za wstep na konferencje trzeba zaplacic dwa miliony starych zlotych, nie wiem jak inni ale ja, jako pracownik sfery budzetowej, musilabym tym samym wydac z WLASNEJ KIESZENI ponad 50% moich miesiecznych poborow, co jest malo realne. Moze ceny specjalnie sa zaporowe by wzielo udzial w Konferencji jak najmniej osob? Moze w tym wypadku rzeczywiscie nalezaloby jak najszybciej wyslac delegatow PSI oplaconych z naszych skladek, ktore powinny byc w takim razie jak najszybciej ustalone (wysokosc i numer konta). To pozwoliloby zaczac normalne funkcjonowanie struktur Stowarzyszenia. Pozdrawiam Irek =============================================================================== Ireneusz Janas Instytut Chemii, Akademii Medycznej w Lodzi 90-151 Lodz, ul Muszynskiego 1 phone (0-48-42)78-55-70 =============================================================================== From WIECZ@VM.cc.uni.torun.pl Tue Aug 1 18:06:55 1995 Return-Path: Received: from VM.cc.uni.torun.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id SAA29332; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:06:35 +0200 Message-Id: <199508011606.SAA29332@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLTUMK11.BITNET by VM.cc.uni.torun.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4942; Tue, 01 Aug 95 18:08:16 CET Received: from PLTUMK11 (NJE origin WIECZ@PLTUMK11) by PLTUMK11.BITNET (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4941; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:08:16 +0000 Date: Tue, 01 Aug 95 18:07:31 CET From: WIECZ@VM.cc.uni.torun.pl To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl K O M U N I K A T NR 2 ====================================================================== Uniwersyteckie Centrum Telematyki i Nauczania na Odleglosc UNIWERSYTETU MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKA UL. Gagarina 13 A, 87-100 Torun TEL/FAX: (0 56) 14 267 E-MAIL: wiecz@pltumk11.bitnet ZAPRASZA DO UDZIALU W I KRAJOWEJ KONFERENCJI NAUKOWEJ M U L T I M E D I A I N A U C Z A N I E N A O D L E G L O S C Torun 11-13 wrzesnia 1995 Konferencja obejmuje problematyke zwiazana z zastosowanem komputerow, srodkow multimedialnych, telekomunikacyjnych oraz najnowszych osiagniec techniki filmowej i telewizyjnej w edukacji na dystans. Tematyka referatow moze dotyczyc nastepujacych problemow - Multimedia, produkcja i zastosowanie w nauczaniu, bazy danych grafika komputerowa - Nauczanie przez siec komputerowa; mozliwosci wykorzystania Internetu - Film i telewizja dydaktyczna - Telekomunikacja satelitarna w edukacji - Systemy wideokonferencyjne - Organizacja i programy nauczania otwartego - Pedagogiczne aspekty nauczania otwartego Warunki uczestnictwa: PRZESLANIE ZGLOSZENIA PISEMNEGO (lub poczta elektroniczna) Z DANYMI PERSONALNYMI I DOKONANIE OPLATY KONFERENCYJNEJ, KTORA WYNOSI: 180 ZLN. bez wyzywienia i zakwaterowania 360 ZLN. z wyzywieniem i zakwaterowaniem Nr konta: UMK Torun, BG I/O Torun 308601-1296-130-3 "Telematyka" Informacje: Kazimierz Wieczorkowski Tel/Fax: (0 56) 14 267 e-mail: wiecz@pltumk11.bitnet IMPREZY TOWARZYSZACE: Wystawa sprzetu, oprogramowania, CD-ROMow, filmow edukacyjnych. Zainteresowane firmy i instytucje prosimy o kontakt bezposredni. REFERATY ZGLOSZONE A. Nowicki, S. Lasota, Multimedialne bazy danych C.Jedrzejek, L. Cieplinski, Wykorzystanie systemu Khoros i programu Mosaik w nauczaniu przetwarzania obrazow J. Rykowski, K. Walczak, Obiektowe bazy danych w zastosowaniach multimedialnych R. S. Choras, Przetwarzanie obrazow (kompresja) w systemach multime- dialnych G. Kiedrowicz, Ocena multimedialnego pakietu Voyager w aspekcie edukacyjnym K. Wieczorkowski, Nauczanie na dystans. Narzedzia i metody W. Waszak, Interaktywne wideo w nauczaniu B. Siemieniecki, Hipermedia w edukacji W. Plawicz, E. Choinkowska, Odruchowe kierowanie mysli dzialania przyszlych nauczycieli I. Kozlowski, Nauczanie na odleglosc-przygotowanie do eksperymentu w Instytucie Elektrotechniki ATR w Bydgoszczy W.F.T.Glura, Nauczanie programowania w jezyku C E. Choinkowska, W. Plawicz, Przekazywanie wiedzy przez media E. Adamczuk, J. Rozenbaigier, Humor jako srodek dydaktyczny w prze- kazie filmowym D. Swistulski, Wirtualne laboratorium metrologii B. Koltun, WWW w edukacji R.R. 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Wolski, Sun Microsystem ShowMe - system multimedialnego przekazu telekonferencji i nauczania na odleglosc Prezentacja dydaktyczna firmy Apple Computer Do zobaczenia w Toruniu From RAJ@inf.wsp.krakow.pl Tue Aug 1 18:34:22 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id SAA00323; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:34:21 +0200 Received: from inf.wsp.krakow.pl (inf.wsp.krakow.pl [149.156.24.10]) by nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id SAA07938 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:36:18 +0200 Received: from INF/~MAIL~ by inf.wsp.krakow.pl (Mercury 1.12); Tue, 1 Aug 95 18:33:14 +0200 Received: from ~MAIL~ by INF (Mercury 1.12); Tue, 1 Aug 95 18:32:37 +0200 From: "Jaroslaw Rafa" Organization: Zaklad Informatyki WSP, Krakow To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 18:32:31 +0200 Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.21 Message-ID: <69BCE0A7D78@inf.wsp.krakow.pl> > Date sent: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 16:41:40 +0200 > Send reply to: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl > From: Tomasz Motylewski > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" > Zdecydowanie domagam sie w zwiazku z tym od uczestniczacych czlonkow PSI > przedstawienia stanowiska jakie zajeli/zajma na konferencji oraz > obszernego sprawozdania z obrad - najlepiej byloby nagrac je w calosci > i opracowac stenogram. > Ja moge obiecac tyle, ze puszcze na siec tekst mojego referatu. Moze jeszcze przed konferencja, jezeli zdaze. Dla scislosci, nie bede wypowiadal sie jako czlonek PSI ani reprezentowal PSI. Zostalem poproszony przez Marka Cara o przedstawienie referatu na konkretny temat i to zrobie. Pozdrowienia, Jaroslaw Rafa sfrafa@cyf-kr.edu.pl, raj@inf.wsp.krakow.pl From <@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET> Wed Aug 2 12:14:53 1995 Return-Path: <<@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET>> Received: from plearn.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA00067; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:13:59 +0200 Message-Id: <199508021013.MAA00067@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLEARN.EDU.PL by plearn.edu.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 1095; Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:18:24 CET Received: from PLWATU21.BITNET (NJE origin WACNIE@PLWATU21) by PLEARN.EDU.PL (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0885; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:18:09 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:24 CET To: "Stowarzysz. Lacznosci Komputerowej" From: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" Subject: art. o czasop. elektron.(z El. Journal on Virt.Culture/PACS '93) Aby nie wymyslac prochu ponownie, proponuje tekst ang. j.n. Bibliotekarze z Kent State Univ. juz kilka lat z tym sie borykaja, a ludzie z Public Access Computer Systems - podobnie. Jest tez organizacja w sieci widoczna - OCLC . Przepraszam, ze taki dlugi tekst posylam, ale zawiera troche predykcji,literaturowych odwolan oraz pointer do PACS-l - forum w Bitnecie gdzie taka wiedza jest juz zgromadzona. W oddzielnej korespond. posle dane o EJVC - Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. Jest to forum gromadzace akademickich specow w materii electronic publishing i kultury wirtualnej z calych USA i spoza kilku tez .. Moglbym wskazac zrodlo tego tekstu a tu zrobic krotkie streszczenie, ale prosciej bedzie kazdemu decydowac, na ile ta droga via zasoby PACS i EJVC (jakby nie bylo juz 4 letnie) jest mu przydatna. Przyjemnej lektury w dlugie jesienne wieczory zyczy Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz i CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:28 CET To: WACNIE From: LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.BITNET Comment: converted from NETDATA format at PLWATU21 + Page 5 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- Okerson, Ann. "The Electronic Journal: What, Whence, and When?" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 5-24. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- This paper is based on a presentation given at the OCLC Users Council Annual Meeting in February 1991. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Introduction A quick scan of topics of recent library, networking, professional, and societal meetings leads to the inevitable conclusion that electronic publishing is the "Debutante of the Year." Supporting technologies have matured and present their dance cards to eager potential suitors: publishers and content creators. The newest entrant to the glittering ballroom is academic discourse and writing, suddenly highly susceptible to the nubile charms of the ripening medium. The season's opening features the youthful search for the future of the scholarly journal. By "journal," I mean the scholarly journal. The scholarly journal mainly communicates the work of scholars, academics, and researchers, and it contributes to the development of ideas that form the "body of knowledge." By "electronic journal," I generally mean one delivered via networks, although those locally owned through a static electronic format such as CD-ROM are not specifically excluded. This paper overviews several critical questions about the electronic journal. What is it? What is its appeal? Where will it come from? At what rate will it appear? When will it be accepted? It suggests that for the first time in over 200 years the paper scholarly journal can be supplanted or, at least, supplemented in a significant way by another medium, and this may lead to a new type of scholarly discourse. + Page 6 + At the outset, consider a historical parallel for today's scholarly information concerns. In an article of fall 1990, Edward Tenner, an executive editor at Princeton University Press, describes information stresses of the last century [1]. Between 1850 and 1875, the number of U.S. library collections with more than 25,000 volumes increased from nine to one hundred, and the number of libraries with more than 100,000 volumes grew infinitely from zero to ten. This unprecedented growth occurred during the time of a technologically advanced tool--the printed book catalog. The printed book catalog was indisputably an advance on the handwritten one. Nonetheless, the printed book catalog became grossly inadequate to cope with ever-plentiful scholarly output. Although we view information management as a serious academic concern today, the perception that knowledge is increasing far more rapidly than our ability to organize it effectively and make it available is a timeless issue for scholarship and libraries. In the 1850's, Harvard pioneered the solution to the book catalog problem by establishing a public card catalog. In 1877, ALA adopted the present 75 x 125 mm standard for the catalog card. Despite Dewey's anger about its shift to non-metric 3" x 5" size, the card changed the entire face of bibliographic information, from the bounded (and bound), finite book catalog to the far more user-responsive, open, adaptable, organic--and exceedingly convenient--individual entry. Even then, libraries were technological innovators. The Library Bureau was established in 1876 to supply equipment to librarians, and even eager commercial customers lined up. In the late 1880's, the secretary of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America in Iowa City wrote to the Bureau that he had first seen a card system in the Iowa State University Library in 1882 and had applied the idea to 40,000 animals in the Holstein-Friesian Herd Book. "We are now using," he enthusiastically exulted, "about 10,000 new cards per year, which henceforth must double every two years." Mr. Tenner points out that here was a cattle-log in its truest sense! After I related this story to a group of librarians, a collections librarian from Iowa State announced that the Holstein-Friesian Herd Book still exists at the University library; it is in electronic form! + Page 7 + The story effectively reminds us--again--how quickly users want the latest information. Whether of books or cows, a catalog printed every year or so would not do, even 100 years ago. The unit card improved access by an order of magnitude, and online catalogs today list a book as quickly as it is cataloged, often prior to its publication. The book, or at least knowledge of its existence, becomes accessible instantaneously. One hundred years ago, perhaps even 20 years ago, articles were published in journals because journals were the quickest means of disseminating new ideas and findings. The information "explosion" teamed with today's journal distribution conventions mandates that the printed article can take as long, or longer, than a monograph to reach the reader. As articles queue for peer review, editing, and publication in the journal "package," distribution delays of months are the norm. One- to two-year delays are not unusual. Under half a year is "fast track." Meanwhile, as scholars demand the latest ideas, more and more papers are distributed in advance of "normal" publication outlets through informal "colleges"--distribution lists of colleagues and friends. The archival work of record is currently the paper one. The printed journal is important because it has established a subscriber tradition that reaches far outside the preprint crowd. Since libraries subscribe to journals, they potentially reach any interested reader and respondent. The scholarly journal's familiar subscription distribution mechanism and built-in quality filters (refereeing and editing) have also made its articles the principal measure of research productivity. By publishing critiqued ideas, authors not only distribute their work, they also leverage this printed currency into the tangible remunerations of job security and advancement. + Page 8 + Nonetheless, by the time of formal print publication, the ideas themselves have circulated a comparatively long time. Given researchers' information expectations and the perception that high-speed distribution is possible (and indeed already happens), alternative, rapid means of sharing information will assuredly displace the print journal as the sole icon or sacrament of scholarly communication. The front-runner is distribution via the electronic networks, such as BITNET and Internet, that already link many campuses, laboratories, and research agencies. For already established journal titles, advance descriptions of articles will routinely become available (like cataloguing copy), followed closely by prepublication delivery of the articles themselves. The success of such a program will eventually alter the fundamental characteristics of the paper journal. These changes are already beginning. At the heart of Mr. Tenner's story is the breaking down of the catalog into its component parts, paralleled 100 years later in the potential for unbundling the journal into its flexible component parts--articles--that can be delivered singly or in desired recombinations. Of course, the indexing and abstracting services began this process long ago. After World War II, photocopying made it practical to reproduce single articles. Now, rapid electronic technologies will accelerate unbundling. Soon the article (or idea) unit will supplant the publisher prepackaged journal. Like the book catalog, it will be perceived as a lovable but unwieldy dinosaur. Like the records cast loose from book catalogs, articles will need fuller and more unified subject description and classification to make it possible to pull diverse ideas together. These are urgent needs that reflect some of the most serious problems of the journal literature: (1) inadequate, inconsistent description of articles; and (2) the failure of the present secondary sources to cross-index disciplines, even as they duplicate title coverage. + Page 9 + 2.0 Two Visions of the Electronic Journal One view of the electronic journal, a conservative view, is based on today's journal stored as electronic impulses. This electronic journal parallels and mimics the current paper journal format, except that it may be article- rather than issue-based. Because it is delivered via electronic networks, it is quick, transmitted the moment it is written, reviewed, and polished. Able to appear at a precise location, it is a key component of the scholar's "virtual library." Where the subscriber does not seek a paper copy, the electronic journal saves the costs of paper printing and mailing. Its paper-saving characteristics could eventually relieve the "serials crisis" which is characterized by libraries' inability to repurchase institutional research results because of the learned journals' skyrocketing subscription prices. Of course, early experience with electronic equivalents of paper information loudly and clearly proclaims that the moment information becomes mobile, rather than static, this transformation fundamentally alters the way in which information is used, shared, and eventually created. Changing the medium of journal distribution, even with so modest, cautious, and imitative a vision, carries unpredictable consequences. Visionaries and electronic seers ("skywriters" such as Psycoloquy's co-editor Stevan Harnad [2]) find mere electronic substitution for paper archiving a timid, puny view of the e-journal. In their dreams and experiments, the idea is sprouted precisely when it is ready, critiqued via the "Net," and put out immediately for wide examination or "open peer commentary." Ideas that might have been stillborn in paper come alive as other scholars respond with alacrity and collaborate to improve knowledge systems. Such a revolutionary e-journal concept offers the potential to re-think the informal and formal systems of scholarly communication, and alter them in ways that are most effective and comfortable for specific disciplines and individuals, utilizing electronic conversations, squibbs, mega-journals, consensus journals, and models not yet dreamt of. Diverse forms of academic currency co-exist, and fewer writings are considered the "last word" on any subject. + Page 10 + The visionaries' e-journal is comfortable intermedia; it opens windows onto ideas attached as supplementary files, footnotes, sound, and visual matter. Writing is not confined to any place or time or group. Paper distribution either takes place secondarily or does not happen at all. In short, an increasing numbers of scholars imagine the whole process of scholarly communication undergoing dramatic change, becoming instant, global, interactive [3]. Not surprisingly, some academic editors believe that electronic publishers ought to begin with a more "conventional" publication strategy, which is likely over time to transform the scholarly communications system. Charles Bailey of the Public-Access Computer Systems (PACS) group of electronic publications as well as Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth of the Postmodern Culture group share this vision. 3.0 Rivaling the Scholarly Paper Journal In existence for over 200 years, the paper journal has been given the imprimatur and loyalty of the best scholars as authors and editors. Continually expanding, it has resisted all attempts to supplement it, let alone supplant it. For a very nice discussion of the largely unsuccessful projects that were targeted at a new format or type of journal, see Anne Piternick's article in Journal of Academic Librarianship [4]. For a detailed review of electronic journal literature and a comprehensive bibliography through about 1988, Michael Gabriel provides an excellent overview [5]. Early electronic publishing proposals long precede the Chronicle editorials by Dougherty [6] (we should marry the technological capabilities of university computers and university-sponsored research into a coherent system) and Rogers and Hurt [7] (the packaged, printed journal is obsolete as a vehicle of scholarly communication) with which librarians are so familiar. They were developed in the 1970's in the information science literature. Early experiments fundamentally failed because they were externally imposed, scholars were disinterested in writing for electronic media, and they were unwilling to read it. They were probably unwilling because of lack of pervasive equipment, learned electronic skills, and critical mass. But today, there are some thirty networked electronic journals, of which about eight are refereed or lightly refereed, and there are probably at least sixty networked electronic newsletters [8]. + Page 11 + Since the publication of Gabriel's book, the literature on electronic, network-based communication has mushroomed. The most comprehensive and highly readable report about what needs to be done (in areas of technology, standards, economics, and social acceptance) before the networked journal can become a genuine option has been issued in draft form as an Office of Technology Assessment Report by Clifford Lynch [9]. While exhortation and skepticism about electronic publishing continue in the conventional journal literature and have spawned at least one scholarly paper journal of its own (Wiley's Electronic Publishing) some of the best work and discussion is now, not surprisingly, online, through various lists and bulletin boards of editors and scholars interested in the future of scholarly communication. Even where articles on electronic publishing are headed for the paper track, authors may make them available electronically either in advance of publication or as an adjunct to print publication. For example, a thoughtful essay by psychologist William Gardner recently appeared in Psychological Science [10]. Gardner views the electronic literature and archive as more than a database; it is a single organization run by scientists and applied researchers, who adapt the environment to meet the needs of its users. His piece is noteworthy in part because readers debated it on the Net months before it was published in a print journal. 4.0 Who Will Publish Electronic Journals? Four possible sources of electronic journals currently exist. The list is very simple in that, for reasons of time as much as experience, it does not detail the specific--and not inconsiderable problems--connected with the options. However, Lynch and others have provided this type of critique. + Page 12 + 4.1 Existing Publishers Upon reflection, it appears that the majority of networked electronic journals could originate with existing journal publishers. Most journals, at least in the Western world, become machine-readable at some point in the publishing process. For these journals, some recent electronic archives already exist. A number of scholarly publishers are experimenting with networking options. In the commercial arena, publishers such as Elsevier, John Wiley, and Pergamon are discussing--perhaps implementing--pilot projects. Scientific societies such as the American Chemical Society, the American Mathematical Society, and the American Psychological Association are pursuing development of electronic journals. At the same time, vexing issues--uncertainty about charging models, fear of unpoliced copying resulting in revenue loss, questions about ownership, lack of standardization, inability to deliver or receive non-text, and user unfriendliness or acceptance--work off each other to create a chicken-and-egg situation that keeps electronic conversion careful and slow. And tensions abound. For example, some say one can place tollbooths every inch of the electronic highway and charge for each use; others say that at last the time has come to emancipate ideas from the bondage of profit. Nonetheless, solutions are underway by systems designers, publishers, and standards organizations. For example, by mid-decade there will assuredly be a reliable, affordable way to reproduce and receive non-text; technology specialists assert that "the technology is there." Non-technical (economic and social) issues are the ones that will slow network acceptance. As systems and standards develop, publishers will evolve transitional pricing models that maintain profit levels. As a consequence, publishers will offer the same article arrayed in different clothing or packaging: paper journal collection, single-article delivery, compendia of articles from several journals, collections-to-profile, publications-on-demand, and networked delivery to research facilities and institutions. Parallel CD-ROM versions of a number of scholarly titles are already becoming widely available. + Page 13 + This flexible parallel publication activity will have major side effects. Academic publishers (both commercial and not-for-profit) unable to deliver electronically will be left behind as personal user revenue grows. Paper subscription revenues from Third World countries will not be enough to sustain an academic publisher. The term "subscription" will be replaced. At present, it is currently used for a product that a reader or library buys and owns. It also will come to represent--indeed, already has with CD-ROM's--something which the purchaser does not own at all, but has the right to use. Subscriptions may gradually be replaced by licenses. The multi-site license will be applied not only to electronic publications, but also to paper subscriptions that are shared among institutions. Licenses are intended to compensate the publisher for the potentially broad and possibly undisciplined electronic copying of scholarly materials which could violate the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act. Unless libraries are prepared to pay the high differential prices currently charged for CD-ROM's and locally mounted databases, the language of such licenses will be increasingly important, as will good library negotiators and lawyers. Publishers assert that in the early days of parallel systems, whatever the ultimate storage and distribution method of networked journals might be, the price of information will be higher than ever. After research and development costs are stabilized and the print and electronic markets settle, who knows what pricing structures will prevail? There will probably be an enormous, unregulated range of fees. For instance, it is conceivable that, like older movies rented for a dollar at a video outlet, older science works will become cheap, and new works, very much in demand, will be expensive. Just as libraries found retrospective conversion to machine- readable records to be a lengthy and expensive process, publishers will find retrospective conversion of full-text information to be costly, and it will not happen quickly, even if library customers demand electronic documents. Retrospective conversion will be a non-commercial activity, which will be a joint venture between publishers and optical scanning conversion services or the sole domain of conversion services. + Page 14 + Currently, some publishers are experimenting with converting back files into electronic form, mostly in collaboration with universities or libraries. For example, Cornell, the American Chemical Society, Bellcore, and OCLC are experimenting with scanning ten years' worth of twenty ACS journals. The National Agricultural Library has negotiated agreements with a handful of society and university publishers for the optical scanning of agricultural titles. Public domain work will be scanned and converted first. While today's electronic articles from mainstream publishers are almost incidental or accidental and are not intended by publishers to replace the products which comprise their daily bread, they are opportunities for electronic experimentation, market exploration, and, possibly, supplementary income. 4.2 Intermediaries A number of intermediary organizations have negotiated copyright agreements with publishers and are well positioned to deliver their output to customers. Some of these organizations include indexing and abstracting services such as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and the American Chemical Society. The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) promises document delivery in the near future as an extension of its UnCover table of contents database service. This fall, the Faxon Company, a major paper journal subscription agency, intends to initiate an article delivery service. University Microfilms International (UMI) clearly has copyright clearance for thousands of journals to redistribute them in microform format; electronic distribution is only a step behind. Other efforts include full-text files available on BRS, Dialog, and IAC; the AIDS library of Maxwell Electronic Communications; and the Massachusetts Medical Society CD-ROM. It is not entirely clear why publishers, when they become fully automated and networked, would desire some of these intervening or even competitive services, although the networks will breed many other kinds of value-added opportunities. Rights and contracts will be critical in this area. The current pattern appears to be that publishers will assign rights in return for royalties to almost any reputable intermediary that makes a reasonable offer. + Page 15 + General hearsay suggests that large telecommunications firms (e.g., the regional phone companies and MCI) might wish to become information intermediaries or even content owners (i.e., publishers), and rumors abound about Japanese companies making serious forays in this arena. 4.3 Innovative Researchers and Scholars In this category, I include the trailblazers who publish the handful of refereed or lightly-refereed electronic-only journals which currently exist or are planned. They are editors of publications such as the Electronic Journal of Communication (University of Windsor), EJournal (SUNY Albany), the Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research (Virginia Tech), the Journal of Reproductive Toxicology (Joyce Sigaloff and Embryonics, Inc.), New Horizons in Adult Education (Syracuse University, Kellogg Project), Postmodern Culture (North Carolina State), Psycoloquy (Princeton/Rutgers/APA), and The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (University of Houston Libraries). Some regard these electronic-only journals as devils rather than saviors. For example, they serve those who are already information- and computer-rich, or even spoiled. Because network communication can be clunky, cranky, and inconsistent, e-journals serve the highly skilled or the tenacious. Rather than opening up the universe, they may appear temporarily to limit it, because only text is easily keyed and transmitted. Presently, editors of electronic journals are academics who spend a great deal of time being reviewers and referees, editors, publishers, advocates, marketers. After all that effort, it is unclear whether these activities, which are the path to tenure and grants in the paper medium, will bring similar rewards in the electronic medium. Powerful and persistent persuasion may be needed to induce colleagues to contribute articles and referee them. Today's electronic-only journals' greatest contributions are not that they have solved many of the problems of the current publishing system--or of the networked world--but that they are brave, exciting, innovative experiments which give us a hope of doing so. + Page 16 + It is not entirely clear whether this handful of swallows makes a summer--it feels like the beginning of a new warm season for academic communications--or how long that summer will be. It is an open question as to whether these academics will hand over their work to university presses, scholarly societies, or outside publishers. External economic conditions may push scholars to start networked electronic journals instead of paper ones. If the past year's serial price increases continue, scholars will have an incentive to create electronic journals, and they may appear faster than we expect. Substantial cost savings can be realized if the new start-up is electronically distributed on networks. Otherwise, paper and parallel publication costs become substantial. Currently, scholars' use of academic networks appears to be largely free, and it is a good time to experiment. It is unknown how long these good times will last; universities may not continue to subsidize academics' network use. (Even commercialized, the communications costs should appear as cheap as long distance and fax.) In the meanwhile, individually-produced journals may come and go, like New York restaurants. 4.4 University-Based Electronic Publishing At this time, it has been estimated that universities at most publish 15% of their faculty's output [11]. This includes discussion papers and periodicals emanating from individual academic departments as well as formalized university outlets like university presses and publications offices. Nonetheless, to the considerable cynicism of existing publishers, a vision of university-based electronic networked publishing is expressed by many librarians and other members of the university community in conversations about academe's regaining control and distribution of its own intellectual output. Publishers' skepticism is certainly justified in that, in spite of good rhetoric, there are no vital signs of university electronic journal publishing activity, apart from the publications of individual academics described in the last section. + Page 17 + However, there are some related electronic publishing experiments by universities. The most interesting experiments are in the preprint arena. One university research facility, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, has supported a preprint database in high energy physics for some fifteen years. Researchers worldwide contribute preprints, that is, any article intended to be submitted for publication. Database managers create bibliographic records and accession each preprint. Using this information, online subscribers can locate preprints, which they can request either from the author or the database. Database staff scan the printed literature routinely for new articles. A preprint so identified is discarded from the library, and the database record is annotated with the correct citation to the formal journal article. Staff add about 200 preprints per week, and the full database contains citations to 200,000 articles. Some experimentation is underway by a couple of laboratories to deposit the full text of preprint articles with the system. (Absent a submission standard, particularly for non-text information, this becomes complex.) If such a pilot is successful, the articles in the database could be distributed widely and quickly via the networks. Of course, the relationship with existing scholarly publishers might be jeopardized because of prior "publication" and perceived encroachments on the present notion of copyright. SLAC staff are sensitive to these potential problems, and they are being thoughtful about them. Some scholars argue that a preprint creates demand for the published version of a paper. In any case, since the preprints have not been refereed or edited and they represent work in progress, many scientists are hesitant to cite them, and, consequently, they lack the validity of the "finished" paper. On the other hand, a paper published in a prestigious university database might eventually pre-empt the paper version, provided some network review mechanism is added. + Page 18 + A second major initiative is being created in mathematics. The IMP project (Instant Math Preprints) will maintain a database of abstracts on a network computer at a major university. At the same time, authors of the mathematics articles will deposit the full text of preprints with their local university computer center, which will store them on a network computer. After searching the abstract database, users will be able to retrieve desired article files from host computers via anonymous FTP. Presently, the project is proposed to extend to about ten key research universities. The abstracts also will be searchable on "e-math," the American Mathematical Society's electronic member service. The benefits to researchers of both of these types of preprint information are enormous. In high-energy physics and mathematics, we may be viewing the substantial beginnings of university-based scientific publishing. 5.0 Computer Conferences as Electronic Journals Librarians and scholars are beginning to take seriously the scholarly computer conferences (known as "lists") available through the various networks, such as BITNET and Internet. Such academic flora and fauna number in the hundreds and thousands and grow daily [12]. While many of the original lists and their exchanges earned the Net a reputation as an information cesspool, an increasing number of lists are indispensable to specific interest areas and ought to be available through library catalogs and terminals. Indeed, some academics view the topical lists as an entirely new kind of "journal." It is well to remember that the ancestor of today's fancy scholarly journal was the diary or logbook (the original "journal") in which the scholar or scientist recorded data, thoughts, ideas, meetings, and conversations, much as do today's networked electronic lists. A growing number of colleagues testify that a few weeks of being active on the networks changes one's working life. Some of the benefits are: (1) accessing a wealth of informal information; (2) linking to colleagues and growing ideas quickly, with a wide variety of input and critique; (3) sharing an idea all over the world in a matter of minutes; and (4) finding new colleagues and learning who is pursuing the same interests in another discipline. Surely, this is the excitement of discovery at its most energetic and best. A number of librarians have recognized the new medium's power and they are promoting network-facilitating activities. + Page 19 + It is certain that widespread participation and ownership of this new method of communication have the potential to transform scholarly writing and publishing far more dramatically than the motivation to unbundle journals, publish quickly, or even reduce subscription costs. 6.0 Speculations These are very early days for this new information creation and distribution medium; however, readers want guesses about the future, and authors are tempted to satisfy the public and their own egos by venturing them. The self-evident statement is that the honorable, long-lived communication medium--the prestigious scholarly journal--will surely be quite different than it is today. It will be different because it will represent a new way of growing and presenting knowledge. Here is a possible scenario for the evolution of scholarly journals. 6.1 1991 A.D. o Paper journals totally dominate the scholarly scene. o There are some parallel electronic products, mostly the "static" CD-ROM format. o Some full text (without graphics) is available online via services such as Dialog and BRS. o Some mainstream publishers are experimenting with electronic publications. o There are a variety of options for delivering individual articles via mail and fax. o The biggest single article suppliers are libraries, via the long-popular and fairly effective interlibrary loan mechanisms. o Over a thousand scholarly electronic discussion groups exist. o Under ten scholarly electronic journals exist that are refereed, lightly-refereed, or edited. + Page 20 + o Two institutional preprint services are in development. o OCLC, a library utility, positions itself through development work for the AAAS as a serious electronic publisher of scientific articles. 6.2 1995 A.D. o Significant inroads into the paper subscription market, because (1) libraries make heavy journal cancellations due to budget constraints, and they feel "mad as hell" about high subscription prices; and (2) it becomes possible to deliver specific articles directly to the end-user. o Librarians and publishers squabble over prices--ELECTRONIC prices. o For the first time, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) sues a research library or university over either electronic copying or paper resource-sharing activities. o There are over 100 refereed electronic journals produced by academics. o In collaboration with professional or scholarly societies, university-based preprint services get underway in several disciplines. o The Net still subsidized. o Rate of paper journal growth slows. o Many alternative sources exist for the same article, including publishers and intermediaries. o Bibliographic confusion and chaos reigns for bibliographic utilities, libraries, and, by extension, scholars. + Page 21 + 6.3 2000 A.D. o Computer equipment and user-sophistication are pervasive, although not ubiquitous. o Parallel electronic and paper availability for serious academic journals; market between paper journals and alternatives (e.g., electronic delivery) is split close to 50/50. o Subscription model wanes; license and single-article models wax. o Secondary services re-think roles; other indexing (machine browsing, artificial intelligence, and full-text or abstract searching) strengthens. o Net transferred to commercial owners, but access costs are low. o New niches are created: archive, scanning, re-packaging, and information-to-profile services. o Publishers without electronic delivery shrink or leave the marketplace. o Many collaborations, some confusing and unworkable, as publishers struggle with development, conversion, and delivery. o Major Copyright Law revision continues. o Stratification of richer and poorer users, universities, and nations. 7.0 Conclusion Teilhard de Chardin writes: No one can deny that a world network of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at an ever-increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes, it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively [13]. + Page 22 + Another writer has said that the only way to know the future is to write it yourself. We have some hints where the future of journals and scholarly communications, which will move quickly beyond today's journal, may lie. Those who have a vision for the future are uniquely positioned to write the scenario. Notes 1. Edward Tenner, "From Slip to Chip," Princeton Alumni Weekly, 21 November 1990, 9-14. 2. E-mail and list correspondence with Stevan Harnad, editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences as well as the refereed electronic journal Psycoloquy. 3. Stevan Harnad, "Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry," Psychological Science 1 (November 1990): 342-344. 4. Anne B. Piternick, "Attempts to Find Alternatives to the Scientific Journal: A Brief Review," Journal of Academic Librarianship 15 (November 1989): 263-265. 5. Michael R. Gabriel, A Guide to the Literature of Electronic Publishing: CD-ROM, Desktop Publishing, and Electronic Mail, Books, and Journals (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1989). 6. Richard M. Dougherty, "To Meet the Crisis in Journal Costs, Universities Must Reassert Their Role in Scholarly Publishing," Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 April 1989, A52. 7. Sharon J. Rogers and Charlene S. Hurt, "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 October 1989, A56. + Page 23 + 8. For a complete listing of such journals and newsletters, see the free electronic directory that is maintained by Michael Strangelove (send an e-mail message with the following commands on separate lines to LISTSERV@UOTTAWA: GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY). This information is also included in a paper directory, the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists, which is available at low cost from the Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Ave, N.W., Washington, DC 20036. 9. Clifford A. Lynch, "Electronic Publishing, Electronic Libraries, and the National Research and Education Network: Policy and Technology Issues" (Washington, D.C.: Office of Technology Assessment, draft for review April 1990). 10. William Gardner, "The Electronic Archive: Scientific Publishing for the 1990s," Psychological Science 1, no. 6 (1990): 333-341. 11. Stuart Lynn (Untitled paper presented at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting, November 1990). 12. Diane Kovacs at the Kent State University libraries assiduously catalogs and organizes these electronic conferences. Her work is available to all users for free through files made available to discussion groups such as LSTOWN-L, HUMANIST, LIBREF-L and others. The Association of Research Libraries includes her information about these groups in their directory. 13. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man (New York: Harper and Row, 1969). + Page 24 + About the Author Ann Okerson Director Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing The Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 OKERSON@UMDC ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic journal. It is sent free of charge to participants of the Public-Access Computer Systems Forum (PACS-L), a computer conference on BITNET. To join PACS-L, send an electronic mail message to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1 that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-L First Name Last Name. This article is Copyright (C) 1991 by Ann Okerson. All Rights Reserved. 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Moze skonsumowanie kilku fragmentow tegoz oszczedzi komus bladzenia. Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz. i CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:28 CET To: WACNIE From: LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.BITNET Comment: converted from NETDATA format at PLWATU21 + Page 25 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Harrison, Teresa M., Timothy Stephen, and James Winter. "Online Journals: Disciplinary Designs for Electronic Scholarship." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 25-38. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 Introduction The decade of the 80's has witnessed the advent of a revolution in scholarly communication. The explosive growth of wide-area academic computer networking using BITNET/EARN, Internet, and an extensive array of regional networks has brought us beyond the point of asking whether the networks will be used for scholarly communication. The important questions now center around how computer-mediated scholarly communication will take place. Increasingly, speculation has focused upon the ability of electronic media to replace paper as the primary delivery medium for scholarly journals. A prima facie case for the desirability of online or electronic scholarly journals seems already to exist. Advocates have based their cases on the advantages of computer networking and electronic media over print publication, such as the speed of dissemination, the relatively low costs of production and dissemination, and the ability to make more scholarship available than before [1]. Noting that publishers receive the economic benefits of research produced at public expense, Okerson has suggested that an electronic publishing component within the National Research and Education Network would enable scholarship to remain financially accessible to the public [2]. Other arguments have been based upon the ways that electronic publication might improve the practice of scholarship within academic disciplines. For example, advocates have described the superior possibilities for information retrieval that may be achieved when scholarly articles are interconnected in flexible databases [3, 4]. Yavarkovsky [5] and Lyman [6] have suggested that electronic publication can facilitate certain types of scholarship that generate products better represented in graphics, or in three-dimensional, animated, or moving visual representations. Other researchers have argued that electronic journals might be aimed at facilitating informal communication processes through which original ideas are generated and refined and preliminary information about research is disseminated [7, 8, 9]. + Page 26 + Although the future of electronic journals seems promising, their adoption by scholars will not be determined solely by the number of technical innovations or by the medium's ability to tip the scales in a comparison of costs and benefits with print media. The decade of the 90's will no doubt witness many attempts to introduce models for electronic academic journals. Whether these journals succeed or fail will depend on the extent to which a particular journal's design is consistent with the social practices of the discipline it serves and the extent to which it reflects the discipline's needs for information and communication. If this is true, it follows that no single journal model will serve as a prototype for all disciplines. Instead, designers of electronic journals would do well to understand how their particular disciplines' social practices may block or delay the acceptance of an electronic journal. The journal must be designed and introduced in a way that overcomes these hurdles, while offering an approach to "publication" that improves the discipline's ability to satisfy information and communication needs. In this article, we describe the approach we have taken in the design of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (EJC/REC, ISSN 1183-5656). We begin by noting differences between disciplines that argue for a variety of approaches in electronic journals. Then, we focus on the considerations that were most important to us in planning the development of EJC/REC, and we describe how we have attempted to address them. Our strategy has centered upon the idea of introducing EJC/REC within the context of an electronic service known as Comserve--a broader disciplinary project whose aim is to promote the use of electronic media in communication scholarship. Finally, we call attention to challenges that designers of electronic journals will face in attempting to institutionalize the medium within the academy. + Page 27 + 2.0 Disciplinary Differences in the Design of Online Journals Electronic media makes feasible a dazzling array of innovations with the potential to transform the nature of scholarly communication. Developers are eager to incorporate these features into the design of electronic journals. However, these innovations will not be equally attractive in all disciplines. Although journals in the sciences, humanities, and the social sciences appear to be fairly similar, there are systematic differences in the kind of information they include and the way that information is presented [10]. These variations in journal design and presentation reflect more fundamental distinctions across the disciplines in journal publication processes, the way that journals are used, and the types of contributions journal articles represent. Those planning to develop electronic journals must be sensitive to these differences. 2.1 Electronic Archives Some of the most radically innovative proposals for online publications have focused on the improvements in information retrieval that can be obtained when journals and their contents are interconnected in archival databases. Designers of these "electronic archives" (the category "journal" no longer seems apt) plan to incorporate certain characteristics of traditional journals such as editorial boards and peer review, but use technology to transcend the limitations of print. Their aim is to create information retrieval features that enable users to access a single article as well as a body of literature that is relevant to it, to place comments and rebuttals to specific articles within the archive, and to generate instructions that will identify additions to the system that are of interest to particular users [11, 12, 13]. + Page 28 + One would expect such a model to be attractive in the natural and applied sciences where scholars often pursue particular questions systematically within established theoretical programs. Research such as this, occurring in fields like medicine, engineering, physics, and biology, is often supported by large grants or contracts. In such contexts, new knowledge accumulates rapidly and supersedes existing knowledge; scholarly credibility depends upon the ability to portray one's work as integral within this stream. However, this type of process is barely evident within most humanities and social science disciplines. Further, we question whether the economic resources devoted to disciplinary inquiry will be sufficient for the construction and use of such elaborate information retrieval capabilities. 2.2 Non-Traditional Electronic Journals It has also been popular to suggest that, instead of replacing traditional journals, online publications might address other aspects of scholarly communication. For example, online journals might be used to disseminate brief summaries of research and information about research in progress [14], to engage in more limited exchanges of information [15], or, more ambitiously, to support and institutionalize informal scholarly communication activities that typically take place in interpersonal contexts [16]. Informal scholarly communication, which is regarded as important for generating ideas and communicating information about ongoing research, takes place at conferences, at colloquia or symposia, and through correspondence. It is typically restricted to small numbers of individuals. Electronic media would enable these activities to take place on an ongoing basis with greater levels of participation. Some of these proposals spring from fears about whether electronic journals will command the credibility of traditional print publications. For example, Turoff and Hiltz's focus on developing electronic alternatives to traditional journals was motivated by their discovery that scholars were reluctant to place their work in the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES)-maintained journal [17]. They surmised that this reluctance was due to perceptions that articles in this journal would have a smaller chance of being cited by others. + Page 29 + In the natural and applied sciences, where informal communication is the scholar's primary means of keeping up to date on research advances, computer-mediated information exchanges may be valued, though it is not clear if electronic journals that carry out such functions will ever command the same prestige as traditional publications. Peer review and broader network access to these journals would surely help to overcome some of their limitations. However, what is true of one discipline may not be true of others. In many humanities and social science disciplines, informal communication may play a greater role in generating ideas than disseminating information about research in progress, and journal article publication is itself viewed as a less important contribution to knowledge than publication of a book [18]. In such disciplines, electronic journals may never achieve the credibility of print. Indeed, Katzen's suggestion that scholarly communication functions are likely to be split between electronic and print media seems to proceed from the assumption that humanities scholars will find it very hard to break their allegiance to print [19]. Electronic journals are viewed as impermanent, less satisfying to read, and it is feared their contents will change as the journals are disseminated. Therefore, these journals may be suitable for reflecting what is transient in scholarship; what is permanent and authoritative should be preserved in print. We do not doubt that electronic media will stimulate the development of new forms of scholarly discourse; however, we were reluctant to introduce both a new genre and a new medium of journal publication. Historically, the journal article evolved as a genre of scholarly discourse from the first published scientific communication, which consisted of letters sent to the editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [20]. In the same way, we expect that new genres of electronic scholarly discourse across the disciplines will evolve after the medium in which they appear has acquired the imprimatur of scholarly legitimacy. + Page 30 + 3.0 The Design and Introduction of EJC/REC One might expect that those who study human communication would be the first to embrace the advantages of new communication technologies. However, while there are many communication scholars who are interested in communication technologies, there are many others who have little experience in computing and who are just as likely as other scholars to question the viability of new publication systems. Any new serial is going to face issues of permanence (will it still exist in three years?), accessibility (will it get into the hands of other scholars?), and credibility (will articles be peer reviewed and cited by others?). It was apparent that the new medium would make it more difficult to provide the usual assurances. Further, we recognized that the medium posed challenges not experienced in print publication that would have to be overcome. Thus, before any of the advantages of online journals could be realized, we believed that it was necessary to overcome the obstacles presented by the medium. 3.1 Comserve: An Electronic Publisher One of the first decisions made was to offer EJC/REC under the auspices of Comserve. Comserve is an electronic information and discussion resource that, since 1986, has used national and global computer networks to provide disciplinary services to communication scholars and students. Individuals interact with Comserve using accounts on local mainframe computers that are linked to BITNET, Internet, or any network connected to them. Comserve functions as a software robot with its own network address, watching for and taking action on commands that users send to it. + Page 31 + Comserve's primary purpose is to promote the use of electronic networking and computer-mediated communication in the service of communication scholarship. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at no charge to users, Comserve offers four basic types of resources: (1) An interactive "white pages"--an electronic directory of names, electronic mail addresses, and research interests of individuals in the discipline. (2) Electronic indexes to disciplinary journals that can be searched for bibliographic citations. (3) A database of over 1,000 files containing research, teaching, and other professionally useful information. (4) A suite of 20 online conferences addressing research, teaching, and professional topics in communication studies. By associating the publication of EJC/REC with Comserve we hoped to dispel some of the inevitable doubts about the permanence of the journal. When the first issue of EJC/REC was published, Comserve was entering its fifth year of operation, making it one of the oldest disciplinary services on the networks. Comserve had received financial support from several of the discipline's professional organizations as well as from many individual departments of communication throughout North America, thus indicating that it had achieved some measure of recognition and visibility within the discipline. + Page 32 + Furthermore, by associating EJC/REC with Comserve, we hoped to provide some assurances about EJC/REC's accessibility. Users have generally found it easy to learn how to access Comserve's resources, as indicated by the speed of diffusion among students and faculty. Over 20,000 individuals from nearly every major academic institution in the United States, Canada, and Mexico (as well as in 35 other countries) have sent over 250,000 commands to Comserve. Approximately 4,500 individuals maintain subscriptions to one or more of Comserve's electronic conferences. In the same way that many scholarly associations act as publishers of their own disciplinary journals, Comserve acts as an electronic "publisher" for EJC/REC. As an electronic disciplinary forum, Comserve offers an array of incentives for faculty and students in communication studies to learn how to use computer-mediated communication for scholarly discourse. The services described above fall within the realm of informal scholarly communication. EJC/REC, a mechanism for formal scholarly communication, complements these efforts to institutionalize the use of electronic communication within the field. Together, Comserve and EJC/REC are helping to create an electronic community of scholars. Within such a community, we believed that an electronic journal has a significant chance to develop disciplinary stature. 3.2 EJC/REC: Form and Content In its first year of publication, EJC/REC has delivered two issues and is in the process of producing its third. Technically, subscriptions are managed automatically through a special electronic conference devoted to the journal that is managed by Comserve. Interested individuals may subscribe to the journal by sending the following command on the first line in the body of an electronic mail message to COMSERVE@RPIECS (BITNET) or COMSERVE@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU (Internet): SUBSCRIBE EJCREC First_Name Last_Name (Example: SUBSCRIBE EJCREC Mary Smith) + Page 33 + The journal's 320 subscribers automatically receive the journal's table of contents, abstracts for each article in the issue, and the names of files containing each article in the issue. Files are named by author and volume/issue number. Those interested may then request files containing desired articles by sending the appropriate command to Comserve (at either of the addresses noted above). For example: SEND MCKEOWN V1N190 refers to an article by Bruce McKeown of Westmont College entitled "Q Methodology, Communication, and the Behavioral Text," appearing in volume 1, number 1 of EJC/REC in 1990. Articles appearing in back issues will continue to be available through Comserve and may be requested at any time. All articles are in ASCII format. With respect to editorial policies, EJC/REC seeks to be broadly representative of the field of communication studies and invites submissions related to the study of communication theory, research, practice, and policy. Manuscripts reporting original research, methodologies relevant to the study of human communication, critical syntheses of research, and theoretical and philosophical perspectives on communication are encouraged. Manuscripts are reviewed by relevant individuals within a thirty- member editorial board consisting of scholars representing diverse interests in the field from Europe, Canada, and the United States. To establish a credible publication history, attract readership, and encourage submissions, we have devoted initial issues of EJC/REC, edited by scholars with established reputations, to special topics within the communication field. Thus, the first issue addressed the topic of "Q Methodology and Communication: Theory and Applications" and was edited by Irvin Goldman of the University of Windsor and Steven Brown of Kent State University. Goldman and Brown, acknowledged heirs to the scholarly legacy of psychologist and communication theorist William Stephenson, who invented Q methodology, identified noted scholars in the area, invited contributions to the issue, and supervised the reviewing process. + Page 34 + Since EJC/REC originates in Canada, there have been efforts to create a journal that is bilingual in certain aspects of its presentation and in some of its focuses. Editorial duties are distributed between James Winter of the University of Windsor (English-speaking editor) and Claude Martin of the University of Montreal (French-speaking editor). Articles may appear in English or French. Although articles will not always be translated into both languages, messages from special issue editors, article titles, and article abstracts are presented in French as well as in English. 4.0 EJC/REC: In the Future We recognize that we have not resolved all doubts about the permanence, accessibility, and credibility of EJC/REC. Ultimately, these doubts can only be resolved, and the journal's future assured, when EJC/REC is incorporated within the recognized body of scholarly knowledge. This means ensuring that the journal is readily available through university and college libraries. Although libraries may currently subscribe to issues of EJC/REC distributed through the network, we plan to improve availability by distributing the journal to libraries on diskettes (at well below current costs for print journals) as soon as a full volume becomes available. We are also exploring possibilities for including the journal in standard citation services and other secondary bibliographic resources in the humanities and social sciences. Finally, one important hurdle we, and other designers of electronic journals, must attempt to address is the onerous experience of reading an online journal. It is necessary to display the contents of online or electronic journals in ASCII format because there are few word processing systems compatible with the many different kinds of computing equipment that can be used to display text. As most already know, reading large quantities of text on video display terminals is not a comfortable way of consuming scholarship. Many editors of online journals are resigned to the fact that their readers will download articles of interest and print them in order to read them. Thus, the electronic medium is viewed as suitable for delivering, but not for experiencing, text. + Page 35 + We are impressed by the results of an experiment conducted by Standera that assessed reader responses to a journal appearing in five different formats, including an electronic version read on a video display terminal [21]. He concluded that before readers will be willing to change their preferences for print: "Designers (of electronic publishing systems) must provide improved legibility, easy browsing, more friendly procedures, ready availability of indexes, portability, and less fatigue" [22]. Some improvements in legibility will occur with advances in video display technology. But needed now, or in the very near future, are more fundamental improvements in the reader's ability to "handle" or manipulate text. The allegiance to print is in great measure an unwillingness to give up advantages conferred by the materiality of paper. Until they can do with electronic text what they currently do with text on paper, scholars will retain their devotion to print and resist converting to electronic media. Notes 1. Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, "The Electronic Journal: A Progress Report," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 33 (July 1982): 195-202. 2. Anne Okerson, "Incentives and Disincentives in Research and Educational Communication," EDUCOM Review 25 (Fall 1990): 15. 3. William Gardner, "The Electronic Archive: Scientific Publishing for the 1990s," Psychological Science 1, no. 6 (1990): 333-341. 4. Sharon J. Rogers and Charlene S. Hurt, "How Scholarly Communication Should Work in the 21st Century," Chronicle of Higher Education, 18 October 1989, A56. 5. Jerome Yavarkovsky, "A University-Based Electronic Publishing Network," EDUCOM Review 25 (Fall 1990): 14-20. + Page 36 + 6. Peter Lyman, "The Library of the (Not-So-Distant) Future," Change 23 (January/February 1991): 34-41. 7. Stevan Harnad, "Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry," Psychological Science 1, no. 6 (1990): 342-344. 8. D. J. Pullinger, "Chit-Chat to Electronic Journals: Computer Conferencing Supports Scientific Communication," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications PC 29 (March 1986): 23-29. 9. B. Shackel, "The BLEND System: Programme for the Study of Some 'Electronic Journals'," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 34 (January 1983): 22-30. 10. May F. Katzen, "The Changing Appearance of Research Journals in Science and Technology: An Analysis and a Case Study," in Development of Science Publishing in Europe, ed. A. J. Meadows (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1980), 177-214. 11. A. Bookstein and M. J. O'Donnell, "A Scholarly Electronic Journal on the Internet: The Chicago Journal of Computer Science" (Paper presented at the Association of Research Libraries Conference for Refereed Academic Publishing Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina, 8 October 1990.) 12. Lynn Kellar, "Functional Overview of the Electronic Science Journal." (Paper presented at the Association of Research Libraries Conference for Refereed Academic Publishing Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina, 8 October 1990.) 13. Gardner, "The Electronic Archive: Scientific Publishing for the 1990s," 333-341. 14. May Katzen, "Electronic Publishing in the Humanities," Scholarly Publishing 18 (October 1986): 5-16. 15. Turoff and Hiltz, "The Electronic Journal: A Progress Report," 195-202. 16. Stevan Harnad, "Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry," 342-344. + Page 37 + 17. Turoff and Hiltz, "The Electronic Journal: A Progress Report," 195-202. 18. Blaise Cronin, "Invisible Colleges and Information Transfer: A Review and Commentary with Particular Reference to the Social Sciences," Journal of Documentation 38 (September 1982): 212-236. 19. Katzen, "Electronic Publishing in the Humanities," 5-16. 20. Katzen, "The Changing Appearance of Research Journals in Science and Technology," 177-214. 21. O. L. Standera, "Electronic Publishing: Some Notes on Reader Response and Costs," Scholarly Publishing 16 (July 1985): 291-305. 22. Ibid., 299. About the Authors: Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy D. Stephen Co-Directors, Comserve Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 James Winter Editor, Electronic Journal of Communication University of Windsor Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4 + Page 38 + ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic journal. 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All commercial use requires permission. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From <@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET> Wed Aug 2 12:27:07 1995 Return-Path: <<@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET>> Received: from plearn.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA00849; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:26:40 +0200 Message-Id: <199508021026.MAA00849@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLEARN.EDU.PL by plearn.edu.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 1215; Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:31:07 CET Received: from PLWATU21.BITNET (NJE origin WACNIE@PLWATU21) by PLEARN.EDU.PL (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2374; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:31:07 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:38 CET To: "Stowarzysz. Lacznosci Komputerowej" From: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" Subject: I jeszcze relacja trzeciego repa z publikowania w sieci (PACS-l) Na wypadek gdybysmy zapragneli wydawac biuletyn PSI - pozywny poczatek. Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz. i CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:27 CET To: WACNIE From: LISTSERV@UOTTAWA.BITNET Comment: converted from NETDATA format at PLWATU21 Subject: Electronic newsletter ideas From: erikn@TEKCAE.CAX.TEK.COM Ideas for Electronic Newsletters By Erik Nilsson erikn@tekcae.cax.tek.com Portland Chapter Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility I've been publishing an electronic newsletter since 1988. I don't know if I was first in CPSR to do so, but I was early. Now, there are several excellent newsletters distributed by chapters. I have received comments that this is something more of the chapters could do, and that I should give some suggestions for how to put out an e-newsletter. I'm sure other electronic publishers have invaluable ideas as well, and I'd like to see them. Electronic newsletters are definitely worth the effort. A well done newsletter helps create a sense of importance and cohesiveness in a chapter. It can also be a whole lot fun. Five Suggestions for an E-Newsletter: 1. Always tell the truth, and make reasonable efforts to verify facts. 2. Borrow without shame, but give credit where due. 3. Design your systems carefully to minimize your work. 4. Put out a high-quality product. 5. Think of yourself as a publisher, and use the forms of journalism to give definition to your product. 1. Always Tell the Truth I'm sure I don't need to elaborate, but I like to remind myself of the importance of this rule. If something is suspected to be so, say it is suspected to be so, don't say that it is definitely so. 2. Borrow Without Shame, but Give Credit Writing a once- or twice-a-month newsletter from scratch and doing a halfway decent job is more work than you can imagine, if you haven't done it. Don't do it. With several good CPSR E-newsletters being published, and press releases from CPSR and other organizations available on-line, you don't need to write a whole newsletter from scratch. Here are my sources for stories: - Chapter newsletters are usually sent to cpsr-chapters. If you aren't on one of the component chapter lists, get on one by contacting cpsr-staff@csli.stanford.edu. I hereby give any CPSR chapter newsletter permission, until further notice, to use any material published in CPSR/PDX for the purpose of publishing a chapter newsletter, as long as credit is given to CPSR/PDX and to credited sources CPSR/PDX got the article from. This permission includes permission to edit, summarize, or abstract material from CPSR/PDX, as long as such modifications are so noted. I have pretty much assumed this permission from other newsletters, too. - CPSR news releases are also sent to cpsr-chapters. - My regional rep is pretty good about sending me stuff from national, such as commentary by CPSR members on current subjects. However, if the message has any aspect of being for internal use only, I ask permission to use it before I publish. - The National Activists and (if you're in the Northwest) Local Activists mailing lists have good stuff on them, contact douglas@atc.boeing.COM. - People in our chapter mail some things around. - I now read the EFF news group, since I'm no longer getting several copies of each of their postings by helpful folks. - News has lots of good articles on it, but I mostly rely on others who are interested in specific groups to peruse them and send me good stuff. _Risks_ might be a newsgroup with a high enough hit rate to be useful. - As a last resort, I write from scratch. We have done meeting reports, editorials, book reviews, and so forth. Try to share the writing load among the good writers in the chapter as much as possible. Developing a consistent editorial outlook doesn't require that you write all of the opinion pieces yourself. I also keyboard a small number of articles from the paper press. 3. Design your systems carefully to minimize your work. Here is my system: I have two mail folders, called "new" and "hot." Things that come along in the mail that I might want to use go in "new." Things I am sure I want to use in the very next issue go in "hot." If I write something myself, I mail it to myself, and process it the same as anything else. Sometimes, I get letters from readers on stories. These can become _letters to the editor_. If the writer is an active chapter member and the material is appropriate, I may ask them to recast their comments as a _commentary_. I have a directory set aside for newsletter work. It contains a blank newsletter, recurring components such as the calendar, the newsletter mailing list and my mailing tool (more about this later), and stories in progress. I begin by putting in any hot stories, and editing them for the first time. After I have everything that has to be in, I see how big the newsletter is, and put in more stories until it's about the right size and feels balanced. Sometimes, I hack the material I get pretty severly, so the size of the messages I start with isn't a good guide to the final size of the product. I like the newsletter to be between 10K and 20K, although we have gone bigger. Once I get an issue laid out the way I want, I spell check it, print out a copy, and give it to our copy editor. Copy editing is easier on hardcopy, but you could do it by putting editing commands in . The copy editor then reads the draft, and catches a large percentage of my mistakes, as well as mistakes in other sources. She also tightens wording and improves style. This is an essential step. After the copy editor has covered the draft in corrections, I take the draft back, and make almost all of the changes she marks. I spell check again, then I mail. I can't get private aliases to work on my machine, and we had some trouble with public aliases, so I wrote my own bulk mail program, which is included at the end of this file. Unlike some other chapter newsletters, CPSR/PDX is distributed only via e-mail. If you are going to distribute on paper as well, design those systems with the same care. We have considered distributing to local fax machines with a PC fax board, but we haven't gotten access to the hardware. If anyone tries this, please let me know. 4. Put out a high-quality product. To get people to read your stuff, you need to be concise, and well written. You also NEED SOMEONE TO READ YOUR WORK. Sending out written material without having the copy edited is like sending out software that hasn't been evaluated: it will only bring you grief. Read _The Elements of Style_, by Strunk and White, and get someone who is a good writer to read over every issue you send out. Pursue quality at the expense of quantity. If your readers want volume, they can spend all day reading net-news. They will read you for concise, clear, and reliable news, or they will not read you. CPSR/PDX tends to be pretty serious, although if someone says something really stupid, I try to work in some extra-dry humor around it. I preserve a sense of fun by putting out an April Fool's issue that, in my opinion, stays just this side of bad taste, irresponsibility, and character assassination. Perhaps a better technique would be a regular humor column. Maybe I'll try that some time. 5. Think of yourself as a publisher, and use the forms of journalism to give form to your product. Think carefully about how you want to design your newsletter. The task is similar to designing a paper newsletter, except your product will be read on a variety of different display devices, through a variety of software interfaces. In designing a "look", examine a dummy of your newsletter on several terminals and on hardcopy, to see how it looks. Here is a modified version of my blank newsletter, with comments in . __________ ____________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ __________ _______ ______ ______ ______ __ ______ ____ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ _ __ ______ _______ ______ __ ______ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ _ _______ __ ______ __ __ __ __ ____ __ __ Volume 4, #2 January 25, 1991 _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: {1} First Story {2} Second Story {3} Calendar _______________________________________________________________________________ {1} First Story By Erik Nilsson Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah _______________________________________________________________________________ {2} Second Story Summarized from Wire service reports and "The Story Above the First Floor" in _The Oregonian_ 1/12/91 p. D-1 Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah _______________________________________________________________________________ {3} Calendar 1/28/91 Mon CPSR/Portland Chapter Meeting 7:00 P.M. PSU PCAT 28, SW 5th at Montgomery Marc Rotenberg speaks on "Privacy, Liberty, and Information" All are welcome. _______________________________________________________________________________ Editor: Erik Nilsson A publication of Copy Editor: Andrea Rodakowski CPSR/Portland Contributing Editors: Nike Horton Carl Page Marc Rotenberg Copyright 1991, CPSR Address correspondence and subscription requests to erikn@tekcae.cax.tek.com. Note on punctuation: _Italics_ and *boldface* are represented as shown. __________ ____________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ __________ This is my third layout. I had a plainer format when I first started, and later tweaked it to be more effective. My e-mail connection got bad for a while, and I started publishing very erratically. When I got that fixed, I started getting some of the other newsletters, and I got some new ideas. I completely retooled CPSR/PDX's look, and re-emerged. You should have an editorial policy, even if it isn't written. Here's mine, written down for the first time: - Opinion is labeled "Commentary" or "Editorial". - Sources are credited. - Writing incorporated from other sources is modified to fit the CPSR/PDX standard. Of course we edit for style and length. We also reformat to our paragraph specification, change quotes and ellipses, and take out hyphens. - Words are not broken at the end of lines with hyphens. Such hyphenated text is dehyphenated on receipt. Unfortunately of course, you can't take out all minus characters. This is done for readability. - All persons are initially referred to by their first and last names, and thereafter by their title, if it is known (Dr., Ms., or Mr.), and their last name. This might seem a little stiff, but I find the formality useful. - Profanity, even mild profanity, is restricted to direct quotes and the April Fool's issue. Let me elaborate. The net has something of a "rough and ready" aspect that permits almost any expression. As an engineer, my work vocabulary includes expressions that only a few years ago could get you arrested. I don't use this language in the newsletter, because of its extreme informality, not its supposed obscene nature. The net can be very informal, so a newsletter editor must define their product in contrast to the net, to make clear that what we are doing is publishing. BTW, the strongest language I recall printing is "bullshit." - Insults are limited to direct quotes, and discouraged then. The April fool's issue makes fun of the silly actions and statements of people, but their names are always disguised. - We don't print flames. We have a responsibility to our readers not to waste their time, and flames are a waste of time. Flames are also mean. - We try to make issues between 10K and 20K characters in length. - We try to publish at least once a month. - Paragraphs are always block-form, ragged right, with a column-width of 79 characters. Block quotes are indented 10 characters from each margin, and are also ragged right. Justified paragraphs (paragraphs with straight margins on both right and left) are pretty, but hard to read, especially with a fixed-character-width font. - For bullets, we use "-". - We use the double quote character (") for quotations, and the single quote (') for sub-quotations. Constructions such as ``a quote'' are converted to the standard. We don't put spaces in ellipses, so they look like "..." and "...." They take up less space this way, and look better on most screens. Thoughts: We should have cpsr-newsletter-editors@csli.stanford.edu. Then we wouldn't have to wait for board members to forward stuff to us. We could encourage people to send news releases to this, and post our own newsletters to it. I think it's important to reinforce the idea that what we are doing is publishing. The more we act like publishers, the more we will be treated like publishers by our audience and, if it comes to it some day, by the courts. You might have heard that the FBI doesn't think that the First Amendment applys to electronic media. When I started CPSR/PDX, I didn't think of it as a particularly political act, but I'm beginning to reconsider. I got a call from the Oregon Business Journal about Operation Sun Devil, and I told them what I thought of the FBI's legal thinking, speaking as an electronic publisher. After I hung up the phone, it occurred to me that while I saw little difference between what I did and what any newsletter publisher does, many of the targets of Operation Sun Devil thought they were similarly protected. We have an advantage over these victims of FBI zealotry, in that our "presses" are scattered all over the world, and owned by large, powerful organizations. Consequently, FBI raids on CPSR chapter newletters are fairly impossible, and would be pretty silly to watch: "which of these 'puters did you publish from, cyberpunk?" "Probably 300 different machines across North America, plus machines in Europe and Southeast Asia." However, as a publisher of an electronic newsletter, you can help establish precedents that will safeguard the First Amendment in an electronic era. This might actually be important. My mailit utility: ---- Cut here ---- #! /bin/csh -f # send mail to list of people # erikn 12/10/90 # syntax errors if ("$1" == "") then goto syntax endif if ("$1" == "-h") then goto syntax endif # options set namesfile set mailfile set subject = message while ("$1" != "") switch ($1) case "-n": set namesfile = "$2" shift breaksw case "-s": set subject = "$2" shift breaksw case "-*": goto syntax default: set mailfile = "$1" shift breaksw endsw if ("$1" != "") then shift endif end if ("$mailfile" == "") then goto syntax endif set names = `cat $namesfile` foreach i ($names) echo $i # some mailers like the commented-out line # mail $i -body $mailfile -subject $subject mail -subject "$subject" $i < $mailfile end exit syntax: echo " mailit: mail a message to a bunch of people" echo " " echo " mailit [-n ] [-s ] " echo " " echo " names to send message to" echo " text subject of message" echo " message to send" echo " " #-end- From <@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET> Wed Aug 2 12:35:05 1995 Return-Path: <<@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET>> Received: from plearn.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA01242; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:34:39 +0200 Message-Id: <199508021034.MAA01242@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLEARN.EDU.PL by plearn.edu.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 9221; Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:37:48 CET Received: from PLWATU21.BITNET (NJE origin WACNIE@PLWATU21) by PLEARN.EDU.PL (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2495; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:37:47 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:45 CET To: "Stowarzysz. Lacznosci Komputerowej" From: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" Subject: Bazowe dane o ELectronic Journal on Virtual Culture Przesylam komunikat powitalny forum EJVC - jest to krotsza rzecz niz kazdy z dzis poslanych artykulow, ale chyba niezbedna. Zawiera dane o ludziach i instytucji znanej w sieci z publikowania spisu list dyskusyjnych przydatnych dla swiata akademickiego (juz od 3 lat chyba). Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz. i CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:08:09 EDT Reply-To: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture Sender: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture From: "Diane K. Kovacs EIC" Subject: Subscriber Information Revised. Comments: To: ejvc-l@KENTVM.KENT.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list EJVC-L Dear Networker, Your subscription to the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ (EJVC) has been accepted. Please read and save this memo as it contains useful information about submitting articles to and receiving EJVC. For assistance please contact Diane Kovacs - Editor- in-Chief ejvcedit@kentvm.kent.edu The following topics are covered in this email message: ______________________________________________ 1. EJVC: Basic Facts and Philosophy 2. Archiving & Retrieval & Subscription (email, ftp, Gopher and World Wide Web) 3. Submission Procedures and Author Guidelines 4. Copyright Statement 5. The Editorial Board ____________________________________ 1. EJVC: Basic Facts and Philosophy ____________________________________ EJVC is a quarterly peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to scholarly research and discussion of all aspects of computer-mediated human experience, behavior, action, and interaction. 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The Editorial Board ______________________ EDITORIAL BOARD EJVC Founders Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Editor-in-Chief ejvcedit@kentvm.Kent.edu Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Co-Editor M034050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Editor, _The Cyberspace Monitor_ Karen McComas, Marshall University psy003@marshall.wvnet.edu Editor, _Virtual Square_ James Shimabukuro, University of Hawaii jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Editorial Assistant Emily Tidball, Kent State University ejvcedit@kentvm.kent.edu Consulting Editors Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology ab45@prism.gatech.edu Patrick (Pat) Conner, West Virginia University u47c2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Skip Coppola, Applied Logic Labs skip@applogic.atlanta.com Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason University cfuchs@VMS1.GMU.EDU Edward M. 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Rosenberg, University of Kentucky MROSE01@UKCC.uky.edu Laverna Saunders, Salem State College lsaunders@mecn.mass.edu David Sewell, University of Rochester dsew@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU Leslie Regan Shade, McGill University shade@well.com James Shimabukuro, University of Hawaii jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Christinger (Chris) Tomer, University of Pittsburgh ctomer@vms.cis.pitt.edu or ctomer+@pitt.edu Bob Zenhausern, St. Johns University drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu or drz@sjuvm.bitnet From <@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET> Wed Aug 2 12:46:01 1995 Return-Path: <<@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET>> Received: from plearn.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id MAA01976; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:45:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199508021045.MAA01976@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLEARN.EDU.PL by plearn.edu.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 5964; Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:50:28 CET Received: from PLWATU21.BITNET (NJE origin WACNIE@PLWATU21) by PLEARN.EDU.PL (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2668; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 12:50:28 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 12:58 CET To: "Stowarzysz. Lacznosci Komputerowej" From: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" Subject: Przyszlosc Internetu w najbl. 10-latach (wg. EJVC-l) Oto probka zawartosci - niedluga (tylko wskazuje materialow paczke) akurat zestaw opinii co do przyszlosci Internetu <= 2005 r. Moze ten material zacheci do siegania po/ zapisanie sie na to forum? Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz. & CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:28:27 EST Reply-To: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture Sender: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture From: "Diane K. Kovacs Editor-in-Chief" Subject: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, Volume 3 Issue 1. Contents Comments: To: ejvc-l@KENTVM.KENT.EDU, IRVC-l@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu To: Multiple recipients of list EJVC-L Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture ________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 February 5, 1995 Volume 3 Number 1 EJVCV3N1 CONTENTS This entire issue is available as EJVCV3N1 PACKAGE Table of Contents _____________________________________________________________ VIRTUAL SQUARE Jim Shimabukura, Editor JamesS@UHunix.UHcc.Hawaii.edu _____________________________________________________________ The Internet in Ten Years: What Is Your Prediction? (Available as SQARV3N1.FUTURE, 2,973 lines) Contents: Virtual Communication in 2004: Caught in the 'Net by Ed Klonoski The Internet in 2005: Freenet or Censornet? by Patrick Bryce Bjork, Ph.D. December 24, 2005--A Virtual Christmas Party by Janice R. Walker The Internet and Classroom-Free Instruction by Dr. Brian R. Shmaefsky Taking the I-Way to the Year 2005 by Marilyn K. Simon Three Previews of Coming Attractions by Storm A. King The Internet in Ten Years: My Predictions by Frank James The Internet As a Tool for Survey Research by Michael N. Bagley Communicating in Cyberspace: Musings on Gender Roles, Intellectual Property Rights, Aesthetics, and Critical Methodologies by Marla Mayerson Vision Direction: Presence and Persistence in a Rampaging Info-Structure by Robert Mason Data Terrorists and Hot Links by Michael Deslippe Total, Global Communication by David Wasserman _____________________________________________________________ THE CYBERSPACE MONITOR Karen McComas, Editor mccomas@marshall.edu _____________________________________________________________ (Available as EJVCV3N1 MONITOR, 954 lines) Table of Contents 1. Articles + Print Journals: Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? + Beyond E-Mail: Electronic Journals 2. Book Review + Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library 3. Events + Community in Cyberspace: The Emerging Law of Technology + Technologies of Freedom: State of the Nation 4. Journals + Standpoints: The Electronic Journal of Information Contexts + Journal of Electronic Publishing + New Electronic Digest About Out-of-Copyright Works 5. Net Resources + EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES LIST AND DATABASE + Five Year Index to The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1990-1994) The Cyberspace Monitor is devoted to news, announcements and product reviews. _________________________________ Articles and Sections of this issue of the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ may be retrieved via gopher to refmac.kent.edu 70 or via anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu or via e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (instructions below) or GOPHER refmac.kent.edu Papers may be submitted at anytime by email or send/file to: Diane K. 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The message must read: GET EJVCV2N2 CONTENTS Use this file to identify particular articles or sections then send e-mail to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU with the command: GET where is the name of the article or section (e.g., author name) and is the V#N# of that issue of EJVC _________________________________ _THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON VIRTUAL CULTURE_ ISSN 1068-5327 EDITORIAL BOARD EJVC Founders Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Editor-in-Chief ejvcedit@kentvm.Kent.edu Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Co-Editor M034050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Editor, _The Cyberspace Monitor_ Karen McComas, Marshall University psy003@marshall.wvnet.edu Editor, _Virtual Square_ James Shimabukuro, University of Hawaii jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Editorial Assistant Emily Tidball, Kent State University ejvcedit@kentvm.kent.edu Consulting Editors Anne Balsamo, Georgia Institute of Technology ab45@prism.gatech.edu Patrick (Pat) Conner, West Virginia University u47c2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU Skip Coppola, Applied Technology, Inc. skip%aptech@bagend.atl.ga.us Cynthia J. Fuchs, George Mason University cfuchs@VMS1.GMU.EDU Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk Edward M. (Ted) Jennings, University at Albany, SUNY jennings@albany.edu Michael Joyce, Vassar MIJOYCE@vaxsar.vassar.edu Jay Lemke, City University of New York JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Carl Eugene Loeffler, Carnegie Mellon University cel+@andrew.cmu.edu Willard McCarty, University of Toronto editor@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA James (Jim) Milles, Saint Louis University millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu Algirdas Pakstas, Adger College, Norway a.pakstas@ieee.org A. Ralph Papakhian, Indiana University PAPAKHI@@IUBVM Bernie Sloan, University of Illinois, Champaign AXPBBGS@UICVMC.BITNET or b-sloan@uiuc.edu Allucquere Roseanne Stone, University of Texas, Austin success@emc.cc.utexas.edu Kali Tal, Viet Nam Generation kali@access.digex.com Associate Editors Robert J. (Bob) Beebe, Youngstown State University ad219@yfn.ysu.edu Kathleen Burnett, Rutgers University kburnett@gandalf.rutgers.edu G. Phillip Cartwight, University of California, Davis PCARTWRI@KENTVM.KENT.EDU Paulo A. Dasilva, Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil S9PAULO@IMERJ.BITNET Jill Ellsworth, Southwest Texas State University je01@swtexas Jan George Frajkor, Carleton University, Canada gfrajkor@ccs.carleton.ca Lee Hancock, The University of Kansas Medical Center Le07144@ukanvm Mary Hocks, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne mhocks@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Steven Hodas, University of Washington hhll@u.washington.edu Nancy Kaplan, University of Baltimmore NAKAPLAN@UBmail.ubalt.edu Brendan Kehoe, Cygnus Support bk@well.sf.ca.us Joan Korenman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu or korenman@umbc Steven D. 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Rosenberg, University of Kentucky MROSE01@UKCC.uky.edu Laverna Saunders, Salem State College lsaunders@mecn.mass.edu David Sewell, University of Rochester dsew@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU Leslie Regan Shade, McGill University shade@Ice.cc.mcgill.ca James Shimabukuro, University of Hawaii jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Christinger (Chris) Tomer, University of Pittsburgh ctomer@vms.cis.pitt.edu or ctomer+@pitt.edu Bob Zenhausern, St. Johns University drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu or drz@sjuvm.bitnet From <@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET> Wed Aug 2 13:01:07 1995 Return-Path: <<@plearn.edu.pl:WACNIE@PLWATU21.BITNET>> Received: from plearn.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id NAA02557; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:01:00 +0200 Message-Id: <199508021101.NAA02557@polonez.man.lodz.pl> Received: from PLEARN.EDU.PL by plearn.edu.pl (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 1237; Wed, 02 Aug 95 13:05:33 CET Received: from PLWATU21.BITNET (NJE origin WACNIE@PLWATU21) by PLEARN.EDU.PL (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2815; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:05:33 +0200 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 95 13:13 CET To: "Stowarzysz. Lacznosci Komputerowej" From: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" Subject: Spis l. dysk. przydatn. w swiecie akadem. i nie tylko (z EJVC-l) Ponizej uzyteczne zrodlo dla edukacji wlasnej i znajomych - sporzadzone przez zespol EJVC z Kent State Univ. Godne polecenia, kazdy sieciowiec kiedys czegos tego typu musi potrzebowac. Waclaw P. Nieuwazny (wacnie@plwatu21.bitnet) BG PWarsz. & CW Polska -------------------------Text-of-forwarded-mail-------------------------------- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 95 18:24 CET To: WACNIE From: LISTSERV@KENTVM.BITNET Comment: converted from NETDATA format at PLWATU21 Copyright 1995 by Diane K. Kovacs and The Directory Team. Single copies of this directory from its networked sources, or of specific entries from their networked sources, may be made for internal purposes, personal use, or study by an individual, an individual library, or an educational or research institution. The Association of Research Libraries has sole right to produce a print edition. The directory or its contents may not be otherwise reproduced or republished in excerpt or entirety, in print or electronic form, without permission from Diane K. Kovacs diane@kovacs.com ____________________________________ 9th Revision Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences ____________________________________ Contents: 1. Scope of the Directory 2. The Directory Team 3. Acknowledgements 4. How to Access or Retrieve the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. 5. Generic Subscription Instructions 6. Generic Archives Access Instructions ****** 1. Scope of the Directory ****** This directory contains descriptions of electronic conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars. E-conference is the umbrella term that includes discussion lists, Internet interest groups, e-journals, e-newsletters, Usenet newsgroups, forums, etc. In this 9th revision we have begun including text based virtual reality systems known as MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, etc. that are primarily for scholarly or pedagogical activities. The e-conferences in this Directory are all accessible via Internet services including email, telnet, gopher, or www. We have used our own judgment in deciding what is of scholarly interest, but always consider any advice or argument about our decisions. We have placed the entries into categories by deciding the *dominant* academic subject area of the electronic conference. Where possible, the information in each record has been checked for currency and accuracy by contacting the moderators or other contact person. We chose the term *moderator* as the umbrella term to describe: contact person, coordinator, listowner, editor, moderator, etc.; in other words the Human in Charge. Topic descriptions are taken in whole or part from the descriptions provided by each moderator. ********** 2. The Directory Team: ********** Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief diane@kovacs.com *Education *Ecology and Environmental Studies *History *Humanities (Comparative & Interdisciplinary) *Jobs, Employment, Placement Services and Programs *Languages *Law, Criminology, Justice *Linguistics and Text Analysis *Literature *Writing Michael Kovacs Co-Editor-in-Chief michael@kovacs.com *Computer Science Leela Balraj lbalraj@kentvm.kent.edu *Biological and Medical Sciences Gladys Bell gbell@kentvm.kent.edu *Anthropology and Archaeology *Geography and Misc.Regional and Individual Country Studies *Latin American Studies *Social Activism *Sociology and Demography Paul Fehrmann pfehrman@kentvm.kent.edu *Philosophy and Ethics *Psychology Martha Fleming mkflemin@CC.YSU.EDU *Communication Studies *Journalism *Religious Studies Leslie Haas lhaas@kentvm.kent.edu *Political Science and Politics *Business *Economics *Human Resources and Industrial Psychology Lydia Gamble lgamble@kentvm.kent.edu *Physical Sciences FILE*(except Chemistry Meteorology and Physics) Kara Robinson krobinso@kentvm.kent.edu *Art, Architecture and Urban Design *Library and Information Science *Music *Physical Education Recreation and Dance *Popular Culture *Publishing and Related Issues *Theater, Film and Television Raghini Suresh rsuresh@kentvm.kent.edu *Chemistry *Physics *Weather and Meteorology Dennis Viehland d.viehland@massey.ac.nz *Information Systems ****** 3. Acknowledgements ****** Thank you to Marty Hoag, Listowner of New-List for providing the archives of New-List as a clearing house for much of the email based discussion list information. Special thank you to David Hartland. NISP/Mailbase Project, Computing Service, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne for information on 235 of the United Kingdom MAILBASE e-conferences. Thank you also to Teri Harrison for updating and providing information on the COMSERVE conferences, Pedro Saizar for providing information on Latin American Studies electronic conferences, Joseph Van Zwaren for Israeli electronic conference information, and Joan Korenman for information on Women's Studies conferences, Jean Schneider for confirming european e-conferences. Thank you very sincerely to all the individuals who contributed conference names, information and feedback about conference statuses. Any errors are the responsibility of the compilers of each section. If you can provide corrections or additional information about any of these electronic conferences, please contact the Directory Team member responsible for that area or: Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief dkovacs@mcs.kent.edu ********** 4. How to access or retrieve the Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences ********** WWW Homepage: Soon to be announced Gopher access: University of Saskatchewan Contact: Earl Fogel earl.fogel@usask.ca gopher://gopher.usask.ca/11/Computing/Internet Information/Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides Contact: Lou Rosenfeld lou@umich.edu gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/1/inetdirs How to retrieve files from the LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU 1. Send an email message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU. 2. Leave the subject and other info lines blank. 3. The message must read: GET Filename Filetype f=mail (e.g., ACADLIST FILE1 or ACADSTAC HQX or whatever) 4. If you need assistance receiving, etc. contact your local Computer Services people How to retreive files via anonymous FTP to zeus.kent.edu 1. type: ftp zeus.kent.edu at your dollar sign prompt (VAX) your shell prompt (Unix) or ready screen (IBM VM). If you are on another kind of system consult with your computer services people to find out the proper procedure. 2. when prompted for 'USERID,' type anonymous 3. Your password will be your actual userid on your local machine. 4. Type: cd library/acadlist 5. Type: get Filename.Filetype (see Files Available below) 6. The files will be transferred directly into the directory you ftp'ed from. Files Available ______________ ACADLIST.ACTIVIST=Social Activism ACADLIST.ANTHRO =Anthropology, Cross Cultural Studies, and Archaeology ACADLIST.ART =Art, Architecture and Urban Design ACADLIST.ASTRONOM=Astronomy ACADLIST.BIOLOGY =Genetics, General Biology/Biophysics /Biochemistry ACADLIST.BOTANY =Botany/Horticulture ACADLIST.BUSECON =Business, Accounting, Finance, and Marketing and =Economics ACADLIST.CHEMIST =Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Research ACADLIST.COMMJOUR=Communication and =Journalism ACADLIST.COMPENG =Computer Engineering, Software Engineering ACADLIST.COMPSEC =Computer Security ACADLIST.COMPRES =Computer Science Research: Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Virtual Reality ACADLIST.COMPSTD =Computer Science Research: Computer Standards (Official and De Facto) ACADLIST.COMPACAD=Computer Science Research: General Academic ACADLIST.COMPNET =Computer Systems: Network Administration ACADLIST.COMPADMN=Computer Systems: System Administration ACADLIST.COMPTRNG=Computer Systems: Training and User Support ACADLIST.COMPMISC=Miscellaneous Computer-Related ACADLIST.COMPPRGM=Programming Languages and Programming ACADLIST.COMPSOFT=Public Domain and Publically Supported Software ACADLIST.COMPSOC =Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Computing ACADLIST.EDTECH =Education: Computer Assisted Instruction/Educational Technology ACADLIST.EDRES =Education: Educational Research (general), Grants and Funding ACADLIST.EDHIGHER=Education: Higher, Adult and Continuing Education ACADLIST.EDK12 =Education: Primary, Secondary (K-12), Vocational and Technical ACADLIST.EDMISC =Education: Miscellaneous Education, Alumni and Student Groups ACADLIST.EDSPEC =Education: Special Education, Developmental Disabilities, Physical Disabilities and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) ACADLIST.ENGINEER=Engineering and Technology General and =Transporation Engineering ACADLIST.FUTURE =Futurology/Future Studies ACADLIST.ENVIRON =Ecology and Environmental Studies ACADLIST.GEOGRAPH=Geography and Miscellaneous Regional and Individual Country Studies ACADLIST.GEOLOGY =Geology and Paleontology ACADLIST.HISTORY =History ACADLIST.HUMGEN =Humanities (Comparative & Interdisciplinary) ACADLIST.INFORETR=Information Retrieval ACADLIST.INFOSYS =Information Systems ACADLIST.INTERNET=Internet Tools and Resources ACADLIST.JOBS =Jobs, Employment, Placement Services and Programs ACADLIST.LABOR =Human Resources and Industrial Psychology ACADLIST.LANG =Languages ACADLIST.LATAM =Latin American Studies ACADLIST.LAW =Law, Criminology, Justice ACADLIST.LIBRARY =Library and Information Science ACADLIST.LING =Linguistics and Text Analysis ACADLIST.LIT =Literature ACADLIST.MATH =Mathematics and Statistics ACADLIST.MEDICAL =Medical Practice/Nursing/Medical Personnel/Patients and =Medical Sciences/Research ACADLIST.METEOR =Weather and Meteorology ACADLIST.MUSIC =Music ACADLIST.PERD =Physical Education, Recreation and Dance ACADLIST.PHILOS =Philosophy and Ethics ACADLIST.PHYSICS =Physics ACADLIST.POLITICS=Political Science and Politics ACADLIST.POPULAR =Theater, Film and Television and =Popular Culture ACADLIST.PSYCH =Psychology and Psychiatry ACADLIST.PUBLISH =Publishing and Related Issues ACADLIST.RELIG =Religious Studies ACADLIST.SCIENCE =Science and Technology (Miscellaneous) ACADLIST.SOCIOLOG=Sociology and Demography ACADLIST.VETZOO =Agriculture, Veterinary Science and Zoology ACADLIST.WOMEN =Women's Studies/Gender Studies ACADLIST.WRITE =Writing ********** 5. Subscription Instructions: ********** To subscribe to a LISTSERV (both Unix and IBM/VM LSOFT LISTSERV software is in use) COMSERVE, LISTPROC, MAILBASE, MAILSERV, or MAJORDOMO email distributed e- conference send an email message addressed to the email address provided in the "Subscription Address" field. Leave the subject line blank. The text of the message *must* read: SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME Yourfirstname Yourlastname Your Institution (LISTNAME means the name of the list..e.g. if the List Name field says LIBREF-L..the LISTNAME is LIBREF-L) Do not include any other text and *leave the subject line blank* as this is being read by a computer program and not a person....the program just won't understand and will bounce back your command if it is not worded as specified above. To subscribe to e-conferences with a -REQUEST address, send an email message to list-REQUEST@host (e.g., SOC- CULTURE-GREEK-REQUEST@CS.WISC.EDU). The -REQUEST address gets you to the Coordinator, rather than to the membership of the entire e-conference. Please look carefully at the entry for each list you are interested in, to see if a -REQUEST address has been provided. Include your name, address, and institutional affiliation in your message Usenet Newsgroups are generally accessed by typing "RN" or "NN" at the shell prompt, ready screen or $ prompt on your email account. Check with your Computer Services People to find out what the local availability and procedures are for access to Usenet Newsgroups. Subscription directions for other types of discussions are included with individual entries. ********** 6. Archives Access ********** Archives are available for many discussions. On LISTSERV, COMSERVE, MAILSERV and MAILBASE to receive a list of files available from a server send the command: INDEX LISTNAME to SERVER@NODEID You can then send the message: GET Filename Filetype to the SERVER@NODEID. (SERVER means LISTSERV or COMSERVE or MAILBASE or MAILSERV or whatever, NODEID means the site of the server which runs the e-conference) It is also possible to search Bitnet LISTSERV and COMSERVE discussion archives for items of particular interest to you. For details on archives searching: For LISTSERV send the message INFO DATABASE to a LISTSERV of your choice. (e.g. LISTSERV@PSUVM) For COMSERVE send the message HELPFILE to COMSERVE@RPIECS Some discussions maintain archives available via anonymous FTP. This is noted where available. Some archives are maintained on other types of Internet server, e.g. GOPHER and WWW. Use the URL provided to connect to those archive sites. ------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 1995 by Diane K. Kovacs and The Directory Team From mcar@idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl Wed Aug 2 13:58:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from cocos.fuw.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id NAA04048; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:58:35 +0200 Received: from idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl (gw-ids.fuw.edu.pl) by cocos.fuw.edu.pl (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA18289; Wed, 2 Aug 95 14:00:28 +0200 Received: from term8.waw.ids.edu.pl by idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AC12193; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:59:18 --100 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 13:59:18 --100 Message-Id: <9508021159.AC12193@idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl> X-Sender: mcar@idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: mcar@idsserv.waw.ids.edu.pl (Marek Car) Subject: Re: Konferencja "Internet w Polsce" Content-Length: 493 >Moze w tym wypadku rzeczywiscie nalezaloby jak najszybciej wyslac >delegatow PSI oplaconych z naszych skladek Nie ma takiej potrzeby. Wystepujacy jako prelegenci czlonkowie PSI nie ponosza oplat rejestracyjnych. Nie bedziemy tez placic za ew. stoisko PSI i za jego obsluge. ----- > To pozwoliloby zaczac normalne funkcjonowanie struktur Stowarzyszenia. Od dluzszego czasu i Maciek, i ja piszemy o pilnej potrzebie ... Marek From gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl Wed Aug 2 14:35:44 1995 Return-Path: Received: from hozavx by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id OAA05218; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 14:35:41 +0200 From: gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl Received: by hozavx.fuw.edu.pl (MX V3.0) id 13470; Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:38:37 CET Sender: Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:38:32 CET To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Message-ID: <0099446E.1AF0A440.13470@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl> Subject: Mozna zostac beta-testerem ciekawego S/w From: MX%"jpeizer@sorosny.org" 25-JUL-1995 02:32:23.95 To: GAJEWSKI CC: Subj: Beta testers wanted, AIRNET City Server Return-Path: Received: from uu2.psi.com by hozavx (MX V3.0) with SMTP; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 02:32:19 CET Received: by uu2.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.940727-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA26755 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 95 19:58:28 -0400 Received: from cc:Mail by soros.sorosny.org id AA806628266 Mon, 24 Jul 95 16:24:26 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 16:24:26 From: "jpeizer" Message-ID: <9506248066.AA806628266@soros.sorosny.org> To: automation@soros.org CC: gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl Subject: Beta testers wanted, AIRNET City Server > Return to Homepage > > Beta Site Program > > Inficom is looking for qualified individuals and companies to evaluate > our new Infilink.City adapter. If you are familiar with any of the > following operating systems: Netware 3.x, 4.x, Windows for Workgroups > 3.11, Windows NT Advanced Server 3.5, UNIX, and have experience with > hardware setup and configuration, you may qualify as a beta site. We > expect to ship the initial Infilink.City beta adapters in 6 months. > Call us at 1-206-865-9753 for information, or e-mail us at > inficom@inficom.seanet.com. Also see the spec sheet for more details > on Infilink.City. > >AIRNET(TM): technology for the "Information Skyway" > >//Inficom Inc. has filed a patent application to protect its >AIRNET Technology. Inficom believes AIRNET will >revolutionize the Long Distance Wireless Data Networking >industry. Current wireless technology can at best work >within the confines of a building. AIRNET Technology will >be the enabling technology that provides wireless data >networking between cities.// > > (2,180 chars; 379 words; 56 lines) (PR) > >SEATTLE, WASH., USA (Press Release, 7. 6. 95) -- >Today Inficom, Inc. filed a patent application to protect its >AIRNET Technology. Inficom believes AIRNET will >revolutionize the Long Distance Wireless Data Networking >industry. Current wireless technology can at best work >within the confines of a building. AIRNET Technology will >be the enabling technology that provides wireless data >networking between cities. > >Before AIRNET the long distance networking market has >been a market without a product. Over 20 million mobile >computer users are clamoring to connect to their offices. >In addition over 30 Million World Wide Internet users >would like to connect at higher speeds. They are faced >with hard to access, slow phone lines or slow, expensive >cellular connections. > >Inficom plans to introduce its product line based on >AIRNET Technology in early 1996. The Infilink product >family will initially include: Infilink.One for a range of one >mile with a data rate of 1MBPS Infilink.City for a range of >ten miles with a data rate of 25.6MBPS Infilink products >are compatible with the ATM standard and require no FCC >license. Pricing was not available at press time. > >For the technologically curious AIRNET (Adaptive >Interferometric Radio Network Enhancement Technology) >combines and miniaturizes three technologies; Lock-in >Radio detection, RAPID Processing and Digital AM radio. >AIRNET Technology begins by generating a phase aligned >Radio signal and then locks on to this signal using Lock-in >Radio detection. RAPID processing is then used to stay >locked on to the signal with over 16 billion operations per >second. The data is then transmitted using Digital AM >radio. AIRNET Technology is said to provide the potential >for a signal-to-noise ratio of over 100dB. This is over >100,000 times more selective than existing radio >technologies. > >(Press Release/Press & Reader Contact: Inficom Inc., >William Newell, 645 Southcenter, Suite 343, Seattle, WA >98188-2836, USA, Tel.: +1 206 8659753, Fax: +1 206 >5626066, e-mail: inficom@inficom.seanet.com, WWW: >http://www.seanet.com/HTML/Vendors/inficom/) > >This material is copyrighted and may >not be re-distributed or re-published >without permission from the originator. >For further details contact >ITNS, IntelliTech s.r.o. >sslatem@it.anet.cz >http://info.eunet.cz/itcysi/ > > > > Infilink.City.Serv > > Specifications > > Performance > > Range: 10 Miles or greater > Speed: 155 MBPS aggregate, 25.6 MBPS maximum per channel > Signal-to-Noise Ratio: >100dB > Signal Power: 100mW maximum > Connection Time: 1 Second Average > Frame Drop out rate: < .001% > Security: Meets or exceeds US DOD Specifications > Power Consumption: 15 watts Maximum > > Network Compatibility * > > Network Protocol: ATM 3.0 Compliant > OS Support: NetWare 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, Personal NetWare Windows for > Workgroups, LANManager, LANtastic UNIX > * Requires Infilink.City.Work or Infilink.City.Serv for connection > > Radio > > Frequency Band: ISM (Industrial Scientific and Military) > Radio Technology: AIRNET (Adaptive Interferometric Radio Network > Enhancement Technology) * Patent Pending > Independent channels: >1000 > Signal Power: 100mW maximum > > Computer Interface > > Desktop Server: SCSI-2 FAST interface card via ALT-2 connector > Mobile Server: SCSI-2 FAST interface via PCMCIA connector > SCSI Drivers: ASPI compliant > > Environmental > > Dimensions: 7.25*5*4 [18.4cm*12.7cm*10.2cm] (Length, Width, Height) > > Weight: 19 oz [0.54 kg] > Operating Temperature: -10 0C to 40 0C > Acceptable Humidity: 90% Non-Condensing > Shock: Nonoperating: 400 gs [3923 ms-2] Operating: 150 gs [1471 > ms-2] > > Other > > Warranty: 1 year parts and labor > Specifications subject to change without notice. AIRNET and Infilink > are trademarks of Inficom, Inc. > From RAJ@inf.wsp.krakow.pl Wed Aug 2 21:13:35 1995 Return-Path: Received: from nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id VAA17580; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:13:35 +0200 Received: from inf.wsp.krakow.pl (inf.wsp.krakow.pl [149.156.24.10]) by nms.cyf-kr.edu.pl (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id VAA17740; Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:15:39 +0200 Received: from INF/~MAIL~ by inf.wsp.krakow.pl (Mercury 1.12); Wed, 2 Aug 95 21:12:13 +0200 Received: from ~MAIL~ by INF (Mercury 1.12); Wed, 2 Aug 95 21:12:11 +0200 From: "Jaroslaw Rafa" Organization: Zaklad Informatyki WSP, Krakow To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl, psi-l@us.edu.pl Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 21:12:02 +0200 Subject: Jestem off-line Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.21 Message-ID: <6B679A65E0D@inf.wsp.krakow.pl> Niniejszym informuje wszystkich uczestnikow listy (gdyby ktos mial jakas sprawe do mnie personalnie), ze z powodu wyjazdu w sprawach rodzinnych bede nieobecny od jutra tzn. 3 VIII do ok. 15-20 VIII. Przepraszam za ewentualne "autoreply'e" jakie mozecie dostac ode mnie na skutek waszych postingow wysylanych na liste: nie chce sie wypisywac z listy, a mercurego (przynajmniej wersji ktora mam zainstalowana) nie da sie ustawic tak aby generujac autoreply ignorowal przesylki z list dyskusyjnych. Na szczescie program wysyla autoreply pod dany adres tylko raz na 48 godzin... Pozdrowienia, Jaroslaw Rafa sfrafa@cyf-kr.edu.pl, raj@inf.wsp.krakow.pl From lbs@phys.ufl.edu Sat Aug 5 09:38:07 1995 Return-Path: Received: from neptune.phys.ufl.edu by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id JAA19172; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 09:38:03 +0200 Received: (from lbs@localhost) by neptune.phys.ufl.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) id DAA15888 for isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 03:40:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 03:40:15 -0400 From: Lech Borkowski Message-Id: <199508050740.DAA15888@neptune.phys.ufl.edu> To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl Subject: Internet & Computer Law Association Content-Length: 1035 Byc moze niektorych z was zainteresuje Internet & Computer Law Association http://grove.ufl.edu/~cmplaw/ Jest to organizacja studencka studentow prawa University of Florida. Jest tam kilka przydatnych odnosnikow do roznych archiwow i kilka ciekawych artykulow. We wstepie do jednego z nich autor pisze --- Copyright c1995 by Randy B. Singer. All Rights Reserved. This copy for personal use only. 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(Can you tell a lawyer wrote this?) --- Lech Borkowski From gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl Thu Aug 17 09:11:37 1995 Return-Path: Received: from hozavx by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id JAA17170; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:11:35 +0200 From: gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl Received: by hozavx.fuw.edu.pl (MX V3.0) id 15987; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:13:11 CET Sender: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 09:03:42 CET To: Wojtek.Bogusz@fuw.edu.pl, Michal.Jankowski@fuw.edu.pl, Mariusz.Kacprzak@fuw.edu.pl, Kacper.Nowicki@fuw.edu.pl, Marcin.Gromisz@fuw.edu.pl, fdl50@plearn.edu.pl, bozena@frodo.nask.org.pl, mko@camk.edu.pl, oper@frodo.nask.org.pl, fdl54@plearn.edu.pl, jgorazin@kbn.gov.pl, coitrog@coi.pw.edu.pl, R.Adamiec@coi.pw.edu.pl, darek@frodo.nask.org.pl, wiktor@frodo.nask.org.pl, gajewski@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl, rzecznik@frodo.nask.org.pl, naskadm@frodo.nask.org.pl, maria@frodo.nask.org.pl, chris@frodo.nask.org.pl, md@fuw.edu.pl, magda@fuw.edu.pl, maciek@frodo.nask.org.pl, mariaz@frodo.nask.org.pl, marias@frodo.nask.org.pl, jacekk@frodo.nask.org.pl, jacek@frodo.nask.org.pl, robert@frodo.nask.org.pl, tadek@frodo.nask.org.pl, tbien@frodo.nask.org.pl, renata@frodo.nask.org.pl, irek@frodo.nask.org.pl, lukasz@frodo.nask.org.pl, jurek@frodo.nask.org.pl, krzysiek@frodo.nask.org.pl, mirek@frodo.nask.org.pl, andrzej@frodo.nask.org.pl, mk@coi.pw.edu.pl, pwr@warman.org.pl, ania@frodo.nask.org.pl, isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl, ids-technic@waw.ids.edu.pl, apogorze@urm.gov.pl, nask@plearn.edu.pl, polip@man.lodz.pl Message-ID: <00995008.D0ABA280.15987@hozavx.fuw.edu.pl> Subject: Workshop WWW Drodzy polscy Web-masterzy, Istnieje mozliwosc podniesienia swoich kwalifikacji poprzez udzial w workshopie WWW organizowanym przez TERENA w Budapeszcie. Zainteresowani proszeni sa o wyslanie swojego zgloszenia i kopii do mnie na adres . Priorytet beda mieli Web-masterzy prowadzacy serwisy ogolnopolskie. Jacek Gajewski Insight Project Country Coordinator PS. Prosze o przekazanie niniejszego mailu innym znanym Wam Web-masterom prowadzacym ciekawe serwisy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT OF WWW WORKSHOP AND CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR FELLOWSHIPS. ********************************************************** TERENA is happy to announce the: NATO Advanced Networking Workshop On World Wide Web, in collaboration with the INSIGHT COPERNICUS Project The Workshop will take place from 16 till 18 November in Budapest, Hungary. The themes of the workshop will be: 1. Producing and maintaining quality documents: - conversion of existing documents - producing good quality documents - providing quality information - multimedia authoring 2. National information infrastructure: - developing national strategies - caching for national/international bandwidth savings - short reports from national representatives 3. Tools and mechanisms for maintaining a service: - gatewaying - caching (tools) - statistics, analysis - optimisation - HyperG - security and encryption - providing a 24x7 service 4. Multilingual information: - providing information in more than one language/character set - searching and indexing non- US-ASCII information - multilingual environment 5. Searching and indexing: - tools - where to find...? - how to provide Also: - ethics or good practice - organizational structure - case studies - copyright and IPR Who should participate: The intention is to provide the technicians, who are already running national, or other important Research and Education related WWW services in CEE countries (webmasters), with additional training on technological developments and guidelines on developing a quality service, and national information infrastructure. Participants will be expected to be proficient in basic WWW technologies and to disseminate the knowledge gained in the course of the Workshop in their respective countries. Participation is strictly by invitation. National INSIGHT Coordinators, coordinators of the NATO Networking Infrastructure Grant No. CN.NIG. 950546 and National R&D networks in other Cooperation Partner countries are invited to propose their candidates for the participation in the Workshop. Available funds will cover the complete expenses for up to 50 participants, including the travel to Budapest. The number of participants per country is limited as well of course. The questionnaire that the candidates should fill out is in the Appendix. The applications should be sent to www-workshop@terena.nl before 20 September. Programme Committee will perform the final selection of the participants. Appendix Application for Admission and financial support for the WWW Workshop, 16 - 18 November, 1995, Budapest A. Personal data FAMILY NAME: Name: Home Address: Home Telephone: Employer: Business Address: Business Telephone: Fax: Telex: E-mail: B. Description of the candidate's role in National Networking Activities in the WWW area 1. A summary of your educational background. 2. A description of your current employer, position, duties and responsibilities and how they relate to current and future data networking activities in your country. 3. Details of work you have done with World-Wide Web.(inculding URLs, where possible). 4. How you expect to implement the knowledge you gain through attendance at the WWW Workshop This information will be used to determine whether to admit a candidate to the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tomaz Kalin TERENA Secretary General Singel 466-468 NL-1017 AW Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 639 1131 Fax: +31 20 639 3289 kalin@terena.nl From boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl Sun Aug 20 15:42:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: from ikp.atm.com.pl by polonez.man.lodz.pl (8.6.10/8.6.10) id PAA17420; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:42:20 +0200 Received: from [157.25.5.193] by ikp.atm.com.pl via SMTP (931110.SGI/940406.SGI) for isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl id AA09047; Sun, 20 Aug 95 15:45:41 +0200 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 15:45:41 +0200 Message-Id: <9508201345.AA09047@ikp.atm.com.pl> X-Sender: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: isoc-pl@man.lodz.pl From: boss1@ikp.atm.com.pl (Wladyslaw Majewski) Subject: materialy EJVC Cc: "Nieuwazny, W., Main Library DP Gro" (ten list napisalem 3 sierpnia i omylkowo pozostawilem niewyslany. Przepraszam, ze komentuje Twoj list po miesiacu.W.) Wacku, dziekuje za serie przedstawionych na liscie materialow. Sa bardzo interesujace. Na przyszlosc chcialbym jednak zaproponowac nieco inna technike rozpowszechniania w takich sytuacjach. Wielu abonentow listy ma ograniczone mozliwosc odbioru, skladowania i sledzenia baaaardzo dlugich materialow, w jakich wysylaniu sie wyspecjalizowales. Lepiej jest wiec wyslac na liste krotkie omowienie i adres www lub ftp, z ktorego kazdy zainteresowany moze pobrac to, czego potrzebuje. W tym przypadku byloby to rozwiazanie lepsze takze z tego wzgledu, iz lista isoc-pl w zasadzie utworzona zostala z mysla o problemach bezposrednio zwiazanych z organizowaniem sie polskiego srodowiska sieciowego, a zwiazek Twoich materialow z tym tematem moze sie niektorym wydac watpliwy. Jesliby wiec tak sie zdarzylo, ze zalew Twoich listow sklonilby lub zmusil wieksza grupe abonentow isoc-pl do wypisania sie z listy, bylaby to pwoazna strata dla jej spolecznego funkcjonowania. Wladyslaw Majewski