Some articles:
1. The latest issue of AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES REVIEW v 39, no 1,
1996 features New Technology and the University.
These short articles include:
Conversational scholarship in cyberspace: the evolution and activities of H-net, the online network for the Humanities (Paul Turnbull);
Languages and multimedia: dream or nightmare (Felix and Askew)
Knowledge workers or threatened species? A comenatary (Linda Heron)
2. Cano, V (1996). "Networked information technologies in academic and research activities: a research agenda".
FID News Bulletin, v 46, iss6, June, pp213-217.
News
1. Project Aristotle(sm)
Automated Categorization of Web Resources
(Mon 12 Aug 1996)
I am pleased to announce the establishment of Project Aristotle(sm),
a clearinghouse or projects and research devoted to the automated
categorization of Web resources. The URL for Project Aristotle(sm) is:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm
For each project, it's name, if known, principal investigator,
project description, and relevant citations are provided. A hotlink
to an available demonstration or prototype is also provided, if
available. Entries are organized alphabetically by the name of the
organization with which the principal investigator is affiliated.
I am greatly interesting in developing this clearinghouse further
and would very much appreciate the name, e-mail and/or URL of similar
projects or investigations.
Presently, I am only interested in projects and prototypes that have
_applied_ filtering systems, text extraction and/or categorization, or
agents, robots or machine learning to the categorization of Web resources.
I am _not_ presently interested in work that reviews these approaches or
technologies in general.
I am particularly interested in current efforts which employ applicable
data discovery and mining approaches to Web categorization.
All additional projects and studies will be integrated within the
Project Aristotle(sm) site after review.
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
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2. _Current Cites_
Volume 7, no. 8
August 1996
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1996/cc96.7.8.html
Contributors:
Campbell Crabtree, Terry Huwe, John Ober,
Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart,
Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
Electronic Publishing
Dietz, Steve & Margaretta Sander. "Unlocking Museum Information
with SGML" Spectra (http://world.std.com/~mcn/): Journal of the
Museum Computer Network 23(4)(Summer 1996): 16-17. -- A concise,
informative introduction to the benefits of applying the SGML
(Standard Generalized Markup Language) standard for electronic
publishing and document management. The article will be a useful
resource for any type of organization considering its document
access needs; the writers cite examples of successful
applications in the museum world for illustration of how SGML can
work in the real world. -- RR
Harter, Stephen P. "The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly
Communication: A Citation Analysis." The Public-Access Computer
Systems Review 7(5) (1996).
(http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n5/hart7n5.html) -- Electronic
journals have been available on the Internet for years, but there
have been few studies on their impact on scholarly communication.
This citation study attempts to answer that key question by
comparing citation statistics of electronic journals begun prior to
1993 with citation statistics of print journals. The author
concludes that "the great majority of scholarly, peer-reviewed
e-journals have had essentially no impact on scholarly
communication in their respective fields," but nonetheless
acknowledges that this is the case partly due to publishing far
fewer articles, in general, then their print counterparts.
Therefore, even though the overall impact of e-journals appears to
be slight, the impact of the typical e-journal article is high. Of
all the e-journals examined in this study, PACS Review (in the
field of library and information science) emerged as the most
successful. -- RT
John, Nancy R. "Putting Content on the Internet: The Library's
Role as Creator of Electronic Information" First Monday 1(2)
(http://www.first.monday.dk) -- The University of Illinois-Chicago
launched a large scale project to offer digital libraries with four
partners, including the Chicago Public Library, the U.S. Department
of State, the Illinois State Archives, and Pemberton Press. The
project is titled the "Great Cities Initiative," and the goal is to
leverage academic library skill in the greater context of the urban
community. Each project varied according to the "content" of the
partner institution, with Illinois-Chicago coordinating the overall
shape of the service. The author reviews the development,
challenges and future prospects of the collaborative venture, which
seem bright. Since launching the project the Illinois-Chicago
library has also become the publisher of an online journal titled
the AIDS Book Review Journal, further evidence of a strong
commitment to digital collections. -- TH
MacEwan, Bonnie, and Mira Geffner. "The Committee on Institutional
Cooperation Electronic Journals Collection (CIC-EJC): A New Model
for Library Management of Scholarly Journals Published on the
Internet" The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7(4) (1996).
(http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n4/mace7n4.html) -- An overview of a
cooperative project to catalog, archive, and provide structured
access to a collection of electronic journals. Access to all titles
is provided by linking to the publisher's site, but they are also
building an archive to serve as a permanent record should the
original be destroyed or discontinued. The Web site provides for
searching and browsing by topic or title. All journals in the
collection are cataloged with standard MARC records that are
distributed to OCLC and member institutions. The URL for each title
is included in the 856 field of the MARC record to facilitate
access from the catalog record. Future plans include a Persistent
URL (PURL) server. -- RT
"The Property of the Mind" The Economist 340 (7976) (July 27 -
August 2, 1996): 57-59.
(http://www.economist.com/issue/27-07-96/wbsf1.html) -- For a
clear look at the challenges facing intellectual property
regulation in a global context, step beyond the U.S. debate and
read this issue's feature article and leader, titled "Copyrights
and Copywrongs" (p. 16). The Economist traces the development of
copyright (Jefferson: "...he who lights his taper at mine
receives light without darkening me") and analyzes the dramatic
changes wrought by digital media. In effect, the Internet is one
big copying machine, some argue, while others wish to hold to the
Jeffersonian high ground. Meanwhile, most Americans (and many
others too) feel that what they do (and digitally replicate) in
the privacy of their own homes is no one else's business. UC
Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson argues that the
attitudes of the public ("Don't Tread On Me") and of publishers
is moving farther apart. Although no strong solutions are in sight,
Esther Dyson thinks original content could be enhanced, or perhaps
publishers could discover new ways to make money from it.
Unregulated recording at Grateful Dead concerts is one example of
this, Netscape's long-lasting giveaway of its browser is another.
-- TH
Stewart, Linda. "User Acceptance of Electronic Journals: Interviews
with Chemists at Cornell University" College and Research Libraries
57(4) (July 1996): 339-349. -- Based on interviews with a group of
students and faculty affiliated with the Cornell University
Chemistry department who participated in a project that loaded the
full text of twenty American Chemical Society (ACS) texts, this
paper explores the potential of electronic journals to accomplish
the scholarly role traditionally associated with printed journals.
Important to participants in the study was ease-of-use and the
ability to browse regardless of the format; most users felt that
printed copies (or at least the ability to create a print copy) was
important and some questioned whether electronic journals would
allow them to discover articles serendipitously or read the
articles in comfort (eyestrain and the awkwardness of reading in
front of a terminal were cited as problems). On the other hand,
participants thought that electronic journals would allow them to
read more complete articles, spend their reading time more
efficiently and read articles sooner. As libraries face the
challenge of choosing between electronic and printed journals, this
article offers an excellent snapshot of how academic users feel
about electronic journals. Also helpful are the footnotes which
cite some important research in this field. -- MP
Multimedia and Hypermedia
Nov'Art [ISSN: 1165-37x] -- This quarterly publication from France
covers a range of issues in new media, usually from a conceptual
or social angle rather than purely technical. The February 1996
issue (118pg), for instance, focused on writing and multimedia;
articles ranged from the role of the artist in new media to the
network blurring the line between spectator and actor. A website
is not listed, however you may contact them via email at:
art3000@Calvanet.Calvacom.fr. -- RR
Networks and Networking
Theme issue of _Computer_ on the U.S. Digital Library Initiative
(May 1996) (http://www.computer.org/pubs/computer/dli/) -- This
special issue covers the six digital library projects funded by
the National Science Foundation. An overview article entitled
"Building Large-Scale Digital Libraries" (by Bruce Schatz and
Hsinchun Chen) leads into articles on each of the six projects
based at U.S. Universities:
Schatz, Bruce, et. al. "Federating Diverse Collections of
Scientific Literature" (University of Illinois)
Wilensky, Robert. "Toward Work-Centered Digital Information
Services" (University of California, Berkeley)
Wactlar, Howard D., et.al. "Intelligent Access to Digital Video:
Informedia Project" (Carnegie Mellon University)
Smith, Terence R. "A Digital Library for Geographically Referenced
Materials" (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Paepcke, Andreas, et. al. "Using Distributed Objects for Digital
Library Interoperability" (Stanford University)
Atkins, Daniel E., et. al. "Toward Inquiry-Based Education
Through Interacting Software Agents" (University of Michigan)
The cutting-edge digital library research reported in these
articles is interesting, but don't hold your breath waiting for
much of it to appear in an application on your desktop. It is,
after all, research, which need not concern itself with
practicalities or products. -- RT
Fleischhauer, Carl. "Access Aids and Interoperability"
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/interop.html), "Digital
Historical Collections: Types, Elements, and Construction"
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/elements.html),"Digital Formats for
Content Reproductions" (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html).
Library of Congress, 1996. -- This trio of Web documents provides
the best source for practical, up-to-date advice on various aspects
of building digital collections that will interoperate well with
other such collections. They were drafted by the Library of
Congress to provide guidelines for organizations competing in the
LC/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, but their
utility goes far beyond that. For anyone who is involved with
creating or managing digital collections, these documents provide
important advice and assistance on some of the key decisions to be
made as well areas of continuing ambiguity. You won't by any means
find all the answers here, but you'll find a few as well as
many of the pertinent questions that must be answered before a true
National Digital Library can be a reality. -- RT
Gardner, Elizabeth. "Keeping Users Hot on Your Site's Trail"
WebWeek 2(6) (May 20, 1996): 48.
(http://www.webweek.com/96May20/undercon/webweaver.html)
-- This article introduces the idea of PURLs or "Persistent
URLs" as a better way of identifying and locating webpages.
URLs of course are dependent on the location of a specific
filename at a specific machine, domain, and directory location.
If any element in that structure changes, the document is as
good as lost to most users, at least until all relevant links
are laboriously updated. OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
proposes to keep the URL's for web documents centrally on a
local PURL server. Then when someone requests the page, the
central PURL server sends them along to the document. This way,
a user merely needs to know which online system a document
resides at, and all updating of URL's happens at the location, by
the people who know best. While this is not quite the nirvana of
each document having a unique identifier which travels with it,
regardless of system, it would be quite an improvement to current
document location systems, especially if PURL Servers could be
networked and updated like newsgroup servers, so one need only ever
find the local World-Wide PURL server to locate any document on the
web. -- RR
Varian, Hal. "Differential Pricing and Efficiency" First Monday
1(2) (http://www.firstmonday.dk) -- Varian, an economist and
Dean at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems,
lays out the reasons why several core economic suppositions are
turned upside down by digital media. Specifically, he argues that
a key market concept--marginal pricing--is not relevant where
digital media allows for increasing returns to scale, large fixed
costs (such as telecommunications infrastructures) or economies of
scope are at play. "Willingness to pay" is an equally important
principle. The solution he argues, lies in differential pricing
that can allow both forces to work in an inter-related fashion.
Economists will enjoy the thorough treatment (with beautifully
rendered graphics of economic formulae), while laymen will be able
to follow Varian's plain English. This is a useful guide to the
economic issues underlying impending commercial uses of the
Internet. -- TH
Wilson, David. L. "Campus 'intranets' Make Information Available to
Some but Not All, Internet Users" Chronicle of Higher Education
62(47) (August 2, 1996): A15-A17. -- Higher education was the
primary launching pad for Internet information systems (along with
the defense industry), but higher education is just beginning to
catch up the corporate sector in the development of "intranets."
Where corporations have moved quickly to implement web-based
internal services that are safe behind firewalls, higher education
has moved more slowly, mainly due its open computing environment.
The author explores several of the issues that arise when colleges
seek to define who should and who should not have access to college
intranets, and some of the technological challenges of distance
learning and remote registration (to name just a couple issues).
There's an interesting discussion of the downstream impact of
choosing proprietary software (like Lotus Notes) over Internet
software; and, according to many quoted, there's plenty of room for
improvement in all the options. -- TH
Information Technology & Society
Reagle, Joseph M., Jr. "Trust in Electronic Markets: The
Convergence of Cryptopgraphers and Economists" First Monday 1(2)
(http://www.firstmonday.dk) -- This is one of those studies that
skillfully summarizes a tried-and-true "real world" function: the
social and technical infrastructure of commerce, and then explores
the impact of cyberspace on the status quo. Reagle poses the
question of what is to be done in cyberspace, where none of the
stanchions of secure financial transactions have been fully worked
out; clearly, it's not an area that can be safely left in the hands
of either cryptographer or economists, when we all have a stake in
the outcome. It's a fascinating article, for two reasons. First,
Reagle lays out the things we take for granted, such as
check-writing, security and deposits, and so on, reducing this
universally accepted system to its most basic definition: it's just
information. Second, Reagle writes speculatively about how to
transfer (or perhaps better said, invent) a similar system in
cyberspace. You may not agree with some of the ideas (how about
buying this nice "Digital Bearer Bond?"), but the analysis is
cross-disciplinary, and grounded in an understanding of both
society and human nature, and technology. -- TH
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From: Amy Friedlander ]], will be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Coordinator, Science and Technology Section
Iowa State University
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6. Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS: VOLUME 47, NUMBER 10
OCTOBER 1996
CONTENTS
IN THIS ISSUE
Bert R. Boyce
729
RESEARCH
Source-Item Production Laws for the Case That Items Have Multiple
Sources with Fractional Counting of Credits
L. Egghe
730
Egghe describes a model incorporating the fractional counting of
credits for an item to its multiple sources. It appears sound and
quite general. However, despite the fact that some of the more
complex mathematics is in the appendices, the average reader will
find that considerable concentration and above average
mathematical awareness is required to complete the main text with
a satisfactory level of understanding.
Filtered Document Retrieval with Frequency-Sorted Indexes
Michael Persin, Justin Zobel, and Ron Sacks-Davis
749
Persin, Zobel, and Sacks-Davis provide some important insight
into data structure for retrieval. By sorting the lists of
document numbers and word counts associated with any term in an
index file by the count rather than by the document number, the
ability to compress the list by using run lengths from the
previous document number is lost. However the need for an
accumulator of similarity values for each document with other
than a zero similarity value is avoided. Using thresholds based
on the similarity of the currently most similar document, and
computed before the processing of the list for each term,
document accumulators are created, ignored, or augmented, or not,
if already in existence. Small partial similarities are unlikely
to change the final ranking and documents yielding such values
are ignored at considerable memory saving. The sort by occurrence
count means considerable reduction in processing time since the
tails of the long count in document lists need not be processed.
If the maximum in document frequency in the list is stored with
the term, it is possible to avoid reading the list for some
terms. One can regain some compression by sorting documents in
the list with the same frequency by document number. Tests show no
degradation in retrieval effectiveness and would permit ranked
retrieval on considerably smaller machines.
Inter-Record Linkage Structure in a Hypertext Bibliographic
Retrieval System
Dietmar Wolfram
765
Wolfram's HyperLynx system is tested on nearly 3000 NTIS document
records on library and information science from 1989 to '91.
Initial entry is through author, title, and descriptor indices.
Each search term with multiple hits forms a circular list of
those records which can be traversed. A click on a hot word
(index term or author) will open a new list on that term and
return to the original indices is possible at any time. The
distribution of the number of times a term occurs in the file is
studied, as well as the distribution of co-occurrences of
different breadths, and the distribution of the number of
selectable terms in a record. Terms of the largest size and of
the smallest size co-occur with the greatest frequency. Terms of
mid-range co-occur least frequently. A simple model of expected
number of term co-occurrences, a simulation based on exhaustivity
and term size, and a third model where the frequency of terms of
a given size was assigned based upon terms per record, were
implemented. The observed distribution is much more variable than
those produced by the models, although matching behavior is
apparent.
Journal Production and Journal Impact Factors
Ronald Rousseau and Guido Van Hooydonk
775
Rousseau and Van Hooydonk find that while review and translation
journals work quite differently, normal journals exhibit a linear
relationship between production and global impact. The fields of
Mathematics and Chemistry do not appear to follow this general
rule.
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
Linguistic Laws and Computer Programs
Peter Kokol and Tatjana Kokol
781
The Kokol's find that counting the occurrences of reserved words
and operators in multiple programs written in Fortran, C, and
C++, results in overall rank frequency distributions that follow
Zipf's law. While all programming language curves fit the Zipf
model significantly, C++ correlates less strongly with the predicted
distribution. Thus linguistic laws may well be
candidates for the design of new software metrics.
Expertise and the Perception of Shape in Information
Andrew Dillon and Dille Schaap
786
Dillon and Schaap are concerned with readers' ability to
recognize the structural portion of a paper being read.
Forty-eight subjects viewed paragraphs of text from published
papers and allocated them to one of four classes: introduction,
method, results, or discussion. Experienced readers are able to
locate themselves more quickly and correctly.
BOOK REVIEWS
At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway,
by Herbert S. White
Charles H. Davis
789
Fril--Fuzzy and Evidential Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence,
by J. F. Baldwin, T. P. Martin, and B. W. Pilsworth
Nikola Kasabov
790
Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings, by Yorick
A. Wilks, Brian M. Slator, and Louise M. Guthrie
Julian Warner
791
Finding Government Information on the Internet, edited by John
Maxymuk
Deborah Hunt
792
Measuring Information: An Information Services Perspective, by
Jean Tague-Sutcliffe
Robert Losee
794
Information Management for the Intelligent Organization: The Art
of Scanning the Environment, by Chun Wei Choo
Kenneth G. Madden
795
Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, edited by Edward Barrett
and Marie Redmond
Julia Gelfand
796
Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning Online,
by Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray
Turoff
Robert Wittorf
797
Richard Hill
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS, VOLUME 47, NUMBER 11
NOVEMBER 1996
CONTENTS
PERSPECTIVES ON . . . DISTANCE INDEPENDENT EDUCATION
799
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Howard Besser and Stacey Donahue
801
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Distance Education in North American Library and Information Science
Education: Applications of Technology and Commitment
Daniel D. Barron
805
The Story of Distance Education: A Practitioner's Perspective
Judith M. Roberts
811
DISCUSSION OF METHODS
Issues and Challenges for the Distance Independent Environment
Howard Besser
817
INSTANCES OF DISTANCE LEARNING
Planning for the Twenty-First Century: The California State University
Stuart A. Sutton
821
Cognition and Distance Learning
Marcia C. Linn
826
Inside-Out Thinking about Distance Teaching: Making Sense of Reflective Practice
Elizabeth J. Burge
843
Teacher of the Future
Ben H. Davis
849
EXAMPLES OF CLASSES USING TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES FOR MEDIA DISTRIBUTION AND
COLLABORATION
Distance Learning and Digital Libraries: Two Sides of a Single Coin
Charles B. Faulhaber
854
Collaborative Technologies in Inter-University Instruction
Maurita Peterson Holland
857
DEVELOPMENT OF MODULAR CURRICULAR MATERIALS
Engineering Courseware Content and Delivery: The NEEDS Infrastructure for
Distance Independent Education
William H. Wood III and Alice M. Agogino
863
PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES
Programs and Resources in Distance Education
Stacey Donahue
870
EFFECTIVENESS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
MLIS Distance Education at the University of South Carolina: Report of a
Case Study
Gayle Douglas
875
Impact of Distance Independent Education
Howard Besser and Maria Bonn
880
Richard Hill
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:14:27 -0500
Subject: call for papers, special topics issue of JASIS
CALL FOR PAPERS
SOCIAL INFORMATICS
Special Topic Issue of
JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
(_JASIS_)
he next Special Topics Issue of the _Journal of the
American Society for Information Science) (JASIS) is scheduled
to come out in early 1998 and will focus on the topic of
CIAL INFORMATICS. The guest editors for this special
issue will be Professors Rob Kling, Carol A. Hert, and Howard
Rosenbaum of the School of Library and Information Science
and Center for Social Informatics at Indiana University
(http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/CSI).
Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and
study that examines social aspects of computerization --
including the roles of information technology in social and
organizational change, the uses of information technologies in
social contexts, and the ways that the social organization of
information technologies is influenced by social forces and social
practices. SI studies are often cognizant of the ways that people
and organizations act in support of differing social values and
beliefs, and have different positions of power in their various
relationships.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
* impacts of information technologies in groups, organizations,
and larger scale social settings;
* analysis of computerization and the use of information
technologies, in social context;
* life with computer-mediated communication (CMC);
* the social shaping of information systems;
* the production, distribution and consumption of texts;
* the roles of information technologies in changing or
reinforcing patterns of worklife, community life, and the
character of institutions.
For additional information about social
informatics, see the Social Informatics
Home page at:
http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/SI
The editors seek papers that are empirically anchored
and/or grounded in significant theoretical approaches. Inquiries
can be made to any of the guest editors at kling@indiana.edu,
chert@indiana.edu, or hrosenba@indiana.edu.
The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for
publication in this special issue is January 15, 1997.
Manuscript submissions (four copies of full articles) should be
addressed to:
Professors Hert, Kling and Rosenbaum
Center for Social Informatics
School of Library and Information Science
10th and Jordan
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-1801
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Electronic submissions will be sent to a special email address;
please contact the editors for details.
All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of
referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue
of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a signed copy of the
copyright release form will be required for all accepted
papers.
A copy of the call for papers will be available on the
World Wide Web at
http://www-slis.lib.indiana.edu/SI/cfp-sijasis.html.
Further information about _JASIS_ is now available at
http://www.asis.org/ (under Publications).
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7. Library & Information Science Research
Library & Information Science Research
Vol. 18, no. 3; 1996
ISSN: 0740-8188
Editorial: Fraud and Misconduct in Library and
Information Science Research ..............................199
Mary Burke, Min-min Chang, Charles Davis,
Peter Hernon, Paul Nicholls, Candy Schwartz,
Debora Shaw, Alastair Smith, and Stephen
Wiberley
Information, Future Time Perspectives,
and Young Adolescent Girls:
Concerns about Education and Jobs .........................207
Susan Edwards and Barbara Poston-Anderson
Measures of Library Use and User Satisfaction
with Academic Library Services ..................... ......225
Theophile Niyonsenga and Bernard Bizimana
Reference Service for the Internet Community: A Case
Study of the Internet Public Library
Reference Division ........................................241
Sara Ryan
Undergraduate Use of CD-ROM Databases: Observations of
Human-Computer Interaction and Relevance Judgments.........261
Debora Shaw
Reviews ................................................277
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Candy Schwartz, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library & Information Science
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston MA 02115-5898
(617) 521-2849, FAX (617) 521-3192
http://www.simmons.edu/~schwartz
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8. PACS Review - Call for Papers
(Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:16:05 -0500)
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review, an electronic journal
established in 1989, is issuing a call for papers dealing with
access to information on the Internet. The co-editors are
interested in exploring the theory and practice of current and
potential future information organization and retrieval methods
used with the Internet.
Potential topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
In-depth state-of-the-art reviews of current information access
methodologies on the Internet;
Research studies examining Internet search engines and the
results they retrieve;
Descriptions and studies of new and innovative methods of
Internet information organization and retrieval;
Rigorous studies of the application of cataloging and
classification theory and practice to the Internet;
Research studies analyzing the efficacy of hypertext links,
hierarchical structures, and three-dimensional information
spaces;
Analysis of the integration of Internet information access with
other forms of electronic access.
See the journal's Web site (http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsrev.html)
for more background information about the journal, including
author guidelines. If you would like to participate, please
contact the Co-editors, Pat Ensor (PLEnsor@uh.edu) and Tom Wilson
(TWilson@uh.edu) and indicate what target date you would like for
submission (the journal has a flexible publication schedule).
Papers can be submitted to either the Refereed Articles or
Communications (editor-selected) sections of the journal.
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REFEREED ARTICLES
Stephen P. Harter, The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly
Communication: A Citation Analysis
This article reports hard empirical data on the impact of
the first wave of e-journals on the scholarly communities
they serve. A citation analysis was conducted for 39
scholarly journals that began electronic publication no
later than 1993. Citation data for these journals were
tabulated and analyzed. For journals that publish both
print and electronic versions, citations to articles
published prior to parallel publication were eliminated.
The eight most highly cited e-journals were identified.
Citation and publication data for three high ranking
e-journals in the study were compared to similar data for
print journals in the same fields. The seven most highly
cited articles from the e-journals in the study were
determined.
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Editor-in-Chief
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
University Libraries
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2091
(713) 743-9804
cbailey@uh.edu
Associate Editor, Columns
Leslie Dillon, OCLC
Associate Editor, Communications
Dana Rooks, University of Houston
Associate Editor, Production
Ann Thornton, New York Public Library
Editorial Board
Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Pat Ensor, University of Houston
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma
Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland
Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation, University of
California
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information
Mike Ridley, University of Guelph
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University
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List Server Technical Support
List server technical support is provided by the Information
Technology Division, University of Houston. Tahereh Jafari is
the primary support person.
Publication Information
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic
journal that is distributed on the Internet and on other computer
networks. It is published on an irregular basis by the
University Libraries, University of Houston. There is no
subscription fee.
To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu
that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name.
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Copyright
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is Copyright (C) 1996
by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights
Reserved.
Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by
academic computer centers, individual scholars, and libraries.
This message must appear on all copied material. All commercial
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REFEREED ARTICLES
Perry Willett, The Victorian Women Writers Project: The Library
as a Creator and Publisher of Electronic Texts
The Victorian Women Writers Project provides Web access to
poems, novels, children's books, political pamphlets,
religious tracts, and other works written by women in the
late 19th century. By utilizing SGML and the Text Encoding
Initiative's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and
Interchange, the VWW Project is creating a collection of
electronic texts that will remain useable in spite of
technological changes in document delivery tools, such as
the Web.
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Editor-in-Chief
Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
University Libraries
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2091
(713) 743-9804
cbailey@uh.edu
Copyright
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is Copyright (C) 1996
by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights
Reserved.
Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by
academic computer centers, individual scholars, and libraries.
This message must appear on all copied material. All commercial
use requires permission
This article was originally published in
_LIBRES: Library and Information Science
Electronic Journal_ (ISSN 1058-6768) September 1996
Volume 6 Issue 3
For any commercial use, or publication
(including electronic journals), you must obtain
the permission of the Editor-In-Chief:
Kerry Smith
Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
E-mail: kerry@biblio.curtin.edu.au