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- >>> Section 1: Information <<<
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- INTRODUCTION
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- The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is intended to provide
- a comprehensive listing of all electronic journals and newsletters which are
- of academic interest and available through Bitnet, Internet and any
- affiliated networks. This Directory is part of an ongoing project and is
- updated as new electronic journals and newsletters come into existence and as
- existing entries are changed. Every effort has been made to provide the user
- with up-to-date information. Most entries have been either provided from or
- scrutinized by the journal and newsletter editors themselves to assure
- accuracy.
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- The primary intent of this Directory is to catalog all existing electronic
- journals and newsletters that are available over the various academic
- networks. A secondary intention is to catalog all e-serials that are being
- produced over the commercial networks. Thus, over time this Directory will
- provide an entirely comprehensive listing of all e-serials. As the
- traditional taxonomy of "journal" and "newsletter" is ill-suited to the
- diversity of formats found within the networks, a third category of
- "Hypercard Stacks, Digest-Newsletters and Others" (Section 4) is here
- included. This section catalogs hypercard stacks and other formats that
- represent significant sources of information that are similar in nature to
- journals and newsletters. It should be noted that digests which are
- straightforward collections of conversational questions and answers are
- considered to be a type of list, but any digests which mix a simple list
- format with the newsletter format are here included.
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- Ordinary (conversational) digests and lists are covered in Diane Kovacs'
- compilation, Academic Lists. Thus, no attempt has been made to provide a
- comprehensive listing of the hundreds of existing digests in this Directory.
- For a complete catalog of digests and lists the reader is encourage to
- retrieve the Global List with the command:
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- TELL LISTSERV AT NDSUVM1 GET INTEREST PACKAGE
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- Or through FTP to 192.33.33.22 (NISC.SRI.COM)
- GET /netinfo/interest-groups
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- Warning - this file will be sent to you in twelve or more sections and is
- over 500K in size.
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- The philosophy behind the presentation of the information within this
- Directory is based on the intention of providing the reader with the most
- up-to-date information that is possible and in the most comprehensive
- fashion. Thus, I have avoided editing descriptions as size is not a factor
- for an e-text. I have also listed partial entries in the interest of
- providing the reader with the maximum of available information (these
- incomplete entries will be marked as such). This makes it possible for the
- reader to follow leads I have not yet completed and, in turn, to provide me
- with information not yet represented in the latest edition of the Directory.
- Users of this document are encouraged to sent me notices of defunct entries,
- new entries and related information and suggestions. By this means I hope to
- utilize fully the best features of the Net and to make information available
- in a fashion that draws upon and promotes the unique strength of the virtual
- community.
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- I hope to be able to provide a Wordperfect version of this low ascii file on
- a FTP server in the Fall of 1992.
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- I am indeted to the countless individuals who have contributed to this
- project and helped create the first and only comprehensive Directory of
- Electronic Journals and Newsletters.
-
- Michael Strangelove
- University of Ottawa
- (441495@Uottawa)
- (441495@Uottawa)
- (441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.Ca)
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- >>> How To Retrieve This Directory From Networked Sources <<<
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- The Directory is currently available in ASCII text from the following
- locations:
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- (1) CONTENTS PROJECT Listserv Fileserver
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- Send the following commands as an e-mail message to listserv@uottawa or
- listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
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- GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY
- GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY
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- (Please note the spelling carefully)
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- (2) Comserve
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- NB - The name of the Directory files changes to EJournal1 Sources and
- EJournal2 Sources on the Comserve fileserver.
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- Send an electronic mail message to Comserve@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or
- Comserve@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet) with the following command appearing on
- the first line of the message:
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- Send EJournl1 Sources
- Send EJournl2 Sources
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- No other words, punctuation, or symbols should appear in the electronic mail
- message. Comserve is an automated system for file retrieval; it will
- acknowledge receipt of your message and let you know that the files have been
- sent to you.
-