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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:16:24 CDT
- From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
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- Subject: Electric Mystic's Guide Draft 10
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- The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS
-
- Volume 1.081 Revised Electric Mystic's Guide ISSN 1188-5734
- ===========================================================================
-
- *** Electric Mystic's Guide (Draft #10) NOW AVAILABLE VIA FTP ***
-
- A new revision of _The Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet: A Complete
- Bibliography of Networked Electronic Documents Relevant to Religious
- Studies_, is now available via FTP as a Postscript file. This new draft is
- 150 pages in length. The table of contents follows retrieval instructions
- below.
-
- This Guide is a non-technical survey of all major, archives and services of
- relevance to religious studies and related fields that are available through
- the international, academic computer networks commonly referred to as the Net
- (BITNET, Internet and affiliated networks). This includes networked papers,
- reviews, book notes, dissertations, major sacred texts, software programs,
- electronic mail address collections, general information files, data banks,
- electronic journals, newsletters, online discussion groups, specialized
- commercial and public networks, and relevant networked organizations,
- associations, institutions and companies.
-
- Please note that the Electric Mystic's Guide is only available as a Unix
- compressed (.Z) file. For those who cannot access FTP postscript files,
- a WordPerfect 5.1 DOS diskette containing the latest revision is available
- from the author for ten dollars (Canadian currency, prepaid orders only).
- Send orders to:
-
- Michael Strangelove
- Religious Studies Department
- University of Ottawa
- 177 Waller
- Ottawa, Ontario
- CANADA K1N 6N5
- (613) 747-0642 (voice)
- (613) 564-6641 (fax)
- 441495@uottawa (BITNET)
- 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Internet)
-
- If you experience difficulty in accessing, uploading, or uncompressing
- this file please contact your local computing support services before querying
- the CONTENTS Project.
- ___________________________________________________________________________
-
- *** RETRIEVAL INSTRUCTIONS ***
-
- VIA FTP:
-
- FTP to the CONTENTS fileserver:
-
- FTP 137.122.6.16 (panda1.uottawa.ca)
- LOGIN: anonymous
- PASSWORD: [your email address]
- cd /pub/religion/
- get electric-mystics-guide.ps.Z (for the postscript version)
- BYE (when finished)
-
- ** WARNING **
- The compressed file is over 200,000 bytes and when uncompressed exceeds
- 1,200,000 bytes. The maximum line length of the postscript file is 91
- characters. Not all systems will be able to handle a file of this size.
- _______________________________________________________________________________
-
- Table of Contents
-
- [Not all sections are completed within this draft]
-
- Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
-
- The Networks Covered in this Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Casting about the Net: How to Make the Most of
- Electronic Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- How to Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- How to Retrieve Documents Listed in This Guide. . . . . . . . 4
- A Guide to Online Research Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- A Note to Moderators, Authors and Maintainers of
- Networked Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
-
- SECTION I -- Network Accessible Documents
-
- 1. Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- 2. Articles and Prepublication Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- 3. Bible Study Aids and Software Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- 4. Bibliographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- 5. Book Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- 6. Buddhism and Related Topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- 7. Contemporary Jewry and Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- 8. The CONTENTS Project Miscellaneous Files . . . . . . . . . . 26
- 9. Course Outlines, Seminar Syllabi and Subject Glossaries. . . 27
- 10. Electronic Texts and Databases (CDROMS and Others) . . . . . 29
- 11. IOUDAIOS Miscellaneous Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
- 12. Islamic Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- 13. Journal Indexes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- 14. Lists in Review Supplements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- 15. Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- 16. Online E-Mail Address Compilations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- 17. RELIGION Miscellaneous Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- 18. Reviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
- 19. Sacred Texts (Networked Electronic Versions) . . . . . . . . 41
- 20. Software/Hardware Reviews and Information Files. . . . . . . 44
- 21. Software Programs for Religious Studies. . . . . . . . . . . 45
- 22. Thesis and Dissertations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
- 23. Thesis and Dissertations -- Abstracts. . . . . . . . . . . . 47
-
- SECTION II -- Religious Studies Related Networked Archives
-
- 24. Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank. . . . . . . 49
- 25. The CONTENTS Project Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
- 26. The American Jewish Information Network. . . . . . . . . . . 57
- 27. The Israel Project at Nysernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
- 28. The Aboriginal Studies Electronic Data Archive . . . . . . . 62
- 29. The Georgetown Center for Text and Technology. . . . . . . . 64
- 30. Project Gutenburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
- 31. The Oak Software Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
- 32. The SIMTEL20 Archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
-
- SECTION III -- How to Use the Damn Thing
-
- 33. How to Send Electronic Mail to Different Networks. . . . . . 78
- 34. How to Find E-mail Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
- 35. Networked Directories, Manuals and Help Files. . . . . . . . 85
-
- APPENDICES:
-
- A. The CONTENTS Project FTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- B. Ecunet and PresbyNet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
- C. Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents (CETEDOC) . . 91
- D. Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT). . . . . . . . . 94
- E. Online Academic Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
- F. Electronic Journals and Newsletters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
- G. Online Book Initiative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
- H. Networked Organizations and Associations. . . . . . . . . . . 136
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- Index of Document Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
- Index of Authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
- Index of Authors' E-mail Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
- Glossary of Terms [not yet entered]
- Glossary of Commands [not yet entered]
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