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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1993 22:03:14 EDT
Subject: NewJournal Intro

Welcome to:  NewJour-L@e-math.ams.org

NewJour-L aims to accomplish two objectives; it is both a list and a
project.

   FIRST:

   NewJour-L is the place to *announce* your own (or to forward informa-
   tion about others') newly planned, newly issued, or revised *ELECTRONIC
   NETWORKED* journal or newsletter.  It is specially dedicated for those
   who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage
   or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability.

   It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and
   newsletters as they become available on -- move into -- electronic
   networks.  Scholarly discussion lists *which regularly and
   continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or
   preprints* may also be reported, for those journal-like sections.

   We hope that those who see announcements on Bitnet, Internet, Usenet
   or other media will forward them to NewJour-L, but this does run a
   significant risk of boring subscribers with a number of duplicate
   messages.  Therefore, NewJour-L IS filtered through a moderator
   to eliminate this type of duplication.

   It does not attempt to cover areas that are already covered by other
   lists.  For example, sources like NEW-LIST describe new discussion
   lists;  ARACHNET deals with social and cultural issues of
   e-publishing;  VPIEJ-L handles many matters related to electronic
   publishing of journals.  SERIALST discusses the technical aspects of
   all kinds of serials.  You should continue to subscribe to these as
   you have done before, and contribute to them.

   SECOND:

   NewJour-L represents an identification and road-mapping project
   for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael Strangelove,
   University of Ottawa.  NewJour-L will expand and continue that work.

   As new publications are reported, a NewJour-L support group will
   develop the following services -- planning is underway & we ask that
   anyone who would like to participate as below, let us know:

   -A worksheet will be sent to the editors of the new e-publication
    for completion.  This will provide detailed descriptions about
    bibliographic, content, and access characteristics.
   -An original cataloguing record will be created.
   -The fully catalogued title will be reported to national utilities and
    other appropriate sites so that there is a bibliographic record
    available for subsequent subscribers or searchers.
   -The records will feed a directory and database of these titles.

   Not all the of the implementation is developed, and the work will expand
   over the next year.  We thank you for your contributions, assistance,
   and advice, which will be invaluable.

   SUBSCRIBING:

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   Leave the subject line blank.

   In the body, type:  SUBSCRIBE NewJour-L  FirstName LastName

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   ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

   For their work in defining the elements of this project and for their
   support to date, we thank:

      Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa, Advisor
      David Rodgers, American Mathematical Society, Systems & Network Support
      Edward Gaynor, University of Virginia Library, Original Cataloguing
         Development
      John Price-Wilkin, University of Virginia Library, Systems & Network
         Support
      Birdie MacLennan, University of Vermont Library, Cataloguing and
         Indexing Development
      Diane Kovacs, Kent State University Library, Advisor

We anticipate this will become a wider effort as time passes, and we
welcome your interest in it.  This project is co-ordinated through:

The Association of Research Libraries
Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
21 Dupont Circle, Suite 800
Washington, DC  20036
e-mail:  osap@cni.org  (Ann Okerson)