1995 Listings of E-Serials Available Online Ann Okerson 30 Jun 1995 22:43 UTC
This message is cross-posted to several relevant lists. ------------------------------------------------------ The Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing of the Association of Research Libraries is happy to announce the availaiblity of two resources of interest to Internet users: _____________________________________________________________________ DIRECTORY OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS, AND ACADEMIC DICUSSION LISTS, 5th Edition, May 1995 (GOPHER EDITION) An abridged version of this resource is available on the ARL gopher as of June 30th, 1995. The URL is: gopher://arl.cni.org:70/11/scomm/edir Here is the path to the gopher version: yourprompt> gopher arl.cni.org Scholarly Communication Directory of Electronic ... 1995 ... This version contains a significant subset from the full database version available via the printed edition, including: Introduction, Foreword, a link to Charles Bailey's E-Publishing Bibliography, and the Titles/Descriptions/Contact information for nearly 700 Internet serials and 2500 discussion lists. The journal and newsletter entries were compiled by Lisabeth King, Research Assistant at ARL; the gopher version was compiled by Douglas Lay, Research Assistant at ARL. The e-lists are coordinated and maintained by Diane K. Kovacs and Team, Kent State University. The resource was made available on the ARL server by Dru Mogge, Electronic Services Coordinator. For those of you who link to our resource, the 1994 files have now been dropped and your links to us may no longer work. Please update them, and if you have questions, please contact Dru Mogge (dru@cni.org) For electronic information about the printed edition and how to order it, please contact: osap@cni.org Phone: 202-296-2296; Fax: 202-872-0884 Ask for Patricia Brennan, Communications Services Coordinator ________________________________________________________________________ NewJour Announcement List NewJour is an electronic announcement list that updates the ARL Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters between its annual, formal printed and networked editions. As of June 1995, it has 2,000 subscribers from all seven continents and posts on average ten new networked serials per day. "New" titles are either brand new creations or titles that are newly discovered for the ARL database of e-serials. NewJour welcomes your interest and announcements and hopes to offer enhanced services before the end of 1995. To subscribe to NewJour, send a message to: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message type: subscribe NewJour Direct postings of new serials should be directed to: NewJour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu NewJour was created in Summer 1993 and and provides a place for creators of new electronic journals to report their plans and announcements to potential subscribers. It is also updated by postings from the ARL staff as they routinely discover new Internet serial titles (journals, newsletters, magazines, zines, and other formats). This electronic conference began on server space provided by the American Mathematical Society. In January of 1995 it relocated to a site offered at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Computer Analysis of Texts, a group that offered service and support for our growing enterprise. The complete set of backfiles of NewJour postings is updated daily It is a fully searchable archive and can be found at: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu:5070/11/journals/newjour The list is co-moderated by: Ann Okerson/Association of Research Libraries James O'Donnell/Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania Happy Serial Cyber-Hunting to you all, Ann Okerson/Association of Research Libraries Washington, DC ann@cni.org