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_Current Cites_
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Volume 5, no. 8
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August 1994
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Information Systems Instruction & Support
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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Contributors:
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John Ober, Margaret Phillips, David Rez, Richard Rinehart,
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Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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DeLoughry, Thomas J. "Colleges Urged to Re-Evaluate Copyright Policies" The
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Chronicle of Higher Education 40(47) (July 27, 1994):A20.
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[URL:gopher://arl.cni.org:70/11/scomm/aau] -- Under the auspices of the
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Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Research
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Libraries (ARL), a panel of professors, librarians and administrators has
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called for greater use of technology in order to make material more widely
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available and more affordable for universities. To accomplish this, the
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panel urges universities to re-evaluate copyright policies for works
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published in electronic formats and it recommends that higher education
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consider creating "electronic publishing outlets" to compete with the
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high-cost printed journals that strain library budgets. -- MP
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DeLoughry, Thomas J. "Copyright Changes Proposed for Electronic Era" The
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Chronicle of Higher Education 40(45) (July 13, 1994):A17-A18. -- A panel of
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Clinton Administration officials, know as The Working Group on Intellectual
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Property Rights, has produced a draft report outlining several amendments to
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the Copyright Act which would protect the interests of creators and users of
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electronically accessible materials. They did not, however, tackle the issue
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of "fair use" for electronic materials but instead will convene a conference
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on fair use by bringing together educators, librarians and other users of
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copyrighted materials with the owners of such materials. The aim of this
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meeting will be to produce fair-use guidelines of electronic materials.
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-- MP
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Zheng, Min and Roy Rada. "MUCH Electronic Publishing Environment: Principles
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and Practices" Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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45(5) (June 1994):300-309. -- An overview of the MUCH (Many Using and
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Creating Hypermedia) system, a multi-author editing environment for
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electronic publishing based upon the following premises: it should support
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the whole life cycle of the publication; it should be a highly integrated
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environment; it should have hypermedia publishing capabilities and it should
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easily extend to deal with new media and support new publishing activities.
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The MUCH environment was developed as a collaborative authoring tool which
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addresses these support issues. The MUCH system uses industry standards
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(such as SGML and the Dexter model) and freely available software for
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continuity and flexibility. -- DR
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Reinhardt, Andy. "Managing the New Document" Byte 19(8) (August 1994):90.
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-- This cover article reviews efforts currently under way to implement
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software standards for the management of documents, especially those
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containing multimedia elements. Standard operating environments generally
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include cursory document management systems such as a file finding aid, and
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various views for listing files. These systems are further oriented toward
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textual (monomedia) documents, with features such as 'find file containing
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text.....'. Managing multimedia documents, on the other hand, presents
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special needs. Many tools and standards exist currently for multimedia
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document creation, but document management users must often look to third
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parties, or await the results of experimental projects, to see where the
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true standards will come from. This article lists some potential standards
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and interesting projects, from a joint effort between Xerox and Novell to
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create a network-capable documentmanagement interface, to the
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client/server-oriented document bridge, Open Document Management API. The
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article is the latest pointer toward the trend of computing becoming less
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application-centric and more document-centric in many ways. -- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Barry, Jeff. "The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and the World-Wide Web:
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Raising ASCII Text to a New Level of Usability" The Public-Access Computer
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Systems Review 5(5) (1994):5-62. To retrieve this file, send the following
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e-mail message to listserv@uhupvml.uh.edu: GET BARRY PRV5N5 F=MAIL.
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[URL:gopher://info.lib.uh.edu/00/articles/e-journals/uhlibrary/pacsreview/v5
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/n5/barry.5n5] -- In his mis-titled article, Barry provides an introduction
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and tutorial to HTML rather than a detailed description of its advantages
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over other electronic text or an analysis of its future. The focus here is
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on the HTML tags, or markup elements, themselves; 20 pages of the 55-page
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document constitute an appendix listing tags with examples of their use. The
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brief descriptions of HTML elements compare favorably with other such
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material that is available, and PACS Review readers may profit from yet
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another overview. However, the article is not very imaginative in its
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descriptions of how the Web could be used in libraries, and it suffers from
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attempts to DESCRIBE Web documents rather than SHOW them - an inherent
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limitation of the Review's ascii distribution. To be fair, Barry does
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provide the reader with locations of sample documents that do illustrate his
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points. -- JLO
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Burke, Edmund B. "And Makes Me Poor Indeed: The Law of Defamation in the Age
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of Information Technology" Educom Review 29(4) (July/ August 1994):6-7. --
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This timely piece clearly and methodically reviews defamation law in light
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of recent suits based upon alleged defamatory statements "published" on
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computer networks. Current and/or potential "Flamers" and suit-prone
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"Flamees" take note. -- RT
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Glazier, Loss Pequeno. "Internet Resources for English and American
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Literature" College & Research Libraries News 55(7) (July/August
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1994):417-422. -- Another in the regular series of articles in C&RL News
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that lists essential Internet resources in specific academic disciplines,
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this article provides a thorough yet selective list of resources in English
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and American literature. In addition to a list of important listservs and
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significant electronic journals in the field, the author describes some
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important electronic text projects and archives. Also listed are relevant
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gopher and Web sites. -- MP
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Grycz, Czeslaw Jan and Christine Maxwell. _New Riders' Official Internet
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Yellow Pages_ Indianapolis: New Riders Publishing, 1994. -- The second major
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"yellow pages" currently available (see also Hahn and Stout, The Internet
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Yellow Pages cited in Current Cites, May, 1994) these authors also undertake
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the dubious mission of providing a comprehensive print resource to the
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Internet. Various warnings and disclaimers serve to admit that the directory
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is not, and cannot be, exhaustive nor 100% accurate, so the reader is left
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to decide whether the range, format, and organization of the listings serve
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a valuable purpose. In general these yellow pages are less playful than the
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other volume but are more highly organized. The entries are given in three
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formats - "standard," "major," and "turbo" - according to the authors'
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judgments about the scope of the resource (though the reason for the
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judgments is not clearly explained in the introductory material). With 877
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pages, the volume looks valuable based on size alone. However, resources are
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duplicated in entries under alphabetized name and several keyword
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descriptors. This scheme has great potential but is unevenly applied, as
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indicated by the absence of entries under the keywords ("pets" and "domestic
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animals") which are used in the explanation of the indexing scheme itself.
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Perhaps it is in part the "generous volunteerism" with which the book was
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compiled that also contributes to uneven distribution of resources named.
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For example, "Universities" as a listing has only one entry and there is no
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explanation of the selection of 18 "universities" with separate alphabetical
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entries. As with the volume by Hahn and Stout, readers should consider this
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a good tool for introductory explorations of the Internet which will
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undoubtedly quickly age and be supplanted by experience. -- JLO
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Lewis, Peter H. "Doubts Are Raised on Actual Number of Internet's Users" The
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New York Times (August 10, 1994):A1, C4. -- A front page article in the New
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York Times wonders if the Internet has been over-hyped and suggests that the
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actual number of active Internet users has been overstated. Citing Internet
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demographer, John S. Quartermain, the article indicates that the commonly
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quoted numbers of 20 million to 30 million users worldwide, is misleading
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because more than a million ports, and the millions of people who use them,
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are cut off from the Internet by electronic "firewalls" erected by
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security-conscious corporations. While growth on the Internet is indeed
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exponential, these findings suggest that the "information future" as
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popularly described, may not quite be here yet. -- MP
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Markoff, John. "Silicon Valley Concerns Offer Specialized News" The New York
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Times (July 12, 1994):C4. -- New companies that offer specialized news
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services are beginning to commercialize the Internet by providing
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inexpensive information retrieval services. One such company, allows
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subscribers to establish lists of topics or companies they wish to follow.
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Using a program that monitors a range of news services, articles that match
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a subscribers topic profile are then sent automatically to the subscriber as
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e-mail messages. Another company allows its computer users who have a direct
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connection to the Internet to search large commercial databases at prices
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much lower that similar online databases such as Mead Data Central and
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Dialog. -- MP
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Nisenholtz, Martin. "The Digital Medium Meets The Advertising Message"
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Educom Review 29(4) (July/August 1994):27-30. -- This article offers a
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concise framing of the history of advertising's entry into digital media.
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The author touches on the changing metaphors used to define new digital
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forums. Network services, such as early Compuserve, were often based on the
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point-to-point model of the existing telephone system; users knew
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specifically how they wanted to use such a system and were willing to pay
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for the service on a per use basis. In this model, the consumer is the
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end-user of the service. However, many network services are beginning to
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resemble the point-to-many broadcast model of television as much a the phone
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model. In this model, advertisers are the true consumer, subsidizing the
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cost of the service, and the audience is the 'good' delivered to them (to
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their ads) by the agency (network service or television station). The nature
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of media convergence reinforces the change in thinking (Have you also been
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asked by your cable TV channel to logon to America Online later that night
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to talk 'live with one of the shows actors? Or seen an ad asking you to
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logon to Prodigy to read more on the football players playing in the game
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you are watching right now?) As it concentrates on the How and not the Why,
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though, this article offer an objective introduction to the heated debate on
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advertising on the Internet and other digital forums (once) considered the
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purview of the educational community. -- RR
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The Scout Report. InterNIC Information Services. [URL:http://www.internic.
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net/scout-report/] [URL:gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/scout-report]
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-- The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC Information
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Services "to the U.S. research and education community and others who will
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benefit from the listed resources. Included are selected new and
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newly-discovered online resources, network news, and bits of net culture."
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As such it serves a similar function to lists such as Net-Happenings, or the
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NCSA "What's New" page for the Web. Some of the Scout Report's value lies in
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its high selectivity, its compilation as a once-weekly publication, and its
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availability via gopher and the World-Wide Web. This is an excellent
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resource to use in answer to the daunting "how-to-keep-current" question.
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-- JLO
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Wiggins, Richard. "Building a Campus-Wide Information System," Campus-Wide
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Information Systems (CWIS) 11(1-2) (Spring/Summer 1994):57-66. -- In this
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extract from his book _The Internet for Everyone: A Guide for Users and
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Providers_, Wiggins provides an overview of some basic issues that must be
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considered in mounting a Campus-Wide Information System. After a brief
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history of CWIS development, from CUINFO and PNN to Gopher and World-Wide
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Web, he covers choosing a platform, the structure of the initial menu, the
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types of information to offer, and the provision of information about the
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information (date last updated, etc.). Although anyone charged with creating
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a CWIS will need to do much more reading than this article, it could
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nonetheless be useful to someone new to building systems of this type. -- RT
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General
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Brandt, D. Scott. "1994 Buyer's Guide and Consultant Directory" Computers in
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Libraries 14(7) (July/August 1994):18-88. -- Brandt compiles this annual
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guide designed to provide easy access to information-related computer
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products, supplies and services. This 70-page reference tool is divided into
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the following five categories: 1) products and services (further sub-divided
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into hardware and supplies, software, and services) 2) vendor product and
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service listing 3) product names 4) vendors, producers and distributors 5)
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consultants. "This guide," writes Brandt, "can come in handy throughout the
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year to answer questions related to finding out who sells a needed part,
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which companies offer certain software, or where you can get a product whose
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name you remember." -- TR
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Current Cites 5(8) (August 1994) ISSN: 1060-2356 Copyright (C) 1994
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by the Library, University of California, Berkeley. All rights reserved.
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All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
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respective holders. Mention of a product in this publication does
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not necessarily imply endorsement of the product.
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To subscribe, send the message "sub cites [your name]" to
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and libraries. Libraries are authorized to add the journal
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to their collections at no cost. An archive site is maintained at
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ftp.lib.berkeley.edu in directory /pub/Current.Cites
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[URL:ftp://ftp.lib.berkeley.edu/pub/Current.Cites]. This message
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must appear on copied material. All commercial use requires permission
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from the editor, who may be reached in the following ways:
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trinne@library.berkeley.edu // trinne@ucblibra // (510)642-8173
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