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_Current Cites_
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Volume 6, no. 3
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March 1995
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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
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Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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Jacobson, Robert L. "No Copying" Chronicle of Higher
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Education 40(26) (March 10, 1995) A17-A19. -- Soon-to-be
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proposed legislation that will outline "fair use" of
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copyrighted materials in electronic formats is expected
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to favor the concerns of commercial publishers and to
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"protect the marketplace" from unrestrained digital
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copying. Whereas current fair use laws provide for
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exemptions that allow educators to copy portions of books
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and periodicals for non-profit educational uses, the new
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legislation is expected to be much more restrictive.
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Instead of being able to capitalize on new technologies
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that allow increased access to copyrighted materials,
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users may find that electronic media will only be
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accessible by fee. Many academic and library leaders fear
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that this legislation, authored by the Commerce
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Department's Working Group on Intellectual Property,
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could seriously disrupt scholarly communication as they
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now know it. -- MP
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Powell, James. "Spinning the World Wide Web: An HTML
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Primer" Database 18(1) (February/March 1995):54-59.
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-- A concise article that includes a brief overview
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of the World-Wide Web, a quick description of HyperText
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Markup Language (HTML) and a simple guide to marking up
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a document in HTML. Included in the article are some
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very helpful sidebars describing "HTML Helpers" such as
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converters, editors and tools and their ftp addresses.
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The bulk of the article is a guide to HTML mark-up and
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although it is just a "primer" it is also quite useful
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as a guide for the novice and a quick reference for the
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seasoned HTML editor. -- DR
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Vaughan-Nichols, Steven. "Internet Publishing Tools
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Proliferate" Byte 20(3)(March 1995):30.-- This is a brief
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descriptive list of some of the new author/editing tools
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and add-ons that are becoming available for creating
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documents in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and
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Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) formats. The
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list includes several HTML add-ons for popular word
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processing programs such as Microsoft Word for Windows
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and for full-blown SGML editing tools such as Electronic
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Book Technologies' DynaText. -- DR
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Networks and Networking
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Barlow, John Perry. "Is There a There in Cyberspace?"
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Utne Reader 68 (March-April 1995): 50-75. -- The theme
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for this issue, announced on the cover, is "Cyberspace
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vs. Neighborhood". It is not a one-sided battle. The
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editors' opening article is titled simply "Networks are
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*not* communities", and other articles cover the noticeable
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absence of African-Americans online, the monetary obstacles
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to even cursory connectedness for the average citizen, the
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rush to allow the commercial industries to subsidize the NII,
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as if they will kindly step aside once it's built to make way
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for all the online museums, town halls, and other groups
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which have little voice in old media, but have found one
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online. Articles swing from grassroots, libertarian calls to
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abandon social networking, to more moderate comparisons of
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the values and advantages between virtual and physical
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communities. -- RR
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Gallegos, Bee, Charles E. Kratz, and Victoria J. Spain.
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"Internet Resources for Education" College & Research
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Libraries News 56(3) (March 1995): 153-157. -- This
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month's C&RL News feature on Internet resources by
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discipline focuses on sources in education. Included
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are lists of scholarly discussion lists and electronic
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conferences, usenet groups, electronic journals and
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newsletters, gopher sites and World-Wide Web sites.
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Particularly useful in this article are the references
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at the end to other bibliographies and lists on Internet
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resources in education. -- MP
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"Internet Security" Internet World 6(2)(February 1995):
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32-72. -- This sequence of nine articles answers many of
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the questions that new users and experienced alike are
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posing about Internet security. While the articles focus
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on the importance of securing transactions for business
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use of the net, such as for credit card purchases, other
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articles also explain the current and future security of
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longstanding Internet activities including email. Richard
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Wiggins "Business Browser" (pp.52-58) is especially
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informative in its coverage of the development of secure
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World-Wide Web servers and clients. -- JLO
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Jacobsen, Kristin. "Time to put the Internet in
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Perspective" College & Research Libraries News 56(3)
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(March 1995):144-147. -- A timeline of the history of
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the Internet from its inception as a communication
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network for the Department of Defense in the 1960s to
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the establishment of the NSFNET backbone in the mid-1980s
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to today when the number of hosts on the Internet
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surpasses 4,800,000, this article provides a basic
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historical context for the development of the Internet
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and successfully illustrates the fact that the Internet
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is not the overnight success that mainstream media
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coverage seems to suggest. The bulleted chronology along
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with the selective bibliography should be useful tools
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for individuals giving presentations or training sessions
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on the Internet. -- MP
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Reinhardt, Andy. "New Ways to Learn" Byte 20(3) (March 1995):
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50-72. -- This article covers the impact of new technology
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in learning, both in education and the workplace. The three
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areas of technology credited with the most impact are
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networking, multimedia, and mobile computing. The article
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also contains useful sidebars with case studies from NYU,
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Carnegie Mellon, and UCLA. The article is rife with statistics,
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and mentions briefly that in the race of educational
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institutions to utilize new technology as a means of reducing
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overall costs, we should take the time to consider how the
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technology is changing our audience as well as the way they
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learn, and not just the tools they learn with. -- RR
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Optical Disc Technology
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Beiser, Karl. "CD-ROM Report: Evolving Search Interfaces"
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Database 18(1) (February/March 1995):88-92. -- Beiser looks
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at two new CD-ROM products that successfully employ a
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graphical approach (WinSPIRS and Map'n'Go) and a third
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product that has improved by increasing database coverage
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within a powerful DOS shell (Global Books in Print Plus).
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Not only does the extent and quality of the database need
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to be evaluated, but the means of gaining efficient access
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to that content is also a primary concern. The products
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described make reference tools easier to learn and more
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pleasant to learn, yet without an obvious performance
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penalty. -- TR
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General
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"The Computer in the 21st Century". Scientific American 6(1)
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1995 Special Issue. -- This entire issue is dedicated to
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exploring many aspects of computing, from an article on civil
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liberties by Mitch Kapor to one on government & cyberspace by
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Al Gore. Other issues addressed include computers in education,
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technical innovations to watch for, and digital photography.
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Of special interest to librarians and archivists is the short
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article on the last page about archiving electronic resources.
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The article mentions that it seems easy enough to print out
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important records for archiving, but what about complex hyper-
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media, or the need to invoke involuntary "archiving"? In one
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instance of the latter, the courts were able to stay the
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destruction by the White House of paper records of Iran-Contra
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dealings by invoking archival value, but the Administration did
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not hand over any email about the issue, and those records are
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still in litigation. -- RR
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