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_Current Cites_
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Volume 6, no. 9
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September 1995
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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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URL:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ISIS/current-cites/cc95.6.9.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, John Ober, Margaret Phillips,
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David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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Gasaway, Laura N. "Scholarly Publication and Copyright in Networked
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Electronic Publishing" Library Trends 43(4) (Spring 1995): 679-700.
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-- A very useful and informative article that surveys the current
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and impending broad changes in the way scholars have, do and will
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publish their works. The opening brief, yet detailed history of
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scholarly publishing does a good job of providing a context for
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the new role of electronic publishing in academics. As one might
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expect, much of the article is a discussion of copyright basics as
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it applies to the academic publishing world. This section provides
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an excellent overview of this complex issue. -- DR
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Hickey, Thomas B. "Present and Future Capabilities of the Online
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Journal" Library Trends 43(4) (Spring 1995): 528-543. -- A sound,
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even-handed discussion of some of the primary issues facing the
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online journal. Hickey addresses his topic by providing lists of
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the advantages and disadvantages for several of the challenges,
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both general and specific, which surround the debate about the
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online journal. The treatment of the subject is broad enough that
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it addresses many of the same issues being debated concerning
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electronic publishing in general. It would serve well as a primer
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for anyone with a basic interest in the issues surrounding
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electronic publishing and in the direction it may be headed.
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-- DR
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Ide, Nancy and Jean Veronis, ed. "The Text Encoding Initiative:
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Background and Contexts" Computers and the Humanities 29(1)
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(1995) -- In an effort to provide much needed 'background and
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context for the contents of TEI Proposal 3', Computers and the
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Humanities is dedicating three issues of Volume 29 to the Text
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Encoding Initiative. Parts I and II, General Topics and
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Document-wide Encoding Issues are covered in this first issue.
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The second issue will contain Part III, Encoding Specific Text
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Types, and the third, Part IV, Special Encoding Mechanisms. With
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a preface by Charles Goldfarb, inventor of SGML, and introduction
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by the editors of the triple issue, Ide and Veronis, this
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collection of papers introduces the Text Encoding Initiative and
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provides illuminating discussions of many topics essential to the
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TEI-conformant encoding of electronic texts. C.M. Sperberg-McQueen
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and Lou Bernard, the editors of the Guidelines for Electronic Text
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Encoding and Interchange, provide a good introduction to the
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guidelines, commonly referred to as TEI P3 (TEI Proposal number
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3). This issue also contains the following papers: "The TEI:
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History, Goals, and Future" by Nancy Ide and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen,
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"What is SGML and How Does It Help?" by Lou Bernard, "Character
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Representation" by Harry Gaylord, "The TEI Header and the
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Documentation of Electronic Texts" by Richard Giordano and
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"Practical Considerations in the Use of TEI Headers in Large
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Corpora" by Dominic Dunlop. Taken as a whole, the triple issue
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promises to be a rich and valuable reference work. -- CJC
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Jacobson, Robert L. "'Fair Use' Impasse" Chronicle of Higher
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Education 41(49) (September 18, 1995): A20, A22. -- In another
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discussion about the conflict between copyright holders who want
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to restrict access to electronic information and professionals
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such as educators and librarians who seek to make information as
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widely available as possible, this article presents the issues
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associated with the concept of "fair use" in the electronic age.
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The author predicts that unless professionals from the academic
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community participate more actively in the debate, soon-to-be-issued
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Clinton Administration guidelines on copyright will favor the
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publishing industry thus threatening educational and scholarly
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interests. -- MP
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Lancaster, F.W. "The Evolution of Electronic Publishing" Library
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Trends 43(4) (Spring 1995): 519-527. -- Offering a summary of the
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development of electronic publishing over the last 30 years, this
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article outlines four basic yet co-existent steps in the evolution
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of electronic publishing: 1) Using computers to generate conventional
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print-on-paper publications allowing new capabilities such as
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printing on demand or producing customized publications tailored to
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individual needs. 2) Distributing text electronically which is the
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exact equivalent of the paper version; this includes full-text
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articles available through commercial vendors such as DIALOG and
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projects such as TULIP which provide electronic access to text and
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graphics of journals which are also available in print form.
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3) Distribution in electronic form of print publications providing
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"value-added" features such as search capabilities and data
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manipulation. 4) Generating publications that take advantage of such
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electronic capabilities as hypertext, hypermedia, sound and motion.
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In addition to outlining the history of electronic publishing,
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Lancaster provides an in-depth analysis of electronic journals and
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discusses sustainability of electronic journals and the role that
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they play in scholarship. -- MP
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Lancaster, F.W. "Attitudes in Academia Toward Feasibility and
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Desirability of Networked Scholarly Publishing" Library Trends
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43(4) (Spring 1995): 741-751. -- In a survey of university
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library directors and academic administrators, the author sought
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to determine attitudes toward the electronic distribution of
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scholarly publications. While university administrators felt
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that there were significant benefits associated with electronic
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publishing, it was widely felt that there were many obstacles to
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the academic community's ability to implement an electronic
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publishing network. Benefits associated with electronic publishing
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included the reduction of costs in disseminating electronic
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information, the potential for more timely publication of research
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articles, more effective current awareness through electronic
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profile matching, and the idea that academia could have greater
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control over its own research results therefore freeing itself from
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commercial interests. However, these benefits were outweighed by
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the fact that the administrators who were surveyed felt that
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academia is not well-equipped financially or technologically to
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support widespread networked scholarly publishing. -- MP
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Weiss, Jiri. "Digital Copyright: Who Owns What?" New Media 5(9)
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(September 1995): 38-43. -- Any library or museum involved in a
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digital media project has become, perhaps unwittingly, a
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developer and arbitrator, if not owner, of digital content. So,
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whether you are adding value to information in the form of a
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catalog, or creating primary source material in the form of an
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educational CD-ROM you need to be informed about digital copyright
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from all angles. This article is very helpful in that respect,
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outlining the issues and some proposed solutions (such as a
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copyright service bureaus as opposed to individual contracts).
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Also useful is the contact info for further reading, current
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projects, and groups mentioned in the article. -- RR
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Penn State Imaging Committee. "Imaging for Process Improvement: Report
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of the Imaging Committee" [http://www.psu.edu/computing/imaging.html]
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-- This report outlines the recommendations to Penn State University
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administration on the use of imaging technology. The report covers
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administrative and business use as well as archiving and educational
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use of imaging. The report, laid out generally and with concise
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recommendations and considerations, serves as a useful reference
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as to how one university is planning for the long-range use of
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imaging. -- RR
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Platt, Charles. "Interactive Entertainment: Who Writes It? Who Reads
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It? Who Needs It?" Wired 3(9) (September 1995): 145-149, 195-197.
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-- As digital hypermedia (most notoriously as CD-ROMs and WWW sites
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currently) is adapted from research use to entertainment, the
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conundrum appears that hypermedia is well-suited to organizing
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access to layers of discrete research facts, even context, but it
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is less suited to storytelling or other linear forms of information
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most used for entertainment, and often pedagogy as well. This article
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explores the apparent rift between author and user control, asking
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whether user-control really equals user-engagement. Hypermedia is not
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trounced by any means, but rather implicit in the article is the
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suggestion that digital hypermedia, like cinema before it, needs to
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stop relying on previous-media modes of operation and invent its own.
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This article will be useful to anyone developing hypermedia
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interfaces for educational or entertainment use. -- RR
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Schussler, Terry and Tim Tully. "Compression Tips for QuickTime
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Video: Codecs" New Media 5(9) (September 1995): 79-80. -- An
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intermediate level technical article about video compression codecs.
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The advantages and drawbacks of each codec built into QuickTime are
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outlined to help you decide which to select in your QuickTime editing
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software for your purposes (archiving video, playback for delivery,
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etc). -- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Lowry, Charles B., "Preparing for the Technological Future: A Journey
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of Discovery" Library Hi Tech Issue 51 13(3) (1995):39-54. -- Lowry,
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the university librarian at Carnegie Mellon University, examines
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several steps which are crucial for building the "virtual library"
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paradigm. Technologies which give users easy access to information
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and provide for user privacy and royalty tracking must be assembled.
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Bodies of substantive data must be digitized. Copyright laws need to
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support distributed electronic libraries and networked access. The
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success of the virtual library depends on the use of open systems and
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standards such as Z39.50 to promote interoperability. Searching
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results can be improved by moving from Boolean or keyword-based
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retrieval to natural language processing (NLP) which yields more
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precise results in searches of full-text databases. A subject-oriented
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approach to indexing Internet resources should be implemented.
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Libraries must migrate from traditional OPACs to GUI environments
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capable of the multimedia available. Some examples of how Carnegie
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Mellon is using information technology and NLP to build the
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foundations of the virtual library round out this informative article.
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-- CJC
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Weibel, Stuart L. "The World Wide Web and Emerging Internet Resource
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Discovery Standards for Scholarly Literature" Library Trends 43(4)
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(Spring 1995): 627-634. -- Weibel has penned one of the best
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overviews I've ever seen of the current benefits and future potential
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of the Web for scholarly communication and publishing. He outlines a
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set of problems relating to this technology and discusses ways of
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addressing them. Weibel's insight into the issues is remarkable, and
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is matched by a clear and engaging writing style. If you must limit
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your reading to only essential pieces, this article should top the
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list. If you are an information professional, you cannot afford to
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be ignorant of the issues Weibel so clearly and insightfully
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describes. -- RT
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Weissinger, Nancy J. and John P. Edwards. "Online Resources for
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Internet Trainers" College & Research Libraries News 56(8)
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(September 1995): 535-539, 572. -- A bibliography of selected
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Internet training materials available over the Internet, this
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article provides a timely list of course materials that may be
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helpful in planning and constructing Internet training sessions
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or programs. It also lists references to online courses and
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tutorials that have been developed and made available on the
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Internet as well as a list of online reference sources and
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subject guides. Also included is a list of newsgroups and
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listservs of particular interest to Internet trainers. -- MP
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