McComas, 'Cyberspace Monitor', Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture v3n01 (February 5, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/aejvc/aejvc-v3n01-mccomas-cyberspace Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture ________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 February 5, 1995 Volume 3 Number 1 EJVCV3N1 MONITOR Cyberspace Monitor Karen McComas, Editor mccomas@marshall.edu _______________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Articles + Print Journals: Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? + Beyond E-Mail: Electronic Journals 2. Book Review + Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library 3. Events + Community in Cyberspace: The Emerging Law of Technology + Technologies of Freedom: State of the Nation 4. Journals + Standpoints: The Electronic Journal of Information Contexts + Journal of Electronic Publishing + New Electronic Digest About Out-of-Copyright Works 5. Net Resources + EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES LIST AND DATABASE + Five Year Index to The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1990-1994) _________________________________________________________________ Articles 1. PRINT JOURNALS: TRAGIC LOSS OR GOOD RIDDANCE? In "The Speed of Write" by Gary Stix (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, vol. 271, no. 6, December 1994, pp. 106-111), the author points out that the concern for the flow and flood of information on the Internet should not obscure the fact that print publications still present enormous problems of cost, acquisition, timeliness, and storage. Furthermore, the very electronic networks that threaten to overload us with information have the potential to improve the current state of scientific communication. The author makes his point with illustrations of current projects and publications, including an online database of high-energy physics papers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stevan Harnad's PSYCOLOQUY, a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal on cognitive psychology. Scientific American [ISSN 0036-8733] is published monthly by Scientific American, Inc., 415 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017-1111 USA. For reprints write to the above address or send a fax to: 212-355-0408. Subscriptions are $36/year (USA), $47/year (all other countries). Send subscription inquiries to Scientific American, Box 3187, Harlan, IA 51537 USA; tel: 800-333-1199 (USA and Canada); or tel: 515-247-7631 (other countries). The Los Alamos E-Print Archive is available on the World-Wide Web at http://xxx.lanl.gov/ Stevan Harnad's E-Print Archive, which includes connections to issues of Psycoloquy, is available on the World-Wide Web at http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ Additionally, one of the researchers mentioned in Stix's article, Andrew M. Odlyzko, predicts that "traditional scholarly journals will disappear in the next 10 to 20 years" in his paper "Tragic Loss or Good Riddance? The Impending Demise of Traditional Scholarly Journals." The paper is in SURFACES, an electronic journal published by the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal, and is available by anonymous FTP to host: ftp.umontreal.ca directory: /Surfaces/Articles/Ascii/Vol4 filename: A-Odlyzko.ascii [Note: Be sure to type directory names with indicated capitalization.] NOTE: The above information was obtained from From: Carolyn Kotlas IAT INFOBITS December 1994 No. 18 ISSN 1071-5223 About INFOBITS INFOBITS is an electronic service of the Institute for Academic Technology's Information Resources Group. Each month we monitor and select from a number of information technology and instruction technology sources that come to our attention and provide brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators. 2. Beyond E-Mail: Electronic Journals G. Phillip Cartwright and Diane Kovacs In a previous Technology column, I suggested three major categories of electronic communication. In decreasing order of personal involvement and by number of users, they are: communication with people, with information, and with other computers (CHANGE, July/August, 1994). Setting aside library catalog access and queries of databases until another time, the principal uses of the Internet by faculty and academic staff are for electronic mail (e-mail), conferences or academic lists (e-conferences), and journals (e- journals). In this column, we'd like to touch upon electronic mail, look at the concept of electronic academic journals, and share with you the process -- and some results -- of establishing an electronic, refereed journal. We think electronic conferences or academic lists that facilitate communication among academic communities are pretty exciting, too, even if some of us tend to think of them as poor cousins to the more prestigious refereed journal. Electronic conferences are an interesting phenomenon; perhaps we will examine them in another column. Electronic Mail We'll not use much ink on e-mail; it is a well known and much used tool in higher education. Steve Gilbert, AAHE's Director of Information Technology Projects, estimates that one third of the nation's faculty use e-mail and are comfortable with it. (AAHESGIT e-conference, October 12, 1994.) He bases his estimates on campus visits, academic list discussions, and on K. C. Green's annual USC survey of computing. E-mail is not a creation of the 90's; computer professionals have been using it for two decades. As Gilbert points out, though, it still is relatively new to most of us and it is not universally available. What makes e-mail an increasingly useful tool for academics? In varying degrees: rapid interchange of information, convenience, and cost. First, correspondence among colleagues using e-mail usually is quite speedy. E-mail normally takes a few minutes to deliver. Paper mail, even where it is most efficient, takes several days. In the time it takes for a single letter to reach someone, that person could have responded, been requeried and responded again several times through e-mail. Second, e-mail often is a convenient way to communicate with colleagues. Although e-mail is no substitute for a telephone conversation, it does have some advantages. The most obvious are lower costs and elimination of telephone tag. An e-mail message can provide a hard-copy record of a conversation that a phone call cannot. Also, in contrast to telephone conversations, e- mail messages tend to be briefer, more to the point, and directed to a single or very few topics. Other cost savings are for paper (most e-mail correspondence is not printed) and postage. Dozens of messages can be sent to colleagues all over the world without purchasing stamps or airmail envelopes. (But see the costs section below.) E-mail appears to be the first step toward more extensive use of the myriad resources available on the Internet. Once one learns to broadcast the same message to numerous correspondents, it is a relatively straightforward step to using electronic bulletin boards and their close relatives -- electronic discussion lists. Another avenue open to the comfortable e-mail user is the electronic journal. Electronic Journals The peer-reviewed electronic journal is an increasingly recognized mechanism for balancing the need for high quality publication of scholarship against increasing costs of print journal production. E-journals, at this juncture in their development, emulate print journals in their professionalism, style, and stature. They make every effort to maintain a level of scholarship commensurate with prestigious print journals. They are usually affiliated with a particular discipline or sub-discipline, often with a professional disciplinary association. Typically, e-journals have an editorial board with chief editors, associate editors, reviewers, and the like who are chosen because of their knowledge of the discipline covered by the journal. Dates, volume numbers, and page numbers are used in a fashion similar to that of print journals. Some e-journals publish the entire issue electronically to a membership list. Others distribute just the table of contents and abstracts along with specific information about how to obtain the full electronic text of any article. Some e-journals are distributed only over the Internet; others are available on CD-ROMs. The Editorial Process Prospective authors submit articles electronically. The electronic manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial board for appropriateness and scholarliness. Articles judged to be acceptable are edited and placed in the queue for publication. And, yes, there may be some publication lag. Although the electronic review process does take less time than the traditional method of sending manuscripts back and forth through the postal service, there are still authors and editors who miss publication deadlines. As is the case with most academic print journals, authors and editors donate their time as part of their professional obligation to the field. Therefore, the editing process costs are about the same for print and paper journals. The big time and cost savings are in distribution. There are no printing costs and no postage costs for electronic distribution of e-journals over the Internet. E-journals are transmitted rapidly and instantly to all parts of the world with none of the delays sometimes associated with conventinal postal services. Examples of E-journals Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory for 1993-94 reports there are 140,000 newspapers, periodicals, magazines, and journals world-wide. Fewer than 1% (1100 or so) are the scholarly academic journals that use the peer review process to screen articles. There are far fewer refereed electronic journals. According to Ulrich's Directory, there are about 80 such journals currently available, 25 to 30 of which appear to be truly peer- reviewed scholarly journals. These journals range from Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis through Psycoloquy (psychology, neurosciences, and cognitive science) to one of the earliest, Postmodern Culture. Surprisingly, of the total array of periodicals (including juried journals) fully 3,838 of them are available in machine readable form, mostly CDROM or commercial database format. If you can get access to a "gopher" connection, you can peruse someof the journals reported in Ulrich's. The CICNet maintains electronic archives that claim to be a comprehensive collection of all electronic journals in the public domain that are currently available over the Internet. You could also look through the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists. After spending some time reviewing most of the available e-journals, we've observed that there was a big jump in the number of e-journals in 1992 and 1993. Not all those journals have survived. Also, many of the items listed in these sources are useful electronic communications and newsletters but are not peer reviewed journals. Others are electronic versions of conventional print journals. The subject headings in the lists of electronic journals (and newsletters) range from Art, Business, Computing, Culture, and Disabilities to Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, and Sports. We have concluded that refereed electronic journals fall roughly into two camps: those that address the electronic medium itself or its relationship to a particular field or the broader culture; and those that are squarely focused upon a particular discipline. The first group contains such publications as ArtCom, study of the interface between art and communication technology; LIBRES, Library and Information Science Research; Autotomatome, a journal of the American Association of Law Libraries; Ejournal, implications of electronic networks and text; IPCT, Interpersonal Computing and Technology; and Internet Business Journal, commercial opportunities in the networking age. Perhaps of more interest to the general readership of CHANGE are those e-journals that focus upon a discipline, in the style of traditional academic journals. These journals include Architronics, the electronic journal of architecture; Artificial Intelligence Journal; Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy; Chemical Engineering Digest; Electronic Antiquity -- communicating the classics (University of Tasmania); Journal of Statistics Education; Psycoloquy, sponsored by the American Psychological Association; and the lightly edited SMB Digest of the Society for Mathematical Biology. Starting an e-journal In 1992, the two of us joined a dozen other people to establish a scholarly electronic journal. Our goals were clear: We wanted to produce a journal that: 1. explores the relationships of culture and society with electronic communication and computer technology, and 2. equals or excells the scholarly quality of print based journals. It was our intent that articles published in the new e- journal be equivalent to those published in paper journals, and, for purposes of evaluation of faculty, articles would be judged on their merit and not upon the type of publication (print or electronic). The dozen or so founding editors used a private electronic conference to develop goals, procedures, editorial policies, the masthead and logo, and the journal name: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture (EJVC). Many of the editors and reviewers have not met each other face to face, or even by telephone. Prospective articles must be submitted electronically, and all peer reviews and editing are done through e-mail or a private e-conference for the editors, associate editors, and reviewers. The first issue of EJVC was issued in March 1993. Two years later, after a total of 12 issues, we think we have reached our goals. The scholarly impact of any new journal is hard to judge but informal feedback assures us that tenure and promotion committees have viewed publication in this electronic journal in a neutral or positive fashion. Distribution and number of subscribers is gratifying as well. EJVC has 1200 subscribers in 52 countries ranging from Argentina to Venezuela. Costs of E-journals Ask a subscriber about the costs of e-mail and electronic journals and you may hear that there are no costs beyond the individual hardware -- computer, and modem or network connection. This end user view is, of course, only part of the story. Although individual university affiliated scholars generally do not have to pay for their Internet access, their institutions DO have to pay for network access at costs ranging from $5,000 to $22,000, depending upon the size of the institution. Almost every major university and college in the United States provides Internet access to their faculty and students. Even very small colleges generate over a million electronic transactions per month (e-mail, file transfer, library catalog queries, etc.). Large comprehensive state universities may average 15 million transactions monthly. There are costs to the institution for telecommunication line leasing or installation. Institutions must purchase equipment and hire people to support network access. Many university computer centers offer classes and assistance to users. There are also time costs to the end user. Some of these costs to faculty members and staff are the time it takes to learn how to use communications software and manage Internet access, if not the time it takes to read e-mail or academic list postings and to reply. (Although the time spent reading and replying to e-mail is no greater than time spent reading and replying to paper mail and phone calls.) All in all, electronic access to people and information is an enormous time saver for faculty and academic staff. Some Suggestions It is clear that faculty and academic staff are embracing e- mail in a big way. There is a less apparent movement toward accepting e-journals as an integral part of their scholarly lives. If you haven't yet become an e-journal subscriber, we urge you to give it a try. One way to get started is to secure a copy of the Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. It contains a brief description of the 2,000 or so academic lists and journals along with instructions about subscribing to individual journals. (See Kovacs et al, in the Resources section.). Sign up for a journal or two and give it a try. Some of the journals include notices about upcoming conferences or events as well as letters to the editor sections. If you already subscribe to an e-journal, become an active participant in the letters or open forum sections or volunteer to be a reviewer. It is inevitable that these journals will multiply. It is our duty as academics, though, to insist that such journals maintain a high quality standard. Resources Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, 4th ed. (May 1994) Washington, DC: Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing, Association of Research Libraries (compiled by Diane K. Kovacs, the Directory Team and ARL Staff). Green, K. C. (1994). Campus Computing 1994. The USC Survey of Computing in Higher Education. The James Irvine Foundation Center for Scholarly Technology, University of Southern California, 300 Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182. Kovacs, Diane K., et al. (1990-1994 ) Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, 8th Revision. (available from LISTSERV@KENTVM kent.edu, via anonymous FTP from ksuvxb.kent.edu /library and gopher refmac.kent.edu) Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. 32nd edition, 1993-94. R. R. Bowker International: New Providence, NJ. G. Phillip Cartwright is Emeritus Professor, University of California. As usual, he can be reached at pcartwri@kentvm.kent.edu Diane K. Kovacs is Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian, Kent State University; and Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, and LIBRES. Her e-mail address is dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu _________________________________________________________________ Book Review By: Michael Stacey Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library David Flanagan O'Reilly and Associates With the CPUs in today's computer systems growing in horsepower and shrinking in price, application programmers can afford to burn some cycles supporting advanced graphic user interfaces (GUIs) , and users have come to expect GUIs in applications on platforms ranging from PCs to high end RISC workstations. In Motif Tools, Flanagan provides close to a thousand pages of tools and techniques to simplify the design and creation of these GUIs using the Motif(c) widget library. The book is targeted at programmers at the intermediate level of competence who have experience with C and at least a nodding acquaintance with the widget GUI architecture of the X windows system. The Motif widget library is required. Motif programmers are used to using resource files to specify widget behavior in applications. Things like colors and fonts can be set in resource files, allowing end users to change the look and feel of an application without recompiling the source code. Flanagan extends the resource file mechanism to allow interfaces to be created without writing a line of C code. Using the Xmt library, widgets can be created and attached to callback functions in resource files. Widgets can also access application data structures through the registration of "symbols" in the resource file. To test interfaces designed in resource files, Flanagan also provides a program called "mockup" that reads resource files and creates a working interface. This fast prototyping lets programmers create and experiment with Motif interfaces without having to write and compile C code. Menu systems in Motif can be quite complex to design, and the Xmt library provides support for the creation of complicated pulldown menu systems in resource files. Complex menu trees including pulldown menus and tearoff panes can be described in resource files, and the mockup program will show the menus in action. Xmt also provides a collection of new widgets. The Layout widget is a container widget that allows sophisticated placement and sizing specification for its child widgets in the resource file. For all of those programmers who have wrestled with the Motif Form widget, this alone could pay for the book. Widgets are also provided for some standard functions in a main application window like message line handling, command interpretation, and graphic work area management and creation. Simple user input is also included in the Xmt library. In Motif programming, it is often necessary to write many lines of code to accomplish what a simple scanf() command would in text-based application. Support for dialog boxes for string input, numeric input, Boolean (yes or no) input, and filename selection are provided. A sophisticated XmtChooser widget is also included to present a list of choices in a variety of ways. Input fields are also supported, with error checking and a simple template description that describes the expected format of the user input. Context sensitive help makes an application easy to learn and use, but is often difficult to implement. The Xmt library simplifies the inclusion of context sensitive help in Motif applications. Help text can be defined for any widgets in an application, and the library provides support for looking up help for a particular part of the application at runtime. Many more features are included in the Xmt library. Complete source code is provided on an included CD. _________________________________________________________________ Events 1. Community in Cyberspace: The Emerging Law of Technology Presented By: The Richmond Law & Technology Association Date: Saturday, February 4, 1995 Time: 9am to 5pm Where: TC Williams School of Law, University of Richmond Sponsored by: TC Williams School of Law Richmond Student Bar Association Electronic Frontier Foundation ACLU of Virginia Virginia State Bar Special Legal Networking Committee Central Virginia's Free-Net Credit: This program meets the requirements of the Virginia State Bar for 4.5 MCLE credit hours including .5 Ethics credit hours. Cost: $75, General public $60, members of co-sponsoring organizations $10, students Featured Speakers: Dan Burk (George Mason School of Law): Trademarks and the National Information Infrastructure. Trotter Hardy (College of William & Mary School of Law): Copyright and the NII. Brock Meeks (CyberWire Dispatch): Community on the Net. Shari Steele (Electronic Frontier Foundation): Civil Liberties in Cyberspace. Henry Su (Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins): Lawyers and Ethics: Etiquette, Morality and Free Speech on the Information Superhighway. Round Table Discussions: Community Activism on the Internet. Will include Peter Harter (Executive Director and General Counsel, National Public Telecomputing Network), Danny Arkin (President, Central Virginia's Free-Net), Carol Woodward (Virginia State Bar) and Bill Cooper (ACLU of Virginia). The Law of Cyberspace: The Next Five Years. Will include Dan Burk, Trotter Hardy, Shari Steele, Henry Su and Peter Harter. For bios of each speaker, abstracts of each presentation and more information about the symposium in general, please visit the Law & Technology Association (LTA) Symposium home page: http://freenet.vcu.edu/science/lawtech/sympinfo.html The Richmond Law & Technology Association is a student organization at the University of Richmond School of Law. We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. The Richmond Law & Technology Association University of Richmond School of Law Richmond, VA 23173 E-mail: lta@uofrlaw.urich.edu WWW: http://freenet.vcu.edu/science/lawtech/lawtech.html Voice: +1 804 287-6811 Fax: +1 804 289-8683 Please feel free to redistribute this announcement wherever it is appropriate. 2. Technologies of Freedom: State of the Nation Dear Net Friends, Please join us at the Alliance for Public Technology's annual conference in Washington, DC from February 23-25. Register and reserve your hotel room before January 26 to save! The conference agenda and registration information appear below. I hope to meet lots of you there! Take care, Ruth Ruth Holder Alliance for Public Technology (APT) | Internet: holder@apt.org 901 15th St. NW #230 | 202/408-1403 (voice/TTY) Washington, DC 20005 | 202/408-1134 (fax) For more online information about the Alliance for Public Technology: http://apt.org/apt.html gopher://apt.org:1600 ftp://apt.org/pub/Alliance_for_Public_Technology_APT 3. TECHNOLOGIES OF FREEDOM: STATE OF THE NATION A Conference on the Progress of the National Information Infrastructure Thursday - Saturday, February 23-25, 1995 The Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill 525 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC The Fifth Annual Conference of the Alliance for Public Technology (APT), a nonprofit coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology. REGISTER BY JANUARY 26 AND SAVE! (Registration form appears at the end of this message) The Alliance for Public Technology invites you to join public interest advocates, key policy makers and industry experts who are shaping the future of telecommunications. The conference facility is wheelchair accessible and sign language interpreters will be available at all sessions. For materials in alternative formats or other accommodations, please contact Ruth Holder at APT: 202/408-1403 (Voice/TTY); 202/408-1134 (fax); holder@apt.org (e-mail). _________________________________________________________________ Journals 1. Standpoints: The Electronic Journal of Information Contexts Edited by Kathleen Burnett and Hur-Li Lee Technical editor, Rebecca Pressman The theme of the 1994 ALISE (Association of Library and Information Science Education) conference in Los Angeles, "Intellectual Diversity: Cross Disciplinary Connections and Perspectives" reflects the growing interest library educators have in acknowledging the urgent need for broader and more diversified approaches to library and information studies. Among the topics discussed at the conference were various perspectives--such as multiculturalism and feminist stand point theory--and alternative research methodologies--such as ethnography. While these perspectives and approaches are not new to the field, the conference amplified voices which were previously only whispers buried in the chatter. With the publication of Standpoints: the Electronic Journal of Information Contexts, we hope to address at least one of barriers that prevent researchers from generating such scholarship--lack of incentive. Positivist models still dominate the research paradigms of the field. Researchers are reluctant to engage in projects that employ alternative perspectives due to perceived difficulties in obtaining funding and scholarly recognition. Qualitative studies may not be valued by positivist reviewers and therefore be rejected for publication. Tenure committees may not look favorably on less well-established methodologies and may be suspicious of interdisciplinary efforts. Some of us who attended the 1994 ALISE conference see the need for creating a new forum that will provide an open environment for different voices representing a variety of points of view on and approaches to a wide range of concerns in the library and information field.This refereed electronic journal will be interdisciplinary, rather than disciplinary, and inclusive, rather than exclusive, in nature. It welcomes any sound research that deals with issues related to information contexts. The preference will be given to those studies taking non-traditional perspectives and/or approaches; to studies asking questions starting from lives of a wider variety of people; and to studies exhibiting interdisciplinarity. It is the sincere hope of the editors that the publication of this journal will add diversity to our field and contribute to its scholarly development. Standpoints: the Electronic Journal of Information Contexts is a new forum for different voices representing a variety of points of view on and approaches to a wide range of concerns in information contexts. Our vision of the journal is an expansive one. We wish to support an open, interdisciplinary, and inclusive environment devoted the development of theory and publication of research about information and its contexts. Some examples of the relationships we would like to see this journal support include: interpersonal communication in information contexts; gender studies in telecommunications; research in the communication of information about "taboo" subjects; intercultural communication of information; critical theory as applied to information systems design; information cultures and counter-cultures; analyses of contemporary technological responses to the "information gap"; and building a conceptual framework for the organization of electronic information. We welcome contributions from all standpoints and methodologies. We prefer submissions in html markup format. These can be emailed in binary form to: kburnett@gandalf.rutgers.edu. We will also accept plain ascii files at the same address. If you do not have access to an e-mail account, you may submit in disk format to the following address: Kathleen Burnett, Rutgers University, SCILS, 4 Huntington St. We can handle both Mac and IBM/DOS formats, including most common word processing software programs. 2. Journal of Electronic Publishing The University of Michigan Press has created a web site for electronic publishing called the Journal of Electronic Publishing. About ten papers are placed on the site presently. The URL of the Journal is: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep There are a couple of papers related to recent topics on this list: William Strong, partner at Kotin, Crabtree, and Strong in Boston has an essay on copyright: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/strong.copyright.html Philip Greenspun has an essay discussing the limitations of HTML as publishing medium: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/research/shame-and-war.html Also, the homepage of the Journal carries a copyright notice that those in similar situations might find useful. Dean Blobaum The University of Chicago Press dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu For info on University of Chicago Press publications: URL = gopher://press-gopher.uchicago.edu:70/1 3. New Electronic Digest about Out-of-Copyright Works ANNOUNCING NEW ELECTRONIC DIGEST OF LEADING REPORT ON OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT WORKS Public Domain Research Corp. (PDRC) is pleased to announce its arrival online by offering a free electronic digest of its monthly print newsletter, PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT. The first issue of this new electronic digest will include outlines of selected articles and several sample public domain works from the January issue of PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT, and will be distributed to email subscribers on January 3, 1995. ------------------------------ To subscribe, reply to this announcement, or send a SUBSCRIBE message to nruggles@panix.com. Please include your name and organizational affiliation. ------------------------------ ******* Coming in the January Issue of PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT ******* ******* GATT USHERS IN NEW ERA IN U.S. COPYRIGHT PROTECTION ******* The U.S. acceptance of the GATT will have a significant impact on certain public domain works. In fact, certain works previously in the public domain in the U.S. will actually have their copyright protection restored. In the January issue, PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT will outline some important aspects of the GATT including the filing and notice requirements imposed on owners of newly restored copyrights. While it is true that most works which are public domain in the U.S. will not have their copyrights restored, this information is vital for anyone using PD works... PLUS 100 Irving Berlin Songs Out of Copyright in the US...Newly PD tale by Zane Grey ...several Warner Brothers films... and scores of other significant public domain works will be presented in the January issue of PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT. PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT is a monthly guide to significant songs, books, plays, films, art, photographs, and children's works for which the U.S. copyright has expired. Besides listing and reviewing PD works, PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT provides information on important legislation impacting U.S. copyright. Each issue also includes articles detailing the actual uses of PD works, and "User Guides" to help subscribers avoid the common pitfalls when using out-of-copyright works. PUBLIC DOMAIN REPORT is published by Public Domain Research Corp., Post Office Box 3102, Margate, NJ 08402. Public Domain Research Corp. (PDRC) serves professionals in the entertainment, advertising, and legal communities as the premier source of information on the public domain. Print subscribers have exclusive access to PDRC's vast library of public domain sheet music and other indispensable services such as specialized copyright research. PDRC has reported on nearly 2,500 public domain works since August 1993. STAFF ----------------------------------------- Editor-in-Chief: E. Scott Johnson Executive Publisher: James F. Colaianni Publisher: James F. Colaianni, Jr. Associate Editor: Scott A. Johnson Electronic Editor: Neil Ruggles ADVISORY BOARD -------------------------------- Glen Bentley, Senior VP and Creative Director McCann-Erickson Daniel Gorski, Director, Glassell School of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Beryl Handler, Producer Jack Heyrman, President Clean Cuts Music, Inc. Karen Johnson, Vice President Private Music, Inc. Al Kohn, Vice President, Licensing, (retired) Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. Robert H. Kohn, Esq., VP and General Counsel Borland International, Inc. M. William Krasilovsky, Esq. David Pierce, Copyright Services Milestone Press Gerard W. Purcell, President Gerard W. Purcell Associates Leon Redbone, Recording Artist Jay A. Rosenthal, Esq. Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe Frank Byron Tucker, Executive VP and CEO Eisner & Associates ----------------------------------------------- Neil Ruggles, Electronic Editor nruggles@panix.com Public Domain Report Electronic Digest Post Office Box 3102 Margate, NJ 08402 _____________________________________________________________ Net Resources 1. EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES LIST AND DATABASE The following review is from Doug Walker, the moderator and owner of INCLASS (mentioned in IAT INFOBITS, November 1994). "Educators will be happy to discover the excellent new resource EDRES-L and its companion data base EDRES-DB. Although they have only recently burst upon the Internet education scene, they are rapidly becoming sources of information that are hard to do without. "The list is for posting pointers to and users' reviews of any and all Internet education-related resources, old and new. This focuses on the hands-on, practical aspect of what's out there. Articles on specific topics go into EDRES-DB. "The data base is flexibly searchable, very well designed, and very user friendly. Rather sophisticated in syntax, EDRES-DB comes with a set of templates that you can easily adapt to whatever items you are looking for. (I had a good time over the weekend testing it out, trolling its waters for useful items for my teaching needs. The data base templates worked flawlessly for me the first time). "EDRES-L and EDRES-DB are excellent companion resources to data bases such as those of ERIC and ONTERIS, and lists such as KIDSPHERE, IECC, etc." --Doug Walker, dewalker@schoolnet.carleton.ca To subscribe send email to listserv@unb.ca or listserv@unbvm1.bitnet with the message: subscribe EDRES-L your_firstname your_lastname 2. Five-Year Index to The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1990-1994) By Charles W. Bailey, Jr. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS Review) is an electronic journal about end-user computer systems in libraries. It is distributed at no charge on the Internet and other computer networks. The journal publishes papers on topics such as campus-wide information systems, CD-ROM LANs, document delivery systems, electronic publishing, expert systems, hypermedia and multimedia systems, locally mounted databases, network-based information resources and tools, and online catalogs. It is published by the University of Houston Libraries. The PACS Review was established in 1989. The first issue was published in 1990. The journal became refereed in 1991; the first refereed paper was published in 1992. The PACS Review has two sections: Communications (papers selected by the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editor, Communications) and Refereed Articles (papers that are peer reviewed by Editorial Board members using a double-blind review procedure). The PACS Review also includes columns. It is published on an irregular basis. Issues may contain a single article or multiple articles. The PACS Review is associated with the moderated PACS-L list, which serves over 9,020 users in 69 countries. (There is also a PACS-L USENET feed that serves a large number of users.) PACS-L was founded in 1989 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.; it is currently moderated by Dana Rooks, Jill Hackenberg, and Linda Thompson. PACS-L users have an automatic subscription to the PACS Review. To join PACS-L, send the following e-mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu: SUBSCRIBE PACS-L First Name Last Name A second list, PACS-P, was established in 1991 for libraries and other users who want to receive the PACS Review and other PACS-L publications, but who do not want do receive messages from PACS-L users. The PACS-P list serves over 2,910 users in 55 countries. To join PACS-P, send the following e-mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name The first four volumes of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review are also available in book form from the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). The price of each volume is $17 for LITA members and $20 for non-LITA members. All four volumes can be ordered as a set for $60. To order, contact: ALA Publishing Services, Order Department, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611-2729, (800) 545-2433. To retrieve an article, send an e-mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu that contains the GET command shown after the article's citation. Back issues are also available from the University of Houston Libraries' Gopher server. 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