Citations for Serial Literature v4n01 (February 18, 1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/csl/csl-v4n01 CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE ISSN 1061-7434 Volume 4, number 1 February 18, 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this issue: CONSERline, No. 3, November 1994 Newsletter on Serials Pricing Issues, NO 129, December 9, 1994 NASIG Newsletter, Vol. 9, no. 5, December 1994 Serials Review, Vol. 20, no.4, 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONSERline ~~~~~~~~~~ Newsletter of the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) Program ISSN 1072-611X No. 3 Library of Congress November 1994 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONTENTS New York Public Library Joins CONSER Linda Bartley Resigns Linda Bartley: An Appreciation CONSER People About CONSER CONSER Documentation Update Next Issue of CONSERline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _CONSERline_ is available in electronic form only and is free of charge. 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PRESIDENT'S CORNER NASIG CONFERENCES, PAST AND FUTURE 2. 9th Annual NASIG Conference: Conference Evaluation Report 3. 10th Annual NASIG Conference 4. Calling All NASIG Lifers 5. NASIG Pictures Needed! 6. Proceeding(s) Ahead! 7. Past NASIG Conference Proceedings NASIG AWARDS AVAILABLE 8. Student Grant Awards 9. Horizon Award 10. Founders Research Grant 11. NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL BOARD CHANGES 12. CORRECTIONS TO THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE ABOUT NASIG MEMBERS 13. New Members 14. Title Changes 15. Membership Renewal Reminder 16. NASIG Regional Councils and Memberships Committee Report SERIALS-RELATED REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS 17. CSISAC Report 18. MLA Conference Report 19. First Step Award 20. CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS 21. MASTHEAD 22. NASIG LIAISONS ROSTER 23. MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM NASIG NEWSLETTER ISSN 0892-1773 CODEN NASNE6 Published five times per year by the North American Serials Interest Group. Covers NASIG meetings and conferences; includes pertinent news items and announcements. 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The provisional government has fallen and the revolutionary council has sent a message asking, _Where do libraries stand?_ The answer libraries give, Jaffe argues in this article, will decide the fate of a lot of people. If we fail to acknowledge the power of the new information technologies, libraries and librarians will be swept away as irrelevant, leaving the course of information service to technocrats and business people. If we take up the new media with revolutionary zeal and abandon traditional library resources, we betray a rich and still-living heritage and the people who depend on us for those resources. Our answer has to find a balance, one that honors and perpetuates what is good about the past and also embraces the future. Page 7 Equity and Efficiency in the Electronic Distribution of Information Robert McClelland One of the issues in the electronic distribution of information, such as the information highway, is how to distribute the extra costs users impose. While the idea that efficiency requires that users pay for these additional costs has long been known in economics, it is still a contentious idea because of the fear that bearing these costs will prevent some users from using the system. In this article, McClelland argues that there are more serious and long-term threats to equity than the payment of these marginal costs. Specifically, he argues that access is already more seriously restricted because users need to have access to a computer and are mostly affiliated with universities and research institutes. Further, the information presently consumed by those without access can be of lower quality than those with access. Page 11 Storerights, Access Rights, and Copyright Law: The Base of the Iceberg John Garrett and M. Stuart Lynn Although its use extends to other media and other situations, the concept of copyright was born in the age of paper. Since before the Gutenberg revolution _at least in the West_ paper has served as the single dominant medium for the four functions of capture, storage, access, and presentation of information and ideas. With the advent of digital electronic technologies, different media can be employed for each of these functions, with paper retaining its predominant position perhaps only at the point of actual presentation or use. The term _copyright_ as commonly used has not distinguished among these functions. But, the authors suggest, when the separateness of these functions is recognized, it raises the question of whether the single umbrella concept of copyright as it is usually discussed, understood, and embodied in contractual agreements best serves the interests of both producers and consumers. Page 15 A Cooperative Framework for Enhancing Research Communication in Science and Technology Brian Kahin The advance of computer and network technologies, including dramatically decreasing costs for storage, transmission, and processing of information, creates important new opportunities for managing and communicating scientific and technical information. However, there are major costs and risks associated with creating and maintaining effective knowledge management systems, and organizing potential users to help recover costs is difficult. In this article, Kahin argues that a framework is needed for encouraging interinstitutional cooperation and standards and for aggregating demand from institutional and individual end-users. An organization is proposed to facilitate cooperative efforts to collect, organize, and disseminate information in specialized fields, and to develop new technologies and interdisciplinary utilities. The organization would develop procedures for using the network to advertise projects, elicit demand, and secure advance support from participants and/or subscribers. Page 17 Electronic Journal Forum: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the International Conference on Refereed Journals, October 1993 H. Julene Butler, Guest Editor, with a sidebar by Larry W. Hurtado Last year's International Conference on Refereed Electronic Journals, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was a dynamic forum for discussion of the current state of electronic journals and provided opportunities to contemplate the future of electronic publication of scholarly ideas. The conference was organized to help create a consortium of universities, colleges, and learned societies to promote and develop the Internet as a channel for research publication. Its guiding premise was the idea that scholars must accept a major share of responsibility for shaping how research is published in the electronic environment. In this article, Butler presents abstracts of the major presentations. Page 21 The Balance Point: Naming and Describing Networked Electronic Resources: The Role of Uniform Resource Identifiers Ellen Finnie Duranceau, with contributions by Alan Emtage, Karen Sollins, Rebecca Lasher, and Clifford A. Lynch Serialists today face an entirely new domain of information that requires bibliographic control: networked information resources. A subgroup of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the IETF Working Group on Uniform Resource identifiers, has created a structure for naming networked resources and describing them and their locations in etherspace. In this column, four writers who have been closely involved with this work describe the current model. It involves the use of Uniform Resource Identifiers, including the Uniform Resource Name, Uniform Resource Locator, and Uniform Resource Characteristics. Page 31 Underground Press Veteran Discovers Thriving, Self-Described Underground Press Scene Ken Wachsberger, with sidebars by Ted Anton, Burton Joseph, and Chris Dodge The term _underground press_ generally refers to the dissident press of the Vietnam Era, particularly from 1965 to 1973. At a conference in 1973, participants changed the term to _alternative press_ because ideas that had appeared first in the underground press were by then everywhere, even on the pages of the corporate press. The underground press in name ceased to exist. But today there is a new underground press scene, as Wachsberger discovered when he spoke at the Underground Press Conference in Chicago, and it is thriving. In sidebars, Anton warns that the priceless right of freedom to think and speak is in more danger today than ever before in our country; Joseph discusses court cases involving censorship of comic books and bookstores; and Dodge offers a shopping list of zines that review zines. Page 53 Conference Reports Trina Richard and Sarah D. Tusa Richard reports on the 9th Annual Conference of the North American Serials Interest Group. Tusa reports on _Electronic Journals and the Modern Library,_ Marilyn Geller's preconference workshop of the AMIGOS Spring 1994 Membership Conference. Page 61 >From Spirituals to Gospel Rap: Gospel Music Periodicals Timothy Dodge There is no denying the impact of gospel music on popular music in America. Gospel music has symbiotic connections to folk music, blues, jazz, country, rock, soul, and even rap music. It is closely associated with both African-American and southern white culture. In this article, Dodge reviews periodicals that cover the range of black and white gospel styles from traditional to contemporary. He reviews a core list of titles which focus exclusively on gospel music and he covers a large list of non-core titles as well. Additional titles provide access to periodicals which include frequent or in-depth occasional coverage of gospel music along with other forms of related music. Page 67 Serials Review Index Douglas A. DeLong The editors scan approximately 150 journals in all disciplines for reviews of serial publications. Journals published since the summer of 1993 were monitored for this installment. Page 79 ------------------------------ Serials Review, vol. 20 is published by Pierian Press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE is an electronic index which publishes the table of contents and abstracts, when available, for articles related to the serials information chain. It is NOT an electronic discussion list. All complete and selective table of contents materials in CITATIONS FOR SERIAL LITERATURE are reproduced with the permission of the original publisher. 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