Public Access Computer Systems Review Table Of Contents v6n03 (1995) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/pacsr/pr-v6n03-contents + Page 1 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Volume 6, Number 3 (1995) ISSN 1048-6542 ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNICATIONS Roderick D. Atkinson and Laurie E. Stackpole, TORPEDO: Networked Access to Full-Text and Page-Image Representations of Physics Journals and Technical Reports The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Library and the American Physical Society (APS) are experimenting with electronically disseminating journals and reports over NRL campus networks. The project is called TORPEDO (The Optical Retrieval Project: Electronic Documents Online). It involves storing and disseminating two APS journals (Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E) as well as the NRL collection of unclassified, unlimited distribution technical reports. These paper-format journals and reports are scanned at NRL to create CCITT Group IV image files, the image files are converted to ASCII files using OCR, both types of files are associated with bibliographic information, and they are imported into a client/server-based commercial imaging system. A variety of retrieval techniques are used: full-text searching using fuzzy logic, bibliographic searching, and hierarchy browsing. Client software is provided to display page images of journals and reports at workstations running Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS, or the X Window System. o HTML file World-Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n3/atki6n3.html o ASCII file Gopher: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/00/articles/e-journals/ uhlibrary/pacsreview/v6/n3/atkinson.6n3 List Server: Send the e-mail message GET ATKINSON PRV6N3 F=MAIL to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu. + Page 2 + COLUMNS Public-Access Provocations: An Informal Column Walt Crawford, (for)Getting It: Toward Small Solutions Convergence is a crock. The virtual library is a real impossibility. Grand solutions don't work. The real future is one of many small solutions pointing in many different directions. o HTML file World-Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n3/craw6n3.html o ASCII file Gopher: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/00/articles/e-journals/ uhlibrary/pacsreview/v6/n3/crawford.6n3 List Server: Send the e-mail message GET CRAWFORD PRV6N3 F=MAIL to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu. + Page 3 + ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editor-in-Chief Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University Libraries University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-2091 (713) 743-9804 cbailey@uh.edu Associate Editor, Columns Leslie Dillon, OCLC Associate Editor, Communications Dana Rooks, University of Houston Associate Editor, Production Ann Thornton, University of Houston Editorial Board Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin George H. Brett II, Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc. Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath Pat Ensor, University of Houston Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation, University of California David R. McDonald, Tufts University R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information Mike Ridley, University of Waterloo Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College Peter Stone, University of Sussex John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University + Page 4 + List Server Technical Support List server technical support is provided by the Information Technology Division, University of Houston. Tahereh Jafari is the primary support person. Publication Information The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic journal that is distributed on the Internet and on other computer networks. It is published on an irregular basis by the University Libraries, University of Houston. There is no subscription fee. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name. Circulation PACS-L@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU: 9,392 subscribers in 71 countries (PACS-L is estimated to have 10,000 additional USENET subscribers). PACS-P@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU: 3,287 subscribers in 58 countries. Electronic Distribution Each article is initially distributed in both ASCII and HTML formats. ASCII files are paginated. They are available from the following servers: o List Server: Send the e-mail message GET INDEX PR F=MAIL to listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu. o Gopher: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/11/articles/e-journals/ uhlibrary/pacsreview HTML files are not paginated. HTML files may have linked GIF files. HTML files may have internal links, external links, or both. The editors do not maintain external links. HTML files are available from the following server: o World-Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsrev.html + Page 5 + In consultation with article authors, the editors determine whether an article is updated, whether both ASCII and HTML files are created for updated articles, and whether all prior versions of an article are retained. Print Distribution 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). (Volume five is in process.) 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. Copyright The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is Copyright (C) 1995 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved. 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