Electronic Sources for West European History and Culture
Electronic Sources for West European History and Culture
Version 2.0 June, 1994
The intent of this guide is to offer a cross-disciplinary approach to varied electronic
sources directly related to European history. Because of the proliferation of sources and
an attempt to keep the work within reasonable boundaries, it covers only the countries of
western Europe. Within that geographical scope, the guide identifies Internet resources as
diverse as listservers and the means of accessing the catalogs of European libraries. It
cites other electronic information sources as varied as CD-ROM products, text and data
archives, and electronic bibliographies. Through integrating interdisciplinary and
cross-electronic sources within the disciplinary, geographic, or period frameworks common
to historians, the guide intends to alert historians to the potential of electronic
resources and to provide information that will enable them to begin to make efficient use
of those resources.
Since the guide does not seek to define the boundaries of history, it includes related
disciplines such as literary and cultural history, art and music. It does not intend,
although some information is needed to make sources intelligible, to be a primer on
Internet access or electronic techniques. The glossary of terms and techniques provides
basic information about possibly unfamiliar territory. It does not substitute for other,
more comprehensive works, both electronic and published, that are listed in the
bibliography at the end of the text.
The revision of the guide could not have been completed without extraordinarily
generous contributions from my librarian colleagues. They have generously and without
reservation followed the traditions of the profession by sharing information and offering
suggestions. The revision also owes significant debts to the compilers of other guides who
were in many cases path breakers in a rapidly evolving field.
Although reliance on secondary sources was inevitable given the work's scope, the
following text is derived, whenever possible, from personal experience or from information
or self-descriptions provided by sources themselves. Personal comments based on the
compiler's experiences and acknowledgements of the contributions of individuals through
inclusion of their names are in {} in the following when context might be unclear as to my
personal opinions.
Please send additions, corrections, questions, or suggestions to: Erwin K. Welsch West
European History Librarian Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison
(ewelsch@WISCMACC.Bitnet) (ewelsch@vms.macc.wisc.edu)
CONTENTS I. General History
A. Listservers
B. Electronic History Journals
C. Other Resources II. Sources Arranged Chronologically By Approximate Period of
Coverage: A. Ancient B. Medieval C. Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern D. 18th Century
to 1945 E. Post-1945 III. Sources arranged by country and chronologically within each: A.
Austria, Central Europe, Baltic States B. England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland C. France D.
Germany E. Greece F. Iberian Peninsula: Spain, Portugal G. Italy H. Low Countries:
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands I. Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden IV. History Sub-Disciplines A. Economic History B. Environmental History C.
Genealogy (and Family History) D. Historical Methods E. History of Printing and Publishing
F. History Pedagogy G. Labor History H. Military History I. Religious History J. Social
History K. Urban History V. Subjects Related to History (Alphabetically) A. Anthropology
B. Archaeology (and Ethnography and Folklore) C. Archives and Archivists D. Economics E.
Geography F. History of Science and Technology G. Humanities and Computers H. Law I. Music
and Art History J. Philosophy K. Politics and Political Science L. Social Science M.
Women's Studies VI. Text Archives A. Historical Text Archives 1. Mississippi State 2.
MALIN (University of Kansas) 3. Byrd (Marshall University) 4. GHETA at Groningen,
Netherlands B. Other Text Archives 1. Georgetown 2. Project Gutenberg 3. Columbia
University 4. Philosophy Archive 5. University of Virginia 6. The Center for Electronic
Texts in the Humanities (CETH) at Rutgers 7. National Archives 8. Oxford Text Archive 9.
Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank VII. HISTORY NETWORKS VIII. EUROPEAN
CD-ROM SOURCES IX. RESOURCES IN EUROPE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE INTERNET X. ASSOCIATION FOR
HISTORY AND COMPUTING XI. EUROPEAN EXHIBITS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS XII. GENERAL ONLINE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES A. Library of Congress B. OCLC C. RLIN D. CARL E. Harvard F.
BLAISE GLOSSARY A. ARCHIE B. FTP C. GOPHER D. LISTSERV E. USENET Newsgroups F. VERONICA G.
WAIS H. Worldwide Web BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. General History
A. Listservers
HISTORY The History Discussion Forum is housed on various listservers. Subscribe
through the one nearest to you. HISTORY@CSEARN (Peered) History HISTORY@DGOGWDG1 (Peered)
History HISTORY@IRLEARN (Peered) History HISTORY@MCGILL1 (Peered) History HISTORY@PSUVM
(Peered) History HISTORY@RUTVM1 (Peered) History HISTORY@UBVM (Peered) History
HISTORY@UMRVMB (Peered) History "The meaning of this list is to discuss about history
as a science, computers and historians, cultural development, cultural differences, and
philosophy. HISTORY wants to be a discussion forum for historians and bring history closer
to other sciences." Owner=113355@DOLUNI1 or TZIELKE@DGOGWDG1 (Thomas Zielke) {Some
users, such as Steve Fox (foxs@axe.humboldt.edu) have been critical of HISTORY. In a note
to the list itself dated Dec 3, 1992 Fox suggested that it was "not very good as far
as serious discussion of history issues. Seems like every time something serious gets
brought up the trivializers and/or antiquarians kill it off." A later note on
electronic journals (29-JAN-1993) described it as "sometimes nutty." A note to
HISTORY dated Dec. 3, 1992, from Thomas Zielke, founder of the list, thanks "all
those who have helped to make HISTORY what it is today - even the antiquarians," and
says that since BITNET is phasing out in Finland and HISTORY will be losing its home node
(FINHUTC) subscriptions will be moved elsewhere. Subsequently (HISTORY 22-Feb-1993) Don Mabry noted that "the list is like a cocktail party. The
conversation drifts from topic to topic. Sometimes, when there is a lull, people talk
about whatever. At other times, the conversation becomes serious. Through it all, one
learns much about how people think and what interests them. And, because of this list,
electronic resources are opening up to historians throughout the world." {Topics
covered seem predominantly American by volume, but the list does include information on
electronic sources in history and has frequent coverage of European history. There are
also frequent debates on the suitability of the list for certain types of questions as
well as relatively frequent "Pleas to end this discussion." The list produces
about 2,200 lines of text in a week.}
HISTOWNR@UBVM "Discussion list for owners of history-related lists."
Subscription is By-owner, but Review is public. "This list shall serve two purposes:
1) the exchange of mail between all lists which are dedicated to the discussion of
history-related topics. 'Mail' in this context means all postings that may be of interest
to different forums, for example job advertisements, book/software reviews, announcements,
information files etc. 2) the improvement of communication between the owners of
history-related lists. List owners can use this list to discuss list policies and
technical matters (though these discussions should rather take place on LSTOWN-L@INDYCMS),
and everything that is of interest to owners of lists that discuss historical topics. As a
consequence of the above purposes, membership is restricted to list owners only. Requests
for subscription can be sent to LISTSERV@UBVM or to the list owner directly; in both cases
the list owner decides individually whether to grant membership. HISTOWNR shall be part of
the planned History Network, a more or less loose co-operation of all lists that deal with
history." Does not maintain a Notebook but offers a DIGEST service as of 4/93.
{Contents are very miscellaneous, ranging from graduate student questions to comments
about political and social events.} Owner=113355@DOLUNI1 (Thomas Zielke)
HN-ASK-L History Network Forum. "HN-ASK-L is an unmoderated forum for discussion
by members of The History Network. The History Network is an international volunteer
organization comprised of history discussion list owners, managers of on-line resource
sites, academic computer personnel, electronic editors, and other individuals committed to
enhancing the role of computer telecommunications in historical research, developing more
effective research tools, enlarging the participation of historians in the development of
this medium, and generally promoting the development of a world-wide electronic community
of historians.
"HN-ASK-L is intended to provide members the means of formulating projects and
soliciting volunteers, discussing projects underway, asking for assistance and advice,
sharing useful information, assessing the computer needs of on-line historians, and any
other activity that may further the goals of the organization.
Editor=LHNELSON@UKANVM,113355@DOLUNI1,(HN-ASK-L) Owner=LHNELSON@UKANVM,113355@DOLUNI1
HN-ORG-L (not yet operational) The History Network. "HN-ORG-L provides the forum
for the periodic Conference of Divisions of The History Network. When the Conference of
Divisions is not in session, it acts as a medium of discussion of History Network Affairs
by the Divisional Directors and the Secretariat."
Editor=LHNELSON@UKANVM,113355@DOLUNI Owner=LHNELSON@UKANVM,113355@DOLUNI
B. Electronic History Journals
1. CLIONET: THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF HISTORY
CLIONET, a general electronic journal of history, started publication with Vol. 1, No.
1 in March, 1993 according to a copy sent to Clionet addresses on 20-MAR-1993. The first
issue contained miscellaneous information ranging from general news to information about a
women's history network to email listings and research guides. It is not restricted to
Australian history. To subscribe, send a request to: hipgt@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Paul
Turnbull)
Turnbull suggested that CLIONET might include honors students and postgraduate research
as well as that of younger scholars. He hoped that it could "become the backbone of a
national historical research network, facilitating exchange of data between researchers,
providing access to textual, audio and visual sources in various metropolitan and regional
centres, and perhaps even course materials for distance tertiary education." Another
purpose was to overcome journals' economic constraints and the length of time it takes for
research to be published.
CLIONET will reside in James Cook University's gopher, under "Academic
Departments." Files may be read in either ASCII or PostScript versions. How copies of
files are then printed or transferred to local networks will depend on what sort of
hardware you have at your disposal. If you look in the JCU gopher now you will find a copy
of this file which you may print or download to your own machine.
At the end of each year of operation, all CLIONET files will be printed onto microfiche
and deposited with the Australian National Library. Microfiche copies, complete with an
index, will be made available for sale to interested libraries and researchers.
CLIONET is interested in hearing from people willing to serve as readers or reviewers,
or as part of a working group dedicated to establishing a national history network. If you
are interested in receiving updates on the journal, register your email address with them.
2. HISTORY NEWS
HISTORY NEWS is a bulletin board service available via INTERNET from History and
Computing, University of Glasgow. Telnet address: sun.nsf.ac.uk or 128.86.8.7 Login: janet
Password: janet then type: uk.ac.glasgow.history.news
In addition to history, as of Feb., 1992, it also dealt with archeology, art history
and has good coverage of software suitable for historical research as well as an extensive
guide (314 items) to electronic historical data sets. {Extracted from INTERNET VOYAGER; I
was not able to access and verify}
3. HUMBUL
HUMBUL - Humanities Bulletin, as of Feb. 1992, is a bulletin board service at Oxford
University that is available via Internet. Telnet address: sun.nsf.ac.uk or 128.86.8.7
Login: janet Password: janet then type: uk.ac.humbul
The first time user must register on line, which is not difficult. It is possible to
access British library catalogs through HUMBUL. In addition, HUMBUL has information on the
"History and Macintosh Society" under Computer-based Groups which is intended
for historians using Apple Macintosh computers in their work.
4. ONLINE MODERN HISTORY REVIEW
In the Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0602. Thursday, 18 Mar 1993, Richard
Jensen (CAMPBELLD@APSU.BITNET) called attention to the Canadian ejournal Online Modern
History Review. The information downloaded by Jensen from FREENET VICTORIA (telnet to:
FREENET.VICTORIA.BC.CA or 134.87.16.100 and login: GUEST under the Library and Information
Services category) notes that: "<ONLINE MODERN HISTORY REVIEW>, a refereed
journal published in an electronic format, is designed to satisfy the needs of the modern
scholar who wants convenient and immediate access to the latest historical research.
ONLINE MODERN HISTORY REVIEW contents as of May 28, 1993: 1. Information about ONLINE
MODERN HISTORY REVIEW... 2. Recent Articles--Reviewed... 3. Public Forum Articles... 4.
Book Reviews and Publication Announcements... 5. Library of Historical Documents... 6.
Internet Tutorials and Resource Guides... 7. Public Discussion (moderated)... 8. Public
Discussion (unmoderated)... 9. Endowments, Scholarships, Grants, etc.... 10. Directory of
Archives, Historical Associations and Institutes... 11. Dissertation Depository--PhD
(Full-text)... 12. Dissertation Depository--MA (Full-text)...
The REVIEW is also published in an electronic format (MS-DOS -- 3 1/2" and 5
1/4" floppy) and a copy will be sent to the National Library of Canada to satisfy
legal requirements.
An unique feature of the REVIEW is the OPEN FORUM. Articles designated for the OPEN
FORUM will not be reviewed by referees but will be published in the form submitted. The
goal is to increase contact between professional and amateur historians and to stimulate
debate. Writers who seek the advice and comments of a broad audience are urged to present
their research findings to the OPEN FORUM.
To submit an article or receive subscription information contact: Dr. M. Salopek,
Editor <ONLINE MODERN HISTORY REVIEW> P.O. Box 36514 Richmond, British Columbia
Canada, V7C 5M4 E-mail: ua833@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
"... <ONLINE MODERN HISTORY REVIEW> is published by Ecu Richmond Electronic
Publisher, a division of Texxen Consulting Limited, Box 36514, Richmond, British Columbia,
Canada, V7C 5M4. The editorial offices are located in Richmond, British Columbia."
The ISSN no. is 1181-1151.
C. Other Resources
1. USENET News
soc.history and soc.culture.europe {Consists almost entirely of cross-postings from
other regionally oriented lists with few original messages.}
II. Sources Arranged Chronologically By Approximate Period of Coverage.
A. ANCIENT
1. Listservers
ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM ANCIEN-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU "History of the Ancient
Mediterranean ... a forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of information by
students and scholars of the history of the Ancient Mediterranean. ANCIEN-L is ready to
distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and calls
for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest."
Owner=JACOCK01@ULKYVM (Jim Cocks)
ORTRAD-L@LISTSERV@MIZZOU1 or LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU "ORTRAD-L seeks to
provide an interdisciplinary forum for open discussion and exchange of resources in the
general field of studies in oral tradition. All those interested in the world's living
oral traditions (e.g., African, Hispanic, Native American, etc.) or in texts with roots in
oral tradition (e.g., the Old and New Testaments, the Mahabharata, the Iliad and Odyssey,
Beowulf, etc.) are invited to join the conversation. This list should be useful for
specialists in language and literature, folklore, anthropology, history, and other
areas." Owner: CSOTTIME@MIZZOU1.BITNET or CSOTTIME@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU (John Foley).
CONTEX-L@UOTTAWA "Ancient Texts Discussion Group List." This is an academic
special interest group (also known as a Listserv List) for all who are interested in the
cross-disciplinary analysis of ancient texts. It provides a polite, scholarly, informal
forum for the discussion of the social worlds behind and within the texts of
antiquity.Subscription a decision by owner; review and notebook are private.
Owner=441495@UOTTAWA or 441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAAWA.CA (Michael Strangelove)
IBYCUS-L@USCVM Covers ancient Greek, TLG, and PHI projects.
IOUDAIOS@YORKVM1 IOUDAIOS@VM1.YORKU.CA "First Century Judaism Discussion
Forum" created 25 April 90. "IOUDAIOS (Greek for "Jew") is an
electronic seminar devoted to the exploration of first-century Judaism; its special
interest is in the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. ... Prospective
members are warmly welcomed. (The discussion assumes a significant background in
first-century Judaism and also the ability to read Greek.)" "There is currently
a FileServer or "FILELIST" in use with this discussion group. To obtain a copy,
send a mail/note message to LISTSERV@YORKVM1 with the one-line message: GET IOUDAIOS
FILELIST or INDex IOUDAIOS." The list also publishes IOUD-REV (IOUDAIOS Review on
early Christianity and Judaism); to subscribe, send the message: SUB IOUD-REV
yourfirstname yourlastname to: listserv@yorkvm1 or listserv@vm1.yorku.ca {Traffic on the
list is quite heavy with announcements of new publications and conferences, information
about new electronic resources, and numerous questions for specialists. Extracted from
LISTS IN REVIEW - A Supplement to The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS
Volume 2.011 LIR 93-03 (March 1993)} Owner, editor=dreimer4@mach1.wlu.edu (David Reimer).
CLASSICS@UWAVM "Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group."
Owner=lwright@cac.washington.edu (Linda Wright)
BMCR@MAILSERV@CC.BRYNMAWR.EDU BMCR@MAILSERV@BRYNMAWR Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the
electronic version of the book review journal published since 1990 at Bryn Mawr College
and the University of Pennsylvania. The editors are Richard Hamilton at Bryn Mawr and
James J. O'Donnell at Penn. Electronic subscriptions are free. To subscribe, send mail to:
mailserv@cc.brynmawr.edu Include no subject line and type the text: SUBSCRIBE BMCR-L To
remove yourself from the list, send a similar mail message with the text: UNSUBSCRIBE
BMCR-L Inquiries and submissions for the list should be sent to: bmcr@cc.brynmawr.edu
Electronic publication is irregular and continual, with individual items published as
available; the published material is collected and published in traditional form five or
more times a year. Note for Bitnet users: As from 1 February 1992, neither Bryn Mawr nor
the University of Pennsylvania is accessible directly on Bitnet. Use an address of this
form: bmcr%cc.brynmawr.edu@interbit. If that does not work, consult your local experts for
advice. {BMCR is an excellent, scholarly and lengthy reviews of books in the field of
classics. The articles are well edited and chosen by an editorial board.} Note that this
is a MAILSERV, not a LISTSERV. Contact: jodonnel@pennsas.upenn.edu (James O'Donnell)
ELENCHUS@UOTTAWA "Christianity in Late Antiquity Discussion Group."
Subscription open, but review and notebook are private. Owner=GBLOOMQ@Acadvm1.uottawa.ca
(Gregory Bloomquist) Owner=JKCXW@Acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Kevin Coyle)
LATIN-L@PSUVM.BITNET LATIN-L@LISTSERV@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Latin Language. "Announcing a
new electronic discussion group: LATIN-L, a forum for people interested in classical
Latin, medieval Latin, Neo-Latin -- the languages of choice are Latin (of course) and
whatever vulgar languages you feel comfortable using. Please be prepared to translate on
request. The field is open -- name your topic! ... Ave atque vale Kevin Berland for
LATIN-L" Owner=BCJ@PSUVM or BCJ@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
2. Other Resources
a. THE PERSEUS PROJECT
{The project is ongoing at Harvard University. It enhances the study of Greek culture
through its ability to present text and images. It is imaginative and impressive in use.
One function is the ability to search an English or Greek form of the text for specific
words and then use another part of the program to display images such as Greek temples or
other sites in Greece.} For a discussion consult Sven Birkerts, ``Perseus Unbound,''
Harvard Magazine, November-December 1992, 57-58, 60. Also available is a videotape
demonstration (Perseus Demonstration Video, ed. Gregory Crane, Yale University Press, New
Haven and London, 1992; ISBN 0- 300-05246-4) and a User's Guide (Perseus 1.0 User's Guide:
Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, ed. Gregory Crane, Yale University
Press, New Haven and London, 1992).
At one time there was a PERSEUS mailing list: "Perseus is intended as a users'
group forum for the discussion of Perseus, an electronic multimedia resource containing
texts, art and archaeological materials from the ancient Greek world. The emphasis of the
list is on the use of Perseus in teaching and research. But the latest note from the
listserver was that `Note: this list has been held.'" For information contact: owner=
ST401601@BROWNVM (Bill Merrill) owner= ELLI@BROWNVM (Elli Mylonas)
b. THESAURUS LINGUAE LATINAE
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) is a collection of Latin texts to AD 200, in
electronic form, published on CD-ROM by the Packard Humanities Institute (do not confuse
this TLL with the series of books being put out by a scholarly project in Munich). The TLL
is available for a 3-year license fee of $100 from the PHI, 300 Second Street, Suite 201,
Los Altos, California 94022. Bitnet address is: xb.m07@stanford.bitnet Software is
required. One package for Windows (Pharos) is available via anonymous-ftp. {Extracted from
a message in the Humanist, 23 November 1992, by Willard McCarty
(mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca)}
c. Scriptorium
In a message to the Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0012. Monday, 17 May 1993 15
May 1993 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Robert Kraft, editor of OFFLINE) described the
SCRIPTORIUM Search Program, "inexpensive software for accessing the ancient Greek and
Latin textual materials (and, of course, English material as well) from the TLG and PHI
CD-ROMs!"
A trial version is available through FTP. According to rsmith1@cc.swarthmore.edu the
program can be used for 30 days but then a fee of $40 is required. To receive a
registration number, please send $40 in US funds, payable to DARL J. DUMONT, to:
SCRIPTORIUM c/o Darl J. Dumont 15237 Sunset Boulevard suite 20 Pacific Palisades
California 90272 U.S.A. The price of $40 introductory price expires on September 30, 1993,
at which time we expect to introduce Scriptorium 1.1. To obtain a copy of Scriptorium
electronically, FTP to: ftp.cc.swarthmore.edu or 130.58.67.9
Use "anonymous" as the login name and give your E-mail address as the
password. {The system is fussy about the email address} Change to the directory /fry by
giving the command "cd /fry". Be sure to set the transfer mode to binary by
giving the "binary" command. (Some systems may also require the command
"tenex".) Note that the transfer between your Internet machine and your PC (if
they are not the same) must also be a binary mode transfer or the file will be corrupted.
Type "get script10.zip" to obtain the file containing the Scriptorium program
and manual. The WinGreek font package can also be acquired in the same directory as the
file: wgreek18.zip
The product announcement included the following information: Scriptorium requires
Microsoft Windows 3.1, which provides the ability to display and search Greek and
Latin-alphabet texts from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae's new CD-ROM #D (Greek texts to ca
600 AD), and the Packard Humanities Institute's CD-ROM's #5 (Classical Latin) and #6
(Greek Documentary Papyri). The first release of Scriptorium offers the ability to display
several texts on the screen simultaneously, full support of the TLG Word Index, including
the ability to view directly all citations for each word from within the index, and the
ability to export text to other Windows applications (e.g. Word for Windows) via the
Windows Clipboard. There is a basic word search capability, to be elaborated in a
subsequent upgrade.... It requires an 80386 or higher processor, with 2 MB of RAM (bare
minimum--4 MB recommended, 8MB is better yet), a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, a
Microsoft-compatible mouse and at least a 30 MB hard disk drive and VGA display capable of
displaying at least 640 by 480 pixels in 16 colors.
d. TLG
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae at the University of California- Irvine also produces
Latin texts on CD-ROM and publishes an irregular newsletter. {From a communication from
Theodore F. Brunner (TLG@UCI or TLG@ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU), Director}
e. Latin Dictionary
As of Spring 1993, there was an approximately 3,000 word Latin-English word list
available through anonymous ftp at: kuhub.cc.ukans.edu or 128.86.8.7 cd
DUA9[MALIN]/latintexts For more information, contact Prof. Lynn Nelson at: LHNELSON@UKANVM
or LHNELSON@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU or 129.237.32.1 {Excerpted from a note of 20 April, 1993,
by Jim Cocks (JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU) on RENAIS-L@ULKYVM; but when access was
attempted, "insufficient privilege" was the result}
Note: See also Section XI. European Exhibits at the Library of Congress, below.
B. Medieval
1. Listservers
INTERSCRIPTA "INTERSCRIPTA is a topical online forum for medievalists. Existing
discussion lists such as ANSAX-L, ChaucerNet, and MEDTEXTL provide a valuable and exciting
forum for sharing information in our field. Rapid dissemination of data and spontaneous
exploration of topics are vital characteristics of these lists, but those of us who
subscribe to more than one list often find that these characteristics are not always
advantageous; we receive more information than we can digest, and we are sometimes
frustrated by the repetition, randomness, and lack of focus in topical discussions.
"Interscripta is being developed as an on-line discussion group that will address
these concerns. Rather than providing a completely open forum for unbounded proliferation
of ideas, Interscripta will focus on discussion of a specified topic for a designated
period of time; the topic will change on a regular basis. Each topic will be proposed and
moderated by a scholar in the field, and at the close of the discussion, the moderator
will shape the material into an article which will be distributed to all participants for
review and commentary before its final revision. Finished articles will be published in
the on-line journal Interscripta. "The developers of this project believe that
Interscripta will provide a forum for directing and focussing our electronic discussions
into organized bodies of material representative of cutting edge work in our field. Our
approach encourages collaborative work, and our method of publication allows finished
articles to be made available without the lag time of traditional journals. This project
is not intended to displace existing discussion lists; in fact, we encourage potential
moderators to scan the archives of medieval studies lists in search of topics that deserve
to be honed and polished for electronic publication. "In the spirit of collaboration
which is at the heart of this project, the opening topic will be a discussion of the
project itself, its goals and future orientation. All those who wish to participate in
this formative discussion may subscribe to Interscripta by sending the message: sub
interscripta yourfirstname yourlastname to: listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Please direct
questions and comments to Deborah Everhart (everhart@cats.ucsc.edu) or William Schipper
(schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca). {Extracted from an announcement on EMHIST-L
(EMHIST-L@USCVM.BITNET) on 23 May 1993}
MEDIEV-L@UKANVM "MEDIEV-L is an unmoderated list provided as a forum for
discussion by scholars and students of the medieval period, which, for the purposes of
this list, extends from AD 283 to 1500. It is not the intention of the list management to
restrict the flow of discussion, but subscribers are cautioned that BITNET lists are not
to be used for commercial purposes." "MEDIEV-L is affiliated with the
international HISTORY network and cooperates actively with all other lists similarly
affiliated." MEDIEV-L discussions are not archived, but UKANVM History Lists
maintains an anonymous/guest FTP site named MALIN (FTP KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU or 129.237.32.1)
in the directory DUA9:[MALIN.MED-L] "It contains several topical bibliographies,
articles, historiographic essays, and similar materials. {For more information see the
description of MALIN, below} MEDIEV is affiliated with the international HISTORY network
and cooperates actively with all other lists similarly affiliated.
Editors=LHNELSON@UKANVM,JGARDNER@UKANVM (Lynn Nelson, Jeff Gardner)
Owners=LHNELSON@UKANVM,JGARDNER@UKANVM (Lynn Nelson, Jeff Gardner)
MEDFEM-L@INDYCMS MEDFEM-L@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU "An open discussion forum for
medievalist feminists." "Topics related to or touching on
feminist/women's/gay/lesbian studies are welcome." Owner=iulg100@indyvax (Jennifer
Rondeau)
MEDEVLIT@SIUCVMB Jeff Taylor of the English Department at Southern Illinois
University-Carbondale has recently announced a new electronic discussion group on medieval
English literature. Its addresses are: medevlit@siucvmb.bitnet medevlit@siucvmb.siu.edu
listserv@siucvmb.bitnet listserv@siucvmb.siu.edu The new electronic discussion group is at
present unmoderated. Owner=Jeff Taylor (gr4302@siucvmb.bitnet) {Excerpted from a report in
REACH (Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities), Winter,
1993}
MEDTEXTL@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU MEDTEXTL@UIUCVMD "Medieval Text - Philology, Codicology,
and Technology etc." Owner=Obenaus@UIUCVMD Owner=JMarchan@UIUCVMD
MEDSCI-L@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU MEDSCI-L@BROWNVM.BITNET "Greetings unto all scholars of
natural philosophy! MEDSCI-L is a new LISTSERV list which I have started to discuss
Medieval and Renaissance science. It is open to anyone, regardless of qualification
:)." Questions can be addressed to the owner." {Extracted from list announcement
19-MAR-1993} Owner=brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon)
PERFORM@IUBVM "Medieval Performing Arts." {Has been reported to be very
active.} Notebook is Private. Owner=FLANIGAN@IUBVM (Clifford Flanigan)
Owner=FREJDH@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Jesse Hurlbut)
2. Other Resources
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
The Department of History at Rutgers has a Resource Libraries Group project called the
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank, covering circa A.D. 800-1800. It is described as a
computer-based, electronic reference tool that was to go on-line in 1989-90 through RLIN.
At that time, its master data set would be "vastly expanded" [according to
Internet Resources Guide, compiled by NSF Network Service Center], with new material to
include information on wages and prices, household size, mortality, property holding,
etc., based on taxation records, wills and inventories, parish records and vital
statistics, etc. For more information, contact: MEMDB Department of History, CN 5059,
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08903; net address:
4212001@rutmvs1.rutgers.edu
Note: See also Section XI. European Exhibits at the Library of Congress, below.
C. Renaissance, Reformation, Early Modern
1. Listservers
RENAIS-L@ULKYVM RENAIS-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU "Early Modern History -
Renaissance" list. "A forum for debate, discussion, and the exchange of
information by students and scholars of the history of the Renaissance. RENAIS-L is ready
to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to post announcements of meetings and
calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and other items of interest. "The
list currently does not maintain a FTP directory nor is archiving. Hopefully, this will
change in the near future. "RENAIS-L is associated with the general discussion list
HISTORY, and co-operates fully with other lists similarly associated."
Owner=JACOCK01@ULKYVM (James A. Cocks)
ERASMUS Renaissance & Reformation Studies. Send message to:
bowen@vm.epas.utoronto.ca [internet address] {It is not known whether this list is still
active as of May 1993}
FICINO@UTORONTO "Renaissance and Reformation Studies" list created 28 Sept.
90. Not open for automatic subscription; prospective subscribers will receive a
questionnaire from the listowner (in response to a prose request sent to
Editor@epas.utoronto.cabut). The list description notes that "all those who wish to
apply their knowledge and skills to its subject matter are welcome, whatever their
specializations." It is " ... an international electronic seminar and bulletin
board devoted to all aspects of the European Renaissance and Reformation. Although the
application of computers to the texts and other cultural artifacts of these periods is a
relevant topic, the primary aim of Ficino is discussion of culture in its widest sense and
exchange of information amongst members. The scope of Ficino is radically inclusive,
confined neither to the Italian Renaissance (as its name might suggest) nor to strictly
defined periods. ... All approaches and disciplines are equally relevant. However, Ficino
particularly encourages the interdisciplinary breadth of learning appropriate to
Renaissance humanism. Philosophically, it operates under the assumption that knowledge is
realized in dialogue; it offers the new medium of e- mail primarily in order to stimulate
discovery through exploratory conversation." The monthly notebook is private. To sign
onto Ficino send a prose message to: editor@epas.utoronto.ca Include a "short
biographical statement of background and interests...."
Owner=McCarty@VM.EPAS.UToronto.CA or mccarty@utorepas (Dr. Willard McCarty)
Owner=editor@epas.utoronto.ca (Dr. Willard McCarty) Owner=bowen@epas.utoronto.ca (Prof.
William Bowen)
RENDANCE@morgan.ucs.mun.ca "RENDANCE is a mailing list for discussion of
Renaissance dance. The intended focus is dance reconstruction and related research, but
discussion on any relevant topic is welcomed. The listserver software is similar, but not
identical, to the BITNET listservs, so you may wish to send a help message to the
listserver address as well." {Extracted from a message on RENAIS-L 26-MAR-1993.}
Owner=andrew@bransle.ucs.mun.ca (Andrew Draskoy).
EMHIST-L@RUTVM1 EMHIST-L@USCVM "Early Modern History Forum." "This list
is dedicated to the discussion of Early Modern History, with all its sub-disciplines like
Social, Economic, Regional, Political History. This list is part of the History Network, a
netwide coalition of history lists." Does not maintain a notebook. {Some have
suggested that the list is inactive, but a posting was received as recently as March,
1993; still, the traffic volumes is quite low.} Owner=113355@DOLUNI1 (Thomas Zielke).
Owner=welling@let.rug.nl (George Welling). 2. Other Resources
See Section II.B.2.: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank.
Note: See also Section XI. European Exhibits in the Library of Congress, below.
D. 18th Century to 1945
1. Listservers
C18-L@PSUVM "18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion." Open and
unmoderated. Owner=BCJ@PSUVM
NASSR-L@WVNVM "North American Society for the Study of Romanticism."
"Academic computing list for scholars of Romantic literature." Subscription by
owner; review is private. Editor=DCSTEWA@WVNVM (David C. Stewart) Owner=DCSTEWA@WVNVM
(David C. Stewart)
WWII-L@UBVM "WWII-L is a list dedicated to the discussion of World War II.
Tactical, strategic, technological, and political discussions are, in general,
welcome." Owner=jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell)
E. POST-1945
1. Listservers
EC@INDYCMS EC@IndyCMS.IUPUI.Edu "EC (European Community) is dedicated to
discussion of the European Community, and is open to all interested persons."
Owner=JBHARLAN@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (John B Harlan)
NATODATA@LISTSERV@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE A list that distributes public data from NATO such
as press releases, speeches, NATO articles, communiques, and other information. According
to a note from Chris Scheurweghs from NATODATA 16-MAR-1993 "Arrangements are made to
transmit the NATO REVIEW magazine by separate articles. Any new Press release will be sent
as soon as it is published. Other arrangements are made with publications from the
Economic Directorate and other services." Owner=scheurwe@stc.nato.int (Chris
SCHEURWEGHS)
2. Other Resources
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ONLINE DATABASES
According to a note in GOVDOC-L@PSUVM dated June 14, 1990 reporting information from
the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities (2100 M St NW, Wash DC 20037,
202-862-9500 and from an article by Colin Hensley in Database Magazine (Dec., 1989) the
issue of EC databases is still complicated since there are many databases on several
hosts. There are three categories of EC databases:
1. ECHO, EC Host, a variety of bibliographic bases leading to European information.
These are for the most part free; one signs a user agreement. This host includes the
DIANEGUIDE, a directory of European Databases.
2. The EC's Euro-bases, including CELEX (the textual legal database), SCAD (the EC's
bibl. database), ECLAS (the library catalog) and RAPID (press releases). The EC charges
for access to these, but EC depository libraries may arrange for free access through the
Office of Official Publications. You do pay telecommunications charges, of course (Timenet
or Telenet connecting to LUXPAC in Luxembourg).
3. Statistical office databases, chiefly CRONOS (general stats), COMEXT (trade), and
REGIO (social and economic). These are accessible for a fee through private vendors; in
the US it is Wharton Econometric, 800-322-9332.
The CELEX database is available on CD-ROM (called JUSTIS) from Global Transactions
Inc., PO Box 298, Martinsville, NJ 08836 (201- 560-3434)."
III. Sources arranged by country. Within country, listservers and other mailing lists
are arranged chronologically. They are followed by other online resources: library
catalogs, bibliographies, etc.
A. AUSTRIA, CENTRAL EUROPE, BALTIC STATES
1. Listservers
BALT-L@UBVM.BITNET "Baltic Republics Discussion List." There is also a USENET
Newsgroup: bit.listserv.balt-l Owner=snidely!balt@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (S. Akmentins)
Owner=A.E.B.BEVAN@OPEN.AC.UK (Edis Bevan) Owner=JMYHG@UOTTAWA (Jean-Michel Thizy)
Editor=A.E.B.BEVAN@OPEN.AC.UK (Edis Bevan)
HABSBURG@PURCCVM "Austrian History since 1500." Owner=ingrao@purccvm (Charles
Ingrao)
MIDEUR-L@UBVM MIDEUR-L@CCS.CARLETON.CA "Discussion of Middle Europe topics."
There is also a USENET Newsgroup: bit.listserv.mideur-l Owner= gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA
(Jan George Frajkor)
2. Other Resources
a. Universitaet Wien (Vienna)
The online catalogs of a number of Austrian libraries are available through the
Internet. To access the libraries in this online public catalog, Telnet to:
opac.univie.ac.at Hit RETURN on the first screen if you are using a VT100 Type
"o" or "library" to get into the library system Type
"verbund" to search all libraries, or one of the codes listed below. Hit RETURN
to begin your search Use TAB to go to each of the fields; RETURN to search. Help on which
keys should be used to enter desired commands may be obtained by typing ESC h. (This is
NOT help for the use of the online catalog.)
To exit, type "ende", or ESC xx.
Searching is in German. Note that the system substitutes other characters for
diacritics: "a" with umlaut appears as "{", "u" with umlaut
appears as "}", "O" with umlaut appears as "", and so on.
The following libraries may be searched from this entry point. To search within a
particular library, type in its code at the prompt "Bitte Code f}r die gew}nschte
Bibliothek eingeben und mit Datenfreigabe best{tigen: --------"
To search all the libraries, use the code "VERBUND"
Code Library Name
VERBUND Gesamter Verbund BSTG Bibliothek St. Gabriel FIBA Forschungsinstitut
Brenner-Archiv (Innsbruck) OEPH Oesterreichische Phonothek ONB Oesterreichische
Nationalbibliothek UBG Universitaetsbibliothek Graz UBI Universitaetsbibliothek Innsbruck
UBL Universitaetsbibliothek Linz UBS Universitaetsbibliothek Salzburg UBWW
Universitaetsbibliothek der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien UBW002 Universitaetsbibliothek
Wien
{I have found the searching to be very slow, perhaps due to poor network connections
with Austria}
G. OESTERREICHISCHE HISTORISCHE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ON-LINE
The Oesterreichische Historische Bibliographie is available over the Internet from a
computer in Klagenfurt. It contains 100,000 records after 1945.
Telnet: lcom.edvz.uni-klu.ac.at or 143.205.56.9
Username: oehb You're asked for your name and institution and then you're in. Read the
help files. Searching is possible by Stichwort, Person, Autor (einschl. Herausgeber),
Klassifikation (the subject divisions in the OHB), or Zeitschriften. It's also possible to
combine searches,e.g., an author or topic in a particular journal or classification.
{Extracted from information supplied by James Campbell (jmc@poe.acc.virginia.edu)}
{I have found searching this database over the net to be impossibly slow, even on off
hours and that there are other impediments to use. It is not user friendly.}
B. ENGLAND, IRELAND, WALES, SCOTLAND
1) General:
ALBION-L@UCSBVM "British and Irish History." "Albion is a discussion
list for British and Irish history. All periods and interdisciplinary concerns are
welcome. Please keep your discussions serious, scholarly, and academic."
Owner=GD03JTC@UCSBVM (Joe Coohill) Owner=6500hms@ucsbuxa
2) Chronologically by Period Covered:
ANSAX-L@WVNVM "ANSAXNET Discussion Forum." History and culture of England
before 1100 and the early Medieval period throughout Europe. "A SIG (Special Interest
Group) for scholars of the culture and history of England before 1100 A.D. Scholars
interested in the later English Middle Ages and those interested in the early Medieval
period throughout Europe are also encouraged to join the list. Members receive a directory
of all our members in order to facilitate telecommunications, and a monthly electronic
report to which they are encouraged to contribute announcements and information. This
report often provides members with new information about the use of computers in some
aspect of their disciplines, as well as news of more conventional developments in the
field. We also have projects underway to encode databases which members may use in their
own work. To this end, we are now working on the details of distributing to the membership
a database of all manuscripts written or owned in England before 1100. Anyone who wants to
be a member of ANSAXNET should send e-mail to the Coordinator, including a conventional
mailing address and some information about your particular interests in early medieval
cultural studies." {Taken from REACH, University of California, Santa Barbara.}
Coordinator=U47C2@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU (Patrick W. Conner)
OE-CALL@WVNVM "An electronic newsletter for persons interested in computer-
assisted language learning methods for teaching Old English. The newsletter is edited by
Clare Lees and Patrick W. Conner and is a publication of ANSAXNET, on whose server it is
resident. OE-CALL seeks to provide an electronic forum for discussion of the use of
computers in teaching Old English and related subjects, and act as a clearing-house for
information about relevant software, research projects, conferences, and publications. We
encourage subscribers to submit their own views on software or recent conference
sessions/computing demonstrations; we will include any relevant reports on research and
development in future issues ... We prefer to send out issues in electronic form only, but
will mail copies to subscribers who have no access to computing facilities." To
obtain copies, contact (U47C2@WVNVM); the 1st issue is out; 2nd in preparation as of
12/92. Editor=LEES@FORDMURH.BITNET (Clare Lees) Editor=U47C2@WVNVM.BITNET (Patrick W.
Conner)
GAELIC-L@IRLEARN GAELIC-L%IRLEARN.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU GAELIC-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
"GAELIC Language Bulletin Board. A multi-disciplinary discussion list set up to
facilitate the exchange of news, views, information in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and
Manx." Coordinator=MGUNN@IRLEARN (Marion Gunn) Owner=CAOIMHIN@SMO.AC.UK (Caoimhin P.
O/ Donnai/le) Owner=MGUNN@IRLEARN (Marion Gunn)
CELTIC-L@IRLEARN CELTIC-L@IRLEARN.UCD.IE. "The Celtic Culture List."
Owner=globalcp%cue.bc.ca@uvvm.uvic.ca Owner=Culture.smaccona@ccvax.ucd.ie
WELSH-L@IRLEARN "WELSH Language Bulletin Board ... to foster the amicable
discussion of questions of the Welsh language, Welsh culture, history, and politics, and
to offer a forum for speakers and learners of the Welsh language. Both Welsh and English
may be used. Users are encouraged to exchange their opinions in Welsh ... and special
consideration may be given to Welsh learners expressing themselves in Welsh ... The
emphasis will be on Welsh as a living language, and Welsh culture as actually lived out in
Wales at the present day. Discussions of Celtic myth in general, the relationship between
Celtic paganism and Anglo-Saxon Wicca, etc. will probably find a more ready audience on
the CELTIC-L bulletin board at IRLEARN.UCD.IE." Archives of WELSH-L and related files
are stored in the WELSH-L FILELIST To receive a list of files send the command INDEX
WELSH-L to: LISTSERV@IRLEARN Owner=BRIONY@CSTR.EDINBURGH.AC.UK (Briony Williams)
Owner=EVERSON@IRLEARN (Michael Everson)
CURIA-L@IRLEARN "Discussion of the Curia database of Irish Manuscripts."
Owner=CBTS8001@IRUCCVAX
CAMELOT@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK Arthurian discussion list, dealing with mythology and history
surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. To subscribe, send a note to:
REQUEST-CAMELOT@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK
CHAUCER@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU. Chaucernet is an unedited discussion group devoted to the
works of Geoffrey Chaucer and medieval English literature and culture in the period
1100-1500. The list is sponsored by the New Chaucer Society and is open to all who are
interested in Chaucer.
Owner=tbestul@crcvms.unl.edu or tbestul@unlvax1.bitnet (Thomas Bestul)
MEDEVLIT@SIUCVMB "Medieval English literature discussion list ... 'YE KNOWE EK
THAT IN FORME OF SPECHE IS CHAUNGE...'" Notebook is private. Owner=GR4302@SIUCVMB
(Jeff Taylor)
REED-L@UTORONTO "Records of Early English Drama Discussion" list created on
22 Nov. 88. Owner=reed@epas.utoronto.ca (Dr. Abigail Young)
SHAKSPER@UTORONTO "Shakespeare Electronic Conference" created 16 July 90.
Notebook is private. Owner=hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy Cook)
Editor=hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu (Hardy Cook) Editor=ksteele@epas.utoronto.ca (Ken Steele)
MILTON-L@URVAX Discussion of the life and literature of John Milton. Milton- L is a
moderated list but not run on a LISTSERV; please direct any requests to:
Milton-request@URVAX.BITNET or Milton-request@urvax.urich.edu Internet nodes will be able
to retrieve files via Anonymous FTP to: urvax.urich.edu or 141.166.36.6 Files pertaining
to Milton-L will be kept in the MILTON directory. Bitnet nodes may request files from:
Milton-request@URVAX These files cannot be sent automatically, but will be sent as
requests are processed. Currently, the biographies files, MILTON.BI0 and MILTON.BI1, and
the digest logs are available. As new files accumulate, they will be reported in the
digests. All members are invited to share any texts or files that may be of interest to
list subscribers. If you would like to receive copies of earlier posts, please send your
request to: Milton-request@URVAX.BITNET or to: Milton-request@urvax.urich.edu Please send
all posts to: Milton-L@URVAX.BITNET or to: Milton-L@urvax.urich.edu
Coordinator=CREAMER@urvax.urich.edu (Kevin J.T. Creamer)
AUSTEN-L@MCGILL1 "A digest for readers of Jane Austen" and "her
contemporaries, such as Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Mary Wollstonecraft."
Owner=Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Owner=michael@vm1.McGill.CA
VICTORIA@IUBVM or VICTORIA@@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU "VICTORIA--The Listserv of
Victorian Studies. VICTORIA is an electronic conference devoted to the interdisciplinary
field of Victorian Studies and dedicated to the sharing of information and ideas about any
and all aspects of 19th-century British culture and society. Covering a period even longer
than the reign of its namesake (say, 1790 to 1914), VICTORIA equally welcomes the
contributions of students of literature, art, social history, gender studies, politics,
publishing, intellectual history, or what-have-you. "For the most passionate devotee
of literary theory as well as the most hardheaded empiricist, VICTORIA provides that
beloved Victorian thing, a "cheap luxury," in the shape of a free electronic
forum for the exchange of research ideas and queries, notices of recent books and
articles, conference listings, and job announcements, and for lively discussion of any
issues, large or small, that bear on the study of 19th-century Britain." {Extracted
from HISTORY 14-FEB-1993} Editor=PLEARY@IUBACS.BITNET or PLEARY@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Patrick
Leary) Editor=IVAA@UTMARTN.BITNET or EVERETT@UTKVX.UTK.EDU (Glenn Everett)
MODBRITS@KENTVM "Modern British and Irish Literature: 1895-1955"
Editor=modbreds@kentvm Owner=modbreds@kentvm
FWAKE-L@IRLEARN "A forum for a broad discussion about James Joyce's FINNEGANS
WAKE. The James Joyce Institute of Ireland's Finnegans Wake Study Group has been doing
their best to get the jokes in Finnegans Wake for the past decade or so. The Study Group
thinks it is time for such groups to pool their findings." "All requests to be
added to or deleted from the mailing list, or to have files distributed, should be sent to
the Coordinator." Coordinator: MOKELLY@IRLEARN (Michael O'Kelly)
FWAKEN-L@IRLEARN "Finnegans Wake - Textual Notes." Notebook is private.
Owner=MOKELLY@IRLEARN (Michael P. O'Kelly) Editor=MOKELLY@IRLEARN (Michael P. O'Kelly)
There is also a discussion list on Joyce at the University of Utah, but it is not a
typical listserver. To add your name to the mailing list, send a message to:
j-joyce-request@cc.utah.edu To send to a person on the list, send to: j-joyce@cc.utah.edu
{According to information from Heyward Ehrlich (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu) on May 17,
1993}
TOLKIEN@JHUVM "List for J.R.R.Tolkien's books' readers.
Owner=gandalf@malloco.ing.puc.cl
IRL-POL@IRLEARN LISTSERV@IRLEARN.BITNET "IRL-POL is for the discussion of current
Irish Politics. This is defined as being the politics of the Republic of Ireland (26
counties) since 1922. Postings about Northern Ireland are welcome if they relate directly
to the political process in the Republic. Postings about Hunger strikes, IRA attacks, or
the Rev Ian Paisley are *NOT* welcome. Postings about elections, opinion polls, political
figures etc are all welcome so long as they relate to the politics of the Republic of
Ireland." Owner=bridec92@irlearn.ucd.ie (James P. McBride)
Owner=kelehc91@irlearn.ucd.ie (Fin Keleher)
3. Other Resources
a. USENET News
soc.culture.british Mostly political or social commentary.
soc.culture.celtic Mostly political or social commentary, especially Irish.
b. Book of Kells The Book of Kells is available at the FTP site: jupiter.csd.unb.ca
{According to a note by Jon Williams in History, 13-Apr-93}
c. Current Research in Britain (CRIB)
CRIB has previously been produced in print and online by the British Library, but is
now being produced by Longman Cartermill, Ltd. Longman has also brought out a CD-ROM
version.
CRIB "contains details of current projects at UK universities and some other
research laboratories, giving staff names, project titles, funding sources and sometimes
publications. It covers science, social science, arts and humanities."
Longman also produces BEST, which is a CD-ROM database on research in science and
technology; this complements CRIB. Their address is: Longman Cartermill Limited,
Technology Centre, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9EA, United Kingdom; phone: (44)
334-77660; fax: (44) 334-77180. {Extracted from a note by Frank Norman
(f-norman@nimr.mrc.ac.uk)}
d. Online Library Catalogs
1) The Cambridge University Library catalogue has become available through a new and
easy to use connection. Telnet: ipgate.cam.ac.uk or 131.111.12.21
Following is a partial recording of a session:
Trying 131.111.12.21 ... Connected to janus.csi.cam.ac.uk. Escape character is '^]'.
**** University of Cambridge Telnet->X.29 Gateway **** Enter the name of the X.29
host or service you want to call, for example, uk.ac.cam.ul (University Library). -> ul
+++ Spad (1.23-6 of 1993/01/05) connected +++ Press Ctrl/P followed by B to generate an
interrupt. Press Ctrl/P followed by A to interact with the gateway PAD. Use the PAD
command "clear" to clear the call.
Cambridge University Library catalogue (UK.AC.CAM.UL)
If your terminal is DEC VT100 compatible, type Y and press RETURN, or just press RETURN
if not: y
Does this display as an e acute ->i<-, type Y and press RETURN if it is, or just
press RETURN if not:
CATS15 -- version of 13NOV91 Table of file names read. Entries = 18 Files available are
CAT DEP SER BIR AXS MAX MUS MIP LIB IPF NAF GBC WAD JAP MBF JUC CHX OPX
***************************************************************** CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
ON-LINE CATALOGUE SYSTEM Please report any problems you may experience to either: Hugh
Taylor (Cataloguing) [HT@UK.AC.CAM.ULA] or Chris Sendall (Automation)
[CHRIS@UK.AC.CAM.ULA] FILE RECORDS
University Library post-1977 imprints ca. 725,000 University Library pre-1978
borrowable books ca. 570,000 Union Catalogue of Departmental & College Libraries
821,595 Cambridge Union List of Serials ca. 115,000
Press RETURN to continue :
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ON-LINE CATALOGUE SYSTEM:
1. University Library Main Building - catalogue of post-1977 imprints 2. University
Library Main Building - title index of pre-1978 borrowable books 3. Union Catalogue of
Departmental & College Libraries 4. Cambridge Union List of Serials 5. Cambridge
Libraries Directory (including abbreviations) The following search methods are available:
1. Name and/or title keyword search 2. Browsable name index 3. Browsable subject index
4. Concise search 5. Change to other catalogues or Finish searching
{One type END to finish a search. A search using just keyword was implemented quickly
and yielded good results. The BROWSABLE SUBJECT INDEX, which provides access to the
on-line catalogue by subject heading only, was particularly useful}
Note: Internet access to the Cambridge University OPAC has been much improved following
the introduction of a new gateway by the University Computing Service. The gateway makes
access to the OPAC much simpler for Internet users. Details of the new access arrangements
are as follows. Call Internet address: ipgate.cam.ac.uk then to connect to the catalogue.
Type: ul {Extracted from a note by Hugh Taylor (ht@uk.ac.cam.ula or ht@ula.cam.ac.uk),
Head of Cataloguing, Cambridge University Library}
2. King's College, London
King's College London Information Server (also acts as a gateway to other services, but
others asked for passwords)
Telnet to: INFO.KCL.AC.UK or 137.73.2.6 Username: INFO
Information is available on the following topics:
1. INTRODUCTION King's Information Service: Pilot Project 2. COLLEGE [EXP] General
College Information 3. COURSES [EXP] Courses offered by King's College 4. SCHOOLS [EXP]
Schools & Academic Departments 5. STUDENTS_UNION [EXP] KCLSU & Student Societies
6. COMPUTING_CENTRE Computing Centre Information 7. LIBRARY College Library 8.
AUDIO_VISUAL Audio Visual Services 9. DIRECTORIES College & External Directories 10.
NETWORK_SERVICES National and International Information Sources 11. COMMENTS Comments on
the KIS System 12. HELP Help with using the KIS System {Extracted from a note by Peter
Scott (aa375@freenet.carleton.ca)}
C. FRANCE
1. Listservers
balzac-1@cc.umontreal.ca This is "the only French list about French literature and
culture." "Balzac-1 is not a listserv." It is unmoderated, and has about
150 members in North America, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia.
Discussions are conducted in French and English. To subscribe, send a note to:
balzac-1-request@cc.umontreal.ca {Extracted from a note by John D. Jones, Marquette
University (6563JONESJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU), 21 February 1993}
FRANCEHS@UWAVM "List for French history scholars." "FRANCEHS ... exists
as a service to those engaged in the historical study of France. It serves as a forum for
the discussion of scholarly or professional topics of interest to French historians and
scholars in allied fields (such as Art History, Anthropology, Architecture, Literature,
Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, among others) whose research and teaching relate
to France and its past. FRANCEHS may also serve to distribute calls for papers, job
listings, questions about archives and other research resources, announcements of
conferences or any other information of general interest to scholars pursuing historical
perspectives of France. Please note that the purview of FRANCEHS extends to former French
colonies, Belgium, Quebec, and other French-speaking areas.
Owner=jonas@stein.u.washington.edu or jonas@u.washington.edu or
jonas@paris.history.washington.edu (Raymond Jonas)
EROFILE@UCSBUXA "Erofile is a free electronic newsletter that provides reviews of
the latest books associated with French and Italian studies. This includes the following
areas: literary criticism, cultural studies, film studies, pedagogy, and software. Erofile
also provides a forum for comments on previously published reviews in an effort to create
an on-going dialogue on issues relevant to the field. ... EROFILE will disseminate a
collection of solicited and unsolicited reviews and therefore welcomes submissions from
QUALIFIED reviewers. Publishers of scholarly journals in appropriate fields may also wish
to consider sending backlogged reviews to EROFILE for early electronic publication. The
well- known interdisciplinary journal, SUBSTANCE, has already shown interest in such an
arrangement." Submissions, subscription requests and questions on policy should be
sent to the editors at: EROFILE@ucsbuxa.bitnet or EROFILE@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu There is also
an FTP site: uscbux.ucsb.edu or 128.111.122.50 which has its REACH archives.
2. Other Resources
a. ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
ARTFL (known as FRANTEXT in France) is a growing database of over 2500 major French
language texts available online to member institutions. Their publicity lists 183 million
word occurrences, 2330 works, 3241 "treated texts", of which 20% are
non-literary texts taken from 70 disciplines from the 19th and 20th centuries, 900
authors, 450 publishers, and 53 operating public-access sites in addition to the BPI,
including sites throughout Europe and in Japan. One can with ease search for a word and
determine its frequency of use by century or identify an obscure quotation. The software
is remarkably flexible and can be adapted to a variety of situations. Subject-searching is
more complex since the software is word-oriented. Nor can it respond to all needs since of
corpus, while substantial, is not comprehensive. {Based on information from Jack Kessler
(kessler@WELL.SF.CA.US) and his translation of a work on FRANTEXT by Jacques Lemarignier
(faule@univ-rennes1.fr)} Kessler notes that Lemarignier's work will appear in a
forthcoming book, _Les banques de donne'es litte'raires, comparatistes et francophones_,
edited by Alain Vuillemin (Limoges: Presses de l'Universite' de Limoges et du Limousin,
forthcoming 1993) which includes articles on the use of computers for literary research,
at the Bibliothe`que de France, on "Des banques de donne'es sur les e'tudes
litte'raires francophones" and other topics of interest to those concerned with the
availability and manipulation of etexts for French literature and related fields.
According to its ARTFUL Assistant Director, Mark Olsen (mark@TIRA.UCHICAGO.EDU or
mark@gide.uchicago.edu), the database contains a copy of the FRANTEXT database, which it
makes available via telnet (artfl@artfl.uchicago.edu) to subscribers (US$500 per year),
together with a special, improved interface, and e-mail, ftp, and offline photocopying
services. Olsen is extremely helpful in providing information. He freely distributes
extensive user documentation and a good bibliography on ARTFL and on the general FRANTEXT
concept.
Mark has provided the following information (16-DEC-1992) from the ARTFL Project
Newsletter (Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 1992-93). The ARTFL Newsletter is now being distributed
electronically. Address requests to Mark Olsen (mark@tira.uchicago.edu). The newsletter
notes that "ARTFL is a cooperative project between: Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique and The University of Chicago." And in response to the question
"Who uses this thing, anyway? And how?" notes that "use of the ARTFL
database has continued to increase steadily. From eight subscribing institutions in 1988,
the ARTFL Consortium has grown to over forty institutions in the United States and
Canada." He goes on to say that "teachers and researchers turn to it to trace
the introduction and development of new concepts and the reworking of old ones over time;
to study the crystallization of ideas in key terms; to examine patterns and shifts in
language use; to look at the dynamics at work between particular texts and more general
usage; and, more simply, to help students get a better sense of the language."
ARTFL now supports limited use of the INFL Morphological Analyzer, a context-free
system which identifies many aspects of every word in a sentence, including the tense,
gender, part of speech, and other data.
ARTFL is currently testing with the intent to release a new version of PhiloLogic used
to access the Treasury of the French Language database. The new system has a number of
important features, which include phrase searching, full regular expression pattern
matching, indexing on proper names and accented characters, statistical generation,
inflected verb searching, and more flexible KWIC display.
The 130 new texts incorporated into this version of the database include the works of
Moliere, Racine, Corneille, Rabelais and other 16th and 17th century texts.
A note from Jack Kessler (kessler@well.sf.ca.us) reports that: "The `Pancatalogue'
is intended to become the French online national union catalog. It currently consists of
460,000 records, representing 1,236,000 holdings, drawn from three sources: the
Bibliotheque Nationale, OCLC, and `SIBIL' (see below). The Pancatalogue can be reached via
Minitel by dialing '3617 PANCA', as J.A.Hayoz said. From here in France this currently
costs Ff.12 plus 2.19/minute, or about US 45 cents per minute, for the general public.
"You can get access to Minitel from North America by calling (voice)
(212)399-0080: they will send you a free diskette, which you can copy and distribute
freely, containing the software enabling your Mac or DOS personal computer's modem to dial
a (usually) local telephone number to reach both US and French online services. Charges
are billed to a credit card and usually are very low -- comparable to the public charges
here in France.
"`SIBIL' is a subset of the Pancatalogue . It is a database containing 400,000
catalogue entries of about 30 French libraries -- those running `SIBIL' software, 22
university libraries plus a few others You can reach `SIBIL' via Minitel by dialing `3615
SF' (a little cheaper than the Pancatalogue).
"Both the Pancatalogue and SIBIL may be reached from the Internet via TN3270 to:
FRMOP22.CNUSC.FR or 131.196.1.3
{I have had difficulty accessing French online catalogs and have not yet mastered
whatever it needed to get into the systems and get out of them. Online Help seemed minimal
and not helpful. The instructions I had about SIBIL access through FRMOP22 were: At the
CNUSC screen tap Return, then 3 and Return. At the SIBIL screen tap Return. At the next
menu, search in French or Type 12 to search in English but the system hung and was not
responsive. It may be the result of communication difficulties through my local site since
the French gophers did not respond well either.}
b. USENET News
soc.culture.french Miscellaneous topics from finding hotels to politics in French and
English. {The service seems moderate and well- organized.} The files are archived and
available by anonymous FTP from local sites as well as from: grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr or
134.214.100.25 in the directory: /pub/faq/culture-french-faq. By listserv: send the
following commands to listserv@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr get faq culture-french-faq/part0 get
faq culture-french-faq/part1 get faq culture-french-faq/part2
c. Electronic Resources in Romance Studies Frank Di Trolio of Florida State University
has produced an excellent guide for the Romance Languages Discussion Group, called
"Electronic Resources in Romance Studies." His address is: FranDiT@nervm.bitnet
d. OPACs via Minitel The following list includes French library catalogs (OPACS)
available through Minitel. Minitel is accessible in the US. It is not a free service (in
order to access Minitel you need a credit card). Free communication packages (MAC or DOS)
to establish a connection between your computer/modem and Minitel are available from the
Minitel office in the US (Minitel Services Company, 888 Seventh Avenue, 28th floor, New
York, NY 10106; tel. (212) 399-0080).
3614 TOLBIAC Bibliothe`que de France (info.-- no opac, yet) 3614 BMLYON Bib.Municipale
de Lyon (info.+ opac) 3614 BIB Bib.Municipale de Grenoble (info.+ opac) 3615 ABCDOC
Archives, Bibliothe`ques, Centres de Documentation (directory) 3615 BPI Bibliothe`que
Publique d'Information (Centre Pompidou, Paris) (info.+ opac) 3615 DASTUM Photote`que
Dastum (info.+ opac) 3615 MIRADOC Bibliothe`que Universite' de Metz (info.+ opac) 3615 SF
SIBIL (national union catalog -- books) 3615 VDP15 Vide'othe`que de Paris (info.+ opac)
3615 VILLETTE Me'diathe`que, Cite' des Sciences et de l'Industrie (info.+ opac) 3617 CCN
Catalogue Collectif National des Publications en Se'rie (national union catalog --
serials) 22.97.11.11 Amiens, Bibliothe`que d' (info.+ opac) 90.49.38.88 Arles,
Bibliothe`que Municipale d'(info.+ opac) 31.86.14.14 Caen, Bibliothe`que Municipale de
(info.+ opac) 16.1.64.48.60.07 Chilly-Mazarin, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac)
16.1.42.77.19.16 IRCAM (Centre de Recherche Musicale, Centre Pompidou) (opac) 49.73.23.30
Niort, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac) 20.25.43.50 Tourcoing, Me'diathe`que de (info.+
opac)
{Extracted from a note from Kurt De Belder, New YorK University
(Kurt_De_Belder.INTERNET@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu), 2 February 1993}
Note: See also an article by P. Warren-Wenk in the May 1993 issue of CD-ROM
PROFESSIONAL, called "French-Language Databases in the Social Sciences and
Humanities-An Overview." {Taken from a note by Adan Griego (lb10adan@ucsbuxa.bitnet),
University of California, Santa Barbara}
D. GERMANY
1. Listservers
a. General
GRMNHIST@DGOGWDG1 GRMNHIST@USCVM "German History Forum." German history from
800 AD; otherwise, there is no limitation on subject or period; all sub- fields of German
History will be handled unless there exists a more specialized forum for the topic in
question. This list is part of the History Network, a netwide coalition of history-related
lists. Please send requests, questions, complaints etc to the list owners." {One user
noted in 12/92 that he had "been on this list for a while now and there hasn't been
much activity."} Does not maintain a notebook. Owner=113355@DOLUNI1 or
tzielke@DGOGWDG1 (Thomas Zielke) Owner=rehbock@cats.ucsc.edu (Gary Lease)
GWDG-NEU GWDG-NEU@DGOGWDG1 Mitteilungen der GWDG.
GWDTCP-L GWDTCP-L@DGOGWDG1 TCP/IP-Liste der GWDG.
deutsche-liste@ccu.umanitoba.ca "We are presently about 85 members, most of them
members of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German. But we try to expand
beyond our association. Anyone with an interest in German language, literature and culture
is encouraged to subscribe." {Note that this is not a listserv. Send an informal note
to deutsche-liste-request@ccu.umanitoba.ca} list owner=colappe@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Claus O.
Lappe)
RIBO-L-Request@URIACC.URI.EDU or RIBO-L-Request@URIACC.BITNET RIBO-L is a
German/English discussion group that seeks to help establish contacts and to encourage
language learning between readers in Germany and elsewhere. {Correspondence tends to be in
German and to be oriented towards enhancing the exchange of information between readers in
Germany and elsewhere as well as improving the use of another language through the
exchange of partners' addresses.}
b. Chronologically by period
GERLINGL@UIUCVMD "Older Germanic languages (to 1500), their linguistics and
philology. We are theory-insensitive; any theoretical bent is permitted. The language of
discussion is English." Owner=OBENAUS@UIUCVMD Owner=JMARCHAN@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Owner=ANTONSEN@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU
HEGEL@VILLVM "Discussion list for HEGEL society." Review and subscription are
private. Owner=STEPELEV@VUVAXCOM (Dr. Stepelevitch)
HESSE-L@UCSBVM "This international discussion group is devoted to the study of the
life and literary works of Hermann Hesse, the Swiss-German Nobel Prize-winner of 1946. It
is edited and published electronically by Professor Gunther Gottschalk of the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and will include pertinent texts, interpretations, analyses,
critiques, reviews, messages, announcements, bibliographies on Hesse and his world. The
principal languages of the list will be English and German. The list is intended to
establish better contacts among readers of Hesse and to enliven the discussion of his
works." Editor=HCF2HESS@UCSBUXA (Gunther Gottschalk)
Editor=gottscha@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Gunther Gottschalk) Owner=9531NIVE@UCSBVM
(Cody R. Nivens) Owner=HCF2HESS@UCSBUXA (Gunther Gottschalk)
9NOV89-L@DB0TUI11 9NOV89-L@UTDALLAS "Events around the Berlin Wall and E.
Europe." "Mailing list for whoever may attach a meaning to the date of 9.11.1989
(or 89-11-09, or 11/9/89). The list name reflects the most important event in the recent
German history, but it can't and shouldn't be seen isolated from what happened, and is now
happening, in Poland, the USSR, and Hungary before." To subscribe, send a message to:
LISTSERV@UTDALLAS (BITNET) or LISTSERV%UTDALLAS.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Internet) with the
following command in the body (text) of the message: SUB 9NOV89-L yourfirstname
yourlastname where your name is your real name, not your login ID. Example: SUB 9NOV89-L
John Doe Coordinator=HABERNOL%UTDALLAS.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Thomas Habernoll)
"Unfortunately the people living in the German Democratic Republic will not be able
to participate in this discussion, because they are not (yet?) on this network.... And
yes, dear Joe Techno, all this will influence even such important things as our
networks." Coordinator=Gerard Gschwind (GSCHWIND@DBOTUI11.bitnet)
S-PRESS@DCZTU1 "Netzwerk der studentischen Presse in Deutschland."
GER-RUS@VM1.NoDak.EDU GER-RUS@NDSUVM1 "Discussion of Germans from Russia topics,
research information, etc. " Established Nov. 10, 1991. Owner=NU021140@NDSUVM1
(Michael Miller)
2. Other Resources
a. HOLOCAUST AND FASCISM ARCHIVE INFORMATION
Files related to the collective events known as the Holocaust are now available from
The Old Frog's Almanac via listserv. To obtain a current list of available material,
address your message to: listserv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Include the single line: index
holocaust {The list, entitled INDEX HOLOCAUST, contains information on over 300 files
ranging from personal accounts on Auschwitz (auschwitz.02, 7308 bytes by Erna Rubinstein)
to a multi-part bibliography on Holocaust research (biblio.1 55,037 bytes; biblio.2 16,920
bytes; biblio.3 44,154 bytes) as well as other topics.}
To obtain a specific file and specific part, use the command: GET HOLOCAUST
filename.part For example: GET HOLOCAUST BIBLIO.1 For a single-part file, omit the part
number. If the file is archived in multiple parts, and you omit the part number, you will
receive all the parts.
"A second archive, fascism, has been started, and will contain material indirectly
related to the Holocaust, including information regarding right wing, neo-nazi and/or
racial supremacy organizations and/or individuals. The files contain USENET threads
concerning individuals and organizations such as Lyndon LaRouche, Aryan Nation, Christian
Identity, the Liberty Lobby, Spotlight, etc. We make no claim to the accuracy of the
information archived, and will do our best to save all related articles, regardless of
viewpoint. It is entirely up to the recipient to determine the value of materials
archived; messages received regarding errors in the files will be appended to those files
without editing.
Use the command "index fascism" to receive the list. Note: Some of the files
in this archive are quite large, and have been split into multiple parts and compressed.
They will be sent to you in uuencoded format.
We've had some headaches getting ListServ up and running, but v5.5 seems to be stable,
and has performed properly with regard to archive requests. If you have any problems
obtaining information from listserv, please let me know."
A recent copy of our Almanac Holocaust files may be obtained via anonymous ftp from
menora.weizmann.ac.il, as /pub/texts/lest.we.forget/oneb-txt.tar.Z
If you do not have ftp access, I'd be happy to send the collection to you as uuencoded
email. Please specify *.ZIP or compressed tar format. The all-inclusive archive will be
added to listserv as time and energy permits - for now, I am sending it manually upon
request.
The Old Frog's Almanac - Public Access UseNet for Central Vancouver Island (604)
245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) Waffle XENIX 1.64 Ladysmith, British Columbia,
CANADA. kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
Holocaust and Fascism Archives are also available through the Victoria, British
Columbia Freenet: TELNET FREENET.VICTORIA.BC.CA or 134.87.16.100 login: guest Select 7
Government Building from the main menu
Government
1 About these test items 2 BC Guide Info *Test* 3 BC Guide Online! *Test* 4 Wais
Holocaust data *Test* 5 Wais Fascism data *Test*
The items currently located in this menu with the *Test* suffix are currently under
development. If you would like to give any *constructive* feedback on the development of
these services please respond to: pbruch@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
The archive can be searched by key word(s) as of May 28, 1993. It included materials
denying the Holocaust with refutation of those claims.
menora.weizman.ac.il or 132.76.60.87 In the directory pub/texts/lest.we.forget is a
massive file (oneb-txt.tar.z and oneb-txt.zip). The README file describes these as Ken
Kesey's series of responses to the USENET Newsgroup alt.revisionism which were created to
counter holocaust denial articles.
b. DEUTSCHLAND NACHRICHTEN A news service available on commercial BBSs. For information
contact NewsNet (800 345-1301 (Canada and Pennsylvania 215-527-1301)). This net does not
offer the German version. (415 952-1100).
c. GERMAN NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
In addition to its printed form, the German national bibliography is available in
several digitized formats:
"Deutsche Bibliographie - aktuell - CD-ROM with over 900,000 records from 1986 -
present date is available on CD-ROM. It is published by Buchhandler-Vereiningung GmbH and
distributed outside Germany, Austria and Switzerland by Chadwyck-Healey of the UK."
{Extracted from description by Valerie Walsh in LIBREF-L 4 Feb 1993}
d. USENET News
soc.culture.german German affairs, particularly (as of 12/92) right-wing movements in
Germany.
According to a note on DEUTSCHE-LISTE@ccu.umanitoba.ca (26- FEB-1993), it is possible
to access German USENET groups. The de groups {de is the symbol for Germany that appears
at the end of some email and other messages} in the list posted by Walter Felscher are
those most commonly offered by computing centers in the US. I can't tell anyone a lot
about it; I haven't yet succeeded in convincing our computer center to do it. I do know
that the Universities of Illinois and Michigan are offering the de groups and that may
perhaps help if your computer center wants to ask someone outside Germany how to go about
the transoceanic aspects." {From Jim Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu)}
In addition to exchanging information, USENET groups have a file titled FAQ (for
frequently asked questions) that introduces the group and also has useful information on
the country. For example, the Usenet group soc.cult.german has a "German FAQ."
For information contact: ju8025@albnyvms.bitnet or ju8025@csc.albany.edu
It has information on the new ZIP Codes for Germany that will be implemented on July 1
(to get a ZIP code send a mail message to bulli@kodak.com. The subject line should be
Subject: #PLZ# name-of the town and the name of the town has to be spelled in CAPS. Add
your E-mail address to the Subject. Example: To: bulli@kodak.com Subject: #PLZ# ELLWANGEN
ju8025@csc.albany.edu It shows where to find German dictionaries on FTP servers (in
Germany. In the U.S. try Purdue University at the site: arthur.cs.purdue.edu in the
directory: /pub/pcert/dict/German See the FAQ from USENET News for more information and
for more prosaic information on bookstores and others sources of information in the U.S.
such as embassies and consulates, the use of Umlauts in soc.culture.german and therefore
in other electronic messages, and other helpful information.
Note: There are some efforts to make newsgroups available through the gopher system and
that might help make them more easily accessible, but until then CHAMAS (which stands for
Chaos Mailbox System), which is not the Oldenburg computer center, though it is based at
Oldenburg, does offer an alternative, provided that you don't mind getting a lot of mail
messages if you choose to join the more active groups. To find out more about this, send
to: chamas@vmxa.hrz.uni-oldenburg.de a message with no subject and with the following
text: HELP GROUPS These are separate commands and each word must be on a separate line.
{Information supplied by James Campbell (campbell@virginia.edu)}
e. German Research Network (Deutsches Forschungsnetz)
HYTEL-L@KENTVM noted on 28-Apr-1993 that the DFN-DIRECTORY German Research Network
(Deutsches Forschungsnetz) has become available through TELNET. The address is:
192.88.108.100 The DFN-DIRECTORY main menu offers several options:
[ 1 ] QUERY the Directory (User Interface menu) [ 2 ] HELP about User Interfaces [ 3 ]
change CONFIGURATION [ 4 ] send MESSAGE to Administrator [ 5 ] get Info about Directory
Project [ 6 ] Info about DFN Domains and DFN Mtas [ 0 ] Leave this Menu (back to previous
Menu)
PACS-L@UHUPVM1 noted on 27-JAN-1993 (the message was from Harald Lux
lux@dmrhrz11.hrz.uni-marburg.de) that Anne Cornillie-Braun of the DFN-Verein
(c-braun@dfn.dbp.de) updates the list. It was also printed in Wir im Deutschen
Forschungsnetz (Verzeichnis der Anwender des X.25-Wissenschaftsnetz und der DFN-Dienste).
Additionally, there is also an Infoserver of the DFN-Verein: telnet rigel.dfn.de
(192.76.176.15) login: infosys password: <Return>
f. CD-ROM PRODUCT LIST
PACS-L (PACS-L@UHUPVM1) reported that there is a discussion list, predominantly in
German, on CD-ROM products for Germany sponsored by directMedia Mail-Order GmbH in
association with SOS Software Service GmbH. Internet users can subscribe to it at the
address: library.cd-rom@sos.mhs.compuserve.com
Send in the SUBJECT heading the message: SUBSCRIBE:CD-ROM The moderator is Michael
Bartos (mbartos@comware.mhs.compuserve.com)
g. GOPHER Implementation in Germany
Gopher has become extremely popular in Germany. There are more than 30 gophers
implemented in German institutions as of May, 1993 but few are available to outside users
through Telnet or other gophers. See below in the Glossary for information abut German
gophers. I have tried the general gopher address: gopher.germany.eu.net or 192.76.144.75
but was unable to connect. There is also an FTP server at the same address.
h. GERMAN ONLINE LIBRARY AND OTHER CATALOGS
A large number of German library catalogs have been placed on line and are available
through international networks. Unfortunately, most are from technical colleges whose
historical resources are limited. The major libraries, such as the Deutsche Bibliothek
(Frankfurt and Leipzig), the Bavarian State library or the two state libraries in Berlin,
are not yet accessible through the net.
Following is an example of a search on one of the catalogs. Capturing an exchange is
always imperfect, in part because graphic characters do not register as they appear on the
screen, but the following partial example, which is relatively typical, from dialing into
the Universitaet Erlangen/Nuernberg (fau143.informatik.uni-erlangen.de or 131.188.1.43)
might help prospective users anticipate the dialogue:
login: gi Unbekannter oder ungeeigneter Terminal-Typ. Bei Eingabe von ? erhalten Sie
eine Liste der geeigneten Terminal-Typen TERM=(network) vt100 ELIS: Erlangen Library
Information System (V 3.43) Univ. Erl.-Nbg. IMMD IV Eine kommerzielle Nutzung wird in
jedem Falle strafrechtlich verfolgt.
Hauptmenue
Recherchieren Terminal aendern Waehle Datenbank Meckerkasten lesen Information Selber
meckern Hilfstexte via Mail Beenden des Programms Auswahl mit Pfeiltasten, Bestaetigen mit
RETURN, Hilfe mit ?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! Datenbestand
Bibliothek wird z.Zt. neu aufgebaut !!!!!!!! !!!!!!! und steht damit nur eingeschraenkt
zur Verfuegung !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waehle Datenbank Konfigurations-Auswahl Gesamtbestand Uni Erlangen (06.03.92, 859533
Eintraege) Kaiserslautern [Auszug/Test] (23.12.91, 8456 Eintraege) Stuttgarter
Informatik-Bibliothek (11.01.90, 10646 Eintraege) Literaturdatenbank IMMD IV (19.11.91,
6708 Eintraege) Bibliography Parallel Systems (04.09.91, 15422 Eintraege) Auswahl mit
Pfeiltasten, Bestaetigen mit RETURN, Hilfe mit ?
It was possible to select an item that provided information on ELIS (Erlangen Library
Information System) including contents and searching suggestions, e.g.:
sa Sammlung mehrerer Schriften eines Verfassers sc Schulprogramme se Serien,
Schriftenreihen etc.
as well as a description of the resources, e.g.
Es stehen z.Zt. vier Datenbanken zur Verfuegung:
1. Gesamtbestand Uni Erlangen Gesamtbestand (soweit maschinell erfasst) aller
Erlanger/Nuernberger Bibliotheken der Universitaet, z.B. Suedgelaendekomplett,
Hauptbibliothek und Institute groesstenteils ab 1982, teilweise auch frueher. Lediglich
Buecher und Zeitschriftenbaende,also nicht einzelne Buch/Zeitschriften-Artikel. Generell
gilt: Der Umfang stimmt mit dem neuesten Microfiche-Katalogueberein. Aktualisierung: im
Abstand von 3 Wochen Schlagwoerter: Von Hand vergebene normierte deutsche Begriffe,
unabhaengig von der Titel-Formulierung ...
E. GREECE
1. Listservers
HELLAS@AUVM HELLAS@BROWNVM "The Hellenic Discussion List ... The language,
preferably, used in this list is Greek (with Latin characters)." Owner=SLIOLIS@UTCVM
(Spiros Liolis)
2. Other Resources
a. USENET News
soc.culture.greek {Particularly Balkan questions and Macedonia as of 12/92}
F. IBERIAN PENINSULA (Spain, Portugal)
1. Listservers
ESPORA-L@UKANVM "History of the Iberian Peninsula" and Spanish and Portuguese
Studies. The University of Kansas maintain an anonymous/guest FTP site named MALIN (FTP
KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU) which holds files related to ESPORA in the directory
DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA] "It contains bibliographies, articles, a large collection of
summaries of medieval Aragonese charters, etc. ESPORA also houses the newsletters of the
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain." {For more information see
the description of MALIN, Part B. in Section 5 below.}
Editor=LHNELSON@UKANVM,RCLEMENT@UKANVM Owner=LHNELSON@UKANVM,RCLEMENT@UKANVM
2. Other Resources
a. PORBASE
According to an article that appeared in the Spring 1990 issue of the Western European
Specialists Section (an ALA division), Maria Luisa Cabral, Deputy Director of the National
Library of Portugal, writing about access to PORBASE, the online national bibliography,
suggested that "according to the brochure available from the BN ..., the data base is
accessible through the TELEPAC network... Current detailed information about PORBASE is
... available from the Biblioteca Nacional, Campo Grande 83, 1751 Lisboa Codex,
Portugal."
b. ONLINE CATALOGS
CATALOGOS DE BIBLIOTECAS ACCESIBLES EN LINEA: Directorio. Unidad de Coordinaci n de
Bibliotecas del CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 1993. A directory of Spanish online library catalogs
(not all telnet connections) available as ESLIBS NNEWS from the listserv@ndsuvm1 or via
anonymous ftp from vm1.nodak.edu in the NNEWS directory.
c. Electronic Resources in Romance Studies
Frank Di Trolio of Florida State University has produced an excellent guide for the
Romance Languages Discussion Group, called Electronic Resources in Romance Studies. His
address is: FranDiT@nervm.bitnet
d. Iberian Issues
A public bulletin board on general discussion about Ibero- America (Latin America,
Spain, and Portugal) is available. This is not a listserver. To subscribe send the
message: BBBOARD SUBSCRIBE IBERIAN_ISSUES YourFirstName YourLastName to the address:
nicbbs@bitnic
G. ITALY
1. Listservers
LANGIT@ICINECA "For those who are interested in Italian culture and language, I'd
like to call your attention to the list LANGIT. Italian is the language of choice, though
every so often someone sends a query in English. Italian language students are encouraged.
Recent discussions have ranged from the critical events in national politics to the
Italian cinema, while contributions include recipes, daily headlines from Italian news,
and extracts from satirical publications. Contributors have logged in from Canada, the
United States, and Italy. Vi invitiamo cordialmente di partecipare a questa vivacissima
lista! {Extracted from a note by Paula Jeannet (paulaj@mail.lib.duke.edu) in the Humanist
Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0005. Tuesday, 11 May 1993}
2. Other Resources
a. Bibliografia storica italiana
The Bibliografia storica italiana has been produced on CD-ROM by Omega Generation of
Bologna. It is available on floppy disks for MS/DOS computers according to a flyer.
Searching by author, title, year, etc. is offered. It covers 2,500 articles in 132
journals published in 1989. the cost is 1,500,000 lira for 1989 with annual updatings
planned.
b. Dante Poetry and Commentaries Data Base
The "Dante Poetry and Commentaries Data Base" is available via INTERNET,
through the Dartmouth College Library Online System. Telnet address: library.dartmouth.edu
No login or password is needed. At the login type: CONNECT DANTE The database contains
multilingual (Italian, Latin, English and other language materials pertaining to Dante's
Divine Comedy.
c. Electronic Resources in Romance Studies
Frank Di Trolio of Florida State University has produced an excellent guide for the
Romance Languages Discussion Group, called Electronic Resources in Romance Studies. His
address is: FrandDiT@nervm.bitnet
b. Bibliografia delle riviste economiche italiane
The Bibliografica delle riviste economiche italiane is produced by Omega Generation, in
collaboration with the University of Trento. It is on CD-ROM, and allows the user to
consult the indices from all the leading Italian journals on economics from 1960 to 1990.
From 1991 on the latest bibliographic material is offered as an update.
H. LOW COUNTRIES: Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
1. Listservers
NEDER-L@hearn.bitnet NEDER-L@nic.SURFnet.NL "Elektronische distributielijst voor
de neerlandistiek. Distribution list for the Study of Dutch ("Nederlandse")
Language and Literature." "The study of the Dutch language and literature is
called "neerlandistiek", derived from the country name "Ne(d)erland";
the scholars in the neerlandistiek are called "neerlandici". The list NEDER-L
offers to neerlandici with connection to SURFnet (the Dutch national academic computer
network) or world wide computer networks like EARN/Bitnet and Internet the facility to
communicate quickly and efficiently about many subjects in the neerlandistiek. Because
NEDER-L can be accessed internationally, this electronic forum will be used not only by
neerlandici of the Dutch speaking countries Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands, but
also by neerlandici out of the rest of the world. The main personal reason to start the
list was to try to break the relative isolation of neerlandici outside of Belgium and the
Netherlands." {Communications are in Dutch.} Editor=U216013@HNYKUN11.BITNET (Ben
Salemans)
2. Other Resources
a. USENET News
soc.cult.netherlands {A very active group with participants from the Netherlands}
b. Library Catalogs
{The Netherlands is among countries most active in making their online catalogs
accessible through international networks. Among them are the following}
University of Groningen telnet: 129.125.18.10 At the Username: prompt type OPC The menu
offers several choices including the catalog of the Netherlands Institute in Rome, the
Royal Library in the Hague, and others. The command BES enables switching between
databases. {Extract from a note on lib_hytelnet2@sask.usask.ca dated 14 May 1992 but I
have been unable to access this catalog personally in May, 1993}
I. NORDIC COUNTRIES: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
1. Listservers
DISC-NORDIC-REQUEST@mail.unet.umn.edu "A new discussion list has been established,
which will serve scholars who are interested in the Social Sciences and Humanities
focusing mainly on the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden).
Discussions, questions and comments in this list will deal with current scholarship in any
Social Science or Humanistic field, curriculum, bibliographic detail, announcements of
meetings and conferences, job postings, summaries of current journals and requests for
contacts with scholars investigating particular subjects. Non-scholarly topics will be
discouraged. This discussion list is also mirrored to the USENET newsgroup
"umn.local-lists.disc-nordic" which may not be available at all sites. (The
USENET group soc.culture.nordic deals with more popular and less academic topics and is
more appropriate for general inquiries)" {In March 1993 DISC-NORDIC started a
"CURRENT CONTENTS Scandinavian Studies" service which provides advance table of
contents for the journal.} Please note that this is not a LISTSERV. The following
instructions were provided: To subscribe, please send a note to:
disc-nordic-request@mail.unet.umn.edu stating your request to join and your e-mail
address. Messages for broadcast to all participants should be addressed to:
disc-nordic@mail.unet.umn.edu Comments and questions on the administration or policies of
this discussion list should be sent to Jole Shackelford (shack001@staff.tc.umn.edu) or
Jerome Coffey (UENJC@TERRA.OSCS.MONTANA.EDU {Extracted from the announcement establishing
the group}
DISC-NORDLIB This discussion list has been established to serve humanities and social
sciences librarians, archivists and others with interest in collections and services
related to Nordic area studies. Discussion, comments and questions will focus on issues of
access to research materials, cooperative collection development and shared resources and
the study of the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
The perceived need for this list grew out of discussions over the past year amongst
librarians at SASS conferences and in the Scandinavian Discussion Group of the Western
European Area Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
(American Library Association). To subscribe to the list send an e-mail message to:
DISC-NORDLIB-REQUEST@MAIL.UNET.UMN.EDU (Be sure to include your e-mail address) Messages
to be posted to the group should be sent to: DISC-NORDLIB@MAIL.UNET.UMN.EDU Comments or
questions on the administration or policies of the list should be sent to Charles Spetland
(C-SPET@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU or c-spet@uminn1) Technical problems should be addressed to:
DISC-NORDLIB-REQUEST@MAIL.UNET.UMN.EDU After subscribing, you will automatically receive a
monthly posting outlining these procedures. {Message to disc-nordic@mail.unet.umn.edu on
7-MAY-1993}
2. Other Resources
a. PROJECT RUNEBERG
"PROJECT RUNEBERG" is a Lysator project coordinated by Lars Aronsson
(aronsson@lysator.liu.se) of the students' computer club at Linkoping University in
Linkoping, Sweden. The project intends to distribute non-copyright literary and artistic
works in Scandinavian languages in machine readable form. (Copyright expires 51 years
after the death of a work's creator.)
"The language of all texts published so far is Swedish, but the project also
intends to publish in Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, and dialects of these
languages. Texts for the project's administration (as this one) are written in English.
The project is not restricted to literature, but pictures, maps, laws, and printed music
might also be published.
"The character set used so far has been ISO 8859-1, but if need be the published
texts can easily be converted to ISO 646 (seven bits) and the Swedish character sets for
MS-DOS and the Apple Macintosh.
"The published texts so far include Johan Ludvig Runeberg's "Fanrik Stals
sagner," small parts of the 1917 Swedish translation of the Bible, parts of the Edda
Saemundar, and some songs and poems by Carl Michael Bellman, Karin Boye, Gustaf Froding,
Viktor Rydberg, and others.
"Contributions to the project are graciously accepted in the form of ready text
files, scanned picture files or text images, printed matters to scan, or by proofreading
the published texts.
"Access to the published texts is possible by Gopher and by anonymous FTP over the
Internet."
Gopher FTP ----------------------------------------------------------
Host=gopher.lysator.liu.se HOST ftp.lysator.liu.se Port=70 USER anonymous Name=Project
Runeberg PASS your@email.address Type=1 DIR pub/texts Path=1/project-runeberg FILE README
Lars Aronsson, Lysator, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden {Extracted from a note
by Jerome E. Coffey (uenjc%msu.dnet@terra.oscs.montana.edu) on disc-nordic 7-MAR-1993}
b. Library Catalogs
Charles G. Spetland (180 Wilson Library University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Bitnet: c-spet@uminn1; Internet: c-spet@vm1.spcs.umn.edu) has written the following
description of using the Internet to access bibliographic and other resources in Nordic
countries. It appeared on disc-nordic@mail.unet.umn.edu on 30-MAR-1993 and is being
reprinted here with Charles Spetland's generous permission. Additions by this compiler are
included within {} as usual.
NOEN BIBLIOTEK- OG INFORMASJONSTJENESTER I NORDEN (SOME LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SERVICES IN NORDEN)
DENMARK
REX is the Danish online information resource for Det Kongelige Biblioteket, most of
the libraries of Kobenhavns Universitet and associated institutions, covering collections
in the humanities, social sciences and theology. Generally speaking, REX contains records
for books, serial titles and printed music acquired since 1980, corresponding to the
individual catalogs of the various participating faculties, libraries and divisions within
libraries. One can search the catalog as a whole, but also any number of individual
segments or selected combinations. The "Danske Samling" contains the printed
literature of Denmark in the broadest sense, including items printed or published in
Denmark; items published abroad but having something to do with Denmark (corresponding in
part to Dania Polyglotta); items from or about Norway and Iceland and/or written by
Norwegians or Icelanders within the areas of humanities, social sciences and theology; and
items pertaining to Slesvig/Holsten. Other more specialized segments include: the catalog
of the depository collections of intergovernmental organization publications at Det
Kongelige Bibliotek; catalogs of the manuscripts, theater, music, and law divisions; and
KVINFO, the center for cross-disciplinary women's studies in Copenhagen.
To access REX, Telnet to: rex.bib.dk At the "connected to dkb" prompt, hit
Esc key (or alternatively F5 key). At the "att" prompt, type in 'rex' and Enter.
You should now have the welcome screen, prompting you to type in 'kb rex' and Enter to
continue. Search protocol is quite sophisticated, with many searchable fields and display
options. All prompts, codes, instructions and help screens are in Danish, but an English
summary guide is available by typing the command `?guide'. Descriptive and directory
information as well as service hours for the many collections covered by REX are also
included as menu options.
{An example of a search in REX follows:
connected to dkb att rex from menu
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * VELKOMMEN TIL R
E X * * DET KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEKS INFORMATIONSSYSTEM * * for * * Humaniora,
Samfundsvidenskaber og Teologi, * * samt den danske nationallitteratur * * * * REX rummer
ca. 1,2 millioner records for samlingerne p} * * Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Amager,
Fiolstr{de, Slotsholmen), * * Institutbiblioteker p} K|benhavns Universitet, * *
Kunstakademiets Bibliotek, samt KVINFO. * * * * ONLINE VEJLEDNING: tast ?vejl(Retur) * *
ENGLISH GUIDE: type ?guide(Return) * * Se ogs} service: ?service(Retur) * * Du kan altid
taste ? og f} hj{lp, hvis du er i tvivl * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * *
Inden s|gning p}begyndes, skal USERID/PASSWORD indtastes, for standardbrugere: kb
rex(Retur)
REX er klar. Tast ? for hj{lp - eller s|g frit ved at indtaste |nsket s|geord.
> {one would insert the search word here; just putting in a word and tapping Return
yields results: Resultatet af s|gning nr. 1 er 26 record(s) but more complex searches are
possible.
Using the command ?guide at the > prompt leads one to search information in English:
ENGLISH HELP-SCREEN (GUIDE) (Your input: ?guide)
(<Enter> = ?mi) 1. For a short description of the REX-system in English, hit the
<Enter> key. A description of the REX-system in Danish can be displayed by typing:
?vejl. The following MAIN HELP-SCREENS will be displayed. - Online Guide (General)
(?hj{lp) - Databases (?rexbaser) - Commands (?komm) - Search codes (?koder) - Concepts
(?begreber) - Examples (1) (?eksempler) - Examples (2) (?eks) - List of help-screens
(?sk{rme) - Royal Library services (?service)
...
The English language guide begins with 6 introductory help screens. Of the over 550
specialized help screens in the complete Danish version, 24 have been selected and edited
for inclusion in the brief English version. To switch to English text in REX type: def eng
It is a flexible easy to use system}
{According to a search executed through the Gopher at the University of Minnesota,
there is also a Gopher, a system proliferating rapidly in Nordic countries, at Roskilde
University: Telnet: FIND-UNI-C.DK At login type: find At the brugerkode prompt, type:
rubikon Type 1 to select terminal type
NORWAY
Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo offers a wide variety of databases through the
university's computing services. The files of primary interest are those offered as
UBO:BOK, including; BOK, 1971 to date (the online version of Norsk bokfortegnelse, the
Norwegian national bibliography); NOTA, or Norske tidskriftartiklar, selected citations to
articles in approximately 400 Norwegian periodicals, 1980 to date; HIST, Norsk historisk
bibliografi, containing items from both BOK and NOTA; and SAMBOK, the union catalog of
holdings of approximately 300 Norwegian libraries. Listings of forthcoming and newly
published materials are also available. Through a different search system called TRIP, a
wide variety of highly specialized databases are offered, including inventories of the
theater history collection, rare books, incunabula and printed music scores. Online access
to these resources is restricted to registered users, but an account can be arranged at a
very reasonable cost. Much of this data has been transferred to CD-ROM format and is
available for purchase, also at very reasonable prices. For more information, contact:
Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, Bibliografisk avdeling, Driftskontoret, 0242 OSLO.
BIBSYS, a utilities database shared by the Norwegian National Library and the
university and research libraries of Norway, is available in a limited way via the BITNET
network. The large union catalog of the holdings of these libraries can be searched,
albeit crudely, by sending keywords in the subject field of a BITNET message to the
system. Your search results will be returned, in the form of an e-mail message. For more
information, send an 'info' command in the subject field of a BITNET message to:
genserv@nobibsys
{The following note on Access to Norwegian Libraries is by Robert Kvavik
(kvavik@mailbox.mail.umn.edu) and appeared on disc-nordic@mail.unet.umn.edu, 29-MAR-1993}
Attached find the message I received when accessing the Norwegian library system
through our "Gopher" network. Location: Trondheim, Norway
BIBSYS contains records of 11 research libraries in Norway. There is a $75 flat fee for
an account on this system. Write BIBSYS, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway for more information.
To access:
1. Type TELNET ABIBSYS.BIBSYS.UNIT.NO. 2. Press RETURN. 3. At the "Enter Terminal
Type" prompt, type vt100.
To exit, type SLUTT.
SWEDEN
LIBRIS, the shared integrated online system based at Kungliga biblioteket, contains
cataloged holdings (incomplete) of approximately 70 Swedish academic research and special
libraries. The database is now the basis of production for Svensk bokf>rteckning, the
national bibliography, and Svensk tidskriftsf>rteckning, the bibliography of Swedish
periodicals. The national bibliographies of printed maps, music and government
publications are also derived from this system. Registered users of participating
libraries also enjoy the circulation and interlibrary loans applications of the system.
Remote users must pay a small fee to acquire a user id and password. Portions of the
database are also available for purchase in CD-ROM format. For more information on the use
of LIBRIS, contact G>ran Skogmar at: skogmar@libris.kb.se
FINLAND
FENNICA, the online version of Suomen kirjallisuus (the Finnish national bibliography)
and the catalog of Helsingin Yliopiston, is available by Telnetting to: hyk.helsinki.fi or
128.214.4.130 At the first prompt, respond with: HELLO yourname,user.clas01 and press
ENTER. At the next prompt, select '10' for vt100 and ENTER. At the 'Anna kokoelma' prompt,
respond with '100' and ENTER. Once you are in, you can change the command language to
English or Swedish by entering /lang 1 or /lang 3 respectively. {It is a VTLS system.}
{According to a note from Peter Scott (aa375@freenet.carleton.ca) on HYTEL-L dated 19
Apr 1993, there is also a Vaasa FreePort Bulletin Board (BBS) available: TELNET
GARBO.UWASA.FI or 128.214.87.1 login: guest
MAIN MENU {In Finnish with English translation}
1 Yleinen hallinto -- Administration 3 K{ytt{j{n asetukset -- User Services | |/ 11
Kansainv{liset uutisryhm{t -- USENET News 12 Sis{iset erityiskeskusteluryhm{t -- Special
Interest Groups 13 Tiedostojen hallinta ja siirto -- File Management and Transfer 14
Elektroniset kirjastot & ilmaisohjelmat -- Electronic Libraries & PD Progs 15
Neuvontapiste -- Help Desk
{I have used the FTP site GARBO.UWASA.FI and found it to have instructions in English
and to be both fast and efficient.}
ICELAND
GEGNIR, the Icelandic database of Landsblkasafn islands (the National Library) and H
skllablkasafn (the University Library) in Reykjavik can be accessed at: 130.208.165.16
Enter `bokasafn' at the first prompt.
Many of these Nordic databases, as well as a variety of other electronic resources, are
available through the web of international networks. NORDUnet is the "umbrella"
net for the various Nordic academic networks: DENet(Denmark),
FUNET(Finland),ISnet(Iceland), UNINETT (Norway) and SUNET (Sweden). All are readily
accessible via the growing array of gateways, perhaps most easily through
"Gopherspace."
b. NORWAVES
NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET reported on 2 Apr 1993 (in a message from ostbroed@nki.no) that
a new service from Norway, NORWAVES - News Service from Norway, had started. "We are
four students who have installed a listserver in Norway. The listserver list NORWAVES will
distribute weekly news from Norway. The information is provided by NORINFORM.
"The NORINFORM press office was established by The Norwegian Information Council
and provides overseas news services in several languages, daily (in English only) and
weekly. NORINFORM also produces the monthly magazine "Norway Now" and a fulltext
database containing bulletins and articles about Norway.
"If you are interested you should subscribe to the list NORWAVES at:
listserv@nki.no
Issuing the command:
subscribe NORWAVES YourFirstName YourLastName
We would be grateful for any comments concerning the list. You may also send an
"info" request for more information. If you have any questions, you may send a
message to the list editors. Editors=nwnews@nki.no (Andre Kristiansen, Per Staale
Straumsheim)
c. USENET News soc.culture.nordic Discussion about Nordic culture.
IV. HISTORY SUB-DISCIPLINES
A. ECONOMIC HISTORY
Simon Katzenellenbogen announced in the Humanist Discussion Group (Vol. 6, No. 0601.
Thursday, 18 Mar 1993) that there is a new Economic History Newsletter focusing on
European history. Information is available from him at: mfshssk@cms.mcc.ac.uk or
mfshssk@fs1.art.man.ac.uk No. 2 was published on May 12, 1993, and included information on
finding sources, the net, book reviews and other topics.
CLIO-L@MIAMIU Economic history; apply for membership.
B. ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
ASEH-L@TTUVM1 ASEH-L@TTUVM1.TTU.EDU "The list for those interested in discussing
environmental history topics." To join, send a message to: LISTSERV@TTUVM1 OR
LISTSERV@TTUVM1.TTU.EDU with the command: SUB ASEH-L YourName
C. GENEALOGY (and Family History)
1. Listservers
LINES-L@NDSUVM1 LINES-L@VM1.NoDak.EDU LifeLines Genealogical System. "LINES-L will
serve as a vehicle for topics related to the enhancement of `LifeLines Genealogical
Database and Report Generator.' Lifelines is an experimental, second-generation
Genealogical System." Mirrored to USENET Newsgroup bit.listserv.LINES-L. Established
09/29/92. Owner=cmanis@csoftec.csf.com (Cliff Manis)
ROOTS-L@NDSUVM1 or ROOTS-L@VM1.NODAK.EDU "A mail Discussion List for Genealogical
Matters. Topics include techniques, requests for help, software, etc." {There is also
a USENET group called soc.roots which includes general discussion about family history,
predominantly American however, as well as bibliographies and reference aids. As of 12/92
it had more than 13,000 messages.} Owner=alf.christophersen@nutri.uio.no (Alf
Christophersen)
There are also several FTP sites that contain text files and documents relevant to
modern genealogical searches & studies. The anonymous ftp site at: hallc1.cebaf.gov or
129.57.32.62 in the directory genealogy and in its subdirectories has a large number of
programs to assist in genealogical research.
2. Other Resources
a. USENET News soc.roots Genealogical matters.
D. HISTORICAL METHODS
history-methods@mailbase.ac.uk The FTP server: mailbase.ac.uk or 128.240.2.118 has the
files for HISTORY- METHODS in the directory pub/history-methods Get the file introduction
which explains content.
E. HISTORY OF PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
EXLIBRIS@RUTVM1 Rare Books and Special Collections.
SHARP-L@IUBVM SHARP-L@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU "History of the Printed Word ... in
affiliation with the newly-founded Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and
Publishing, SHARP-L means to give all of us who take an interest in this burgeoning field
a way of exchanging ideas, information, and inquiries with other scholars in all
disciplines all over the world. Whether your interest is incunabula or 20th-century
American periodicals, literacy studies or the economics of the book trade, library history
or literary theory, this is a list, and an organization, that hopes to bring us all
together and get us acquainted. SHARP-L can be a way of bridging the occupational,
disciplinary, and geographical differences among students of print culture that have
tended to keep us isolated and all-too-ignorant of one another's work and interests."
Owner: PLEARY@IUBACS or pleary@ucs.indiana.edu (Patrick Leary)
F. HISTORY PEDAGOGY
WORLD-L@UBVM On the teaching of world history {but tends to be non- Eurocentric}.
G. LABOR HISTORY
1. Listservers
LABOR@SHSU Predominantly labor economics. Anonymous FTP server: Niord.SHSU.edu or
192.92.115.8 has the archives for LABOR.
H. MILITARY HISTORY
1. Listservers
MILHST-L@LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU "MILHST-L is an
unmoderated list provided as a forum for discussion by scholars and students of Military
History. It is intended to serve historians, academic historians, and those for whom
military history is a non-professional but abiding interest. ... Comments and discussions
of the military affairs of any period or place are welcome, and social, economic, and
political factors are considered an integral part of the subject. Given the wide scope of
the subject, subscribers should take particular care to make their subject lines clear and
descriptive. ... MILHST-L is an international list and will have no "official"
language. Contributors may choose the idiom in which they feel most comfortable and which
they believe will be best suited for communicating their thought to the list membership.
{It has been noted that this is an active list that tends towards popular military
history} Owner=JPHUGHES@UKANVM (Patrick Hughes) Owner=LHNELSON@UKANVM (Lynn Nelson)
2. Other Resources
THE UNITED STATES ARMY WAR COLLEGE'S BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE
This bibliographic database is available online. Although entries predominantly concern
American military history, it also contains European information, particularly on World
War II and German military equipment and performance. An index of the available
information, which will contain the subject to be requested and a short description of
what you will receive, can be obtained by mailing to: info-request@carlisle-emh2.army.mil
with a Subject: line containing only the word "index", i.e.: Subject: index
These "reference bibliographies, notes, brief reports, and various lists
collectively known as `refbibs' identify and organize by subject, sources on file at the
Institute, many of which are unique or scarce. By design, refbibs are working lists that
should be considered indicative, not exhaustive, of the source materials held at the MHI.
They are continuously expanded, updated, and refined as more materials are received,
organized and cataloged." {Information extracted from an entry on the Discussion of
Government Document Issues List (GOVDOC-L@PSUVM, Fri Jan 15 1993) based on information
from MILHST-L@UKANVM acquired by jewelllw@sage.cc.purdue.edu}
I. RELIGIOUS HISTORY
1. Listservers
The most informative source for electronic developments in the field of religion,
including religious history, is Michael Strangelove (441495@Uottawa or
441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA) He publishes The Religious Studies Publications Journal -
CONTENTS, a journal, not a conversation list, that includes research and pedagogical
material related to the field of religion. It seeks to provide free FTP and LISTSERV
archiving of quality scholarly material and a comprehensive directory of network
accessible resources for Religious Studies in a wide variety of mediums. Electronic
subscriptions to CONTENTS are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to: Listserv@uottawa
or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text: SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS YourFirstName
YourLastName.
To determine the status of your subscription to CONTENTS send an e-mail message QUERY
CONTENTS to the listserver above.
To get a list of individual Religious Studies related bibliographies, reviews,
articles, glossaries, and other files archived on the CONTENTS Project's LISTSERV archive,
send the e-mail message GET CONTENTS FILELIST to: LISTSERV@UOTTAWA or
LISTSERV@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA
The FTP document archive of the CONTENTS is available at the FTP SITE:
PANDA1.UOTTAWA.CA or 137.122.6.16 in the /pub/religion/ directory. {According to a recent
note by Gregory Bloomquist (GBLOOMQ@acadvm1.uottawa.ca) CONTENTS has abandoned its attempt
to include a review service and CONTENTS will shift in its focus towards network-available
information}
REVIEW-L@UOTTAWA.Bitnet or REVIEW-L@acadvm1.uottawa.ca REVIEW-L (The Religious Studies
Publications Journal - CONTENTS Review Supplement; ISSN: 1188-5734) "An all
electronic, network distributed serial for Religious Studies.... To disseminate via the
global computer networks: theses and dissertations, subject bibliographies, glossaries,
course syllabi and other research material such as prepublication papers and dissertation
abstracts.... To provide a comprehensive network distributed source of information on
Religious Studies pedagogical and research resources, while at the same time provide a
freely accessible network archive for primary and secondary electronic texts, resources,
and software of interest to the discipline.... In 1992, the project archived over four
hundred pages of bibliographies, as well as a complete M.A. theses. The project is also
publishing journal table of contents on an experimental basis...." A supplement to
CONTENTS, Lists in Review, provides an overview of many of the LISTSERV lists (online
academic conferences) of relevance to Religious Studies. A team of editors surveys
individual lists and records lists of subject keywords that will serve to indicate what
has been discussed on any given online conference. These list summaries are compiled by
the supplement editor and posted as a short file to CONTENTS and archived on a fileserver.
This collection will allow networked researchers to quickly survey what has been discussed
on dozens of lists and then retrieve past conversations from a list's logbook.
Owner=441495@uottawa or 441495@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Michael Strangelove)
HISTEC-L@UKANVM "History of evangelical Christianity." Subscription and
review are private. The University of Kansas maintain an anonymous/guest FTP site named
MALIN (FTP KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU) which holds files related to HISTEC in the directory
DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA] DUA9:[MALIN.HISTEC] Editor=BAYS@UKANVM Owner=BAYS@UKANVM
2. Other Resources
a. The Electric Mystic's Guide
Michael Strangelove's two-volume Electric Mystic's Guide surveys documents, archives
and services related to religious studies and related fields (including religious history)
that are available through the Net. Volume one is available via FTP as PostScript, low
ASCII, and WordPerfect 5.1 files, and via LISTSERV as a low ASCII file. The low ASCII
files are not tagged ("marked up"). Edition 2.0 is 70% larger than the previous
edition. Volume Two will be released in early Spring 1993. Scholars Press will be
publishing the complete Guide in mid 1993. The Guide will soon be available via Gopher at:
ccat.sas.upenn.edu courtesy of the Center for Computer Analysis of Text, University of
Pennsylvania.
>>> Retrieval Information <<<
Anonymous FTP to: panda1.uottawa.ca or 137.122.6.16 Directory: /pub/religion/ The files
are in various formats. The low ASCII version is electric-mystics-guide-v1.txt. Note that
there are many other electronic texts in the same directory related to religious topics.
This version is also available as a low ASCII text via email from: Listserv@uottawa or
Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
Send the command to: GET MYSTICS V1.TXT
b. CETEDOC
The CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts (CLCLT) is now available on a CD-ROM. An
information file describing the CD-ROM is available from: listserv@brownvm Request CLCLT
CDROM or CLCLT CETEDOC.
{A description of the CD-ROM of the CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts {which
contains about 21 million words of text) notes that it includes: "(1) `almost all' of
the 250 volumes now available in the Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, and Continuatio
Mediaevalis; (2) the complete corpora of Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Great, with
works not yet edited in CC being taken from the `best editions available in other
collections' and destined to be replaced by CC texts when available; (3) some texts not
yet published in the CC, for example the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville." The
demonstration of the CD-ROM and associated software by Paul Tombeur of CETEDOC seemed
convincing and uses windows to provide an "elegant, easy-to-use, and convenient
interface." {Extracted from comments by Grover A. Zinn, Jr.,
FZINN@OBERLINFZINN@OBERLIN on Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0315. Thursday, 12
Sep 1991}
c. Directory of Online Scholars of Religion
A "Directory of Online Scholars of Religion" has become available in several
formats. It contains an alphabetical list of names, e-mail addresses, surface mail
addresses, and special interests of online scholars of Religion. It was compiled by Henry
Leyenhorst (524830@acadvm1.uottawa.ca) CONTENTS provided the following Retrieval
Information: FTP to: panda1.uottawa.ca (137.122.6.16) Directory: /pub/religion/ as the
file: religion-scholars-email-directory.txt (low ASCII text)
FTP login: anonymous Password: YourFullEmailAddress
Also available as a low ASCII text via the CONTENTS Project LISTSERV fileserver as the
file: SCHOLAR DIRECTRY (note spelling carefully) from: Listserv@uottawa or
Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
d. OFFLINE
Religious Studies News. Robert Kraft's OFFLINE column has appeared in printed form
since 1984 in the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion and in
the Religious Studies News. It is available on HUMANIST and IOUDAIOS. Any subscriber to
either list will receive OFFLINE as part of the subscription. To get a list of files on
HUMANIST, send the command: GET HUMANIST FILELIST to: LISTSERV@BROWNVM
You may obtain a copy by issuing the command: GET filename filetype HUMANIST either
interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to: LISTSERV@BROWNVM Specific files are
obtained as a command: GET OFFLINE itsnumber HUMANIST Note that the most recent issue is
no. 41 for Fe., 1993. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist," available
from the same listserver as HUMANIST GUIDE HUMANIST.
A complete electronic file of OFFLINE columns is available upon request from the CCAT
gopher, or in part from the HUMANIST (BROWNVM.bitnet) or IOUDAIOS (YORKVM1.bitnet)
ListServ facilities. Owner=Robert Kraft (kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) {Extracted from
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0556. Thursday, 25 Feb 1993 at the University of
Pennsylvania which I accessed through my local gopher. It is a very nice gopher server.}
e. USENET News
soc.religion.christian Christianity and related topics (Moderated).
J. SOCIAL HISTORY
1. Listservers
SOCHIST@USCVM SOCHIST@VM.USC.EDU "Social History List." "The primary
subject of this list is the discussion of the following characteristics of social history:
1) Reliance on quantitative measurement; 2) Borrows from the theoretical constructs of the
social sciences, e.g. demography, sociology, economics, political science, etc. 3)
Discovery of the history of groups previously glossed over or ignored in traditional
historical accounts, i.e. families, women, blacks, labor groups., etc." Subscription
is open, but review is private and no notebook is maintained. Owner=bl.lxa@rlg or
bl.lxa@rlg.stanford.edu (Laurie Abbott) Owner=bob@halfdome.sf.ca.us (Bob Pasker)
K. URBAN HISTORY
1. Listservers
H-URBAN@UICVM or H-URBAN@UICVM.UIC.EDU "A new group, H-Urban (URBAN HISTORY) has
been set up at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in order to provide a forum for
scholars of urban history.... The primary purpose of H-Urban is to enable urban historians
to easily communicate current research and research interests; to discuss new approaches,
methods and tools of analysis; to share reviews of useful resources including monographs,
journals, articles, and primary source materials such as papers, maps, records, and
databases; and to announce calls for papers, conferences, museum and society shows,
exhibitions, job opportunities, grants and fellowships. H-Urban is also a forum for
exploring the approaches, methods and tools used in teaching history to graduate and
undergraduate students. As described below, UIC is establishing an electronic archive
easily accessible to historians. Syllabi, reading lists, and examinations would all be
valuable additions to the archive. Discussion of cities throughout human history, and in
all geographic areas is welcome." There is also a "H-Urban Fileserver"
which will contain "Documents of interest to urban historians -- bibliographies, book
and article reviews, announcements, teaching materials, and descriptions of tools,
techniques, and computer software and hardware -- will be made available from the H-Urban
fileserver. In addition, an archive of all discussion on H-Urban will be available from
the fileserver. To obtain a list of available documents, send a note to: LISTSERV@uicvm or
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu with the following command in the BODY: Index H-Urban To obtain a
specific document, send LISTSERV the command: GET filename filetype Thus, to obtain a
document entitled "H-Urban Welcome" from the fileserver, send a note to Listserv
with the command: GET H-Urban Welcome Contributions to the archive are welcome, and should
be sent to the groups' moderator Wendy Plotkin (U20566@UICVM or U20566@uicvm.uic.edu).
{Extracted from announcement of the group's formation.}
V. SUBJECTS RELATED TO HISTORY (ALPHABETICALLY)
A. ANTHROPOLOGY
1. Listservers ANTHRO-L@UBVM ANTHRO-L%UBVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU This list deals with
discussions of various techniques and fields of research in Anthropology. Some suggested
topics of discussion are: - Computation in anthropology - Graphics in archaeology - What
programs anthropologists are using at various places - Where centers of computer interests
are in anthropology - Anglo-Saxon cemeteries - Palaeodemography - What individuals are
doing, e.g. research, publication, computer info. - Some spirited words on political
economy - Using anthropological assistance to describe the legal practices of American
culture - The development of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries - The Northumberland landscape - Use
of Remote Sensing (resistivity and magnetometer) to locate and analyze village sites - The
population of Anglo-Saxon England Review is Private but Subscriptions and Notebook are
open. There is also a USENET newsgroup called: bit.listserv.anthro-l Owner=ANTOWNER@UBVM
(ANTHRO-L Owner) List Owner=APYEZRA%UBVMSD.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU or APYEZRA@UBVMSD.BITNET
(Ezra Zubrow) Coordinator=V291NHTP@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU or
V291NHTP%UBVMSD.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU or V291NHTP@UBVMSD.BITNET (Patrick G. Salsbury)
B. ARCHAEOLOGY (and Ethnography and Folklore)
1. Listservers
AIA-L@cc.brynmawr.edu Archaeology list. {From a note by Nick Eiteljorg
(neiteljo@cc.brynmawr.edu), in Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0483. Friday, 5 Feb
1993}
ARCH-L@DGOGWDG1 ARCH-L@TAMVM1 Archaeology List (peered). "ARCH-L is a forum for
discussion of archaeological problems. A library of free or shareware software is also
maintained. Donations of programs are welcomed." Owner=spqr@MINSTER.YORK.AC.UK
(Sebastian Rahtz) Owner=FSIEGMU@DGOGWDG1 (Frank Siegmund) Owner=HSTEENW1@DGOGWDG1 (Helge
Steenweg)
ETHNOHIS@HEARN ETHNOHIS@nic.surfnet.nl "An online discussion list on the
intersection of two disciplines: ethnology and history, and on topics touching both upon
ethnology and history. Interested researchers are encouraged to discuss relevant themes,
e.g. `the anthropology of museums', `ethnographical collections', `missionary
photography', methodological issues, or all topics covered by journals such as GRADHIVA
and HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. We hope to stimulate a general discussion between the
various approaches in this interdisciplinary field." To subscribe to ETHNOHIS, send
the command: SUB ETHNOHIS yourfirstname yourlastname to: LISTSERV@hearn or
LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl Owner=u211610@hnykun11.urc.kun.nl (Fred Melssen)
LORE@NDSUVM1 LORE@VM1.NoDak.EDU) "A broad based, public discussion group that will
examine and discuss all aspects of Folklore." Review is public, with open
subscription. Owner=carey@plains.nodak.edu (Pat Carey) Owner=quiet:,CAREY@NDSUVM1 (Pat
Carey)
ORTRAD-L {See above under Ancient}
C. ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVISTS
1. Listservers
ARCHIVES@INDYCMS "Archives & Archivists." "Archives (Archives &
Archivists) is for all persons involved and/or interested in archival theory and
practice." Owner=JBHARLAN@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (John B Harlan) Editorial: Harlan@Indiana
or Harlan@Indiana.Edu (Donna B Harlan)
D. ECONOMICS
1. Listservers
IPE-ISA-L@mach1.wlu.ca "IPE-ISA-L is an electronic discussion list that will allow
persons around the world interested in International Political Economy to discuss matters
of mutual concern. IPE-ISA-L is an unmoderated and open list. This means that all messages
posted to the list will be automatically redistributed around the world. Possible topics
for discussion on the list might include any of the following: 1) IPE section business re:
regional and national meetings; 2) Substantive discussion over topics such as NAFTA,
regional trading blocs, trade regimes, international debt, long cycles, historical world
systems, EEC, currency and market crises, democracy and governance in Latin and South
America, Africa and Asia, commodity negotiations; 3) Comment and contributions on
curriculum questions; suggested texts, new articles of common interest for course-related
adoption; 4) Circulation of draft articles for comment and discussion; 5) Personal
exchanges in the effort to develop a greater sense of community among IPE section
colleagues." Owner=lgonick6@mach1.wlu.ca (Lev S. Gonick, Department of Political
Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5)
E. GEOGRAPHY
1. Listservers
GEOGRAPH@FINHUTC GEOGRAPH%FINHUTC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Geography and geographical
issues; from Helsinki, Finland. "This is a global list for all geographers."
More information about GEOGRAPH may be obtained from: PKOKKONE@FINUHA (Pellervo Kokkonen)
PYYHTIA@FINUHA (Mervi Pyyhtia)
2. Other resources
a. Geography Documents & Software Archive
A Geography Documents and Software Archive at Toronto, Canada, is available via
anonymous FTP: relay.cs.toronto.edu or 128.100.3.6 directory /doc/geography/world Please
note that these files are compressed. Consult your local guru.
b. Geographical Data Base
A Geographic Name Server at the University of Michigan has basic geographic data for
the U.S. and a very few foreign cities. Telnet address: martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 or
141.212.99.9 Login password: [on login, type HELP] {Extracted from INTERNET VOYAGER dated
April 1992}
F. HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Listservers
HOPOS-L@UKCC.BITNET "HOPOS-L, the History of Philosophy of Science Discussion
List, has been established in conjunction with the new History of Philosophy of Science
Working Group (HOPOS) as a forum for the exchange of information, ideas, queries, job
notices, course syllabi, conference announcements, and other news of interest to scholars
working in areas related to HOPOS MAIN FOCUS. THE discussion list will also be used to
distribute occasional HOPOS newsletters." {The first issue of the Newsletter was
distributed in Jan. 1993 described HOPOS and included an introduction to HOPOS
("HOPOS is an informal, international working group of scholars who share an interest
in promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the philosophy of science and
related topics in the history of the natural and social sciences, logic, philosophy, and
mathematics"), information on forthcoming events as well as invaluable descriptions
of two libraries of electronic texts. According to HOPOS-L, 19-FEB-1993, HOPOS has started
"The HOPOS Pedagogy Archive" which will include such items as syllabi useful for
teaching philosophy, history of science, or other science studies from under-graduate to
graduate-level seminars and later other pedagogic tools (classroom examples,
bibliographies, reading questions on various texts, etc.). The archive will be housed at
U.Missouri, Kansas City, probably in the Kasey sender. Contact George Gale
(ggale@vax1.umkc.edu) or Tim McGrew (mcgrew@cougar.csc.wsu.edu). {The list is frequently
on the discipline, with relatively little on history of science in Europe. But HOPOS does
include information about archives and archival holdings in the history of science.}
Owner=einphil@ukcc.uky.edu (Don Howard)
HPSST-L@QUCDN "History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching."
Owner=HILLSS@QUCDN (Skip Hills) Owner=FARQUHAD@QUCDN (Doug Farquhar)
HTECH-L@SIVM "A new list, htech-l@sivm.bitnet, is dedicated to discussion of
material of interest to historians of technology." Owner=bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
(Bayla Singer)
"Sci-tech-studies". Send a message to LISTSERV@UCSD.EDU, with the body
containing: SUBSCRIBE SCI-TECH-STUDIES
SHOTHC-L SHOTHC-L@SIVM History of the Computer and Computing Issues.
G. HUMANITIES AND COMPUTERS
ACHNEWS "Newsletter of the Association for Computers and the Humanities ... exists
solely for the electronic distribution of the ACH Newsletter, the newsletter of the
Association for Computers and the Humanities, and is open only to ACH members.
Subscription is By-Owner and Notebook is Private. Editor=achnews@ucsbuxa (Eric Dahlin)
Owner=achnews@ucsbuxa (Eric Dahlin) Owner=9531NIVE@UCSBVM (Cody R. Nivens)
AHC-L@DGOGWDG1 "A mailing list for members of the Association for History &
Computing." Owner=MTHALLE1@DGOGWDG1 (Manfred Thaller) Owner=HSTEEN@DGOGWDG1 (Helge
Steenweg)
AIBI-L@UOTTAWA AIBI-L@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA "Announcing a new list: AIBI-L (the
LISTSERV discussion forum of l'Association internationale bible et informatique). AIBI-L
is an on-going forum and meeting place for AIBI members and others who wish to join the
discussion of issues related to the computerized-analysis of Biblical and related texts.
Possible subjects for discussion include (but are not limited to) computer-based
interpretation of specific texts, methodological questions, preparation of the text for
computerized analysis, software-design and programming, computer-based hermeneutics. Of
particular interest will be a discussion of a new edition of the Biblia Hebraica,
incorporating insights from computer-based analysis. No formal membership in AIBI is
necessary for participation in AIBI-L. The language of exchange will be English. Moderator
of AIBI-L: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA or GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA (L. G. Bloomquist) Editor of AIBI
Newsletter: CIBMARE@BUCLLN11 (R. F. Poswick)
CHUG-L@BROWNVM Brown University Computing in the Humanities. Usually describes programs
given at the University. {Frequently has interesting information on the application of
computers to the humanities.}
COMPUTER-ASSISTED RESEARCH FORUM OFFLINE No. 41 included the announcement that a new
publication for computing humanists promises to help those less accustomed to using the
net for information gathering: Computer- Assisted Research Forum: A Reader-friendly
Bulletin for Academics and Educators in the Humanities. It is edited by Todd J. B. Blayone
at McGill University (cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca) and plans to appear three times during each
academic year at a cost of $10 Canadian ($8.50 US). The PO address is Birks Building,
McGill University, 3520 University Street, Montreal PQ-H3A 2A7, Canada. "The first
issue appeared in Fall 1992 with articles on bibliographic programs (comparative review,
part 1), graphics-mode and multilingual word processors for DOS, and (of course) something
on e-mail. The current issue, which arrived as a complimentary copy, adds discussions on
language learning, on text analysis software for the Mac, and (of course) on electronic
discussion groups. Looks quite promising." {Extracted from OFFLINE No. 41, 24
February 1993}
HCFNET@UCSBVM Humanities Computing Facilities.
HUMGRAD "A UK-based electronic mailing list for postgraduates working in the
humanities." Serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, information and comments on
Humanities-related subjects, and on the work and concerns of postgraduates. "It
provides the opportunity to ask questions away from the mine field of the academic high
ground." There are well in excess of 100 subscribers already, and on average 10--15
messages are posted each day on a reasonably broad range of topics. Subscribers within the
United Kingdom should send a message to: MAILBASE@UK.AC.MAILBASE Those outside the UK
should send a message to: MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK Send this command as the message's text:
SUBSCRIBE HUMGRAD yourfirstname yourlastname Messages for broadcasting should be sent to:
HUMGRAD@MAILBASE.AC.UK. Owners=Gavin Burnage (GBURNAGE@VAX.OX.AC.UK) and Stuart Lee
(STUART@VAX.OX.AC.UK)
HUMANIST@BROWNVM "Humanities Computing list - created 07 MAY 87." {General
source for conference and other announcements, information on humanities computing
(although much of it has now migrated to more specialized lists) and related topics such
as new listservers, etc.; very important source} Owner=EDITORS@BROWNVM (Elaine Brennan
& Allen Renear) Editor=EDITORS@BROWNVM (Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear)
HUMSPC-L@BROWNVM "This list is for the Special Humanist Mailings."
Owner=EDITORS@BROWNVM (Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear)
L-ARTECH@UQAM Les Arts et les nouvelles technologies/Arts and New Technologies.
REACH@UCSBUXA "Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the
Humanities...." "Reach is the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of
the University of California, Santa Barbara. It is published four times a year."
Notebook is private. Previous issues available via anonymous FTP at: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or
FTP 128.111.122.50 in the directory hcf. Log on as "anonymous", and enter your
e-mail address as a password. Then enter the command "cd hcf" to change to the
appropriate directory. Begin by using the "get filename" command to retrieve the
"readme" file, which contains a list of the file names of all the various
issues. You can also subscribe to the electronic edition of REACH as you would to any
other electronic group. Simply send an e-mail message, with no subject, to the address of
its list server: listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet The message should contain nothing more than the
single line: SUBSCRIBE REACH yourfirstname yourlastname with your own name, not your
e-mail address, in place of yourfirstname yourlastname. Contact: HCF1DAHL@UCSBUXA or
HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Eric Dahlin) Editor=reach@ucsbuxa (Eric Dahlin)
Owner=reach@ucsbuxa (Eric Dahlin)
SCHOLAR@CUNYVM "Online Information for Natural Language Processors." {and may
include topics on the editing of historical texts.} The electronic journal SCHOLAR
includes articles on humanities projects utilizing computers, book summaries on that and
related topics, notes on Internet resources in specific fields (Islamic Studies most
recently), position announcements, and other miscellaneous information on electronic
humanities. {It is a rich and invaluable resource.} To receive information on retrieving
information in SCHOLAR, send a message to: Listserv@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU The message should
read: SUB SCHOLAR yourfirstname yourlastname Editor=jqrqc@cunyvm (Joseph Raben)
Owner=jqrqc@cunyvm (Joseph Raben)
SEDIT-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Editors of scholarly editions.
H. LAW
1. Listservers
HISLAW-L@ULKYVM HISLAW-L@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU "History of Law (Feudal, Common,
Canon)." "HISLAW-L is ready to distribute newsletters from study groups, and to
post announcements of meetings and calls for papers, short scholarly pieces, queries, and
other items of interest." Owner=JACOCK01@ULKYVM or JACOCK01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU
(Jim Cocks)
I. MUSIC AND ART HISTORY
CAAH@PUCC Art and Architectural History.
CLASSM-L@BROWNVM Classical Music List.
EARLYM-L@AEARN Early Music List.
MUSIC@FINHUTC Music-Research.
TML-L@IUBVM Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: Database for Latin Music.
J. PHILOSOPHY
In Spring, 1993 the Analytical Philosophy Project announced the creation of the first
electronic journal in philosophy: THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY The
first issue was scheduled for April 15, 1993 and was to included a number of different
sub-disciplines of analytical philosophy. For a subscription, send a note to
ejap@phil.indiana.edu and put ejap subscription in the Subject line.
K. POLITICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
1. Listservers
ARMS-D@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU ARMS-D-REQUEST@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU Arms and Disarmament.
DIP-D@UWAVM.BITNET Diplomacy Digest (Moderated).
GREEN@IndyCMS.IUPUI.EDU "Green movements study list ... dedicated to the study of
Green movements worldwide and their influence on public opinion and public policy."
List owner/editor/coordinator: IJBH200@IndyVAX (John B Harlan)
PEACE@INDYCMS "Peace (Peace studies) is dedicated to discussion of peace studies,
conflict management and resolution, and peace and justice education. Peace is open to all
interested persons, including professionals in these disciplines and interested
laypeople." Owner=JBHARLAN@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (John B. Harlan) Editorial=FAL1@IONA
(Felicia A. Leon)
POLI-SCI@RUTVM1 "Political Science Digest."
Owner=Poli-Sci-Request@Aramis.Rutgers.Edu (Charles McGrew)
PSRT-L@UMCVMB PSRT-L@MIZZOU1 "Political Science Research and Teaching List ...
Discussion of the academic, research and teaching interests of professional political
scientists." PSRT-L is edited by Bill Ball. A list of back files is available. Send
the command INDEX PSRT-L to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1 for a filelist. Members also receive the
monthly (?) "Law & Politics Book Review, An Electronic Periodical Published by
The Law and Courts Section [of] The American Political Science Association" (ISSN
1062-7421) Herbert Jacob, Editor (Department of Political Science, Northwestern
University, hjacob@casbah.acns.nwu.edu). Vol. 2 appeared in 1992 and occasionally, e.g. of
Alec Stone, The Birth of Judicial Politics in France (Vol. 2 No. 12) includes reviews of
books on European history and politics. "To order previously published reviews, send
the command GET INDEX LPBR to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU and then request individual
files from that list. To order ALL past reviews, just send the command GET LPBR PACKAGE to
LISTSERV@.MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU. Reviews may also be accessed from the gopher at
Northwestern University which I accessed through my local gopher. It is in the
subdirectory Law and Politics Book Review under the Northwestern University Information
directory. Owner=POLPSRT@MIZZOU1 (Bill Ball - Michael Malaby)
UN@INDYCMS "UN (United Nations) is dedicated to discussion of the United Nations,
and is open to all interested persons. The UN list does not in any way whatsoever
represent the United Nations nor any of its related agencies, nor do any of the UN list's
discussions have any bearing on or relation to policies or practices of the United Nations
itself." Owner=JBHARLAN@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU (John B. Harlan) Note: There is also a
gopher server at the UN which has UN documents and access elsewhere. It is frequently a
choice under International Organizations on a gopher menu. It has basic search facilities
and access to external gophers.
2. Other Resources
a. USENET News soc.politics Political problems, systems, solutions (Moderated).
soc.politics.arms-d Arms discussion digest (Moderated).
b. PARC Political Analysis and Research Cooperation (PARC) News Bulletin This
newsletter deals with political analysis, political behavior, and political culture. To
subscribe, send e-mail or fax (group 3) address or number to Internet:
kusftb@vms2.uni-c.dk or fax to +45 33122613 Submissions: Only e-mail material submitted to
the above address is accepted for re-distribution. Contact: Professor Tom Bryder
(kusftb@vms2.uni-c.dk)
L. Social Sciences
1. Listservers:
SOS-DATA@UNCVM1 Social Science Data List.
2. Other Resources:
ICPSR: INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH
ICPSR maintains the world's largest repository of computer-based research and
instructional data for the social sciences. The Consortium Data Network (CDNet) is
available via Internet and offers on-line access to ICPSR data holdings and computational
resources. In addition to using Internet for access to CDNet, datasets are routinely
transferred via Internet to requesting members. ICPSR is a membership-based organization
whose annual fee varies by institution, but individuals can obtain accounts for searching
CDNet whether their institution is a member or not. For information on new accounts and to
arrange access, contact: Member Services ICPSR P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1428
(301) 763-5010
{Extracted from NETTRAIN (NETTRAIN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu) 18 Nov 1992}
M. Women's Studies WMST-L@UMDD WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU (Internet address) WMST-L has been
formed to facilitate discussion of Women's Studies issues, especially those concerned with
research, teaching, and program administration, and to publicize relevant conferences, job
announcements, calls for papers, publications, and the like. It is hoped that the list
will also serve as a central repository for course materials, curriculum proposals and
projects, bibliographies, and other files related to Women's Studies. Messages for
distribution on the list should be sent to WMST-L@UMDD or WMST-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU. Owner: Joan
Korenman (KORENMAN@UMBC or KORENMAN@UMBC2.UMBC.EDU)
VI. TEXT ARCHIVES
A. Historical
1. Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University is maintaining an archive of historical texts,
predominantly American so far, that are available through the FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
procedure. The FTP address is: ftp.msstate.edu or 130.18.80.36 The archive is maintained
by Don Mabry, whose address is: djm1@ra.msstate.edu In the
directory pub/docs/history Materials on Western Europe in the archive include articles on
Medieval Europe, a bibliography on French socialism consisting of citations extracted from
MELVYL, an extensive description of the French database ARTFL, and others.
{Please note that those individuals who have not used this archive for some time should
be aware that the files have been reorganized according to a note from Don Mabry that appeared on HISTORY dated 15-Feb-1993.} The current
(May, 1993) directory structure is: Canada General Latin_America Software USA Women
articles bibliographies databases diaries directories documents.fr documents.uk
e-documents gifs libraries menu netuse newsletters papers resources victoria
{For a more complete listing get the file: menu}
2. MALIN (University of Kansas)
General Statement.
Note: The following text is based on the files "malin.cat;5" updated 9
October 1992 and "readme.txt;1" in the directory DUA9:[MALIN.GENERAL] The
complete files include FTP instructions, lists of holdings in various MALIN
subdirectories, a typical FTP session, and are basic for understanding MALIN's structure
and holdings.
General Introduction.
"MALIN is an anonymous-guest FTP site maintained by the Department of History and
the Computer Services of the University of Kansas for the convenience of the public and
the Historical profession. MALIN is affiliated with HISTORY {listserver} and cooperates
fully with all discussion lists similarly affiliated."
"MALIN operates in conjunction with FTP ftp.msstate.edu, directed by Prof. Donald Mabry. This catalogue should be used in conjunction with
that of ftp.msstate.edu in searching for historical materials."
MALIN is an anonymous FTP fileserver but has a file-naming structure somewhat different
from typical FTP sites.
"MALIN is located on disk DUA9. It has a GENERAL directory, and a series of other
directories each dedicated to the LISTSERV list it serves. The directions for reaching
these directories, and there general nature, are provided below. Please note that
"malin.directory" should be set off in square brackets. Anonymous ftp to:
kuhub.cc.ukans.edu or 129.237.32.1
After logging on kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, you may reach MALIN's directories with the
following commands:" Login: anonymous
CD DUA9:[MALIN.GENERAL] GENERAL contains some On-Line Library Catalogue Lists, Lists of
LISTSERV lists and Other Resources, and an Up-Dated version of This Catalogue.
CD DUA9:[MALIN.ARTICLES] ARTICLES contains various papers delivered at meetings and
turned over to MALIN to be made available to a wider public.
CD DUA9:[MALIN.ESPORA] ESPORA {described above}
CD DUA9:[MALIN.HISTEC] HISTEC {described above}
CD DUA9:[MALIN.INSTRUCTION] INSTRUCTION contains syllabi, examinations, identification
question lists, and other material for instructional purposes.
CD DUA9:[MALIN.KUHIST] KUHIST serves KUHIST-L@UKANVM, the University of Kansas
Department of History's list for members, alumni, and friends....
CD DUA9:[MALIN.MED-L] {described above}
CD DUA9:[MALIN.UTILITIES] Utility programs
MALIN solicits the submission of materials that might be of benefit to its patrons with
the exclusion of some items such as logs, but would accept newsletters, journals, etc.
Materials for inclusion should be submitted to: MALIN@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU or contact the
FTP site administrators. It asks that users having difficulty or offering suggestions
contact Marc Becker (MABECKER@UKANVM) or Lynn Nelson (LHNELSON@UKANVM).
Please note: based on the various network searches that I have done using ARCHIE, the
ftp site MALIN does not appear as a result on any search even when I know that MALIN has a
certain document. It does not seem, as of May, 1993, that ARCHIE can be used to search
this site. While the reason is unknown to this user, perhaps, by extrapolation, ARCHIE may
be weak for sites with varying directory structure as is characteristic of MALIN.
3. BYRD WEST VIRGINIA
A new history oriented archive has been established at the Marshall University in West
Virginia according to a note in HISTORY dated 12-MAR-1993. The address is:
byrd.mu.wvnet.edu or 129.71.32.152
The site managers suggest that you login anonymously and change to the pub/history
subdirectory. This structure might change, depending on decisions of the history network
concerning gopher and WAIS, but for now, this is how it stands. Please note that the
pub/history/submissions subdirectory allows anonymous FTP users to write files, so feel
free to forward any submissions you might have. My many thanks to Larry Jewell, who has
done much to fill this site so far.
The site managers are Mike McCarthy (YEA003@Marshall.WVNET.Edu or
YEA003@MARSHALL.BITNET) and Donna Spindel (HST001@Marshall.WVNET.edu).
The files INDEX and WHATSNEW.TXT (the server is case-sensitive in file names) in the
directory pub/history lists archive contents.
4. GHETA at Groningen
The Groningen Historical Electronic Text Archive at the University of Groningen in the
Netherlands has a number of electronic texts relating to history--primarily of the
Netherlands, but also of the history of other countries. It is available through Anonymous
FTP: tyr.let.rug.nl or 129.125.8.20 In the directory: pub/gheta In addition, there are,
according to a message in HISTORY (12- FEB-1993) from George M. Welling, who manages the
archive (welling@let.rug.nl) a number of other programs. The message included a discussion
of compression of texts using PKZIP and PKUNZIP. "The only uncompressed files are the
index files in every (sub)directory. In those index-files we will describe in what format
things are."
In addition, Welling intends to include not only documents, "but also some
(shareware/public domain) software. We are especially interested in all sorts of
hypertext-programs (one of our research lines is Hypertext for historical knowledge
representation) and we have put on some of these. Other programs that may be useful for
historians will be put on also. There is not much yet, but it will grow. (And for those
who have been searching the directories already--and some of you have--there is a little
more today than there was yesterday)."
B. Other Text Archives
1. Georgetown Center for Text and Technology and Georgetown University's CPET
(Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text)
The Center for Text and Technology will conduct searches of electronic texts in
particular areas and subjects. It publishes texts and co-compiles the Catalogue of
Archives and Projects in Machine-Readable Text, which has identified over 270 projects in
25 countries. It is a text repository.
The Catalogue of Electronic Text Projects (Georgetown Center for Text and Technology,
Georgetown University, 1990) is available from HUMANIST (listserv@brownvm). Send the
command: Get PROJECTS ETEXTS Humanist
To search the database interactively, contact the CPET catalog via Telnet to:
guvax3.georgetown.edu or 141.161.1.3
At the Username prompt type CPET, and press Enter. No password is required. If you'd
like more information about the project, or need a user manual {which is needed to search
effectively}, send email to the Director of the Center for Text and Technology, Michael
Neuman, address: neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu {Extracted from information supplied by
Annelies Hoogcarspel, Center for Electronic Texts (hoogcarspel@zodiac or
hoogcarspel@zodiac.rutgers.edu)} The user guide is also available through FTP (below).
The CPET digests of project information--organized by humanities discipline and by
language of the electronic text--can be read, searched, and retrieved by means of the
Internet's protocols for Gopher and anonymous FTP. There are digests for 40 different
languages, as well as for linguistics, literature, philosophy, biblical studies, and a
variety of others, ranging from Medieval and Renaissance studies to Archaeology, African
studies, and Buddhism.
GOPHER access will be dependent on your local gopher server. At many locations, one
simply types the word GOPHER at the system prompt of the networked mainframe. Once inside
the main Gopher directory, look for CPET files under: Other Gopher and Information Servers
North America USA Washington, DC Georgetown University
Look into the directory CPET_PROJECTS_IN_ELECTRONIC_TEXT. The filenames of the digests
have as extensions the approximate size in kilobytes of each file; file size will
determine the length of time needed to acquire the file. Before retrieving any of the
digests, please read the introductory file (CPET_DIGESTS_INTRODUCTION.TXT).
The FTP server works very well. The Anonymous FTP address is: guvax.georgetown.edu or
ftp 141.161.1.2
When requested, login with the username ANONYMOUS and a password according to the
formula YOURNAME@YOURSITE.
Once within GUVAX, at the ftp prompt (often either ftp> or *), change directories as
follows: cd cpet_projects_in_electronic_text Obtaining files by discipline or language
works quickly.
"The Center for Teaching and Technology, Academic Computer Center, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., also publishes an electronic journal titled Interpersonal
Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century (ISSN: 1064-4326).
The first issue, January, 1993 contained several articles on the interaction of electronic
communication with teaching and individuals as well as a survey of electronic networking.
Contact Zane Berge, Director, Center for Teaching and Technology, Georgetown University
(berge@guvax.bitnet or berge@guvax.georgetown.edu). To retrieve a file by mail, send a GET
command to: LISTSERV@GUVM To retrieve the table of contents, for example, send the
command: GET CONTENTS IPCTV1N1 To retrieve the networking primer by Mauri P. Collins, send
the command: GET COLLINS IPCTV1N1 To retrieve the entire issue (5866 lines), send the
command: GET IPCTV1N1 PACKAGE
"Articles are Copyright 1993, but have fair use provisions." {Extracted from
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0495. Wednesday, 10 Feb 1993.}
2. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is an archive of, predominantly, literary electronic texts. It
publishes a newsletter (Machine Readable Texts News) on the archive and is frequently
discussed on various listserver. It offers assistance in selection of hardware or software
for scanning, etc. Questions about Project Gutenberg should go to: Michael S. Hart,
Director of Project Gutenberg Etext (hart@uiucvmd.bitnet or hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu).
Information from the archive is relayed to other sites such as simtel20, quake.think.com
and nptn.org. Consult the Newsletter for more information. The listserv for the archive
is: GUTNBERG@UIUCVMD One can also ftp directly to the archives: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu or
128.174.201.12
3. Electronic Text Service in the Humanities and History Division of the Columbia
University Libraries
Contact Anita Lowry (lowry@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu.), co-founder and Director of the
Electronic Text Service in the Humanities and History Division of the Columbia University
Libraries, which assists Columbia faculty and students in making use of electronic texts
and source materials for research, study, and teaching.
4. Philosophy Texts
"The Committee on Computer Use of the American Philosophical Association is
organizing a new archive of classic historical texts in philosophy and in the history of
science in the electronic medium. The goal is to make the texts freely available to
scholars on an open computer server, accessible by the Internet [Available by anonymous
FTP]. If you wish to contribute texts, or expect that you know of resources that the
organizers would not know of, please contact Eric Palmer, preferably by e-mail, at
epalmer@cc.utah.edu, or by paper mail at the Department of Philosophy, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112." {Extracted from HUMANIST 2-DEC-1992.}
The American Philosophical Association runs an excellent bulletin board. Telnet:
atl.calstate.edu or 130.150.102.33 Login: apa The bulletin board has electronic journals,
job notices, and other information.
5. Electronic Text Center & On-line Archive of Electronic Texts, Alderman Library,
University of Virginia
The center will provide "an on-line collection of machine-readable texts. The
initial set of on-line texts includes the new Oxford English Dictionary; the entire corpus
of Old English writings; selected Library of America titles; several versions of
Shakespeare's complete works; hundreds of other literary, social, historical,
philosophical, and political materials in various languages (chiefly from the Oxford and
the Cambridge Text Archives); and the currently released parts of two massive databases
from Chadwyck-Healey: J-P. Migne's Patrologia Latina, and the English Poetry Full-Text
Database, comprised of the complete works of 1,350 English poets from AD 600 to 1900.
Because of contractual obligations, access to these texts and searching tools is
restricted to University of Virginia students, faculty and staff."
The on-line texts are all SGML encoded. Some, tagged with the aid of volunteers from
various library departments. "The texts are searched using Pat, a program developed
initially for the Oxford English Dictionary." Contact David Seaman
(etext@virginia.edu) for information. {Description from PACS-L "Public-Access
Computer Systems Forum" 12-JAN-1993.}
6. The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities has an inventory of machine-readably
data files (MRDFs) with some 1,600 records, held on RLIN. It acquires and disseminates
text files, which are encoded according to Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). "The
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities was established in October 1991 by Rutgers
and Princeton Universities with external support from the Mellon Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. As a national focus of interest in the U.S. for
those who are involved in the creation, dissemination and use of electronic texts in the
humanities, it also acts as a national node on an international network of centers and
projects which are actively involved in the handling of electronic texts. Developed from
the international inventory of machine-readable texts which was begun at Rutgers in 1983
and is held on RLIN, the Center is now reviewing the records in the inventory and
continues to catalog new texts. The acquisition and dissemination of text files to the
community is another important activity, concentrating on a selection of good quality
texts which can be made available over Internet with suitable retrieval software and with
appropriate copyright permission. The Center also acts as a clearinghouse on information
related to electronic texts, directing enquirers to other sources of information."
{Extracted from CETH 1993 Summer Seminar on Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Humanist
Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0461. Wednesday, 27 Jan 1993.}
Susan Hockey (hockey@zodiac.bitnet) is director of the center. She writes that "at
the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), our focus is on the needs and
requirements of scholarly applications in the humanities. In establishing our text
collection, we are building on the foundation provided by the Text Encoding Initiative,
which itself is built on the collective international wisdom of about thirty years'
experience of dealing with electronic humanities texts.
"The TEI format addresses many scholarly concerns which other encoding schemes do
not. It thus establishes a basis on which CETH can do research on what it is that
humanities scholars want from electronic texts. Based on this research, in which users of
our texts will participate, we will be able to provide much better tools for intellectual
access to the texts, tools which will really address the requirements of scholarship and
instruction in the humanities." {Extracted from pacs-l@uhupvm1.bitnet, 4-FEB-1993.}
She subsequently noted that the "Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH)
has compiled a list of the major electronic text resources in the humanities. This list
contains some descriptive information and was developed in collaboration with the
Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies at Oxford University....
"CETH is also compiling an Inventory of Electronic Texts in the Humanities which
is held on RLIN. This and the collection of texts we are building are intended to bring
together the needs of the library community in cataloging and maintaining electronic texts
and the needs of the community of humanities scholars who want to use those texts for
innovative research."
"...If you are on RLIN, you issue the command SEL FIL MDF, and that chooses the
e-file as the database to search. The commands are then standard RLIN. Everything of value
I could think of seems to be there, and things I didn't know besides." {Extracted
from notes by James O'Donnell (jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu) in the Humanist Discussion Group,
Vol. 6, No. 0662. Friday, 9 Apr 1993 and from pacs-l@uhupvm1.bitnet, 10-FEB-1993.}
7. Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives
The Center does not "currently make any of our holdings or finding aids available
via remote access (we DO NOT maintain a bulletin board or Internet accessible account).
However, we do provide reference services via electronic mail by answering questions about
our holdings.
"There are two main sources of information about the Center for Electronic Records
of the National Archives and Records Administration. The first is General Information
Leaflet 37, "Information About Electronic Records in the National Archives for
Prospective Researchers." Included in GIL 37 are brief descriptions of the National
Archives and the Center for Electronic Records, how we obtain and maintain the records in
our custody, reference and access, and eight kinds of records in our custody (Attitudinal
Data, Demographic Data, Economic and Financial Statistics, Education Data, Health and
Social Services Data, International Data, Military Data, and Scientific and Technological
Data).
Another source of information about our holdings is the "Center for Electronic
Records Title List (A Partial and Preliminary List of the Datasets in the Custody of the
National Archives)." The Title List is organized by the archival Record Group in
which each data file is accessioned. Information contained in the list is maintained and
updated in a computerized database by staff in the Center for Electronic Records.
Approximately 4,500 data files of over 14,000 in the custody of the Center for Electronic
Records are currently included in the database. Because this is only a subset of all data
files in the custody of the National Archives, the current version of the Title List is
considered partial and preliminary.
If you are interested in receiving copies of GIL 37 or the Title List, please respond
to: TIF@NIHCU or tif@cu.nih.gov with your mailing address, or write to: Center for
Electronic Records (NSX), ATTN: Reference Services, National Archives, Washington, DC
20408. The telephone number is (202) 501-5579. {Extracted from message by Theodore J. Hull
(TIF@NIHCU.BITNET or tif@cu.nih.gov), Center for Electronic Records, National Archives
(202) 501-5579 on PACS-L@UHUPVM1 28-JAN-1993.}
Military Data
In case you are not already familiar, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and
Social Research (ICPSR) collects and distributes to member universities, data files
relating to Europe including public opinion surveys (such as Eurobarometer).
8. OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE
The Oxford Text Archive is a facility provided by Oxford University. It includes both
literary and non-literary texts, e.g. the recent Maastricht Treaty. It exists to serve the
interests of the academic community by providing archival and dissemination facilities for
electronic texts at low cost. The Archive offers scholars long term storage and
maintenance of their electronic texts free of charge, and assumes non-commercial
distribution of electronic texts.
The Archive contains electronic versions of literary works in many languages. It
contains collections of unpublished materials in linguistics, and electronic versions of
some standard reference works. It has copies of texts, both by individual scholars and
from research projects worldwide.
The Archive maintains a database of texts in other centers, worldwide, and it maintains
an online "Short List" of machine- readable data files (MRDFs) held at Oxford,
Cambridge, Louvain, Philadelphia and Provo. This list can be obtained by sending the
message: SEND OXFORD SHORTLIST to: Archive@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
In a note dated 8 October 1992, the Oxford Text Archive announced that as of "this
month, it is now possible to access machines here on JANET directly from the InterNet. As
of today, it is also (ipso facto) possible directly to transfer files from a machine here
to any other machine on the InterNet, without specifying a password, filling in a form, or
any of that other stuff that some people find so difficult.
"We'd like to start making some--not all--of the Oxford Text Archive's materials
available in this way. There are two constraints.
"Firstly, we cannot distribute material that does not belong to us. But there is a
small quantity of material we can distribute, which we believe to be in the public domain.
"Secondly, we want to begin as we intend to go on: by distributing materials in
TEI SGML only. But there is a small number of (mostly very large) files which we will make
available 'as is' to test the procedure immediately. We'd appreciate your comments as to
how useful/reliable you've found the procedure."
A catalog of the Archive is available on paper from: Oxford University Computing
Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. It is updated at least twice yearly. It is
also available in electronic form: 1) on the Oxford VAX Cluster as:
OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.LIST and OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.SGML 2) from various listservers, e.g.:
LISTSERV@BROWNVM (send the mail message GET HUMANIST FILELIST for details) 3) by anonymous
FTP from Internet site: black.ox.ac.uk or 129.67.1.165 Login FTP or anonymous in the
directory: /ota From the FTP site: uk.ac.ox.vax or 129.67.1.13 Login: Guest Password:
WELCOME {Based on an announcement of the Oxford Text Archive's network accessibility dated
8 October 1992. Also please note that the directory structure for this text archive varies
from most typical FTP sites. To change directory, use the command cd [Archive] with the
square brackets.}
Wherever you are, you can send a note to: ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK specifying which
form you want.
{A list of projects can be obtained by sending the message: SEND OXFORD SHORTLIST to:
Archive@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK }
Note: There are several types of texts in the Archive. If you are a registered user of
Oxford University Computing Services, you may simply send an email message to the username
ARCHIVE, specifying which texts you want to use and for what purpose. Texts coded
"X" are available only to registered OUCS users and may not be copied.
If you are not a registered OUCS user, you can access only texts in categories P, U,
and A. These are public domain texts (P), texts usable by scholars in private research
(U), or texts usable by scholars in private research, but only with the written consent of
the depositor (A).
Copies may be sent via network if this may be done without undue difficulty. If copies
are provided on disk or tape there is a small fee to cover the cost of the medium and
postage; this fee must be paid in advance.
From a note by Burnard and Morrison, dated 8 October 1992: "Internet access is
regarded here as a privilege, not a right. Please don't overuse it! And please remember
that this is an experimental facility, which may be withdrawn or substantially modified at
any time without notice." Contact Alan Morrison or Lou Burnard (JANET:
ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX or ARCHIVE%UK.AC.OX.VAX@UCL-CS.ARPA). {Extracted from a note by
Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Service (archive@vax.ox.ac.uk).}
9. Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank
For information on the Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank, contact Dr T.
Matthew Ciolek or Mr Dave Ritchie (COOMBSPAPERS@COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU.AU).
The data bank contains miscellaneous information about the social sciences,
predominantly but not exclusively about Australia and the Pacific Rim.
VII. HISTORY NETWORKS
In early December, 1992, two different individuals announced formation of "History
Networks" which seem to have parallel goals. As Richard Jensen (for H-Net, one of the
new networks, the other being the History Network from Thomas Zielke) described the
situation in HISTORY-L on Dec. 10, 1992, "Is it a law of history that great
discoveries are made simultaneously? H-Net and History Network were invented about the
same time and announced to the world simultaneously." He noted that the two were
talking together "in cooperative fashion" and believes that there was room for
two networks with somewhat different roles. Eventually the two did agree to combine
forces. Following is a brief summary of the descriptions of the two networks and their
plans which are illuminating about historians and electronic information sources:
H-NET
H-Net Planning Document, version 3.1 Dec 6, 1992 by Richard Jensen (Bitnet:
U08946@uicvm Internet: u08946@uicvm.uic.edu)
Professor Jensen notes that although academic historians have computers, few use them
to their fullest extent other than for word-processing. The intent of "H-Net"
would be to facilitate access to online resources. Procedures would include the following:
1) "an electronic `bulletin board' system available with a modem through telephone
lines or on the Internet using widely-used "Wildcat" software. The intention
would be to include Listserv, Fileserve, Gopher and FTP services;
2) "a hands-on training program to show historians how to use their PCs more
effectively." The training would be provided in a series of sessions at host
universities and in formal sessions at conventions;
3) Institutions would be asked to pay a modest registration fee with the remainder from
other sources;
4) The H-Net bulletin board would provide useful and timely information, including
online newsletters, conference announcements, and programs;
5) The AHA Job Register for AHA members only;
6) "Rooms" comparable to those on other services in which groups of
historians can communicate easily and privately, with invited volunteers to moderate the
various doors and "to encourage the right people to enter into conversations";
they would also include Bitnet conferences and listservers, especially concerning
methodology; course syllabi, outlines and handouts donated by teachers with instructions
for--and bibliographies donated by-- historians; a major new combined retrospective index
to the major history journals to be accessed by key word; and information on library
catalogs and other bibliographic utilities such as CARL (guide to recent articles), RLIN,
and OCLC.
7) Improved resources to support undergraduate teaching such as discussion groups for
professors and teaching assistants, with a model "departmental" board for
student-TA/teacher interaction or posting papers.
8) Run from the University of Illinois-Chicago, with the endorsement of the AHA and
other groups, the project would start as a departmental bulletin board and then extend to
other areas to the extent of offering shareware. {Information extracted from the Humanist
Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0391. Tuesday, 8 Dec 1992.}
THE HISTORY NETWORK
Thomas Zielke, the founder of the original HIST-L, announced the formation of the
History Network to foster cooperation between all history-related lists, FTP- and
LISTSERV-archives and other facilities. "... - we do need such a co-operation to help
and assist each other in using all those facilities, establishing new facilities and -
what is more important than ever - we need such an institution to make electronic
communication a recognized and accepted tool for the historian."
He plans to:
1) Improve the LISTSERV services for historians, including more specialized discussion
lists to the degree that there would be a list for "virtually every region, period
and field of history";
2) Improve the number of FTP sites with an increasing number of "papers,
historical documents, images, bibliographies and information files";
3) Help all historians with "new e-communication services." They would
include opening a new list, or installing an electronic department bulletin board, or
publishing an e-journal using existing models;
4) "The History Network will create a kind of general policy for all associated
lists, and we will offer a service for list owners to help them deal with problems in this
area. Additionally, the History Network will publish a general guide to the usage and
operation of the facilities that are available."
The "physical location" of the History Network will be the University of
Kansas, which has become one of the most important sites regarding the future of
electronic communication for historians. The University of Kansas will also host our
discussion group on their LISTSERV-machine.
Those who are interested in joining the History Network should direct their queries to
Thomas Zielke (113355@DOLUNI1.BITNET). {Extracted from the Humanist Discussion Group, Vol.
6, No. 0393. Tuesday, 8 Dec 1992}
HNSOURCE Subsequently a LISTSERV, the History Network Forum, was established. Send a
subscription request to: HN-ASK-L-Request@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU
On 20-MAR-1993 HN-ASK-L announced that HNSOURCE is now open for business:
"ANNOUNCEMENT OF HNSOURCE
"The Department of History and Academic Computer Services of the University of
Kansas HNSOURCE under the auspices of The History Network to serve as a central
information server for historians. The server presently provides connections to on-line
library catalogues through a HYTELNET facility, to some data bases and FTP sites that
contain materials relevant to historical studies, as well as a full text document archive,
access to world-wide gophers, several works on the use of the Internet, some Gutenberg
electronic texts, and other facilities.
"The History Network intends that HNSOURCE will eventually provide connections to
all public access facilities of use to historians, and to serve as a point of collection
for materials that historians wish to share with the public. A bulletin board feature is
ready to accommodate calls for papers, conference notices, job announcements and the like.
HNSOURCE is a hypertext facility with switching facilities provided by LYNX. It is
intended to offer a maximum of ease and simplicity of use, and comments, criticisms, and
suggestions may be made to the operators from within the system.
To reach HNSOURCE: TELNET hnsource.cc.ukans.edu login: history no password required.
"Please feel free to browse and copy whatever you wish. We would particularly
appreciate your comments and suggestions, as well as pointers to useful sources and sites,
and the donation of whatever materials you think might be of use to others. Also, please
think of HNSOURCE when you wish to make announcements of any sort, or if you wish to
develop a professional electronic service of any kind. The more widely this facility is
used, the more useful it will become." Operators: Marc Becker (MABECKER@UKANVM),
Department of History, University of Kansas; Lynn H. Nelson (LHNELSON@UKANVM) Department
of History, University of Kansas.
VIII. EUROPEAN CD-ROM SOURCES
1. SOPHIA "Fellow humanists will perhaps be interested in a CD-ROM disc called
Sophia, containing a collection of European databases in the humanities. I have not yet
much experience as its user, but the few searches I've done in it have been rewarding. The
databases included are Philis (Duesseldorf), Sucoline (South Jutland, Esbjerg), Ungarische
Bibliographie fuer Volkskunde, Donnerska Institutet (Abo/Turku), East European and Soviet
Studies (London & Berlin), Oesterreichische historische Bibliographie (Klagenfurt),
Internationale Bibliographie zur deutschen Klassik (Stiftung Weimarer Klassik),
Referatendienst zur Literaturwissenschaft (Berlin), Blaise from the British Library,
ATLA--Eastern Orthodox Church. In some of these, abstracts are included. The disc seems to
be useful at least for philosophers and historians.
The disc also contains the software needed (Dataware). The price is 7200 Finnish marks
or 1800 dollars. Orders and inquiries should be sent to Henri Broms, Honkatie 1 A, 00270
Helsinki, Finland.... {Extracted from a description on the Humanist Discussion Group, Vol.
6, No. 0662. Friday, 9 Apr 1993} by Jouko Lindstedt, jslindst@waltari.Helsinki.Fi or
Jouko.Lindstedt@Helsinki.Fi}
IX. RESOURCES IN EUROPE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE INTERNET
A. ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGS
Online accessible catalogs of European libraries are available through the internet.
They are listed in this guide under the country concerned, or under European Gopher
Servers in the Glossary Section on Gopher. There are a number of catalogs of library
catalogs available. There are four sources for information on access listed in the
Bibliography below: 1) HYTELNET, 2) Barron, 3) St. George, 4) Noonan.
{There has been considerable debate on HUMANIST concerning the merits of accessing
distant online catalogs. After experience using TELNET and TN3270 to access online
catalogs in Europe, I would reluctantly have to side with the skeptics. My qualms fall
into several categories: 1) uncertainty of TELNET access; there are many instances when I
cannot reach distant catalogs at all except late at night when there is little competition
from domestic users. At other times the networks or systems are so slow that patience
wears thin; 2) systems in European libraries vary so widely in commands that moving from
one to the other is a trial; 3) most of the libraries currently on the net are of
technical schools whose humanities content is insignificant; 4 despite best efforts,
documentation inevitably falls behind changes; and 5) mapping keyboards to foreign, or
domestic, interactive services is still imperfect.
B. EMAIL ADDRESSES AND DIRECTORY SERVICES FOR EUROPEANS
For email addresses of Europeans, there is a pilot service called PARADISE, available
by telnetting to one of several sources in Europe: hypatia.umdc.umu.se or 130.239.16.15
login: de
paradise.ulcc.ac.uk or 128.86.8.56 login: dua
I was able to easily locate a name at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and could do a name
search in German organizations--132 of them--by typing in a name and initiating a
"power search." Specifying an institution speeded up the search.
A result included the name, department and telephone number. The electronic mail
address might also be included. {From information supplied by Roland Hjerppe
(rhj@ida.liu.se or rhj@SELIUIDA) in Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0408. Friday,
11 Dec 1992.}
X. ASSOCIATION FOR HISTORY AND COMPUTING
"The Association for History and Computing seeks to act as a forum for all those
interested in the development of IT applications in research and teaching in History in
universities, colleges, schools, archives and museums. The 1993 conference of the UK
branch of the association will concentrate on New Horizons in Historical Computing."
Included were topics on the application of new technologies, commercial software, new
research tools for historians, and new developments in genealogy and family history.
XI. EUROPEAN EXHIBITS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
a. The Vatican Library The exhibition of 200 treasures from the Vatican Library at the
Library of Congress and the subsequent making available of that information through the
networks has presented scholars of Medieval and Renaissance Europe with an invaluable
opportunity to see the exhibits even though they could not travel to Washington and to see
simultaneously the possibilities of information access and utilization in a networked
world. Information about the Vatican Library exhibit at the Library of Congress appeared
on several listservers (nis@cerf.net on 26-JAN-1993, PACS-L@UHUPVM1 on 22-JAN-1993, etc.)
Following is the README file (1/18/93) from the exhibit that contains much useful
information including the file structure. Note that each section of the exhibit includes
both the texts describing the items and the images themselves. The images are stored in
JPEG format, so set the FTP file type to binary before retrieving images. Although ASCII
is obviously fine for text. There is also a directory (/viewers) that contains various
JPEG programs for viewing these images on MS-DOS microcomputers. Set file type binary
before retrieving those as well.
WELCOME to
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY & RENAISSANCE CULTURE
an Exhibit at the Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540
Available by anonymous FTP from seq1.loc.gov (140.147.3.12)
/pub/vatican.exhibit
ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE presents some 200 of the
Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key
role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The exhibition
presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind
the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance. The
exhibit will be on display in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress from
January 8, 1993 through April 30, 1993. The online exhibit will be available by anonymous
FTP indefinitely.
The exhibit is divided into nine (9) sections: The Vatican Library, Archaeology,
Humanism, Mathematics, Music, Medicine & Biology, Nature Described, A Wider World I:
How the Orient Came to Rome, and A Wider World II: How Rome Went to China. Each section
consists of its own sub-directory within the /exhibit directory and contains the exhibit
text for that section and separate image files for each object. This online exhibit
includes not only objects from the Library of Congress exhibit, but also the alternate
objects (brought from Rome to be used if there were a problem with one of the primary
objects) and items omitted later in the planning process.
The exhibit text consists of the captions used in the exhibit at the Library of
Congress (LC). Each caption includes the Vatican Library's accession number, the pages
displayed (where appropriate), the Online Exhibit Number (which is the corresponding image
file's filename), and the Object List Number (used in setting up the exhibit). In some
instances, several objects illustrate a common theme, in which case their descriptions are
separated from the others by a jagged line (/////). This convention is also used to
separate different sections in the introductory text (file Intro.txt).
A 320 page catalog, "Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance
Culture," containing over 200 color illustrations of the exhibit is available in
soft-cover from the Library of Congress and in hard-cover from Yale University Press. See
the file Catalog.txt in the vatican.exhibit directory for more information about the book
"Rome Reborn."
The file Object_index contains a complete list of objects found in both the exhibit and
the catalog. This index is organized by the Vatican Library's accession number and for
each object lists a brief title, the Plate Number (used in the catalog), the Online
Exhibit Number (image filename), and other control numbers used in planning the exhibit at
LC. The file Master_list includes only the control numbers, in column format, so that it
can easily be sorted by any of the numbers.
Because the exhibit text consists of only brief captions, the image files are of
greater importance in this exhibit. Be sure to change to type BINARY (in FTP type the
command "binary") before transferring the image files. Text files are in ASCII.
To search for a particular name or item, consider importing the text files into your word
processor and using its search capabilities to find any references, then downloading the
appropriate image files. The Library of Congress is grateful to GTE ImageSpan for
digitizing the images from 35mm slides and for providing JPEG compression software.
The /viewers sub-directory includes some shareware JPEG viewers and an extraction
program. If you know of other or better public domain JPEG viewers that we should load
here, please send information on where to obtain them to the system technician, K.D. Ellis
(Internet address kell@seq1.loc.gov).
The text and images in the Online Exhibit ROME REBORN: THE VATICAN LIBRARY AND
RENAISSANCE CULTURE are for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public. Any
commercial use or publication of them is strictly prohibited.
Questions or comments about the CONTENT of the exhibit should be sent to
vatican@kell.loc.gov while any questions or comments on the SYSTEM should be sent to K. E.
Ellis of the Special Projects Office, Library of Congress (Kell@seq1.loc.gov). {Also
included in the README file is an outline of the structure of files available}.
B. 1492: An Ongoing Voyage On May 21, 1993, the Library of Congress added the files for
the 1492 Exhibit in a subdirectory of /pub. The file README has an introduction to the
exhibit comparable to that for the Vatican Library. It combines the Mediterranean and the
Americas in the 15th century. Both the text and images of the exhibits are available.
C. Other Exhibits There is also material from an exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls. This
is a marvelous idea from LC. Checking the /pub directory will be rewarding.
XII. GENERAL ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES
A. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
According to information from the Library of Congress, these bibliographic files,
containing more than 28 million records in over 30 files, have been available to
congressional offices, state libraries, and cooperative cataloguing libraries in the past.
The files to be offered by the Library through the Internet include all LC MARC
(machine-readable cataloguing) files; copyright files, 1978 to the present; public policy
citations, 1976 to the present; and federal bill status files. Both the technical
processing cataloging system (MUMS) and the reference and retrieval system (SCORPIO) will
be accessible for searches over the Internet.
"The Library of Congress is able to offer remote access to its public databases
via Internet as a free service, but must limit its customer support to documentation
download over the Internet. The Library will begin by providing system availability to 60
simultaneous Internet users to ensure that service to Congress and on-site users is not
degraded. Usage will be monitored to determine if this number can be expanded if needed,
but service to congressional users will continue to be the Library's primary goal for its
online systems."
To use the catalog, Telnet: LOCIS.LOC.GOV or 140.147.254.3 (no login or password
needed)
The following menu will appear:
L O C I S : LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INFORMATION SYSTEM To make a choice: type a number,
then press ENTER 1 Library of Congress Catalog 4 Braille and Audio 2 Federal Legislation 5
Organizations 3 Copyright Information 6 Foreign Law 7 Searching Hours and Basics 8
Documentation and Classes 9 Library of Congress General Information | |/ 12 Comments and
Logoff
option 1 brings up this menu:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CHOICE 1 BOOKS: English language books 1968-, French 1973-,
German, Portuguese, Spanish 1975-, other European languages 1976-77, non-European
languages 1978-79. Some microforms 1984-. 2 BOOKS earlier than the dates above. Some
serials, maps, music, audiovisual items. 3 Combination of files 1 and 2 above (LOCI and
PREM). 4 SERIALS cataloged at LC & some other libraries since 1973. 5 MAPS and other
cartographic items ... Atlases (which are books) are in LOCI and PREM 6 SUBJECT TERMS and
cross references from LC Subject Headings. 12 Return to LOCIS MENU screen.
The Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS) consists of two systems: 1 SCORPIO
provides browsable indexes, set creation, boolean combinations, advanced limiting
features, and individual word searching in some files. 2 MUMS provides searching for
individual words, searching on some numbers, left-match "compression key"
searching, boolean combinations, and several advanced techniques. You can combine the
searching features of both systems. HELP screens exist for most files and commands. 3 The
Term Index, updated on 05/02/93, contains 8,847,765 terms. {Please note that searching
hours are limited}
B. OCLC
The largest bibliographical database in the world. Available on CompuServe and Internet
for a fee. Possible to do author/title as well as subject searching. A fee-based system.
To access OCLC through the net, Telnet: epic.prod.oclc.org or 132.174.100.2 Enter your
authorization and password. OCLC also maintains a listserv related to its electronic
journal publishing projects: OCLC-Journals on Listserv@OCLC.org
C. RLIN
The Research Libraries Group bibliographic network. In addition to book and periodical
searching from collections, also has archives, manuscripts, the 18th century short title
catalog, a research in progress database, a database of electronic resources, and a
listing of machine-readable data files for statistical and data files. Charges a fee. RLIN
also offers a fee-based document delivery service called CITADEL (for CITAtion DELivery)
that utilizes personal credit cards {according to Bob Pasker rbp@netcom.com on HISTORY, 16
February 1993}. The Telnet address is: rlg.stanford.edu or 36.54.0.18 or rlin.stanford.edu
or 36.54.0.19
A sample of RLIN's new search system called Eureka! is available. Telnet:
eureka-info.stanford.edu
Accounts are offered for students at reduced prices. Bob pasker also noted that
information on RLIN access is available. Send email to: bl.ric.@rlg.stanford.edu
When connecting to rlin.stanford.edu use the account name NEED ACCOUNT to log in. Other
information is available from Bruce Washburn. Email to: bl.btw@rlg.bitnet or
bl.btw@rlg.stanford.edu
D. CARL
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries offers a number of free and fee-based
services including document delivery and the ability to search book and periodical
indices. Some parts of the service are free, others are fee-based. Telnet: pac.carl.org or
192.54.81.128 At the prompt: Enter Choice> enter: PAC [for public access catalog] and
tap Return. Use //Exit to exit.
E. Harvard
Some libraries of the Harvard University library system are available through the net.
Telnet or TN3270 to: Hollis.Harvard.Edu or 128.103.60.31 But some libraries, such as
Peabody, have fee-based or password only access.
F. BLAISE
The British Library National Bibliographic Service is fee- based and offers access to
the British National Bibliography database SIGLE (grey literature in Europe), and HMSO
publications. Contact: B.Kefford@GEC-B.RLAC.UK
GLOSSARY
A. ARCHIE
Archie is a pair of software tools that make it possible to search a database, that is
usually updated monthly, for software or files available on about 600 Internet ftp archive
sites connected to the Internet. (It was developed at McGill University, which is still
regarded as the home institution for the program.) The results of a search will be
displayed on screen. It would characteristically include the FTP site holding that file
and the name of the directory or subdirectory. "Users can ask archie to search for
specific name strings. For example, 'prog kcl' would find all occurrences of the string
'kcl' and tell you which hosts have entries with this string, the size of the program, its
last modification date and where it can be found on the host along with some other useful
information. With one central database for all the archive sites we know about, archie
greatly speeds the task of finding a specific program on the net. {Extracted from a note
by Richard Hintz (hintz@oz.ucop.edu) on Humanist 22 July 1991}" The information will
be returned as follows:
The address of the computer: Host coombs.anu.edu.au The directory holding the file:
Location: /coombspapers/otherwork/soc-science-netlore Information on the file, including
date created, size, and name: FILE -rw-r--r-- 7859 Jun 15 00:00
european-corpus-project.txt
This shows that there is a file called European corpus project, in the subdirectory
/coombspapers/otherwork/soc-science- netlore on the host computer whose address is
coombs.anu.edu.au in this case a computer in Australia. To acquire the file, one would use
FTP or the Princeton BITFTP service.
For example, John J. Wanserski did an ARCHIE search on the word "European"
and came up with 46 sites holding files--many of them duplicates--with the word European
in their title. The files ranged from European book stores, phone numbers, and recipes to
the corpus project noted above. ARCHIE has obvious limitations in its search by word, but
can be a useful first stab at finding information in FTP sites. The results can also be
indicative of sites holdings files of the type you are seeking and worthy of further
exploration. For example, the sites, ftp.uu.net and unix.hensa.ac.uk, had copies of
several European files listed and therefore seemed likely places to look for related
files. ARCHIE and GOPHER are two features that are becoming increasingly popular on
European computers.
Examples from the `European' ARCHIE search:
Host seq1.loc.gov Location: /pub/Library.of.Congress/about.LC/reading.rooms FILE
-rw-r--r-- 4222 Sep 10 07:36 European
Host svin02.info.win.tue.nl Location: /pub/usenet/news.answers/books/stores FILE
-rw-r--r-- 10796 Dec 25 23:38 european
Host unix.hensa.ac.uk Location: /pub/uunet/doc/literary/obi/DEC/humor FILE -rw-r--r--
3515 Sep 28 1990 Freshman-Insights.European-History.Z
Searching hints: There are several extensive manuals for ARCHIE (see below) but one can
execute a search after logging into an ARCHIE server by just knowing a few commands:
set pager <scrolls the screen page by page> set maxhits xx <where xx is a
number, limits the number of hits, which is a generally wise policy to avoid computer
overload; I use 10> prog <name> <initiates search where name is the name of
the file or program being searched> site <sitename> <provides a complete
directory of the site named, but not all servers> list .de$ <lists archie sites by
last element in name, in this case for Germany> help <general online help> bye
<stop running ARCHIE>
ARCHIE is available at a number of sites, more than 30 in Germany alone, but not all of
them are accessible. Following are some ARCHIE servers that I have used:
archie1.unl.edu or 129.93.1.14 Univ. of Nevada info.funet.fi or 128.214.6.100 Finland
dorm.rutgers.edu or 128.6.18.15 Rutgers archie.sura.net or 128.167.254.194 Experimental
archie archie.ans.net or 147.225.1.10 U.S. (New York) Note: a very fast server
quiche.cs.mcgill.ca or 132.206.3.23 Canada (ARCHIE home) Note: had hardware problems in
May archie.doc.ic.ac.uk or 146.169.11.3 Great Britain Note: reminds users that it is
intended for Europeans archie.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.128.111 Germany Note: hard to
access archie.luth.se or 130.240.18.4 Sweden archie.nz or 130.195.9.4 New Zealand
archie.au or 139.130.4.6 Australia
Remember that even though the prompts may vary slightly, e.g. the one for Australia is
Archie.AU> login as archie in lower case and that no password is required.
Note: A comprehensive ARCHIE REFERENCE MANUAL: Internet Listing Service including more
information than one might want to know has been compiled by Alan Emtage
(bajan@cs.mcgill.ca) and Bill Heelan (wheelan@cs.mcgill.ca) of McGill. "Archie was
written and is maintained by Alan Emtage (bajan@cs.mcgill.ca) and Bill Heelan
(wheelan@cs.mcgill.ca). Peter Deutsch (peterd@cc.mcgill.ca) provided (and continues to
provide) ideas and inspiration. {Extracted from a note by Richard Hintz
(hintz@oz.ucop.edu) on Humanist 22 July 1991}
For assistance send a one-word e-mail request: help to: archie@archie.mcgill.ca (or
archie@ at any of the nodes listed above). This one-word message will yield a file
explaining how to use ARCHIE.
Other ARCHIE help files are available at:
ftp.sura.net or 128.167.254.179 in the directory /pub/nic The archie manual and lots of
Internet guides.
hydra.uwo.ca or 129.100.2.13 (which is an archive for library related software and
documents at the U. of Western Ontario School of Information Sciences) in the directory
/libsoft/ has European guides and especially archie_guide.txt by Richard Hintz, 1991
infolib.murdoch.edu.au or 134.115.80.10 in the directory /pub/soft/archie/ (especially
archieuser.gde by R.P.C. Rodgers, 1991)
B. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Computers or host servers maintain files of texts and programs that can be transferred
using a program called FTP (an acronym for File Transfer Protocol). Files listed in
various directories and subdirectories, whether in ASCII or binary formats, can be
acquired from distant hosts through the use of relatively easy commands. Help is available
online from any FTP site by just typing the word help and then a carriage return.
Don Mabry (djm1@msstate or djm1@ra.msstate.edu), Director
of the History Archive at Mississippi State University (see above) has written an
excellent introduction to the FTP process that appeared on HISTORY 28-JAN-1993 but dated
September 1, 1991. The following is based on that description:
"FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP or ftp) is the fastest means of transferring a file
from one computer to another. To do so, one must have an account not only on one's home
computer but also on the computer from which you plan to retrieve a file. Fortunately,
there are a number of computers that allow one to logon as anonymous and to use guest or
one's e-mail address as the password. These are called anonymous ftp sites."
"To do an ftp, you only have to know a few commands. Files are stored in
directories and subdirectories. Here are some basic commands with an explanation of them
in brackets:
cd [change directory] DIR [display a directory] ls [list] ls -FC [list in columns,
showing which are files, directories, or programs. Directories are marked with a /;
programs with a *] get [command the distant computer to transfer a file] mget *
[Interactively answer yes or no for retrieval of each file in a directory] bye [end ftp
connection] quit [end ftp connection] binary [You MUST specify binary for a GIF, program,
or any binary file]
Below is an example of an ftp session on ra.msstate.edu {note that the address is now
ftp.msstate.edu}
ftp ra.msstate.edu Connected to ra.msstate.edu. 220 Ra.MsState.Edu FTP server (SunOS
4.1) ready. Name (ra.msstate.edu:djm1): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as
password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd docs/history
250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls -FC 200 PORT command successful. 150 ASCII data
connection for /bin/ls (130.18.80.10,3177) (0 bytes). {A directory listing would follow}
{One would get a file by preceding its name with the get command, e.g.: ftp> get
bios.history {The system would respond by providing the number of bytes transferred and
the amount of time it took. To log off the system and return to your home computer:}
ftp> bye 221 Goodbye.
Many BITNET/EARN/NETNORTH/GULFNET sites cannot do a direct FTP. However, BITFTP --
Princeton BITNET FTP Server provides a mail interface to allow BITNET/NetNorth/EARN users
to ftp files from sites on the Internet. In this case, one sends mail to: BITFTP@PUCC
leaving the subject header blank, and putting the program commands in the body of the
text. Note that each command *must* be on a separate line.
The recommended syntax for ftp requests is: FTP hostname USER anonymous <other ftp
subcommands> QUIT (If the username is "anonymous", no password is required;
BITFTP will use your userid and nodeid as the password.) Both ftp.msstate.edu and
u.washington.edu want lower case for commands. {Please note that some sites require the
use of capital letters when the filenames are in capitals or the exact use of the filename
when mixed. A common cause of confusion results from failure to give a filename EXACTLY as
it is displayed even if the filename has mixed upper and lower case letters.}
The following is an example of an ftp request sent by MAIL to BITFTP@PUCC:
FTP ra.msstate.edu USER anonymous cd docs/history get bios.history bye
I understand that non-BITNET sites cannot use BITFTP@PUCC, but have been told that mail
sent to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com will work. Below are the instructions for that mail
program. Notice that one has to specify one's return address when using this
program."
FTP by Mail Users at computers lacking FTP access can still get files through email.
For information from: BITFTP@PUCC.Princeton send the one-word message: HELP
{Please note that many files, particularly the larger ones, are stored on host
computers in a variety of compressed formats. The most familiar format is called PKZIP to
compress a file and PKUNZIP to decompress it. There are too many variants to cover them
all here. Consult your local guru particularly since compression is becoming increasingly
popular as the number and size of files become larger than the storage space available for
them. The last filelist I received from my local site had more than 30 variants of ZIP
programs.}
C. GOPHER
In its simplest definition, Gopher is "Software following a simple protocol for
tunneling through TCP/IP Internet." Another way of looking at it is simply as a means
of accessing resources on the Internet without knowing a great deal about protocols,
communications, server addresses or other technical matters. It is a nested menu system.
The first menu in a Gopher lists general services available. One picks the service or
function from that menu by running a light bar or arrow down the screen and tapping
Return. That leads the user to a second menu and then a third, and so on. In each
instance, a gopher service can be executed by simply moving the arrow or light bar and
tapping Return.
For example, in a gopher one would find a menu that lists other gopher servers
geographically or by subject. A menu item for Europe would lead to other menu items by
country or by topic. Again, running the arrow or light bar down and tapping Return is all
that one needs to do to access a listed service.
It eases access to various information sources considerably. In one example, I was on a
gopher server in Sweden, and was then able to tap into the DFN (Deutsche Forschungsnetz)
without knowing that its address was 192.76.176.15, at a considerable saving in time.
There are hundreds of gopher servers installed on European computers with the number
growing constantly. Gopher is, for example, particularly popular in Germany. In addition
to gophers in the former Federal Republic, gopher servers were being installed in
universities and other institutions in the former GDR in Weimar and Jena, as well as the
well-established gophers at such sites as Munich and at both the Free University and
Technical University in Berlin. The only difficulty I have had is that in some instances
the gopher would not allow a direct connection, but would accept it if it was a choice on
another gopher server. Perhaps using your local gopher, if one is available, is the
easiest to be certain of access, although I have used Telnet extensively before the local
gopher became operational. Besides, access to one gopher server usually, but not always,
provides access to other gophers throughout the world. There are, therefore, abilities to
link from gophers in America, Sweden or elsewhere to gophers in other countries.
While Gopher is a wonderful tool, it cannot always access resources exterior to the
computer mounting the gopher. One first receives a message that one is leaving the gopher.
If the connection fails, the gopher network responds with something like: Network Error
Cannot connect to host: [address] Connection refused by host Tapping Return leads back to
the menu for a try elsewhere.
It is also not always possible to access a gopher. Sometimes there are too many users;
at other times the communication lines are snarled or fouled up. Just because you cannot
access a gopher through Telnet or your own local gopher does not mean that you are causing
the problem. It may just be a simple network difficulty.
Gopher started at the University of Minnesota, named after the University team, the
"Golden Gophers." It is also a play on the word "gofer," someone who
fetches things.
Remember to login as gopher in lower case.
Selected Gopher Servers in the U.S. {together with comments on personal experiences}
University of Illinois gopher.uiuc.edu or 128.174.33.160 ux1.cso.uiuc.edu or
128.174.5.59 login: gopher Comments: A gopher server with Illinois information and access
to other servers. The 128.174.5.59 server is faster and suggested for use. I have had
difficulty connecting elsewhere from it, perhaps due to heavy traffic.
University of Iowa panda.uiowa.edu or 128.255.40.201 [login: panda] Comments: This
"panda" system appears on the screen in a slightly different format than other
gopher servers but has similar functionality. It required no login when I used it, but may
require login: panda When I tried to access European servers (5/26/93) it responded that
none were available, but that may have been due to heavy traffic on the net.
University of Minnesota micro.umn.edu or 134.84.132.4 gopher.micro.umn.edu or
134.84.132.3 login: gopher Comments: the home of gopher servers and the originator of the
software used in other gophers. I have found connections to be difficult, in part because
so many other gopher servers, as well as individuals, use this server. The email address
for comments is: gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu
University of North Carolina sunsite.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80 login: launch or launchpad
Comments: Although not technically a gopher, this laUNCpad information system provides
access to Archie, Veronica and WAIS searches as well as other information. It is a menued,
easy to use system with an enormous amount of information.
University of North Texas gopher.unt.edu or 129.120.1.42 login: gopher Comments: From
personal experience, this seems to be an exceptionally well-run gopher server with
excellent connectivity. It is not too busy at most times. Try connecting to the United
Nations' gopher server, which is also quite functional, by picking International from the
UNT gopher menu.
University of Pennsylvania ccat.sas.upenn.edu or 128.91.13.148 login: gopher Comments:
A gopher currently being implemented. Lots of University of Pennsylvania stuff but not all
other features are functioning yet. But contains the entire electronic backfile of
OFFLINE, the religious studies periodical. I have had difficulty access since it asked for
a password when using Telnet.
Yale University gopher.yale.edu 130.132.21.250 Comments: Experimental implementation of
gopher. Has Internet resources, Internet libraries. Has a description of Virtual Library
at UC-Santa Barbara. Fast and functional.
Although it is recommended that, as with any other resources, one use a gopher next
door before one across the world, distant gophers frequently have resources specific to
that institution or region but may not be linked to your local gopher and are therefore
preferable The following example uses a gopher server in Australia for a search conducted
from Wisconsin and shows the number of institution-specific resources that were available:
telnet info.anu.edu.au Trying 150.203.84.20 ... Connected to info.anu.edu.au. Escape
character is '^]'. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | Welcome
to the ANU's Experimental Information Server | |
---------------------------------------------------- | | | | - To gain access to the
Information Service: | | Type `info' after the login prompt. | | | | - To gain access to
Worldwide library catalogues: | | Type `library' after the login prompt. | | | | - To
Exit: type q at a menu prompt. | | | | - Problems: e-mail to `helpdesk@library.anu.edu.au'
| | or phone (06) 249-2009 | +---------------------------------------------------------+
SunOS UNIX (info)
login: info Last login: Thu Apr 29 04:09:33 from DOCLIB.WHOI.EDU SunOS Release 4.1.2
(INFO) #1: Wed Aug 19 10:11:08 EST 1992 Welcome to the wonderful world of Gopher!
Gopher has limitations on its use and comes without a warranty. Please refer to the
file `Copyright' included the distribution.
Internet Gopher Information Client v1.1, Copyright 1991, 1992, by the Regents of the
University of Minnesota.
{A typical menu:}
Internet Gopher Information Client v1.1 Root gopher server: info.anu.edu.au
--> 1. About the ANU Electronic Library Information Service. 2. Announcements/ 3.
ANU Library Services/ 4. Canberra Libraries/ 5. Libraries elsewhere/ 6. Local ANU
databases/ 7. Periodicals, Journals & Newsletters/ 8. Reference books/ 9. Services at
Other Institutions/ 10. Testing Area/ 11. The Electronic Library/Press
{A sub-menu:}
--> 1. ANU Campus Information System (Under Development)/ 2. ANU Connection Machine
Gopher server/ 3. ANU Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Papers <?> 4. ANU Social Sciences
Data Archives Abstracts <?> 5. ANU Supercomputer Facility Gopher server/ 6.
Aboriginal Studies Papers <?> 7. Asian Religions Papers <?> 8. Automated
Reasoning Project Gopher Server/ 9. Biology Gopher (RSBS)/ 10. CSC - General FTP Archive/
11. CSC - NCSA Mirror Archive/ 12. CSC - Weekly Bulletins/ 13. Coombs - General FTP
Archive/ 14. CoombsPapers - Social Sciences Research Data Bank/ 15. Coombspapers - ANU
Thai Yunnan WAIS Index <?> 16. Network Info for Social Science, Arts &
Humanities Researchers <?> 17. Pacific Linguistics Papers <?> 18. RSPhysSE
School Computing Unit Unix gopher information service/ ...
{Unfortunately, perhaps because I was accessing it through TELNET from half-way across
the world, the gopher server did not always allow me to access external resources. But in
one case, in my testing of the system, it did allow me to go to a computer in Illinois,
which meant that from Wisconsin I was going 20,000 miles on the net to find out the local
weather forecast.}
Selected Gopher Servers in Europe
Austria
Telnet: Finfo.tu-graz.ac.at or 129.27.2.4 login: info Comments: This server describes
itself as "Hyper-G, the Hypermedia Information System of the Technical
University" It offers extensive access to specialized Austrian resources.
Instructions are offered in a choice of German, Styrian, or English. For the English
interface type: sprache Englisch
Germany
Telnet: gopher.th-darmstadt.de or 130.83.55.75 login: gopher Comments: Instructions in
German. Has info on the Hessische Landes-und-Hochschulbibliothek von A bis Z. Information
on travel (bus and train schedules), performances and (rock) music in the Rhineland, as
well as on the Rhineland in general. Access to other gophers including the Archiv gegen
Auslaenderfeindlichkeit, Rassismus und Nationalismus (which is a menu selection under
Other Information Systems) at: gg15hzas@rz.uni-sb.de (Saarbruecken) {I have also seen
references to a "Deutsche Gopher Server" but was unable to access it from my
local gopher.}
Great Britain
General Telnet: mailbase.ac.uk 70 General gopher server for the United Kingdom
Edinburgh Edinfo Telnet: 129.215.128.24 login: edinfo password: [Tap Return] Comments:
This menu-driven system, easily accessible and easy to use, gives extensive information
about Edinburgh (city and university), information for librarians (on the BUBL, bulletin
board for libraries, which has current contents and other sources), and access to services
exterior to Edinburgh such as the Humanities Bulletin Board at Oxford University. Has a
stern legal warning, but still OK to use. Although not technically a gopher server, has
many of the characteristics of one. Through it, it was possible to access other British
library catalogs.
Norway
{According to a note from Knut Hofland (knut@x400.hd.uib.no), Norwegian Centre for the
Humanities, there is a Gopher available at: nora.hd.uib.no or 129.177.24.42 that contains
a number of lexical and other files, but I have been unable to access}
Sweden
gopher.chalmers.se or 129.16.221.40 login: gopher This server in Gothenburg offers
instruction and access in Swedish and English. It accesses other European gophers--eight
pages worth--but most are scientifically oriented. One notable feature is the German
Gopher Server (Deutsche Gopher Server) and its lengthy list of gophers that is included as
an access point, but buried in a submenu. This one is worth exploring.
gopher.lysator.liu.se 70 Name=Project Runeberg Type=1 Path=1/project-runeberg Comments:
In addition to etexts of Scandinavian authors, lysator plans to maintain a "Directory
of European E-Text Projects."
sunic.sunet.se or 192.36.125.2 The information is presented in English on this server.
It is notably European-oriented based on the list of services offered.
Bibliography:
A frequently updated list of "World-Wide Gopher Sites," sorted by domain
structure, is available via anonymous FTP at Washington and Lee University:
liberty.uc.w/u.edu or 137.113.10.35 The list includes an indication as to whether the site
connected or worked in a recent test. The list (May, 1993) was more than 130K long. Note:
The domain for most gopher servers in the U.S. is edu, as in gopher.indiana.edu
D. LISTSERVERS
A listserver is a computer function that manages the mail sent to subscribers of a
list. It has been described in one instance as an automated mail room for it serves just
that function. Unless noted otherwise in the lists above, subscriptions to listservers and
the archived notebooks are assumed to be open. But prospective users should also note and
be cautioned that as mail computer functions have become increasingly easier to install
and manage, the number of private and specialized mailing lists that do not appear in any
directory has increased significantly.
The most common confusion in using listservers is the difference between the
listserver, the computer program that acts as a mail room and routes the messages to
appropriate lists and individuals, and the list itself, which consists of the people
reading the information. As listservers themselves frequently reminder prospective
subscribers:
PLEASE NOTE: LISTSERV commands go to ***LISTSERV***, NOT to the list!
In other words, to subscribe, send a message to the computer (listserver) and to
interact with other members of the list, send a message to the list name. Sending a
non-recognized message or inquiry to the listserver will result in a polite Huh? Sending a
request for a subscription to list members may result in several less than polite
responses since everyone on the list will have received it. For example, to subscribe to
the social history list named SOCHIST do not put anything in the Subject line, just send
the one- line message:
SUBSCRIBE SOCHIST YourFirstName YourLastName to the listserv, in this case:
LISTSERV@USCVM.Bitnet
To sign off, send the one-line message to the LISTSERV@USCVM: UNSUBSCRIBE SOCHIST
To put mail on hold, send the message: SET SOCHIST NOMAIL
To resume mail, send the message: SET SOCHIST MAIL
For information on a list, send the one-line command: HELP
Again, send it to the listserver@node, not to the list name.
To post messages to everyone on a list, send it to the listname@node, e.g.
SOCHIST@USCVM.Bitnet
Please note that it is not only proper etiquette to sign messages with your name and
electronic address, but it will result in more responses. Finally, commands sent to the
LISTSERVER will be acknowledged; messages you post to the list will not usually be sent
back to you, but will be forwarded to other list members.
In response to a subscription, one usually receives a standard reply such as the
following from HN-ASK-L:
Your subscription to list HN-ASK-L (History Network Forum) has been accepted.
You may leave the list at any time by sending a "SIGNOFF HN- ASK-L" command
to: LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU Please note that this command
must NOT be sent to the list address: HN-ASK-L@UKANVM but to the LISTSERV address:
LISTSERV@UKANVM
Contributions sent to this list are automatically archived. You can obtain a list of
the available archive files by sending an "INDEX HN-ASK-L" command to:
LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU These files can then be retrieved
by means of a GET HN-ASK-L filetype command, or by using the database search facilities of
LISTSERV. Send an INFO DATABASE command for more information on the latter.
More information on LISTSERV commands can be found in the LISTSERV reference card,
which you can retrieve by sending the command INFO REFCARD to: LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET or
LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU
There are two other options worth mentioning:
1) An INDEX option. With the index option on, the system will send a daily list of the
messages that appeared on the list in the preceding 24 hours. The index uses two lines per
message to show the full information about the original sender, the subject line, and the
length (number of lines); 2) A DIGEST option that will combine all the individual messages
into one big message per period, usually a week. For HISTORY for example, the digest
option
To use any of these options, use the SET command and send it to the LISTSERV not to the
list name: SET <list-name> <option> where option is INDEX, or DIGEST. For
example: SET SOCHIST DIGEST
To find out who is signed up to the list, use the REVIEW command, which returns the
network address and name of all the subscribers. If you do not wish your name to be
available to others in this fashion, issue a command to the listserv: SET SOCHIST CONCEAL
Some, perhaps most, listservers also have a somewhat primitive but effective means of
searching the listserver archives. Called LDBASE, it can be used through mail commands.
For complete documentation on LDBASE, send e-mail to any LISTSERV with the one-line
message: INFO DATABASE You will receive a substantial file comprehensively describing
LDBASE.
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. has written a brief tutorial on LDBASE. Entitled PACSL_DBMS.TXT,
it is available from the Anonymous FTP site: HYDRA.UWO.CA in the LIBSOFT directory.
Getting a List of Listserv Lists
If you want to know all of the listservers being handled by a specific site, send the
command LIST GLOBAL for a list or the command LIST DETAILED for a detailed list that
includes descriptions of the listervers (and how most of the information on listservers in
this guide was obtained).
For my region, the listserver at NDSUVM1 or VM1.NoDak.EDU maintains a list of interest
groups that can be acquired. That, together with the updates, has been used for the
compilation of such guides as the subject-arranged list by D. Kovacs and associates (see
Bibliography below). If one wants the original list, send the command GET LISTSOF LISTS
to: NDSUVM1 or VM1.NoDak.EDU
The result will be, as of Nov. 6, 1992, a list of some 3,480 lines long called
"List of all LISTSERV lists known to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on 6 Nov 1992 16:37." The
information provided is the list name, the listserver location, and a very brief
description.
Keeping Up with New Lists
NEW-LIST@VM1.NoDak.EDU NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.Bitnet Subscribing to this list results in
being sent a description of each new listserv, regardless of field, as it is becomes
available on the net. Subscribe as to a regular listserv. "The `NEW-LIST' list has
been established as a central address to post announcements of new public mailing lists.
In addition, `NEW-LIST' might be used as a final verification before establishing a list
(to check for existing lists on the same topic, etc.). However, be sure to check sources
such as the Internet List-of-Lists (SIGLIST or INTEREST-GROUPS list), LISTSERV GROUPS,
Usenet News newusers lists, and the LISTS database on the major LISTSERVs (we have the
LISTS database on NDSUVM1)." Coordinator: Marty Hoag (INFO@VM1.NODAK.EDU or
INFO@NDSUVM1.BITNET)
Bibliography on Listservers:
1. A subject arranged Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences (as of Feb., 1993,
in its 6th Revision) is available from: LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU and
via anonymous FTP to ksuvxa.kent.edu in the library directory. "This directory
contains descriptions of electronic conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to
scholars. E-conference is the umbrella term that includes discussion lists, interest
groups, e-journals, e-newsletters, Usenet newsgroups, forums, etc. We have used our own
judgment in deciding what is of scholarly interest, and accept any advice or argument
about our decisions." It is prepared by a team of librarians coordinated by Diane
Kovacs (dkovacs@kentvm.bitnet). The files consist of the following: ACADLIST README
(explanatory notes for the Directory) ACADSTAC.HQX (binhexed, self-decompressing,
HYPERCARD Stack of first 7 files - Keyword searchable) ACADCOMP.HQX (binhexed,
self-decompressing, HYPERCARD Stack of FILE8 and FILE9 - Keyword searchable) ACADLIST
FILE1 (Anthropology- Education) 53k ACADLIST FILE2 (Geography-Library and Information
Science) 91k ACADLIST FILE3 (Linguistics-Political Science) 49k ACADLIST FILE4
(Psychology-Writing) 54k ACADLIST FILE5 (Biological Sciences) 43k ACADLIST FILE6 (Physical
Sciences) 43k ACADLIST FILE7 (Business, Academia, News) 22k ACADLIST FILE8 (Computer
Science, Social, Cultural and Political Aspects of Computers and Academic Computing
Support) 104k ACADWHOL HQX (binhexed self-decompressing Macintosh M.S. Word version of all
8 files) ACADLIST.CHANGES (this is now empty due to difficulty of keeping up with the
changes this time.)
The team, chaired by Diane Kovacs, providing the lists has provided the following
instructions (which are generally applicable for obtaining files from other servers) for
retrieving the files:
1. Send an e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU. 2.
Leave the subject and other info lines blank. 3. The message must read: GET Filename
Filetype E.g.: GET ACADLIST FILE3
The List Review Service
"The List Review Service quantitatively and qualitatively explores email
distribution lists (primarily Bitnet Listserv Lists). The cataract of information
available to those with network access make all but the most cursory examinations of lists
impossible. Akin to book and restaurant reviews, each issue begins with a narrative
description of usually one week's worth of monitoring, then presents simple statistical
data such as the number of messages and lines, number of queries and non-queries, number
of subscribers and countries represented, list owner, location, and how to subscribe.
"The editor sees the publication as a means to cross-fertilize user perceptions of
network resources (i.e., active proselytization for cyberspace). The service attempts to
explore as wide a range of lists as possible, from the hard science to the fuzziest of the
humanities. (ISSN: 1060-8192)
Posted bi-weekly on LIBREF-L. To subscribe to LIBREF-L, send a single line message with
no subject to Bitnet address: LISTSERV@KENTVM or Internet address:
LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU consisting of: SUBSCRIBE LIBREF-L YourName
TELNET AND TN3270
Telnet and TN3270 are computer programs that permit real-time interaction with distant
host computers. Typically, they are used to search online library catalogs or similar
information servers. It is also possible to use either program to access ARCHIE or GOPHER
sites.
One of the most characteristic uses of these programs is to search online databases,
particularly online library catalogs, interactively. There are some problems, particularly
keyboard mapping, related to such searches, but they can be fruitful in accessing online
databases of unique materials.
Increasingly, access to online library catalogs is being included on GOPHER servers as
a menu pick. I have found that using catalogs this way has usually, although not always,
resulted in fewer keyboard mapping problems than when I accessed them through TELNET or
TN3270. Be alert to the information provided for logging off of a system.
For lists of libraries and other information resources available through TELNET,
consult the bibliography below.
E. USENET
USENET is a worldwide network of over 10,000 hosts and 300,000 users. It is not
strictly an academic network, as is BITNET for example, for it includes a number of
commercial sites. One component is called USENET News or the USENET newsgroups. It may be
irregularly available at various sites and is dependent for access on the decision of
local computer operators. As noted elsewhere in the country or chronological sections of
this guide, many of the USENET newsgroups stray far afield from academic pursuits and are
frequently battlegrounds for varying opinions concerning current events from individuals
with relatively little academic background in the subject or area. The Newsgroups can vary
with local institutions, but in most cases one is provided with a file that lists all of
them and that can be subsequently edited to exclude those of little interest. In addition,
when one reads the News, one will see a list of groups established since last use of the
system. In addition, newsgroups have also been established in European countries that
conduct business in the languages of those countries--notably in Germany. Access to these
groups is even more problematical since few are mounted on American computers. Consult
your local computer center. Consult the following newsgroups within USENET News for more
information: news.announce.newusers news.lists news.newusers.questions
Also useful are the sometimes surprisingly extensive files called FAQs, an acronym that
stands for Frequently Asked Questions. These files have general information about a
country that is sometimes difficult to locate otherwise. They usually contain addresses
such as those of bookstores specializing in providing materials from specific countries or
the information about recent developments, e.g. a description of the new postal code
system in Germany appeared on the German FAQ.
Many of the comments and responses--some of them flames when the topics are, as most of
them are, controversial--are oriented towards political or social questions and less
frequently towards academic historical questions. Comments tend to be less polite or
circumspect than those on listserver lists. They can be a way to make foreign contacts or
get the latest opinions of contemporary events from diverse and international viewpoints.
Since group participants frequently resort to historical antecedents to substantiate their
opinions, there are postings of historical documents that are useful to have in electronic
form. But cross- posting among lists is a bane of the service; some messages are
cross-posted to every conceivable and some inconceivable lists. Potential readers should
be ready to hit k for kill messages with similar topics and be prepared for voluminous
mailings about hot topics.
F. VERONICA
"Veronica is a service that maintains an index of titles of items located in
gopher servers and provides keyword searches of these titles." It is an experimental
service developed by Steve Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada.
VERONICA stands for "very easy rodent-oriented net-wide index to computerized
archives." Veronica must be accessed through a gopher client. If you have a gopher
client, use it to connect to a gopher server which offers a link to a veronica server.
Steve Foster wrote on November 17, 1992, that "Veronica offers a keyword search of
most gopher-server menus in the entire gopher web. As Archie is to ftp archives, Veronica
is to gopherspace. Unlike Archie, the search results can connect you directly to the data
source. Imagine an Archie search that lets you select the data, not just the host sites,
directly from a menu. Because Veronica is accessed through a gopher client, it is easy to
use, and gives access to all types of data supported by the gopher protocol.
"Veronica was designed as a response to the problem of resource discovery in the
rapidly-expanding gopher web. Frustrated comments in the net news-groups have recently
reflected the need for such a service. Additional motivation came from the comments of
naive gopher users, several of whom assumed that a simple-to-use service would provide a
means to find resources `without having to know where they are.'
"The result of a Veronica search is an automatically-generated gopher menu,
customized according to the user's keyboard specification. Items on this menu may be drawn
from many gopher servers. These are functional gopher items, immediately accessible via
the gopher client...just double-click to open directories, read files, or perform other
searches--across hundreds of gopher servers. You need never know which server is actually
involved in filling your request for information. Items that appear particularly
interesting can be saved in the user's bookmark list.
If your local gopher server does not already have a link to veronica, use gopher to go
to the server at: gopher.micro.umn.edu 70 [port 70] or at another gopher server. Choose
the menu item "Other Gopher and Information Servers." Choose veronica from that
menu.
G. WAIS (Wide Area Information System)
A WAIS customarily has access to a number of resources and other information servers.
The most outstanding example of a WAIS is at: quake.think.com or 192.31.181.1 Login: wais
It has the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and other humanities resources. It provides a
directory of ARCHIE servers that can be searched by keyword.
Another WAIS client is available. Telnet to: sunsite.unc.edu login: swais
An example of a CWIS is at Rutgers: info.Rutgers.edu Rutgers University Pilot
Campus-Wide Info Server. In the library directory has Superbook and guides to the Internet
but most of the information is about Rutgers.
H. WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative that
intends to provide universal access to Internet documents. Documents and databases are
cross-referenced by hypertext-like links with the intention of eventually providing a
master index to Internet holdings.
Most of the subjects covered are technical, but a few-- Geography, Literature and Art,
Music, Philosophy may be of interest to readers of this guide.
The WorldWideWeb allows for searching by keyword, subject and system (WAIS, FTP,
Gopher, Telnet and so on).
Access: telnet info.cern.ch (or 128.141.201.74) Swiss [no login] Contact:
www-request@info.cern.ch telnet www.njit.edu (or 128.235.1.160) USA - New Jersey
[login=www] telnet info.funet.fi (or 128.214.6.100) Finland {Note: could not access}
[login=www] {Based on The Electric Mystic's Guide, Volume One, Edition 2.0, 1993}
There is also an FTP site: info.cern.ch see the directory pub/WWW/bin
BIBLIOGRAPHY (with emphasis on tools for accessing European resources and general
guides useful for background) Please note that the following are sites that I used for
these files, but that other locations for these materials can be uncovered by using an
ARCHIE or VERONICA search (see above).
Barron, Billy. "UNT's Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases" by Billy
Barron (billy@unt.edu) which is copyright University of North Texas but grants individuals
the right to use excerpts from the document as long as it is not sold for profit, lists
libraries available on the net. It is available via anonymous FTP on the node: FTP.UNT.EDU
or 129.120.1.1 Login as: anonymous, then cd pub/library. This directory has a number of
other library related tools. The entries are arranged alphabetically by institution name.
For more information contact Billy Barron (billy@unt.edu).
A typical entry would appear as follows: Abo University Location: Abo, Finland To use,
you must have an account. Contact Marie-Louise Lindstrum (miso@finabo.abo.fi), Susanne
Olin (susanne@finabo,abo.fi), or Abo Akademi; Domkyrkogatan 2-4; SF-20500 ABO, Finland. To
access: 1. Type TELNET BO.ABO.FI. 2. At the BO> prompt, type HELLO userid,REF.CLAS01.
3. Enter your password. 4. Select 10 as your terminal type. See "Using VTLS" for
more information. To exit, type /QUIT.
"Big Fun in the Internet with Uncle Bert," by Jeremy Smith
(jeremy@atlantis.cs.orst.edu) is, despite its cute title, a really informative guide to
general network resources. It takes up such issues as file compression and suggests where
files can be obtained to deal with that problem. It is a text that I always keep handy to
find such things as weather forecasts and other items that are useful even if not directly
related to European history. It is available on the FTP site lawlib@liberty.uc.wlu.edu and
other servers.
Carl, Linda D., ed. and Andrew Perry, comp. "New User's Guide to Useful and Unique
Resources on the Internet." Excellent overview. Obtain via anonymous ftp from:
NYSERNET.ORG or 192.77.173.2 in directory: /pub/guides as file Guide.V.2.2.text.
Collins, Mauri P. Computer Networks and Networking: A Primer; in "Interpersonal
Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century." Get COLLINS
IPCTV1N1 from: LISTSERV@GUVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU
"Educator's Guide to Email Lists and USENET Newsgroups--Revised." Revised
versions of the Ednet Educator's Guide to Email Lists and USENET Groups is available by
anonymous ftp to: nic.umass.edu or 128.119.166.14 login: anonymous in the directory
pub/ednet The filenames are educatrs.lst edusenet.gde Based on a note from Prescott Smith
(pgsmith@educ.umass.edu) who also edits Ednet - a forum exploring the educational
potential of the Internet. Subscribe via email to: Listserv@nic.umass.edu 1st line: SUB
EDNET YourName
EDUCOM Review. Articles available via anonymous ftp from: educom.edu or 192.52.179.128
in directory /pub/EDUCOM-Review-1992 and /pub/EDUCOM-Review-1993. For example, the file
names for January 1993 articles are as follows: EDUCOM-Review-Jan93-author_last_name where
"author_last_name" is replaced by the author's last name; but a listing (ls)
will show you this as well. For email only users, the LISTSERV@BITNIC has at least some of
the EDUCOM Review articles archived with CCNews. {Based on information supplied by David
Robison (drobison@library.berkeley.edu or drobison@ucblibra)}
Ejournal: An Electronic Journal Concerned with the Implications of Electronic Networks
and Texts: ejournal@albany.bitnet
"Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet," by Michael Strangelove. Anonymous
FTP to: panda1.uottawa.ca or 137.122.6.16 Filename electric-mystics-guide in directory
pub/religion which also has a number of other texts related to religion and electronics.
"Electronic Communication and the Humanities Scholar," by Scott Stebelman
(SCOTTLIB@GWUVM). Anonymous ftp to: gwuvm.gwu.edu or 128.164.129.1 File bitwork.fac in the
root directory.
"Electronic Voyager Guidebook: Social Scientists' Electronic Guidebook," by
T. Matthew Ciolek. Anonymous FTP to: infolib.murdoch.edu.au or 134.115.80.10 voyager.list
in pub/dir/netinfo {Note: the same fileserver has a bibliography by De Stanton on internet
policy in the directory pub/bib as stanton.bib}
"Getting to start: Selected Reading in Computer Communication," by Elliott S.
Parker (3ZLUFUR@CMUVM). Ver. 2.2, November, 1992. Send email message to
Comserve@RPIECS.Bitnet with one-line message: Send Compunet Biblio
History Microcomputer Review. A twice-yearly journal "addressing the use of
computers in teaching history and understanding the past." Address: History
Microcomputer Review, Dept. of History, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas,
66762. Phone: (316) 232-7515. Note: GHETA at Groningen has a subdirectory entitled History
Microcomputer Review, and seemingly plans to put the articles in machine-readable form.
[How-to Guides] The Suranet Network Information Center offers a number of informational
and navigational tools for users new to the Internet. Anonymous ftp: ftp.sura.net or
128.167.254.179 They are in the directory: pub/networking and elsewhere in this FTP
server. For information or general internet questions, send a request to: info@sura.net
HYTELNET is a computer program for providing online assistance in accessing distant
information sources. European sites are also included in the hytelnet package. It is
available through anonymous ftp: access.usask.ca or 128.233.3.1 in the directory
pub/hytelnet/pc {or other operating system} The filename will be called: hyteln63.zip or
another appropriate version number. Please note that this is a binary file and must be
transferred in binary mode from the FTP server. The file will have to be unzipped with
PKUNZIP before it is useable locally. Also, it should be noted that when the file is
unzipped in a directory created for it, it expands into several hundred sub-directories.
When a new version appears they will have to be deleted before the program is unzipped.
{Note: the server with HYTELNET also has a large number of etexts in literature.} Note:
Entries in HYTELNET are being updated through a listserver: HYTEL-L@KENTVM.BITNET
Subscribe as to any other listserv list. It informs subscribers about new versions of the
HYTELNET program and new/updated/deleted files issued between full versions of the
program. It is a moderated list, so only the listowner can post messages.
"Individual Access to the Internet" Sept. 29, 1992. Anonymous FTP to:
liberty.uc.wlu.edu or 137.113.10.35 Filename internet.access in the directory /pub/lawlib
{The same directory has an enormous number of other Internet guides!}
"Information Sources: The Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication," by
John December (decemj@rpi.edu). Anonymous ftp: ftp.rpi.edu or 128.113.1.5 File
internet-cmc in directory pub/communications, which has other hot-to guides and
information pointers. A useful list of Internet guides with FTP addresses. Note: Use FTP
as login. Does not accept anonymous.
"Internet Archives and Servers." A six-page directory of special internet
archives and servers, written by Scott Yanoff (yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu), is a subject
arranged list of resources frequently referred to as the Yanoff guide. It is available as
the file inet.services.txt via FTP from: csd4.csd.uwm.edu or 129.89.7.4 in the /pub/
directory. Note: Use FTP as login. Does not accept anonymous.
"Internet Resource Guide." Directory of information and research facilities
on the Internet. To learn more or to subscribe, send a note to:
RESOURCE-GUIDE-REQUEST@NNSC.NSF.NET Internet Resource Guide is available by anonymous ftp
from: nnsc.nsf.net or 128.89.1.78 in the directory resource-guide. The title is
wholeguide.txt. Note: Use FTP as login, not anonymous.
"The Internet and Services" by John December (decemj@rpi.edu) was distributed
in 1993 and contains a list by general subject categories of information about the
internet, its services, and computer networking.
[Internet Topics] send mail to: listserv@bitnic.bitnet Message: LIST GLOBAL /topic For
example: LIST GLOBAL /Europe
INTERNET VOYAGER (a.k.a ELECTRONIC VOYAGER GUIDEBOOK) SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S GUIDEBOOK to
AARNET/INTERNET Online Information Services by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek, Coombs Computing
Unit, RSPacS/RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
(tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au) available as internet-voyager.txt from the directory via
anonymous FTP on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU or 150.203.76.2] /coombspapers /coombsarchives
/coombs-computing /internet-voyager-inf
Kehoe, Brendan P. Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet,
1st ed., 1993. Excellent introduction to Internet; operating-system neutral; for people
comfortable with computers, but with little exposure to networks. The shorter and less
complete Version 1.0 is available via anonymous ftp from the Colorado SuperNet: csn.org or
128.138.213.21 in directory: /pub/net/zen
Krol, Ed. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, Urbana- Champaign, Illinois. Version
1.0 dated 1989 is available by anonymous ftp from host: nic.ddn.mil or 192.112.36.5
directory is: rfc filename is: rfc1118.txt Note: There are indexes to the several hundred
RFCs in this directory of the FTP server. His book, The Whole Internet: User's Guide &
Catalog, (1992), which derived from this RFC is the best introductory work now available.
Library bibliographic networks in Europe : a Liber directory edited by Lorcan Dempsey.
2nd ed. The Hague, 1992. Descriptions of library bibliographic networks throughout Europe.
Includes nearly fifty detailed entries from 15 European countries. The networks vary but
typically support shared cataloguing services and union catalogue services by way of a
central database. But does NOT include an internet address. O.M.Stone
(O.M.Stone@southampton.ac.uk) who also suggested: RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche
Europeenne) Technical Report 1 ... entitled "User Support and Information Services in
Europe: A Status Report" provides information on 21 national networks, 1 regional
network (NORDUnet) and the European networks CERN and EARN, with summary information, and
email addresses for further information, on the networked library catalogues available
through each system. Anonymous FTP to: mailbase.ac.uk or 128.240.2.118 It's:
/pub/rare-wg3-usis/rtr-usis-92 Note: Login as FTP, not anonymous. Or send message to:
mailserv@file.nic.surfnet.nl with the following in the message part: send
rare/RTR/RTR1.txt (or RTR1.ps) {Described on PACS-L@UHUPVM1 in a message on 26-JAN-1993}
[Interest-groups] An alphabetically arranged list of listserv lists with very brief
descriptions. The most complete listing of discussion lists on Bitnet and Internet. A copy
can be obtained via anonymous ftp from: FTP.NISC.SRI.COM or 192.33.33.53 Note: Login as
FTP, not anonymous. The file is in directory netinfo. It runs over 1 million bytes as of
May 1993. A copy is also available as mail by sending email to: MAIL-SERVER@NISC.SRI.COM
In the body put only the line: SEND NETINFO/INTEREST-GROUPS The file will be sent in
several parts. Make sure your account has space to receive it. Another list has names and
one-line descriptions of all discussion lists running as listservs on Bitnet. Send email
to your nearest listserv and in the body type: LIST GLOBAL If you don't know your nearest
backbone site, try sending mail to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 with LIST GLOBAL in the body. This
file currently is about 2200 lines long. You could also send the message: GET LISTSOF
LISTS to: listserv@NDSUVM1 Also anonymous FTP to vm1.Nodak.edu
net-happenings@is.internic.net (NEW) and net-resources@is.internic.net (formerly
nis@is.internic.net) net-happenings will distribute information about new tools on network
access and similar information about conferences, etc. while net-resources will continue
to distribute information about new resources on the net. Subscribe to:
listserv@is.internic.net {Information supplied by Susan Calcari (susanc@internic.net) and
Gleason Sackman (sackman@plains.nodak.edu)
"NETMONTH" a monthly ejournal of network news. Subscribe to Netmonth at:
listserv@Marist.Bitnet or VM.Marist.edu
"New Users' Guide to Useful and Unique Resources on the Internet," which
describes Telnet, FTP, and email services, is available via anonymous FTP: nysernet.org or
192.77.173.2 in the directory pub/guides The title is: new.user.guide.v2.2.txt
Noonan, Dana (noonan@msus1.msus.edu) has compiled a three-part guide to the Internet
and catalogs available as: Guide1.NNEWS Guide2.NNEWS Guide3.NNEWS Available via mail from:
listserv@ndsuvm1 Send a GET command for each item of interest. E.g. GET Guide1 NNEWS
Anonymous ftp to: vm1.nodak.edu in the directory NNEWS. Guide1 has general information on
networking for a non-technical audience; Guide2 covers online library catalogs in the
U.S.; Guide3 covers libraries in other countries. "NNEWS" is a newsletter with
Internet information compiled by Dana Noonan (Noonan@msus1.msus.edu). The issues are
miscellaneous in content and directed towards a public library audience in large part, but
are still worth reading. Subscribe to NNEWS at: listserv@NDSUVM1 or VM1.nodak.edu
St. George, Dr. Art and R. Larsen. Internet-accessible library catalogs and databases,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and College Park, Maryland. Available by email; send message: GET
LIBRARY PACKAGE to: listserv@unmvm.bitnet Also available as Internet library by anonymous
ftp from various hosts, including: usc.edu or 128.125.253.136 directory /net-resources or
iraun1.ira.uka.de or 129.13.10.90 in the directory /pub/networks/netinfos as the file
internet- accessible-catalog Also available by anonymous ftp from host ariel.unm.edu or
129.24.8.1 directory library filename: internet.library (ASCII).
Strangelove, Michael, comp. "Directory of Electronic Journals and
Newsletters," (1992). Send mail to LISTSERV@UOTTAWA and in the body type: GET
EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY on the first line and GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY on the second line. This
lists, describes and tells how to access 500 scholarly lists, 30 journals, and 60
newsletters.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank all my colleagues for their continued assistance and in
particular James Campbell (University of Virginia), Frank di Trolio (Florida State
University), John Wanserski (Wendt Engineering Library, University of Wisconsin- Madison),
Jeffry Larson (Yale University), Charles Spetland (University of Minnesota) for their
valuable contributions to my understanding of electronic resources in the humanities and
to Paul Crawford who carefully typed the text and helped in innumerable other ways to get
this revision ready for dissemination.
