Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 49.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Eve Trager <etrager@umich.edu> (54)
Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic
Publishing
[2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk> (17)
Subject: new CIT InfoBits
[3] From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk> (34)
Subject: Anthropological Index Online Update - May 2000
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:06:19 +0100
From: Eve Trager <etrager@umich.edu>
Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing
BETWEEN DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY
Motivational speakers like to talk about how the Chinese word for
"crisis" is made up of the ideograms for "danger" and "opportunity."
If a crisis is indeed a turning point, as my dictionary reminds me,
then electronic publishing is a crisis, challenging us to rethink
what we do and how we do it, turning in new directions.
Here is the June 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing,
turning in some new ideas, for your reading enjoyment:
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
In this issue our JEP authors see only opportunity in the dangers
that may beset us.
Lessons for Sustaining Ecological Science and Policy
Through the Internet
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/holling.html
C.S. (Buzz) Holling, editor of Conservation Ecology, explores how
financial crisis helped the journal find a new opportunity.
An Analysis of Washingtonpost.com's Live Online
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/young.html
Jeffrey R. Young shows us what happens to the relationship between
authors and readers when they join in online chats.
Digital Workflow:
Managing the Process Electronically
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/sheridan.html
Linda Beebe and Barbara Meyers write about how technology can give
publishers more control over the publishing process.
A Proposal for the Establishment of Review Boards
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/edmonds.html
Bruce Edmonds argues that open peer review and free publication can
solve some of the problems with today's peer-review processes.
Fair Use and Distance Learning
in the Digital Age
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/smith.html
Millison Smith urges the passage of two bills currently before the
U.S. Congress to open opportunities to telecommuting students.
Best Practices for Digital Archiving:
An Information Life-Cycle Approach
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/hodge.html
Gail M. Hodge says that if we make digital archiving a part of the
publishing process from the beginning, we will solve problems before
they occur.
The X(HTML) Files
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/lieb0504.html
Columnist Thom Lieb details the opportunities that XHTML offers to
publishers seeking a migratory path from danger (HTML) to opportunity
(XML).
If you have some thoughts about danger, opportunity, and crisis,
share them in Potpourri.
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/potpourri.html
Enjoy!
Judith Axler Turner
Editor
The Journal of Electronic Publishing
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
(202) 986-3463
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:06:47 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new CIT InfoBits
The latest issue of CIT INFOBITS, for May 2000 (No. 23), is available
online at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html (HTML format) and
at http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/text/index.html (plain text format). Its
table of contents is as follows:
Distance Education Policy Primer
Author Foresees No Utopian Digital Age
The Social Life of Information
Information for Beginning Grant Seekers
Oxford University Press Reading Room
Resources on Electronic Publishing
New Textbook Guide on the Web
Recommended Reading
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
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maui gratias agere
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 07:07:37 +0100
From: David Zeitlyn <D.Zeitlyn@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: Anthropological Index Online Update - May 2000
What's happening at the AIO?
The Recent file has just been updated with 4672 newly added references.
These include the penultimate files covering the period 1994-1995 - a
backlog that the online service inherited and that, thanks to heroic work by
the staff, has now almost been removed (and will be completed by the end of
June 2000). This has been undertaken in addition to keeping pace with current
publications.
Other News
Work has now started on the Retrospective Conversion for the years
1963-1985. This is being undertaken with the generous support of the Getty
Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Pilgrim Trust.
As a consequence of this some work will be done on the exisiting data - a
language field will be added to make it easier to find, for example, works
only in Spanish.
After a pause we are resuming work on an automatic notification service
whereby registered users can receive the results of stored searches when
the data files are updated. The online documentation files will be revised
and expanded in the course of this.
best wishes
davidz
Dr David Zeitlyn,
Hon. Editor Anthropological Index Online
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology,
Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing,
Department of Anthropology,
Eliot College,
The University of Kent,
Canterbury,
CT2 7NS
UK.
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