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From LISTSERV@uacsc2.albany.edu Tue Jan 5 15:59:46 1993
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:58:27 -0500
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From: Revised List Processor (1.7e) <LISTSERV@uacsc2.albany.edu>
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Subject: File: "EJRNL V2N4"
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To: David Pirmann <pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu>
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December, 1992 _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 4 ISSN# 1054-1055
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There are 642 lines in this issue.
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An Electronic Journal concerned with the
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implications of electronic networks and texts.
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2787 Subscribers in 38 Countries
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University at Albany, State University of New York
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EJOURNAL@ALBANY.bitnet
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CONTENTS:
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Editorial Notes [ Begins at line 58 ]
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Electronic Journals and Libraries [ Begins at line 102 ]
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About _EJournal_'s Readers [ Begins at line 316 ]
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An Ownership/Copyright Exchange - Allen and Dilworth [ Begins at line 409 ]
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by John B. Dilworth and Jonathan Allen
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Department of Philosophy Dept. of Information and Computer Science
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Western Michigan University University of California, Irvine
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Announcement about Simulation and Gaming [ Begins at line 521 ]
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Information - [ Begins at line 530 ]
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About Subscriptions and Back Issues
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About Supplements to Previous Texts
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About Letters to the Editor
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About Reviews
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About _EJournal_
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People - [ Begins at line 604 ]
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Board of Advisors
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Consulting Editors
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* This electronic publication and its contents are (c) copyright 1992 by *
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* _EJournal_. Permission is hereby granted to give away the journal and its *
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* contents, but no one may "own" it. Any and all financial interest is hereby*
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* assigned to the acknowledged authors of individual texts. This notification*
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* must accompany all distribution of _EJournal_. *
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Editorial Notes [line 58]
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This issue carries a followup exchange on the subject of ownership
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and copyright of electronic texts, a thread that started a year ago.
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It also delivers two questionnaires. One is about electronic
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journals and libraries, and one is about you.
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Please respond to both of them.
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They are not audience surveys to help us make promises to
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advertisers. They have to do with our sliver of what the networks
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are-- or can be --all about.
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If all 2787 of you decide not to respond to the first one, about
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libraries and how they ought to treat the fledgling phenomenon of
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electronic journals, librarians might find it easy to ignore us.
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No matter what reputation _EJournal_ and other experiments build
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for ourselves inside cyberspace, we'll all remain merely virtual if
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librarians decide we're too much trouble to share with
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non-subscribers.
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That first questionnaire consists of 22 items designed by an
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Information Science investigator; they can be responded to easily with
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an "extraction" maneuver and e-mailed to Meta Reid at an RPI address,
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or they can be printed out and penciled in and sent via fax or snail
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mail.
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The second one, ten items, asks about your relationship with
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_EJournal_. Your responses will help us understand how diverse a
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group you are and what you want from us.
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You can e-mail to peter.gorny@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de or
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to us, or fax or snail mail to us. We can't quite promise you
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anonymity, but we will remove all message-header information (from
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everything sent here) before we start looking at what respondents say.
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We anticipate coming up with some interesting totals and
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percentages to share with you, but you shouldn't anticipate
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sophisticated cross-referential analysis.
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We want to refer to the two questionnaires as "1992 Surveys," so
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please don't file this issue under "to be taken care of later" --
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respond now. (We can use January responses, though.) Our thanks.
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The next issue, which we hope to have on its way in just a few
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days, delivers an essay about the interactive "Oracle" writing space,
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with observations about the nature of "authorship" in an electronic
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context. [line 96]
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May you savor a super solstice season, and a noteworthy 1993.
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Best wishes from _EJournal_: Ted Jennings, Ron Bangel, Dan Smith
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(There is a sample answer sheet at the end of this 22-question survey.)
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1. Libraries can ignore the existence of electronic journals (e-jrnls)
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for at least another 5 years.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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2. Making e-jrnls available in libraries is necessary for their
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success.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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3. Libraries should be leaders in encouraging e-jrnl use.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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4. People for whom computer links to e-jrnls are not available will be
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left out of the information age.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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5. Creating a static copy of an e-jrnl defeats the reasons for
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publishing in electronic format.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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[line 134]
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6. E-jrnls may be useful for small specialized groups, but not for
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large diverse groups.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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7. E-jrnls are apt to proliferate so rapidly and without standards that
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no library will be able to keep up with the information contained
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in them.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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8. E-jrnls are currently accepted in the academic world as equals to
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print.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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9. Libraries should accommodate e-jrnls as equals to print journals.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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10. E-jrnls will not be acceptable until abstracting services, e.g.
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_Science Citation Index_, reference their contents.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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11. E-jrnls may be useful in reducing costs of publishing, storing and
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making available technical information.
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Strongly disagree Strongly agree
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12. Are you currently reading EJournal (a) at home (b) in an office
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(c) in a school (d) in a library? [line 172]
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13. If you are reading this at a place other than a library, would you
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like a library to make it available?
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(a) Yes
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(b) No
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14. E-jrnls in a library should be made available in a library's _______.
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(a) information area
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(b) journal stack area
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(c) multi-media area
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(d) (a), (b), and (c)
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(e) other:______________
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15. In the computer terminal area where e-jrnls are made available
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there should be ________________.
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(a) a reference manual for help
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(b) help screens on the terminal
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(c) a sign-up sheet for a mini-course on using e-jrnls
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(d) a librarian stationed there to give individual instruction
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(e) some form of announcement that the computer
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terminal has e-jrnls available
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(f) all of the above
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(g) other______________________
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16. Would you advise that libraries "advertise" e-jrnls?
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(a) Yes
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(b) No
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b. If you answered Yes, should advertisement be in the form of:
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(a) Newsletters
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(b) Notices on bulletin boards
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(c) "highlighting" the area to make it stand out
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(d) all of the above [line 210]
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(e) in other ways, for example...______________________
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17. How should a library identify e-jrnls accessible at some library
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other than its own?
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(a) in a list near the terminal
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(b) in a list on a help screen of the terminal
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(c) in other ways, for example_______________
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18. If your library could make e-jrnls available, would you be willing
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to pay any part of the subscription fees, computer account fee, or
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the cost of printing or downloading it to a disk?
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(a) Yes, some nominal fee of $2.00 or under
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(b) Yes, a fee of under $10.00, but more than two
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(c) Yes, associated fees of any reasonable amount
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(d) No, no fees of any kind
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19. Do you often read e-jrnls?
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(a) Yes, but it varies from month to month
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(b) Yes, at least once a month
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(c) Yes, at least once a week
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(d) Yes, at least once a day
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(e) This is the first time I have read an e-jrnl
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20. Do you refer to e-jrnl articles when you write?
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(a) Yes
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(b) No
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21. How did you find out about this
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e-jrnl?______________________________________________
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22. Do you read any electronic journals besides this one?
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(a) Yes, I read _______________________________
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(b) No [line 248]
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General Information:
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Country in which you read this journal: _______________
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Your age is _________
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Position of respondent: (a) professor, (b) student,
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(c) librarian, (d) other_______________
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a. If in school:
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Name of school: _________________________
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Field of study/teaching: __________________________
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Name of Reader (optional): ______________________________
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Comments are welcome:
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Responses
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(Please send your response in any one of the following ways)
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By mail: By fax: By e mail:
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Meta Reid 518: 276-3017 amendc@RPI.edu
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65 23rd St.
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Troy, N.Y. 12180
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U.S.A.
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Sample Answer Sheet
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(For Questions 1-11; please answer with appropriate numeral)
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1)__ 2)__ 3)__ 4)__ 5)__ 6)__ 7)__ 8)__ 9)__ 10)__ 11)__ [line 286]
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12) a, b, c, d
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13) Yes / No
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14) a, b, c, d, e
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15) a, b, c, d, e, f, g____________________
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16) Yes / No a, b, c, d, e
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17) a, b, c
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18) a, b, c, d
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19) a, b, c, d, e
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20) Yes / No
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21) How did you find out about this e-jrnl?____________________
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22) Yes, I read ______________________________________________
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No
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General Information
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Country: __________________
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Age: ____
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Position: a, b, c, d
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a) If in school:
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Name of school: ________________
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Field of study: ________________
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Name (optional): __________________
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Comments: _________________________________________________________
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__ E J o u r n a l __ Questionnaire
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You can extract and e-mail this ten-item questionnaire, or send us
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responses listed by number, or print the page(s) for faxing or
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mailing.
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1. If you are affiliated with a not-for-profit organization, what kind
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is it?
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(for instance: library, museum, government, education [line 324]
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[arts and letters, math and science, social/behavioral
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sciences;
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engineering, law, medicine, business])?
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Other not-for-profit?
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2. If you are affiliated with a for-profit organization, what sort is
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it?
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(for instance: computing, engineering, finance, law,
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manufacturing, medicine, publishing)?
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Other for-profit?
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3. How is _EJournal_ delivered to you for reading (e-mail [you are a
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subscriber], Usenet connection, library terminal, paper
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copy, other)?
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4. What sort of 'ware do you use to read _EJournal_?
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a. Is your connection a central computer facility
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(via UN*X, VAX, IBM, other)?
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b. Is it via a commercial program (CompuServe, Prodigy, MCI Mail,
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other)?
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c. What kind of platform do you sit in front of (dumb terminal,
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PC/DOS, PC/Windows, Apple/Macintosh, Commodore/Amiga, other)?
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5. Do you print _EJournal_ to save? to share?
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6. Do you forward _EJournal_ to one or two people, or to a list of people?
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7. Do you file _EJournal_ electronically for future reference?
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8. Have you retrieved _EJournal_ issues (or Contents) from the FILESERV?
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[line 362]
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a) How often?
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9. What do you hope you will find when you admit _EJournal_ to your
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screen? Please close your eyes and recall (and record for us)
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what sort of text you hoped you would find when this issue arrived.
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[Here are some hints about subjects you could add to the hopes you
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expressed above: education and pedagogy, matrix/network/cyberspace
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musings, thoughts about "text" and "display," discussions of virtual
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reality, arts, hypertext, interactive fiction, MUDs; *examples* of
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uniquely electronic fiction and poetry and other arts; costs/benefits
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of networking; ownership and copyright; controversy and polemic about
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gender and power and disability and access to and uses of technology.]
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10. Do you have any comments about what would prompt you to recommend that
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others subscribe, and what act or omission would push you to unsubscribe?
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(Please don't unsub because you hate surveys!)
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An extracted survey with your responses beneath each question, or a message
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containing numbered responses, can be e-mailed directly to:
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peter.gorny@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
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You could reply to _EJournal_ at our usual address:
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ejournal@albany.bitnet
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but we will forward your text to PG, who has kindly offered to compile your
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electronic responses.
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If you decide to use paper, you can fax your page or two, or use snail
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mail, to our pseudo-virtual office:
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FAX: (518) 442-4599 (ATTN: Ted Jennings) [line 400]
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Snail: Ted Jennings
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Department of English
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An Ownership/Copyright Exchange - Allen and Dilworth
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by John B. Dilworth and Jonathan Allen
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Department of Philosophy Dept. of Information and Computer Science
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Western Michigan University University of California, Irvine
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Supplement to the Volume 1 Number 3-2 (September, 1992) essay by John B.
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Dilworth, "Credit, Compensation and Copyright: Owning Knowledge and Electronic
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Networks."
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Here, with their permission, is correspondence between John B. Dilworth and
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Jonathan Allen on the subject of John B. Dilworth's "Credit, Compensation and
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Copyright: Owning Knowledge and Electronic Networks" essay in our September,
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1992 issue (V1N3-2).
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Readers may want to turn their dialogue into a polylog; we'd be happy to keep
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this thread spinning. You can send for the complete text of John B. Dilworth's
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essay with the following message addressed to the Listserver at Albany:
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Address: LISTSERV@ALBANY.bitnet
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Message: GET EJRNL V1N3-2
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-- from Jonathan Allen:
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Dear Professor Dilworth,
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I found your recent Ejournal essay interesting and useful. It
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opened my eyes to the importance of indirect compensation--the
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gains in prestige and future career progress--for rewarding the
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creation of intellectual property in the electronic era. Indirect [line 438]
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compensation will be enough motivation to produce intellectual
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property in more cases than are commonly assumed, I agree, but in
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Dear Professor Allen,
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I agree that indirect compensation may be a less significant factor
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indirect compensation significant only in academic contexts.
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enough so that talented people think their efforts will not go
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unrewarded, but not much more than that. Publishers generally are
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indirect compensation). Electronic media could finance such
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as academic authorship, adding an item demonstrating authorship
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skills to one's job Resume is just as potentially rewarding as a
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publication in an academic Vita. With the increasingly volatile
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job market in every area, solid evidence of past achievement is
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exactly what is needed for speedy promotion or beneficial re-
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hiring. Though I emphasised creative originality in my essay,
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superior expression or presentation would also be generally
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rewarded through indirect compensation in such contexts.
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With best wishes,
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[line 514]
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John B. Dilworth
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Dilworth@gw.wmich.edu
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ahrens@hartford John Ahrens Hartford
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ap01@liverpool.ac.uk Stephen Clark Liverpool
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userlcbk@umichum Bill Condon Michigan
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crone@cua Tom Crone Catholic University
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erdt@pucal Terry Erdt Purdue Calumet
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richardj@surf.sics.bu.oz Joanna Richardson Bond University, Australia
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