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_Current Cites_
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Volume 6, no. 7
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July 1995
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Information Systems Instruction & Support
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The Library
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University of California, Berkeley
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Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
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ISSN: 1060-2356
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URL:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ISIS/current-cites/cc95.6.7.html
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Contributors:
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Campbell Crabtree, John Ober, Margaret Phillips,
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David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
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Electronic Publishing
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_Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic
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Discussion Lists_ Washington, DC: Association of Research
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Libraries, Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing,
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1995. -- Only one year after the publication of the fourth
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edition, ARL has already published a fifth edition of its
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directory of electronic journals, further establishing itself
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as the standard reference work listing academically-related
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serials on the Internet. A two-thirds increase in the number
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of titles added since last year brings the number of listed
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titles to almost 700, evidence of the ever-burgeoning field
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of electronic serials publishing. (The first edition of the
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directory, published in 1991, included only 110 in its list.)
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The second part of this resource includes a list of 2500
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academic discussion lists. This list is the printed version of
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the online list maintained at Kent State University whose
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editors carefully select among the estimated 30,000 discussion
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lists in existence to come up with these titles which they judge
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to be of primary interest to scholars, researchers and students.
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As always, the directory includes several reprinted articles
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that discuss issues and trends related to electronic publishing.
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Among them are "First Steps towards Electronic Research
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Communication" by Paul Ginsparg, "Serials in Cyberspace:
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Collections, Resources, and Services on the Networks," a review
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article by Birdie MacLennan, "Network-Based Electronic Publishing
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of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography," by Charles W.
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Bailey, and "Online Newspaper Services," a list compiled by Steve
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Outing. An abridged version of the ARL directory is available on
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the ARL gopher [gopher://arl.cni.org:70/11/scomm/edir]. -- MP
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Dyson, Esther. "Intellectual Value" Wired 3(7) (July 1995):
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137-141, 182-184. -- Dyson discusses the "economics of content"
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on the Net. In an environment where intellectual property is
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easily copied and widely re-distributed, controlling copies is
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still an expensive and complicated, or near-impossible feat.
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The author proposes the goal of content creators should be to
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provide intellectual value through information-based services
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or processes. In many cases, the value of content on the Net
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lies less in the actual intellectual property than in the
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processes required to create it. Interesting sidebars do
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consider new methods of controlling use including software
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metering, tracking usage rights and digital watermarks to
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ensure authenticity. -- CJC
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Graham, Peter S. "Long-Term Intellectual Preservation"
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[http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/texts/dps.html] -- This article
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was presented at the RLG Symposium on Digital Imaging
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Technology for Preservation at Cornell University March 17
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& 18, 1995. Graham tackles the problems of long term
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authentication of any type of digital information, as well
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as preservation of that data. Any digital document, if it is
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to convey authority, must be an exact duplicate of the
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original or contain a record of all deviations from the
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original. One proposed solution for authentication is Digital
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Time Stamping, whereby a one-way algorithm is used to generate
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a key that can be produced only by the original document. These
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keys would be made public, thus ensuring the validity of the
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documents. This article is a useful, non-technical starting
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point in puzzling out these critical issues of the longevity
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and authenticity of any type of digital information. -- RR
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Multimedia and Hypermedia
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Strand, John. "High Art, High Tech: The National Gallery of
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Art's New Micro Gallery" Museum News 74(4) (July/August 1995):
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35-39. -- This article profiles the Micro Gallery project, which
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is one of the largest computer-based public access and education
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centers to be developed at a museum yet. Similar to the Micro
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Gallery of London's National Gallery, the U.S. version will be an
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entire room in the National Gallery of Art dedicated to
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computer-based education about the art contained in the museum's
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permanent collection. The author outlines the depth of information
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possible with hypertext and image rich kiosks, placed near the
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original object to be studied. He also notes the most common fear
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of such education tools: that they will prove a distraction from
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the original, thereby subverting their very purpose. After
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exploring the issue through the interviews, he ends however by
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asserting that the kiosks will more likely aid to the public's
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understanding of the works, and thus increase their interest in
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seeing the originals. -- RR
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Networks and Networking
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Adam, Anthony J. "Internet Resources for Film and Television"
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College & Research Libraries News 56(6) (June 1995):397-400.
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-- With the proliferation of Internet sites related to film and
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television, this article provides a small yet selective list of
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World Wide Web sites for both popular and academic use. Especially
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helpful are the annotations which describe and evaluate the
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contents of sites. Keep in mind that most of the sites listed
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require audiovisual software to be fully utilized. While the
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article focuses primarily on WWW sites, it also includes a list
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of the more popular discussion groups related to film and
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television. -- MP
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Barry, Aileen. "NASA Launches a Web Site," OnTheInternet
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1(2) (May/June 1995):22-26. -- The modest title belies a
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fact that soon becomes apparent to the reader, and that is
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that NASA has launched much, much more than a Web "site."
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Rather, NASA has launched the Web equivalent of a Saturn 5
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rocket, in that they have a network of NASA Web sites that
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tie together and share information in new and effective ways.
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NASA is using the Web to share vast amounts of astronomical
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data in interactive ways with researchers, amateur astronomers,
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and curious onlookers around the world. A prime example was
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the collision of the Shoemaker-Levy comet with Saturn, an
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event that found so many Internet users clamoring for online
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photos from NASA sites that the Internet infrastructure was
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significantly strained. If anyone needs an example of why the
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Internet in general, or the Web in particular, is important, this
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article is an excellent example. Now if I had only had this
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available when I was writing reports on space missions in
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grade school! -- RT
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Bosseau, Don L., Beth Shapiro and Jerry Campbell. "Digitising the
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Reserve Function: Steps Toward Electronic Delivery" The Electronic
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Library 13(3) (June 1995):217-223. -- Transcripts of papers given
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at ALA's Midwinter meeting by University Librarians from San Diego
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State, Rice and Duke Universities discuss the experiences with
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electronic reserves at their institutions. They identify issues
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involved in delivering e-reserves including technology and data
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standards, design considerations for useful files, hardware and
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software availability and evolution of copyright and the idea of
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fair use. -- CJC
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Brodsky, Ira. "Wireless World" Internet World 6(7) (July 1995):
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34-41. [URL:http://www.iw.com/iw/v6n7/feat34.htm] -- Many of us
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work every day on a computer network of one type or another --
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and some of us use several different networking protocols every
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work day without even thinking about it. But now it seems we are
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still not as connected as we could be. The last networking
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frontier has been identified, and it is the very air we
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breathe. Wireless networks enable the checking of your email
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from such locations as your car (stuck in traffic), the local
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park (while watching the kids), or the beach (while fighting
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that white-skinned nerd look). This article describes the
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present and planned future capabilities of wireless computer
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communications. Brodsky compares the major wireless services,
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the technologies they use, and their benefits and drawbacks,
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particularly in relation to using such services to access the
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Internet. If you're thinking about going mobile, you might
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want to check out this article to see who you should go with.
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-- RT
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Cobb, Flora Shrode and Edward F. Lener. "Internet Resources for
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the Earth Sciences" College & Research Libraries News 56(5) (May
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1995):319-321, 325. -- Another in the regular C&RL News feature
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on Internet resources in specific subject areas, this articles
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lists a wide range of Gopher, ftp and WWW sites in the very broad
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and interdisciplinary field of earth sciences. -- MP
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Doty, Ted "A Firewall Overview" ConneXions 9(7) (July 1995):
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20-23. -- For those for whom firewalls are a mystery, this brief
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but informative article is an excellent overview of the technologies
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used to "keep out the jerks." Corporate network administrators
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probably already know more than they would like about firewalls,
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but if not, they could do a lot worse than this quick read to get
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a basic understanding of their choices. Doty includes pointers to
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the main electronic discussion, a book, and FTP archives of papers
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on the topic. -- RT
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Locke, Christopher. "Rock Steady" OnTheInternet 1(2) (May/June 1995):
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16-21. [http://www2.pcy.mci.net/whats-new/editors/locke/050595.html]
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-- Locke embeds pithy and insightful advice on how businesses can
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best use the Internet amidst rock music lyrics and references. At
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first it may seem like a mere gimmick, but his evaluation is real,
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and businesses which dream of making it big on the Internet would do
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well to heed warnings and advice such as "Instead of immediate sales,
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companies might better focus on how their participation with the vast
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array of micromarkets the Internet represents can help ensure such
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future gains." Ultimately, Locke asserts, "it's not the logic,
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it's the vibe." Seldom have we seen such down-to-earth, rock steady
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comments on such an over-hyped topic as Internet commerce. -- RT
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Maxwell, Bruce. _How to Access the Federal Government on the
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Internet._ Washington, DC : Congressional Quarterly, 1995. -- A
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companion to Bruce Maxwell's earlier book _How to Access the
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Government's Electronic Bulletin Boards_ issued early in 1995, this
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book focuses on federal information that is available on the Internet.
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A representative sample of some 300 Internet sites, the annotated
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entries explain how to access each site and describe the site's focus
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and coverage. Maxwell's approach is to explain how to search for
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information and he always indicates if a particular site has a
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searchable index or contains a search program such as jughead. Users
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of this book will find the index to be a particularly useful way of
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finding out which Internet resource will list information on a given
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topic. The author is quick to point out, however, that the Internet
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does not list "everything" published by the government and that
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researchers must also look for federal information in the books,
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documents, CD-ROMs and other sources available in traditional
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libraries. -- MP
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Optical Disc Technology
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Parker, Dana J. "High Density & Re-inventing the Disc" CD-ROM
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Professional 8(6) (June 1995):21-33. -- In the first of two articles
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in this month's CD-ROM Professional about the promising new high
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density CD-ROM, Parker describes the battle of the titans, pitting
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two industry alliance heavies, Philips/Sony against Toshiba/Time
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Warner. While both formats promise a total of 270 minutes of video,
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the Philips/Sony HDCD disc has a capacity of 7.4GB, while the
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Toshiba/Time Warner DVD disc offers 10GB. Philips/Sony is targeting
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the high performance computer user market, whereas the Toshiba/Time
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Warner proposal is geared toward the entertainment industry.
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Although these two groups of consumers are becoming less
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differentiated in this age of converging technologies, there still
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exists a substantial gulf in the ways the two-markets-in-one are
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perceived. Parker postulates that "despite the prevailing viewpoint
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that one standard for high-density is foreordained, and that one
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standard will be the Hollywood version, it is far too soon to
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declare a victor in this battle... The final say, in this case will
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be in the hands of the buying public. The buying public may well
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decide that there is room for two standards and divide neatly
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along computer-user and television watcher, even if those lines
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are no longer neat..." -- TR
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Schwerin, Julie B. "Video CD and High Density CD Futures" CD-ROM
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Professional 8(6) (June 1995):34-42. -- In this second of two
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articles on the high density compact disc (HDCD), Schwerin
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describes this next generation of CD and then predicts that the
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Toshiba/Time Warner Digital Video Disc (DVD) may become its
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embodiment. Schwerin divides the world of HDCD into three separate
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categories: digital videodisc for feature films and music videos,
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HDCD TV Settop for video games and interactive entertainment, and
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HDCD PC Desktop for games, arts/entertainment education, reference,
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training or multivolume institutional (text/numeric/image data).
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Each of these categories is analyzed from a market perspective to
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round out this informative article. -- TR
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General
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Roberta Y. Rand, ed. "Global Change Research and the Role of
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Libraries" Library Hi Tech 13(1-2) (1995):7-84. -- This special
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double issue devotes the entire first half to Global Change
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Research. Topic sections arrange articles and figures to provide
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a background for the Global Change Data and Information System
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(GCDIS) and state the goals of the Library Information Subgroup
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of the Global Change Data Management Working Group: to suggest
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promising new technologies and to provide "accurate and precise"
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access to the system. There are several project descriptions as
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well as resources and tools highlighted to help the information
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professional manage large amounts of data in disparate formats
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to facilitate useful access. Topic sections include: "The U.S.
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Global Change Research Program: History and Organization,"
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"Libraries, Global Change Data, and Information Management,"
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"Global Change Resources, Projects, and Tools" and "U.S Federal
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Agency Implementation Overviews." -- CJC
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Lyman, Peter. "Computing as Performance Art" Educom Review 30(4)
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(July/August):28-31. -- The author explores the changes that
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happen when learning is changed from use of tools (computers,
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rules) to play, where the tool becomes secondary to the flow of
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the act, or performance. Confronting the computer as a "thing" to
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be used is much different from seeing it as a "field" in which to
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problem solve. When the act (of learning, creating) becomes
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ascendant over the tool, you not only have better learning, you
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may have art. This article lets you step back to view your thinking
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on the human-computer interface, and it's implications for
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education. -- RR
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Current Cites 6(7) (July 1995) ISSN: 1060-2356
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