NEWJOUR archive announcement (fwd) Marcia Tuttle 23 Oct 1995 12:34 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:16:08 -0400 From: Ann Okerson <ann@CNI.ORG> Subject: NEWJOUR archive announcement NewJour, the Internet list for reporting and announcing new on-line electronic journals, announces a major improvement in its archive. The result is an important new tool for those who track the explosive growth in on-line Internet serial publishing, or simply for those who wish to see what is available in particular subject areas. The URL is simple: http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour *The archive is maintained by mhonarc software which not only displays the entries in HTML, but takes all URLs in the messages and turns them into links, so when you read an entry describing a journal that offers a URL, you can immediately click and go to the site described. There is searching software and a reverse chronological index to let visitors check the newest material first. (Suggestions for other ways to improve the presentation are very welcome.)* As of 3 p.m. Pacific Time, Sunday, October 22nd, 1995, the NewJour archive contains 975 items. NewJour distributes its reports to 2200 subscribers on all seven continents (list subscription instructions below). Its archive goes back to August 1993, but the last half year has seen a remarkable boom in initiatives reported. The list began as an activity of the Association of Research Libraries in connection with its famous *Directory of Electronic Scholarly Journals, Newsletters, and Discussion Lists*, now in its fifth edition. ARL has enriched the scope of the Directory project and the partnerships that create it, and NewJour now represents a collaboration between ARL, the Yale University Libraries, the Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (CCAT) at the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California at San Diego Library with their excellent library and systems staff. To subscribe to NewJour, send e-mail to: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu with no Subject and include the simple message "subscribe newjour" You may also choose to receive a single daily message compiling all the day's messages in one "digest." To do that, send to the same address the message "subscribe newjour-digest" The WWW NewJour archives are provided as a service by the Data Services Unit of the Social Sciences and Humanities Library of the University of California, San Diego: Jim Jacobs Abe Singer Marsha Fanshier For questions about the ARL Directory, contact: Patricia Brennan, Communications Coordinator (patricia@cni.org), or Dru mogge, Electronic Services Coordinator (dur@cni.org) The co-owners/moderators of the NewJour service are: Ann Shumelda Okerson James J. O'Donnell Yale University University of Pennsylvania Ann.Okerson@yale.edu jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu