The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture __________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 September 27, 1993 Volume 1 Issue 6 EJVCV1N6 CONTENTS This entire issue is available as EJVCV1N6 PACKAGE ANNOUNCEMENT: Bi-monthly Publication of the EJVC The EJVC will be published bi-monthly until further notice after this issue (Volume 1, Number 6). Special issues are scheduled for release in November, January, March, May, and July. No other change of policy has been made. Ermel Stepp EJVC, Editor-in-Chief Table of Contents _______________________ Feature Article =============== Virtualization of Institutes of Research by Ermel Stepp (available as STEPP V1N6 2,081 lines) ABSTRACT Research and scholarly inquiry is being fostered, encouraged, advanced, and communicated, within and across multiple disciplines, in cyberspace, in ways that transcend the early origins and historical heritage of computer networking. Communities of research scholars have emerged to engage in collaborative research and scholarly inquiry in cyberspace. Several communities in cyberspace have been organized as global virtual institutes for research. Three such virtual research institutes are: The Merton Research Institute, the Institute for Research on Visionary Leadership, and the Institute for Research on Virtual Culture. Such virtual institutes for research are virtualized through optimal utilization of globally networked computer information systems, including: 1. Electronic forums to conduct sustained, substantive discourse on research and scholarly inquiry; 2. Peer-reviewed electronic journals; 3. Archives of notebooks/digests of dialogue on research and scholarly inquiry, peer-reviewed electronic journals, and other relevant documents--research papers, reports, masters theses, and doctoral dissertations. Various examples of practical documents to virtualize research institutes are presented in the Appendices. The VIRTUAL SQUARE ================== edited by Diane Kovacs (dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) and James Shimabukuro (jamess@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu) The Virtual Square is devoted to non-refereed opinion columns and essays. "The Rate of Change of the Rate of Change: Column Three Sept, 1993 ADULT LITERACY FALLS TO 53% AS COPYRIGHT IS GETTING LONGER AS BOOKS GO OUT OF PRINT SOONER Columnist Michael Hart (hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu) (available as SQARV1N6 HART 457 lines) The CYBERSPACE MONITOR ====================== edited by Algirdas Pakstas (Algirdas.Pakstas@idt.unit.no) (available as EJVCV1N6 MONITOR 2,326 lines) ///////////////////// / TABLE OF CONTENTS / ///////////////////// MEDIA REVIEWS BOOKS: - "WOMEN, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND SCHOLARSHIP" EDITED BY H. JEANIE TAYLOR, CHERIS KRAMARAE, AND MAUREEN EBBEN NETWARE REVIEWS (systems/hw/sw/services) SERVICES: - CONNECT MAGAZINE GOES DIGITAL WITH A NEW BBS EDITION - NEW SIRI SERVICES - GLASNEWS - JOURNALS FOR PUBLIC SEARCHING IN COMSERVE'S JOURNALS INDEX - ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF IPCT-J@GUVM - NOVEL RELEASED AS "SHAREWARE" ON THE INTERNET NETWARE TUTORIALS LISTSERV/LDBASE: HOW TO SEARCH A LISTSERV'S ARCHIVES MEETINGS/CONFERENCES/EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS PROJECTS: - BALT-INFO PROJECT GETS UNDER WAY - SCHEDULE OF "GLOBAL LECTURE HALL" VIDEOCONFERENCE ON 8/21/93 - GOING GLOBAL FOR YOUTH - NPTN AND COMMUNITY COMPUTING CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: - UM-94: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING - ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: WORK, SCHOOL, PLAY - CHASQUI: A JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICA COMMUNICATIONS - CONFERENCE: A PACIFIC ENCOUNTER/UN ENCUENTRO PACIFICO - BOOK ON MEDIA AND SELF - SIGIR'94 CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, IRELAND - STSF '94: AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION - ASIS ANNUAL MEETING 1993: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES\ CONVERGING PROFESSIONS _____ Articles and Sections of this issue of the _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ may be retrieved via anonymous ftp to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu or via e-mail message addressed to LISTSERV@KENTVM or LISTSERV@KENTVM.KENT.EDU (instructions below) Papers may be submitted at anytime by email or send/file to: Ermel Stepp - Editor-in-Chief, _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ M034050@MARSHALL.WVNET.EDU _________________________________ *Copyright Declaration* Copyright of articles published by Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture is held by the author of a given article. If an article is re-published elsewhere it must include a statement that it was originally published by Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture. The EJVC Editors reserve the right to maintain permanent archival copies of all submissions and to provide print copies to appropriate indexing services for for indexing and microforming. _________________________________ _________________________________ _THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON VIRTUAL CULTURE_ ISSN 1068-5327 EDITORIAL BORAD EJVC Founders/Arachnet Moderators Ermel Stepp, Marshall University, Editor-in-Chief M034050@Marshall.wvnet.edu Diane (Di) Kovacs, Kent State University, Co-Editor DKOVACS@Kentvm.Kent.edu A. 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