The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture __________________________________________________________________ ISSN 1068-5723 August 23, 1993 Volume 1 Issue 5 KOVACS1 V1N5 The Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences: 1991-1993 by Diane K. Kovacs, Editor-in-Chief (dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu) The Directory Team Gladys Smiley Bell Paul Fehrmann Leslie Haas Gerald Holmes Michael Kovacs Jeanne Langendorfer Amey Park Kara Robinson Table of Contents __________________ PART ONE (KOVACS1 V1N5) Foreword The Directory of Scholarly E-conferences History and Background of the Project How and Where the Directory is being Used Conclusion Bibliography Reviews and Citations in the Print and Electronic Literature Quantitative Usage Data Appendix B GOPHER, WAIS and Campus Wide Information Server sites PART TWO (KOVACS2 V1N5) Appendix C Library Uses Appendix D Teaching Uses (as text or supplement) Appendix E Research or Professional Activity Uses ______________________________________ Foreword The Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is more than a collection of academic discussion lists and resources of interests to the academic community. It is these, of course, and it serves the community well by providing an easy to get and easy to use source for information about what is going on in my own and related fields. It helps me stay current and to communicate rapidly with my colleagues around the world. It is useful to students because it encourages them to relate contemporary happenings to the classical literature in their disciplines. Yes, the Directory is an enormously successful collection for the scholar seeking information, colleagues, directions, trends, and predictions within hundreds of disciplines, sub- disciplines, and within cross-disciplinary activities. But there is more to the Directory -- more than the team perhaps envisioned when they set off on this academic journey. The Directory is an important historical document. It chronicles science and scholarship in the making. In it, the historian of contemporary science finds the raw material to document today's scholarship and to trace the evolution of scientific inquiry and thought. The Directory represents the many layers and dimensions of science and scholarship. I look forward to witnessing its continued growth and good health. G. Phillip Cartwright Davis, CA June, 1993 The Directory of Scholarly E-conferences Professor Lancaster in Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics, 1982 observed that scholars in several fields had begun relying on electronic communications and databases accessed through their personal computers to satisfy their information needs. These scholars had begun to form "online intellectual communities...a kind of electronic invisible college" (Libraries and Librarians in an Age of Electronics,). These "online intellectual communities" take the form of electronic or e-mail based conferences (e- conferences) and journals (e-journals) that are distributed using the BITNET and Internet international computer networks. E-conferences have proliferated in the last few years, fulfilling Professor Lancaster's predictions. Librarians have a particularly significant role to play in the network environment. They are professional organizers of information. Scholars tap librarians' skills to locate and gain access to information in the library. The opportunity now exists to begin to provide the same professional liaison between end-users and information in the networked information environment as has always been provided for end-users of information in paper form. The Directory of Scholarly E-conferences is a project which demonstrates the value of librarians in the networked information environment. It is a free, network-available publication that addresses the needs of scholars to know what e-conferences exist in their subject area. The Directory has very successfully met this need. The project identifies e- conferences and e-journal distributions that are of interest to scholars in the humanities, social, physical and biological sciences, as well as general academic e- conferences and business related e-conferences. The e- conferences are selected from all the variety of forms available: mailing lists, discussion lists, electronic fora, LISTSERV lists, interest groups, newsgroups and more. The Directory organizes the e-conferences by subject discipline and provides information on the topic, subscription information, archiving, moderation and institutional affiliation. Subject keywords are attached to every entry. The Directory currently contains descriptions of 1200 e-conferences on topics of interest to scholars. This is a 50% increase from the 5th Revision. It has been published annually since 1990, in print format, by the Association of Research Libraries and is available on a number of network databases. Hypercard and HYTELNET versions exists and a dBase version is in progress. History and Background of the Project In the Fall of 1990 someone on the HUMANIST e-conference suggested that it would be a good idea to compile a list of e-conferences in existence that were of interest to humanities scholars. Diane K. Kovacs had been compiling such a list for the use of humanities scholars at Kent State University and volunteered to develop the list further and make it available through the HUMANIST LISTSERV Fileserver. On January 17, 1991 the 1st edition of The Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences then called Discussion Lists for Academics was placed on the LISTSERV Fileserver for HUMANIST@BROWNVM. The 2nd and 3rd editions came in quick succession: February 24, 1991 and May 16, 1991 (respectively). They were also placed on the LISTSERV Fileserver for LIBREF-L@KENTVM and ARACHNET@UOTTAWA. The 3rd, May 16, 1991 edition was the first to be made available via anonymous FTP on ksuvxa.kent.edu. Due to illness of the compiler the 4th edition was not released until March 10, 1992 with the current title The Directory of Scholarly E- Conferences. The 2nd ARL print edition was announced on March 30, 1992. The 5th edition was released November 2, 1992 and was the first to be compiled by the Directory Team, The 5th edition was reformatted into a database format with field labels and was released as a Hypercard Stack. The 6th edition was released February 23, 1993 and refined the database format and included a keyword field. The 3rd ARL print edition, which included a keyword index, was released May 9, 1993. The Directory Team decided on a bi-annual publication schedule for future electronic editions. The 1st edition contained just over 200 e-conferences both BITNET and Internet based Humanities and Social Science related e-conferences. The 2nd edition contained 267 e- conferences. The 4th edition included just over 673 e- conferences and had expanded to include e-conferences from the biological and physical sciences as well as business and academic adminstration. The 5th edition included 805 e- conferences from the humanities, social sciences, biological, physical and administrative sciences. The 6th edition contained 1200 e-conferences in the areas above and included a new section on computer science and social and cultural aspects of computing. How and Where the Directory is being Used Uses of the Directory fall into four categories: 1. GOPHER, WAIS and Campus Wide Information Server sites 2. Library Uses 3. Teaching Uses (as text or supplement) 4. Research or Professional Activity Uses This data is compiled from several sources: requests for permission to use the Directory, responses to survey distributed to several e-conferences querying how and where the Directory is being used, messages sent spontaneously, and searches using Veronica (to search Gopher servers), WAIS and ARCHIE. Extracts from the data are included in the Appendices. The data is summarized for each category below. In the United States, forty-four sites in twenty-five states make available the e-version of the Directory on a GOPHER, WAIS or other Information server. These sites include a high school, three network services organizations, two government agencies, and a commercial site. Internationally, the e-version is available on 17 information servers in 8 countries. These countries include Australia, Canada, Germany, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Some sites compiled usage statistics (see Appendix A.) One hundred and eighty-six libraries in the United States have a catalogued copy of the print version for which a holdings record can be found on OCLC or RLIN. Internationally, three Australian libraries, two Canadian libraries, and two United Kingdom libraries indicated that they have a catalogued copy of the print version. The American University in Bulgaria has made available the e- version. Several libraries indicated that they also make the e-version available. Most of the data on Teaching Uses of the Directory was obtained from requests for permission to use the Directory. Six instructors indicated that they use the Directory in teaching Internet end-user workshops for faculty and librarians. Three instructors used the Directory in teaching Library and Information Science courses. Journalism, Physics and History instructors have also used the Directory as supplementary material in courses they have taught. Australian, Canadian and United Kingdom instructors were included in the data. Responses to the survey distributed to several e- conferences querying how and where the Directory is being used and many spontaneous e-mail messages, indicate that a large number of people are using the Directory for their research and professional activities. These include using the Directory as a sampling mechanism for studies of electronic communication, using the Directory itself as the object of study, sharing the information with colleagues and clients as part of professional activities. These responses came from all over the United States. Internationally, it is notable that responses from the Ukraine, Hungary, Belgium, Chile and Guam stated that the Directory was a very valuable source for research. In the case of the Ukraine and Hungary the Directory provides a link to communication to the western world heretofore unavailable. Conclusion The 7th electronic edition of the Directory of Scholarly E-Conference is planned for September, 1993. That electronic edition will improve on the information provided and expand to include Usenet Newsgroups in a more comprehensive fashion. The Directory continues to seek to improve information access for scholars to this growing area of scholarly communications. The future will continue show the Directory taking its place among the standard reference sources for academic libraries and bridging the transformation from the print to the electronic information environment. Bibliography: Reviews and Citations in the Print and Electronic Literature A. Reviews EDUPAGE - Newletter (edupage@dc.cren.net) Thursday, 3 Jun 1993 Chronicle of Higher Education June 2, 1993 p. A15 "Choice Best Reference Tool of the Year Award 1992." Strangelove, Michael.; Kovacs, Diane K. Directory of electronic journals, newsletters and academic discussion lists (book review).; Centing, Richard R., reviewer.; Choice 29 (April 1992) p. 1205-6 Jul, Erik. Of barriers and breakthroughs; Electronic publishing. Computers in Libraries 12(3)(March 1992) p. 20 "List of Scholarly Lists" WESS Newsletter (Spring 1991) p. 3 McKenzie, Alan T. The Academic Online Newsletter. 1991 p. 44. Strangelove, Michael.; Kovacs, Diane K. Directory of electronic journals, newsletters and academic discussion lists (book review); Grosch, Audrey N., 1934-, reviewer.; The Library Quarterly 62 (April 1992) p. 250 Directory of electronic journals, newsletters and academic discussion lists (book review); Sweet, Charles E., reviewer.; Database (Weston, Conn.) 15 (February 1992) p. 71-2 "ARL Directory of Electronic Publications"; ALCTS Newsletter 2(8) p. 95 B.. Citations (Works in progress are listed in Appendix E.) Kochmer, Jonathan and NorthWestNet. The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to our World Online. 4th ed. 1993 NorthWestNet and Northwest Academic Computing Consortium, Inc., Bellevue, WA. Newby, Gregory. Directory of Directories on Internet. In Press Tillman, Hope and Ladner Sharyn. The Internet and Special Librarians: Use, Training and the Future. In Press __________________________________________________ Appendix A: Quantitative Usage Data University of California, Santa Cruz Consulted on "InfoSlug CWIS" 1500 times per month Steve Watkins Science Library University of California, Santa Cruz watkins@scilibx.ucsc.edu University of California, Santa Barbara The list below shows the number of times each part of the directory has been accessed during March and April 1993. Academia: 3 Academic Computing Training and User Support: 2 Agriculture, Veterinary Science, and Zoology: 17 Anthropology: 8 Art: 8 Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Virtual Reality: 18 Astronomy: 4 Biology, Biophysics, and Biochemistry: 9 Botany and Horticulture: 10 Business: 5 Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: 15 Communications: 5 Computer Hardware and Software Discussions: 4 Computer Science Research and Engineering: 6 Computer Science Research (General Academic): 3 Dance: 8 Ecology and Environmental Sciences: 10 Economics: 7 Education: 4 Engineering: 15 Futurology and Future Studies: 1 Genetics: 4 Geography and Area Studies: 5 Geology: 13 History: 3 Human Resources and Industrial Psychology: 2 Humanities: 3 Information Retrieval and Information Systems: 7 Journalism: 4 Languages: 5 Latin American Studies: 3 Law, Criminology, and Justice: 13 Library and Information Science: 7 Linguistics and Text Analysis: 7 Literature: 7 Mathematics and Statistics: 4 Medical Practice, Personnel, and Patients: 1 Medical Sciences and Research: 1 Music: 15 News and Current Affairs: 4 Philosophy and Ethics: 4 Physics: 11 Political Science: 6 Programming Languages: 8 Psychology and Psychiatry: 6 Public Domain and Publicly Supported Software: 2 Religious Studies: 7 Science and Technology (Miscellaneous Areas): 1 Social Activism: 2 Social Work and Sociology: 10 Theater, Film, and Television: 20 Urban Planning: 8 Women's Studies: 8 Writing: 2 The Introductory "Readme" file: 60 Delphi Public Internet Access (Commercial Online Service) January 1993-May 1993 Usage Statistics 1 FILE 1: ANTHROPOLOGY, EDUCATION (Size: 41444 /Count: 26) 2 FILE 2: GEOGRAPHY, LIBRARY, INFO (Size: 68142 /Count: 17) 3 FILE 3: LINGUISTICS, POLI. SCI. (Size: 43966 /Count: 15) 4 FILE 4: PSYCHOLOGY, WRITING (Size: 41780 /Count: 22) 5 FILE 5: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Size: 34632 /Count: 14) 6 FILE 6: PHYSICAL & COMPUTER SCI. (Size: 43062 /Count: 25) 7 FILE 7: BUSINESS, ACADEMIA, NEWS (Size: 16694 /Count: 19) 8 ACADLIST README (Size: 33492 /Count: 26) 9 ACADLIST ANNOUNCEMENT (Size: 6214 /Count: 15) 10 ACADLIST HYPERCARD STACK (Size: 266498 /Count: 6) 11 ALL FILES FOR MAC (Size: 309204 /Count: 2) ______________________________________________ Appendix B: GOPHER, WAIS and Campus Wide Information Server sites GOPHER Servers, WAIS, FTP sites and other Campus Wide Information Servers WAIS source file lists.src available on most WAIS Servers worldwide. Many of the GOPHER sites are linked to the lists.src WAIS version of The Directory of Scholarly E- Conferences United States Alabama --Clemson University Ken Murr (KRMRR@CLemson) California --"Tools such as your list are invaluable to me and to the users I support. To make it more accessible here at Getty, I have put the text of your list along with several other lists and general text files on a network server and organized them into a batch-file written series of menus." The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (UCLA) Phil Harriman (egs2g1b@mvs.oac.ucla.edu) --"We find the Directory to be a very valuable resource, particularly when you can't remember the name of a particular list or need to refer somebody to a list as a potential source of information and assistance. I hope that you and the team will be able to continue the good work and congratulations on four great years!" University of California, Santa Cruz scilibx.ucsc.edu 70 Steve Watkins (watkins@scilibx.ucsc.edu) --"Thanks, in any case, for the good work in making this directory available to us all" University of California, San Diego Elliot Kanter (ekanter@ucsd.edu) --See Appendix A Quantitative Usage Data University of California, Santa Barbara sbuxa.ucsb.edu port 3001 Andrea Duda (lb10goph@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu) Connecticut --"At Trinity College your Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences is included as a networked resource on our Library Resources Director. The LRD is our way of consolidating access to various library-related material (including our OPAC) across a PC network and a Macintosh network...campus wide information server..." Trinity College Library Alfred C. Burfeind (al.burfeind@mail.trincoll.edu) District of Columbia --Coalition for Networked Information Gopher Server gopher.cni.org 70 Florida --University of Florida, CYBERLIBRARY Program Telnet nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Login: lib. Georgia --"I have used both the print version (which our college has) and looked through the online version through our campus gopher gateway. Although I readily admit that the online version is better for its currency, I find it is faster and easier to flip through the paper version to get to the more narrow subject disciplines." (see Library Uses below) Valdosta State College Denise Montgomery (dmontgom@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu) --"Dr. Harry Gilmer, our director, brought your earlier work on academic discussion lists to my attention and it has been most useful in finding information on the various lists available. I would appreciate your permission to place both the text and MAC versions of your lastest discussion list work on our BBS. There is no fee for access and no necessity of membership in one of our supporting societies for use of our BBS. We would maintain your files without modification or additions, including all copyright notices." Scholars Press (scholars@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu) Iowa --"By the way, we have just added your update (6th electronic edition) to our CWIS version of your 'service'." Drake University George Miller (SYSTEM@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU) Illinois --"Our logs show that the acadlist has been accessed only 370 times in the last 5 months...My informal impression regarding your efforts is that it is quite valuable." University of Chicago Donald Goldhamer (dhgo@midway.uchicago.edu) Indiana --"Here at our branch library (we serve two professional schools: the School of Business and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs) we have the _Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences_ on a server. The campus CWIS has this and other widely distributed lists (like Billy Barron's) on it already, but, too often, only the older versions. We naturally prefer to search the up-to-date version of the _Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences_ and, from time to time, download a copy for an interested faculty member or student. " Indiana University-Bloomington Jay Marme (jmarme@ucs.indiana.edu) --University of Notre Dame gopher.nd.edu 70 --Purdue University local FTP site Carl Snow (Carl@hikssrv.lib.purdue.edu) Maine --University of Maine Wayne Smith (wts@maine.maine.edu) Maryland --"We have downloaded the plain ASCII files to one of the LAN's." Motivation and Stress Research Section Div. of Biomedical and Behavioral Science (DBBS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Ted Scharf (fes0@NIOBBS1.EM.CDC.GOV Massachusetts --Durfee High School, Computer Club Bulletin Board Jane Constant (JCONSTANT@umassd.edu) --Massachusetts Institute of Technology TechInfo System Greg Anderson (ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU) -- See Appendix A Quantitative Usage Statistics Delphi Public Internet Access (Commercial Online Service) Walt Howe (WALTHOWE@delphi.com) Michigan --Michigan State University Richard W Wiggins (RWWMAINT@MSU) --CICNet, Inc. wais.cic.net --> --> lists.src Minnesota --University of Minnesota-Libraries Charlene Mason (C-MASO@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU) --"You are doing a wonderful work organizing all this information. " University of Minnesota Marisa Riviere (MARISA@vx.cis.umn.edu) Missouri --MOREnet - Missouri Research and Educational Network Telnet(tn3270) umcvmb.missouri.edu Login: moreinfo. Mark Moody (CCMARK@UMCVMB.missouri.edu) New York --City University of New York Helen McLean (hlmcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu) --Skidmore College grace.skidmore.edu 70 North Carolina --"First, I want to tell you that the _Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences_ is a great piece of work! Many of our information providers in North Carolina are grateful that you maintain this resource. Thank-you!" University of North Carolina - Educational Computing Services ecsgate.unc.edu 70 Debby Morley (dgm@uncecs.edu) --Institute for Academic Technology The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FTP site gandalf.iat.unc.edu Carolyn M. Kotlas (carolynk.iat@mhs.unc.edu) --University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill dewey.lib.ncsu.edu 70 Eric Morgan" (eric_morgan@library.lib.ncsu.edu) --Appalachian State University non-public CWIS Glenn Ellen Starr (STARRGE@APPSTATE) North Dakota --"I ftp'd the _Directory_ and placed the the resulting file (merged it into one) on a directory on our campus file server." Dickinson State University Library Lillian Sorenson (lsorenso@plains.nodak.edu) Ohio --"Inhouse computer bulletin board for use by our faculty and students" Ohio Agricultural Research Development Center, Wooster Constance J. Britton (Britton.4@osu.edu) --John Carroll University John Piety, Director, (PIETY@JCVAXA) --Kenyon College William Quimby (Quimby@Vax001.Kenyon.Edu) Oregon --"We use your directory in PORTALS. We are one version out of date. We use CIX (a version of freeport software). Scholarly conference is a menu item, under that item, we have the minu items you suggest. Keep up the good work. It is VERY much appreciated. Telnet portals1.lib.pdx.edu Login: visitor. Portland State University Millard Johnson (ZENDOG@gloom.lib.pdx.edu) Pennsylvania --University of Pennsylvania gopher-penninfo.upenn.edu 70 John D. Hagan (HAGAN@UPENN.EDU) --Lehigh University ns3.CC.Lehigh.EDU 70 --Gettysburg University jupiter.cc.gettysburg.edu 70 Texas --St. Mary's University Margaret Sylvia (acadmarg@vax.stmarytx.edu) Utah --Brigham Young University ucs2.byu.edu 70 (John_Peterson@byu.edu) Virginia --Fairfield University. Gordon Oppenheimer (GORDON@FAIR1) Washington --"The Directory is a great help and I (as well as many others I'm sure) appreciate the effort you put in to make it a important, high-quality resource. Thanks." (see Teaching Uses also) University of Washington non-public GOPHER Sheryl Erez (erez@cac.washington.edu) International GOPHER Servers and Other Campus Wide Information Servers Australia --"I maintain a copy of your directory in our ftp archive and it is accessible on our Library's Gopher Server. I refer users to it, just did one minute ago. ie email reference query to a computer science person." Murdoch University, W.A., Australia Deidre E. Stanton" (stanton@portia.murdoch.edu.au) --Murdoch University portia.csu.murdoch.edu.au 70 --uniwa.wa.oz.au --> netinfo-docs.src (WAIS server) Canada --"I have mounted your directory on UWinfo which is the University of Waterloo's gopher based campus wide information system. We have found it extremely valuable in our training sessions and to simplify access for our staff to the many lists that are available on the internet." University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada watserv2.uwaterloo.ca 70 William Oldfield (liboff27@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca) --"We find your directory to be very useful." University of Saskatchewan gopher.usask.ca Earl Fogel (fogel@usask.ca) --"It is very useful to have this type of directory, especially to have it broken down by specific discipline. As I am sure that this document would be of invaluable use to our faculty, I am requesting your permission to place a copy (properly acknowledged of course) up on our Gopher server (local access only)." Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada, Binnie G. Langley (binnie.langley@acadiau.ca) --University of Victoria malahat.library.uvic.ca 70 --ac.dal.ca (GOPHER server) Germany --"This resource is VERY useful! We have it on our Gopher a U of Saarbruecken as a link to the U of Stuttgart Gopher, Germany. I know from several users here who printed parts out or worked with electronic versions, marked lists, mailed to listservs afterwards etc. As the local gopher maintainer, I used it in each intro course I gave to students and scientists as a tool to find the starting point which lists to read." Universitat Saarbruecken, Germany pfsparc02.phil15.uni-sb.de 70 Alexander Sigel (gg15hzas@rz.uni-sb.de) Holland (Netherlands) --"What I like very much in yours is its subject cataloguing, a rare feature in the network world and *the first priority* librarians should spend work on." Idealist database Leiden University, Holland Marten Hofstede hofstede@rulub.leidenuniv.nl Spain --"We are now trying to promote the utilization of e- conferences, that we consider interesting, in our University, specially in some areas not related to computing. So we have used the ACADLIST files to help us in this task. For this reason we have used these files to facilitate the people to find all those lists relating with the subjects they're interested." Valencia University, Spain non-public GOPHER Raul Tamarit (tamarira@vm.ci.uv.es) Sweden --munin.ub2.lu.se --> academic_email_conf.src (WAIS resource) Taiwan --leica.ccu.edu.tw, Taipei, Taiwan United Kingdom --Bulletin Board for Libraries (BUBL) at Glasgow University Library Telnet SUN.NSF.AC.UK or 128.86.8.7 Login: janet Hostname: uk.ac.glasgow.bubl Glasgow University, Scotland, United Kingdom --Oxford University non-public GOPHER Hunter Monroe (econhkm@vax.ox.ac.uk) --"I look after the Campus Information Server at UWCC (the University of Wales College of Cardiff). I am getting an increasing number of queries from academics about how to find discussion lists, etc, in their subjects. We have retrieved a copy of the Index of ACADLISTs and would very much like to mount it on our Information Server." University of Wales College of Cardiff, United Kingdom Joan Wright (wright@uk.ac.cardiff) --"I have found your lists very useful in the past and will try and retrieve the 6th edition as soon as possible. Up to now I've simply printed the lists for my own purposes but I'm wondering whether you would have any objection if we found some way of mounting them on our CWIS for other members of the University to use?" 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