About the Internet Book Information Center (IBIC) Frederick Zimmerman 2626 Braeburn Circle Ann Arbor, MI 48108-2604 313/971-6799 E-mail (preferred): ibic@sunsite.unc.edu 1. IBIC's purpose is to serve as an Internet clearinghouse for useful and interesting information about books. 2. IBIC operates a WorldWideWeb (WWW) server (URL http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/IBIC-homepage.html). The IBIC server can be accessed at no charge using free, public-domain software such as NCSA Mosaic or MacWeb. The best way to get Web access is to ask your local system administrator or a commercial Internet access provider such as America Online, Delphi, or Panix. 3. Server space for IBIC is provided courtesy of SunSITE, a joint project of Sun Microsystems and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. 4. IBIC provides the following services to readers, publishers, and booksellers: % IBIC maintains the most comprehensive "switchboard" of live links to book-related information resources available for free via the Internet. See below for a list of such resources. % IBIC builds Web "home pages" for publishers and booksellers. (For nice examples, go via IBIC to Tor Publishing and Moe's Books). These home pages enable publishers and booksellers to share information directly with the Internet community. IBIC announces the availability of new home pages to the "NCSA Mosaic What's New" page and comp.infosystems.www.users, the highly visible central clearinghouses for announcements of new Web information resources. The "What's New" page received 220,003 hits in May 1994 (personal communication, Alan Braverman, NCSA). Contact IBIC for a price quote and an estimated turn-around time. % IBIC reviews current and forthcoming books and posts the reviews to the IBIC Web server, as well as to selected Internet newsgroups such as rec.arts.books (estimated readership 190,000, according to the April 1994 Usenet Readership Survey posted to news.lists by Brian Reid of the DEC Network Systems Laboratory, Internet e-mail reid@decwrl.DEC.COM). 5. Internet resources available via IBIC: Table of Contents 1. Internet Resources Related to Books % Readers, Reviews and Responses % Publishers % Booksellers % Libraries % Online Books % Reference Shelf (including FAQs) 2. IBIC Electronic Publications % The IBIC Journal: Reviews of Current and Forthcoming Books % The Commonplace Book ================================ Readers, Reviews and Responses % selected Usenet newsgroups related to books % EInet Galaxy Reading page % alt.books.reviews archive maintained by sbrock@csn.org % Danny Yee's book reviews % Biblio Mailing List for Rare Books and Book Collectors % WEB online book reviews of Children's Books by Wendy E. Betts (web@armory.com) --Science Fiction and Fantasy % An excellent metaresource, with pointers to information about Authors, Bibliographies, Booksellers, Publishers, and Reviews and Criticism, as well as a variety of non-book-related SF information, is the Science Fiction Resource Guide maintained by Gareth.Rees@cl.cam.ac.uk. % MITSFS Library Pinkdex % The Lysator Science Fiction Archive % The Lysator Science Fiction Archive: Texts about Authors % The Lysator Science Fiction Archive: Texts about Books (Especially Reviews) % The Lysator Science Fiction Archive: Texts about Movies (Especially Reviews) % The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page Callahan's Place Info % Science-Fiction-Series-Guide: % Search the Science Fiction Series Guide sf-reviews: % Search science fiction reviews % Science Fiction Archive: Raymond's Reviews % Science Fiction Series Guide (gopher) Publishers MetaIndexes About Publishers % Library of Congress Information % Publishers' Catalogs and Electronic Bookstores % Library of Congress Services to Libraries and Publishers % Publishers' Catalogs Home Page % CMU list of Book Publishers and Retailers On-line . % Prepress/DTP Center Publishers' Home Pages % Tor SF and Fantasy % The Reference Press (business reference books) % Moon Publishing Booksellers % Catalogs from Moe's Books (Berkeley, CA) % The UCI Bookstore Roswell Electronic Computer Bookstore % Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc. (press RETURN after connecting) % Future Fantasy Bookstore , a bookstore of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. % The TitleBank Internet Catalog Libraries % Library of Congress (LC) Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library (MARVEL) % Research Library Group's Home Page Online Books % Downtown Anywhere 's Electronic Publications page % CERN Overview of Literature and Arts resources (including many nonbook resources) % Project Gutenberg Gutenberg Master Index % CMU Books Online page (maintained by spok@cs.cmu.edu) % CMU Books On-line, Listed by Title Books On-line, Listed by Author % The Online Archive of Electronic Texts (University of Virginia) % Georgetown Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text % U. Maryland Reading Room/Fiction Online Books FAQ of 6/1/93 % The Electronic Bookshelf Library Without Walls - at North Carolina State University % Virtual Library - at Univ. of California at Santa Barbara % Tarzan of the Apes (Project Gutenberg) Reference Shelf % On-line Reference Works % Webster's Dictionary % Looking for Words % The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing % Dictionnaire Anglo-Americain % Esperanto Yellow Pages (in Esperanto) % List of Libraries and Reference Works % The IBIC Journal: Reviews of Current and Forthcoming Books Journal n. A record of experiences, ideas, or reflections kept regularly for private use. I publish The IBIC Journal: Reviews of Current and Forthcoming Books as a way of documenting and organizing what I have read and why I read it. % The Commonplace Book (n.): an edited collection of striking passages noted in a single place for future reference. The idea of this experimental Commonplace Book home page is to test the concept of an Internet Commonplace Book built by and available to a wide variety of users.