Copyright 1996 by Diane K. Kovacs and The Directory
Team. [log in to unmask]
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10th Revision Directory of Scholarly and Professional
E-Conferences (Previously titled: 10th Revision
Directory of Scholarly E-Conferences
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Contents:
1. Fair Use Guidelines
2. Scope of the Directory
3. The Directory Team
4. Acknowledgements
5. How to Access or Retrieve the Directory of
Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences.
6. Generic Subscription Instructions
7. Generic Archives Access Instructions
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1. Fair Use Guidelines
Single copies of this directory from its
networked sources, or of specific entries from their
networked sources, may be made for internal purposes,
personal use, or study by an individual, an individual
library, or an educational or research institution.
The Association of Research Libraries has sole right
to produce a print edition. The directory or its
contents may not be otherwise reproduced or
republished in excerpt or entirety, in print or
electronic form, without permission from Diane K.
Kovacs [log in to unmask]
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2. Scope of the Directory
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This directory contains descriptions of electronic
conferences (e-conferences) on topics of interest to
scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly,
pedagological and professional activities.
E-conference is the umbrella term that includes
discussion lists, Internet interest groups,
, Usenet newsgroups, forums,etc. Since the 9th
revision we have begun including text based virtual
reality systems known as MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes,
etc. that are primarily for scholarly, pedagogical or
professional activities.
The e-conferences in this Directory are all accessible
via Internet services including email, Usenet News
Readers, telnet, gopher, or www.
We have used our own judgment in deciding what is of
scholarly, pedagological or professional interest, but
always consider any advice or argument about our
decisions. We have placed the entries into categories
by deciding the *dominant* academic subject area of
the electronic conference.
Where possible, the information in each record has
been checked for currency and accuracy by contacting
the moderators or other contact person.
We chose the term *moderator* as the umbrella term to
describe: contact person, coordinator, listowner,
editor, moderator, etc.; in other words the Human in
Charge.
Topic descriptions are taken in whole or part from the
descriptions provided by each moderator.
The basic fields are described as follows:
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Discussion Name: The name of the group; the listname
Topic: short description of the group; usually in the
listowner's words
Subscription Address: this is the address to send your
subscription and signoff messages to
Moderated? Does some human screen messages either by
editing or by monitoring?; Is the list set to private.
Archives: Are there archives? Where?
Contact Address: The moderator; who to contact if you
have questions
Submission Address: Where to send your contributions
to the group's discussion
Keywords: words to enhance retrieval of an entry in
search systems
VR: The version and cutoff date for entries in this
version.
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3. The Directory Team:
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Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief [log in to unmask]
*Education
*Biological and Medical Sciences
*Jobs, Employment, Placement Services and Programs
*Computer Science
*Physical Sciences *
Leela Balraj [log in to unmask]
*History
*Law, Criminology, Justice
*Political Science and Politics
*Business
*Economics
*Human Resources and Industrial Psychology
Gladys Bell [log in to unmask]
*Anthropology and Archaeology
*Geography and Misc.Regional and Individual Country
Studies
*Latin American Studies
*Social Activism
*Sociology and Demography
*Gender and Women's Studies
Paul Fehrmann [log in to unmask]
*Philosophy and Ethics
*Psychology
Martha Fleming [log in to unmask]
*Communication Studies
*Journalism
*Religious Studies
Lydia Gamble [log in to unmask]
*Humanities (Comparative & Interdisciplinary)
*Languages
*Linguistics and Text Analysis
*Literature
*Writing
Kara Robinson [log in to unmask]
*Art, Architecture and Urban Design
*Library and Information Science
*Music
*Physical Education Recreation and Dance
*Popular Culture
*Publishing and Related Issues
*Theater, Film and Television
Dennis Viehland [log in to unmask]
*Information Systems
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4. Acknowledgements
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Thank you to Marty Hoag, Listowner of New-List for
providing the archives of New-List as a clearing house
for much of the email based discussion list
information. Special thank you to David Hartland.
NISP/Mailbase Project, Computing Service, The
University, Newcastle upon Tyne for information on 235
of the United Kingdom MAILBASE e-conferences. Thank
you also to Teri Harrison for updating and providing
information on the COMSERVE conferences, Pedro Saizar
for providing information on Latin American Studies
electronic conferences, Joseph Van Zwaren for Israeli
electronic conference information, and Joan Korenman
for information on Women's Studies conferences, Jean
Schneider for confirming european e-conferences.
Thank you very sincerely to all the individuals who
contributed conference names, information and feedback
about conference statuses. Any errors are the
responsibility of the compilers of each section. If
you can provide corrections or additional information
about any of these electronic conferences, please
contact the Directory Team member responsible for that
area or:
Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief - [log in to unmask]
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5. How to access or retrieve the Directory of
Scholarly E-Conferences
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An annual print version is published by the
Association of Research Libraries. Contact Ann
Okerson [log in to unmask] for information.
WWW Homepage:
MIDNet Site
http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS
Contact: Paul Kramer [log in to unmask]
Gopher access:
University of Saskatchewan
Contact: Earl Fogel [log in to unmask]
gopher://gopher.usask.ca/1/Computing/Internet
Information/Directory of Scholarly Electronic
Conferences
E-mail:
How to retrieve files from the [log in to unmask]
1. Send an email message addressed to [log in to unmask]
2. Leave the subject and other info lines blank.
3. The message must read:
GET Filename Filetype
(e.g., ACADLIST FILE1 or ACADSTAC HQX or whatever)
4. If you need assistance receiving, etc. contact your
local Computer Services people
Files Available
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ACADLIST.ACTIVIST=Social Activism
ACADLIST.ANTHRO =Anthropology, Cross Cultural
Studies, and Archaeology
ACADLIST.ART =Art, Architecture and Urban Design
ACADLIST.ASTRONOM=Astronomy
ACADLIST.BIOLOGY =Genetics, General Biology/Biophysics
/Biochemistry
ACADLIST.BOTANY =Botany/Horticulture
ACADLIST.BUSECON =Business, Accounting, Finance, and
Marketing and =Economics
=Human Resources and Industrial
Psychology
ACADLIST.CHEMIST =Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and
Materials Research
ACADLIST.COMMJOUR=Communication and =Journalism
ACADLIST.COMPENG =Computer Engineering, Software
Engineering
ACADLIST.COMPSEC =Computer Security
ACADLIST.COMPRES =Computer Science Research:
Artificial Intelligence, Expert
Systems, Virtual Reality
=Computer Science Research: Computer
Standards (Official and De Facto)
=Computer Science Research: General
Academic
ACADLIST.COMPSYS =Computer Systems: Network
Administration
=Computer Systems: System
Administration
=Computer Systems: Training and User
Support
ACADLIST.COMPMISC=Miscellaneous Computer-Related
=Public Domain and Publically
Supported Software
ACADLIST.COMPPRGM=Programming Languages and
Programming
ACADLIST.COMPSOC =Social, Cultural and Political
Aspects of Computing
ACADLIST.EDUC =Education: Computer Assisted
Instruction/Educational Technology
=Education: Educational Research
(general), Grants and Funding
=Education: Higher, Adult and
Continuing Education
=Education: Primary, Secondary
(K-12), Vocational and Technical
=Education: Miscellaneous Education,
Alumni and Student Groups
=Education: Special Education,
Developmental Disabilities, Physical
Disabilities and ADA (Americans with
Disabilities Act)
ACADLIST.ENGINEER=Engineering and Technology General
and =Transporation Engineering
ACADLIST.FUTURE =Futurology/Future Studies
ACADLIST.ENVIRON =Ecology and Environmental Studies
ACADLIST.GEOGRAPH=Geography and Miscellaneous Regional
and Individual Country Studies
ACADLIST.GEOLOGY =Geology and Paleontology
ACADLIST.HISTORY =History
ACADLIST.HUMGEN =Humanities (Comparative &
Interdisciplinary)
ACADLIST.INFORETR=Information Retrieval
ACADLIST.INFOSYS =Information Systems
ACADLIST.INTERNET=Internet Tools and Resources
ACADLIST.JOBS =Jobs, Employment, Placement Services
and Programs
ACADLIST.LANG =Languages
ACADLIST.LATAM =Latin American Studies
ACADLIST.LAW =Law, Criminology, Justice
ACADLIST.LIBRARY =Library and Information Science
ACADLIST.LING =Linguistics and Text Analysis
ACADLIST.LIT =Literature
=Writing
ACADLIST.MATH =Mathematics and Statistics
ACADLIST.MEDICAL =Medical Practice/Nursing/Medical
Personnel/Patients and
=Medical Sciences/Research
ACADLIST.METEOR =Weather and Meteorology
ACADLIST.MIL =Military Science
ACADLIST.MUSIC =Music
ACADLIST.PERD =Physical Education, Recreation and
Dance
ACADLIST.PHILOS =Philosophy and Ethics
ACADLIST.PHYSICS =Physics
ACADLIST.POLITICS=Political Science and Politics
ACADLIST.POPULAR =Theater, Film and Television and
=Popular Culture
ACADLIST.PSYCH =Psychology and Psychiatry
ACADLIST.PUBLISH =Publishing and Related Issues
ACADLIST.RELIG =Religious Studies
ACADLIST.SCIENCE =Science and Technology
(Miscellaneous)
ACADLIST.SOCIOLOG=Sociology and Demography
ACADLIST.VETZOO =Agriculture, Veterinary Science and
Zoology
ACADLIST.WOMEN =Women's Studies/Gender Studies
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6. Generic Subscription Instructions:
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LISTSERV, COMSERVE, LISTPROC, MAILBASE, MAILSERV
To subscribe to a LISTSERV (both Unix and IBM/VM LSOFT
LISTSERV software is in use) COMSERVE, LISTPROC,
MAILBASE, or MAILSERV,email distributed e-
conference send an email message addressed to the
email address provided in the "Subscription Address"
field. Leave the subject line blank. The text of the
message *must* read:
SUBSCRIBE LISTNAME Yourfirstname Yourlastname Your
Institution
(LISTNAME means the name of the list..e.g. if the List
Name field says LIBREF-L..the LISTNAME is LIBREF-L)
Do not include any other text and *leave the subject
line blank* as this is being read by a computer
program and not a person....the program just won't
understand and will bounce back your command if it is
not worded as specified above.
-REQUEST Addresses
To subscribe to e-conferences with a -REQUEST address,
send an email message to list-REQUEST@host (e.g., SOC-
[log in to unmask]). Use the same basic
directions as with the Listserv software. The
-REQUEST address gets you to the Coordinator, rather
than to the membership of the entire e-conference.
Please look carefully at the entry for each list you
are interested in, to see if a -REQUEST address has
been provided. Include your name, address, and
institutional affiliation in your message
USENET NEWSGROUPS
Usenet Newsgroups are generally accessed by typing
"RN" or "NN" at the shell prompt, ready screen or $
prompt on your email account. Check with your
Computer Services People to find out what the local
availability and procedures are for access to Usenet
Newsgroups.
MAJORDOMO
Send email to the majordomo@site address. The text of
the message should be:
subscribe listname youremailaddress
Subscription directions for other types of discussions
are included with individual entries.
See also a fine publication titled: "Discussion Lists: Mail
List Manager Commands" by James Milles
Saint Louis University Law Library
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7. Archives Access
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Archives are available for many discussions. On
LISTSERV, COMSERVE, MAILSERV and MAILBASE to receive a
list of files available from a server send the
command:
INDEX LISTNAME to SERVER@NODEID
You can then send the message:
GET Filename Filetype to the [log in to unmask]
(SERVER means LISTSERV or COMSERVE or MAILBASE or
MAILSERV or whatever, NODEID means the site of the
server which runs the e-conference)
It is also possible to search Bitnet LISTSERV and
COMSERVE
discussion archives for items of particular interest
to you. For details on archives searching:
For LISTSERV send the message
INFO DATABASE
to a LISTSERV of your choice. (e.g. LISTSERV@PSUVM)
For COMSERVE send the message
HELPFILE
to [log in to unmask]
Some discussions maintain archives available via
anonymous FTP. This is noted where available. Some
archives are maintained on other types of Internet
server, e.g. GOPHER and WWW. Use the URL provided to
connect to those archive sites.
When in doubt use the Contact Address.
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Copyright 1996 by Diane K. Kovacs and The Directory
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Kovacs Consulting | fax: (330)225-0083
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Author, _The Internet Trainer's Guide_ Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1995.
Editor-in-Chief, _Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences_
The 10th Rev. Directory is available http://www.n2h2.com/KOVACS or
gopher://gopher.usask.ca/1/Computing/Internet Information/Directory of
Scholarly Electronic Conferences
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