> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:04:33 EDT > From: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: EJOURNALS AVAILABLE VIA USENET > > We just got Usenet and are feeling our way. Do you have a > listing to post (on PACS-L?) or know of a listing that you can forward > me to, of the ejournals available and under what names they are listed? > > Thank you. > > Bill Quimby > Manager of Library Automation > Kenyon College > > [log in to unmask] I don't have a list either of all the electronic journals that currently exist, nor of the subset that is currently available on Usenet. I would point out, however, that all the electronic journals with a readership of 200 or more are POTENTIALLY on Usenet, because all that is needed is an affirmative vote of about that many in order to establish a new Usenet group. This is how PSYCOLOQUY created its Usenet edition. The Listserv edition currently has about 2500 subscribers and redistribution lists, while the Usenet edition is estimated (by arbitron statistics) to have 15,000 or more readers. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about Usenet could reply either about how many refereed journals (and moderated scholarly discussion groups) there are on Usenet (and which they are). There are also at least three sets of lists available, one listing most or all of the Usenet groups (their availability varies from site to site), one listing all of the Listserv lists, and one listing most of the independent Email lists (see below). Finally, Michael Strangelove [log in to unmask] maintains a directory of electronic journals. Stevan Harnad Co-Editor, PSYCOLOQUY/sci.psychology.digest ------------------------------------------------- Some Lists of Lists Compiled by Marty Hoag ([log in to unmask]) Updated 08/22/91 There are several different lists of lists available: The "Interest Groups List of Lists" available from ftp.nisc.sri.com (also known as Interest-Groups or SIGLIST or Interest lists) The LISTSERV global list database (on BITNET/EARN/et al) The Usenet News news.lists "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists" A combined edited list available from Dartmouth College. There are also a couple mailing lists which can help you get started on the network or to help you find lists of interest: NETSCOUT NETSCOUT@VMTECMEX The BITnet/Internet scouts. Send e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the text SUB NETSCOUT yourfirstname yourlastname HELP-NET HELP-NET@TEMPLEVM BITNET/CREN/INTERNET Help Resource. Send e-mail to [log in to unmask] with the text SUB HELP-NET yourfirstname yourlastname Other sources like [log in to unmask] ([log in to unmask]) and NETMONTH (from BITLIB@YALEVM) publish announcements of new lists. To subscribe to NEW-LIST send mail to [log in to unmask] (or [log in to unmask]) with the body of the mail containing the command: SUB NEW-LIST yourfirstname yourlastname To subscribe to NETMONTH send mail to [log in to unmask] with the body of the mail containing the command: SUB NETMONTH yourfirstname yourlastname SRI NIC Maintained Interest-Groups List of Lists If you have access to the Internet via TCP/IP the Interest Groups List of lists is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22). FTP as user anonymous and CD to "netinfo" then GET interest-groups . The file is available as one large file at this time (over 500,000 characters). The SRI NIC list-of-lists is now available via electronic mail. Send a message to [log in to unmask] with the following line in the message body: Send netinfo/interest-groups ...and you should be returned the file in moderate sized pieces. Further information on the server itself is available with the command Send help BITNET LISTSERV Servers Global List of Public LISTSERV Lists On BITNET the LISTSERV servers keep a composite list of their lists online. To get a simple "one line per list" list of all lists (about 1600 lines at the moment) you can send [log in to unmask] mail with the command LIST GLOBAL in the TEXT or BODY of the mail. NOTE: LISTSERV wants the commands in the text of the mail and you can supply more than one - one per line. The Subject: field is NOT used for commands (you can put anything there). The global list can also be searched online. For details send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE . The global lists is called the "LISTS" database and is available at some of the major backbone LISTSERVs. Network Accessible Database Server We have also added the Internet Interest-Groups list in a format that can be searched (called the INTGROUP database). This is only available on the LISTSERV at NDSUVM1 (or VM1.NoDak.EDU). For example, to search of both these databases for lists on "bicycles" you would send the statements //DBlook JOB Echo=No Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * Select bicycle in lists index Select bicycle in intgroup index Select bicycle in new-list index in the text/body of the mail to [log in to unmask] or on BITNET just LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 . These statements would search the global LISTSERV list of lists ("in lists"), and the local copy of the SRI-NIC Interest Groups ("in intgroup"), and the archives of the "new-list" list ("in new-list"). Send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE for more information. Usenet NEWS Lists of Groups and Mailing Lists The Usenet News list of groups and mailing lists is available on hosts which run Usenet News or NETNEWS servers and/or clients in newsgroups news.announce.newusers and news.lists. The following files are also available via anonymous FTP from VM1.NoDak.EDU in the "BITINFO" directory. Once connected enter CD BITINFO . These may not be the most current versions of these files but may be more accessible to folks on NSFNET. Name on vm1.nodak.edu Source INTEREST.GROUPS Recent Interest-Groups from ftp.nisc.sri.com NETNEWS.MAILLIST Usenet News Mailing Lists from news.lists NETNEWS.GRPLIST Usenet Groups from news.lists NETNEWS.ALTERNAT Usenet Alternate Groups from news.lists Dartmouth Merged List Dartmouth maintains a merged list of the LISTSERV lists on Bitnet and the Interest Group lists on the Internet. It is a single file with one line for each mailing list. They provide a Macintosh Hypercard application that presents the list in a nice format. Other applications could easily be developed to provide a user interface to these data that is appropriate for a site's local situation. The files can be obtained by anonymous FTP from DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU <129.170.16.19> in directory SIGLISTS. They can also be obtained (except the large data stack) via Bitnet from LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 using the command SEND fn ft. To obtain a list of the files via LISTSERV send mail to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 ([log in to unmask]) with the command: INDEX SIGLISTS in the body of the mail. For more information contact David Avery, [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Z