EDline Bookmark subject index, Volume 3, issues 1 to 26 (January -- June 1998) Compiled by Sue Lightfoot, SLightfoot@compuserve.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.1 New 24-hour virtual library: < http://www.libraryspot.com > LibrarySpot is the information sweetspot of the best library and reference resources on the Web. Find top reference tools, periodicals, online texts, library information and insightful editorial in one high-utility, user-friendly spot. --- Brain Candy: < http://members.aol.com/WordPlays/words.html > Have fun with your brain. Some great & unusual collections: sarcastic insults by well known people, the dying words of famous people, stupid questions. Word play: malapropisms, funny definitions, occupational hazards, full-deckisms. Quotes, riddles, puns - hours of fun stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.2 the Society of Authors: < http://www.writers.org.uk/society/ > This is billed as "the leading association for writers of fiction and non-fiction in the United Kingdom", and their links page is well worth looking at - many useful reference resources are listed there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.3 On hunting for some medical abbreviations on the Web I have just come across a useful little utility I hadn't noticed before, downloadable from < http://www.ncemi.org/tla > It is a searchable database of medical acronyms and abbreviations (TLA =3-letter acronym), available in Win95 and 3.1 versions. You can edit the list and add entries either singly or by adding a .txt file. The list of abbreviations is held as a simple text file which is easy to edit anyway - but for one's own use only, according to the terms of the licence. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.4 "Scottish Writers" is at: < http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9172/scot.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.5 Web indexing An interesting announcement forwarded from the Visual Resources Association about a web indexing prize organized by the Australian Society of Indexers. Many readers might be interested in examining the websites organized by the winners. > Christobel Wescombe, Fisher Library, University of Sydney > Faculty of Education Internet Guide > < http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/Guides/Education > > Ann Treacy, MRNet, Minneapolis, USA > An index for Minnesota web sites > < http://www.mnonline.org/uffda > > Graham Greenleaf, Geoffrey King, Daniel Austin, AustLII, UTS and UNSW > Faculties of Law, Sydney > AustLII's World Law Index (including Project DIAL) > < http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/World/ > > Full details on all entries are available at: > < http://www.zeta.org.au/~aussi/web97winners.html > > It was a very hard choice between high powered Web database engines > and handcrafted annotated guides. There were some very good online > book indexes, some very good site indexes and several database indexes > such as for genealogy, computer crime and the FBI exceptional cases. > The breadth included Transformer fanfic (fan written fiction), Western > Australian aboriginal language handbooks, North Queensland special > catalogue subheadings. There were sites on Australian current affairs > with links to online newspapers, state library collations of links > related to their state and recreational networks of outlets for the > disabled. --- Crown Copyright in the Information Age: UK Government Consultation Paper This is likely to be of great interest to anyone using/wishing to use digital information produced by government agencies in the UK. A Green Paper entitled "Crown Copyright in the Information Age: A consultation document on access to public sector information ", Cm 3819, was released on 19 January 1998. The paper discusses Crown Copyright in the context of discussions on Freedom of Information and the growth of electronic information industries and invites responses. It can be viewed at: < http://www.hmso.gov.uk/document/cfuture.htm > --- Electronic citations: It seems that the electronic citation Web site has been updated. I saw the following announcement recently. > Nancy Crane and Xia Li, who published *Electronic Style: a guide to > citing electronic information* in 1993, maintain a website offering > their versions of MLA and APA style for electronic citations. Their > APA rules reside at > < http://www.uvm.edu/~ncrane/estyles/apa.html > > Neither is officially approved by the organizations in question, > though the MLA has just recently made available guidelines that > incorporate a good deal of what Crane and Li proposed. --- MLA Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions: < http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html > --- E-mail Publishing Resource Centre: < http://www.emailpub.com/resource > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.6 MLA electronic citation style The new Web site from the Modern Language Association now includes updated information on MLA style. The site summarizes how to cite sources from the World Wide Web. This information will appear in the forthcoming edition of the _Style Manual_ (pub. date April 1998) but is currently not available anywhere else. (The _Style Manual_ will go into the subject of Internet sources in greater detail than the Web page.) The page also answers some frequently asked questions about MLA style. The pages are the only MLA-authorized Web site on MLA style. < http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm > --- New integrated dictionary-thesaurus available on the WWW: the Wordsmyth English dictionary-thesaurus at < http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt > A full dictionary and thesaurus look-up services on the Web, with over 100,000 entries and 50,000 headwords. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.8 Book search engine: The only suggestion I'd like to mention is a link to a web search engine which I have become aware of recently. It's a book search engine located at < http://www.acses.com > which searchs not only for books, but also for their prices at various internet bookstores. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.9 Searching for an out-of-print book? Try: < http://www.bibliofind.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.10 "Studies in Bibliography" on-line The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is pleased to announce a major new website for literary study, textual scholarship, and bibliographical analysis, which can be accessed on the Internet at < http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/ > In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Bibliographical Society has made freely available in electronic form the first forty-nine volumes of its flagship journal, "Studies in Bibliography", a premier publication of bibliographical studies worldwide. Users may search the entire contents of all the volumes published 1948-1996. --- The place many booksellers use and has links to most book-related pages (excuse the pun) on the Web. < http://www2.gol.com/users/steve/f_books1.htm > --- Here's a useful service: EARLweb ('Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries'). They call themselves 'your ready reference to key information resources on the Internet ... the essential practical resource for public libraries in the UK'. I managed to search Westminster City Library's Catalogue of Orchestral Sets for Hire; there appear to be lots of public libraries on there. < http://www.earl.org.uk/earlweb/index.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.11 The John Rylands University Library of Manchester: A web site listing Internet resources for Middle Eastern Studies, with links to a large number of sites concerned with the history, politics, religions, languages and literatures of the region: < http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/ir/info/mestudie.html > The library's home page gives access to its other electronic resources and databases: < http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/index.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.12 Journal of Electronic Publishing: latest issue The March 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" is now available for your reading enjoyment. < http://www.press.umich.edu/jep > This issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" is devoted to the Second Annual Faxon Colloquium on Scholarly Publishing, held in January, which focused on electronic publishing and its effect on scholarship. --- History of the Irish book project The History of the Irish Book Project is a major undertaking in Irish research and scholarship being undertaken jointly by the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast and at the Centre for Irish Literature and Bibliography at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. This involves research towards a five-volume History of the Irish Book to be published by Oxford University Press, jointly edited by the project leaders, Robert Welch and Brian Walker. < http://www2.ulst.ac.uk/faculty/humanities/lang+lit/iasail/histbook.htm > --- The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE: < http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/ > "where we build digital collections and services while providing information and support to others doing the same." --- Text and Academic Authors site (was: Textbook Authors Association): < http://www.winonanet.com/taa > A wealth of information of use to authors and editors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.13 Inkspot A site with guidelines for writers and an associated newsletter. A lot of resources for writers. < http://www.inkspot.com/index.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.15 The British Library Early Printed Collections New Web pages for Early Printed Collections in the British Library are available at: < http://www.bl.uk/collections/epc/ > Also avaliable are catalogues in the following areas: Incunabula British Printed Collections, 1501-1800 English Short Title Catalogue British Printed Collections, 1801-1914 Dutch Printed Collections, 1501-1850 French Printed Collections, 1501-1850 German Printed Collections, 1501-1850 Hispanic Printed Collections, 1501-1850 Italian Printed Collections, 1501-1850 Scandinavian Printed Collections, 1501-1850 Bindings and Decorated Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.16 The last book According to the "New York Times", the Media Laboratory at MIT is attempting to create a portable computer "that will closely resemble a book, complete with leather binding. It will contain the text of thousands of books." This article by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt is available online: < http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/040898book.html > --- The new Oxford Text Archive site The Oxford Text Archive is launching a state-of-the-art web service later in the year, reflecting our new status as a Service Provider for the UK's national Arts and Humanities Data Service. < http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ > Features of the new OTA site include: - an online catalogue of all our texts, whether online or offline - a facility to create a corpus of texts - a download facility for TEI encoded texts that allows you to choose from a variety of different formats - online tools to help you preparing your texts in SGML - a listing of future events, as well as papers from previous workshops and conferences. - a FAQ, based on the OTA's 22 years of operation. - a search tool and site map to help you find your way around the site - an SGML software repository - "Guides to Good Practice" on the creation and documentation of electronic texts (in preparation) --- Society for Scholarly Publishing: < http://www.edoc.com/ssp/AnnualMeetingF.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.17 _The Bookseller_: < http://www.theBookseller.com > --- _Publishers Weekly_: < http://www.publishersweekly.com > --- An issue or two back, someone posted this URL for access to a trial run version of an online-accessible OED (http://www.oed.com/oetc.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.18 Macrex indexing software: Includes a working demonstration version < http://www.macrex.cix.co.uk/ > --- Dan A. Wilson wrote: > An issue or two back, someone posted this URL for access to a trial > run version of an online-accessible OED (http://www.oed.com/oetc.html) I think I posted the original mention in October last year. I've just checked, and yes, the oetc.html page has been 404ed (geek-speak for 'removed'), but the proto.oed.com URL mentioned leads to exactly the same material (as far as I can tell). The URL is the OED homepage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.19 Quotes pages: These may be of use sometime to someone: < http://www.intranct.on.ca/~altaz/misquo.htm > < http://www.ncns.com/predict.html > [Predictions] < http://lwg2.res.lehigh.edu/quotes.html > [Quotes] < http://www.tac.nyc.ny.us/~kim/junk/future.html > [Views on the future] < http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2/funpage/last_words.html > [If they only knew] < http://byrdd.home.mindspring.com/fun/quotes.htm > [Open mouth, insert foot] < http://www.columbia.edu/~jhr18/humor/wet_blankets_history.html > [Wet blankets throughout history] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.20 Poetry Web sites Jonathan Els asked: > Are there any sites on the Internet ... that feature good poetry > or short stories by ordinary people, or by people who are not > famous? I found these: Electronic Poetry Center (State University of New York at Buffalo) < http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ > Includes some online poetry, as well as info. about books etc. --- Aha! Poetry < http://www.faximum.com/aha.d/homepage.htm > Online poetry, post your own poems, competition, learn about poetry forms such as cinquain, ghazal, haiku etc., poetry magazine --- Homepage of the Oxford Poetry magazine, including subscription details: < http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/oxpoetry/index.html > --- Information about the Eric Gregory awards (for young poets who show outstanding talents) < http://www.writers.org.uk/society/greg97.htm > Information about three recent Eric Gregory award winners (and how to buy their book): < http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/sing/index.html > --- Surveying contemporary English usage website Just to say that the website for the Langscape project is now fully functional, with three questionnaires to be examined and returned. Please let the members of EDline know that they're welcome to visit: < http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/langques > --- Australian societies of editors on the Web: < http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/bangsund/soceds-a.htm > to include the Canberra Society of Editors' Web site: < http://www.editors.dynamite.com.au > Today I have updated the page again, to include under Society of Editors (Queensland): "Web site: temporarily at < http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/bangsund/qed_home.htm > --- OCLC FirstSearch: < http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/fseco/publish.htm > This site is terrifically useful if your editing - like mine - involves completing the jigsaw that is the average reference list. It has, among other things, an alphabetical list of journals, together with something that has been my holy grail for some time now - their publishers. So, when an author has supplied a journal title but not some other essential information, such as volume number, you at least know which publisher's site might be able to supply the missing details (bearing in mind that most journal publishers include searchable tables of contents on their web sites). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.21 Canberra Society of Editors now has an on-line presence at: < http://www.editors.dynamite.com.au/ > --- Strunk's "Elements of Style" on the Net: [original edition] < http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/ > --- Something to help while away the hours online: an anagram creation program. < http://www.genius2000.com/anagram.html > As the Guardian says, it is "the product of hours of intensive programming, ... the epitome of cleverly designed software that serves no useful purpose whatsoever." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.22 Poetry Web sites Poetry web sites: A plethora abounds! I'll suggest two for their interactivity and plentiful linkage. "The image pool" at < http://www.circle-r.com/kmp/poetry/poetry.html > and "The Porcupine's Quill" at < http://www.sentex.net~pql/ > Of course don't miss the grandaddy of all literay sites ... the massive "The English Server" from Carnegie-Mellon University. --- Litpage: < http://members.aol.com/litpage/litpage.html > A new and growing resource for students, teachers, writers and readers of literature. It emphasizes practical information. --- The Leiden Centre for the Book: < http://www.leidenuniv.nl:8001/etcl/bw/angel.htm > The site has an extensive page with links to book-related sources on the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.23 Latest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing The June 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" is now available for your reading enjoyment. < http://www.press.umich.edu/jep > Reflections on the Revolution: Moving from Print to Electronic Publishing --- My "Australian Societies of Editors" page < http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/bangsund/soceds-a.htm > has been updated to note the formation of the Society of Editors (Northern Territory). --- Australian editors' e-mail addresses: Matthew Stevens invited me to take over his "List of Australian Editors' E-mail Addresses", which I did earlier this week. You can see it at: < http://www.pipeline.com.au/users/bangsund/eds-az.htm > --- Internet research tips: < http://www.coppersky.com/ongir/news/index.html > --- World Cup 98 sites Hewlett-Packard has a World Cup site at: < http://www.hp.com/WorldCup98/home.html > France's World Cup Football site is in English and French: < http://www.france98.com/ > Snickers has quite a bit of World Cup stuff on their webpage ... various international sites linked here: < http://www.snickers.com/index.html > Other sites: < http://www.wldcup.com/ > < http://www.98worldcupsoccer.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.24 Online bookstores The best overall guide to online Bookstores that I know is that at Oxford: < http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/bookstores.html > and I might add that personally I am very happy with Blackwells, which I always access through their 'Tour of the Oxford Bookshop': < http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bookshops/oxtour/oxtour.html > They offer the mailing option know as Accelerated Surface Mail which brings books to Korea almost as quickly as Airmail at almost the cost of Surface mail (otherwise we have to wait 3 months). Another possibility is the quickly growing Internet Bookshop. Or any of the innumerable others in the Oxford list, for which we are extremely grateful, be it said ... --- Book Arts Web < http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/ > Peter Verheyen, Conservation Librarian at Syracuse University, has put together this gateway to book arts related web sites. ... Included are several listservs with searchable archives, specialized bibliographies and links to a variety of arts organizations. --- Jesse's word of the day: < http://www.randomhouse.com/jesse/ > Visit the most popular language site on the Internet and win fantastic prizes when you play Jesse's Lexicon Madness! At Jesse's Word of the Day, language expert Jesse Sheidlower offers witty and informative answers to the most interesting real-life language questions posed by visitors to his site. What are the origins of phrases like "bated breath" and "skin of the teeth"? "Yada-yada-yada" predates Seinfeld, but where does it come from? How about "canoodle" or "gung ho"? Jesse's Word of the Day answers the language questions you've always pondered, and some you haven't even thought to ask! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.25 The Professional Writing SuperSite A new, free web site devoted to the needs of professional writers < http://www.bookdoctor.com/supersite.html > Over 200 free writing tools, tips, and tricks of the writing trade. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Issue: 3.26 Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, version 19 Version 19 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: < http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html > Acrobat: < http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf > Word: < http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc > The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. Each file is over 190 KB. Table of Contents (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author --- The Writers' Pen A new Web site providing Web resources for the published and unpublished writer. A free email newsletter is available also. < http://members.xoom.com/WritersPen/index.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- With thanks to the following for their URL contributions: Charles Bailey, Jr John Bangsund Neil Beagrie Iain Brown Virginia Catmur Bob Evans David Green Richard Harris Mike Heenan Jodie Jane Kerr Ian Kingston Petra Kopp Patrick Leary Kathleen Lyle Pam Peters Laura Pomeroy David Seaman Christine Shuttleworth An Sonjae (Br Anthony) Judith Turner Judith Willson Dan Wilson Maureen Wright