_Current Cites_
Volume 7, no. 1
January 1996
The Library
University of California, Berkeley
Edited by Teri Andrews Rinne
ISSN: 1060-2356
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/1996/cc96.7.1.html
Contributors:
Campbell Crabtree, John Ober, Margaret Phillips,
David Rez, Richard Rinehart, Teri Rinne, Roy Tennant
Electronic Publishing
Hitchcock, Steve, Leslie Carr and Wendy Hall. "A Survey
of STM Online Journals 1990-95: The Calm Before the Storm"
http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/survey/survey.html
(January 1996) -- This survey lists over 100 peer-reviewed
online journals in the areas of science, technology and
medicine. The paper is really two resources wrapped into
one. The first part is a narrative illuminating the scope
and findings of the survey, the hurdles facing and
distinctive characteristics of the current electronic
journal and a glimpse into what is predicted to be a
bright future for electronic journals in the area of
science, technology and medicine. The second part is
a list of dynamic tables that include links to all
the journals included in the survey. -- DR
Sanderson, Pamela. "The Copyright Grab" WIRED 4(1)
(January 1996):135-138, 188-191. -- In a critical
look at the Clinton administration's white paper,
"Intellectual Property and National Information
Infrastructure," [
gopher://ntiant1.ntia.doc.gov:70/
00/papers/documents/files/ipnii.txt], Sanderson,
a visiting law professor at Cornell, warns that if
the legislative proposal is adopted, traditional
'fair use' rights historically authorized by the
Constitution, will be stripped away, replaced by a
controlling set of laws which give publishers full
copyright over every digital transmission. The paper
advocates making it illegal to circumvent copyright
management information and holds online providers
responsible for the infractions of their users. By
selectively interpreting existing law and hurrying
this proposal into law, Congress will deliver a
policy which could destroy online privacy and
emerging electronic information industries. Sanderson
suggests holding off the legislation until new markets
emerge and a complete interpretation of current law.
Included are addresses for the reader to get involved
in the white paper debate. -- CJC
Networks and Networking
AmRhein, Richard. "Internet Resources for Music"
College & Research Libraries News 56(11)
(December 1995): 760-763. -- This month, the C&RL
News Internet resources column focuses on music.
The author has chosen a representative sample of
discussion lists, e-journals, newsgroups and web
sites. Particularly useful is the list of the
many gateway systems that serve as indexes to
thousands of music sites on the Internet. -- MP
Infobahn: Magazine of Internet Culture [issn
1079-4069] [
http://www.postmodern.com/] -- While
it's easy to gloss over the recent explosion in
popular periodicals covering the Internet,
Infobahn deserves some consideration. This magazine
(December 1995 is the premiere issue) proposes
to avoid the "tech toy lists," best of Net lists,
and celebrity cameos that seem the stock of most
others. Infobahn, in its premiere issue offer an
intelligent discussion of "The Geopolitics of
Cyberspace," a study into how politicians are
beginning to use the new medium, and more. In the
spirit that Wired used to have, one can look here
for some provocative yet accessible commentary
on the effects of the digital age on modern
culture. -- RR
Junion-Metz, Gail. _K-12 Resources on the Internet:
An Instructional Guide_. Berkeley, California:
Library Solutions Press, 1996. ISBN:1-882208-14-5.
-- Library Solutions Press has published number 5
in its popular Internet Workshop Series, this one
focusing on K-12 resources. Like the other in the
series, this workbook serves a dual purpose as both
a self-paced guide for individual teachers and
librarians who want to learn about the Internet and
as a model training tool for those teaching the
Internet to their students. What makes this volume
particularly valuable is the chapter on "Making the
Internet Happen" which discusses how to get your
school connected to the Internet and the technological
and educational issues associated with this process.
(The PLUS version of this workbook, for people who
train groups of K-12 professionals, comes with
Windows and Macintosh diskettes of PowerPoint
presentation slides that can either be customized
to the instructor's own need or used as is.) -- MP
Koopman, Ann and Sharon Hay. "Large-scale Application
of a Web Browser" College and Research Libraries News
57(1) (January 1996): 12-15. -- Librarians at Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
recount their experiences building a multiplatform,
multimedia, integrated workstation using a World Wide
Web browser as an interface. Providing access to
multiple Internet sites, online catalogs, indexes/
abstracts, video resources, personal storage space and
communications, this new information system is the
primary tool through which most students are delivered
information. The authors describe the campus and
library environment and the development process for
establishing the library's information system. The long
list of lessons learned which includes such sage advice
as "design for long-term flexibility, assuming changes
in technology will be the norm" or "graphics are not
necessarily better than text" or "patron education was
and continues to be paramount" should prove to be
invaluable for any information professional participating
in similar projects at their own institutions. -- MP
McClements, Nancy and Cheryl Becker. "Writing Web Page
Standards" College & Research Libraries News 57(1)
(January 1996): 16-17. -- This is a short, practical
article that describes how the library at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison established content, design and
technical guidelines for the many units on its campus
creating Web pages. With the primary goal of encouraging
standardization, the guidelines
[
http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/tech/Web_standards.html]
are designed to be used by staff members with varying
levels of expertise. -- MP
Singleton, Andrew. "Wired on the Web" BYTE 21(1) (January
1996):77-80. -- Although masquerading as yet another Java
hype article, one soon remembers that this is BYTE. Here
you get to see an actual applet, as well hear about some
of the technical details lacking in many other articles on
the subject. Includes informative diagrams. -- RT
Stuart, Lynn M. and Dena Holiman Hutto. "Internet Resources
for Health Policy" College & Research Libraries News 57(1)
(January 1996): 19-22. -- This month's C&RL News feature on
Internet resources focuses on online sources in the health
sciences. The article provides a list of useful gateway
sites then lists the significant resources produced by each
of the following contributors to the U.S. health care policy:
government, academia, medical associations and the health
care industry. All of the sources listed are World Wide Web
sites. -- MP
"The Year of the Internet" Newsweek (December 25, 1995/
January 1, 1996) -- In this end of year special issue,
Newsweek proves the impact the Internet has had on news
organizations this year by devoting a sizeable chunk of
editorial real estate to discussing it. Besides profiling
their pick of the fifty people who "matter most" on the
Internet (it's debatable whether they picked the right
fifty, but certainly some earned their slot), they discuss
Wall Street's love affair with Internet stocks, profile
Netscape, and begin the whole thing with a piece entitled
"This Changes Everything". Hang on to your hats, as the
final sentence of the intro piece quotes John Barlow: "If
this year seemed like a big one for the Net, wait till
the next one. You ain't seen nothing yet." -- RT
Optical Disc Technology
Bennett, Hugh. "Hewlett-Packard 4020i SureStore CD-Writer:
CD-R for the Mainstream Buyer?" CD-ROM Professional 9(1)
(January 1996):78-92. -- Many industry pundits deem H-P's
CD-Writer 4020i as the Holy Grail for the CD-R industry:
a product so attractive, so inexpensive (only $1049), and
easy to use that it will be universally adopted as a
necessary peripheral for the desktop computer. Bennett
provides a lengthy and informative overview of this new
product, explaining how it "addresses and expands the needs
and desires of individuals, small- and medium-sized
business PC users, and hobbyists for an appropriate method
for file distribution, inexpensive archiving, personal
audio compact disc creation, and multimedia storage..."
-- TR
General
"Information Technology Security" National Institute
of Standards and Technology, Technology Administration
(August 1995) -- A short, concise and informative
pamphlet that serves as a wonderful reference for
defining, in detail, the jargon surrounding electronic
technology security. Included is a terrific list of
resources such as the Computer Security Resource
Clearinghouse:
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/. -- DR
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