pipex Archive-name: internet/literary-resources **************************************************************** A GUIDE TO LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET **************************************************************** A current version of this posting is available: - by e-mail to with message in body: literary-resources - http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu:80/text/faq/usenet/internet/ literary-resources/faq.html Copyright (C) 1994 by Wolfgang Hink. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted for noncommercial use by electronic bulletin board/conference systems, individuals and libraries as long as this header remains intact. All commercial use requires the permission of the author. Please send corrections, additions, and comments to: Wolfgang Hink . Dr. Wolfgang Hink Muthesiusstrasse 34 12163 Berlin Germany New lines are marked with the character #. **************************************************************** Contents of this guide # 0. Introduction 1. Newsgroups 2. FAQs and other Frequent Postings 3. Mailing Lists 4. Books Online 5. Electronic Journals 6. Zines 7. Libraries Online 8. Reference 9. Book Shopping 10. Resources for Writers 11. WAIS Sources 12. World Wide Web 13. Credits --------------------------------------------------------------- #0.Introduction I have been working in the field of literature since years now and its getting more and more fascinating for me to use the benefits of Internet. But it's also hard to travel through all the vast resources on your own, having to find a mailing list about a certain author, a special FAQ or to find out what books are available online. As far as I see this is the first comprehensive guide to literary resources on the Internet. I didn`t find any book or electronic guide yet which covers the field as a whole. Please let me know if I`m wrong. As there are already lots of these resources I can`t explain all of them in detail, I can`t even mention them all. But I will try at least to point at the most important pointers. If you are looking for something special you should be able to find it with their help. Many sources are still missing in this guide. Just drop me a note what you are missing most and I`ll see if I can put it into the next version. As long as *you* send in updates, improvements, and comments this list will be updated and maintained. As URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are becoming kind of standard now I will also use them for pointing at Internet resources. A URL specifies the location of an object on the Internet, using the three main parts of information that must be used in order to access any given object. The first part of the URL, before the colon, specifies the access method. The second part, after the colon, is interpreted specific to the access method. In general, two slashes after the colon indicate a machine name. Third and finally, there's the full pathname to the object. URLs are an attempt to provide a consistent way to reference objects on the Internet. Examples of URLs: ftp://ucselx.sdsu.edu/pub/doc/general/acronyms.txt gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk:70/11/lib-corn/hunter http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/wessler/dict # Please note: URLs for files on Gopher servers often don't work # well, as gopher allows spaces and other characters which URLs # don't accept. This means you can't use these URLs for pasting # into your Web or Gopher client. In these cases you should move # manually through the directories with your Gopher or Web client. 1. NEWSGROUPS (Usenet and Bitnet) "Callahan`s Saloon" creating a fantasy story on the fly" (according to their FAQ) L. Chalker topics bit.lang.neder-l: Dutch Language and Literature List bit.listserv-gutnberg-l: Project Gutenberg bit.listserv-literary: Literature bit.listserv-rra-l: "Romance Readers Anonymous" bit.listserv.words-1: The English language de.etc.sprache.deutsch: German language (in German) k12.lang.art: Language arts 2. FAQS AND OTHER FREQUENT POSTINGS This list was compiled mostly from a Master List of Periodic Informational Postings (from ). There are dozens of FAQs and other frequent postings which cover literary themes. Here`s how and where to get them: a) Many FAQs deal with questions and answers from a special newsgroup and are regularly posted to this group and to these groups and wait for the posting. b) Anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu Here you will find the FAQ under its >Archive-name< (see the entries below). Other archive sites are: Europe: ftp://uni-paderborn.de/pub/FAQ/ c) Send email to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with in the body of the message. d) If the >Archive-name< is missing you have two more chances left: post a message to one of the newsgroups and ask for the FAQ or send e-mail to the author. Archive-name: books/reviews-faq Archive-name: cyberpunk-faq Archive-name: douglas-adams-FAQ Archive-name: sf/dune-faq Archive-name: pern-intro/part1 [-2] Archive-name: books/piers-anthony-faq Archive-name: pratchett/faq Archive-name: pratchett-mini-faq Archive-name: folklore/ghost-stories Archive-name: history/what-if Archive-name: quotations/part1 Archive-name: alt-usage-english-faq Alternate History Stories Archive-name: sf/alt_history/part1 [-8] Anne Rice FAQ Archive-name: books/anne-rice-faq Arthurian Booklist Archive-name: books/arthurian Basement Full of Books Archive-name: books/basement-full-of-books Archive-name: books/catalogues Books by Mail (FAQ) Archive-name: books/ship-by-mail Bookstores in Eastern North American Cities (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/north-american/eastern Bookstores in New York City (NYC) List (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/north-american/nyc Bookstores in Northern North American Cities (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/north-american/northern Bookstores in San Diego [Where to buy/sell books in San Diego] la.forsale, relcom.fido.su.books Bookstores in San Francisco Bay Area (SF) List (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/north-american/bay-area Bookstores in Various Asian Cities List (FAQ) úÿ úÿ(Continued from last message) Archive-name: books/stores/asian Bookstores in Various European Cities List (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/european Bookstores in Western North American Cities (FAQ) Archive-name: books/stores/north-american/western Classical Studies FAQ Archive-name: classics-faq Classics FTP, Gopher, WWW, etc. Sites Grading Guide (To Preserve and Protect Comics) Grading Guide (Grading Comics) Holmes Booklist (FAQ) Archive-name: books/holmes/list Holmes Illustrated [Sherlock Holmes Illustrated] Archive-name: books/holmes/illustrated Internet Mall: Shopping the Information Highway Archive-Name: internet-services/internet-mall Internet Top 100 SF List FAQ Internet Writer Resource Guide Archive-name: writing/resources Isaac Asimov FAQ Archive-name: books/isaac-asimov-faq/part1 [-2] Journalism Resources on the Internet Archive-name: journalism-net-resources Joyce FAQ LNH: Authors List Media List Archive-name: books/technical Archive-name: writing/FAQ Archive-name: writing/bibliography Murder Mysteries set in Ancient Rome (Booklist) Nautical Fiction List [2 parts] Online Book Publisher List Online Books FAQ Online Bookstores List Project Gutenberg List of Etext (1/*) Project Gutenberg List of Etext (2/*) Pynchon FAQ R.A.B. BOOKSTORES LIST: CAMBRIDGE/BOSTON Archive-name: books/faq Archive-name: comics/faq/part1 [-7] Archive-name: disney-faq/disney Rec.arts.sf groups, an introduction Archive-name: sf/groups-intro Archive-name: sf/reviews-faq Archive-name: sf/written-intro Archive-name: sf/robert-jordan-faq Archive-name: theatre/part1 [-3] Robin Hood Booklist Archive-name: books/robin-hood SF-references-in-music List Archive-name: music/sci-fi-refs Shakespeare in Star Trek Star Trek Book Guide Author: Arnold E. van Beverhoudt, Jr. <71777.2365@compuserve.com>. Archive-name: star-trek/CS-guide/books/part1 [-2] Star Trek: Bibliography of ST articles/books Superman FAQ Archive-name: superman-faq Terry Pratchett Bibliography Archive-name: pratchett/bibliography Titles of Comics Collections Archive-name: comics/collections Tolkien: Frequently Asked Questions Archive-name: tolkien/faq/part1 [-2] Tolkien: Less Frequently Asked Questions Archive-name: tolkien/lessfaq/part1 Zines on the Internet Archive-name: writing/zines/part1 [-5] 3. MAILING LISTS # The number of mailing lists (also called electronic conferences) # is growing day by day. At the end of 1994 there were more than # 5000 lists, more than 100 of them devoted to literature or # literary subjects. # It's now getting impossible - at least for me - to list them all # in this guide and to tell you all the details about each of them. # Too much changes are taking place every day and I haven't got # time enough to keep up with them. Instead I will list the most # important resources for finding a certain mailing list. # (Though - in my opinion - you will need only one resource: the # excellent >Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences<, which # comes already subject-oriented.) # Please note: you don't have to retrieve the large lists-of-lists, # most of them are searchable online (See SEARCHING FOR A LIST # ONLINE) # a) DIRECTORY OF SCHOLARY ELECTRONIC CONFERENCES # This excellent and famous directory comes from the Kent State # University Libraries Ohio (Thanks to Diane K. Kovacs and The # Directory Team) and describes mailing lists about scholarly # and academic subjects. It is updated quarterly and comes in # different parts (subject-oriented). The following parts are # interesting for our subject: # ACADLIST.README (with a listing of all available files) # ACADLIST.HUMGEN = Humanities # ACADLIST.LANG = Languages # ACADLIST.LING = Linguistics and Text Analysis # ACADLIST.LIT = Literature # ACADLIST.PHILOS = Philosophy and Ethics # ACADLIST.POPULAR = Theater, Film, TV and Popular Culture # ACADLIST.WRITE = Writing # This is by far the best and most complete reference for # mailing lists I've seen yet and as the files are rather small # (20-100 K) I suggest you to get these and not one of the large # lists-of-lists. # You don't even have to retrieve the acadlist files, as # there's also an easy way to search them online # (see SEARCHING FOR A LIST ONLINE). # How to get the Acadlist files: # - Via e-mail to listserv@kentvm (Bitnet) or # listserv@kentvm.kent.edu (Internet). # Put the message GET filename [e.g. GET ACADLIST.LIT] in # the body of the letter. # - ftp://ksuvxa.kent.edu/library/acadlist/* # - ftp://zeus.kent.edu/library/acadlist/* # Information/Directory of Scholarly Electronic # Conferences/* # - Gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/inetdirs/* # b) SRI LIST-OF-LISTS >Interest Groups< # This is a large (about 1 MB) listing of all mailing lists # (not just the literary ones) that are available on Internet # and Bitnet. It is maintained by SRI International at their # Network Information Systems Center (NISC) in Menlo Park, # California (Copyright by Vivian Neou ). # Please note: this list is not updated very often, so it will # certainly be incomplete at the time you get it. If you # definitely want one large list-of-list I recommend you the # Dartmouth list (see the following). # How to get the SRI List: # - Via e-mail to mail-server@sri.com. # Put the message SEND INTEREST-GROUPS in the body of the # letter. # - ftp://sri.com/netinfo/interest-groups. # c) DARTMOUTH LIST-OF-LISTS >Siglists< # This is another large list-of-lists, maintained at Dartmouth # University in New Hampshire. It is a merged list of the # LISTSERV and manually maintained lists on Bitnet and the # >Interest Groups< list on the Internet. It is updated # monthly and comes in a field delimited format, which makes # it easy to import the data into a database. # The list can be obtained in various ways and forms: # - The flat data file containing the list-of-lists # information can be obtained by e-mail with the command # SEND LISTTEXT PACKAGE to LISTSERV@DARTCMS1 (Bitnet) # or LISTSERV@DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Internet). # - A short form of the list can be obtained with the # command SEND LISTSHRT PACKAGE (same address as above). # - FTP://DARTCMS1.DARTMOUTH.EDU/SIGLISTS/*. # d) PUBLIC ACCESSIBLE MAILING LISTS (Stephanie da Silva) # This list of "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists" by # Stephanie da Silva comes in 14 parts # The latest version may be obtained at: # mailing-lists/part1 [-14] # - http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml # e) LISTSERV LIST-OF-LISTS # You will get a large and updated list-of-lists of all # Listserv mailing lists by sending e-mail to any Listserv. # Just put LIST GLOBAL in the body of the message and mail it # to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (or any other Listserv). # f) LISTSERV HOME PAGE # At the Listserv Home Page on the Web you can find all # Listserv lists organized by topical categories or # alphabetically. # - http://www.clark.net/pub/listserv/listserv.html # g) MAJORDOMO LIST-OF-LISTS # Send an e-mail to MAJORDOMO@WORLD.STD.COM and put LISTS in the # body of the message. You will receive a list of all mailing # lists which are maintained at this Majordomo server. # g) SEARCHING FOR A LIST BY E-MAIL # If you are interested in a special Listserv list you can # use the command GLOBAL/keyword (put in your own keyword) # for searching. # Send e-mail to LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU or any other # Listserv and put the command GLOBAL/keyword in the body of # the message. # h) SEARCHING FOR A LIST ONLINE # You don't have to retrieve all the large lists-of-lists, # because you can search them very comfortably online. # - >Directory of Scholarly Conferences< # Information/Directory of Scholarly Electronic # Conferences/* # - Gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/inetdirs/* # - Gopher://cs1.presby.edu:70/11/net-resources/mailing- # lists # - SRI list-of-list >Interest Groups< # - Gopher://cs1.presby.edu:70/11/net-resources/mailing- # lists # - Gopher://bigbird.stark.k12.oh.us:70/11/nettools/ # listservs # - Dartmouth list-of-list >Siglists< # - Gopher://vm.cineca.it:70/11/liste # - "Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists" (da Silva) # - Gopher://cs1.presby.edu:70/11/net-resources/mailing- # lists # i) REVIEWS OF LISTS # If you like to have more informations about a certain list # before subscribing to it you can try a service of Raleigh # Muns . He reviews mailing lists # and sends out his reviews in an own list. It is accessible # in two different ways: # - subscribe to his list by sending a message to # LSTREV-L@UMSLVMA (Bitnet) or LSTREV-L@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU # (Internet). The message should consist of the following # line only: SUBSCRIBE LSTREV-L your_name # - search his reviews online at: úÿ úÿ(Continued from last message) # Gopher://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library/stacks/lrs # j) POSTING TO REC.ARTS.BOOKS # If all these resources didn't help you finding a special # list you have one more chance: post your question to the 4. BOOKS ONLINE Meanwhile there are hundreds of books and texts available in electronic archives. A list naming all the authors and titles would become very long. And such a list is not longer necessary now because there comes help from various sides. a) FAQs and Frequent Postings (See 2. FAQS AND OTHER FREQUENT POSTINGS for more information on the following FAQs.) Classical Studies FAQ Points to archives of classical (greek and latin) texts. Classics FTP, Gopher, WWW, etc. Sites Points to ftp sites, databases, archives etc Online Books FAQ Lists nearly 100 electronic books and points to archive sites. (I only found an old version: 6/1/93.) Lists some ftp sites with etexts. Project Gutenberg List of Etext (1/*) Project Gutenberg List of Etext (2/*) b) Newsgroups bit.listserv-gutnberg-l (Project Gutenberg) c) ALEX In July 1994 a wonderful new service was announced: Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet. Alex can be found at # - gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk:70/11/lib-corn/hunter # - gopher://gopher.lib.ncsu.edu/11/library/stacks/Alex - http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/alex-index.html Alex allows users to find and retrieve the full-text of documents on the Internet. It currently includes about 1800 entries, incorporating texts from Project Gutenberg, Wiretap, the On-line Book Initiative, the Eris system at Virginia Tech, the English Server at Carnegie Mellon University, and the on-line portion of the Oxford Text Archive. You can search and browse ALEX by author, title language, subject and title, so this is a perfect and easy usable service to find what you are looking for. Better than any list. d) The Oxford Text Archive This archive, provided by Oxford University Computing Services, contains electronic versions of literary works by many major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other languages. It also contains electronic versions of some standard reference works. The total size of the Archive exceeds a gigabyte and there are over 1300 titles in its catalogue. How to get more informations and the catalogue: - ftp://ota.ox.ac.uk/ota. - Send e-mail to ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK with "help" in the message body. 5. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS This list was compiled from one source. If you need more information about a specific journal you should get: Michael Strangelove: >Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters<. How to get it: Send e-mail to listserv@uottawa (Bitnet) or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca (Internet) with the message GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY The A: field in the entries contains the address for subscription/information. Arts Wire News Arts news and advocacy service A: Anne Focke <71170.3160@compuserve.com> Bryn Mawr Classical Review Electronic book review journal. A: mailserv@brynmawr.bitnet or mailserv@brynmawr.edu with the text SUBSCRIBE BMCR-L. CORE Electronic literary journal, contains quality short fiction, poetry, and essays. A: core-journal@eff.org. Please specify that you want CORE. Dargonzine - The Magazine of the Dargon Project Fantasy stories, written for the Dargon Project. A: white@duvm.Bitnet Requests should contain your userid, your full name and the file transfer format you prefer (either DISK DUMP, PUNCH/MAIL, or SENDFILE/NETDATA (non-Bitnet subscribers only have one option - Mail). Electronic College of Theory Discussion group on literary theory and for the business of the Society for Critical Exchange. A: xx124@po.cwru.edu. Send a brief request to join, including a postal mailing address. If you are not already a member of the Society for Critical Exchange, your subscription will still be entered immediately but you will be asked to join the SCE. Current annual dues are US$15 per calendar year. Erofile Reviews of the latest books associated with French and Italian studies (literary criticism, cultural studies, film studies, pedagogy, and software). A: erofile@ucsbuxa.bitnet or erofile@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu FineArt Forum Covers all applications of science and technology to the contemporary arts and music. A: fast@garnet.berkeley.edu or fast@ucbgarne.bitnet with the message SUB FINE-ART your e-mail address first-name, last-name, and postal address. Intertext - An Electronic Fiction Digest A bi-monthly magazine devoted to the publication of quality fiction. Non-fiction articles may also appear occasionally. A: jsnell@ucsd.edu (specify ASCII or postscript). Machine Readable Texts News (Project Gutenberg) A: listserv@uiucvmd.bitnet with the message SUB GUTNBERG Postmodern Culture Interdisciplinary studies, from analytical essays and reviews to video scripts and other new literary forms. A: listserv@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Internet), listserv@ncsuvm (Bitnet) with the message sub pmc-list QUANTA Science Fiction and Fantasy. A: depending on which version of the magazine you`d like to receive: quanta+requests-postscript@andrew.cmu.edu quanta+requests-ascii@andrew.cmu.edu or quanta+requests-postscript@andrew.BITNET quanta+requests-ascii@andrew.BITNET RD: Graduate Research in the Arts Dedicated to publishing the work of graduate scholars in the Arts (Arts, Fine Arts, and Humanities) A: rd@writer.yorku.ca.bitnet with your name, status (student, faculty, other) and e-mail address REACH Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities. Newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara. A: listserv@ucsbvm.bitnet or reach@ucsbvm.bitnet with the message SUB REACH Textual Studies in Canada Issues related to the study of texts with a Canadian context A: W.F. Garrett-Petts 6. ZINES This overview was compiled from: John Labovitz: >Zines on the Internet<. John Labovitz defines a zine as following: "'Zine' is short for either 'fanzine' or 'magazine', depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not 'mainstream' publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), do not have a large subscriber base, and are generally not produced to make a profit." How to get Labovitz' >Zines on the Internet<: - The ASCII text version is automatically posted every 3 - ftp://etext.umich.edu/pub/Zines/e-zine-list. - gopher://etext.archive.umich.edu/Zines/e-zine-list. If you need more information about one of the listed zines you should look into Labovitz` excellent list. I only give very short descriptions here. The A: field in the entries contains the address for subscription/information. ANGST Poetry and stories about and around "Angst, a metaphor on anger and frustration". A: uh186@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (when requesting subscriptions, please specify the FORMAT you desire) ART COM Dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies. A: Carl Eugene Loeffler Athene The online magazine of amateur creative writing. Became defunct in 1989. InterText is its immediate successor. Atmospherics Short stories, poems and literary essays. To subscribe: A: Susan Keeping or Attack Poetry Odd, modern, experimental poetry. A: Chris Conway Crash A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints, and tips. A: John Labovitz or Nigel French <70703.2311@compuserve.com> Creative Juices Short fiction of various genre, poetry and essays from contributing writers A: Don Wilder CTHEORY A new international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. A: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body: SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY Cyberkind Poetics and Prosaics for a Wired World. A WorldWideWeb magazine of Internet-related fiction, nonfiction, poetry and art. A: Shannon Turlington Cyberspace Vanguard News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe. A: cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564 (FidoNet) tj@phantom.com DargonZine -- The Magazine of the Dargon Project Fantasy stories, written for the Dargon Project A: Dafydd Delta Snake Blues News Blues Newsletter. Reviews of new releases and classic recordings, articles, recipes and poetry. A: Al Handa , ajaguyy@well.sf.ca.us, jook@aol.com Depth Probe Mixture of book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, thoughts and dreams geared towards exploration of modern culture, including: Aristotle, Rousseau, Fellini, and Elvis. A: Alan Eyzaguirre Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric Central clearinghouse of information about zines. A: Jerod Pore Fat Nipples Essays, thoughts, poetry and more on the subjects of politics, punk, rock, personal problems, the "underground" scene, etc. A: Chris Conway FICTION-ONLINE Poetry, short stories, serialized novels and plays or excerpts of plays. A: Bill Ramsay FSFNet Bitnet fantasy-science fiction fanzine. Defunct since 1988, replaced by DargonZine. GRIST On-Line Electronic network poetry, art and culture. A: John Fowler The Harold Herald Satirical journal, covers such diverse topics as travel, politics, and the irreversible damage done to our society by the unchecked proliferation of bell-bottomed trousers. A: Dave Rose hubcap Magazine of music and literature. A: jim.stoicheff@aldus.com inter\face Literary magazine. A: Benjamin Henry InterText Fiction magazine with stories in all genres from mainstream to science fiction. A: The Morpo Review "How about Sonnets to Captain Kangaroo, free-verse ruminations comparing plastic lawn ornaments to _Love Boat_ or nearly anything with cows in it. No, not cute, Smurfy little "ha ha" ditties -- back reality into a corner and snarl! Some good examples are "Oatmeal" by Galway Kinnell, "A Supermarket In California" by Allen Ginsberg, or the 6th section of Wallace Stevens` "Six Significant Landscapes."" A: NESFAD Nordic Electronic Science Fiction Address Directory (NESFAD) is a list of E-addresses to sf fans in the Nordic area (Denmark, Finland,Iceland, Norway and Sweden), with a news section in the beginning of each issue. A: Ahrvid Engholm or Ben Roimola Notes from the Windowsill Reviews of new and reprinted children`s books. A: kidsbooks mailing list Please include full email address in message. Obscure Electronic Profiles the people in the zine subculture. A: James P Romenesko Omphalos Speculative fiction review magazine. A: jrrl@cs.cmu.edu (put SUBSCRIPTION OMPHALOS in the subject) Planet Magazine SF, fantasy, horror, humor, and poetry written by new or little-known writers. A: Andrew McCann Quanta Magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A: Daniel K Appelquist RealPoetik "We publish the new, the lively, the witty and the exciting in vernacular English." A: listserv@wln.com with SUBSCRIBE RPOETIK in the body Sarko Journal of works-in-progress, that is an ongoing attempt at world-building. Someone once accused Sarko of being "weird Gothic Chinese Cyberpunk." A: sarko-request@mach.hk.super.net Science Fiction Journalen SFJ has as a paper fanzine been the leading Scandinavian sf newsletter since 1978. The electronic edition is a recent addition. It covers news about books, authors, awards, clubs, conventions etc. A: Ahrvid Engholm Sparks Literature, essays, art, culture, rants, politics, etc. A: Jim Esch TapRoot Reviews Electronic Edition Short reviews of micropress poetry, experimental literature and art. A: Luigi-Bob Drake The Temptation of Saint Anthony Poems, observations, ruminations, short stories, and rants. Recurring themes seem to include: poking fun at religion, dada, heresy, surrealism, fundamentalism, cannibalism, insomnia, epistemological nightmares, reinterpretations of folklore, sex, timetravel, reincarnation, and vice. A: Mark-Jason Dominus To Be Continued The newsletter of the Midwest Science Fiction and Fantasy Association. A: R.Allen Jervis úÿ úÿ(Continued from last message) Twilight World Fantasy and science-fiction. A: Richard Karsmakers Unit Circle Magazine Magazine of art, prose, poetry, music reviews, and liberal commentary. A: unitcirc@netcom.com unitcircle-request@netcom.com (Unit Circle mailing list) We Magazine Poetry. A: Katie Yates 7. LIBRARIES ONLINE In July of 1991 there were more than 270 library catalogs and collections online, by 1993 over 600 libraries in more than twenty countries all over the world were accessible via Internet. With Gopher you can find each of them quite easily, just explore the menus for library catalogs. Organizations like the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) and the On-Line Computer Library Center (OCLC) have put informations from hundreds of library catalogs and collections into databases which allow you to search millions of titles at one time. But as most of these databases are pay-for-use-services I`m not going to list them here. Some of the main pointers (Thanks to Robert E. Maas and his very helpful >TopIndex<) to online libraries follow here: LIBCAT-GUIDE (110 K) >Library Resources on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and Use.< Edited by Laine Farley, August 1991. This is an excellent help for everyone who has to search library catalogs online. It provides, as it says, "background on the purpose and services of the Internet, gives examples of types of library systems and companion resources, identifies directories and other sources for locating currently available systems, and relates strategies used by experienced searchers to make the most of exploring new resources. Where it is available: ftp://dla.ucop.edu/pub/internet/libcat-guide. INTERNET.LIBS (OPACs) (307 K) This source, by Dr. Art St. George, University of New Mexico, and Dr. Ron Larsen, University of Maryland, probably is the most comprehensive directory. It lists and describes Internet-accessible library catalogs and databases in the United States and other countries. - ftp://ftp.cerf.net/internet/resources/library_catalog/ library_catalogs_05-92.txt - gopher://gopher.cerf.net/General Internet Information/ Resources/library_catalog/library_catalogs_05-92.txt LIBRARIES.TXT (427 K) >Accessing on-line bibliographic databases< by Billy Barron and Marie-Christine Mahe . Lists hundreds of libraries (U.S., Canada, Australia and other). - ftp://ftp.utdallas.edu/pub/staff/billy/Libguide/ Download files libraries.africa (1.9 K) libraries.americas (184 K) libraries.asia (20 K) libraries.europe (89 K) libraries.instruction (39 K) libraries.intro (2.9 K) JANET-OPACS (55 K) >OPACS in the UK: a list of interactive library catalogues on JANET< (British Library Catalogs). Compiled for the JANET User Group for Libraries by the University of Sussex Library. - ftp://hydra.uwo.ca/Libsoft/uk_libs.txt GUIDE2.NNEWS (67 K) This file is the second part of >A Guide to Internet/Bitnet< by Dana Noonan. It covers library catalogs in the USA. - Via e-mail to listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet with message: GET GUIDE2.NNEWS GUIDE3.NNEWS (60 K) This is the third part of >A Guide to Internet/Bitnet< by Dana Noonan.. It covers library catalogs outside the USA. - Via e-mail to listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet with message: GET GUIDE3.NNEWS 8. REFERENCE REFERENCE WEB PAGES You may use the following WWW pages as starting points. They contain links to most of the listed reference works: - http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Reference/ - http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html - http://www.leo.org/infosys/lit/dictionaries.html THESAURI & DICTIONARIES The following works are freely available and accessible online: a) Roget's Thesaurus (1911) Old and updated versions are accessible in various ways: Books/By Title/Roget`s Thesaurus/ Roget's Thesaurus/ - http://tuna.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html - via WAIS: roget-thesaurus.src (see 11. WAIS SOURCES) - via WAIS: thesaurus.src (see 11. WAIS SOURCES) b) Shorter Oxford Dictionary Wordlist Contains part-of-speach and other information. ftp://ftp.white.toronto.edu/pub/words/sodict.gz c) American-English Dictionary Reference Works/American English Dictionary (from the UK)/ American English Dictionary (LOCAL)/ - http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Reference/ Dictionaries/English/ d) Webster's Dictionary - Send e-mail to: infobot@infomania.com Make the subject WEBSTER and you'll get a definition of the word in reply. Reference Works/Webster's Dictionary/ - http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/wessler/dict - http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster ENCYCLOPAEDIAS As far as I know there is only one encyclopaedia freely accessible online (see b). Some encyclopedia publishers have made their works available online on commercial services (e.g.CompuServe and Prodigy), but of course you have to pay for access. The Encyclopedia Britannica is online, but only for subscribers. A demo is accessible at: http://www.eb.com/eb.html. a) Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia (vol. 1 of 28) The Gutenberg Project is going to make available the etext of an early edition of the classic Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910-1911. This edition is in the public domain, but apparently the Gutenberg Project is not allowed to use the "Britannica" trademark and hence has given this work a new name. b) Grolier's Encyclopedia Academic American Encyclopedia, published by Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. The equivalent of a 20 volume printed encyclopedia. This is a Telnet connection and a bit fussy to get through, but - the only free encyclopaedia I've found so far. http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/grolier.html ACRONYMS An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of the words of a compound term. (Example: USA - United States of America.) The following public domain databases of acronyms and abbreviations are accessible: - ftp://ucselx.sdsu.edu/pub/doc/general/acronyms.txt dictionary/ - http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/acronym - http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Reference/Acronyms/ - http://curia.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html - via WAIS: acronyms.src (See 11. WAIS SOURCES) WORD LISTS Word lists for several languages (Dutch, English, German, Italian and others) are available at: - ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/dictionaries/ - ftp://ftp.gmd.de/documents/dict/ QUOTATIONS - http://pubweb.ucdavis.edu/Documents/Quotations/ homepage.html 9. BOOK SHOPPING If you want to buy books you should take a look into the following lists. They give you lots of addresses. (See 2. FAQs and other Frequent Postings for more information.) Lists some bookstores with Internet service. Basement Full of Books A list of authors who will snail-mail out their books upon request. Book Catalogues and Book Clubs (FAQ) Books by Mail (FAQ) Bookstores in Eastern North American Cities (FAQ) Bookstores in New York City (NYC) (FAQ) Bookstores in Northern North American Cities (FAQ) Bookstores in San Francisco Bay Area (SF) (FAQ) Bookstores in San Diego Bookstores in Western North American Cities (FAQ) Bookstores in Various Asian Cities (FAQ) Bookstores in Various European Cities (FAQ) Internet Mall: Shopping the Information Highway Lists also some bookstores with Internet service. Online Book Publisher List List of book publishers that have their catalogues online. Online Bookstores List List of e-mail addresses of bookstores on the Internet. R.A.B BOOKSTORES LIST: CAMBRIDGE/BOSTON 10. RESOURCES FOR WRITERS There is a nearly complete guide with many pointers, addresses, and some articles: # The >Internet Writer Resource Guide< from Trevor Lawrence # . Its posted every three weeks to some newsgroups. You should also get the following: Answers all the questions you may have at the beginning. Describes books and magazines that are useful to writers. Media list A list of newspapers, magazines, TV stations and other media outlets that accept electronic submissions. (See 2. FAQS AND OTHER FREQUENT POSTINGS for more information.) 11. WAIS SOURCES WAIS doesn`t offer much for our subject, just a few sources of all the hundreds deal with literature or literary topics. In addition to these few I list some databases which are useful for finding pointers and resources. Among them you will recognize some of the lists and indices we already know from above: the >Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences<, the FAQs, the SRI List-of-Lists etc. But its very different to use them with WAIS. Remember: with WAIS you are able to do full-text searches in a source (or several sources at once). And this can be a very comfortable way of searching. If you are looking for a certain mailing list for instance you could use "mailing-lists.src". It holds the complete text of several long lists-of-lists. With WAIS you can search them all with one keystroke - just enter your keyword and wait for the results. So you don`t have to retrieve all the large lists for searching, WAIS will do this for you. Not all of the public Wais hosts offer the same set of databases, they differ slightly. You may have to try various hosts for a special source. academic_email_conf.src Newsgroups and electronic conferences (e.g. mailing lists). Included are Diane Kovacs` >Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences< and a list of newsgroups with a one line information about each group. acronyms.src A public domain database of nearly 6000 acronyms and abbreviations. Aesop-Fables.src A collection of over 300 fables (RTF format). ANU-Cheng-Tao-Ko-Verses.src A collection of 64 verses from the T`ang Dynasty China, attributed to the Zen Master Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh [Yongjia Xuanjue], aka Yoka Genkaku (J.) (665-713), and presenting the basic tenets of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. ANU-Dhammapada-Verses.src The Dhammapada is an anthology of verses, belonging to the part of the Theravada Pali Canon of scriptures known as the Khuddaka Nikaya, and consists of 423 verses. ANU-French-Databanks.src A catalogue (140Kb) of recent French language publications, people, commercial servers (providers), research projects and on-line as well as stand alone data bases available in France which are of relevance to the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences research. ANU-SocSci-Netlore.src Network resources useful to humanities and social science. A loose collection (1,030Kb strong) of documents, notes, hints, solutions, addresses and other net-lore dealing with the information resources, e-mail and networking procedures of significance to academic researchers in the fields of the Social Sciences, the Arts and the Humanities. ANU-Theses-Abstracts.src Database of abstracts of graduate and post-graduate theses at the Australian National University. Focuses mainly on the work done since the early 1990s, but also contains abstracts of works written in the late 1950s. Continuosly updated at monthly intervals. ANU-Tibetan-ACIP-Catalog.src The database provides a November 1993 list of titles of Tibetan classics already input by Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) and available via anonymous FTP at CLR.NMSU.EDU: /pub/tibetan [the original archive] and at COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU: /coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-archives/acip- tibet-e-texts-archive/ [a mirror archive]. The titles consist of religious works, catalogues, and dictionaries. bible.src Full text of the King James version of the Bible. Book_of_Mormon.src Full text of the Book of Mormon - Gutenberg version 11. bryn-mawr-classical-review.src Review of books in Latin and Greek classics. Collection of several hundred "article" files. comp.internet.library.src Index to the newsgroup comp.internet.library. Discussions about electronic libraries. elec_journ_newslett.src Information on electronic journals and newsletters for many disciplines (based on Strangelove`s >Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters<). factsheet-five.src Information on zines from FactSheet Five. humanist.src Volumes of the Humanist discussion list maintained at Brown University. hytelnet.src Information sources accessible by TELNET including library OPACs (catalogs), bulletin boards, and others. IAT-Documents Contains articles from the UNC-CH Institute for Academic Technology newsletter Briefings, copies of papers from the IAT Technology Primers and Technical Papers series, and source lists and bibliographies from the Information Resource Guides series. Search for: humanities, literature, writing. inet-libraries.src Information on internet accessible libraries collected from various places: - >Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases< by Billy Barron, 1989-1992, University of North Texas - >OPACS in the UK: a list of interactive library catalogues on JANET.< Compiled for the JANET User Group for Libraries by the University of Sussex Library, 1991 - >Information on accessing Internet and Janet (UK) accessible libraries.< Compiled by Dana Noonan, 1992 - A few smaller lists are also included. journalism.periodicals.src Index to Journalism Periodicals. A cross-referenced subject index with over 10,000 citations. Use the search "helpinfo" to get a subject headings thesaurus and a list of periodicals indexed. lists.src Several master lists of newsgroups, mailing lists, electronic serials and journals. As mailing-lists.src. mailing-lists.src Several long lists of newsgroups, mailing lists, electronic serials and journals. Included are: - the SRI List-of-Lists >Interest groups< - Diane Kovacs` >Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences< - Gene Spafford`s lists of Usenet newsgroups - David Avery`s bitnet listserv and internet list collection from dartmouth.edu úÿ úÿ(Continued from last message) - other documents as they are discovered. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on all subjects from Omni-Cultural-Academic-Resource.src A collection of cultural material with an international or intercultural bent (including food, language, literature etc) online-libraries-st-george.src Art St George`s directory of libraries and CWISs available over the network, together with access details. POETRY-Index.src This is an index of all the poems and reviews published since volume 151 October 1987 in POETRY magazine of Chicago. poetry.src Poems and complete poetic works, including the complete poems of Shakespeare, Yeats and Elizabeth Sawyer. proj-gutenberg.src This source mirrors the documents produced by Project Gutenberg (electronic books and texts). Quran.src Full text of the Koran. roget-thesaurus.src Full text of Roget`s Thesaurus (1911), provided by Project Gutenberg. Science-Fiction-Series-Guide.src Reviews of the major works of selected science fiction writers and list of works on alternate history themes. If you search for "introduction", you will get the official introductory file for the Guide. sf-reviews.src Science Fiction review articles. This source is an archiv of interest to fans of science fiction / speculative fiction / fantasy / horror (and sometimes comics). The WAIS database consists of a full-text set of the material published in the group, with each document being an individual review, plus a quarterly index that contains minimal header information for each article and a bibliographic reference to the work cited (except for films). thesaurus.src As roget-thesaurus.src. usenet.src Database with all Periodic Informational Postings (including FAQs) from various Usenet newsgroups. All postings that are (except those in comp.mail.maps) listed in the "List of Periodic Informational Postings", which appears monthly in The WAIS index is updated weekly. 12. WORLD WIDE WEB Users of the Web can find pointers to all kind of literary resources at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/ Literature/Overview.html There is also a page of pointers at http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/books.html which partly overlaps the page above (Thanks to Evelyn C. Leeper ). [As this part of the Guide is still under development I appreciate any hints or help with finding special literature Web sides.] **************************************************************** 13. CREDITS - Diane K. Kovacs and the Directory Team of the Kent State University Libraries Ohio for compiling the >Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences< - Michael Strangelove for his >Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters< - John Labovitz for his >Zines on Internet< for its >List of Periodic Informational Postings<. - Robert Elton Maas for his >TopIndex< - For corrections, additions, feedbacks, and help: Ahasuerus the Wandering Jew Ahrvid Engholm Allan T Grohe Jr Andrea McRobbie (Thank you, Andrea, for putting me on the Web on the other side of the earth. - http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~andrea/andrea/HinkLitGuide.html) Brenda Crispin Eunice Choi Even Flood Harry S. Carver Henry Churchyard Julian Bourne Liza Fiol-Matta Matthew Crosby Melanie Dymond Harper Patricia McGarrity/Kate Cregan Raymond Crispin Rich Hyams Robert Teeter Soeren Pold Taylor Roberts Thomas Hilberer Tom Marazita Trevor Lawrence (Thanks to Trevor Lawrence for putting me online in Great Britain. - http://bel.avonibp.co.uk/bricolage/resources/ lounge/information/netlitguide.html) Wendy E. Betts ****************************************************************