Networked technology in the service of:

teaching, electronic publishing, and scholarship in the humanities in general -- plus some resources for WWW page-making and publishing

Visions Old and New

Vannevar Bush's visionary 1945 Atlantic Monthly article on the future of libraries

JO'D's "New Tools for Teaching"

Experiments by JO'D: on-line journals, postprints of articles and books, numerous essays on topics related to the history of libraries and publishing

Some ancient history"Computing and the Religious Studies Department at Penn", by Jay Treat. The story of a distinguished history of innovation led by Bob Kraft.


Teaching

MIT on high-tech teaching: interesting report with many examples

"The Role of Online Communications in Schools: A National Study," by the Center for Applied Special Technology: good methodology examining impact of online techniques on student outcomes at the K-12 level.

Pan-European distance learning in the humanities


Electronic Publishing

NewJour, the archive of new electronic journals on the network

University Libraries and Scholarly Communication (a Mellon Foundation study)

Papers and books published by Ann Shumelda Okerson, including numerous symposia on electronic publishing, the Directory of Electronic Scholarly Journals, Newsletters, and Discussion Lists, etc.

"A Survey of STM Online Journals 1990-95: the calm before the storm", by Steve Hithcock et al., from the University of Southampton (1996)

E-journal sites through the WWW

University of Tennessee's Library Journals page: outstanding

Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)

Highwire Press, Stanford's innovative home for e-publishing ventures.

Johns Hopkins Press "MUSE" project: all of JHU Press's print journals moving onto the WWW

City of Bits, a complete on-line book from MIT Press

Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science on-line

Shoaf on Dante/Chaucer: a postprint book

University of Virginia, Alderman Library e-text center

Economics of the Net

Economics of the Net and More from Hal Varian, economist turned dean of Berkeley's School of Information Sciences

Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee report on user acceptance of electronic publications

Citation database on-line as virtual virtual library

How to "peer review" (or the equivalent) on the net

E-journals through the WWW

E-Journal project from the Centre Pompidou

"Alex" -- index of e-texts available on-line

Publishers on the net

From the National Writers' Union, a statement of principles and guidelines for contracts between authors and publishers for electronic texts.


General Resources

Humanist redivivus

IBM's vision of a Digital Library: of interest for preview of Big Blue's Vatican Library project

Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton-Rutgers)

CETH index of electronic text centers

E-editing ideas from Brown -- see "Papers . . ."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Name and Nature of SGML


WWW publishing

Guide to good WWW design

Color codes for Netscape backgrounds

Backgrounds of all kinds (index provided by Netscape)

Guide to WWW publishing

Microcosm: new software for hypertext networked publishing.

Unicode: the vastly expanded character set that is intended to replace ASCII


Seattle's first cafe with network access


See also scholarly, lighter fare, and a broad potpourri of WWW resources, gathered by Jim O'Donnell