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APPLICATIONS
The online world is used in a wide range of ways for information dissemination, communication, and interaction. This section highlights examples of CMC used on the Internet.
Commerce
- Information
- ACN: The American Community Network (ACN) provides a point of access to information and contacts regarding economic and business development in America's cities, communities and regions (http://www.acn-net.com)
- Advertising Blacklist: a compendium of advertisers who have misused Net access, compiled by Axel Boldt (http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/blacklist.html)
- Advertising Guide: The Internet Advertising Resource Guide, maintained by Hairong Li, Michigan State University; links to a large number of sources of information about Internet advertising, including collections and topics, studies, storefronts, and other information (http://www.admedia.org/internet/)
- Advertising/marketing law: emphasis on infomercials, home shopping, and direct response tv, includes intellectual property and telemarketing, by Lewis Rose (http://www.webcom.com/~lewrose/home.html)
- BizWeb: a subject-oriented directory of companies on the Web (http://www.bizweb.com)
- Business Top: the top business information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/business.html)
- Canadian Business: Canadian Internet Business Directory (http://www.cibd.com)
- Career Mosaic: high-tech companies offering career information (http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/)
- Commercial Services: a list of telnet connections to many commercial information services, from The World (gopher://gopher.std.com:70/11/Commercial)
- Computer+Communications: Computer and Communication Company Sites on the Web, by James E. (Jed) Donnelley (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
- Cyberatlas: a collection of information about Internet statistics and demographics; includes detailed analysis of demographic surveys; for example, looking at A. C. Neilsen's work on Internet demographics; includes quick facts such as registered domains; in general, fairly thorough and easy to use; well worth a stop to see what the current trends are in Internet technology use (http://www.cyberatlas.com)
- EOTW: Entrepeneurs on the Web, useful business information and services for entrepreneurs (http://www.eotw.com)
- ESS: how to start and conduct business on the Internet, a forum for getting individuals together (via the Internet and otherwise)et in an ethical manner (http://www.entrepreneurs.net/iess/iess.html)
- FECRS: Fairfax Electronic Commerce Resource Center; Electronic Commerce (EC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Continous Acquisition Lifecycle Support (CALS) , Enterprise Integration (EI) and Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) (http://www.ecrc.gmu.edu)
- GovBot: database of US Government Web sites to support business (http://www.business.gov)
- Hermes: research project on the commercial uses of the World Wide Web (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sgupta/hermes.htm)
- Ho, Thomas: favorite Electronic Commerce WWW resources, includes information sources, links to articles, economic development, service/presence providers (http://e-comm.iworld.com)
- Hoover's Online: directory of business information (http://www.hoovers.com)
- InterQuote: continuously updating stock market information service (http://www.interquote.com)
- Inet Marketing: archives of the Internet Marketing mailing list (http://galaxy.einet.net/hypermail/inet-marketing/)
- IOMA: Institute Of Management and Administration, Information Services for Professionals (http://starbase.ingress.com/ioma/)
- Marketing Top: the top marketing information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/marketing.html)
- Marketing/CMEs: Marketing in Computer-Mediated Environments Home Page, from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA (http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu)
- Money Top: the top money information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/marketing.html)
- Net value: the Web Strategy Forum, includes Interesting Business Sites on the Web, by Bob O'Keefe at the School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (http://www.owi.com/netvalue/)
- Publications: Print Publications Related to Business Use of the Internet, from Tenagra (http://arganet.tenagra.com/Tenagra/books.html)
- Ventana 500: the most useful online business resources from Ventana Media (http://www.vmedia.com/vvc/onlcomp/business/index.html)
- Marketplaces
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Shop D Net: a list of virtual marketplaces, from Blake and Associates, Internet Marketing Consultants (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/malls.html)
----- Selected Instances of Marketplaces
- CommerceNet: Internet-based infrastructure for electronic commerce, created and operated by a consortium of major Silicon Valley users, providers and developers under Smart Valley, Inc. (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/commercenet.html)
- Digital's Emall: Digital Equipment Corporation's Electronic Shopping Mall (http://www.service.digital.com/html/emall.html)
- eMall: WWW shopping and information (http://eMall.com)
- IBC: Internet Business Connection, An electronic shopping mall and a service for companies that would like to promote their products or services on the Internet (http://www.intbc.com)
- Internet Shopping Network: products from hundreds of vendors, along with query interface (http://www.internet.net)
- Sofcom: home shopping, information providers, non-profits (http://www.sofcom.com.au)
----- Lists of Marketplaces
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Shop D Net: a list of virtual marketplaces, from Blake and Associates, Internet Marketing Consultants (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/blake/malls.html)
Business has discovered online communication. While it was only a few years ago that some major corporations had no idea of the online world, today many companies use the Internet for commerce, communication, marketing, and even sales. This section highlights where you can find out about business online and some examples of the use of the Internet for marketing.
Communication
- Individual
- CMC-Interpersonal: list of interpersonal tools for CMC (mail, talk) (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-interpersonal.html)
- Home Pages: a collection of personal home pages lists (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/culture-people-lists.html)
- Group
- CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
- CERC: Concurrent Engineering Research Center, West Virginia University; research, development, and demonstration of information technologies that enable collaboration (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu)
- Collaboration: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability, entry from W3C site (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
- CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, an interdisciplinary effort of faculty and graduate students at the University of Michigan; fields represented range from computer science through business to psychology; research and graduate training focus on understanding new ways that work can be organized by exploiting computer-mediation by focusing on the interplay of technology and human factors (http://www.crew.umich.edu)
- CWCW/Groupware: a comprehensive index of CSCW and Groupware resources on the web, including papers, products, research centers, and information on types of groupware, such as videoconferencing, workflow, and shared writing and drawing. (http://www.crew.umich.edu/~brinck/cscw.html)
- CSCW Group: Research Group on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory (http://orgwis.gmd.de)
- CSCW Lab: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work laboratory at the Fraunhofer-Institut fur Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Germany (http://www.igd.fhg.de/cscw-lab/)
- CSCW pages: The unOfficial Yellow Pages of CSCW (http://www.tft.tele.no/cscw/)
- Collaborative Comm: Collaborative Networked Communication--MUDs as Systems Tools, by Remy Evard (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/remy/documents/cncmast.html)
- Collaborative Design: Architecture and CAAD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (http://www.arch.ethz.ch/~dave/cmc-collab.html)
- CRTR-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperativee grown information systems), University of Colorado (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html)
- Collaboration: Workshop on Wide-Area Collaboration and Cooperative Computing (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/colab/workshop.html)
- Collaboration info: Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html)
- Computer Network Conf: A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing, by D. Reed (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1324.txt)
- Groupware/teaching: Publications on Use of Computer Groupware in Teaching (http://vm.tamu.edu/~vaph/klemm/whoami.html)
- Groupware Yellow Pages: information resources, from Consensus (http://www.consensus.com)
- Key Centre: collaborative design in computing, University of Sydney, Australia (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/kcdc/)
- Mediation: the first dispute resolution firm to actually provide methods which are safe, private and cost effective by the use of Internet (http://www.janzengroup.com)
- Moderator's Page: resources for moderators of online discussion groups (http://cac.psu.edu/~mauri/moderators.html)
- MOO Papers: Pavel Curtis' collection of MU* papers (ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/papers/)
- MONET: Meeting on the Network multimedia conferencing system at CERC, West Virginia University (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/monet/monet.html)
- MUD info: Multiple User Dialogue/Dimension/Dungeon FAQs, Lists, Information, Collections, Servers, Archives, Newsgroups, by Lydia Leong (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)
- MUD papers/Cherny: gender and discourse related MUD papers, by Lynn Cherny (http://bhasha.stanford.edu/~cherny/papers.html)
- Mondes virtuels: a listing of information about online virtual spaces (http://www.uqam.ca/~gingras/tour/moondes.html)
- NCW: National Center for the Workplace (NCW) Gopher (gopher://uclink.berkeley.edu:3030/1)
- Project H: an ongoing computer-mediated collaboration, on a Comserve-sponsored hotline, of more than a hundred international researchers (http://www.arch.su.edu.au/PROJECTH/index.html)
- SHARE: A Methodology and Environment for Collaborative Product Development (http://www.eit.com/projects/share/share/share-home.html)
- Tools: a list of Internet tools for group communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-group.html)
- Web Conferencing: by David Woolley (http://freenet.msp.mn.us/people/drwool/webconf.html)
- Organizational
- Client/Server: Client/Server Coffeehouse, discussion about client-server systems in organizations (http://www.onr.com/clients.html)
- CORPS: Computing, Organizations, Policy, and Society, study of computerization in organizations, Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (http://www.ics.uci.edu/CORPS/)
- CWIS Paper: Campus-Wide Info Systems by Judy Hallman (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/cwis/hallman.txt)
- IOS: Interorganizational Systems (IOS) WorldNet (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch/iswnet/index.html)
- OMT: Organization and Management Theory Division the Academy of Management, to foster communication and to serve as an information resource to Organization scholars worldwide (http://juliet.stfx.ca/people/fac/dlemke/omt.html)
- Mass
- Campus Newspapers: Campus Newspapers on the Internet, by Jonathan Bell (http://beacon-www.asa.utk.edu/resources/papers.html)
- Daily business: Daily sources of business and economic news (http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html)
- Editor and Publisher: Media information sources (http://www.mediainfo.com)
- Journalism/Comm schools: World Wide Web sites of interest to those in the fields of journalism and mass communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
- Journalism: Journalism entry from WWW Virtual Library, by John S. Makulowich (http://www.trainer.com/pub/journalism/)
- Movies and TV: Nova's Movies and TV information (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/movies.html)
- News Top: the top general news sources of the Web, described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/news.html)
- SPJ: Society of Professional Journalists (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/spj/html/spj.html)
- TV Networks: Television network information (http://www.tvnet.com)
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Tools: a list of Internet tools for mass communication (http://www.december.com/net/tools/cmc-mass.html)
----- Application Areas
- Amateur Radio: the World of Internet Amateur (Ham) Radio (http://www.acs.ncsu.edu/HamRadio/)
- Cable TV: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.cablelabs.com)
- Intelsat: the leading provider of satellite telecommunications services (http://www.intelsat.int:8080)
- Live TV: demonstration consists of live video and audio using the vsdemo VuSystem application that uses a live television source on the VuNet (http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/vs/vsdemo)
- Persuasion: Concepts, perspectives, idea generation device, resource links, and assignments, for students and others interested in the future of advertising, public relations, and commercial persuasive communication in the context of the new electronic media (http://jamy.apr.ua.edu)
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Satellite: The Satellite TV Page (http://itre.uncecs.edu/misc/sat.html)
----- Outlets/List
- Electronic Newstand: magazines, magazines, magazines--electronic and the dead tree variety (http://www.enews.com)
- Newslink: news resource with direct links to more than 1,000 online newspaper, magazine and broadcasting sites. (http://www.newslink.org)
- Newspage: thousands of categorized news stories (http://www.newspage.com)
- Broadcasters: entry from WWW VL (http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/broadcast.html)
- MegaMedia: a list of electronic media on the Web--film, video, radio, television, cinema and new-media sites (http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/links/links.html)
- Radio Stations: (http://www.brsradio.com/stations/)
- Radio Tower: a directory of live audio broadcasters over the Internet (http://www.radiotower.com)
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TV Stations: (http://tvnet.com/tv/us/stations5.html)
----- Selected outlets and more information
- BBC Networking Club: (http://www.bbcnc.org.uk)
- C-SPAN: Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (http://www.c-span.org)
- CBC Radio: (http://radioworks.cbc.ca)
- CBS: (http://www.cbs.com)
- ClariNet: complete electronic newspaper delivered via Net (http://www.clarinet.com)
- ITR: Internet Talk Radio (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html)
- PBS: United States Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbs.org)
- NBC: (http://www.nbc.com)
- VOA: Voice of America (USA) (http://www.voa.gov)
----- Lists
- Societal
- Cyberpunk: texts for understanding technology and culture, from the English Server (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Cyber.html)
- Friends + Partners: USA and Russia information and communication (http://www.friends-partners.org/friends/)
- Net Revisited: The Network Nation Revisited, a bachelor's thesis examining Hiltz and Turoff's predictions for CMC on societal change, by David Belson (http://www.stevens-tech.edu/~dbelson/thesis/thesis.html)
- Surveillance and remote control
- Anthony's List: Internet-accessible machines for vending, temperature sensors, tele-operated machinery, equipment status, cameras/video, and others, by Anthony Anderberg (http://www.dsu.edu/~anderbea/machines.html)
- bsy's List: Internet Accessible (non-Coke) Machines, connections to many surveillance and remote sensing examples (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/iam.html)
- Remote Sensing: entry from the WWW VL (http://www.vtt.fi/aut/ava/rs/virtual/)
- Web Voyeur: look at stuff through the Web (http://rainier.net/~larry/web-voyeur/)
- Scientific
- AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science (http://www.aaas.org)
- CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information--worldwide scientific, technical and medical information (http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/cisti.html)
- CAS: The Chicago Academy of Sciences (http://www.mcs.com/~cas/home.html)
- CS Tech Reports: Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites (http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html)
- DoD IAC: Department of Defense (DoD) Information Analysis Center (IAC) Hub Page (http://www.dtic.dla.mil/iac/)
- EI: Engineering Information, Inc., a community of engineers sharing research, knowledge, and data (http://www.ei.org)
- EnviroWeb: environmental information source on the Internet (http://www.envirolink.org)
- NAS: National Academy of Sciences (http://www.nas.edu)
- NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library; an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-commercial and educational use (http://www.ncstrl.org)
- NSF-USA: The National Science Foundation (NSF), United States (http://www.nsf.gov)
- OSTI-USA: The US Office of Scientific and Technical Communication (http://apollo.osti.gov/html/osti/ostipg.html)
- Science Top: the top science information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/science.html)
- SETN: The Science and Engineering Television Network, Inc., a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television (http://www.service.com/stv/setncall.html)
Since the Web was invented by scientists, it is no surprise that scientific communication is common online. In this section, I list a few major examples of sites that are putting the Internet to use for scientific communication.
The online world is all about communication, so it is not surprising that examples of the Internet as used for communication abound. This section highlights how computer-mediated communication on the Internet is being used in a range of context--from individual and small group interaction to mass and societal uses. I list groups studying these contexts for communication as well as examples and software.
Education
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Education Top: the resources for educators; empahsis on primary education, but some higher-education resources; described and reviewed (http://www.december.com/web/top/edu.html)
----- Major Collections
These are major collections of information about the support of education online which are distinguished by their depth, breadth, or authority.
- AskERIC: Educational Resources Information Center, Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, US federally-funded collection of education-related resources; AskERIC includes a question and answer service, a virtual library, and a research and development team; the collections are well-organized and frequently updated (http://ericir.syr.edu)
- Blue Web'n: a library of Internet-based instructional information; you can quickly search this database by audience type, application type, content area, and other search terms; you'll find activities, lessons, references, tools, and projects listed for a variety of educational audiences part of the Pacific Bell initiative, Education First, and of Pacific Bell's umbrella program to benefit education, Knowledge Network (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/)
- CAUSE: association for managing and using information technology in higher education; this site includes a discussion of current issues, information about conferences, professional development, publications, information services, and collaborative alliances with other organizations; the focus is on the future of higher education in the information age; this site is well-organized and has breadth and depth (http://cause-www.colorado.edu)
- CNIDR/K-12 education: educational sites hosted at the Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, includes ARTSEDGE (National Arts and Education Information Network, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), EdWeb (Online K-12 Education Resource Guide, Corporation for Public Broadcasting), Global SchoolHouse Project (Collaborative Internet Classroom Project, National Science Foundation), Janice's K-12 Cyberspace Outpost (K-12 Educational Uses of the Internet, J3N3), Presidential Awardees Internet Pilot (Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching, National Science Foundation), and K-12 Opportunities and Resources (On-line mailing lists for K-12 projects) (http://k12.cnidr.org)
- CEARCH: The Cisco Educational Archives (CEARCH) Virtual Schoolhouse; this is a collection of links of interest to the K-12 educator; it includes a comprehensive list of schools and universities on the Internet, educational links by subject, links to libararies and books sites, museums, exhibits, networking resources, technical information about the Internet, and teaching resources; this is a project of Cisco Systems, Inc., the leading global supplier of internetworking hardware (routers, switches, servers, software) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) Office of Information Technology's SunSITE, an educational service of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse.html)
- GSN: Global SchoolNet Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the instructional applications of telecommunication; includes registry of best curriculumn projects, tutorials, articles about using the Internet in the classroom, news and discussion, and events and contests; includes a link to the collaborative project with Microsoft to create a comprehensive site for education resources on the Internet (http://www.gsn.org)
- US-RELnet: U.S. National Educational Laboratories network, a network of regional educational laboratories and educational research and development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Department, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI); this page links to contact information and information servers of the labs (http://www.nwrel.org/national/regional-labs.html)
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Web66: resources and information to facilitate the introduction of Web technology into K-12 schools; the project helps educators learn how to establish Internet services and distribute and use resources on the Web; provides specific examples of how the Web is used in a classroom at the Hillside Elementary School in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, USA, the pilot school for the Web66 project; the Mustang project helps teachers prepare and evaluate projects using Internet resources in their classroom (http://web66.coled.umn.edu)
----- Specialized Education Sites
- AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (http://www.aace.org)
- Adventure Learning: A directory of sites that involve students in explorations; this page, provided by adventureonline.com, a resource center for activities of this type, provides links to a variety of adventure projects--for example, the JASON project to explore the undersea world, MayaQuest to explore Central America's treasures and GOALS, another site for Global Online Adventure Learning (http://www.adventureonline.com/other.html)
- aeRes: Australian Educational Resources, Australia's largest and most comprehensive Internet site for Australian educational information. Topics include primary, secondary, tertiary and technical fields of study (http://www.gu.edu.au/aeres/)
- Canada's SchoolNet: an educational initiative for learning through electronic networking in Canada, supported by government agencies (provincial, territorial, and federal), industry, and educational institutions; site includes online resources, staff, and information about projects; site includes a range of information on this national initiative (http://schoolnet.carleton.ca)
- CASO Directory: Cape Software Directory, The Internet University - College Courses by Computer (companion site to the book), comprehensive listing of online college courses available (700+ courses); profiles of over thirty accredited online course providers; dynamic links to more than 2,000 Internet study resource sites (http://www.caso.com)
- CEE: Center for Excellence in Education, to help our best students and teachers keep the United States competitive in science and technology, and to nurture international understanding among potential leaders of many countries (http://rsi.cee.org)
- CEFPI: The Council of Educational Facility Planners, International, an information agency that supports its members' professional efforts in creating world class educational facilities; site features a wide variety of educational facility planning information including the latest technology/Internet issues; thisis the place to learn about issues such as issues of lighting, gross area needed per student, and strategic planning for educational facilities (http://www.cefpi.com/cefpi)
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Academe this Week, offers guide to contents of The Chronicle of Higher Education and all Positions Available ads, calendar of events, deadlines for grants, papers, fellowships, put out every Tuesday at noon EST (http://chronicle.merit.edu)
- COL: Commonwealth of Learning, distance education techniques and associated communications technologies; an organization established by fifty-three member countries to improve access to and the quality of education using distance learning and communications technologies; web site includes administrative and organizational information as well as information on programs, publications, videos, and news (http://www.col.org)
- CTC: Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway, resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12 (http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/index.html)
- DeweyWeb: facilitating communication between students from all over the world; emphasis is on helping students both gain and produce information by contributing their own findings and ideas; sponsored by the University of Michigan and Interactive Communications and Simulations (ICS), a program of exciting and innovative educational telecommunications exercise (http://ics.soe.umich.edu)
- DLD: Distance Learning Directory, an extensive listing of distance learning/distance education information and resources, including links to other directories, compiled by the Howard University Continuing Education Program (http://www.con-ed.howard.edu/WebPages/dll/Dist-Lrn/dld.htm)
- EDUCOM: addresses critical issues surrounding the role of information technology in higher education; includes links to EDUCOM information conferences, seminars, news, initiatives, programs, projects, and cooperative efforts (http://www.educom.edu)
- ENC: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, instructional materials for K-12 math and science (http://www.enc.org)
- ESI: Educational Software Institute, a commercial site offering a large collection of K-12 educational software from hundreds of software publishers; you can search the online catalog to find software and order online (http://www.edsoft.com)
- FinAid: The financial aid information page, information about student financial aid, from Mark Kantrowitz, author of the The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students (http://www.finaid.org)
- GNA: Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with Usenet University; goal is to create an fully accredited online university (http://uu-nna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html)
- HUB: articles, curriculum, newsletters, projects, reports, and software for mathematics and science education, operated by TERC, Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education; site links to projects (e.g., Testbed for Telecollaboration) and network resources produced by TERC (e.g., Planning Guide for Network Science) (http://hub.terc.edu)
- IAT: Institute for Academic technology, a site devoted to interactive technologies in education; includes programs and training information and resources to facilitate the use of affordable technologies in higher education; located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.iat.unc.edu)
- iCDL: International Centre for Distance Learning, in the United Kingdom on the campus of the Open University, disseminating distance education information worldwide (http://acs-info.open.ac.uk/info/other/ICDL/ICDL-Facts.html)
- IKE: IBM Kiosk for Education, a collection of resources about IBM products and service to support education; a higher education information service managed by the University of Washington in partnership with IBM (http://ike.engr.washington.edu/ike.html)
- ILT: Institute for Learning Technologies, part of the Columbia University (New York, USA) Virtual Information Initiative; resources and information about education (http://www.ilt.tc.columbia.edu)
- inSITE: Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, exploring ways in which the Internet can be used both to benefit teacher education programs at colleges and universities around the world and to support K-12 staff development technology initiatives (http://teach.virginia.edu/insite)
- Jones Ed Co: Jones Education Company (http://www.jec.edu)
- Kidlink: a grassroots project aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10-15 involved in a global dialogs (http://www.kidlink.org)
- K-5 Cybertrail: developed by public broadcaster WMHT of New York state's Capital Region as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting K-12 Internet Testbed Project, an online tutorial for elementary educators who are new to the Internet (http://www.wmht.org/trail/)
- K-12 LiveText: developed by the Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, to provide K-12 related resources to educators, students and others; this site contains school resources such as planning guides, technology planning and policy; readings in technology and pedagogy as well as telecommunications and reform policy; a page of student publications and student work; and a page for curricula in a variety of subject areas; this site serves as a broad index to other sites and is part of the Institute for Learning Technologies web at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/index.html)
- K-12 Busy Teacher: a directory of resources for teachers divided by subject area; an extremely extensive database of well-annoted links of resources for a variety of subjects, such as archaeology, art, astronomy...sciences, social studies; put together by Carolyn Cole (http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT/)
- K-12 Registry: International WWW Schools Registry, a list of schools with Web sites worldwide, from Web66 project, College of Education, University of Minnesota (http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html)
- LRDC: Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh--thinking, knowing, and understanding in and beyond school (http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu)
- Maricopa CLI: Center for Learning and Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges, Arizona, USA, includes extensive directory for teaching and learning, using technology; a national model for motivating, infusing, and promoting innovation and change in the community college environment (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu)
- OISE: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, a graduate school of education affiliated with the University of Toronto, offering graduate degrees and research and development in education (http://www.oise.on.ca)
- Peterson's: Educational Center for education and lifelong learning (http://www.petersons.com)
- Plugged In: a non-profit group dedicated to bringing the educational opportunities created by new technologies to children and families from low-income communities, located in East Palo Alto, California (http://www.pluggedin.org)
- School.Net: educational information and links to schools, Internet help for teachers, students, parents (http://k12.school.net)
- Singapore-MOE: Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore (http://www.moe.ac.sg)
- SLN: Science Learning Network, a site to support inquiry science, involving students in hands-on explorations; site links to a variety of science museums, each of which support a variety of online exhibits and exercises for students; students and educators can take part in making connections and exchanging project information and ideas; funded by Unisys and the U.S. National Science foundation (http://www.sln.org)
- Syllabus: resources for educators on how technology can be incorporated into instruction. It contains news, case studies, product reviews and announcements, and feature articles on technology written by educators and experts in educational technology (http://www.syllabus.com)
- Teachers helping Teachers: helps with basic teaching tips, ideas, methodologies, and a forum for experienced teachers to share expertise and tips; tips are practical and detailed; prepared by Dr. Scott Mandel (http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/)
- TERC: Technical Education Research Center, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the quality and accessibility of education (http://www.hub.terc.edu/gn/hub/owner/terc.html)
- UK-DEE: United Kingdom Department for Education and Employment (http://www.open.gov.uk/dfee/dfeehome.htm)
- UK-NCET: National Council for Educational Technology Information Service (UK) (http://datasun.ncet.org.uk)
- UK-TLTP: United Kingdom Teaching and Learning Technology Programme, makes teaching and learning more productive and efficient by using modern technology (http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/tltp/)
- US-DLA: United States Distance Learning Association, a non-profit association to promote the use of distance learning for education and training; includes membership and administrative information about the USDLA as well as links to other sources of information about distance and life long learning (http://www.usdla.org)
- US-ED: United States Department of Education; includes information about the department itself and how to make the most of its resources as well as information about guides, funding, and other valuable educational sites (http://www.ed.gov)
- USENET University: an online a society of people interested in learning, teaching or tutoring (ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/uu/FAQ)
- US-DoD: United States Department of Defense Education Gateway, information on education efforts sponsored by the US DoD including such projects as the DoD science, mathematics, and engineering education enhancement efforts (http://www.acq.osd.mil/ddre/edugate/)
- US-NEA: United States National Education Association; advancing the cause of public education at all levels; web site includes tips and materials for parents and teachers (http://www.nea.org)
- US-NSNT: United States National School Network Testbed, exploring ways to use technology for enriching the school curriculum (http://copernicus.bbn.com/testbed2/)
- US-PBS Learning: Learning Services from the Public Broadcasting Service, a United States-funded television network; web includes how to use PBS programs as part of learning as well as projects and activities for students and teachers (http://www.pbs.org)
- US-PTA: The United States Parent-Teachers Organization, a volunteer organization for the benefit of children's education, health and safety; includes resources, archives, and discussions of issues, initiatives, and activities as well as links to web pages to local and state PTA chapters (http://www.pta.org)
- US-WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an agency for resource sharing among 15 US western states (http://www.wiche.edu)
- VOU: Virtual Online University, an online liberal arts university online, using a virtual environment called a VEE, Virtual Education Environment (http://www.athena.edu)
- Yahooligans!: this is a Web guide for kids produced by Yahoo, Inc., contains content geared toward 8 to 14 year old children (http://www.yahooligans.com)
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World Lecture Hall: WWW for instructional use, a collection of course materials, from the University of Texas at Austin (http://www.utexas.edu/world/instruction/index.html)
----- Documents and Reports
- Multimedia in Education: consequences of using multimedia in education (current trends, exploring future chances), from the Research institute for psychology and media (http://www.uni-sb.de/sonstige/mefis/em01.htm)
- Schools-Internet: Answers to Commonly Asked Primary and Secondary School Internet User Questions; this is a good introductory discussion of the use of the Internet in an educational setting, including school Internet connections, security, ethics, collaboration, and other resources; this document doesn't tell you everything you have to know, but it is a good starting point (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi22.txt)
- High school-Internet: Assessing the effect on high school teachers of direct and unrestricted access to the Internet--a case study of an east central Florida high school, by Michael Anthony Gallo (ftp://sci-ed.fit.edu/pub/Internet/study/)
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Pedagogical CMC: Online Report on Pedagogical Techniques for Computer-mediated Communication, by Morten Flate Paulsen, Assistant Professor, The NKI Department of Distance Education, a framework of pedagogical CMC techniques and experiences reported in about 100 articles (http://www.hs.nki.no/~morten/cmcped.htm)
----- Indexes
- Education-WWW VL: an extensive listing of world-wide web virtual library education sites; reasonably annotated, but not very selective and the organization lacks categorization (it is alphabetical); useful for searching on particular items of interest to educators (http://www.csu.edu.au/education/all.html)
- Education-Yahoo: Education section from Yahoo, contains a very wide selection of links--watch for the Yahoo sunglasses icon to separate the wheat from the chaff (sometimes) to find the most compelling sites; this index is good for overall look of what is out there with regard to Internet-based educational information (http://www.yahoo.com/Education/)
- Educational Technology--WWW VL: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library--Educational Technology, a listing of a wide variety of resources for educational technology, includes links to topics, announcements, educational virtual reality, courseware, software, and institutions and people (http://tecfa.unige.ch/info-edu-comp.html)
- Education Technology-Communication: a long, unannotated list of the names of computer/communications organizations and resource centers, from the American Communication Association (http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/commed.html)
- WebCrawler education: WebCrawler select section on education, a list of some interesting resources for education; includes a selection of feature articles (http://www.webcrawler.com/select/ed.new.html)
Educators are using online actively to extend the context of their teaching and students' learning. I've selected resources for this section which connect you to major online information sources about education.
----- Reviewed Sites
Entertainment
- Entertainment Top: the top entertain information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/entertain.html)
- Compass: navigate through many of the entertainment sites on the World Wide Web (http://www.surrface.com/compass/)
- ENN: Entertainment Network News, a large collection of entertainment news (http://www.slip.net/~scmetro/enn.htm)
The Web reflects the very human tendency to find a way to relax, be distracted, or to just have fun. I've selected a few of the major entertainment resources on the Web for this section.
Government
- Initiatives for information infrastructures
- Canada: Industry Canada Ministry, Communications Development Directorate (http://info.ic.gc.ca)
- Europe: European Council report on specific measures to be taken by the European Community and the Members States for information infrastructures (http://www.earn.net/EC/bangemann.html)
- Europe/Info Market: I'M (Info Market)- Europe Home Page, information about Europe and the European electronic information market (http://www.echo.lu)
- Japan-MITI: Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, program for advanced information infrastructure (http://www.miti.go.jp/index-e.html)
- Singapore-IT200: Information from the National Computing Board (NCB) of Singapore's Digital Media Centre (http://www.ncb.gov.sg)
- USA-HPCC: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (http://www.hpcc.gov)
- USA-IITF: United States Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://iitf.doc.gov)
- USA-IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII) (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/)
- USA-NII DIIG: The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a resource to facilitate the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) (http://farnsworth.mit.edu/diig.html)
- USA-NII Related: Related Efforts in the National Information Infrastructure (http://www.acl.lanl.gov/sunrise/RelatedInfo/OtherProjects.html)
- USA-NII-XIWT: USA's National Information Infrastructure Cross-Industry Working Team, a coalition of industry to define requirements for a national information infrastructure (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us:3000/XIWT/public.html)
- USA-North Carolina: North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) (http://www.ncih.net)
These government-sponsored initiatives and organizations to implement or support national or state information infrastructures.
- Information supplied by governments
- Government Top: the top government information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/gov.html)
- Govt Docs: Government Documents Center, Government Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/govweb.html)
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U.S. Govt: Information Sources list maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) (http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html)
------ Countries
- Canada: Open Government -- information about Canadian Federal government (http://canada.gc.ca)
- EU: European Union's EUROPA site, information about European Union's goals and policies (http://europa.eu.int)
- Government-Galaxy: page from EINet's Galaxy showing a large collection of government information (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Government.html)
- GILS: Government Information Locator Service (http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/)
- Japan PM: Japan Prime Minister's official residence Web server (http://www.kantei.go.jp)
- UK CCTA: United Kingdom Government Centre for Information Systems (http://www.open.gov.uk)
- US Fedix: Federal Information Exchange, Inc., access to a wide variety of government data (http://www.fie.com)
- US Fedworld: a gateway to US. Government information operated by the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (http://www.fedworld.gov)
- US GPO: United States Government Printing Office (http://www.access.gpo.gov)
- US NPR: United States National Performance Review (http://www.npr.gov)
- US Patents and Trademarks: includes Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure issues (http://www.uspto.gov)
- US House: United States House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov)
- US Senate: United States Senate (http://www.senate.gov)
- US Thomas: United States Legislative Information (http://thomas.loc.gov)
- US White House: United States Executive Branch (http://www.whitehouse.gov)
Government-sponsored or government-related information, particularly dealing with CMC issues.
------ Major Collections
- Policy
- CapWeb: Political issues, campaigns, publications, and a guide to the United States Congress (CapWeb) (http://www.capweb.net)
- Democracy.Net: dedicated to exploring ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet (http://www.democracy.net)
- Computer Tech Legal Net: Computer Technology Legal information resources (http://www.com/mmm/mmmhome.html)
- Cryto: Encryption policy resource page; information and activisim to lobby for encryption policies (http://www.crypto.com)
- Discovery Institute: a public policy think tank; has forum in Internet law and policy (http://www.discovery.org)
- Govt Policy: (http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/govnii.html)
- ILPF: Internet Law and Policy Forum, addressing legal and policy issues of the Internet (http://www.ilpf.org)
- ICTSP: The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Institute for Computer and Telecommunications Systems Policy (http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/instctsp/)
- Information Policy: Information Policy for Electronic Information Resources, by Mary Lou Goodyear: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET GOODYEAR PRV4N6"
- INTA: International Trademark Association (http://www.inta.org/inta/)
- International Trade: network resources for legal research and education (http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/misc/objective.html)
- The Information Economy: a collection of documents that have to do with the economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property, and related issues, by Hal Varian (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/)
- Internet Policy: What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?, by G. Cook (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1527.txt)
- IP Policy OnRamp: a service by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Information Technology (IT) Policy and Leadership, USA; information about information technology policy (http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov)
- MIT-RPCP: MIT's Research Program on Communications Policy (http://farnsworth.mit.edu)
- Patent Law: frequently asked questions and answers on patent law (http://www.patents.com)
- PICS: a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/PICS/)
- PPP: Political Participation Project, a research project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab designed to explore how interactive media can be used to facilitate political participation; web includes collection of political sources, a bibliography, directory of grassroots organizations, and publications (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/msb/ppp/home.html)
- Telecom policy: (http://www.ba.com/sites.html)
- Voters Telecom Watch: monitoring important bills and alerting the public at crucial times in the life of a bill (http://www.vtw.org)
- Warren Gopher: a collection of electronic newsletters distributed by Jim Warren on the subjects of political action and government access through the use of computer communications (gopher://gopher.path.net:8102/1)
- WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), includes Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://www.wipo.int)
These pointers relate to public policy issues or government-citizen interaction, or legal issues.
World governments are very eager to use online communication to improve their economies, educate their citizens, and disseminate government information. In this section, I've collected a range of information sources about how government is using online communication in their national policies and plans as well as examples of information delivered to citizens online.
Information
- Dissemination and Retrieval
- ACM/SIGIR: Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/)
- Agents, Intelligent: a collection of information about software information agents (http://retriever.cs.umbc.edu/agents/)
- Addressing: Uniform Resource Identifiers/Locators/Names (URI, URL, URN) (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html)
- ArD: database of published articles in the field of information systems (http://www.zib-berlin.de/People/mueller/GNA/ISG/Services/ArD/)
- CAIT-WUSTL: Center for the Application of Information Technology, part of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/intro.html)
- Cataloging Internet Res: explores how to catalog electronic information, by Priscilla Caplan: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get caplan prv4n2"
- CATRIONA: CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications (http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/catriona.html)
- CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access Technology, natural-language interface (ftp://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/pub/chat/)
- CIT: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/cit.html)
- CIIR-UMass: Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (http://ciir.cs.umass.edu)
- CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments (http://www.cni.org)
- CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.cwi.nl/default.html)
- CNIDR Web Page: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page (http://cnidr.org/welcome.html)
- Data Research: databases and information, some free (don't abuse free services) (http://www.dra.com)
- DIMUND: Document Understanding Information and Resources (http://dimund.cfar.umd.edu)
- Doc Center: Document Center, a hard copy document delivery service for government and industry specifications and standards (http://doccenter.com/doccenter/home.html)
- IDU: Information Design Unit (http://www.idu.co.uk/idu/index.html)
- Info Provider: discussion of WWW and other servers from an information provider standpoint (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Overview.html)
- IIP: Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/home-page.html)
- IRLP: Internet Resource Location Project (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/gc/cs/genbbb_wwww.html)
- IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship (http://www.iris.brown.edu/iris)
- IRTF: Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery (IRTF-RD) (http://rd.cs.colorado.edu/~schwartz/IRTF.html)
- IS Meta List: Information Systems Meta-List, sponsored by the Center for the Application of Information Technology (CAIT) (http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait/infosys.html)
- ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
- ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://www.isri.unlv.edu)
- ISS: Information Sharing System, A tool that enables transparent, model-based access to distributed, heterogeneou s databases. Developed by CERC, West Virginia University. (http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/dice/iss/index.html)
- ISWorld Net: information systems web, sponsored by the Edwin L. Cox School Management at Southern Methodist University (http://www.isworld.org/isworld/isworldtext.html)
- Library Special: Library special collections on the Internet (ftp://vm1.nodak.edu/nnews/nnews.1993-10)
- Lycos: a research program in providing information retrieval and discovery in the WWW, using a finite memory model of the web to guide intelligent, directed searches for specific information needs (http://www.lycos.com)
- OCLC Research: Toward Providing Library Services for CMC (ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/internet_resources_project/report/)
- PCP: Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)--the computer-supported collaborative development of an evolutionary-systemic philosophy (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/RELATED.html)
- Publishing: Advanced Publishing in the Web, by Terje Norderhaug (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/WWWauthoring/abstract.html)
- Quality: Quality and Standards of the Internet Information Resources (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/QLTY/QltyHome.html)
- ResInfo: working toward a basic operational framework necessary to implement a globally distributed information system (http://www.hmc.edu/~jared/professional/resinfo/resinfo.html)
- SIFTER-UAB: Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Studies of Information Filtering Technology for Electronic Resources (SIFTER) Research Group (http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/AdPage.80)
- SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
- UWI: UnderWorld Industries, nodes that wish to share information with other UWI nodes (http://kzsu.stanford.edu/uwi.html)
- Z39.50: Network Information Dissemination Standards (http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/)
- Library
- ALA: American Library Association (http://www.ala.org)
- ARL: Association of Research Libraries Web server (http://arl.cni.org)
- CARL: access to UnCover and other indexes (http://www.carl.org/carl.html)
- Dialog: a service of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. (http://www.dialog.com)
- Internet libraries: various Internet material for librarians (ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/doc/library/)
- IPL: Internet Public Library, information and services to enhance the value of the Internet to its users (http://www.ipl.org)
- LaUNCpad: access various infomration services, from the University of North Carolina (telnet://launch@launchpad.unc.edu) Login as : launch
- LRL: Library Resources List, a variety of Internet resources for the library community, including reference resources, new net sites and search engines, government resources, library sites, and issues about libraries and national information infrastructure, compiled by Bob Bocher, Technology Consultant WI Dept. of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries. (http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/dpi/www/lib_res.html)
- Lib webs: Library Information Servers via WWW, by Thomas Dowling (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/)
- LEXIS-NEXIS: Legal and news information (http://www.lexis-nexis.com)
- OCLC: Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit computer library service and research organization (http://www.oclc.org)
- Public Libraries: St. Joseph County (Indiana, USA) list of public libraries with Internet services (http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/homepage/PublicLibraries/PublicLibraryServers.html)
- RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
- SLA: Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org)
- US LOC: United States Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov)
Information dissemination is one of the major functions of online communication. In this section, I've collected links to a variety of projects, research groups and resource lists which are devoted to information dissemination and retrieval over networks.
Multiple
- 101 stories: Reprinted from 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education; The Joe Wyatt Challenge, Edited by Judith Boettcher. A Project of EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT) (gopher://ivory.educom.edu/11/stories.101)
- FARNET stories: Federation of American Research Networks (FARNet) descriptions of 51 Reasons for a National Information Infrastructure (NII) (gopher://gopher.cni.org/11/cniftp/miscdocs/farnet)
- Success stories: Internet Reference Success Stories, collected by Karen G. Schneider (http://www.intac.com/~kgs/success/successcover.html)
There are many examples of online communication being used for multiple purposes. I've selected some collections which relate case studies of the excellent use of online communication.
Scholarship
- CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship (http://cios.org)
- CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, a project of the Association of Research Libraries, CAUSE, and EDUCOM to promote the creation of and access to information resources in networked environments in order to enrich scholarship and to enhance intellectual productivity (http://www.cni.org)
- IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, an effort to bring Jefferson's educational ideas of exchange across disciplines and integrated living and learning (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu)
- Scholarly Communications Project: of University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a project to pioneer electronic communication of scholarly materials (http://borg.lib.vt.edu)
- Scholarly Communication Reports: Quarterly Technical Reports (ftp://borg.lib.vt.edu/pub/vpiej-l/reports)
- Scholarly Electronic Forums: information on professional and academic discussion groups (http://www.oise.on.ca/~arojo/forums.html)
- Scholarly Societies: University of Waterloo Library maintains links to gophers and other servers of scholarly societies (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html)
- Scholarly Comm paper/Kahin: Scholarly Communication in the Network Environment Issues of Principle, Policy, and Practice, by Brian Kahin (ftp://ftp.cni.org/CNI/projects/Harvard.scp/kahin.txt)
- Scholarly Comm/Libraries: Published by The Association of Research Libraries for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (ftp://ftp.cni.org/ARL/mellon/)
- Scholarly Communication study: University Libraries and Scholarly Communication, A Study Prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by Anthony M. Cummings, Marcia L. Witte, William G. Bowen, Laura O. Lazarus, and Richard H. Ekman, November 1992 (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/mellon/mellon.html)
- Scholarly Publishing models: Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals A Background Paper and Review of the Issues (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/trln-copyright-paper)
Scholars use online communication as a powerful way to keep in contact with each other, collaborate, and share information. In this section, I list major sites that are focused on scholarship, particularly scholarship conducted in online contexts.