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I don't mean to open a big can of worms, but this came up on the Medieval Science list. The question raised (perhaps by me, I don't recall now) was: is it appropriate that scholarly discussion we generate for free should be used to produce income for someone else, without any of us--even the list owner/operator--getting a share? Our vote, such as it was, was that we did not wish to archive our material through a for-profit group. The clay pigeon's up--fire at will :-) any thoughts on this? ------------ James McNelis, Editor-in-Chief, ENVOI ------------------- http://members.aol.com/ENVOIjrnl/ <-The ENVOI Web Page http://members.aol.com/McNelis/medsci_index.html <-The Medieval Science Page http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mcnelis/ On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Abigail Ann Young wrote: > I sent part of the responses from those of you who had difficulty > connecting to the new Iter web site to Bill Bowen, the originator. You'll > find his reply below. Hope it helps! > > On a purely administrative note, I have been solicited by a new Web > service which is offering to index list archives on web sites (it's a new > commercial venture which is providing some academic/non-profit Internet > services to the educational market while making their money from > commercial sites; sort of like AltaVista, I gather). I have written back > to express interest, and am hoping that we'll have more accessible > archives soon. > > Abigail > > Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W > Toronto Ontario Canada > Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) [log in to unmask] > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 20:22:44 -0005 > From: "William R. Bowen" <[log in to unmask]> > To: Abigail Ann Young <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Iter > > Hi Abigail, > The short answer to some of the queries is that users should read the status > report and other documentation that is on the Iter web site. There > they will find a list of journals from which we have taken citations > for articles. In the near future we will circulate an invitation to > the community to propose which journals we should tackle next -- > this may be of interest to your list and the special interests of its > members. > > Also, it should be emphasized that the Iter web site is a test site > for a product which will be more stable in a few months. In the > meantime, we are changing things. For example, the search > screens have been redesigned in the last few weeks and will > continue to change as we develop the system. So, there will be brief > moments when the database is not available because we are working on its > fundamental structure. Any substantial problems should be reported to > Iter so that we can find out where the problem > lies: an email link is set up on the web pages for easy use. > > cheers, > Bill > > Address: > Try www.library.utoronto.ca/www/iter > > ********************************************************************* > William R. Bowen > Scarborough College and Faculty of Music > University of Toronto > > University of Toronto: [log in to unmask] > Scarborough College: [log in to unmask] > FICINO: [log in to unmask] > ********************************************************************* >