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A GUIDE TO LITERATURE ON THE INTERNET

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 Copyright (C) 1994 by Wolfgang Hink. All rights reserved.
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 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

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#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 <news-answers-request@MIT.EDU>).

 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)


 

(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 <vivian@sri.com>). 
# 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 <arielle@taronga.com> 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 <SRCMUNS@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>. 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:


 

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# 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 <Yourfirstname Yourlastname>

 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 <Yourfirstname Yourlastname>

 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 <Yourfirstname Yourlastname>

 Textual Studies in Canada
 Issues related to the study of texts with a Canadian context
 A: W.F. Garrett-Petts <petts@cariboo.bc.ca>



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 <artcomtv@well.sf.ca.us>
 
 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 <keeping@vax.library.utoronto.ca> or
 <ag351@freenet.carleton.ca>

 Attack Poetry
 Odd, modern, experimental poetry.
 A: Chris Conway <chris@pluto.njcc.com>

 Crash
 A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative
 travel stories, hints, and tips.
 A: John Labovitz <johnl@ora.com> or
 Nigel French <70703.2311@compuserve.com>

 Creative Juices
 Short fiction of various genre, poetry and essays from
 contributing writers
 A: Don Wilder <don.wilder@solar.org>

 CTHEORY
 A new international, electronic review of books on theory,
 technology and culture.
 A: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body:
 SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY <Yourfirstname Yourlastname>

 Cyberkind
 Poetics and Prosaics for a Wired World. A WorldWideWeb
 magazine of Internet-related fiction, nonfiction, poetry
 and art.
 A: Shannon Turlington <shannon@sunsite.unc.edu>

 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 <White@DUVM.BITNET>

 Delta Snake Blues News
 Blues Newsletter. Reviews of new releases and classic
 recordings, articles, recipes and poetry.
 A: Al Handa <mojohand@shell.portal.com>,
 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 <ake@lighthouse.com>

 Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric
 Central clearinghouse of information about zines.
 A: Jerod Pore <jerod23@well.sf.ca.us>

 Fat Nipples
 Essays, thoughts, poetry and more on the subjects of politics,
 punk, rock, personal problems, the "underground" scene, etc.
 A: Chris Conway <chris.conway@njcc.wisdom.bubble.org>

 FICTION-ONLINE
 Poetry, short stories, serialized novels and plays or excerpts
 of plays.
 A: Bill Ramsay <ngwazi@clark.net>

 FSFNet
 Bitnet fantasy-science fiction fanzine.
 Defunct since 1988, replaced by DargonZine.

 GRIST On-Line
 Electronic network poetry, art and culture.
 A: John Fowler <fowler@phantom.com>

 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 <drose@husc.harvard.edu>

 hubcap
 Magazine of music and literature.
 A: jim.stoicheff@aldus.com

 inter\face
 Literary magazine.
 A: Benjamin Henry <bh4781@rachel.albany.edu>

 InterText
 Fiction magazine with stories in all genres from
 mainstream to science fiction.
 A: <intertext@etext.org>

 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: <morpo-request@morpo.creighton.edu>

 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 <ahrvid@stacken.kth.se> or
 Ben Roimola <broimola@abo.fi>

 Notes from the Windowsill
 Reviews of new and reprinted children`s books.
 A: kidsbooks mailing list <kidsbooks-request@armory.com>
 Please include full email address in message.

 Obscure Electronic
 Profiles the people in the zine subculture.
 A: James P Romenesko <obscure@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>

 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 <PlanetMag@aol.com>

 Quanta
 Magazine of science fiction and fantasy.
 A: Daniel K Appelquist <quanta@andrew.cmu.edu>

 RealPoetik
 "We publish the new, the lively, the witty and the exciting in
 vernacular English."
 A: listserv@wln.com with
 SUBSCRIBE RPOETIK <Yourfirstname Yourlastname> 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 <ahrvid@stacken.kth.se>

 Sparks
 Literature, essays, art, culture, rants, politics, etc.
 A: Jim Esch <Jim.Esch@launchpad.unc.edu>

 TapRoot Reviews Electronic Edition
 Short reviews of micropress poetry, experimental literature
 and art.
 A: Luigi-Bob Drake <au462@cleveland.freenet.edu>

 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
 <mbcs@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>

 To Be Continued
 The newsletter of the Midwest Science Fiction and Fantasy
 Association.
 A: R.Allen Jervis <voyager@irishmvs.cc.nd.edu>



 

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 Twilight World
 Fantasy and science-fiction.
 A: Richard Karsmakers <R.C.Karsmakers@stud.let.ruu.nl>
 
 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 <cf2785@albnyvms.bitnet>



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 <gophlib@yaleinfo.yale.edu>.
 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<noonan@msus1.msus.edu>. 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.<noonan@msus1.msus.edu>. 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 <keyword> and you'll get a
 definition of the word <keyword> 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
# <t.lawrence@auntie.bbcnc.org.uk>.
 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


 

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 - 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
 <ecl@mtgp003.mt.att.com>).

 [As this part of the Guide is still under development I
 appreciate any hints or help with finding special literature
 Web sides.]


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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 <ahasuer@clark.net>
 Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@stacken.kth.se>
 Allan T Grohe Jr <iscladoc@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
 Andrea McRobbie <andrea@coombs.anu.edu.au> (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 <crispin@rain.org>
 Eunice Choi <jcis@ix.netcom.com>
 Even Flood <Even.Flood@ntub.unit.no>
 Harry S. Carver <hcarver@leo.vsla.edu>
 Henry Churchyard <churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
 Julian Bourne <julianb@qdpii.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au>
 Liza Fiol-Matta <lfiol@pipeline.com>
 Matthew Crosby <crosby@nordsieck.cs.colorado.edu>
 Melanie Dymond Harper <tcsmhz@aie.lreg.co.uk>
 Patricia McGarrity/Kate Cregan <kcregan@monul.cc.monash.edu.au>
 Raymond Crispin <crispin@rain.org>
 Rich Hyams <richh@readware.com>
 Robert Teeter <rteeter@netcom.com>
 Soeren Pold <AEKSP@hum.aau.dk>
 Taylor Roberts <troberts@mit.edu>
 Thomas Hilberer <hilberer@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>
 Tom Marazita <toad@eci1.ucsb.edu>
 Trevor Lawrence <t.lawrence@auntie.bbcnc.org.uk>
 (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 <web@armory.com>
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