Preface
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Computer Networking, Communication, and Scholarship
Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen
PART II: ISSUES IN COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARSHIP
How Is the Medium the Message: Notes on the Design of Networked Communication
Peter Lyman
Institutional and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library
Brian Kahin
Assessing the Costs of Technology: Contructing Scholarly Services in Today's Network Environment
Timothy Stephen and Teresa M. Harrison
PART III: COMPUTER NETWORKING, RESEARCH, AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
A. Using Computer Network for Research
Computer Networking and Textual Sources in the Humanities
Susan Hockey
Cooperative and Collaborative Mediated Research
Duncan Sanderson
How Do You Get a Hundred Strangers to Agree?: Computer Mediated Communication and Collaboration
Fay Sudweeks and Sheizaf Rafaeli
Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality
John Unsworth
The Multifaceted and Novel Nature of Using Cyber-Texts as Research Data
Laura J. Gurak
B. Moving Academic Disciplines Online
Computer Networking in Ornithology
Jack P. Hailman
Roadmap to Scholarly Electronic Communication and Publishing at the American Mathematical Society
David L. Rodgers, Kevin W. Curnow, Drury R. Burton, Greg S. Ullmann, William B. Woolf
The Labyrinth: An Electronic Information Network for Medieval Studies
Deborah Everhart
PART IV: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
A. Networking and Higher Education
Online Education: The Future
Linda Harasim
Hypermedia and Higher Education
J. L. Lemke
Equal Access to Computer Networks for Students and Scholars with Disabilities
Sheryl E. Burgstahler
B. Networking in the Classroom
Medieval Misfits: An Undergraduate Discussion List
Carolyn P. Schriber
VICE in REST
William D. Graziadei
The Solidarity Network: Universities, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Labor Studies in Canada
Jeff Taylor
Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide-Area Multiple-User Synchronus Discussions
Michael Day, Eric Crump, Rebeca Rickly
PART V: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE
A. Electronic Academic Journals on Computer Networks
Dimensions of Electronic Journals
Brian Gaines
Electronic Academic Journals: From Disciplines to "Seminars"?
Jean-Claude Guédon
The Electronic Journal and Its Implications for the Electronic Library
Cliff McKnight, Andrew Dillon, Brian Shackel
B. Disseminating and Archiving Network Information
The Role of Academic Libraries in the Dissemination of Scholarly Information in the Electronic Environment
Lyman Ross, Paul Philbin, Merri Beth Lavagnino, Albert Joy
The Body in the Virtual Library: Rethinking Scholarly Communication
Kenneth Arnold
Equality in Access to Network Information by Scholars with Disabilities
Tom McNulty
Building New Tools for the Twenty-First-Century University: Providing Acess to Visual Information
David L. Austin
PART VI: NAVIGATING THE NETWORK: AN INTRODUCTION
A Short Primer for Communicating on the Global Net
John December
List of Contributors
Index