The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-conferences screens, evaluates and organizes discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, mailing lists, interactive Web chat groups etc. (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagogical and professional activities.
The e-conferences in this Directory are all accessible via Internet services including email, Usenet News Readers, telnet, gopher, or WWW.
We have used our own judgment in deciding what is of scholarly, pedagogical, or professional interest, but always consider any advice or argument about our decisions. We have placed the entries into categories by deciding the *dominant* academic subject area of the electronic conference. Cross-listing is not done in order to save space in the annual print edition. It is not necesary in the searchable version as we add keywords that enhance searching access.
Where possible, the information in each record has been checked for currency and accuracy by contacting the moderators or other contact person.
We chose the term *moderator* as the umbrella term to describe: contact person, coordinator, listowner, editor, moderator, etc.; in other words the Human in Charge.
Topic descriptions are taken in whole or part from the descriptions provided by each moderator.
The basic fields are described as follows:
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Discussion Name: The name of the group; the listname
Topic: short description of the group; usually in the listowner's words
Subscription Address: this is the address to send your subscription and signoff messages to
Moderated? Does some human screen messages either by editing or by monitoring?; Is the list set to private.
Archives: Are there archives? Where?
Contact Address: The moderator; who to contact if you have questions
Keywords: words to enhance retrieval of an entry in search systems Acknowledgements
Thank you to Gleason Sackman, Listowner of New-List for continuing New-List after Marty Hoag retired from it. Special thank you to David Hartland. NISP/Mailbase Project, Computing Service, The University, Newcastle for setting up a great mirror site and providing informationon Mailbase lists. Thank you also to Comserve staff for updating and providing information on the COMSERVE conferences, Pedro Saizar for providing information on Latin American Studies electronic conferences, Joseph Van Zwaren for Israeli electronic conference information, and Joan Korenman for information on Women's Studies conferences, Jean Schneider for confirming european e-conferences. Thank you very sincerely to all the individuals who contributed conference names, information and feedback about conference statuses. Any errors are the responsibility of the compilers of each section. If you can provide corrections or additional information about any of these electronic conferences, please contact the Directory Team member responsible for that area or: Diane Kovacs - Editor-in-Chief - diane@kovacs.com
