macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis) (06/12/85)
I would like to get in touch with librarians and technical report issuers in order to discuss the possibility of making technical report ordering, notification, distribution, and cataloguing easier for everyone. If you are such a person, please drop me a line. If there is such a person in your organization who probably doesn't read net news, please ask hrm to get in touch with me, or mail hrs address to me. The idea would be that originating organizations would post their lists in some standard format; reports could be ordered (if money is involved, of course, some mechanism is needed for that); logged in at the receiving end; and an appropriate bibliographic record made. Right now, many organizations retype all this sort of information. It would be nice if reports could come with keywords and Computing Reviews classifications, too, but that would be a refinement. -s
krovetz@nlm-mcs.ARPA (Bob Krovetz) (06/17/85)
> I would like to get in touch with librarians and technical report > issuers in order to discuss the possibility of making technical report > ordering, notification, distribution, and cataloguing easier for > everyone. If you are such a person, please drop me a line. If there > is such a person in your organization who probably doesn't read net > news, please ask hrm to get in touch with me, or mail hrs address to > me. I've assembled a list of technical report contacts for a number of sites on the Arpanet. The list was distributed on Human-nets and AIList several months ago, but I've added a few sites since then. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is a list of people who can be contacted at various sites on the net for ordering technical reports. I've tried to determine who is the site contact, whether they have an on line bibliography, if they have a mailing list for notification of new TR's, and if the TR's themselves are available on line. If anyone knows of this information for any sites I haven't mentioned, please send me a message and I will post a followup to the net. Note that the mailing lists mentioned are U.S. mail, not electronic! Online bibliographies at the various sites may be FTP'd by logging in with id: ANONYMOUS and password GUEST (this only applies if you are on the ARPANET) Yale: Donna Mauri (MAURI@YALE) is the contact person for AI or cognitive science reports. There is no online list of those reports, but she can send a hard copy list. For non-AI/cognitive science reports the contact person is Kim Washington (WASHINGTON@YALE). CMU: No online list, however they do have a mailing list for notification of recent TR's. TR's can be ordered over the net. The contact person is Sylvia Berry (BERRY@CMUA). MIT: There is an online list, but the publications office is undergoing a restructuring, so it isn't available at the moment. A contact for ordering the TR's will be established at some future time. SRI: No online list of just the report names, but there is a list of the reports plus abstracts. Tonita Walker (TWalker@SRI-AI) is the contact person. Many of the reports are available for FTPing. UMASS: Department of Computer and Information Science (COINS), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A list of COINS technical reports, copies of specific TR's, or additions to a mailing list for notification of new TR's can be requested by sending mail to TECHREPT%UMASS-CS.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY WEIZMANN: A list of the technical reports from the Wiezmann Institute is under {SCORE}<PROLOG>WIEZMANN_ABSTRACTS.DOC OHIO: A list of the reports from Ohio State will eventually be set up at SUMEX. The reports may be ordered via US Mail by contacting Ms. Chris Putnam, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. PURDUE: There is no online bibliography and there is a charge for the reports. Queries about availability and price may be directed to Dr. William Schalliol (schallio@purdue-asc). UTEXAS: A list of current reports is in {UTEXAS}<cs.tech>TRLIST. A master list of reports still in print is under MASTER.TR. Many of the current reports themselves are also available in the above directory, but they contain text formatting commands. The directory contains a file READ.ME which tells which text formatter was used for which reports (SCRIBE vs. NROFF). Reports may be ordered by sending mail to CS.TECH@UTEXAS-20. UCLA: No reports or list online, but you can contact Brenda Ramsey RAMSEY@UCLA-LOCUS to obtain information on price and availability. The reports must be prepaid. Ms. Ramsey can also be contacted by phone at 213-825-2778. BBN: No reports or list online (no list even in hard copy). Contact author directly about getting a copy of the TR. PARC: Maia Pindar (PINDAR@XEROX) is the contact person. An online copy of the bibliography is not available at the moment, but Ms. Pindar may be contacted to obtain a hardcopy. Rutgers: Contact Christine Loungo (LOUNGO@RUTGERS) or Carol Petty (PETTY@RUTGERS) to obtain reports. They maintain a mailing list to distribute notices of the TR's and the abstracts. The abstracts of recent reports are online and under: {RUTGERS}<library>tecrpts-online.doc. Louisiana: Technical reports from Louisiana State University can be requested from Duncan Buell (BUELL%LSU.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY). A biblography is online and can be sent via electronic mail. ISI: Lisa Trentham is the contact (LTRENTHAM@ISIB). There is a list of the available reports under {ISIB}<BBOARD>ISI-PUBLICATIONS.DOC Stanford: Stanford reports are issued by four sources: the HPP (Heuristic Programming Project), the AI lab, the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), and the Computer Science Department. HPP reports are available without charge by contacting Paula Edmisten (EDMISTEN@SUMEX). Please be reasonable with your requests; no more than 15 at a time! There is no online bibliography available, but a hard copy may be requested. There is an online bibliograpy of AI lab reports in AIMLST in [BIB,DOC]@SU-AI. Some of the reports are available online and are so indicated in the bibliography. Reports from CSLI may be requested from Dikran Karagueuzian (DIKRAN@SU-CSLI). A bibliography of the reports is stored under {SU-CSLI}<CSLI>CATALOG.REPORTS. CSLI will also be issuing lecture notes, and a bibliography of these will be under {SU-CSLI}<CSLI>CATALOG.LECTURE-NOTES. The reports are available without charge, but there is a charge for the lecture notes. There is also a charge for reports published by either the AI lab or the Computer Science Department, but queries as to cost and/or availablity may be sent to Kathy Berg (BERG@SU-SCORE) A bibliography of CSD reports from 1963 to 1984 is available for $5.00. The department maintains a mailing list for notification of new TR's. You can be added to it by contacting Kathy Berg. Updates are sent out about five or six times per year.
mcnabb@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA (07/02/85)
Re: Posting by purtilo about tech reports here at the Univ. of Ill. at U-C. "bibref" is just a local version of "biblio" with some minor fixes and improvements. The "bibref" database should work just fine with "biblio", and can be changed into "refer" format without too much effort.