Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (02/13/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1037. Monday, 12 Feb 1990. (1) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 08:33:53 EST (17 lines) From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: 3.1030 e-Tennyson, Browning? audio input? (55) (2) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 14:17 GMT (42 lines) From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: e-texts and pricing (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 90 08:33:53 EST From: "R.J. Shroyer" <66_443@uwovax.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: 3.1030 e-Tennyson, Browning? audio input? (55) In reply to Eric Johnson's request for electronic Browning and Tennyson, I have the poems and plays of Browning prepared in Oxford Concordance Program format for a concordance that is nearly ready for publication. Ricks' one-volume Tennyson was entered and encoded by Laurence Mazzeno of the United States Naval Academy and is being revised to reflect Ricks' recent three-volume Tennyson. T.J. Collins and I are now editing Tennyson's plays and will add them to the electronic poems by summer 1990. R. Shroyer R.J. Shroyer: Department of English, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 3K7. (519)-679-2111, ext. 5839 or 5834 Canada: Shroyer@uwovax.uwo.ca (2) --------------------------------------------------------------54---- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 14:17 GMT From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK> Subject: e-texts and pricing [delayed by wonky line between OUCS and rest of world] Electronic versions of texts by both Browning and Tennyson are available from the Oxford Text Archive, an institution with which I must confess I had assumed all Humanists were by now entirely familiar. There is a reasonably up to date list of all the texts we hold available freely from the LISTSERV as the file OXARCHIV SHRTLIST. To obtain any of the texts listed there in category U, you need to send us an order form (available online by request) with your signature and payment. The signature is to confirm that you are going to use the text for research purposes only, and not for profit. We do that to protect our depositors' rights in their material: most of which does not belong to us. For texts in category A the same rules apply, but you have to get explicit permission from the depositor as well. And there are texts in category X which we can't copy for you at all - mostly because someone else is distributing them already. As our pricing policy seems to have been the subject of some rather ill-informed gossip of late, I hope you'll let me sputter (rather than flame) on a bit about that. Our preferred medium is magnetic tape. For texts supplied on tape, we charge a flat rate of 5 pounds per text, irrespective of size, plus a media charge of 15 pounds in Europe or 25 pounds elsewhere for each tape needed. Smaller texts are available on diskette, but at the outrageous price of 15 pounds per diskette. This price is set deliberately high as a deterrent: at present all the stuff is on tape on the VAX, and every order for a diskette means someone has to sit around for ages downloading the stuff. But I expect we'll see reason eventually. Just for those who don't know what a magnetic tape is, you can get up to 40 or 50 megabytes on one tape: i.e. nearly two hundred diskettes. Maybe our prices are not so unreasonable after all. Lou Burnard Oxford Text Archive