Examples of online publications

Note, Jan 7 1996: these notes were written a year ago, back when the Web was a lot less mature. Reading this again now it seems a bit naive, dated. In a lot of ways the Web is more boring than it was before, an inevitable consequence of it being used in the same old ways as older media. The biggest exciting development is the creation of various effective Web search engines: see some other notes I've written about what that implies. Since writing this, I've become more interested in the dynamic and distributed aspects of the web.

Here are some examples and pointers to online publications. I put them together originally for a chat with some people from John Wiley. I have a summary of that chat online.

Other people's thoughts

Paul Ginsparg's comments to the APS.
Summary of Nelson's talk with John Wiley, includes some of my thoughts.

Selected online publications

http://alife.santafe.edu/: Alife Online. More of an online infoserver for alife than a "journal", but hopefully that will change some day.
http://life.anu.edu.au/ci/ci.html: Complexity International. Seems to only have one issue.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/contents.all.html: Postmodern Culture Journal. This is a real live, well known academic journal. They started publishing electronically and later started printing out paper.
http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/gaimmune/: A small paper I wrote and converted with latex2html. Just an example of self-publication.
http://www.wired.com/: Wired magazine. One of the few models of commercial online publication I know of. You have to be registered, but it's free - just fill out the form.
http://www.hotwired.com/Eyewit/I-Agnt/index.html: "Seek Ye the Gnarl", a Rudy Rucker article about complexity on HotWired. You have to be registered to use it.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/: LANL's preprint archive, a good model of how to distribute papers.
http://www.geom.umn.edu/welcome.html: The big jewel at the Geometry Center is the interactive demos. They illustrate one way the Web can be used to enhance the understanding of papers.
http://sauvy.ined.fr/popafsi/english/: A book about AIDS in African populations. One of the links, figures 25 and 26 is an interactive presentation of AIDS demographics. Interesting idea.
http://bug.village.virginia.edu/: WaxWeb is one of the most innovative interactive multimedia hypertext things out there. A strange film, an amazing use of Web technology.

Indices to online journals

http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Science/Research/Journals/: The Yahoo index of scientific research journals.
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Electronic_Journals.html: the Virtual Library index of online journals.
http://english.hss.cmu.edu/Journals.html: English Server's index of journals, all literature oriented.
http://www.ora.com:8080/johnl/e-zine-list/: Zines are an independent publication phenomenon - photocopy and snail mail, mostly, usually about "alternative" topics. I think some of the most interesting writing being done right now is published in zines. Online zines are a new phenomenon - this is a well maintained index.

Nelson Minar <nelson@santafe.edu>

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