From dmeadows@idirect.com Sat Apr 29 08:18:39 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA29950 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:18:39 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA02135 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:18:38 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-141.look.ca [216.154.52.77]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA54932; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:16:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000429105525.00b1e610@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:19:13 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Atrium-Scrinia -- new (useful) list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Greetings and apologies for cross-postings, As some might be aware, a month or so ago I brought up the idea of using push technology as a means for publishers of journals and mongraphs in Classics and Classical archaeology to make the contents of their publications known to classicists (i.e. their target audience -- a couple of years ago, I thought a print publication might be more useful, but that idea was shelved as well; I initially was thinking of providing a means for graduate students to efficiently be able to stay on top of the sometimes overwhelming number of publications in our field when the standard databases seem to always be two or three years behind). After much fiddling and playing with it, however, I have decided the push platform is really unfeasible for our community (it involves a ticker on one's computer screen), primarily due to the fact that special software would be required and such software didn't exist for Macintosh users (yet) and obviously we have plenty of macophiles in our midst. And so, as often seems to be the case, the old-fashioned (!) announcement list seems the most appropriate for what I have in mind. Accordingly, I have established a new list called Atrium-Scrinia (obviously allied with my website, about which there will be further announcements later). Here's the official description: ATRIUM-SCRINIA provides a forum for publishers of journals and monographs in the fields of Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology to announce their latest publications to their target audience. Such announcements should contain at least a description of the publication and table of contents. Ideally, since many publishing houses do this anyway, such announcements will also include brief abstracts of articles and/or monographs and links to the publisher's website. The intended audience for the list is primarily professionals and students in the above disciplines, but interested layfolk should find the announcements useful as well. Although English is the official language of the list, announcements in any of the languages Classicists should know are welcome. This message is also an open invitation to publishers, editors, authors, etc. to send me announcements of volumes recently-published or in press. I'm hoping that publishers of journals will also take advantage of this list to announce when they have made past articles available on their website. The homepage of the website will also serve as a repository of links to publishers' websites. To subscribe to Atrium-Scrinia, send a blank email-message to: atrium-scrinia-subscribe@egroups.com If you are a publisher (or author) of a scholarly journal or monograph which you'd like to make known, please forward the relevant info (including TOC) to: dmeadows@idirect.com Although this is being posted to most of the major lists in the discipline, please feel free to forward it to editors, publishers, etc. of journals who may not be on such lists. regards, David Meadows .