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Professional Chat Rooms for Scholarly Communication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Mon May 3 20:35:39 1999
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 18:02:52 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@gwgate.lib.iastate.edu>
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I am greatly interested in the names of _specific_ *professional*
societies or organizations that offer 'chat-rooms for their members.
I am generally aware of a few and recently identified a chat-room
service from AAAS/Science.
[ http://www.sciencemag.org/subscriptions/terms-basic.shtml ]
Details about the individual chat-rooms are welcome, notably
a Web address.
Of (continued) particular interest is any and all research on the
use of chat-rooms for *scholarly* communication [ I am *not*
interested in use of chat-rooms for instructional/educational purposes]
[I have searched a number of sources and have received
citations from my good colleagues in response to an earlier
post on this topic, but have yet to identify significant literature
on this topic for *scholarly communication*
[I'm quite puzzled by this !]]
As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, critiques,
questions, concerns, queries, etc. etc. are Most Welcome.
Regards,
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!"
Alan Kay
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML
