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A Look Back at Sixteen Years as an Internet Electronic Publisher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
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From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." <cbailey@UH.EDU>
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It was sixteen years ago today that I became an Internet
electronic publisher. Little did I know what would result
from the apparently simple act of starting an early mailing
list called PACS-L. Below is an abbreviated chronology of my
electronic publishing efforts so far. They would not have
been possible without the support of Robin N. Downes [1],
the former Director of the University of Houston Libraries,
Dana C. Rooks [2], the current Dean of the UH Libraries,
and the efforts of volunteers from the UH Libraries and
elsewhere. Thanks to all of them.
- June 29, 1989. Established the PACS-L mailing
list [3], acted as list owner and, later, as its first
moderator. Sent the first PACS-L message [4] welcoming
subscribers.
- August 16, 1989. Established The Public-Access
Computer Systems Review [5] (PACS Review), a free
e-journal, and acted as its first Editor-in-Chief
(announcement [6]).
- January 3, 1990. Published the first PACS Review
issue [7]. Articles were selected by the editors. They
were distrbuted as ASCII files using the LISTSERV
software (see example [8]); table of contents messages
were e-mailed to subscribers. Authors retained the
copyright to their articles. Liberal copying was
permitted for noncommercial purposes.
- March 5, 1990. Established and acted as
co-editor of Public-Access Computer Systems News [9], a
free electronic newsletter (first issue [10]). Acted as
co-editor until the end of 1992.
- August 30, 1990. Published the first version
[11] of "Library-Oriented BITNET Lists," a directory of
mailing lists.
- August 26, 1991. Published a special PACS Review
issue on "Network-Based Electronic Serials [12],"
including Stevan Harnad's "Post-Gutenberg Galaxy: The
Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of
Knowledge [13]."
- October 29, 1991. Adopted a more flexible PACS
Review publication schedule [14] that took advantage of
electronic publishing capabilities and reduced article
publication time.
- November 11, 1991. Changed the PACS Review to a
peer-reviewed journal [15].
- November 15, 1991. Announced [16] that I was
stepping down as PACS-L moderator. PACS-L had over 3,100
subscribers at the time.
- January 13, 1992. Established the PACS-P mailing
list [17] to distribute the UH Libraries electronic
publications and Current Cites [18] (announcement [19]).
See the PACS-P chronology [20] for more details.
- April 6, 1992. Published the first peer-reviewed
PACS Review article [21].
- January 18, 1994. Published my last version [22]
of "Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
[23]." Subsequently, Ann Thornton and Steve Bonario
maintained the document; Wei Wu maintains it currently
[24].
- January 29, 1994. Made the PACS Review and PACS
News available via a Gopher server [25].
- March 21, 1995. Published the first HTML version
[26] of the PACS Review and established a policy that
allowed authors to update articles. This issue was
composed of the first version [27] of my "Network-Based
Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective
Bibliography [28]." This article had 26 versions [29].
- September 12, 1996. Announced [30] that I was
stepping down as PACS Review Editor-in-Chief at the end
of 1996. (See the PACS Review Wikipedia article [31] for
more details about it.)
- October 30, 1996. Published the first HTML
version [32] of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography [33] (SEPB), a free, updated electronic
book (announcement [34]).
- December 17, 1996. Created the first Acrobat
version [35] of SEPB.
- September 16, 1997. Published the first version
[36] of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources [37].
- March 2001. Started contributing reviews [38] to
Current Cites [18] (reviews [39]).
- June 7, 2001. Began the Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Weblog [40] (SEPW) (first posting [41] at
bottom).
- September 22, 2003. Established the
SEPW@LISTSERV.UH.EDU [42] mailing list and distributed
the first ASCII version [43] of SEPW.
- July 13, 2004. Put SEPB and SEPW under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License [44].
- December 31, 2004. There were over 2,602,000
sucessful Gopher or Web requests for PACS Review files
since January 1994; LISTSERV use was unknown (see the
PACS Review use statistics [45]). There were over 4.2
million successful Web requests for SEPB files since
October 1996 (see the SEPB use statistics [46]).
- March 2, 2005. The Association of Research
Libraries published my Open Access Bibliography:
Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open
Access Journals [47]. The book was made available under
a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License in
print and PDF formats (the PDF version was freely
available).
- March 15, 2005. Added an RSS feed [48] to SEPW.
- April 20, 2005. Established DigitalKoans [49],
a Weblog that provided commentary on scholarly
electronic publishing and digital culture issues
(offered under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial License).
- June, 10 2005. Published version 58 [50] of the
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
Articles about These Electronic Publications
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Brought to You By . . ."
Interview by Carol Ebbinghouse. Research &
Education Networking 2 (March 1991): 12-15.
________. "Electronic (Online) Publishing in Action . . .
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review and Other
Electronic Serials." ONLINE 15 (January 1991): 28-35
(preprint [51]).
________. "Evolution of an Electronic Book: The Scholarly
Electronic Publishing Bibliography [52]." The Journal of
Electronic Publishing 7 (December 2001).
________. "The Public-Access Computer Systems Forum: A
Computer Conference on BITNET." Library Software Review 9
(March-April 1990): 71-74.
Crawford, Walt. "Talking About Public Access--PACS-L's First
Decade [53]." Information Technology and Libraries 19
(September 2000): 112-115.
DeLoughry, Thomas J. "The Latest Scoop on Internet
Resources." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 November
1994, A28.
Ensor, Pat, and Thomas Wilson. "Public-Access Computer
Systems Review: Testing the Promise. [54]" The Journal of
Electronic Publishing 3, no. 1 (1997).
Moothart, Tom. "Charles W. Bailey, Jr.: Editor, Publisher,
Innovator." Serials Review 23, no. 1 (1997): 59-62.
Wu, Wei. "Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials."
Texas Library Journal, 74, no. 1 (1998): 36-38.
[1] http://info.lib.uh.edu/dev/libed/1997/spring/spring97.htm
[2] http://info.lib.uh.edu/dev/libed/1997/summer/summer97.htm
[3] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsl.html
[4] http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind8906&L=pacs-l&F=&S=&P=1178
[5] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/pacsrev.html
[6] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/081689.txt
[7] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/010390.txt
[8] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v1/n1/stiglema.1n1
[9] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsnews.html
[10] http://info.lib.uh.edu/news/news1n1.txt
[11] http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/liblists/1990/083090.txt
[12] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/backvol.htm#v2n1
[13] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n1/harnad.2n1
[14] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v2/n2/bailey2.2n2
[15] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/111191.txt
[16] http://info.lib.uh.edu/news/news2n11.txt
[17] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsp.html
[18] http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/
[19] http://info.lib.uh.edu/011392.txt
[20] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsp.html#history
[21] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v3/n1/tonta.3n1
[22] http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/liblists/1994/011894.txt
[23] http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/liblists/liblists.htm
[24] http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists
[25] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/012994.txt
[26] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/cont6n1.html
[27] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/netbib/01/bail6n1.htm
[28] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html
[29] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/netbib/netbib.htm
[30] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/091296.txt
[31] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access_computer_systems_review
[32] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/01/sepb.html
[33] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
[34] http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9610e&L=pacs-l&F=&S=&P=536
[35] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/03/sepb.pdf
[36] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/12/sepr.htm
[37] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm
[38] http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2001/cc01.12.3.html
[39] http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:lists.webjunction.org+%22Charles+W.+Bailey%2C+Jr.%2C%22+%22Current+Cites%22
[40] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm
[41] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/38/sepw.htm
[42] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepwlist.htm
[43] http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0309&L=sepw&F=&S=&P=59
[44] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
[45] http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/pacsrev.html#use
[46] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepbstats.htm
[47] http://www.escholarlypub.com/oab/oab.htm
[48] http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss
[49] http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/
[50] http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/archive/58/sepb.html
[51] http://www.escholarlypub.com/cwb/2eserial.pdf
[52] http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/bailey.html
[53] http://home.att.net/~wcc.libmedx/pacsl.htm
[54] http://www.press.umich.edu:80/jep/03-01/pacs.html
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