From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Mon May 5 10:35:10 1997 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:15 2006 Subject: Psycoloquy: Call for Papers Message-ID: <5kkune$30j@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk> PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR PAPERS PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) now in its 8th year of publication. PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of over 50,000. PSYCOLOQUY publishes reports of new ideas and findings on which the author wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science, neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed. All target articles, commentaries and responses must have (1) a short abstract (up to 100 words for target articles, shorter for commentaries and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s), institutional address(es) and URL(s). In addition, for target articles only: (4) 6-8 indexable keywords, (5) a separate statement of the authors' rationale for soliciting commentary (e.g., why would commentary be useful and of interest to the field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and (6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses). All paragraphs should be numbered in articles, commentaries and responses (see format of already published articles in the PSYCOLOQUY archive; line length should be < 80 characters, no hyphenation). Two version of the figurese would be helpful, one version as screen-readable ascii the other as .gif .jpeg .tiff or (least preferred:) postscript files (or in some other universally available format) to be printed out locally by readers to supplement the screen-readable text of the article. PSYCOLOQUY also publishes multiple reviews of books in any of the above fields; these should normally be the same length as commentaries, but longer reviews will be considered as well. Book authors should submit a 500-line self-contained Precis of their book, in the format of a target article; if accepted, this will be published in PSYCOLOQUY together with a formal Call for Reviews (of the book, not the Precis). The author's publisher must agree in advance to furnish review copies to the reviewers selected. Authors of accepted manuscripts assign to PSYCOLOQUY the right to publish and distribute their text electronically and to archive and make it permanently retrievable electronically, but they retain the copyright, and after it has appeared in PSYCOLOQUY authors may republish their text in any way they wish -- electronic or print -- as long as they clearly acknowledge PSYCOLOQUY as its original locus of publication. However, except in very special cases, agreed upon in advance, contributions that have already been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in PSYCOLOQUY, Please submit all material to psyc@pucc.princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE: To be eligible for publication, a PSYCOLOQUY target article should not only have sufficient conceptual rigor, empirical grounding, and clarity of style, but should also offer a clear rationale for soliciting Commentary. That rationale should be provided in the author's covering letter, together with a list of suggested commentators. A target article can be (i) the report and discussion of empirical research; (ii) an theoretical article that formally models or systematizes a body of research; or (iii) a novel interpretation, synthesis, or critique of existing experimental or theoretical work. Rrticles dealing with social or philosophical aspects of the behavioral and brain sciences are also eligible.. The service of Open Peer Commentary will be primarily devoted to original unpublished manuscripts. However, a recently published book whose contents meet the standards outlined above may also be eligible for Commentary. In such a Multiple Book Review, a comprehensive, 500-line precis by the author is published in advance of the commentaries and the author's response. In rare special cases, Commentary will also be extended to a position paper or an already published article dealing with particularly influential or controversial research. Submission of an article implies that it has not been published or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Multiple book reviews and previously published articles appear by invitation only. The Associateship and professional readership of PSYCOLOQUY are encouraged to nominate current topics and authors for Commentary. In all the categories described, the decisive consideration for eligibility will be the desirability of Commentary for the submitted material. Controversially simpliciter is not a sufficient criterion for soliciting Commentary: a paper may be controversial simply because it is wrong or weak. Nor is the mere presence of interdisciplinary aspects sufficient: general cybernetic and "organismic" disquisitions are not appropriate for PSYCOLOQUY. Some appropriate rationales for seeking Open Peer Commentary would be that: (1) the material bears in a significant way on some current controversial issues in behavioral and brain sciences; (2) its findings substantively contradict some well-established aspects of current research and theory; (3) it criticizes the findings, practices, or principles of an accepted or influential line of work; (4) it unifies a substantial amount of disparate research; (5) it has important cross-disciplinary ramifications; (6) it introduces an innovative methodology or formalism for consideration by proponents of the established forms; (7) it meaningfully integrates a body of brain and behavioral data; (8) it places a hitherto dissociated area of research into an evolutionary or ecological perspective; etc. In order to assure communication with potential commentators (and readers) from other PSYCOLOQUY specialty areas, all technical terminology must be clearly defined or simplified, and specialized concepts must be fully described. NOTE TO COMMENTATORS: The purpose of the Open Peer Commentary service is to provide a concentrated constructive interaction between author and commentators on a topic judged to be of broad significance to the biobehavioral science community. Commentators should provide substantive criticism, interpretation, and elaboration as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary material, such as illustrations; all original data will be refereed in order to assure the archival validity of PSYCOLOQUY commentaries. Commentaries and articles should be free of hyperbole and remarks ad hominem. STYLE AND FORMAT FOR ARTICLES AND COMMENTARIES TARGET ARTICLES: should not exceed 500 lines (~4500 words); commentaries should not exceed 200 lines (1800 words), including references. Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation should be consistent within each article and commentary and should follow the style recommended in the latest edition of A Manual of Style, The University of Chicago Press. It may be helpful to examine a recent issue of PSYCOLOQUY. All submissions must include an indexable title, followed by the authors' names in the form preferred for publication, full institutional addresses and electronic mail addresses, a 100-word abstract, and 6-12 keywords. Tables and diagrams should be made screen-readable wherever possible (if unavoidable, printable postscript files may contain the graphics separately). All paragraphs should be numbered, consecutively. No line should exceed 72 characters, and a blank line should separate paragraphs. REFERENCES: Bibliographic citations in the text must include the author's last name and the date of publication and may include page references. Complete bibliographic information for each citation should be included in the list of references. Examples of correct style are: Brown(1973); (Brown 1973); Brown 1973; 1978); (Brown 1973; Jones 1976); (Brown & Jones 1978); (Brown et al. 1978). References should be typed on a separate sheet in alphabetical order in the style of the following examples. Do not abbreviate journal titles. Kupfermann, I. & Weiss, K. (1978) The command neuron concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1:3-39. Dunn, J. (1976) How far do early differences in mother-child relations affect later developments? In: Growing point in ethology, ed. P. P. G. Bateson & R. A. Hinde, Cambridge University Press. Bateson, P. P. G. & Hinde, R. A., eds. (1978) Growing points in ethology, Cambridge University Press. EDITING: PSYCOLOQUY reserves the right to edit and proof all articles and commentaries accepted for publication. Authors of articles will be given the opportunity to review the copy-edited draft. Commentators will be asked to review copy-editing only when changes have been substantial. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Stevan Harnad psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Editor, Psycoloquy phone: +44 1703 594-583 fax: +44 1703 593-281 Department of Psychology http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) From ahfell at netmatters.co.uk Mon May 5 20:10:18 1997 From: ahfell at netmatters.co.uk (Andrew Fell) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: Prior publication Message-ID: <336E84FA.7E76@netmatters.co.uk> Do any journals have formal policies on what constitutes prior publication of data on the Internet? I think conference posters would make good web documents (see http://www.netmatters.co.uk/users/ahfell/flying.htm), and I would like to set up a site to display posters from a conference later this year. However, after some initial enthusiasm, the organizers seem to have got cold feet over the prospect of data being declared as "previously published" if they hang it up on a website instead of a felt board. Any journal editors like to comment? If this discussion has raged already, someone point me to the archive. Andy Fell From forsdyke at post.queensu.ca Tue May 6 20:08:23 1997 From: forsdyke at post.queensu.ca (Donald Forsdyke) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: Prior publication References: <336E84FA.7E76@netmatters.co.uk> Message-ID: <336FD607.F0@post.queensu.ca> > Do any journals have formal policies on what constitutes prior > publication of data on the Internet? I think conference posters would > make good web documents (see > http://www.netmatters.co.uk/users/ahfell/flying.htm), and I would like > to set up a site to display posters from a conference later this year. > However, after some initial enthusiasm, the organizers seem to have got > cold feet over the prospect of data being declared as "previously > published" if they hang it up on a website instead of a felt board. I do not think journals have much of a leg to stand on since they will often not allow authors to include web addresses in the cited list of publications. We need some general agreement on a satisfactory way of citing internet postings to recognized bulletin boards, such as this one. D. Forsdyke From propdig at barryinc.com Wed May 7 17:38:33 1997 From: propdig at barryinc.com (Property Digest) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: new pages on NatBio Web Site Message-ID: <33710469.839@barryinc.com> National Biotech Register(NatBio), a comprehensive up-to-date reference guide on research and product development activity in the Biootech Industry, us pleased to announce the addition of two new pages on our web site: http://www.barryinc.com/bio ..The first page is a help wanted in the Biotech field, while the second is a bulletin board page. This page will allow people in the Biotech industry to exchange ideas, search for products and or research services, as well as giving you a forum to announce new discoveries. Come check out these new pages and help us expend them. From saitoh at tniri.go.jp Thu May 8 20:23:37 1997 From: saitoh at tniri.go.jp (Norio Saitoh) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <5ktuap$dbs$2@ripspost.aist.go.jp> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ????????: bionet.journals.note > > * How to Name a New Protein ... ? - "R.A. Obar" (11) > o Achim Recktenwald (32) > * Psycoloquy: Call for Papers - Stevan Harnad (186) > * Re: Prior publication - Donald Forsdyke (16) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- next part -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ????????: bionet.journals.note * How to Name a New Protein ... ? - "R.A. Obar" (11) o Achim Recktenwald (32) * Psycoloquy: Call for Papers - Stevan Harnad (186) * Re: Prior publication - Donald Forsdyke (16) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From dato at parliament.ge Mon May 12 05:18:03 1997 From: dato at parliament.ge (David Adamia) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: about article Message-ID: <3376EE5F.41C67EA6@parliament.ge> Dear members of newgroup! I search articles in Journal of Theoritical Biology (1989 v.140; N1, author James W.H. or 1987 v.126 N3, author Bernstein M.E.) about dependence sex ratio at birth on change of testosterone,but I do not find these numbers in internet. Please, can you tell me, where can I see information about this subject? Thank you Dato Adamia From rgeorgan at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu Wed May 21 09:06:25 1997 From: rgeorgan at welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Robert W. Georgantas III) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: Bioscience Information Message-ID: <3383016C.368C@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu> Announcing the SCIENCE GUIDE. http://www.scienceguide.com A New Internet Directory and Information Service run by Scientists and for Scientists and Physicians. After becoming frustrated with the absurd number of returned ?hits? generated by the big search engines when searching for science site, and the listings of frivolous sites listed under Science in the large directories, a small number of graduate students at Johns Hopkins University started the Science Guide as a serious resource for scientists and others looking for information and communicative opportunities on the Internet. The Science Guide consists of a number of different sections designed to help the scientist and physician find information on the internet and to sponsor communication between those interested in science: NEWS SECTION Every day the Science Guide compiles medical and research news from national news sources around the net. Most of the news articles are concerned with medicine, bioscience, and physics, but all other sciences from agriculture to zoology are commonly included. News sources currently listed include: CNN, EurekAlert, HMS Beagle, MSNBC Sci-Tech, Science Magazine?s ScienceNow, CBS Space News, USA Today, The Albuquerque Journal, Newsfile, Scientific American Web Weekly, The Why Files, Discover Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Technology Review. The news pages also list links to news sources not compiled within the News site. We are currently working on adding a number of other sources to the site to make it even more useful and informative. To make getting science news even easier, we send out a DAILY NEWS EMAILER listing the articles which have been compiled on our site. Anyone can subscribe to the Emailer by sending an email to news@scienceguide.com with the message ?Subscribe?. The Daily Emailer contains the title of the story, a short description, and the URL of the story. Users can very easily access the stories by using the Science Guide?s News Pages, clicking on the URL in their email program (such as Eudora Pro), or by copying the URL to their browser window. DIRECTORY OF DIRECTORIES The large search engines and directory services currently servicing the web are the worst places to look for scientific sites. They usually provide only inadequate descriptions of the listed (or found) sites, and there is no filtering process to exclude frivolous sites claiming to provide scientific information. On the other hand, there are literally hundreds of ?micro? directories maintained by professional scientists that do an exceptional job of finding, rating, and filtering internet sites that would be of interest to their colleagues. Unfortunately these small directories are usually very difficult to find for the casual web user. The Science Guide maintains a directory of these micro-directories, sorted by scientific discipline, thereby making them very easy for a scientist to find. DIRECTORY OF USENET NEWS GROUPS and DISCUSSION LISTS The Directory of Usenet and Discussion Groups is compiled quarterly from different sources around the net to provide the scientist and those interested in science easy access to these invaluable sources of discourse and information. We are currently working on finding the proper subscription method for each of the discussion lists. This is taking a bit longer that we thought so please pardon our dust. The Usenet portions of this section are complete. ON-LINE JOURNAL HYPERLINK SECTION The Journals Section contains links to peer reviewed scientific journals on the Internet. Each listing clearly indicates whether the journal provides only the table of contents, TOC with abstracts, or the full text of the journal. We will soon be adding indicators to delineate those journals charging for access. EMPLOYMENT SECTION The Jobs and Positions Section contains hyperlinks to the best Scientific Employment Databases and Classifieds on the net. GRANTS and FUNDING SECTION The funding section contains links to the best funding and grant databases on the Internet, making it very easy for scientists to quickly find funding opportunities. The featured site of the section is ?The Community of Science,? a Johns Hopkins service designed to help scientists find and continue funding. From biohelp Fri May 23 04:00:18 1997 From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Date: Mon Jan 2 02:06:16 2006 Subject: BIOSCI/bionet miniFAQ & Fundraiser Message-ID: <199705230900.CAA21971@net.bio.net> (LAST REVISION: 30-JUL-95) This BIOSCI "miniFAQ" is designed to answer the questions that come up the *most frequently*. The main BIOSCI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is accessible on the World Wide Web at URL http://www.bio.net/. If you can not find an answer to your question in this or other documentation, the BIOSCI technical support staff answers e-mail queries sent to biosci-help@net.bio.net We can only answer questions about the use of the newsgroups and mailing lists. We unfortunately do not have the staff to do Internet information searches or answer scientific questions. Please post those to the appropriate BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. Contents: -------- 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. 0) BIOSCI NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!! ------------------------------ BIOSCI's government funding has been expended, and we are now operating solely from advertising revenue that we have raised from our Web site at http://www.bio.net/. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us serve you. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually and will immensely help us continue to help you. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can post or reply to messages via your Web browser as described in item #1 below. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. 1) Using the WWW to access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups. -------------------------------------------------------- As of 10 December 1995, all BIOSCI/bionet full newsgroups are accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW) at URL http://www.bio.net. One can read and reply publicly or privately to both recent postings and archived messages through one's Web browser if it is configured properly to send e-mail. Each newsgroup is equipped with its own WAIS index. The main BIOSCI home page also has access to the BIO-JOURNALS Table of Contents database WAIS index and the BIOSCI user address database described in another item further below. 2) What to do about "spams," i.e., junk mail, ads, etc. ------------------------------------------------------- BIOSCI is a set of parallel USENET newsgroups (the "bionet" groups), mailing lists, and a hypermail archive at URL http://www.bio.net/. The same postings are distributed on all media (except for a small number of mailing-list-only groups at net.bio.net). Unfortunately it is becoming a despicable practice on the Internet (by a few people out to make a fast buck) to do automated mass postings to thousands of newsgroups and mailing lists. These attempts to grab free advertising are refered to as "spams" in the usual, somewhat boneheaded, net terminology. USENET is more susceptible to this practice, and many spams originate on the USENET groups and then are passed on to the mailing lists. However, spammers also get lists of mailing addresses and hit these too, so neither medium is immune. What should you do personally if you get junk mail? --------------------------------------------------- Just delete it and move on without reading it further. Filing a protest is becoming increasingly useless because spammers are often disguising the addresses where the messages are sent from. Unless you really understand Internet mail systems, your attempt at protest by sending replies to the message will often end up being sent to the address of an innocent person that the spammer is victimizing. What can BIOSCI/bionet do to protect its newsgroups? ---------------------------------------------------- The only solution currently available is to moderate the newsgroup. If this newsgroup is already moderated, then you are in good shape. Moderation protects the USENET distribution from about 95% of the spams that are being sent to date and protects the mailing lists completely. Moderation means, however, that someone has to take the time to review each message before it goes out. We have set up software here that simply allows the moderator to forward to an address at net.bio.net messages that (s)he wishes to have distributed. This takes no more time than that needed to read the message and pass it on, say about 1 min. per message. Most newsgroups currently have a discussion leader who is responsible for their newsgroup. The discussions leaders and their e-mail addresses are listed in the BIOSCI Information Sheet which is available on the Web at http://www.bio.net/. If a newsgroup is being hit with too many junk postings, please contact the discussion leader for that group and see if there is interest in moderating the group. Please do not assume that by simply posting a complaint to the newsgroup itself, anyone on the BIOSCI staff will act on your complaint. With close to 100 newsgroups to run, the BIOSCI staff has to rely on the discussion leaders of each newsgroup to report problems directly to us at biosci-help@net.bio.net. We will moderate any of our newsgroups if the discussion leader tells us that the readership of the group wishes to do so and if a moderator is willing to do the work. For most BIOSCI/bionet groups, this entails only a few minutes of work each day. Moderating a newsgroup will resolve probably 95% of the junk postings on the USENET distribution. Unfortunately there are easy ways for determined spammers to override the moderation mechanism on USENET, but we can protect our e-mail subscribers from unwanted postings if the newsgroup is moderated. You can also access our newsgroups over the WWW at URL http://www.bio.net. While this Web interface will not stop spammers from trying to post to the groups, this will give you yet another way, besides using USENET news, to keep the junk out of your personal mail files. For those of you with local USENET news systems, the Web interface will also give you faster access to new newsgroups and recent postings. 3) Examples of subscribing and unsubscribing to the mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE NOTE: The BIOSCI management does NOT act on subscription/unsubscription requests that are posted improperly to the newsgroups and mailing lists. People who do this only bother everyone on the lists to no avail. Please be sure to follow the proper procedures below. Gory details are in the BIOSCI Information sheets on the Web at http://www.bio.net. Below we give an example utilizing the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS list at both of our two BIOSCI sites: Users in the Americas and Pacific Rim countries who use the BIOSCI ------------------------------------------------------------------ node at computer net.bio.net: ---------------------------- A) Determine the "listname" which is the <=8 character mail address ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ for the group. These can be found in the BIOSCI Info. Sheet. For the METHODS-AND-REAGENTS group the mailing address is methods@net.bio.net. The listname is the portion of the address to the left of the @ sign, i.e., "methods". The listname is used with the "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" commands illustrated below. B) Mail all commands in the body of a mail message addressed to biosci-server@net.bio.net. Do NOT send commands to the newsgroup posting addresses! 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If you have problems, please mail biosci@daresbury.ac.uk. 4) The BIOSCI user address and research interest directory. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please take this opportunity to add your name, address, and research interest information to the BIOSCI User Address Database if you have not already done so. You can fill out the address form directly through our Web page at URL http://www.bio.net/adrform.html. The address database is reindexed nightly for WWW access (the URL is http://www.bio.net/). If you are not directly on the Internet but can reach it by e-mail, please use our waismail server to access the user directory. waismail use is described above. You can also request a user address form by e-mail from biosci-help@net.bio.net. Please check your database entry from time-to-time to see if your address information is still up-to-date. Because of our limited personnel resources, we ask that you resubmit a *complete* form to revise your entry; we only replace complete entries and do not have resources to edit old forms. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net