Teresa M. Harrison is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Timothy Stephen is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen are co-directors of Comserve, an online scholarly service for faculty and students in communications studies, for which they won the Council of Communication Libraries' 1993 "Prize for Excellence in Information Services."

• PrefacePART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Computer Networking, Communication, and ScholarshipTeresa M. Harrison and Timothy StephenPART II: ISSUES IN COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARSHIP How Is the Medium the Message: Notes on the Design of Networked CommunicationPeter Lyman Institutional and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital LibraryBrian Kahin Assessing the Costs of Technology: Contructing Scholarly Services in Today's Network EnvironmentTimothy Stephen and Teresa M. HarrisonPART III: COMPUTER NETWORKING, RESEARCH, AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES A. Using Computer Network for Research Computer Networking and Textual Sources in the HumanitiesSusan Hockey Cooperative and Collaborative Mediated ResearchDuncan Sanderson How Do You Get a Hundred Strangers to Agree?: Computer Mediated Communication and CollaborationFay Sudweeks and Sheizaf Rafaeli Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual RealityJohn Unsworth The Multifaceted and Novel Nature of Using Cyber-Texts as Research DataLaura J. Gurak B. Moving Academic Disciplines Online Computer Networking in OrnithologyJack P. Hailman Roadmap to Scholarly Electronic Communication and Publishing at the American Mathematical SocietyDavid L. Rodgers, Kevin W. Curnow, Drury R. Burton, Greg S. Ullmann, William B. Woolf The Labyrinth: An Electronic Information Network for Medieval StudiesDeborah EverhartPART IV: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING A. Networking and Higher Education Online Education: The FutureLinda Harasim Hypermedia and Higher EducationJ. L. Lemke Equal Access to Computer Networks for Students and Scholars with DisabilitiesSheryl E. Burgstahler B. Networking in the Classroom Medieval Misfits: An Undergraduate Discussion ListCarolyn P. Schriber VICE in RESTWilliam D. Graziadei The Solidarity Network: Universities, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Labor Studies in CanadaJeff Taylor Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide-Area Multiple-User Synchronus DiscussionsMichael Day, Eric Crump, Rebeca RicklyPART V: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE A. Electronic Academic Journals on Computer Networks Dimensions of Electronic JournalsBrian Gaines Electronic Academic Journals: From Disciplines to "Seminars"?Jean-Claude Guédon The Electronic Journal and Its Implications for the Electronic LibraryCliff McKnight, Andrew Dillon, Brian Shackel B. Disseminating and Archiving Network Information The Role of Academic Libraries in the Dissemination of Scholarly Information in the Electronic EnvironmentLyman Ross, Paul Philbin, Merri Beth Lavagnino, Albert Joy The Body in the Virtual Library: Rethinking Scholarly CommunicationKenneth Arnold Equality in Access to Network Information by Scholars with DisabilitiesTom McNulty Building New Tools for the Twenty-First-Century University: Providing Acess to Visual InformationDavid L. AustinPART VI: NAVIGATING THE NETWORK: AN INTRODUCTION A Short Primer for Communicating on the Global NetJohn December List of Contributors Index

"I think this book is quite unique in that it focuses on the intersection of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and the academy. The topic is not only crucial to the university of the twenty-first century but it is crucial to the evolution of all social institutions worldwide." — Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University"The breadth of examples and case studies represented here make this book of compelling interest for anyone interested in CMC and networking, their impacts on scholarship and education (including the institutions of education, such as the journal, the library, and the university press), and in philosophy of technology as such. I expect this will quickly become one of the three or four volumes which constitute standard reading in the field of CMC." — Charles Ess, Drury College