----------------------------Original message---------------------------- With a small amount of financial assistance from Jack Dangermond, we have begun the GIS Master Bibliography Project. Our goal is to create a public-domain, abstracted bibliography which is available over the Internet. The insertion of abstracts into the entries requires that we receive formal permission from the publishers. Individuals may download Master Bibliography materials but may not redistribute them unless the abstracts are stripped off (easy to do in most bibliographic systems). Only a small amount of material is currently available. This includes all articles in the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, all papers in the Proceedings of the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling, and 1993 issues of GIS World and Geo Information Systems. Shortly we will be adding materials from GIS Europe and the new Business Geographics. As funds become available (any suggestions?) we will add more. One project currently underway is to create a biblio- graphy of "The Good Old Stuff" from the early days of GIS (much of which appears to have been forgotten). Downloading by anonymous FTP is available from BASTET.SBS.OHIO-STATE.EDU Change to the directory "biblio" where the subdirectories "gis.refer," "gis.pc," and "gis.mac" exist. The ASCII forms (using the REFER codes, e.g., %A for author) are in gis.refer. The other two files contain EndNote library binaries. In addition to funds, we are also looking for cooperators. Anyone interested? -- Duane F. Marble E-mail: [log in to unmask] Dept. of Geography The Ohio State University Telephone: (614) 292-2250 Columbus, OH 43220 Fax: (614) 292-6213