Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 08:45:11 -0500 (CDT) From: heikki emil lempa <helempa@midway.uchicago.edu> To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi Subject: New H-Net list: H-REVIEW: Humanities Reviews On-Line (fwd)
H-Net sai valtionapua $100.000, jolla se aikoo kustantaa laajan kirja-arvosteluprojektin. Tassa osoite ja tilausohjeet. Suomalaisia teoksia taitaa olla listalla harvakseltaan, luullakseni.
Heikki Lempa, New York
ANNOUNCEMENT: H-REVIEW
H-Net: Humanities OnLine, has created a new list, H-REVIEW, to distribute all H-Net reviews of books, films, software, exhibits, cd-roms and other scholarly and teaching resources. These reviews are each commissioned by and first published on the H-Net lists.
TO SUBSCRIBE TO H-REVIEW:
Send this email message to LISTSERV@msu.edu: sub H-Review firstname surname, university (you put your own first name, last name, and the name of your institution - watch spelling and commas) e.g.,
SUB H-Review Leslie Jones, Southern Jersey U.
THE H-NET REVIEW PROJECT:
Fast, thorough, professional reviewing is one of the most important breakthroughs made possible by the Internet. H-Net book reviews are commissioned by the 140 specialists who edit the topical H-Net lists; they in turn are advised by over 600 scholars on our international editorial boards. The reviewers themselves are scholars who specialize in the field; unsolicited reviews are not accepted. While H-Net relies on paid graduate students to handle the mailing and forwarding of books, they do NOT select the reviewers, nor do they choose which new books, films, software, classic books, textbooks, compilations, museum exhibits, cd-roms or other multimedia material will be reviewed. Internet publication can greatly reduce the time scholars spend waiting for serious reviews. While paper sources typically take a year or two to move a review through their backlog, H-Net distributes as soon as the reviewer finishes. Our subscriptions are free, and unhindered by typesetting, printing or mailing costs, H-Net does not impose arbitrary length limitations. Our reviews will be as long as the reviewer needs to do a thorough job. (They average about 2,000 words, in contrast to the 500-700 word limit usually imposed.) For important works H-Net will arrange simultaneous reviews by several reviewers--in effect, an online conference session on important new works. H-Net reviews can facilitate interactive dialogue. Traditionally, authors rarely were given the opportunity to engage their reviewers in a public forum. On H-Net, however, authors are encouraged to respond to reviews and discuss their work with H-Net subscribers. (All discussions on H-Net lists are moderated by the editors, and flames are not allowed.) Our reviews are copyright by H-Net, but we encourage the widest possible dissemination of them, free, in academic environments. The logs of H-REVIEW will contain the complete text of all H-Net reviews, and the logs can be searched automatically for any key word. The logs will also be available on our gopher and WWW sites. We expect to publish about 1,000 reviews in the next year. The 50 operating H-Net lists serve over 30,000 scholars from 61 countries, representing history and practically every humanities discipline and field.
To volunteer as a reviewer, contact your H-Net list editor. For more information about the H-Net Review Project, or to submit books for review, write to Mark Lawrence Kornbluh (Managing Editor of the H-Net Review Project) or James Sleight, (the Assistant Editor. Their address is Hbooks@hs1.hst.msu.edu Tel (517) 355-9300; fax = (517) 353-5599.
H-REVIEW is supported by H-Net, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Michigan State University, other universities in the U.S., Canada and Australia, and a team of 140 volunteer experts across the world. There currently are no dues or fees of any kind. To obtain more information about H-Net lists and subscription details, send the following message to LISTSERV@MSU.EDU: GET H-NET ANNOUNCE
=========================================================