BibNet - A Bibliography Network Project

• by author (as in a curriculum vitae),
• by subject (as in a review article), and
• by institution (for example, the tech-reports of a university department).

• provide complete and updated information on their own work,
• find information about ongoing research or specific topics,
• have an efficient pointer to electronically accessible material, and
• simplify the work of preparing publications.

The BibNet archive is maintained at the University of Utah, on ftp.math.utah.edu, where the files are stored in /pub/bibnet. It is mirrored nightly from there to a few other Internet archive sites. BibNet is accessible through anonymous ftp, Netlib, Mosaic, Gopher and e-mail.

Contents:

• Bibliography types
• Format of the bibliographic collections
• Submitting a new bibliography
• Incorporation of a bibliography in the BibNet archive
• Updating a bibliography
• Accessing the BibNet archive
• Archive structure
• Help, info and feedback.
• Guidelines for bibliography file contributors

WE SOLICIT CONTRIBUTIONS !!

New or updated contributions will be standardized and checked and the bibliographies will be incorporated in the BibNet archive.

We hope that the community will understand the convenience and power of a bibliography database.

We anticipate that the success of this initiative will likely generate motivation to render the work as automatable as possible, to increase the features of this service, and to scale the project to other fields.

Stefano Foresti
Utah Supercomputing Institute
University of Utah

Nelson H. F. Beebe
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah

Eric Grosse
AT&T Bell Laboratories