A group of scholars and librarians in the United States and Europe have founded a unique and invaluable on-line archive of announcements of journals available on the Internet and the World Wide Web. The archive (started 10/95) contains postings to NewJour (started 8/93), an e-mail announcement list of newly planned, newly issued, or newly revised Internet-available journals, magazines, newsletters, and other types of electronic serials.
NewJour's e-mail list of new journal announcements is moderated by Ann Shumelda Okerson, Associate University Librarian at Yale University and by James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Postings to the e-mail list average up to 10 a day.
In turn, new titles posted to the list are added twice daily to the NewJour archive, which now lists nearly 2,000 electronic periodicals. The archive site is maintained by Jay Jacobs and other librarians and websurfers at the UC San Diego Libraries.
All URLs in any and all postings in the New Jour archive are automatically "hotlinked" for easy access to the site for the journal or for information about it. Archive users may search for titles within letters of the alphabet. The archive is also fully searchable and plans exist to add a more sophisticated, faster search engine as well as web spiders to check for obsolete URLs.
The NewJour list and archive are a public service with contributions from UCSD for the archive. Yale University Library and the University of Pennsylvania support the project through the co-moderators; graduate student assistant-cybersurfers who scour the Internet and various announcement lists are paid by Penn work-study money. New titles are also submitted by European cyber-surfer Michael Moebius, a librarian at the Hochschulbibliothek der Fachhochschule Niederrhein, in Cologne, Germany.
The subscription address for the NewJour list itself is: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu; then "subscribe NewJour". Both a digest and an individual postings version are available. The NewJour list has over 2500 subscribers in seven continents.