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We are pleased to announce a major new release of the HCI Bibliography,
a free-access online bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction.
There are no planned announcements of new releases,
although the next few months will see the release of close to
2000 more entries that will be installed for ftp access as it is finished.
The project is described in detail in:

	Perlman, G. (1991) "The HCI Bibliography Project."
	ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 23:3, 15-20.

but we can send you an updated description which is kept in a README file.
In this message, I will describe what has changed in the project,
and what new materials are being released.

What has Changed?

We now use a "one-module one-file" policy.
Every set of conference proceedings and every volume of a journal
will be in its own file.  The year of a conference (e.g., CHI91)
or the volume of a journal (e.g., IJMMS34) will be part of the file name.
Some journals and conferences were previously released with several modules
in one file, but this caused maintenance and file-size problems,
especially when abstracts were added.
The following journals used to be in one file, but are now split:
	HCI.bib -> HCI##.bib      (Human-Computer Interaction)
	IJHCI.bib -> IJHCI##.bib  (International Journal of HCI)
	IWC.bib -> IWC##.bib      (Interacting with Computers)
	TOIS.bib -> TOIS##.bib    (ACM Transactions on Information Systems)
The following conferences have been split up:
	ESP.bib -> ESP86.bib + ESP87.bib (+ ESP91.bib) (Empir. Studies of Pgmrs)
	INTACT84.bib -> INT84-1.bib INT84-2.bib INT84-3.bib
The short names are necessary for portability to DOS.
HCI Bibliography users may want to update their current holdings,
but such maintenance should not be necessary in the future.
Another reason to get new versions of files is that we are now reformatting
the entries we release so that they can be read conveniently on an
80-character line; effectively changing all old files in the bibliography.
We now use encode special characters and subscripts and superscripts,
all of which are enclosed in braces (e.g., e{sup:i{pi}}).

Floppy disk exchange has been easy for us, perhaps because of lack of use.
We are now set up to distribute the HCI Bibliography in compressed form
on both DOS (PKZIP archives) and Mac (Stuffit) systems.  Because of
the policies of the software providers, we include the decompression software.
Compressed, the entire archive fits on a high density 3.5 inch disk.

And now what you have been waiting for, the new (abstracted) releases:
  Conference Proceedings:
	ESP91	Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers
	HYPER91	ACM Hypertext'91
	INT84-*	INTERACT'84 (split into 3 parts of manageable size)
	INT87-*	INTERACT'87 (split into 5 parts of manageable size)
	INT90-*	INTERACT'90 (split into 5 parts of manageable size)
	IR??	ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval (1988-1991)
	OIS90	ACM SIGOIS Conference on Office Automation
	UIST91	ACM Symposium on UI Software and Technology
  Journals:
	BIT??	Behaviour and Information Technology (Volumes 1-10)
	HCI06	Human-Computer Interaction (Volume 6)
	IJHCI??	International Journal of HCI (Volumes 1-3)
	IJMMS??	International Journal of Man-Machine Studies (Volumes 28-35)
	IWC??	Interacting with Computers (Volumes 1-3)
	TOGS05	ACM Transactions on Graphics (Volume 5)
	TOIS??	ACM Transactions on (Office) Information Systems (Volumes 1-9)
You may notice that there is some new coverage.
We plan to finish the coverage of the SIGIR and SIGOIS conferences soon.
We have started work on the SIGGRAPH Conferences and TOGS,
but these sources will only be partially abstracted for the HCI Bibliography.
We will soon start work on the BCS-HCI Proceedings.
We will soon release the entries for recent SIGCHI Bulletin;
in the melee to get the validation done, I forgot that
Bill Hefley has been sending us records as they were published.

The new files include about 1400 new entries and hundreds of old entries
that did not previously have abstracts now have them.
The entire bibliography is just over 3100 entries taking up about 3 megabytes.
These files are all available via anonymous ftp at archive.cis.ohio-state.edu
in the pub/hcibib directory.  PLEASE RESTRICT ACCESS TO EVENINGS!
(I fear that hundreds of people accessing the archive will cause problems).
I sent this announcement first to the registered users so they
could get first access, and tell me if anything is terribly wrong.
I received notice of one typographical error. 
We have still not gotten around to the email server,
but plan to by the end of June.

We have, online, all but two of the abstracted IJMMS volumes.
We also have the HFS 1990 proceedings and are compiling the 1991 meeting.
We have another 1800 entries totalling another 1.3 Mbytes already online.
Before these are released, we need people to do the validation.
If you have a weekend afternoon to spare and the printed sources to work from,
volunteer and we will send you instructions about what we expect.
We will be posting a new request for validators in a week.
We will be looking for validators for IJMMS, HFS publications,
the SIGCHI Bulletin, ACM graphics (TOGS and SIGGRAPH), ACM SIGIR
conferences, ACM SIGOIS conferences, and eventually, the BCS HCI conferences.

Many thanks to all the people who helped with the validation.
Their names are listed in the README file.
-- 
Name:  Gary Perlman               | Computer and Information Science Department
Email: perlman@cis.ohio-state.edu | Ohio State University, 228 Bolz Hall
Phone: 614-292-2566               | 2036 Neil Avenue Mall
Fax:   614-785-9837 or 292-9021   | Columbus, OH 43210-1277  USA