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NewJour is the place to announce your own (or to forward information about others') newly planned, newly issued, or revised ELECTRONIC NETWORKED journal or newsletter. It is specially dedicated for those who wish to share information in the planning, gleam-in-the-eye stage or at a more mature stage of publication development and availability.SECOND:It is also the place to announce availability of paper journals and newsletters as they become available on -- move into -- electronic networks. Scholarly discussion lists which regularly and continuously maintain supporting files of substantive articles or preprints may also be reported, for those journal-like sections.
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NewJour represents an identification and road-mapping project for electronic journals and newsletters, begun by Michael Strangelove, University of Ottawa and carried on by the Association of Research Libraries as from 1993 to 2001. As of July 2003, archives of the last four editions of the online directory were made freely available at
http://www.arl.org/scomm/edir/archive.html
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