Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:32:45 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Announcing Hypatia Electronic Library Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:36:06 +0100 (BST) From: Hypatia Electronic Library Dear Colleagues, This is to tell you about the new electronic library, Hypatia, which has been implemented by my colleagues at QMW. (Apologies for duplicate copies of this message.) HH HH ii HH HH tt HHHHHHH yy yy p ppp aaaa tttt ii aaaa HH HH yy yy pp pp aa aa tt ii aa aa HH HH yy yy pp pp aa aa tt tt ii aa aa HH HH yy ppppp aaa aa tttt ii aaa aa yy pp yyyy pp http://hypatia.dcs.qmw.ac.uk Hypatia is at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London's East End. Hypatia is a directory of research workers in computer science and mathematics, and a library of their papers. It contains material which has been published by placing it on a publicly accessible web or ftp site, and a certain amount of "public domain" information about authors (name, affiliation, email address and phone number, etc). It also assembles bibliographic information. Hypatia is not a web crawler, but a mirrored archive with a web interface. The archive is indexed by author and by research group, and is equipped with a search engine. Hypatia works by having a database of registered authors. Many of the readers of this message will already be on the database. You can find out if you are on our database simply by searching for yourself in Hypatia. If you are not, then you can register and ensure that your papers are lodged in Hypatia simply by filling in an electronic form, which you can obtain via the Hypatia home page. If you are already registered, then you can use the same form to correct any incorrect or out of date information we have about you. (Inevitably, and despite our best efforts, not all the information on Hypatia's database will be correct.) You can use the same form on behalf of your colleagues to help expand Hypatia's coverage. Hypatia would also like to encourage you to compile a BibTeX-format database of your own papers. We hope that this will help people to cite accurately the definitive versions of your work. On-line help for this is available. Hypatia has been implemented by Mark Dawson, who set up and ran the popular mirrored archive at theory,doc.ic.ac.uk. Mark has benefited from discussions with Paul Taylor. Hypatia is still under development and welcomes your comments, suggestions, requests for help, and corrections to . Edmund Robinson, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, London E1 4NS