GIS Bibliography Available by FTP
Duane F Marble
dmarble at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Wed Dec 1 12:39:12 EST 1993
GIS MASTER BIBLIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Department of Geography
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
The first update components of the GIS Master Bibliography are
now available on-line. All entries contain a full abstract (used
with permission of the copyright holder) and are available in two
forms:
REFER - a standard ASCII file utilizing standard codes (e.g.,
%A) which permit use of the file with software available
on most UNIX systems or it may be searched in most word
processors.
ENDNOTE - a binary library file configured for the commercial
EndNote and EndNote Plus software (available for either
the PC or the Mac). EndNote permits citation formatting
for a variety of journals, automatic addition of refer-
ences to papers, etc.
Please feel free to copy and make use of this bibliographic
material in your own research and development activities. Please do
NOT redistribute all or even part of the bibliography without
written permission from the publisher since reproduction of the
abstracted material is governed by standard international copyright
law.
Additional materials will be added to the FTP area from time
to time (contributions of resources and volunteers are welcome!)
and I will post a notice to this list whenever we update the FTP
area containing the files. The present set of updates involves
technical materials; updates to the trade journals will be made
shortly (they take extra time since the articles and columns do not
carry abstracts).
We wish to acknowledge the generous support of ESRI which has
contributed significantly to the start-up of this activity.
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Materials Available
There are several ASCII files located in the /ftp/biblio area.
These contain:
(A) A complete description of the Master Bibliography
project.
(B) A time-stamped list of the materials currently available.
(C) A list of contact addresses for the publishers of the
materials in the various bibliographic files.
International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
All issues from inception of publication thru 1992 - one file
containing 177,510 bytes (REFER) or 199,168 bytes (PC
EndNote)
Current (1993) issues: each issue is in a separate file with
the first issue of 1993 designated as IJGIS_A.REF or
IJGIS_A.LIB, the second as IJGIS_B, etc. There will be at
total of six issues in 1993.
International Journal of Remote Sensing
Selected articles relating to GIS starting with 1993: each
issue (one or more articles) is in a separate file with
the first issue of 1993 designated as IJRS_A.REF or
IJRS_A.LIB, the second as IJRS_B, etc. NOTE: not all
issues contain GIS-related articles!
International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (IGU Commission on
GIS)
1984 thru 1992 (First thru Fifth Symposia) - separate files
1984 - 40,861 bytes (REFER) or 60,928 bytes (PC EndNote)
1986 - 56,325 bytes (REFER) or 73,728 bytes (PC EndNote)
1988 - 33,556 bytes (REFER) or 53,248 bytes (PC EndNote)
1990 - 116,554 bytes (REFER) or 155,136 bytes (PC End-
Note)
1992- 84,661 bytes (REFER) or 105,472 bytes (PC EndNote)
Urban & Regional Information Systems Association
1992 Annual Conference Proceedings: one file containing
126,260 bytes (REFER) or 165,888 bytes (PC EndNote)
1993 Annual Conference Proceedings: one file containing 72,853
bytes (REFER) or 99,840 bytes (PC EndNote)
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Obtaining Copies of Current Files via Anonymous FTP
Access to current files is available via anonymous FTP for
those individuals and organizations having access to the Internet.
Because of copyright restrictions, files will be restricted to
those instances where formal agreements have been signed with the
publishers.
To access the currently available files enter the following
commands:
ftp 128.146.209.34 (this is BASTET.SBS.OHIO-STATE.EDU)
when you are asked to log in, respond with the user name of
anonymous
when you are asked for a password, please respond with your
Internet address.
When the log on operation is completed, change to the
appropriate directory by using one of the following commands:
cd biblio (this places you in the base direc-
tory for the project -- several
ASCII information files are located
here)
cd /biblio/gis.refer (this places you in a directory with
files in REFER (ASCII) format)
cd /biblio/gis.pc (this places you in a directory with
files in EndNote format for the PC)
NOTE: Mac versions of the EndNote libraries will be available
shortly.
cd /biblio/gis.mac (this places you in a directory with
files in EndNote format for the Mac)
You may now copy any of the available files. For example, to
copy the ASCII bibliographic entries for the 1992 Spatial Data
Handling Symposium select the gis.refer directory and issue the
command:
get sdh92.refer
FTP also supports the command mget which permits the retrieval of
multiple files using wild card specifications. For example to
retrieve all of the ASCII files dealing with the various Spatial
Data Handling Symposia, select the gis.refer directory and issue
the command:
mget sdh*.*
If you are planning to copy either the PC or Mac versions of the
EndNote binary files, you must issue the following command before
issuing the command to get a copy of the desired file:
binary
After the file(s) have been copied, they should reside in your
default directory on your home machine. To leave the FTP session,
issue the final command:
quit
that returns you to your home machine.
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Duane F. Marble E-mail: dmarble at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Department of Geography Telephone: (614) 292-2250
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210 Fax: (614) 292-6213
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