gopher://arl.cni.org/11/scomm/edir. Another similar list available in HTML is published at the World Wide Web Virtual library. It is available at http ://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html [2] SGML (or Standard Generalized Markup Language) is the standard for the construction of markup languages. It is a superset that includes the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used as a hypertext transport vehicle for the World Wide Web and the markup languages TEI and TEI.2 used by the University of Virginia Text Encoding Initiative to transcribe traditional paper publications to on line form. There are two useful sources for learning about SGML on the net. One is What is SGML and How Does it Help? available http://sil.org/www_root/000000/sgml/exetwhat.html and the other is the SoftQuad SGML primer available http://www.sq.com/sgmlinfo/primintr.html. For an introduction to TEI see David Seaman Guidelines for Text Mark-up at the Electronic Text Center http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/tei or Lou Burnard and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (1993) Living with the Guidelines at http://www.sil.org/sgml/teiu5-uva.html TEI appears to be emerging as the standard for the transcription and creation of electronic texts. It is a complex markup language that allows a number of sophisticated research operations to be conducted on electronic texts. It is proving ideal for historians and others who enage in detailed textual analysis. Sociologists looking to create electronic texts should take a closer look at this initiative. Check out the University of Virginia Library home page at http://www.lib.virginia.edu for more information.[3] Two WWW pages give a good overview of what is now available from traditional publishers. One is provided by a service called E-doc and is available http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/publishers.html. The other is provided by the British library and is available at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers.html. Duxbury (1994...
