New e-journal on the Web

[Beaudry Guylaine]

The students at the Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de 
l'information (EBSI, School of library and information science) at the 
Universite de Montreal launched their e-journal entitled CURSUS last month.

A student initiative, CURSUS (ISBN 1201-7302) is an electronic journal 
that specialises in library and information science. The journal is 
distributed on the Internet and contains articles written in French by EBSI 
students. It is intended as a complement to the school's pedagogical 
activities, and seeks to distribute excellent student work from the 
school's master's program. An additional goal of the journal is to 
contribute original French-language content to the Internet. 

The editorial board is constituted entirely of students, and has 
developed a selection process which uses referees. For each article 
submitted, the referees include both students and professors at the 
school. These referees evaluate the articles and make recommendations to 
the editorial board, which makes the decision whether to publish each 
text or not.

The frequency of the new journal is two issues per year (October and 
April). The articles are available on the World Wide Web at the journal's 
address
	http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~beaudryg/cursus

as well as via the school's gopher 

	gopher://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca:7072

CURSUS texts are also available in ASCII format, in WordPerfect5.1 for 
IBM users, and in Word 4 for Macintosh users, and can be downloaded from 
the journal's ftp site (ftp://ftp.umontreal.ca/CURSUS).


For information or comment, please contact

Guylaine Beaudry, member of the editorial board
e-mail: beaudryg at ere.umontreal.ca