Michael Groden
email: mgroden@uwo.ca - Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/

Flying By the Net, designed to be a regular James Joyce Quarterly column, hopes to track the enormous amount of Internet activity that Joyce and his works have inspired. Various World Wide Web sites house many different kinds of information and also provide links to other sites; primary and secondary documents are deposited on the Web; a new electronic journal of Joyce scholarship and criticism has been established; and several Internet discussion lists are devoted to Joyce.

This first installment of the column provides a guide to the resources by listing, locating, and briefly annotating them. Later installments will elaborate on particular issues, devote more space to specific sites, or discuss aspects of electronic Joyce beyond the Internet.

A few preliminary comments:

• Web addresses and contents change regularly. Sites appear and disappear frequently, as anyone knows who has tried to go to a URL that is cited in an article or book or who has followed an electronic link. (URL stands for "Universal Resource Locator"; in other words, a World Wide Web site address. A Web URL usually begins with the letters and symbols "http://" or "hypertext transfer protocol," an announcement that what follows will be an Internet document composed using HTML, or hypertext markup language, the set of codes that make the site readable by Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.) Apart from any errors I have made, the URLs in this article are accurate as of the date of writing, March 3, 1998.

• You can get to a Web site by cutting-and-pasting the URL from the article to the "Location" line of Netscape Navigator and then hitting Enter. Or, even easier, you can double-click on a site name or on its URL (to keep this Web version consistent with the JJQ version, I have kept the URLs in), and, barring any glitches, you will be taken directly to the site. You can return to this article using the "Back" button of the browser or, if that doesn't work, by finding the article in the list that appears when you select "History" in the "Window" column of Navigator. If you think that you might eventually want to return to a particular site, create a bookmark while you are viewing it. In Navigator, click on Bookmark at the top, and then click on Add Bookmark from the pop-up list. To return to a bookmarked site, again select Bookmark, and then double-click on the site's name in the pop-up list. For all these procedures, Microsoft Internet Explorer works basically the same as Netscape Navigator, but some features have different names. (For instance, Navigator's "Bookmarks" are Explorer's "Favorites.")

• This catalogue is divided into eight sections:

  A. Internet Mailing Lists and Realtime Discussion Groups	items 1-7
  B. Electronic Journals	item 8
  C. Omnibus Joyce Web Sites	items 9-13
  D. Specialized Joyce Web Sites	items 14-57
  E. Publications and Publishers	items 58-64
  F. Library Collections	items 65-69
  G. Related Sites	item 70
  H. General Literature Sites with Lists of Joyce Links	items 71-78

• Sections C to H are arranged alphabetically. Each site is identified in the first line by its online title and in the second line by the name and affiliation of the person who set up and maintains the site, if someone is identified. The printed James Joyce Quarterly version gives the URL in a third line, but that line is omitted here. Words that are linked to sites are in colored type, and the color changes after you've followed a link. (The specific colors will depend on the settings in your browser preferences.) Hot words are also underlined if your browser is set up to do this. Double-clicking on any of these hot words will take you to the site that is named or described.

• I have tried to include everything that has come to my attention, but I have limited the discussion here to secondary materials about Joyce's works and, because of space, have not included references to individual articles on Joyce that are available electronically. (Several sites contain links to these articles.) I have tried to make my comments descriptive and not evaluative. Omissions are unintentional, but surely there are some, and if you have set up or know about a site that is not included here, or if you want to respond to anything mentioned here, please write to me. Because I move back and forth a lot between London, Ontario, Toronto, and New York City, the most reliable way of reaching me is via email (address: mgroden@uwo.ca). But mail addressed to me at the Department of English; University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario N6A 3K7; Canada will reach me.

• Additions and corrections that are not in the printed James Joyce Quarterly version are in red.

Thanks to the many people who answered my various requests for information about electronic Joyce resources. I have tried to include every piece of information in one way or another in this first installment of Flying By the Net.

created by Michael Groden, March 3, 1998; redesigned October 27, 1998
email: mgroden@uwo.ca - Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/