The HCI Bibliography and SIGWEB

Gary Perlman, director@hcibib.org

At the 1993 ACM Hypertext Conference, I presented a poster on the HCI Bibliography: The HCI Bibliography -- It's Got Lots of HyperRefs, Too, mainly to alert the Hypertext community that a substantial, relevant, free-access online resource existed. Six years later, the resource is more substantial, and more relevant to SIGWEB. And it's still free.

The HCI Bibliography at http://www.hcibib.org now contains almost 20,000 bibliographic entries, most with abstracts, on Human-Computer Interaction. The records include over 6,500 web links, most to online full text. The main methods for accessing the data is through its search service, powered by glimpse and supported in part by ACM SIGCHI . Since its introduction at the time of the CHI'98 conference, the search service has handled over 130,000 queries. The site also features summary tables of journal volumes and conference proceedings, top authors and publishers. Access to the bibliographic database is free, although some links to full text require subscription for access.

The HCI Bibliography has the following coverage of Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Web:

Some carefully-constructed searches are stored as Internet resources in the HCI Bibliography can be found with a search for their common prefix: u.hcibib.hyper.

A lot of volunteer work has gone into the HCI Bibliography, and hopefully it will be of use to the SIGWEB community.