Items Rejected from the Scholarly Societies Project

The following items have tentatively been rejected from the Scholarly Societies Project:

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Webpage [email: ; founded: 1812; subjects: ] [This is a museum: "the Academy of Natural Sciences is the oldest continually operating museum of natural history in the United States"]
• Alternative Collegiate Computing Association (ACCA) Webpage [recreational computing needs in the New Mexico State University area]
• American Bamboo Society [not a scholarly society; concerned with promoting the use of bamboo]
• Arbor Information Society (AIS) Webpage [Don't include: this is the University of Michigan Computer Club]
• ASSE INDEX [American Society of Safety Engineers, but only the Oklahoma State University chapter]
• Association for Internet Resources [aims to provide low-cost access to the Internet in Hong Kong -- don't include, not scholarly]
• Association of University Teachers [only for University of Manchester]
• Association RESUS [local group at Campus Luminy of Universite d'Aix-Marseille II]
• ATM Forum (aims at promoting ATM in the communications industry and end user group) [non-scholarly]
• Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES) = Fédération Canadienne des Étudiants et Étudiantes en Génie (FCEEG) Webpage [student organization]
• Commonwealth Organisations [no real info on the handful of organizations listed; page maintained by the Commonwealth of Learning, which is an international organization created by the Commonwealth governments]
• EISCAT Scientific Association: Troms [this doens't seem like something that someone could join; it seems more like a research institute, or collection of institutes, as of June 12/96] [EISCAT = European Incoherent Scattter] [email: webmaster@eiscat.no or tony@eiscat.no (Tony van Eyken); founded: ; subjects: ]
• Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) Homepage [This is a research consortium funded by a number of power utilities]
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties organization
• FDN - Decouvrir l'Association [subscription service -- don't include]
• Groupe de Recherche En Complexité et Cryptographie (GRECC) Webpage [Not a scholarly society: The GRECC (Groupe de Recherche en Complexité et Cryptographie) is part of the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.]
• Gruppe für Angewandte Informatik (GfAI) Webpage [This a commercial company, not a society]
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea [the members are governments; it describes itself as an intergovernmental organization]
• International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA) Gopher [recreational, not scholarly]
• International Internet Association (IIA) Webpage [Now called IDT, this appears to be a commercial Internet provider, not a scholarly society]
• International Netsuke Kenkyukai Society Home Page [from titles in their publication, Study Journal, it appears that this society is aimed at collectors rather than scholars]
• Lysator Academic Computer Society [slow] {more like a local CS club than a society}
• Medicinisch-Chirurgische Josephs-Akademie
  [According to the authority record in the Illinet cat. this academy was founded 1784 by the Emperor Joseph II, and ceased to exist in 1874]
  [Further checking has revealed this was a teaching establishment (in Vienna), not a society.]
• Web Society (WS) Webpage [not scholarly]