Electronic Forum

The Network's electronic forum was established in 1994 by the Australian National University to provide a worldwide communications vehicle and a central electronic archive for anyone working on, or interested in, the study of social and economic development, with a particular focus on developing countries.

How to join
To join (subscribe to) the forum send your e-mail to:
majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au
message:  subscribe Development-Studies-L your e-mail address
[eg: subscribe Development-Studies-L xyz@abacus.abc.edu.au]

To leave (unsubscribe) the forum send your e-mail to:
majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au
message: unsubscribe Development-Studies-L your e-mail address
[eg: unsubscribe Development-Studies-L xyz@abacus.abc.edu.au]

To contribute to the forum, you must be a member of the Network. Approval to join the forum is a simple 'pro forma' operation, but membership allows some basic control over the content of contributions by the list owner. Any submission to the forum is immediately broadcast to all subscribed members.

Anyone, whether an approved contributor or not, can electronically view and retrieve the communications to the forum using a database 'ANU-Development-Studies-L' accessible through the standard WAIS software and through the ANU's COOMBSQUEST Social Sciences and Humanities Information Facility gopher running on the coombs.anu.edu.au as well as on the cheops.anu.edu.au machines.

To post your contribution to the forum send your e-mail to:
Development-Studies-L@coombs.anu.edu.au
message: [the body of your contribution comes here]

It would be helpful for all members of the forum if you could provide a brief introductory note: who you are, your institution or professional affiliation, your general and specific interests in development.

If you want to contribute research findings or a short report, it is a good idea to present it as briefly as possible, for example, in the form of an abstract. Ensure that you provide contact details so that anyone interested in receiving further information can contact you direct.