The Hypertext Literature Reference is an ongoing project to provide basic information about the people and organizations who have contributed to this growing field and about prominent features of their work. If you are interesting in writing an entry, have a correction, or have an addition that you think is pertinent, please e-mail me.

The People directory is mainly devoted to authors of creative works at present, but will also include important editors, critics, teachers. The Titles directory contains full citations for works by multiple authors, journals and magazines of note, and, as time permits, cross-references for title by individual authors (links to the main citation under the author's name).

The Glossary is just what a glossary usually is, definitions of terms. But it will also include links to works that use or demonstrate the terms under discussion. For example, an entry on "guard field" would not only define the term but also note particular works in which the technique has been used.

Everything Else is whatever does not fit into the first three categories. Most prominent here are corporate bodies such as organizations, publishers, writers groups and so on, but this category is also the place to search for information about Web sites that would not necessarily be classed as titles--for example, the current site, Hyperizons.

Structure and navigation. The site is organized in a frame structure. Despite the inherent navigation problems frames sometimes pose, this sort of reference site seems to be one of the things for which they are best suited, allowing a browsable index in one frame and citations in the main frame. For more hints about navigation, click on Reference Navigation Tips at the upper left of the screen.

Featured authors, titles, terminology, organizations. The site is structured so that selecting one of the main categories in the top frame loads the corresponding index in the lower left of the screen. In the lower right will appear a "feature" for that section of the reference that will change from time to time. This is done to combat a particular drawback of alphabetical organization, the tendency to overemphasize terms that begin with the letter A. Otherwise, no one's name would ever appear above that of Espen Aarseth ... When you select from the index at the left the appropriate part of the alphabet will load in the main citation frame.