OPEN LETTER DATABASE This CD includes files that constitute part of a doctoral dissertation which indexes the first nine series of the Canadian literary periodical Open Letter. The contents are as follows: 1) MySQL (3.23.36) and PHP (4.1.2) - the interfaces for the database. 2) HTML files which allow the user to access the database. 3) Complete inserts so a user can locally reconstruct the database. This is not an autoplay CD. The purpose of this CD is to allow a user to view the contents and workings of the database. It also permits a user to recreate the database for his or her own purposes. Created in 2000-2001, this project works on a Microsoft Windows 98 platform. If, for whatever reasons, this database is not available on the internet in the future, a user can still access this information providing he or she has (or can emulate) a Windows 98 platform or can alter these files to run under a different platform. Should a user wish to recreate the database, the user must install MySQL and PHP, repopulate the database and access the HTML files. Since the conditions under which this may be necessary are impossible to anticipate, this file cannot be an instruction manual on how to recreate the database. These files are for purposes of documentation rather than a working version of the database.