Heriot-Watt University Library
_INTERNET RESOURCES_ Newsletter
Issue 4 - January 1995
Edited by:
Roddy MacLeod (libram@bonaly.hw.ac.uk) and Gordon Andrew
(libgra@bonaly.hw.ac.uk)
Table of Contents:
Firstly, a 'guid New Year' (as we say in Scotland) to all readers of
this Newsletter.
This is the fourth issue of the _INTERNET RESOURCES_ Newsletter.
The response to previous issues has been positive, and we have received
many messages from within and without Heriot-Watt (from as far away as
New Zealand, and even China) about its usefulness. The primary function
of the Newsletter is to notify staff and students of Heriot-Watt
University about new Internet resources, and also to publicise the
information retrieval possibilities of the Internet throughout the
University. This we will continue to do, always with an emphasis on
academic resources, and UK resources. The Newsletter is also made
available outside the University to anyone who may be interested. The
editors are always pleased to receive news about new resources of
interest.
Michael Breaks,
University Librarian
(libmlb@bonaly.hw.ac.uk)
SALSER is an index of titles of journals and other serials held in
Scottish academic and research libraries. It covers the 15 University
libraries, the National Library of Scotland and the City libraries of
Edinburgh and Glasgow; also included are union lists of the Edinburgh
Libraries Federation (which includes the 3 Universities and the NLS)
and the Scottish Colleges of Education.
With a single search you can find titles in one library, or any
combination of libraries of your choice.
You can use also use SALSER to connect to the libraries' online
catalogues (OPACs) for more detailed holdings information. There is
also a library directory giving useful information about addresses,
phone numbers, opening hours and lending services.
Accessing SALSER
The SALSER database consists of separate files for each library,
with access using both World Wide Web and Gopher servers, hosted at the
University of Edinburgh. Both of these servers are accessible through
JANET and the Internet.
For those you do not have Gopher or WWW clients, Telnet or PAD
access is also provided to the SALSER WWW server:
Telnet: festival.ed.ac.uk
PAD: 000015000009
Login: as salser
Password: press return key
If you have any comments or questions about SALSER, please contact:
Derek Stephen
Technical Services Librarian
(libds@bonaly.hw.ac.uk)
The latest edition of OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogues) on
JANET, now including details of 100 UK online library catalogues is now
available.
Access to this resource is available via:
E-MAIL/FTP:
- admin-research
- For discussion of all aspects of research administration including
costing/pricing of grants and contracts, overheads, contract conditions
etc.
- admin-techtrans
- For discussion of all aspects of technology transfer, including
posting of technology offers.
- chem-cscst-uk
- Discussion list for the Chinese Society of Chemical Science and
Technology, UK. Its members are mainly UK university students and staff
who are Chinese, from China, or speak Chinese. Topics will include
chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects.
- ecol-agric
- This list is intended for academics, researchers, educationalists &
others working in the field of ecological (organic/biological)
agriculture, to provide a forum for discussion of ideas, identification
of potential collaborators, & exchange of news, conference information
and publications details.
- filarial-genome
- The Filarial Genome Network (or FilGenNet) is an international
initiative to coordinate genome research on filarial nematode parasites
of humans. This mailing list is used by researchers to exchange news,
data and opinions.
- molecular-cell-speak
- Forum for discussion and questions on extracellular and
intracellular signalling mechanisms in neuronal and non-neuronal cells,
and their physiological importance; molecular biology; protein chemistry
studies. Seminar announcements for the London area may also be posted
to this list.
For information on how to subscribe to Mailbase lists, please see
Issue 1 of
_INTERNET RESOURCES_
ACCESSING THE INTERNET BY E-MAIL - NEW EDITION DECEMBER 1994
A new edition of "Dr Bob's" excellent guide:
"Accessing The Internet By E-Mail" is now available.
Doctor Bob's Guide to Offline Internet Access, 3rd Edition - December 1994.
This special report will show you how to retrieve files from FTP sites,
explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie,
Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet
newsgroups USING E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL.
The document is now available from several automated mail servers.
In the UK send mail to:
mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
Enter only this line in the BODY of the note:
send lis-iis e-access-inet.txt
You can also get the file by anonymous FTP at one of these sites:
Site: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
get NETTRAIN/INTERNET.BY-EMAIL
Site: rtfm.mit.edu
get pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email
Site: mailbase.ac.uk
get pub/lists/lis-iis/files/e-access-inet.txt
ATMWWW-L
ATMWWW-L is an open and unmoderated discussion of the impact of
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Technology and networking on the
World-Wide-Web.
To subscribe to ATMWWW-L, send e-mail to LISTSERV@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU
in the body of the e-mail:
SUBSCRIBE ATMWWW-L _your full name_
For example: SUBSCRIBE ATMWWW-L Daniel Ferrer
COMPUTER NEWS
Computer News is a weekly E-Zine reporting on happenings in the
Computer Industry.
To subscribe, send the following to majordomo@libtech.com:
subscribe cn
DIGITAL MEDIA PERSPECTIVES
This is a free electronic newsletter. To subscribe,
send email to:
dmedia@netcom.com
The subject line of your messages should read "subscribe perspective".
Please include your name, title, and organization in the message's body.
INTERNET BUSINESS ADVANTAGE
Internet Business Advantage is a monthly guide to doing business
online. The moderated mailing list will serve as both a discussion group
and newswire about all aspects of online commerce, as well as a
mingling tool for our IBA subscribers.
To subscribe send email to: info@wentworth.com
Then, in the BODY of the message type:
subscribe iba _YOUR email address_
INTERNET MARKETING LIST FOR ONLINE BUSINESSES
The Internet Marketing mailing list is a moderated list for all who are
interested in the issues involved in doing business on the Internet. The
list, maintained through EINet/MCC and moderated by Glenn Fleishman, is
probably the premier forum for discussing online business related issues.
The postings to this list can be searched by keywords with a forms-capable
Web browser.
To subscribe, send E-Mail to
listproc@einet.net
with the message body
SUBSCRIBE INET-MARKETING Your_Name_Here
The WWW Archives are available by clicking here.
SCI.CHEM.ELECTROCHEM/ELETQM-L
The aim of the newsgroup SCI.CHEM.ELECTROCHEM is to provide an open
discussion forum for the electrochemistry community on the
INTERNET(NETNEWS/USENET). This newsgroup allows rapid, timely and focused
discussions of opinions and information that would take months or years
(or not at all) on conventional paper journals.
SCI.CHEM.ELECTROCHEM available as the E-Mail list ELETQM-L
To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@BRUFU.BITNET
Do not fill the subject line, and include in the text of message:
SUBS ELETQM-L YOUR FULL NAME
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NETWORK NEWS
Science and Engineering Network News is a new newsletter devoted to
covering Internet resources for the sciences and engineering. Resources
covered include World Wide Web pages, FTP and Telnet sites, mailing
lists, newsgroups, FAQs, and more.
The first issue is available free in either electronic form or hard
copy. You may request either format from Soliloquess Communications,
Worcester, MA., (508) 755-5242, or send e-mail with your request to
senn@world.std.com.
WEBSERVER-NT MAILING LIST
The WebServer-NT mailing list is intended as a forum where users
of Windows NT can discuss World Wide Web server issues.
To subscribe, send message to:
webserver-nt-request@mailserve.process.com
and in the message body type
SUBSCRIBE webserver-nt
WWWEDU
WWWEDU is an unmoderated list dedicated to the use of the World Wide
Web in education, sponsored by The Coalition for NetworkedInformation
Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) and The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. The purpose of WWWEDU is to offer educators,
webmasters and policy makers a continuous discussion on the potential
of World-Wide Web use in education.
To join WWWEDU, send a message to listserv@k12.cnidr.org and in the body
of the message write
subscribe wwwedu (your name)
- ACM PUBLICATION
CATALOG
- The Living ACM On-Line Publications & Services Catalogue contains
information on over 500 publications and services. It contains a
PATHFINDER, a product/services navigational tool that helps match ACM
products and services to areas of interest. The catalogue is updated
regularly with new and revised product information. You can order the
ACM products of your choice online any time of the day or night.
- AMP
- AMP is a global leader in manufacturing and marketing
interconnection and networking products and technologies, providing
related design and support services. They employ nearly 27,000 people
and have facilities in 36 countries.
- ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES
- This page is a gateway to the world of AI. It is maintained by a
Canadian Knowledge Systems Laboratory and has a searchable list of AI
esources and Web links. AI publishers, FAQs, journals (online and off),
conferences, bibliographies, and so on.
- AUSTRALIAN
OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE
- Within the Australian Defence Force (ADF), the AODC is responsible
for providing maritime environmental support through the supply of non
real time maritime environmental data, specialised oceanographic
databases, information and analysis products and marine data management
consultancy services.
- BUILDING ENGINEERING at CSIRO
- CSIRO, Division of Building Construction and Engineering.
- BUSINESS
USE OF INTERNET IN PRINT
- A new Web resource is now available devoted to print publications
that focus on business use of the Internet. It contains basic info on
each publication (name, author, #of pages, publisher, price, etc.),
links to the publication's home page (if it has one), along with links
extracted from Net Happenings and the Internet Marketing Archives that
announce or review the publication.
A web page is also maintained that discusses developing a Net.Presence.
- C++
- The introductory course "Object-Oriented Programming Using C++" is
a self-paced class which is sponsored through the Macvicar School of
Education and Technology, a school within the Globewide Network Academy
[GNA]. The purpose of this class is to give an introduction to C++
programming with an emphasis on object-orientation.
- CAS (Chemical Abstracts
Service)
- This site contains information about CAS products, services,
training and special offers on products and databases. More
enhancements, including links to the American Chemical Society, are
planned in the coming months.
- CHEMICAL DATABASE
SERVICE
- Information is now available via the world wide web on the services
offered to all UK academics by the Chemical Database Service ( CDS ) at
Daresbury. Information is available not only on the chemical databases,
which cover crystallography, spectroscopy, physical chemistry and
synthetic organic chemistry, but also on other sources of chemical
information.
- COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING
- The Commonwealth of Learning is an International Organisation
established by Commonwealth Governments in September 1988, following the
Heads of Government Meeting held in Vancouver in 1987. It is
headquartered in Vancouver and is the only Commonwealth
intergovernmental organisation located outside of Britain.
The purpose of The Commonwealth of Learning, as reflected in
the Memorandum of Understanding, is to create and widen access to
education and to improve its quality, utilising distance education
techniques and associated communications technologies to meet the
particular requirements of member countries. The agency's programmes and
activities aim to strengthen member countries' capacities to develop
the human resources required for their economic and social advancement
and are carried out in collaboration with Governments, relevant
agencies, universities, colleges and other educational and training
establishments among whom it also seeks to promote co-operative
endeavours.
- COMPUTERS IN TEACHING INITIATIVE
- In Issue 2 of _INTERNET RESOURCES_ the home-page for the CTI was
given. Here are links to the various subject centres:
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO
ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY
- A European mathematical journal on the Web. From FIZ Karlsruhe,
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science (Berlin), this journal was
founded in 1971. It publishes research articles in the areas of algebra,
geometry, algebraic geometry, and related fields, preferably in the
English language.
- CORROSION & PROTECTION CENTRE
- The Corrosion & Protection Centre at UMIST, UK have started a WWW
server for the corrosion community. This contains pointers to
information relevent to corrosion, especially chemistry and materials
sources, as well as relevent University and other Internet resources.
- CRAY COMPUTER CORPORATION
- CREN (Corporation for Research &
Educational Computing)
- CROSSROADS:
THE INTERNATIONAL ACM STUDENT MAGAZINE
- Crossroads is a collaborative effort of students from all over the
world. Its purpose is to produce an ACM Student publication that is by
and for ACM students.
- EARTH
AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (US Geological Survey)
- This site includes links to resources on climate, earthquakes,
earth science, environment, gis, hydrology, and oceanography.
- EDINBURGH MATHEMATICAL
SOCIETY
- The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded in 1883 for "...the
mutual improvement of its members in the Mathematical Sciences, pure and
applied" and is firmly established as the principal mathematical
society for the university community in Scotland.
- EE-Link: The
Environmental Education Gopher Server
- N.B. This is a Telnet (Remote Login) service. The above link will
only work if your WWW browser is configured to launch Telnet sessions.
If not, you can use a Telnet client to connect to this service.
Telnet:
nceet.snre.umich.edu
- ELSEVIER
- Elsevier Science, the scientific communications branch of Reed
Elsevier, is available on the Web. Information includes:
- The Elsevier Science Internet Catalogue of Journals and Books.
- Information about - TULIP - The University Licensing Program, a
research project Elsevier Science is performing with nine universities
in the USA.
- The Proceedings of the WWW'94 Conference (May 25-27, 1994),
organized by CERN, Geneva.
- A number of current awareness services on diverse areas of science.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
- Britannica Online (Subscription service)
-
ENERGY EXCHANGE
- The Energy Exchange, Inc. in The Woodlands Texas is pleased to
annouce the opening of their new WWW site.
This new WWW service will allow people on the Internet to view
petroleum projects for sale and will also allow people who are selling
their petroleum projects to post their project to the Energy Exchange.
- ESOH (ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY &
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH)
- A WWW server for environment, safety, and occupational health
services.
- EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS
INSTITUTE (UK)
-
- HYDROMECHANICS DIRECTORATE
- The Hydromechanics Directorate of the Carderock Division, Naval
Surface Warfare Center (formerly known as David Taylor Model Basin), has
a new WWW Server.
This is the Navy lab responsible for the research, development,
testing, and evaluation of ships, submarines and other marine
technologies.
The server is currently composed of presentations about
available testing facilities, Directorate organization, and links to
other WWW servers. One of the features is the Multimedia Project
Gallery. Photos and videos of ships and associated models are being
integrated into project histories.
0The latest additions include a technical reports database,
which will soon be made searchable through WAIS, as well as some new
multimedia in the Gallery.
- IIASA (International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
- The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
announces its new Web server. IIASA is an interdisciplinary, non-profit
and non-govermental research institution sponsored by a consortium of
national member organizations in 17 nations. Sustainability and the
human dimensions of global change are key concerns in IIASA's studies of
environmental, economic, social and technological developments. IIASA
has National Member Organizations in the following countries: Austria,
Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy,
Japan, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic,
Sweden, the Ukraine, and the USA.
- INGENICREN/ENGINEERING WEEKLY
- Engineering Weekly - Ingenicren/net - is a new web-server for the
largest technical news paper in Denmark, with a weekly circulation of
70,000. On the Web-server you'll find - among other things - a small
selection of the articles that we offer our readers this week.
Although a technical newspaper, Engineering Weekly plays its
role in the current political debate in Denmark on a lot of important
issues ranging from information technology to the environment in
general. We also write about technical innovations, energy, building
activities - in short: Engineering.
Engineering Weekly/Job is the non-technical section of the
newspaper with articles about real-life engineers, problems at work,
trade union politics, and an additional section on continuing education.
- IN
PERSPECTIVE
- In Perspective is a high quality journal produced by WilTel to
provide in depth information on the latest developments in
Telecommunications. This server contains over 60 articles from the last
two years of In Perspective. These articles are rich in both content
and graphics.
- INRS-Energie
et Materiaux
- A university research institute in Varennes, Quebec, with
postgraduate degree programs in Energy and Materials science.
- INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS
- The Institution of Electrical Engineers is the largest professional
engineering society in Europe and has a worldwide membership of over
130,000. The mission of the Institution is:
To promote the advancement of electrical and manufacturing
engineering and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas.
To provide a broad range of services to members, to assist
them in developing their careers by improving their capabilities as
engineers and to play their full part in contributing to society.
To raise the standing and visibility of the Profession and to
maintain a high standard of professional conduct.
The
Institution is a major information provider through its INSPEC and
Publishing operations. INSPEC is the leading English-language
information service providing access to the world's scientific and
technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics,
communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and
information technology.
- INSTITUTO
MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO
- INTERNEWS
- InterNEWS from InterHIGHWAY, in conjunction with The NewsBytes News
Network, produce a weekly edition of news items about computers,
networks, the Web, etc.
-
JOURNAL OF REAL TIME IMAGING
- Real-Time Imaging is a new multidisciplinary peer-reviewed
technical journal that will serve as a convergence point for
researchers, technologists and practitioners in fundamental real-time
imaging technologies and their application areas. It is intended that
this journal will be the first place that new fundamental and practical
advances in real-time imaging are unveiled.
- KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
- This site includes information about Kluwer's publications,
including Tables of Contents (TOCs) of recent issues, plus a searchable
index of information and journal contents
- LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, SYSTEMS
AND CONTROL GROUP
- LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTING
- MARINE
GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS
- US National Geophysical Data Center/World Data Center A for Marine
Geology & Geophysics WWW site. Holdings, including full on-line
inventory searches of all Marine Geology & Geophysics Division holdings.
- MARITIME INTERNET SERVICES
- MARKETNET
- MarketNet is a UK based electronic marketplace, at present under
development. The only 'live' service at the moment is an online
florist.
Coming soon are:
- LawNet - Legal Services (LawNet is the registered name of the
LawNet organisation)
- InvestNet - Investment
- TaxNet - Taxation Services
- BankNet - Banking Services
- MATERIALS SCIENCE
- NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
(National Institute of Standards and Technology.) The mission of the
NIST Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science is to
develop and apply state-of-the-art theoretical and computational
materials science techniques and to help industry integrate them into
technology development.
- MCGRAW-HILL PUBLICATIONS
- MEDIAMATIC
- Mediamatic is an international quarterly magazine about the
cultural implications of new media. Now available in electronic format.
- MICE
- MICE is a European (ESPRIT) Project to promote the use of multicast
MBONE) technology in Europe.
- MOTOROLA
- Motorola is one of the world's leading providers of wireless
communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and
services. Major equipment businesses include cellular telephone,
two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications,
automotive, defense and space electronics and computers. Communication
devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by
Motorola semiconductors.
- NETEC
- NetEc is a term that unites a number of projects for networking
interaction in academic Economics. At the time of writing, there are
three projects called BibEc, WoPEc and CodEc. They aim to improve the
communication of new research results in Economics via electronic media.
Traditionally, new research results have been published in
paper documents called ``working papers'' or ``discussion papers''. The
aim of BibEc is to enhance the awareness of these papers in the academic
community by establishing means to announce the publication of new
papers via electronic media. The aim of WoPEc is to build a collection
of electronic working papers in postscript format, for free retrieval by
anybody with internet access. CodEc builds a collection of programs and
routines for economic and econometric research and applications.
- THE NETWORK
OBSERVER
- The Network Observer (TNO) is a free on-line newsletter about
networks and democracy. Since January 1994, TNO has been one of the
Internet's most respected sources for practical information, informed
commentary, and a discerning selection of pointers to network resources.
- NEURAL
NETWORKS
- Neural Networks in High Energy Physics. A list of references,
recent developments in the field, upcoming conferences, etc. Of most
general interest is the extensive list of commercial neural network
hardware, including VLSI chips, PC accelerator cards, and
neurocomputers.
- NeXT COMPUTER INC
- OHIO
UNIVERSITY CALL PAGE (CALL = Computer-Assisted Language Learning).
- The Ohio University CALL Lab Page is a collection of Internet
resources for language learners.
- NEW
PLANNER
- The Collegiate Institute of Planners at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville has made available the New Planner via the World
Wide Web. The New Planner is published three times a year and seeks to
facilitate communication between planning students and promote
participation in the American Planning Association.
-
OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY REVIEW
- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review is a quarterly magazine
highlighting the latest and greatest research and development activities
at the Laboratory. Stylewise, we aim our magazine at people who are
interested in science, but who aren't necessarily scientists themselves.
The Review is also available in hard copy and is distributed without
charge.
- PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE
MAILING LISTS
- Stephanie da Silva's list of publicly accessible mailing lists now
has an official home in the Web, at NeoSoft's Web server.
- RANK XEROX
- The Rank Xerox Research Centre (RXRC) is a new research centre with
headquarters in Meylan, near Grenoble, France, and research
laboratories in Meylan and in Cambridge, UK (formerly EuroPARC).
- ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
- Scotland's Premier Learned Society The Royal Society of Edinburgh
was founded by Royal Charter in 1783. The Society's list of past
Fellows includes such familiar names as Adam Smith, Sir Walter Scott,
James Hutton, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Lord Lister and Lord
Kelvin.
Unique among the learned societies in Great Britain, the
interests of the Royal Society of Edinburgh encompass all branches of
learning. Established during the Scottish Enlightenment and continuing
in the spirit of those times, the Fellowship and the Society represent
excellence in Science, Arts, Letters, the Professions, Technology,
Industry and Commerce.
- SCHOLARLY
SOCIETIES PROJECT
- The University of Waterloo Library is pleased to announce the
Scholarly Societies Project, a set of webpages designed to facilitate
access to various kinds of electronic resources maintained by or for
scholarly societies across the world.
These Scholarly societies are likely to play a critical role in
transforming the nature of scholarly publication.
- ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY, Scotland
- SURFACE
SCIENCE
- This is the server for the Division of Surface Science of the
Canadian Association of Physics and the Canadian Institute of Chemistry.
- SYSTEM
ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITURE (SERI) (Korea)
- R & D Areas include:
- Automation Machine Translation
- Production Management & Automation Research
- Computer Aided Engineering
- System Integration
- Computer Based Education
- Computer Vision & Image Processing
- Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality
- Global Environmental Information
- Artificial Intelligence
- TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
- This journal now has a Web presence, with issue details, contents,
and links to sample articles.
- TRADEWINDS
- As business use of the Internet grows, so too does coverage of the
Net in the periodicals business people read most. TRADEWINDS aims to
document that coverage, filling a gap in the bibliography of Internet
reporting and reflecting the growing awareness of the Internet in the
business community. TRADEWINDS is a monthly review of these articles,
drawn from several hundred trade periodicals available to the editor. It
does *not* include (with some exceptions) articles from the computer
press; these are well-covered elsewhere.
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL,
Educational Technology Service
- UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON
TYNE, FOSSIL FUELS AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM,
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
- UNIVERSITY OF THE
WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL TRANSPUTER CENTRE (parallel & distributed
computing)
- UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK,
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Office
of Environmental Management
- U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Water
Resources Information
- VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK
- At the Peripatetic, Eclectic Gopher (PEG), there is a compilation
of ready references to frequently sought information sources and tools.
There are links to: dictionaries; Roget's Thesaurus; ACRONYMs
dictionary; 5,000,000+ journal articles; Cancer Information for Patient
and Layperson; E-Mail addresses; Gardening; phone directories; Periodic
Table of the Elements , etc etc
- VISIONWARE
- WORLD WIDE YELLOW PAGES
- Exactly what its name implies, i.e. a new www site listsing
businesses on the Web, with searchable forms that allow browsing by
subject headings, or searching by company name or location.
- WEBNEWS
- This evolving Web service contains over 700 announcements gleaned
from selected USENET News groups since March 1994. Listings are
updated monthly and are in descending order by date. A comprehensive
hyperindex of terms (the HyperDex) is provided and should be your
starting point for subject browsing of the 'webNews' article archive.
- WISDOM
- N.B. This is a Telnet (Remote Login) service. The above link will
only work if your WWW browser is configured to launch Telnet sessions.
If not, you can use a Telnet client to connect to this service.
The Wellcome Centre for Medical Science announces the availability
via JANET/Internet of the WISDOM database service. WISDOM (Wellcome
Information Service Databases On Medicine) initially comprises three
databases:
- Sources of Biomedical Research Funding
- Science Policy Information News (SPIN)
- Information Service Catalogue
To search the WISDOM
databases you need to connect to the computer on which they are
maintained. You must use a VT series terminal or a PC capable of
emulating a VT terminal to gain access.telnet: wisdom.wellcome.ac.uk
login: wisdom
More computing power for BIDS:
The current 3 processor configuration will be replaced with 6 new
processors, each more powerful than the old ones. The net effect is
expected to be at least a doubling of capacity. In addition the main
store capacity will be doubled from 512 Mbytes to 1 Gbyte. An exact date
is not yet available, but the new hardware is expected imminently
In addition, some extra store has been added to the computer systems
that service the BIDS Gateway. This should help with the poor response
that has been reported for that part of the service.
Switch-off of the old BIDS-ISI service:
As soon as the new hardware described above has been installed and
tested, we will be taking away access to the ISI Citation Indexes
(Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities) on the old system. The
old system will continue to run with ISTP only for some time to come
(see timetable below).
Progress with the new BIDS ISI service:
Issues has now been added to the new service, leaving only ISTP and
document ordering as outstanding facilities.
Other Databases:
A more detailed timetable has now been drawn up for the migration of
our remaining services to the new kit. The provisional timetable is as
follows:
- Compendex* Plus - mid May
- ISTP (ISI) - end June
Heriot-Watt University Library has offered an Online Search Service
for many years. Online searching is an interactive process by which
databases of information held on remote computers can be searched. The
information in the databases tends to be of three main types:
- References to published literature (for example references to
articles, books, reports, conference proceddings, patents, etc).
- Numerical or factual information (for example, financial
information about companies, chemical data, etc).
- The full text of documents.
An online search can be useful for someone who is starting a project
or research topic, or a thesis or dissertation; or someone who is
looking for reference-type information. An online search can be seen as
a form of literature searching. Online searching can also be useed to
keep up to date with the most recent publications in any subject area.
Several large and useful online databases are available, free of
charge, to all members of Heriot-Watt University, through the BIDS and
UnCover services, but MANY MORE (over 500) databases are available
through the Library's Online Search Service.
If you are looking for literature in a specialised subject area, and
want to extend your search beyond the BIDS and UnCover databases, you
should consider applying for an Online Search. Forms are available from
the Library Service Desk, and more information is available from the
Faculty Librarians, or from libhelp (libhelp@bonaly.hw) the Library e-mail
help desk.
For staff and students of Heriot-Watt,the Library bears the cost of
telecommunications charges and subscriptions to database providers.
Users of the Online Search Service pay the direct costs involved. Due
to academic discounts, in many cases these are very low.
External readers pay the full costs of the online search, plus a
service charge.
Normally the Faculty Librarians, who have received training, will
make the online search, after discussing the search topic.
More information about some of the information providers is
available on the Internet:
- ESA-IRS
- This host provides access to a large collection of databases
containing more than 50 million references on all subjects. Databases
of particular interest to researchers at Heriot-Watt include:
- Dialog
- Dialog is one of the largest Online hosts, with several hundred
databases available. Some of the most relevant databases to Heriot-Watt
researchers include: BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts), Derwent World
Patents Index, TRIS (Transportation), Aquatic Science and Fisheries
Abstracts, Textline: Global News, Dissertation Abstracts International.
- STN International
- STN International is a very popular online host with members of
Heriot-Watt, due to the educational discounts available through the
service and the good selection of databases on the service. These
include:
Many more databases are available from each host, and the Library
also has access to other hosts with more databases.
Click
here for more information about the Library's Online Search
Service.
The following are not necessarily new, they are not listed in any
particular order, and this is by no means a complete listing, however
they look like they could be of interest to researchers at Heriot-Watt
University. (RM)
-
ARCHITRONIC
- The Electronic Journal of Architecture. Indexed by Avery Index to
Architectural Periodicals
- CROSSROADS:
THE INTERNATIONAL ACM STUDENT MAGAZINE
- Crossroads is a collaborative effort of students from all over the
world. Its purpose is to produce an ACM Student publication that is by
and for ACM students.
- INFOBITS
- This is an electronic service of the Institute for Academic
Technology's Information Resources Group. Each month a number of
information technology and instruction technology sources are monitored,
and selections made with brief notes for electronic dissemination to
educators.
INFOBITS is published by the Institute for Academic
Technology. The IAT is a national institute working to place higher
education at the forefront of academic technology development and
implementation. A partnership between the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and IBM Corporation, the IAT strives to facilitate
widespread use of effective and affordable technologies in higher
education.
- COMPLEXITY
INTERNATIONAL
- A refereed hypermedia journal of complex systems research, from the
Australian National University, Canberra. Relevant topics include:
artificial life, chaos theory, control theory, neural networks,
non-linear dynamics, etc + applications.
- ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS (ISSN 1077-8926 )
- JOURNAL
OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH
- A free refereed journal.
- EDUPAGE
- This covers information technology and media.
E-MAIL - To: listproc@educom.edu
Subject: Ignored
Body: Sub Edupage Your Name
- CYBERWIRE DISPATCH
- News items about the Internet, from an American perspective.
Also
available via E-Mail:
E-MAIL - To: majordomo@cyberwerks.com
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe CWD-L Your@Address
- infoCycle
- A Newsletter about technology management, and the computer industry
from a US viewpoint.
- NSF NETWORK NEWS
- Published by InterNIC, this is a bi-monthly which covers the
evolution of the NSFNET and the Internet.
Also available via E-Mail:
E-MAIL - To: newsletter-request@is.internic.net;
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe NSF Network News
- BITS AND
BYTES
- News about the computer industry; new products, legislation, books,
software reviews, etc.
Also available via E-Mail and FTP:
E-MAIL - To: listserv@acad1.dana.edu
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe Bits-n-Bytes
FTP - ftp.dana.edu: /periodic
- THE NETWORK OBSERVER
- Monthly commentary about the net.
E-MAIL - To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Subscribe Your Name
- EFFECTOR
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation's membership newsletter.
Also
available via E-Mail, USENET and FTP:
E-MAIL - To: listserv@eff.org
Subject: Subcribe Effector
Body: Ask nice.
Usenet: {preferred!} comp.org.eff
FTP - ftp.eff.org
- RACHEL'S
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY
- A weekly letter from the Environmental Research Foundation. RACHEL
stands for Random Access Chemical Hazards Electronic Library, a
database.
Also available via E-Mail and FTP:
E-MAIL - To: erf@igc.apc.org
Subject: None
Body: include name, phone # plus e-mail AND postal addresses. Fund-
raising pitch to follow, no doubt.
FTP - ftp.std.com: /periodicals/rachel
- TRADE NEWS
- From the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
E-MAIL - To: Majordomo@igc.apc.org
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe Trade-News Your@Address
- PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
- Digest of physics news items.
E-MAIL - To: listserv@aip.org
Subject: Ignored
Body: Subscribe Physnews
- THE ELECTRONIC
NEWSSTAND
- The Electronic Newsstand was founded in July 1993 to provide the
Internet community with easy access to a wide range of interesting
information furnished by the world's leading publishers.
Like traditional newsstands, The Electronic Newsstand is a place
where you can browse -- for free -- through many publications and have
your interest stimulated by a variety of subjects. The Newsstand
provides a window on the world of computers, technology, science,
business, foreign affairs, the arts, travel, medicine, nutrition,
sports, politics, literature and many, many other areas of interest.
The following is a list of periodicals available on the
Electronic Newsstand as at December 1994:
AI Expert
AI in Finance
Adventure and Jobsearch Overseas
Air & Space/Smithsonian
Alaska
American Demographics
American Immigration Law and Green Card Lottery News
American Journal of International Law
American Quarterly
Animals
Arthritis Today
Automatic I.D. News
Bass Player
Best Friends
Bio/Technology
Blue & Gold Illustrated - Notre Dame Football
Body Politic
Boston Book Review, The
Broadband Networking News
Bull and Bear Hot Stocks
Business Communications Review
Business Week
CADENCE: The World's Largest Independent AutoCAD Magazine
CCD Astronomy
Cable-Telco Report, The
Cadalyst Magazine
California Mining Journal
Cancer Causes and Control
Canoe & Kayak
Cause/Effect
Christopher Street
Chronic Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Quarterly
Chrysler Power Magazine
Classical PULSE!
Classroom Connect
Colloquium: A Digest for Investment Managers
Color Publishing
Communications Business & Finance
Communications of the ACM
Computer Artist
Computer Design
Computer Games Strategy Plus Magazine
Computer Graphics World
Computerworld
Cornell Magazine
Corporate Security
Current History
Data Channels
Database Programming & Design
Dealmakers, The
Decanter
Destination Discovery - The Discovery Channel Magazine
Discover: The World of Science
Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer
Drugs in the Workplace
E, The Environmental Magazine
Earth Magazine
Economist, The
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
Educom Review
Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems
Electronic Publishing
Employee Relations in Action
Enterprise Communications
Export Today
Far East Economic Review
Federal Employees News Digest
Fiber Optics News
Field & Stream
Financial World
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Foundation & Corporate Grants Alert
Free Inquiry
GPS World
Game Developer
Games
Games World of Puzzles
Genetic Engineering News
Genre
Geo Info Systems
Growing Edge
Guitar Player
Harvard International Review
Health After Fifty -- Johns Hopkins Medical Letter
Homebuyer's Fair, The
Hot Sheet Publishing
Human Ecology Forum
IYM Software Review
Inc. Magazine
Individual Investor
Information & Interactive Services Report
Inside Labor Relations
InsideFLYER
Interactions
Interactive Facts
Interactive Publishing Alert
International Legal Materials
International Security
Internet Business Advantage
Internet Letter, The
Internet World
Interracial Voice
Issues in Science and Technology
Japan Views
Jewish Enquirer, The
Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry, The
Journal of Democracy
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of NIH Research, The
Jewish Enquirer, The
Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry, The
Journal of Democracy
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of NIH Research, The
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Keyboard
LAN: The Network Solutions Magazine
Labor Trends
Laser Focus World
Lighting Dimensions Magazine - Lighting Design and Technology for Stage
and Studio and Architectual/Interior Design
Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street
Maclean's
Magical Blend
Management Policies and Personnel Law
Mathematica Journal, The
Mega Movie Guide - CD-ROM
Metropolis Magazine
Midrange Computing
Mining Business Digest
Monk, The Mobile Magazine
Mother Jones
Multimedia Week
Multimedia Wire
Museums New York
National Review
Nature Genetics
NautilusCD
New Age Journal
New Perspectives Quarterly
New Republic, The
New Yorker, The
Nieman Reports
OS/2 Developer
OS/2 Magazine
Oil & Gas Journal
Out Magazine
Outside Magazine
PC Graphics & Video
PC Novice
PC Today
Pacific Discovery
Policy Review
Political Science Quarterly
Quality of Life Research
RACER
Reading Woman
Reason Magazine
Report on Education Research
Report on Healthcare Information Management
Reviews from Parent Council
Reviews in American History
Rozek's: Unforgettable Profiles of Extraordinary People
SHARE INTERNATIONAL
Saturday Night
Scientist, The
Skeptical Inquirer
Ski Magazine
Sky & Telescope
Sloan Management Review
Small Business Gazette, The
Smithsonian
Source, The
Sporting News, The
Stage Directions
Standard View
Substance Abuse Report
TCI: Theatre Craft International
TDR: The Drama Review
TLC Monthly - The Learning Channel Magazine
TR Wireless News
Technology Review
Telco Competition Report
Telecom Data Report
Telecommunications Reports
Telecommunications Reports International
Telecommunications Week
The Wilt Letter: How to Flourish in an All Digital World
TheaterWeek
Times Higher Education Supplement, The
Times Literary Supplement, The
Today's Traveler Magazine
Travel Holiday
Travel Matters
Vibe Magazine
Video Technology News
Videomaker
Village Voice, The
Virtual Reality Special Report
Virtual Reality World
Washington Quarterly, The
Washington Telecom News
Wellness Letter -- University of California at Berkeley
Western Journal of Medicine, The
Whole Earth Review
Wireless Data News
Wireless Messaging Report
World Politics
World Press Review
Worth Magazine
Yankee
Yoga Journal
iMpulse Music Journal
In issue 3 of this Neswletter, we listed some of the many printed
sources of information about the Internet. The following is an addition
to the list.
- EDUCOM REVIEW
Periodicals 370 Level 1This is published bimonthly by a
non-profit consortium of about 600 colleges and universities.
Subscription information from: pubs@educom.edu
The subtitle of this periodical is "Learning, Communications and
Information Technology" so it is not entirely dedicated to the
Internet. Recent articles have covered "Billboards on the Information
Highway", "Planning for the National Electronic Library" and "Is the
Information Superhighway a Public Good". Each issue has a useful
"TechWatch" section. American in outlook.
Selected articles from Educom are available by clicking here
- RM
CHEST software directory 1994/95
Quick Reference
001.64 CHE
-This is a printed version of the CHEST directory which is
available on the NISSWAIS service, which can be accessed via the
NISS gateway over the Joint Academic Network (JANET) or the Internet.
It lists software discounts for Higher and Further Education and
the Research Community.-RM
Internet starter kit for Macintosh
by Adam Engst
001.6441 ENG
-This is the 2nd edition of this book. It contains a diskette, and
the usual sections on e-mail, newsgroups, resources, etc.-RM
World Wide Web, Mosaic, and more
by Jason J Manger
001.6441 MAN
-The title more or less speaks for itself. This is a new
(1995) publication, which is pretty up to date, although
not so up to date that it mentions Netscape in the Index.
The UK Internet book
by Sue Schofield
001.6441 SCH
-This is the better of the two books about the UK Internet
scene which have recently been published.
Applied data communications: A business-oriented approach
by James E Goldman
658.406 GOL
-Has information on LANs, WANs, client/server architecture, TCP/IP etc,
all from a business orientation.-RM
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