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and Gordon Andrew
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Some printed copies of this Newsletter are being delivered to selected sites. If you are reading one of these, please note that you are missing quite a lot! The best way to use this Newsletter is through a World-Wide Web browser such as Netscape or Mosaic. Call up or open the URL (Uniform Resource Locator): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html, select the issue you want to look at and you will be able to click on hypertext links and connect to many of the resources listed.
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I think it is a good idea to restate the objectives of this Newsletter from time to time. Basically its purpose is to inform about new or recent resources, of interest to higher education, available over the Internet, and, where possible, to provide hypertext links to these resources. Additionally, it hopes to provide occasional guidance on various aspects of electronic information. With this in mind, Gordon Andrew has written a some notes about NISS in this issue. Other topics will be covered in future issues.
I was interested to hear that an Internet cafe had opened in Edinburgh. Roddy MacLeod visited Web 13, in the centre of town. For his report, click here.
Regular readers of _INTERNET RESOURCES_ will have noticed one or two graphics creeping in here and there. We want the Newsletter to appear attractive, but are only too aware that complicated or large graphics slow down the time taken to retrieve it over the WWW. We hope that eventually we will reach a happy medium.
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"Adept Scientific plc was founded in 1984 and focuses on supplying and supporting a range of complementary software and hardware products used for technical applications on desktop computers."
URL: http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/
The ENTIRE Index for Annual Reviews Jan 1984 - Dec 1994 can be searched at this site. Alternately you can download the complete database. Very useful index!
URL: http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/annRev.html
This site tells you how to promote your web site, but also acts as a useful starting point when looking for information.
URL: http://apollo.co.uk/web-kit.html
Aquaculture Network Information Center is now on the WWW.
URL: http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/AquaNIC/
Includes audio lessons.
URL: http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/Arabic/arabic.html
Asia cyberspace, Conventions in Asia, Travel in Asia, now at:
URL: http://www.asia-online.com/
The Association for Information Management, has some two thousand corporate members worldwide. It actively promotes better management of information resources.
This site includes information, and some articles, from the ASLIB publication Managing Information, plus details of membership and services, professional development training, European news, Information management consultancy, The One-stop information service, and The Aslib Internet Programme.
URL: http://www.aslib.co.uk/aslib/
Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Includes:
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/
This is an end-user gateway to Internet resources designed for use by users of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It includes links to several hundred sites, listed alphabetically, by subject, and type. Lots of good ideas, including a WAIS searchable index of major texts on the Internet and how to use it. These include Brendon Kehoe's Zen and the Art of the Internet, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet and many others.
URL: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/bardhtml/
Information on more than just the Beechgrove Potting Shed.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/aberdeen/index.html
We listed the Internet Book Shop in a previous issue of this Newsletter. It provides an easy way to order books, but this site also allows you to search for books by author, title, publisher, ISBN, and keyword. The information is taken from Whitakers and apparently there are details of over 780,000 books! It lists 101 books with the keyword 'internet'!
URL: http://www.bookshop.co.uk/V3/SEARCH3.HTM
A useful US site which gives all sorts of information relevant to bridge engineering.
URL: http://www.best.com/~solvers/bridge.html
The British Council promotes educational, cultural, scientific and technical co-operation between Britain and other countries. The British Council's work is designed to establish long-term and worldwide partnerships and to improve international understanding. It works in 228 towns and cities in 108 countries. Its headquarters departments are in London and Manchester, with main offices in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
URL: http://www.open.gov.uk/bc/bcchom01.html
"Mission Statement:
To act as a world class data centre in support of UK marine science and, in particular, to:
URL: http://www.nbi.ac.uk/bodc/bodcmain.html
The Building Research Establishment is the main organisation in the United Kingdom carrying out research into building and construction and the prevention and control of fire.
URL: http://www.bre.co.uk/
This page has the title: Scott Hill's Selected Business/Financial Resource Sites. There are some useful links, but dont view it through Netscape, as the body background makes it illegible.
URL: http://138.238.21.117/scott/bizmarks.html
Calculus&Mathematica is a computer-based calculus reform project developed at the Unversity of Illinois and The Ohio State Unversity. It uses Mathematica to teach calculus to high school and college students at over 30 institutions around the world.
URL: http://www-cm.math.uiuc.edu/
Includes a virtual tour of the Production Facilities.
URL: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~su9ctv/home.html
I visited the (landbased) site for CAT at Machynlleth a while back. Very interesting, as is their Web page at:
URL: http://www.foe.co.uk:80/CAT/
The Centre provides a Consultancy service, co-ordinates inter-disciplinary and inter-departmental networking among marine researchers and promotes maritime and coastal studies.
URL: http://www.sea.uct.ac.za:80/cms/index.html
Christie CRC Research Centre are developing a WWW site at:
URL: http://kryton.cr.man.ac.uk/index.html
Cumulative Index to the journal at:
URL: http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/wiley/numeng.html
"This World Wide Web server contains information about scientists and the funding of science.
The Community of Science is designed to help you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to your own. It contains an on-line inventory of researchers, inventions, and facilities at leading U.S. and Canadian universities, and other R & D organizations. The Community of Science contains over 40,000 first-person expertise records, 5,000 inventions records, and 2,000 facilities records."
URL: http://medoc.gdb.org/
The following links are taken from an article by Edward A Fox, entitled "World-Wide Web and computer science reports" which appeared in the April 1995 issue of Communications of the ACM (Vol 38, Number 4, pp 43-44. (Reproduced with permission).
Cornell University:
Department of Computer Science, Technical Report Library.
This
is an entry point to a distributed technical report library developed by
the ARPA-sponsored Computer Science Technical Report Project. Using
HTML Forms this site allows searching for reports by identifier, author,
words in title/ abstract, etc,. Information about the reports is very
detailed. Various participating sites are searchable.
URL:
http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/
On-line
CS Techreports
This site has links to 210 other sites which have
CS archives. Som are ftp and some are html links. Includes links to
many UK and European sites, such as Keele, Imperial, Glasgow, Exeter,
Essex, Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, Stirling, St Andrews,
Aberdeen, etc.
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jblythe/cs-reports.html
Query Interface to the CS Technical Report Harvest Broker
Not
much information about this site, but according to Fox, it extracts data
from 300 FTP archives.
URL: http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/brokers/cstech/query.html
Computer
Science Technical Reports Archive Sites
From Monash University,
in Australia, a list of sites, with links, which have CS technical
reports archives. Includes many in Europe.
URL: http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/tr/siteslist.html
Technical
Report Archives in Computer Science
Maintained as part of the
EPICS project (Electronic Papers in Computing Science) by Prof. Rob
Cameron, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, this is a
gateway to more than 120 institutional and project archives for
Computing Science technical reports
URL: http://fas.sfu.ca/1/projects/EPiCS/CS-TechReports
UCSTRI
(Unified Computer Science TR Index)
Links to about 180 archival
sites. Click
Here for a paper about this service, written by Marc VanHeyningen,
Computer Science Department Indiana University, and presented at the
Second International WWW Conference, Chicago, October 1994.
URL:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cstr/search
WATERS
(Wide Area TEchnical Report Service) Global Service Home Page
"WATERS
is being developed by the Computer Science Departments at Old Dominion
University, SUNY Buffalo, University of Virginia, and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. It is partially supported by
NSF grant NSF-CDA-9308259 and encouraged by the Computer Research
Association."
URL: http://www.cs.odu.edu/WATERS/WATERS-GS.html
This site provides links to printed periodicals which have a Web presence, under the headings: | Newspapers | Magazines | Computer Publications | Technical Books |
URL: http://www.webcom.com/~ecola/tradepub.html
"The Electronic Embassy program has been established to link the staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community to their constituencies in business and industry, education, the press and government. The Electronic Embassy is a project of TeleDiplomacy Inc., which manages its sources and resources."
URL: http://www.embassy.org/
Excellent field guide at:
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/electronic.publishing.html
Someone has put a lot of effort into producing this field guide/ bibliography, with hypertext links where appropriate, about e-mail
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/email.html
John Labovitz's E-Zine list has moved to a new location. It lists over 300 e-zines.
URL: http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/index.html
This is a directory listing manufacturers of electronic hardware products on the Internet. The service is provided by the Webscope Commercial Center.
URL: http://www.webscope.com/elx/homepage.html
This is a very simple European Map of WWW/NIR sites.
URL: http://s700.uminho.pt/europa.html
Sports, Hobbies, Arts, Conferences, etc
URL: http://www.ipworld.com/events/homepage.htm
This is a very informative (and quite long) paper fom JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), the body formed to promote the exploitation of information systems to the benefit of the higher education sector. The paper discusses such things as the Higher Education community in the next decade, Developments in IT, Networking Technology, Information sources and navigation tools.
URL: gopher://gopher.niss.ac.uk:70/00/Education_and_Research/JISC/ISSUES.TXT
This is a magazine magazine produced by the undergraduates at the Information Technology Institute, Salford. Its been available for some time, but well worth a look.
URL: http://www.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/iti/feedback/feedhome.html
URL: http://www.foe.co.uk/
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit organization established by foundations in 1956. Our mission is to increase public understanding of the foundation field. We do this by maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date database on foundations and corporate giving programs, by producing directories, and by analyzing trends in foundation support of the nonprofit sector.
URL: http://fdncenter.org/
An easy way to convert foreign currencies. This has a new location at:
URL: http://gnn.com/cgi-bin/gnn/currency
This is not a new site, but it has good links to various news services.
URL: http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/travel/res/newsgath.html
This is a good field guide/bibliography to sources on, about, and on the Internet to Gopher.
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/tools.gopher.html
The Harvard Computer Review (HCR) is the Harvard Computer Society's online magazine dedicated to reviewing trends in computing. It is produced entirely by HCS members, and has been completely converted to an online format.
URL: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hcr/
Information about the company and its products.
URL: http://www.hii.hitachi.com:80/
This is an excerpt from the book 'Managing Internet information services' by Liu, Peek, Jones, Buus and Nye, published by O'Reilly & Associates.
URL: http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/features/html/index.html
HYTELNET is the utility which gives an IBM-PC user instant-access to all telnet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, BBSs, Gophers, WAIS, etc.
URL: http://www.lights.com/hytelnet/
The Info-filter Project attempts to provide Internet users with information and reviews about various resources.
URL: http://www.usc.edu/users/help/flick/Reviews/info-zine.html
Produced by the University of California Riverside, this site points to resources of interest on the above subjects.
URL: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/bioag/
John December's widely used lists of information sources are always being updated, and are an absolute mine of links to some very useful Internet resources.
Their purpose is to collect, organize, and present information describing the Internet and computer-mediated communication technologies, applications, culture, discussion forums, and bibliographies. Areas of interest include the technical, social, rhetorical, cognitive, and psychological aspects of networked communication and information.
URL: http://www.rpi.edu//Internet/Guides/decemj/icmc/top.html
The Information Technology Newsletter to help you do business in the United States.
URL: http://www.globalx.net/ccto/infotech/
"The Institute for Research in Construction is an integral part of the National Research Council (NRC). The Institute is the leader in research, technology and innovation for the Canadian construction industry, one of the country's largest industrial sectors. Through its research and in partnership with industry, the Institute works to improve the safety, durability and comfort of Canadian workplaces, homes, and public infrastructure while helping Canadian builders and design professionals become more competitive. The Institute works with industry to develop innovative building materials and products such as high-performance concrete, superior walls, windows and roofs and energy-efficient products."
URL: http://www.cisti.nrc.ca:80/irc/
Cumulative Index to the journal at:
URL: http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/wiley/numeng.html
Emory University Health Sciences Center Library, in Atlanta, have a very impressive list of Internet Resource Discovery Tools. Good links to sources on discussion lists, e-journals, email, gopher, libraries, societies, WWW sites, Internet starting points, plus other points of interest.
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/resource.discovery.html
A rather strange, but certainly creative, site. Here is a quote: "You probably know about Internet in a Box, one of the earlier attempts to make the Internet more accessible for new users. We now proudly present the next generation, the ultimate user interface, the only Internet product that even a baby could use: Internet in a Baby."
URL: http://www.wideweb.com/baby/
What's On and Where to Go in Cyberspace, etc. Plus links to information about a very useful magazine.
URL: http://www.emap.co.uk/comp/whatson/
Another list of resources to help you find things on the Internet by subject.
URL: http://gnn.digital.com/gnn/wic/search.04.html
A French language introduction.
URL: http://www-ensimag.imag.fr:80/ENSIMAG/Administration/Les.Cours/Exposes.Reseaux/Introweb/
A newspaper from Norway. Issues from 1st January 1995 available.
URL: http://WWW.KR.kommorg.no/
The building society, gives information about mortgages, travel insurance, savings accounts, and also has a branch locator.
URL: http://www.europe.ibm.com/leeds/leeds.htm
"As part of the European Community's libraries programme, work has commenced on a project to develop an international information enquiry and referral service for European libraries. Called Project LIRN (Library Information enquiry and Referral Network) it will study and define the service for an information enquiry and referral network and establish a working pilot system between Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom." Very much still under construction.
URL: http://sun7.iihe.ac.be/intro_uk.html
Many webcrawlers are listed at this site, which is provided by Nexor.
URL: http://web.nexor.co.uk/users/mak/doc/robots/active.html
Lycos have added 3 more Sparc 20's and 224 megabytes of RAM to speed up the big catalog.
URL: http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
This is a six week distance-learning workshop conducted entirely by e-mail. It introduces the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's distributed hypermedia information system, as well as enhances the skills of the somewhat more experienced user. There is a charge for the course.
URL: http://www.crl.com/~gorgon/links.html
Includes links to interesting resources from sites all around the world.
URL: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/mba.htm
A variety of pages are available here, including:
The Literati Club
For those who edit and write for journals
published by MCB University Press.
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/literati/nethome.htm
Information
about the journal
Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications & Policy
Includes Contents, Abstracts, and Annual Indexes.
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/liblink/intr/nethome.html
The address for the MCB Home-Page is:
URL: http://www.mcb.co.uk/
Another set of links from the impressive server at Emory University Health Sciences Center Library, in Atlanta.
URL: http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html
"Mintel is recognised as Britains leading analyst of consumer markets. It is independent. It publishes and sells high quality, high value reports on individual market sectors and entire industries. Reports are written and managed by analysts with experience in the relevant markets."
This site includes an index to several hundred Mintel reports. In a few cases, contents details are also available.
URL: http://www.cityscape.co.uk/users/ca93/
Quite a lot of information and links at this site to Arab materials.
URL: http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/arab/homepage.html
Non-Destructive Testing site from Japan.
URL: http://www.crc.ricoh.com/NDT/
The Net is a TV programme currently being broadcast by the BBC on Channel 2 at 8 pm on Mondays. This is the second series of The Net, and there are usually some items of interest. One programme explained how to set up home-pages with graphics and hotspots.
An attractive web page (if viewed through Netscape) for the series featuring transcripts, images from programmes, and information about featured items can be found at:
URL: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/the_net/
The e-mail
address is: the_net@bbcnc.org.uk
Discussions about the series
(amongst other things) takes place in the Newsgroup uk.media
Elsewhere in this Newsletter you will find the URL for BBC Aberdeen, and just to remind you, the URL for The Big Byte, a radio series on Sundays, Radio 5 Live 909 & 696 MW is:
URL: http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/big_byte/
Netsurfer Focus is designed to cover a single topic in-depth, from the same people who produce Netsurfer Digest. It is backed up by a more extensive database of links for those interested in further exploration. You can expect to see one every 4-6 weeks. Issue 1 covers computer and network security.
URL: http://www.netsurf.com/nsf/
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6, no. 1 (1995).
URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html
This guide, by David Rosen, has been around for some time, but gives valuable information for those with only e-mail access.
URL: http://www.scs.unr.edu/%7Ecbmr/net/start.html
Excellent links to daily, weekly, and speciality news services available on the Internet.
URL: http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/webjou.htm
Free trial of this online pre-sorted news service until July 15, 1995 After the free-trial period is over, there will still be free access to NewsPage topics, headlines, and news briefs. There will be charges for accessing full-text stories
URL: http://www.newspage.com/
NeWWW is published every other week. News about the Internet, etc. Under the following topics:
Art/Literature
Business/Commercial
Collections
Computers/Internet
Education/Academic
Entertainment
Government/Law/Politics
Movies/TV
Music
Reference
Science/Environment/Nature
Society/Culture
Sports/Recreation
URL: http://newww.dartmouth.edu:8023/issues/latest/
"NICE stands for "Networked Information-servers for Civil Engineering". It's goal is to foster and promote information sharing, cooperation and coordination among webmasters of civil engineering WWW servers in order to minimize efforts, improve the existing servers and help in the creation of new ones."
URL: http://www.fagg.uni-lj.si/ICARIS/NICE/
Not a particularly new site, but full of useful information and links into maritime related resources. The NSnet is designed to support the U.S.shipbuilding infrastructure by serving as the electronic communication and information resource network for the shipbuilding community. The NSnet is supported by ARPA's MARITECH Program, which is one part of the Federal Governments's plan to improve the international competitiveness of U.S. shipyards.
URL: http://www.nsnet.com/
URL: http://www.observer.co.uk/
The OSPIC began construction of this Home Page in April 1995. The goal of this Library is to provide information about the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
URL: http://www.alaska.net:80/~ospic/
Describes itself thus; "This is the place to keep up with the latest on the Internet, System Administration, Programming, UNIX, or X. Here are interviews and articles by experts in the field, as well as choice excerpts from O'Reilly publications." As well as advertising O'Reilly & Associates publications, there is quite a lot of useful information at this site. For example, current items include:
HTML Overview System Administration: The Ever Evolving Profession A Brief History of UNIX PGP: The Privacy Wars Stopping the Information Railroad Clickable Image Maps Getting the Big Picture on Mosaic POSIX.4: Real World Programming Launching a Successful Software Business The Wide Appeal of Linux From the X Consortium: Writing Portable X Code The Sendmail Story UNIX and Microsoft Square Off: The NT Interview True-life Adventure: Customer Stories
URL: http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/features/index.html
UK News, etc. You are requested to subscribe (for free) and fill out a form, etc. This site includes up to the minute news coverage.
URL: http://www.padd.press.net/
Physics Express Letters contains all the Letters and Rapid Communications from a11 of Institute of Physics Publishing's leading journals. Complete articles are available several weeks before their publication in the printed edition and include full mathematics, figures and tables. You can search for articles and read them online in World Wide Web (HTML) format or in Adobe (TM) Acrobat (TM) format. The service is FREE for 1995. You need to register to use the service.
URL: http://www.iop.org/IOPP/pelwelcome.html
The pLab-group is concerned with random number generation. Stochastic simulation requires a reliable source of randomness. That is where random number generators come into play.
URL: http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/home.html
Compiled by Lynn Eades, Education Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill and Julia Shaw-Kokot, Education Librarian, Health Sciences Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. This was compiled with reference to the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Spring 1995 Conference, March 6, 1995
URL: http://ike.engr.washington.edu/iat/irg-26.html
URL: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/contemp/swuk/
AGRA Earth & Environmental's Garbage Page!
URL: http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/~agra/agra.html
Another search engine to find things on the Internet
URL: http://wizard.spry.com/
Jobs, Web Watch, plus lots of information taken from the Sunday Times newspaper about the Internet. You need a reasonably good graphics card to make these pages legible.
URL: http://www.delphi.co.uk/innov/
Information about: Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague.
URL: http://www.timeout.co.uk/
"TrAC has initiated a regular column on the rapidly growing phenomenon of the Internet. The purpose of these columns will be to both whet your appetite for what is available on the Internet, as well as to provide some information and suggestions as to how to access the Internet, locate and retrieve this information."
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/freeinfo/trac/
Not new, but this is a useful list of academic WWW sites in the UK.
URL: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/uk-academic.html
Seekers of employment in the United Kingdom can register on PeopleBank, a database distributed to employers and agencies through the Net, or browse their list of opportunities.
URL: http://www.micromedia.co.uk/ten/default.htm
The Universities and Colleges Software Group (UCSG) is a sub committee of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). The aims and objectives of UCSG are to act as an advisory body on software and allied services.
URL: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ucsg/
"UMI is one of the world's leading providers of information to library, corporate, and academic organizations. The company opens up access to more than 25,000 periodicals and newspapers, and over 1.3 million dissertations from universities around the world."
Some interesting information at this site, which is worthwhile quoting at length "...there are a small number of Dissertation Abstracts records on UMI's Gopher server: approximately 5,000 citations with abstracts for dissertations and theses in philosophy, theology and religion. These records were made available as a technical project to help us ascertain what's involved in preparing records for the Internet and maintaining the server, and to begin to assess potential interest among humanities-type net surfers.
Will all of Dissertation Abstracts ever be available on Internet? Certainly not immediately, but UMI will continue to experiment with various approaches to enhanced database access. We'll also continue to build our services to the increasing numbers of Internet-capable researchers."
URL: http://www.umi.com/
The URL for the gopher service which contains details of some 5,000 dissertations in some humanities subjects is:
URL: gopher://gopher.umi.com
The University of Wales Swansea Library WWW Home Pages are now available. The URL for direct access is:
URL: http://www.swan.ac.uk/library/libhome.htm
A free French WWW magazine. Watch out for the graphics.
URL: http://www.mmania.com/
WEBsurf is a monthly magazine about the World Wide Web. Isue 2 is now available.
URL: http://www.jsp.fi/~whisper/SPhome.html
WebWatch is a tool for keeping track of changes in selected Web documents.
Given an HTML document referencing URLs on the Web, WebWatch produces a filtered list, containing only those URLs that have been modified since a given time. It is Shareware costing US $18
URL: http://www.specter.com/users/janos/specter/webwatch.html
This site tries to collate the welsh-related net resource onto a single site.
URL: http://alife1.cs.man.ac.uk:80/welsh/
After 10 minutes, the graphic had still not loaded at this site! Be warned.
URL: gopher://wp.novell.com:80/hGET%20/npiwp/index.htm
Lots of information here:
URL: http://WWW.Stars.com/
X/Open is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent, international consortium which is dedicated to the advancement of open systems throughout the world.
URL: http://www.xopen.org/
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Many readers of this newsletter will already be familiar with NISS (National Information Services and Systems). NISS is funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and is freely available to users of JANET and the Internet. NISS has an impressive seven-year track record of providing quick and easy access to a wide range of electronic information .
Earlier this year NISS launched the NISS Information Gateway, a World Wide Web service which acts as a user-friendly interface to existing NISS services and also offers some services which were not previously available.
The Gateway can be accessed in a number of ways. Which method you use will depend on which software is available to you.
The best way to access the NISS Information Gateway is undoubtedly by using a graphical World Wide Web browser such as Netscape or Mosaic. Failing this , a text-based browser such as Lynx will provide the same functionality. The URL for the NISS information gateway is:
You can also access the Gateway by using Telnet. Simply telnet to niss.ac.uk. This will connect you to the old NISS Gateway. To use the NISS Information Gateway, select option I) NISS Information Gateway from the main menu.
Even if you only have access to a PAD you can still use the NISS Information Gateway. From the PAD prompt type "call niss". If you are accessing the service from outside Heriot-Watt University you may have to type "call uk.ac.niss" or "call 000062200000". This will connect you to the old NISS Gateway. To use the NISS Information Gateway, simply select option I) NISS Information Gateway from the main menu.
On connecting to the NISS Information Gateway, the user is presented with a top-level menu to the information available. What follows is a description of what can be found under each of these menu headings:
Contains an introduction to the NISS Information Gateway as well as a useful What's New section giving details of new information sources accessible via the Gateway.
Includes links to some of the more useful newspapers and other news services available on the Internet, including The Daily Telegraph and The Times Higher Education Supplement. Also featured are job vacancies, UK weather forecasts and details of forthcoming conferences and seminars.
This is NISS' equivalent of a "subject tree" or "virtual library" and is one of the new services available from the NISS Information Gateway. Resources available by World Wide Web, Gopher and Telnet are arranged by subject using the UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) system. At present this area is very much under development and some subjects have very limited or no coverage as yet. As subject trees go, this one is well designed and easy to use. Each resource has a detailed information file and all links are automatically checked to ensure that they all work. There is also a useful search facility which enables you to search for resources by keyword. NISS are very selective about the resources they add to this section and are keen to stress that only the most useful resources will be included. As this service grows it could easily become one of the most useful Internet starting points for members of the UK Higher Education Community, especially those who are unfamiliar with the Internet.
This section is reserved for information which is likely to be used frequently by the UK Academic Community. It includes links to all the UK HE Library Catalogues, to Directory Services (such as the Paradise E-mail and telephone directory), to major commercial data hosts (such as Dialog and STN) and to useful online reference works (such as Roget's Thesaurus and the CIA World Factbook).
Includes information from UK Government Departments (such as the Dept. of Education), Higher Education statutory bodies (such as Funding Councils, JISC and HESA) , Projects and Initiatives (such as BIDS, HENSA, UKOLN and CTI), Administrative/Collective Bodies (such as CVCP and UCISA), and UK Academic Institutions and Research Councils.
Provides access to information on CHEST software, training, datasets and hardware along with other catalogues of IT products (e.g. HENSA) and training materials.
Includes information about NISS and its services along details of new developments. This section also gives details on the underlying structure of the NISS Information Gateway and the technology which goes into producing the service.
The best way to find out more about the NISS Information Gateway is to connect to the service and start exploring what's on offer. You can also e-mail NISS at gateway@niss.ac.uk.
Members of Heriot-Watt University who would like more information about the Gateway can contact their Faculty Librarian for further details, or ask for a NISS Information Gateway Booklet at the Library Service Desk.
G.A.
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WEB 13 is an Internet cafe, situated in the centre of Edinburgh, at 13 Bread Street (off Lothian Road). It has been open since mid-April, and from all appearances, business is booming. The actual hours of opening are 10 am to 10pm, 7 days a week.
There are 9 public terminals at the cafe, and each can be hired by the general public for an hour or half an hour at a time (there are reduced rates for students and the unemployed). Two of the PCs are multimedia, with CD-ROM drives. The services on offer include access to over 4,500 Newsgroups, the World-Wide Web, FTP, Gopher, IRC, Telnet, e-mail, etc.
For an extra weekly charge users can get an e-mail address and send and receive e-mail, subject to a storage limit of 1MB. For those using the service, it is even possible to telnet into the mail facility from elsewhere.
WEB 13 also offers the chance to have your own WWW home-page loaded on their server. Training on the Internet can be provided (extra charge) on Tuesday and Sunday evenings, and Tuesday and Saturday nights are also games nights.
When I visited the cafe I was impressed with the service, layout, and ease of use. All but one of the terminals was running the latest version of Netscape through X-Windows, and seemed to be able to handle any type of file (wav mov jpg quicktime, etc). There was a good collection of reference books and net magazines available for consultation, and photocopying (extra charge), and scanning (small hand scanner, but a flatbed is on order) were also available.
What sort of person uses WEB 13? Not too many students, because all of those at Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities have free access to the Internet from their respective campuses, but there were a variety of other patrons. People of all ages use the cafe.
WEB 13 is hosting and supporting a number of WWW services. Of particular interest:
The Official Fringe
programme of the Edinburgh festival, to be found at:
URL: http://www.presence.co.uk/fringe/
A site they have
called The
Scotland Business Park at:
URL: http://www.presence.co.uk/localweb/bizpage/biz.html
Thirteen (WWW magazine) at:
URL:
http://www.presence.co.uk/localweb/homemag/thirteen/thirteen.html
If you want to see what the cafe looks like, try the picture of the interior at:
URL:
http://www.presence.co.uk/graphics/web13sml.jpg
The e-mail address of the cafe is: queries@presence.co.uk
and the home page for Web 13
is:
URL: http://www.presence.co.uk/
R.M.
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The Latest BIDS News Bulletin is available at:
URL: http://www.bids.ac.uk/bidsnews.html
Of particular interest:
The new BIDS COMPENDEX service is now available. The interface is similar to that now in place for BIDS ISI, and requires the use of a terminal emulator that supports VT100 style working.
A number of deficiencies with the 'old' BIDS COMPENDEX implementation have been addressed; in particular the Ei Descriptors and Classification codes can be searched explicitly, and S.A.E. paper numbers can be searched.
Included in the release is Ei Page One, the table of contents database that was included in the original CHEST agreement. This database covers some 5,400 journals, though without abstracts or descriptors.
The data for COMPENDEX*Plus has been loaded back to 1984 (the rest of the data back to 1972 will be made available over the next couple of months). Ei Page One is available with all the years back to 1991.
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A copy of the Gale Guide to Internet Databases has just arrived in the Library for review. This is a very impressive directory of over 2,000 databases currently available on the Internet. The entries provide information about databases offering unrestricted access which are of interest to researchers, government, education, business, and popular culture. A full review will appear in a future issue of Reference Reviews. - RM
Last issue we reported that 'The Internet for scientists and engineers' was available in the Library. It is proving to be a popular title, and another copy has been ordered. If you want to view more details about this book, look at the following site:
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001.6441 CLA Student's guide to the Internet by David Clark, Alpha, 1995
001.6441 INT Integrated network management IV, Proceedings of the fourth international symposium, 1995 edited by A S Sethi, Chapman & Hall, 1995
001.66 NEG Being digital by N Negroponte, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995
346.048 CIT CITED: Copyright in transmitted electronic documents, CITED Final report, CITED Consortium, 1995
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