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Request: resource-guide
Topic: overview
Document Updated: 11 Nov 92
Subject: Overview of Resource Guide
OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE
11 November 1992
The NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) publishes a guide to resources
on the Internet. These resources include facilities such as
supercomputers, databases, libraries, or specialized programs on the
Internet which are available to large numbers of users. Each entry in
the guide contains a description of the resource, a description of who
may use the resource, the type of access supported (email, ftp,
telnet), and contact points for further information such as a phone
number, email address, and name of a contact person where appropriate.
Each listing is approximately one page of text.
The categories of resources are (1) Computational Resources, (2)
Library Catalogs, (3) Archives, (4) White Pages (information about
users), (5) Networks, (6) Network Information Centers, and (7)
Miscellaneous.
See the section "How to Get the Internet Resource Guide", below, for
instructions on ways to get your copy of the Internet Resource Guide.
Wanted: New Entries for Internet Resource Guide
The NNSC is eager to add descriptions of additional resources to the
Guide. If you are part of an organization that maintains a facility
that should be included in the Guide, please send a message to:
resource-guide@nnsc.nsf.net
and we will send a template for you to use to submit your information.
We will edit the submission, and check it with you before we publish
it. If you know anyone who might want to make a contribution, please
pass on this message or send us a note giving us the name of a contact
person.
We need your help to make the guide a valuable tool for Internet users
-- its effectiveness will depend on the active participation of the
community of resource providers.
How to Get the Internet Resource Guide
The Guide is published using an electronic submission and distribution
system. We have created electronic mailing lists for people who wish
to receive additions the guide. We distribute these in plain-text and
PostScript form. Recipients can print the pages locally and insert
them into a looseleaf binder, which they can update when they receive
new material.
The Guide is also available, via anonymous FTP, from nnsc.nsf.net,
in the directory "resource-guide".
There are three mailing lists available for updates to the Guide.
1) sends updates via email in PostScript format
2) sends updates via email in plain-text (ASCII) format
3) sends an announcement via email when new entries are available
via FTP
If you would like your name added to one of these lists, please send a
message to:
resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net
and be sure to let us know which list you prefer.
For sites that do not have ftp access, we have placed the Internet
Resource Guide on the NNSC Info-Server. The Info-Server is an
automatic retrieval system that uses email.
To receive the "help" file with instructions for using the
Info-Server, and the "index-resource-guide" file with a list of the
sections and chapters in the Guide, send an email message to:
info-server@nnsc.nsf.net
In the body of the message, type:
Request: resource-guide
Topic: help
Topic: index-resource-guide
For people who are unable to use either FTP or email, the NNSC also
publishes printed copies of the Guide at a price of $25.00 per guide.
This fee assists us in covering the costs associated with the hardcopy
distribution of the guide, which we send by U.S. mail. Please send a
check or money order made payable to: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., in
the amount of $25.00 (U.S. dollars), to:
NSF Network Service Center (NNSC)
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Mail Stop: 6/3B
Cambridge, MA 02138
ATTENTION: Alanna MacDonald
Please be sure to include the following account number on your check:
4001-49-06480.
IMPORTANT: Please note that we are unable to accept purchase orders.
--NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) Staff