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- Social scientist's guide to the network
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- (to AARNET/INTERNET Online Information Services)
-
-
-
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- [This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers
- via anonymous FTP on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU ]
-
- [Previous update: 22 Apr 1992]
- [This version: 25 Apr 1992]
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- INTERNET VOYAGER (a.k.a ELECTRONIC VOYAGER GUIDEBOOK)
-
- SOCIAL SCIENTIST'S GUIDEBOOK
- to AARNET/INTERNET Online Information Services
-
- by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek, Coombs Computing Unit, RSPacS/RSSS,
- Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- ph +61 6 249 4016
- e-mail (INTERNET) tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au
-
- Note: The online services listed below have been electronically accessed,
- exploredand verified by the compiler of this GuideBook. In other words, this
- document is based on first-hand experience, not on the network hearsay.
- Services found by the compiler to be too difficult to access/use are NOT
- listed in this guide. Pointers to other relevant guidebooks and lists are
- given by the end of this paper.
-
- A +++ by an entry designates recent additions/changes to the Guidebook
-
- Please send any additions, corrections and deletions to:
- tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au.
-
- (C) 1991,1992 by T. Matthew Ciolek. All Rights Reserved.
- ================================================================================
- TABLE OF CONTENTS (no. of sources described)
- ================================================================================
- ARCHIVES (20)
- BULLETIN BOARDS (13)
- DATA BASES (23)
- LIBRARY CATALOGUES (pointers to 300+ libraries)
- PERIODICALS (4)
- Appendix A: TELNET procedures
- Appendix B: Anonymous FTP procedures
- Appendix C: Using ARCHIE databases
- Some Useful References
- Copyright and disclaimer notice
- ================================================================================
- ARCHIVES
- [current details of the FTP archives can be obtained from the ARCHIE database
- (see inf. below)]
- ================================================================================
- SERVICE: Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: Computer Services Center, Aust. National Univ.
- LOCATION: Canberra, Australia
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: archive.anu.edu.au
- SUB-DIRECTORY: pub
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *sub-dir. /library contains LIBRARIES.TXT - a current
- directory of telnet addresses of 250+ on-line library
- catalogues;
- *sub-dir. /AARNet contains AARNET documents;
- *sub-dir. /src contains DOS & MAC software;
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: Australian Academic and Research (Computer) Network
- LOCATION: Australia
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: aarnet.edu.au
- SUB-DIRECTORY: pub
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *sub-dir. /resource-guide contains inf. about Internet/Aarnet on-line resources
- *sub-dir. /user-guide contains guidebooks and introductory material;
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Documents & Software Archive +++ new entry
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: the Institute for Global Communications, which hosts EcoNet,
- PeaceNet, and ConflictNet.
- LOCATION: USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: igc.org
- SUB-DIRECTORY: pub
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *sub-dir. /pub contains:
- econet_brochure, peacenet_brochure
- IGC-conf-list-complete list of all IGC public conferences
- IGC-conf-list-medium same list but shorter descriptions
- IGC-conf-list-short list of conference names only
- *If there are some files which you think may be of interest to the IGC
- community, then feel free to drop them into the Directory 'New-stuff'
- and send a message to : support@igc.org
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: ?
- LOCATION: Toronto, Canada
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: relay.cs.toronto.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: doc/books
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?5/5
- Freshness of inf.: n/a
- COMMENTS:
- * contains text files of individual chapters of the Holy Bible;
- directory /doc/books/Bible
- * contains text files of individual chapters of the Holy Koran (Quran);
- directory /doc/books/Quran
- * for WAIS servers with the texts see the entry on WAIS servers database
- * for another FTP archive of these 2 texts see Univ. of Maryland Info. Archive
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: ?
- LOCATION: Toronto, Canada
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: relay.cs.toronto.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: doc/Dictionaries
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?5/5
- Freshness of inf.: n/a
- COMMENTS:
- * contains compressed text files of the following foreing lang. dictionaries:
- (numbers in brackets indicate file size in bytes eg 57749 = 57.7Kb)
- Family-Names.Z (57749)
- Given-Names.Z 31136
- germanl.Z 137591
- words.dutch.Z 779056
- words.english.Z 217119
- words.french.Z 536310
- words.german.Z 761528
- words.italian.Z 217241
- words.norwegian.Z 258162
- words.swedish.Z 96169
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Kauri Archive
- ORGANISATION: Victoria University
- LOCATION: New Zealand
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: kauri.vuw.ac.nz
- SUB-DIRECTORY: etext/Literaure
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: ?/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- COMMENTS:
- * a large collection of books and documents [in the
- etext format] from the world heritage list. Strong on poets
- and British Victorian fiction.
- LAST ACCESSED: Jan 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Network Information Center
- ORGANISATION: ?Univ.of Helsinki
- LOCATION: Helsinki, Finland
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: nic.funet.fi
- SUB-DIRECTORY: /pub/doc/Books
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 2/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- COMMENTS:
- * contains files with publications lists by 230
- individual Science Fiction authors (from D. Adams through
- I. Calvino through S.Lem to A.vanVogt.)
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Oxford Text Archive
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Oxford
- LOCATION: Oxford, UK
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: ox.ac.uk , if access is a problem use address: 129.67.1.165
- SUB-DIRECTORY: ota
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: n/a
- COMMENTS:
- *contains textarchive.sgml - a current
- directory of several hundreds etexts (books & dictionaries) available
- from the archive
- * contains other info. documents
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Texts Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Project Gutenberg
- ORGANISATION: Project Gutenberg at ?
- LOCATION: Urbana, Ill., USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: etext
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: ?/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- * fast growing collection of books and documents [in the
- etext format] from the world heritage list.The aim is to
- provide 10,000 books in etext format by the year 2001.
- *users are invited to deposit electronic versions of
- non-copyrighted books with the Project.
- *the archive contains a copy of the 1990 The CIA
- World Factbook (world11.txt) -approx 2Mb of quality data
- * for WAIS server with the texts see the entry on WAIS servers database
- LAST ACCESSED: Jan 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Genealogy Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: ?
- LOCATION: ?North Dakota, USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: vm1.nodak.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: ROOTS-L
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- * contains text files and docs relevant to modern
- genealogical searches & studies.
- * There also is a anonymous ftp site for genealogy
- related files located at hallc1.cebaf.gov.That site is
- primarily for the specialist software. However some text
- files, particularly large ones may be found there
- compressed into ZIP files.
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Geography Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: ?
- LOCATION: Toronto, Canada
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: relay.cs.toronto.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: doc/geography/world
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- * contains text files about 249 individual countries covered
- by the CIA WorldFactbook; directory /doc/geography/world
- * contains maps of the countries and regions of the world provided
- by the CIA ; directory/doc/geography/CIA_World_Map
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Jewish Studies Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: ITEX
- LOCATION: Jerusalem, Israel
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: itex.jct.ac.il
- SUB-DIRECTORY: pub
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- COMMENTS:
- *contains software and docs relevant to jewish culture
- & hebrew studies (eg. calendars software, fonts etc)
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: History Documents Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: Mississippi State University
- LOCATION: USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: ra.msstate.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: history, words-l
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 3/5
- COMMENTS:
- *contains inf. about data-bases and electronic
- archives of use to the historians
- *contains several docs and papers (eg. on Vietnam war)
- *contains info about e-journals and e-text collections.
- LAST ACCESSED: Jan 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Linguistics Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ?
- ORGANISATION: University of Michigan
- LOCATION: USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: linguistics.archive.umich.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: linguistics
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- COMMENTS:
- * contains a number of sub-directories:
- fonts various fonts (mac, dos, next) of interest to linguists
- handouts classroom problems, exams, information sheets, etc.
- linguist.list back issues of LINGUIST mailing list
- software programs of interest to linguists
- * about the mid Feb 92 there was a possibility of the archive being
- closed down
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Networks Documents & Software Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: NSF Network Service Center
- ORGANISATION: National Science Foundation Network
- LOCATION: USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: nnsc.nsf.net
- SUB-DIRECTORY: several sub-directories are relevant
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- COMMENTS:
- *sub-dir. /resource-guide contains network info docs.
- *sub-dir. /internet-tour contains network info docs.
- *sub-dir. /nsfnet contains network info docs.
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Social Sciences Research Data Bank
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Coombspapers Data Bank
- ORGANISATION: Research Schools of Pacific Studies and Social Science,
- Aust. Nat. Univ.
- LOCATION: Canberra, Australia
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: coombs.anu.edu.au
- SUB-DIRECTORY: coombspapers
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- COMMENTS:
- * Mainly materials from Australia & Pacific Ocean region
- * In Apr 1992 there vere 190+ files totalling approx 9.7 Mb of data.
- * users of the Coombspapers Data Bank are invited to
- deposit in the 'inboundpapers' sub-directory of the
- facility electronic copies of their research papers,
- directories, abstracts of theses, and other high-grade
- research documents.
- *The data bank acts as an Australian repository of
- Buddhist (mainly Zen & Tibetan) as well as Taoist studies materials.
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Soviet and East European Studies Data Library
- ACCESS: via INTERNET (also accessible on-line via Telnet)
- CHARGES: Internet $15/hour, CompuServe $25/hr (non-profit), $40/hr (corporate)
- NAME: SOVSET
- ORGANISATION: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
- LOCATION: Washinton, D.C., USA
- FTP ADDRESS: sovset.org (it is NOT an anonymous FTP site, registered users only)
- LOGIN NAME: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators -
- LOGIN PASSWORD: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators-
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- Established 1984, now links more than 500 leading specialists around the world,
- offers 32 computer conferences, a wide variety of holdings including many materials
- not available elsewhere:
- * Daily Reports of Radio Free Euroope and Radio Liberty
- * Express Khronika (in English)
- * SOVSET News - an electronic journal
- * Commentary - an electronic column of commentaries on Soviet Politics
- * PlanEcon Report - weekly summaries on the latest Sov. & East Eur. economies
- * Eastern Europe Newsletter - highlights from a London biweekly publication
- * Perspective - reports on foreign policy and business published by
- Center fo Foreign Policy development at Brown University.
- * Phonebook - a phone and address direct. for Moscow and elsewhere
- * e-mail enquiries to: SUPPORT@sovset.org
- * correspondence to: Sarah C. Helmstadter, Executive Director, SOVSET,
- CSIS, 1800 K St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC USA 20006,
- Tel. (202) 775-3257, Fax (202) 775-3199
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: University of Maryland Info. Data Base Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: University of Maryland
- LOCATION: USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: info.umd.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: a number of subdirectories are relevent here
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * contents: economic data - US & Int'l; ethnomusicology newsletters;
- text of the US Constitution; text of the Bible, Koran and the Book of Mormon;
- 1990 CIA World FactBook
- * allinf. is also available as an online database (see the Database entry below)
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: US Supreme Court Rulings Archive
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Project Hermes
- ORGANISATION: Case Western Reserve University
- LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS: ftp.cwru.edu
- SUB-DIRECTORY: hermes
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- * contains text files of complete Supreme Court Rulings since 11 May 1990
- *an experimental project, may not be continued past May 1992
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- ================================================================================
- BULLETIN BOARDS
- ================================================================================
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: APA: The Electronic Agora
- ORGANISATION: American Philosophical Association
- LOCATION: California, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: atl.calstate.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: apa
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- *The bulletin board contains a long list (50+ items) of
- machine-readable texts (i.e. electronic files) of
- significance to philosophical research (see main menu
- item [7]: Directories and computer resources)
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: CARL
- ORGANISATION: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
- LOCATION: Colorado, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: pac.carl.org
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online Grolier Acad. Amer. Encycl. (password required)
- link to: online Choice Book Reviews database
- link to: online Internet Resource Guide database
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Jan 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: Case Western Reserve University
- LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: freenet-in-a.cwru.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: ?
- COMMENTS:
- * A number of bulletin boards of various schools and depts. is
- available via a well run menu
- * Also offers USA Today Headline News
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- NETWORK: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: CERN
- ORGANISATION: European Center for Nuclear Research
- LOCATION: Geneva, Switzerland
- TELNET ADDRESS: info.cern.ch
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5 [with ARCHIE services it is 5/5]
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: Helsinki Tech. Univ. bulletin board (mostly in Finnish)
- COMMENTS:
- none
- * also acts as an ARCHIE data base - option [17]
- * also acts as an WAIS data baseof WAIS inf. sources - option [19]
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Clemson Univ. Forestry & Argricultural Network
- ORGANISATION: Clemson Univ.
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: eureca.clemson.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: PUBLIC
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 2/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: ? none
- COMMENTS:
- * requires the use of function keys (= not suitable for the Mac users)
- * menu-driven , to return to a higher level menu use F3 key
- * inf. provided on weather, economics, plants, animals (incl. pets),
- food, home & environment, family and youth, human resources.
- * Inf. primarely related to the needs of Southeastern US.
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: History News
- ORGANISATION: History & Computing, Univ. of Glasgow
- LOCATION: Glasgow, UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.glasgow.history.news
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 3/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * also deals with archeology, art history
- * good coverage of software suitable for hist. research
- * extensive guide (314 items) to electronic historical
- data sets
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: HUMBUL - Humanities Bulletin
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Oxford
- LOCATION: Oxford, UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.humbul
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * requires first time-user to register on-line with the
- HUMBUL
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Hytelnet Server
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Saskatchewan
- LOCATION: Saskatchewan, Canada
- TELNET ADDRESS: herald.usask.ca
- LOGIN PASSWORD: hytelnet
- then select "Other telnet-accessible sites <SITES2>"
- then select "<FUL000>Full-Text Databases and Bibliographies"
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * for navigation use the arrow keys
- * good register of telnet addresses (29 items) of on-line
- full-text databases and bibliographies
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: JANET NEWS SYSTEM
- ORGANISATION: Joint Academic Network
- LOCATION: ?, UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.janet.news THEN news
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest version of this doc.)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Nov 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Network Information Service
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Leicester
- LOCATION: Leicester, UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.le.info
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Nov 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: NISS
- ORGANISATION: National Inst. for Software & Services
- LOCATION: Bath Univ, UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.niss
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no ?
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Nov 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: NISSPAC
- ORGANISATION: National Inst. for Software & Services
- LOCATION: UK
- TELNET ADDRESS: sun.nsf.ac.uk
- LOGIN PASSWORD: janet THEN uk.ac.niss.pac
- at the "." prompt typeLOGON NISSCAT
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 1/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no ?
- COMMENTS:
- * has inf. on machine readible data sets - eg. results of the 1883-1905
- demographical data of electors in Norway
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Bulletin Board
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: PENPages
- ORGANISATION: Agricultural College, Penn. State Univ. & Ruthers Univ.
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: psupen.psu.edu.
- LOGIN PASSWORD: pnotpa
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: MAPP, INFAN and Argricultural & Market Databases
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- ================================================================================
- DATA BASES
- ================================================================================
- SERVICE: Alcoholism Research Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: CORK - Project CORK collection on alcoholism and
- substance abuse
- ORGANISATION: DartmouthCollege Library Online System
- LOCATION: Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: lib.dartmouth.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login type SELECT FILE CORK services
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: On line Shakespeare Plays (33 plays)(command SELECT FILE
- SHAKESPEARE PLAYS)
- link to: On line Shakespeare Sonnets (all 154)(command SELECT FILE
- SHAKESPEARE SONNETS)
- link to: On line Dante Project Database (command CONNECT DANTE)
- link to: Dartmouth College Library system
- COMMENTS:
- *Users need to spend some time working out peculiarities of
- this and other Dartmouth databases.
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Agricultural Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Agricultural & Market Data
- ORGANISATION: Agricultural College, Penn. State Univ. & Ruthers Univ.
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: psupen.psu.edu.
- LOGIN PASSWORD: pnotpa
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *Access via the PENpages Bulletin Board. Mainly US
- numeric farming data.
- * daily updated information
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Arizona State University Data Bases
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: Arizona State University
- LOCATION: Colorado, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: carl.lib.asu.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: CARL
- upon login choose the required option
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes (see comments below)
- COMMENTS:
- *a number of data bases are available:
- incl. Arizona and Soutwest Index, Arizona Statistics, ASU Newspaper Index,
- World Maps Index, Solar Energy Index, Song Index (popular), National
- Indian Education Clearinghouse Resource Center Directory, University
- Library holdings
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Book Reviews Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Choice Book Reviews
- ORGANISATION: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
- LOCATION: Colorado, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: pac.carl.org
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login choose option #3 THEN choose option #60
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online Grolier Acad. Amer. Encycl. (paswd required)
- link to:online Internet Resource Guide database
- link to: CARL Bulletin Board
- COMMENTS:
- *Users can contribute book reviews to the continuously
- growing database.
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Canadian & North American Data Bases
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Saskatchewan
- LOCATION: Saskatchewan, Canada
- TELNET ADDRESS: sklib.usask.ca
- LOGIN PASSWORD: SONIA
- upon login choose appropriate option (see comments below)
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes (see comments below)
- COMMENTS:
- *a number of data bases are available:
- 1:U of S Government Publications (In Progress)
- 2:Special Collections - Canadiana Pamphlets
- 3:Special Collections - Theses
- 4:University Archives
- 5:CIHM - Early Canadiana
- 6:History of Photography
- 7:Landmarks of Science
- 8:American Periodical Series - 18th Century
- 9:CIJE plus RIE: 1983 to Present (Education)
- 10:Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA) - 1982 to Present
- 11:U of S Online Catalogue (GEAC).
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Dante Poetry and Commentaries Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Project Dante
- ORGANISATION: DartmouthCollege Library Online System
- LOCATION: Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: library.dartmouth.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login type CONNECT DANTE
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: On line Shakespeare Plays (33 plays)(command SELECT FILE
- SHAKESPEARE PLAYS)
- link to: On line Shakespeare Sonnets (all 154)(command SELECT FILE
- SHAKESPEARE SONNETS)
- link to: On line Project CORK alcoholism Database (command SELECT FILE CORK)
- link to: Dartmouth College Library system
- COMMENTS:
-
- * Contains multilingual (Italian, Lating, English and other lang. materials
- pertaining to Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory & Paradise books)
- *Users need to spend some time working out peculiarities of this
- and other Dartmouth databases.
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Dictionary & Thesaurus Data Bases
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Rutgers University Info. System
- ORGANISATION: Rutgers University
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: info.rutgers.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login choose option REFERENCE
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: 1990 CIA World Factbook
- COMMENTS:
- *Three very fast data bases are available:
- 1. 1991 Oxford Dictionary
- 2. Oxford Thesaurus
- 3. Oxford Dictionary of Familiar and Modern Quotations
- * for WAIS server with 1911 Rogets thesaurus see the entry on WAIS
- servers database
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Family Studies Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: MAPP - National Family Database
- ORGANISATION: Agricultural College, Penn. State Univ. & Ruthers Univ.
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: psupen.psu.edu.
- LOGIN PASSWORD: pnotpa
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 3/5
- COMMENTS:
- *Access via the PENpages Bulletin Board. Full text
- database. Mainly US family sociological and health data.
- *Users are invited to contribute articles to the
- continuously growing database.
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Food & Nutrition Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: INFAN - International Food and Nutrition Database
- ORGANISATION: Agricultural College, Penn. State Univ. & Ruthers Univ.
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: psupen.psu.edu.
- LOGIN PASSWORD: pnotpa
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- COMMENTS:
- *Access via the PENpages Bulletin Board. Full text
- database. Mainly US nutrition, health and food data.
- *Users are invited to contribute articles to the
- continuously growing database.
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Geographical Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Geographic Name Server
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Michigan
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000
- LOGIN PASSWORD: [on login - type 'help' ]
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 2/5
- Freshness of inf.: n/a
- COMMENTS:
- *The server provides basic geographic data on world-
- wide geographic locations [e.g. New York, Paris etc].
- *Most complete coverage is for the USA locations.
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Hawaian Islands Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Hawaii Data Book (1991)
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Hawaii
- LOCATION: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: starmaster.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: lib
- upon login choose option #3 THEN choose option #34
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online catalogue of Univ of Hawaii Library
- link to: UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Hawaian/Pacific UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Trust Territory of Pacific data base
- COMMENTS:
- * mainly numeric data
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Hawaian Periodicals Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Hawaian/Pacific UNCOVER journal article access
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Hawaii
- LOCATION: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: starmaster.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: lib
- upon login choose option #3 THEN choose option #34
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 2/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online catalogue of Univ of Hawaii Library
- link to: UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Hawaii Data Book (1991) data base
- link to: Trust Territory of Pacific data base
- COMMENTS:
- none
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Internet Anonymous FTP Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: ARCHIE
- ORGANISATION: Deakin Univ., Geelong
- LOCATION: Australia
- TELNET ADDRESS: archie.au
- LOGIN PASSWORD: archie [on login - type 'help' ]
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 1/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *A world-wide database of contents of 1030+ftp
- archive sites
- *The Deakin site shadows the central archie archive at
- McGill Univ, Montreal, Canada <quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
- *Information is available on sites, filenames and file
- contents [commands: SITE <sitename>, PROG <keyword>,
- WHATIS <filename>, when lost type HELP]
- * List of current Archies sites (as on 12/Feb/92):
- archie.ans.net (USA [NY])
- archie.rutgers.edu (USA [NJ])
- archie.sura.net (USA [MD])
- archie.unl.net (USA [NE]) - password : archie1
- archie.mcgill.ca (Canada)
- archie.funet.fi (Finland/Mainland Europe)
- archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (UK/Ireland)
- archie.au (Australia/New Zealand)
- sc.huji.ac.il (Israel)
- * NOTE since Feb 92 archie.au dbase contains LESS information
- than archie.mcgill.ca (Canada) and attempts to notify archie.au
- about the problem are consistently ignored.
- * Archie services also available via the CERN Bulletin Board
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Internet Resource Guide Database
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: CARL
- ORGANISATION: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
- LOCATION: Colorado, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: pac.carl.org
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login choose option #3 THEN choose option #65
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 2/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online Grolier Acad. Amer. Encycl. (password required)
- link to: online Choice Book Reviews database
- link to: CARL Bulletin Board
- COMMENTS:
- * uses 1990 edition of the IRG document
- * keyword search
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Periodicals Contents Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Meeman Environmental Journalism Archive
- ORGANISATION: University of Michigan
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: hermes.merit.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: Host: MIRLYN, Terminal: VT100
- upon login choose option MEEM
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 2/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?2/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- *Covers 1000 articles from US journals
- *Covers inf. since late 1980s; new items kept being added
- * Specialist collection on environmental matters
- * Bibliographical data (located by title, authr, subject) only
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Periodicals Contents Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: UNCOVER - Journal Article Access
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Hawaii
- LOCATION: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: starmaster.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: lib
- upon login choose option #6
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online catalogue of Univ of Hawaii Library
- link to: Hawaian/Pacific UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Hawaii Data Book (1991) data base
- COMMENTS:
- *Covers over 2 million articles in 10,000 journals.
- *Article contents delivery service (via fax) can be
- paidfor with a credit card.
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Periodicals Contents Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Wilson Periodical Database
- ORGANISATION: Texas A&M University
- LOCATION: Texas, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: venus.tamu.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: vtam
- upon login choose option NOTIS
- then select any of the 3 library collections
- then type WILSON
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online catalogues of Texas A&M University Library
- COMMENTS:
- *Covers articles printed until Dec 1991
- * Very strong on humanities and social sciences
- * User friendly
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Soviet and East European Studies Data Library
- ACCESS: via INTERNET (also accessible via ftp)
- CHARGES: Internet $15/hour, CompuServe $25/hr (non-profit), $40/hr (corporate)
- NAME: SOVSET
- ORGANISATION: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
- LOCATION: Washinton, D.C., USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: sovset.org (registered users only)
- LOGIN NAME: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators -
- LOGIN PASSWORD: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators-
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- Established 1984, now links more than 500 leading specialists around the world,
- offers 32 computer conferences, a wide variety of holdings including many materials
- not available elsewhere:
- * Daily Reports of Radio Free Euroope and Radio Liberty
- * Express Khronika (in English)
- * SOVSET News - an electronic journal
- * Commentary - an electronic column of commentaries on Soviet Politics
- * PlanEcon Report - weekly summaries on the latest Sov. & East Eur. economies
- * Eastern Europe Newsletter - highlights from a London biweekly publication
- * Perspective - reports on foreign policy and business published by
- Center fo Foreign Policy development at Brown University.
- * Phonebook - a phone and address direct. for Moscow and elsewhere
- * e-mail enquiries to SUPPORT@sovset.org
- * correspondence to: Sarah C. Helmstadter, Executive Director, SOVSET,
- CSIS, 1800 K St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC USA 20006,
- Tel. (202) 775-3257, Fax (202) 775-3199
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: University of Maryland Info. Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: University of Maryland
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: info.umd.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: info
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * very convenient screen & menu oriented interface
- * contains EconData:several hundred thousand economic time series that
- include various US national accounts, labor information, price indices, current
- business indicators and industrial production, information over Maryland state
- and regions, and intern'l data.
- * also contains: ethnomusicology newsletters; text of the US Constitution; text
- of the Bible, Koran and the Book of Mormon; 1990 CIA World FactBook
- * all inf. is also available via anonymous FTP (see entry on Archives above)
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: US Pacific Territories Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Trust Territory of Pacific Database
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of Hawaii
- LOCATION: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: starmaster.uhcc.hawaii.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: lib
- upon login choose option #3 THEN choose option #36
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: online catalogue of Univ of Hawaii Library
- link to: UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Hawaian/Pacific UNCOVER journal articles data base
- link to: Hawaii Data Book (1991) data base
- COMMENTS:
- *catalogue of archival materials on Micronesian US
- Trust Territory
- LAST ACCESSED: Dec 1991
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: WAIS Servers Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: directory-of-servers
- ORGANISATION: TMC
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: n/a, access via a public domain WAIStation software
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 3/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: n/a
- COMMENTS:
- * very fast data base with inf. about aprox 200+ WAIS servers (databases)
- *The directory-of-servers serves source source structures.Search it to
- find new sources which you can then download, save, and search from WAIStation!
- * currently awailable only to Macintosh users
- * the number of sources (servers) grows approx 2-3/week
- * Limitation:single query generates no more than 45 items of information
- * Servers uncovered via the directory-of-servers are searcheable through
- keywords and they provide user with the a full-text document in which given
- keyword is embeded.
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: World Economics Data Base +++ new entry
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none - NOTE: access restricted to the staff and students of the ANU
- NAME: STARS - Statistical Analysis and Retrieval System
- ORGANISATION: Australian National University
- LOCATION: Canberra, Australia
- TELNET ADDRESS: iedbserver (for logins within the ANU network)
- LOGIN PASSWORD: [available from the ANU CSC Help desk (ext 5678) on application]
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 2/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: ?4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * contains IMF data, GFS data on intl statistics of govt finance since 1970
- * contains IMF data, IFS data on intl and domestic finance (147 countries)
- * contains IMF data, BOP data on balance of payment (141 countries)
- * contains World Bank World Tables for
- 1950, 55, 1960-1989 for approx 160 countries and aggregates
- * contains UNIDO Industrial Statistics (approx 85 countries) since 1961
- * contains UN International Trade data (approx 10 countries) since 1965
- * contains FAO Data (approx 20 countries) about 900 commodities since 1961
- * The inf. is also available from the data base via FTP (password required)
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: World Factbook Data Base
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: Rutgers University Info. System
- ORGANISATION: Rutgers University
- LOCATION: USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: info.rutgers.edu
- LOGIN PASSWORD: not needed
- upon login choose option REFERENCE
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 3/5
- Freshness of inf.: 4/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: yes
- link to: 1991 Oxford Dictionary
- link to: Oxford Thesaurus
- link to: Oxford Dictionary of Familiar and Modern Quotations
- COMMENTS:
-
- *very fast data base with inf. about 249 individual countries
- *material comes from the 1990 CIA Worldfactbook
- which is also available elsewhere as a WAIS database and etext document
- (see the Archives section of this document)
- * Big chunks of inf. pre-date Apr 1990
- * for WAIS servers with the Factbook see the entry on WAIS servers database
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- ================================================================================
- LIBRARY CATALOGUES
- ================================================================================
- SERVICE: Online Library Catalogues
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME:
- ORGANISATION: 300+ universities and colleges
- LOCATION: Australia, NZ, USA, UK, Sweden, Germany
- TELNET ADDRESS: currentdirectory of telnet addresses, LIBRARIES.TXT,
- is available via anonymous ftp from:
- * vaxb.acs.unt.edu [North American users] - Jan 92 edition
- * nic.swich.ch [European users] -Jan 92 edition
- (in database/library/UNT-library-guide area)
- * coombs.anu.edu.au [Australian & NZ users] -Jan 92 edition
- (in coombspapers/foreign/soc-science-tools area)
- LOGIN PASSWORD: passwords are listed in the LIBRARIES.TXT document.
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: in some cases: (eg. Univ of Hawaii)
- COMMENTS:
- * the list of on-line library catalogues accessible via
- the INTERNET grows approx by 2-3 sites/week
- * for WAIS servers with the Library information see the entry
- on WAIS servers database
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Online Library Catalogues
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: YES - see comments below
- NAME: Australian Bibliographical Network
- ORGANISATION: National Library of Australia
- LOCATION: Canberra, Australia
- TELNET ADDRESS: abn.nla.gov.au
- LOGIN PASSWORD: You have to have a username, password and an account code
- to access the catalogue, and you will be billed for usage
- by ABN. Your local library typically has such an access
- code.
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: ?
- COMMENTS:
-
- * The ABN spans 1100 libraries all over Australia.
- * The Australian Bibliographic Network is a commercial
- service which provides a database which can be used to
- (A) Check bibliographic citations; (B) Find Australian
- Publications for material; (C) Generate catalogue records
-
- * Individuals can get an account with the National
- Library as a 'Search only" customer. They can use the
- Supersearch software to locate items. Training is needed
- to use this software. The 1991-92 ABN Charging schedule
- does not mention AARNet access so it can be assumed that
- the dial up access charges apply.
-
- * The costs (in 1992) are roughly as follows -
- Joining fee $150
- Monthly service charge$9 per month
- Connect time (supersearch) $45 per hour
- Inquiry commands $0.29 per chargeable command
-
- * Further details are obtainable from the ABN helpdesk
- intl. +61 6 2621531;email access???
- LAST ACCESSED: not accessed by this compiler
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Online Periodicals Library Catalogues
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- COMMENTS:
- *see UNCOVER & WILSON Periodicals Contents Data Base entries
- in the Data Base section of this guide
- * for WAIS servers with the Periodicals information see the entry
- on WAIS servers database
- LAST ACCESSED: Feb 1992
- ================================================================================
- PERIODICALS
- ================================================================================
- SERVICE: Electronic Journal/Newsletter
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: REACH - Research & Educ. Appl of Computers in Humanities
- ORGANISATION: Univ. of California
- LOCATION: St. Barbara, USA
- ANONYMOUS FTP ADDRESS:
- * ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu [North American users]
- * coombs.anu.edu.au [Australian & NZ users]
- SUB-DIRECTORY:
- * hcf [North American users]
- * coombspapers/otherwork [Australian & NZ users]
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 5/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *Between 6 and 4 issues a year, text format.
- *Users are invited to contribute articles to the
- Journal.
- LAST ACCESSED: Apr 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Journal/Newsletter
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: MeckJournal (ISSN 1058-692X)
- ORGANISATION: Meckler Publishing Corporation
- LOCATION: Westport, CT, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS: nicol.jvnc.net
- LOGIN PASSWORD: nicol
- SUB-DIRECTORY: MC(2): Electronic Publication Service
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 1/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 4/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- COMMENTS:
- *On-line publications dealing with virtual libraries, network services,
- information broking, knowledge navigation, resources-sharing.
- *MeckJournals (electronic monthly publication) as of Mar 92:
- MeckJournal Volume I, Issue 1
- MeckJournal Volume I, Issue 2
- MeckJournal Volume I, Issue 3
- MeckJournal Volume II, Issue 1 (Jan. 1992)
- MeckJournal Volume II, Issue 2
- (these issues are also available via anonymous ftp from "ftp.jvnc.net"
- in the nicol/meckler subdirectory)
- *Also available on-line:
- Meckler Info. Tech. Pub.: Complete Catalog & order form
- Table of Contents: Meckler Periodicals
- CD-ROM Librarian Index: 1986 - 1990
- Computers in Libraries Index: 1985 - 1990
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Journal/Newsletter +++ new entry
- ACCESS: via INTERNET
- CHARGES: none
- NAME: _EJournal_
- ORGANISATION: Department of English, University at Albany/SUNY
- LOCATION: Albany, NY, USA
- TELNET ADDRESS:
- To subscribe to _EJournal_, send a mail message to listserv@albnyvm1.bitnet
- containing as its only line the command:
-
- subscribe ejrnl your_first_name your_last_name
-
- Information about getting back issues will accompany the "Welcome"
- message sent to people who subscribe.
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: ?/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: ?/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- * a peer-reviewed, all-electronic, network distributed, serial publication
- * focus on theory and practice surrounding the creation, transmission, storage,
- interpretation, alteration and replication of electronic "text," broadly defined.
- * focus on the social, psychological, literary, economic, pedagogical, philosophical
- and other ramifications of computer-mediated networks.
- * Single-essay issues appear as often as submissions are affirmatively
- reviewed; there were four (free) distributions to subscribers in 1991.
- * Please send submissions for editorial consideration to our "office" at:
- ejournal@albnyvms.bitnet
- [Ted Jennings, Editor, Department of English, University at Albany/SUNY]
- LAST ACCESSED: not accessed (yet) by the compiler of this document
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- SERVICE: Electronic Journal/Newsletter
- ACCESS: via INTERNET (accessible via telnet and ftp)
- CHARGES: Internet $15/hour, CompuServe $25/hr (non-profit), $40/hr (corporate)
- NAME: SOVSET News
- ORGANISATION: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
- LOCATION: Washinton, D.C., USA
- TELNET/FTP ADDRESS: sovset.org (registered users only)
- LOGIN NAME: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators -
- LOGIN PASSWORD: - as agreed with the SOVSET administrators-
- RELEVANCE TO SOC. SCIENCES (at the time of the latest access to this service)
- Range/variety of inf.: 4/5
- Quality/depth of inf.: 5/5
- Freshness of inf.: 5/5
- GATEWAY FACILITIES: no
- COMMENTS:
- for details see entries in the archives and/or databases sections above
- * e-mail enquiries to SUPPORT@sovset.org
- * correspondence to: Sarah C. Helmstadter, Executive Director, SOVSET,
- CSIS, 1800 K St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC USA 20006,
- Tel. (202) 775-3257, Fax (202) 775-3199
- LAST ACCESSED: Mar 1992
- ================================================================================
- Appendix A: TELNET procedures
- ================================================================================
- TELNET is a communications programme for interactive linking of two computers on the same network
-
- To establish interactive connection with a given computer via TELNET type command 'telnet'
- followed by the target computer's address:
-
- telnet <internet address> eg. telnet library.anu.edu.au
-
- If you attempt to log-in into a private account you will be then asked about its id number
- and an appropriate password. If you log-in into a public account you may be sometimes asked
- to supply the public user password
- (eg. in the case of the above adddress:library.anu.edu.au the public password is 'library')
-
- To return to your machine while running TELNET software type command ' ctrl-] ' (i.e. control-right
- square bracket)
- To quit running TELNET program type command 'quit'
- ================================================================================
- Appendix B: Anonymous FTP procedures
- ================================================================================
- To download any of files via anonymous FTP, you must have access to the FTP
- program running on a computer at your location. FTP is a program running
- on UNIX machines over the Internet meta-network. It is similar to TELNET
- programme but more restricted in scope.
-
- 1. Begin by connecting yourself to a computer of your choice. This is done by
- typing command FTP followed by target computer's address:
-
- ftp <internet address> eg. ftp coombs.anu.edu.au
-
- 2. When asked, you log on to the visited computer using word "anonymous" as
- your name and your e-mail address as your password.
-
- 3. To determine where you areuse the "ls" command to see a list of names of
- all filesand sub-directories in a given directory. Command "lsminus l"
- eg. ls -l gives a
- listing of all files and directories together with their dates of creation and
- their sizes. A character "d" in the first column indicates a sub-directory.
-
- 4. You can change to the directory containing required files by typing the
- following command:
-
- cd <sub-directory name> eg cd pub
- (Repeat this procedure until you have reached required sub-directory.
- Command "cd" takes you, of course one step at a time down a directory. To
- move one level up on the directory tree [i.e. to re-trace one's path] use
- command "cd" followed by a blank space and two full stops : cd .. )
-
- 5. Use the "get" command to copy the file which you want to your computer.
- If you don't remember the name of the file, use the "ls" command to see a list
- of the names of all files in a given directory.
-
- get (filename) e.g. get pambu.txt
-
- 6. To deposit (= upload) a file at a given anonymous ftp site locate find(using "cd"
- command) a subdirectory namedor "inbound" or "inboundpapers" or other
- similarly named area. Enter it and then issue command "put" followed by the
- name of a file you want to transfer:
- put (fillename) e.g put africa.txt
-
- 7. To sign off by type the closing command:
-
- bye
-
- 6. Upon closing connection to a given ftp server you can start un-compressing (if necessary)
- and inspecting the transferred file(s).
- ================================================================================
- Appendix C: Using ARCHIE databases
- ================================================================================
- ARCHIE is a world-wide data-base with information about over 2 million files kept by 1000+
- anonymous FTP sites. There are several Archie sites in the world, each mirroring the
- contents of its siblings (for details see the entry on the ARCHIE data-base)
-
- To establish interactive connection with a given ARCHIE site (always try one which is
- nearest to you on the network) type command 'telnet' followed by the target computer's
- address:
-
- telnet <archie's internet address> eg. telnet archie.au
-
- Then as a log-in password provide the word 'archie'
-
- To set display on your screen to one (1) page at a time - type command 'set pager'
-
- To find information on a given topic, eg. environment type command 'prog' followed by the keyword
- in question:
- prog <keyword> eg. prog environment
-
- As an outcome of this operation you will receive a list of all names of computer files,
- together with anonymous ftp addresses of their host computers. This information will
- enable to visit (via ftp procedure) any site of your interest and get a copy of a desired
- file.
-
- To find information on a given ftp site, say an ftp archive in UK called 'src.doc.ic.ac.uk',
- type command 'site' followed by the keyword in question:
- site <keyword> eg. site src.doc.ic.ac.uk
-
- To find more about ARCHIE's abilities - type command 'help'
-
- To quit running ARCHIE program and thus to return to your machine - type command 'bye'
- ================================================================================
- SOME USEFUL REFERENCES
- ================================================================================
- Bailey, Charls W. Jr (BITNET email:LIB3@UHUPVM1) 1991. LIBRARY ORIENTED COMPUTER CONFERENCES
- ANDELECTRONIC SERIALS. (A list of select BITNET and INTERNET listservs and sources of inf.
- abour electronic serials. Available via anonymous FTP from ??)
- Barron, Billy (billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu). 1990. INTERNET DATABASES. (A May 90 list of some the
- US on-line facilities. Available via anonymous FTP from vaxb.acs.unt.edu as
- library/internet.databases)
- Barron, Billy (billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu). 1992. UNT's ACCESSING ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES.
- (A Jan 92 list of the300+ world's on-line library catalogues. Available via anonymous FTP
- from vaxb.acs.unt.edu as library/libraries.txt)
- Cliffe, Steve (steve@cs.uow.edu.au). 1991. AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVE SITES. (A Dec 1991 listing
- of anonymous FTP sites in Australia, published every month via <aus.archives> newsgroup,
- also FTP-able from ftp.cs.uow.edu as pub/aus-archive-site)
- Goldstein, Cecil and Ron Heard. 1991. Getting the most out of AARNet- Unix version. Computing Services,
- QUT. (text version of the document are FTP-able from aarnet.edu.au as
- user-guide/aarnet_user_guide_unix_v1.txt; wp and ps files are also available)
- Kehoe, Brendan P. (brendan@cs.widener.edu). 1992. ZEN AND THE ART OF THE INTERNET - a beginner's guide
- to the Internet. (A Feb 1992 100 pages highly informative booklet. Available via anonymous FTP
- from ashley.cs.widener.edu as/pub/brendan/zen-1.0.PS)
- Krol, Ed (krol@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu). 1987. THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE INTERNET. (An Aug 87 overview
- of the meta-network and it's services. RFC 1118. Available via anonymous FTP from tamu.edu as
- pub/documents/hgi.txt.Z)
- Martin, Jerry (jmartin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu). 1991. NETWORK TREASURES - There's Gold
- in them thar Networks ! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places. (A Dec 91 memo
- with pointers to Internet services. Available via anonymous FTP from nic.near.net as
- /info-sources/network-treasures.txt)
- NSF Network Service Center (nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net). 1990. THE INTERNET RESOURCES GUIDE. (A May 90
- massive catalogue compiled for the BBN Systems and Technologies Co. The current edition is
- Available via anonymous FTP from nnsc.nsf.net as /resource-guide/wholeguide.txt. Also
- available as an online database accessible via the CARL Bulletin Board)
- Yanoff, Scott (yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu). 1992. SPECIAL INTERNET CONNECTIONS. (A Apr 92 listing
- of Internet services, published every month via <alt.bbs.internet> newsgroup)
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- COPYRIGHT & DISCLAIMER NOTICES
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- Copying is permitted for non-commercial use by computer conferences,
- individual scholars, and libraries, as long as a standard bibliographic
- reference to this document is provided.
-
- The compiler will not accept responsibility for misinformation,
- nor will he be responsible for misuse of information abtained from
- sources mentioned in this document.
-
- Additions, corrections and deletions should be sent to:
- tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au.
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