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%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% NYSERNet (SM) NEW USER'S GUIDE TO USEFUL AND UNIQUE RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET VERSION 2.2 A Project of the NYSERNet K-12 Networking Interest Group and the NYSERNet/NYS Library Networking Interest Group for Libraries ======================================================================= About NYSERNet NYSERNet (SM) is the New York State Education and Research Network, a mid-level, regional network of the National Science Foundation's NSFNET, and the Internet. NYSERNet, Inc. is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to advance science, technology and education in New York State by providing high quality, cost effective, and innovative access to high-speed data computer networking. NYSERNet, Inc. manages the high-speed data network that connects some 130 New York State institutions of higher education, industries, government agencies, libraries, schools and more, to each other and to the world-wide Internet. In addition to providing electronic communication (e-mail), NYSERNet provides access to specialized databases and on-line libraries, access to supercomputing and parallel processing facilities throughout the USA, and access to many national networks, through a range of dedicated line and dialup services. For information about the networking service options offered by NYSERNet, send an e-mail request to info@nysernet.org. NYSERNet, Inc. 111 College Place Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 315/443-4120 ===================================================================== Preamble This Guide was created to fill what we perceive to be a void in user information about the Internet. It is not our intention to re-invent the wheel, but to provide directions to a few places for new users to go (via telnet, ftp, or electronic mail) to make their first use of Internet resources successful and productive. Version 1.0 of the Guide was extremely well-received, but incomplete insofar as the Internet is concerned. Version 2 improves on Version 1.0, segmenting resources into types and categories as well as more than doubling in size. It is, by anyone's measure, still just a beginning. Internet resources are indeed vast, practically unfathomable. However, we believe this is a positive step for network providers and the users we serve. The Guide is intended to be more user-friendly than some others in existence. If you have difficulties accessing the resources listed here, and your local systems/user support staff cannot assist you, please send an electronic mail message to: editor@nysernet.org. We will try to help, or at least note important changes for the next update of the Guide. NYSERNet will announce future versions and corrections, and will soon make the Guide available on-line. To FTP the ascii text version of the Guide, ftp to nysernet.org. The Guide is in the /pub/guides directory. NYSERNet is indebted to its Associate, Mr. Andrew Perry, who wrote and/or compiled the information appearing in all versions of the Guide. Mr. Perry is Assistant Director of Libraries for Systems Management at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Versions 2.xx of the Guide were edited by Linda D. Carl, Coordinator of Information Services for NYSERNet, and Editor of the NYSERNet USER newsletter. James D. Luckett Exec. Director & Vice Pres. NYSERNet, Inc. January, 1992 To order additional copies of the Guide: Make check, purchase order, or money order payable to NYSERNet, Inc. Mail to: New User's Guide, NYSERNet, Inc., 111 College Place, Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 $25.00 includes postage & handling ($18.00 for NYSERNet Affiliates and Interest Group Members) Please send the current version of NYSERNet's "New User's Guide..." to: Name ____________________________________________________ Institution _____________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________ City ____________________________________________________ State __________________________________________________ Zip _____________________________________________________ Bulk purchase pricing options are available, as well as a postscript version. Send electronic mail to: editor@nyseret.org if you would like more information about these options, or call 315/443-4120. Copyright (c), 1992 by NYSERNet, Syracuse, New York All rights reserved. Permission is granted to distribute copies of this electronic publication, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission does not extend to selling publication for a fee. Printing History: May, 1991: First Edition October, 1991: Version 2.0 January 1992: Version 2.1, minor revisions April, 1992: Version 2.2, minor revisions NYSERNet makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied. NYSERNet shall not be held liable for any liability, nor for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages with respect to any claim by purchaser or any third party on account of or arising from use of these materials. ******************************************************INTRODUCTION ***************************************************INTRODUCTION ***Introduction to Internet Services*** The Internet is a global network of networks that provides access to hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. As the reach of the network has grown, so has the number of services accessible. The NYSERNet directory listings are an attempt to illustrate the types of resources currently available. There are other directories available also and the new user should obtain these sources as well. Updates to the Directory are planned to keep users informed of new services. Several key software tools allow the user to navigate the Internet, access remote hosts, and to retrieve data files. These will be briefly described here. On unix systems a "man" command will retrieve more detailed information about these processes. e.g. %man ftp will retrieve documentation about ftp. ("%" is the unix prompt) Two remote access commands are similar but provide access to different types of remote computers. Telnet is used most frequently and will connect to most vax and unix hosts (SUN, Ultrix, RS/6000, etc.). A typical sequence might be (from the % prompt) %telnet--(command to start telnet) telnet> (computer switches to telnet prompt) telnet>open To) wugate.wustl.edu (internet name address) connecting to wugate.wustl.edu... escape character is ^] Note the escape character, if something goes wrong in your session, it provides the way to exit the session and return to your host computer. For Kermit users, do NOT set the kermit escape character to be the same as the telnet escape character. Sometimes the remote host will ask for a terminal type. Usually this is "vt100". tn3270 is similar to telnet except that it is used to connect with IBM mainframe hosts and emulates a 3270-type terminal. With many remote IBM hosts, telnet will NOT work and tn3270 must be used. For many tn3270 versions, the "clear screen" function is Control-Z. When logged on to an IBM host and "HOLDING" or "MORE..." appears at the lower right corner of the screen, the "clear screen" function must be entered to display the next screen. tn3270 emulations include function key definitions. For the sources listed, it is identified under the "access" category whether the source requires telnet or tn3270. FTP stands for "file transfer protocol" and is the method used to transfer files over the Internet. "Anonymous" ftp means that one can login to the remote system using the userid of "anonymous" and password of either "guest" or usually your own userid and internet address. Ftp is like telnet in that the "open" command and access to the remote host is similar. A typical session might go as follows: %ftp ftp> open to) any.host.i.know login: anonymous guest login ok...send user id as password ftp>ls -al (list all files) ftp>cd pub (change to the "pub" directory) ftp>get my.file transfer complete ftp>bye ftp>quit % The standard transfer protocol is ASCII. This is suitable for text. Use "binary" if transferring program or image files. Once you have transferred the program or image file, be sure to use a "binary" file type when down-loading the file to your PC. There are IBM mainframe versions of telnet and ftp which may be accessed under CMS. This CMS telnet is similar to unix telnet and tn3270 but it has problems with some remote hosts. Under this version of telnet, the connection is made in the "line" mode (a TTY type emualtion) or "transparent" mode which provides a full-screen 3270 emulation. About Internet addresses: There are two forms that express an Internet address, an alphabetic name, or a series or numbers. The alphabetic version is called the "domain name system" and the numeric the "numeric name system". Sometimes a local network will not be up-to-date with additions to the domain names and an address may not work. If this happens, try the numeric address before giving up. Sometimes the numeric name system address will be changed without notice and in that case the alphabetic domain name should be tried. To convert from one form of address to the other use a facility called "nslookup". This function is available from many unix systems. An example of nslookup: %nslookup bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu Server: lurch.cns.syr.EDU Address: 128.230.12.5 Name: bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu Address: 128.226.1.34 Nslookup will first repeat the local address and number followed by the requested address information. Sometimes nslookup will respond that a particular address is "non-authoritative". Despite their non- authoritativeness, the addresses will always work. With a little practice, the above-described functions will be simple and open the electronic door to the global reach of the Internet. ************************************************************CONTENTS *********************************************************CONTENTS NYSERNet (SM) NEW USER'S GUIDE TO USEFUL AND UNIQUE RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET Version 2.2 Table of Contents 1. Library Catalogs & Campus Information Systems BISON: The SUNY Buffalo Online Catalog CARL: Colorado Association of Research Libraries Online Catalogs, Periodicals Citation Access, and More CUINFO: Cornell University's Campus/Regional Information System CUNY+PLUS: City University of New York Online Catalog ELIXIR: SUNY Binghamton Online Catalog NYPLnet: The New York Public Library Online Catalog SUINFO: Syracuse University Campus Information System 2. Databases Archie: Searching Across Over 700 Software Archives Dartmouth's DANTE Project Library of Congress Cataloging by DRA NASA SPACELINK: Space-Related Informational Database Oceanic: The Ocean Information Center PENpages: Agriculture's Online Resource SSDA: Aleph/Hebrew University Social Science Data Archive Catalog STIS: Science and Technology Information System - Access to NSF Publications Louis Harris Data Center: The Institute for Research in Social Science SWAIS: Simple WAIS - Access to World Factbook and other Information Sources 3. Electronic Discussion Groups/Forums AEDNET: The Adult Education Network Comserve: The Human Communications Forum DISTED: Online Journal of Distance Education KIDSLINK: A Global Dialog for Students & Teachers IGC: Institute for Global Communications USENET: Comprehensive News and Discussion Forum 4. Directories Directories of Electronic Journals and Academic E-mail Conferences White Pages: NYSERNet/PSI Online X.500 Directory 5. Information Resources Geographic Name Server Weather Underground: A complete US Weather Service Websterd: Online Dictionary and Thesaurus 6. FTP Archives General Accounting Office Reports Archive Music on the Net: Lyric and Discography Archive NASA Archives Project Hermes: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions 7. Fee-Based Information Services ClariNet: The Electronic Newspaper FAXON Company: Electronic Information and Subscription Services ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research OCLC: World's Largest Bibliographic Database PINET: Physics Information Network Research Libraries Group: The RLIN System SPIN: Sponsored Programs Information Network 8. Software/Freeware Catalist: An Internet Library System Guide for MS Windows HYTELNET: Hypertext PC-Based Internet Directory WAIS: Wide Area Information Server A Client-Server System with Over 35 Servers on the Internet 9. Bulletin Board Services American Philosophical Association: The Electronic Agora Cleveland Freenet: The Electronic "City" University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bulletin Board System 10. Miscellaneous Gateways to Commercial Information Services/Networks MicroMUSE: A Virtual Reality Adventure Game Network Bibliography NPTN: National Public Telecommunications Network Reach: Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities Newsletter WUGATE: Gateway to the Internet Libraries and More 1 ****************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***BISON: The SUNY Buffalo Online Catalog*** Service: online public access catalog to SUNY Buffalo Access: telnet bison.cc.buffalo.edu or 128.205.2.22 BISON (Buffalo Information System Online), is now available for public searching. From any UNIX host device or VAX with vt100 emulation, telnet to the above address, At the "ENTER TERMINAL TYPE:" prompt, type "vt100". The SUNY Buffalo collection is completely indexed in BISON. Exit: type "bye" from any screen. BISON is a NOTIS system with a command structure similar to that of other NOTIS sites. Example of Informational Screen and sample search: Welcome to BISON 155D Buffalo Information System Online DATABASE SELECTION MENU On this terminal, you may search the databases listed below. Select a database by typing its four letter label and pressing RETURN. BCAT UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO LIBRARIES CATALOG BYE Logoff H Help D Database Selection Menu NEWS System News Database Selection: B I S O N UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO 155D BUFFALO INFORMATION SYSTEM ONLINE BISON can be used to find information about books, periodicals, and other materials owned by the University Libraries of the University at Buffalo. BISON provides descriptions of the materials, where they can be found, their call numbers and availability. Please inquire at the Reference Desk for help with this system. For an INTRODUCTORY SCREEN, choose one of the commands below and press <RETURN> To LEARN how to search by: USE THIS COMMAND: TITLE: t AUTHOR: a SUBJECT: s MEDICAL SUBJECT: sm KEYWORD: k To BEGIN A SEARCH, type one of the above commands, an "=", and the search term (for example: t=moby dick) and press <RETURN> *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***CARL: Colorado Association of Research Libraries*** Online Catalogs, Periodicals Citation Access, and More Service: CARL provides access to a variety of information sources including library holdings, periodical citations, book reviews, and the Internet Resources Guide. The Uncover periodicals database and full text encyclopedia require an account. Access: telnet pac.carl.org or 192.54.81.128 Select appropriate terminal type (selections 2 or 5 generally work for Internet users) Exit: type '//EXIT' from any screen. Usually this must be done twice, the first returns to the introductory screen, the second closes the connection. Example of online session: Welcome to the CARL system Please identify your terminal. Choices are: 1. ADM (all) 2. APPLE,IBM 3. TANDEM 4. TELE-914 5. VT100 6. WYSE 50 7. ZENTEC 8. HARDCOPY 9. IBM 316x Use HARDCOPY if your terminal type isn't listed SELECT LINE #:5 All set. When you are ready to exit the system, simply type //EXIT, or hang up. Now, press return to enter the Public Access Catalog... >>> Systems That Inform <<< Welcome to the CARL System (Release 83) A Computerized Network of Systems and Services Developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Marketed and supported by CARL Systems, Inc. 777 Grant St., Suite 306 Denver, Co. 80203 Voice: 303-861-5319 Fax: 303-830-0103 Internet: help@carl.org PRESS <RETURN> TO START THE PROGRAM CARL offers access to the following groups of databases: 1. Library Catalogs 2. Current Article Indexes and Access (including UnCover) 3. Information Databases (including Encyclopedia) 4. Other Library Systems 5. Library and System News ***** New PAC searching capabilities and new library catalogs ***** now available! See General PAC News for details. Enter the NUMBER of your choice, and press the <RETURN> key >> 3 WORKING... 1. Libraries 2. Articles 3. Information 4. Other Systems 5. News INFORMATION DATABASES 60. Choice Book Reviews 61. Encyclopedia 62. Environmental Education 63. Metro Denver Facts 64. School Model Programs 65. Internet Resource Guide Enter the NUMBER of your choice, and press the <RETURN> key >>60 WORKING... 04/16/91 06:35 P.M. SELECTED DATABASE: Choice Book Reviews Welcome to CHOICE : Current Reviews for College Libraries. The file includes reviews from September 1988 forward, supplied by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Data are copyright ACRL, and CARL thanks the Association for allowing us to use its records. Enter N for NAME search W for WORD search B to BROWSE by title S to STOP or SWITCH to another database Type the letter for the kind of search you want, and end each line you type by pressing <RETURN> SELECTED DATABASE: Choice Book Reviews ENTER COMMAND (? FOR HELP) >> w REMEMBER -- WORDS can be words from the title, or can be subjects, concepts, ideas, dates, etc. for example -- GONE WITH THE WIND SILVER MINING COLORADO BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION Enter word or words (no more than one line, please) separated by spaces and press <RETURN>. >megatrends WORKING... MEGATRENDS 00003 ITEMS 1 Aburdene Patricia 1990 Megatrends 2000 2 Hage Jerald 1988 Futures of organizations 3 Orren Gary R 1988 The electronic commonwealth ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN DISPLAYED. ENTER <LINE NUMBER(S)> TO DISPLAY FULL RECORDS (Number + B for Brief) <P>REVIOUS FOR PREVIOUS PAGE OR <Q>UIT FOR NEW SEARCH 1 Choice Book Reviews AUTHOR(s): Naisbitt, John Aburdene, Patricia TITLE(s): Megatrends 2000 by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene 384 pages Pub. date: 1990 Pub. name: W. Morrow $21.95 ISBN: 0-688-07224-0 Reviewed in: Choice, vol. 27 no.9 1990 may Review: Promising a discussion of ten new directions for the 1990s, this book views the future with 20/20 hindsight covering topics such as women executives, the rise of the Asian rim, East European market economies, biotechnology, the art boom, and others. Highly promoted, the book might best be described as MTV for the literate. It is a compendium of information posing as knowledge. It lacks the analytic continuity and insight found in better futuristic books such as Alvin Toffler's Future Shock (CH, Jan'71) ... DATABASE: UnCover This database contains records describing journals and their contents. Coverage is rapidly growing as CARL member holdings are processed. UnCover will soon include more than 10,000 titles, and descriptions of over 600,000 articles will be generated each year. Articles can be retrieved individually or displayed as the table of contents for any given journal issue. Note: UnCover is restricted to use by the patrons of CARL's member Libraries or those with CARL accounts. Please send e-mail to: uncover@carl.org or contact Rebecca Lenzini at (303)861-5319 for more information. DATABASE: Encyclopedia The Academic American Encyclopedia, published by Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc. is the equivalent of a 20 volume printed encyclopedia. It contains over 30,000 articles of general interest in the humanities, science and the social sciences, as well as information about sports and contemporary life. Many biographies are included and the information is updated regularly. Note: The encyclopedia is restricted to those with valid CARL accounts. *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***CUINFO: Cornell University's Campus/Regional Information System*** Service: information on campus and regional events including concerts, ski conditions, news, graduate bulletin, jobs, ornithology newsletter, announcements, and more Access: tn3270 cuinfo.cornell.edu 300 The first screen will appear with general instructions. Usually the user types a "+" to move forward, "-" to back up, or "ENTER/RETURN" to exit to a previous menu. Exit: from the first screen "blank to exit" instruction given means to press RETURN/ENTER without any additional command. Sample CUINFO screens: C U I N F O - Cornell University's Electronic Information Source Select... For items such as... NEWS Weather, Announce, Grad. Bulletin, Safety Reports, Updates EVENTS Calendars, Athletics, Colloquia, Theatre, Music, Movies DIALOG Drug IQ Network, Mr. Chips, Uncle Ezra, Auntie Em, Suggest SERVICES Computing, Support, Housing, Transport, Food, Careers, Jobs, OEO, Directories, Volunteer, Library Or select a more general category like... ACADEM Information about Cornell instruction and research ADMIN Items from and about Cornell administrative offices ITHACA General information for and about the Ithaca area Or type the name of any specific CUINFO entry such as WEATHER, DIRECT, or EZRA. (Type INDEX for a list of available items, or DETAILS for descriptions.) Please select a topic. (Blank to exit.) --> C U I N F O CUINFO -- Events in the Ithaca area Title Contents _______________________________________________________________ ATHLETICS Athletic Schedules BLOOD Blood Drives/Blood Pressure Clinics CALENDAR Cornell Academic Calendar COLLOQ Colloquia, Seminars, etc. EMPLOYEE Employee Holidays ENTERTAIN Movies, Music, Theatre, Ticketron EVENTS Dean of Students Major Events Listing ORIENT Fall New Student Orientation RELIGION Sage Chapel and Campus Religious Services *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***CUNY+PLUS: City University of New York Online Catalog*** Service: online catalog of the holdings of many of the City University of New York campus libraries. CUNYPLUS is a NOTIS online catalog and has the standard author, title, subject, and keyword search functions. The keyword function includes boolean searching. Access: tn3270 128.228.1.2 Then type "dial vtam" from the COMMAND line. From the VTAM menu, TAB to the CUNYPLUS selection and press enter. The screen will clear. Type "lucu" to start CUNYPLUS. Exit: Clear the screen. (Note that the "clear screen" key is often functional with many versions of MSKERMIT macro commands which emulate a 3270 keyboard. Many versions of tn3270 have the "clear screen" function defined as "Control-Z". For a standard vt100 emulation, the "clear screen" function is ESC-O-M where O-M are upper case). Once the screen has been cleared, type "CSSF LOGOFF", then select EXIT from the VTAM menu. Example of CUNYPLUS search: VM/XA SP ONLINE Fill in your USERID and PASSWORD and press ENTER (Your password will not appear when you type it) USERID ===> PASSWORD ===> COMMAND ===> dial vtam RUNNING CUNYVM VTAM addr: V07D206 MON 15-APR-1991 20.09.28 This VTAM: NM07 CUNY VTAM Menu The following is a list of available APPLications. If an APPL is HIGHLIGHTED you may select it by placing the cursor next to its name and pressing ENTER, or by entering its name in the APPLICATION field below. HELP BARUCH BBADMAI BBADMIN BKLYN CCNY CCNYVME CMSMIS CUNYPLUS CUNYVM FAXON HUNTER ICSMIS ILSTEST INTMIS MAI NMT01 NMT04 NMT07 NOTISTRN NYSOSCA NYSOSCP PD1MIS PD2MIS PD3MIS RFCICS ROCKCICS T/ROCK T/TELE T/UNIX TESTVMXA TESTVTAM TESTWYL TSTMIS UAPC WYLBUR EXIT APPLICATION => Remember: you now have only one password for CUNYVM, WYLBUR and MAI. ***WELCOME to CUNY+PLUS*** N015 CUNY+PLUS is the online catalog for the City University of New York libraries. For information on the current holdings in the catalog type m. INFORMATION COMMANDS To learn about searching by: AUTHOR: type the command a TITLE, type the command t SUBJECT, type the command s KEYWORD, type the command k DIRECT SEARCHING To begin searching immediately, use the commands a=, t=, s=, k= CORRECTING MISTAKES Backspace to move cursor over incorrect character(s), then type the correct information. If you have any questions about CUNY+PLUS consult a library staff member. For additional information about CUNY+, type NEWS TYPE COMMAND and PRESS ENTER==> CUNY+ SEARCH REQUEST: K=DIVERSITY KEYWORD SEARCH INDEX -- 678 ENTRIES FOUND, 1 - 18 DISPLAYED 1. JJ:Coping with cultural and racial diversity *Lambert, Wallace E <1990 2. BC:Return to diversity *Rothschild, Joseph <1989 3. BB:Forging unity out of diversity <1989 4. BC:The Florentine Camerata <1989 5. BC:Schooling and disability <1989 6. BB:The Florentine Camerata <1989 7. GC:Return to diversity *Rothschild, Joseph <1989 8. JJ:effect of neighborhood diversity on fe *Clark, Gregory Alan <1989 9. BC:Forging unity out of diversity <1989 10. NY:Graphic design <1989 11. GC:Schooling and disability <1989 12. BC:Media ownership *United States <1989 13. CC:The Florentine Camerata <1989 14. CC:Forging unity out of diversity <1989 15. CC:Religion, interpretation, and diversity of *Godlove, Terry F <1989 16. CC:Diversity in day care *Wheat, Rebecca <1989 17. CC:Diversity, conflict, and state politics <1989 18. CC:The challenge of diversity *Smith, Daryl G <1989 TYPE m FOR MORE ENTRIES.TYPE LINE NUMBER FOR FULL RECORD WITH CALL NUMBER. TYPE r TO REVISE SEARCH, h FOR HELP, e TO START OVER. TYPE COMMAND and PRESS ENTER==> *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***ELIXIR: SUNY Binghamton Online Catalog*** Service: Access to the SUNY Binghamton online catalog of over 750,000 titles. ELIXIR is a NOTIS-based catalog with the standard Author, Title, and Subject searching. Keyword/boolean searching and access to the WIZARD periodical citation database is limited to users with valid SUNY Binghamton id's. Access: tn3270 bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu or 128.226.1.34 Type "dial vtam" from the command line, then type "elixir" from the vtam menu. From the SUNY Binghamton Public Information System menu, select #1 (selection #2 is reserved for SUNY Binghamton students, faculty, and staff). Exit: use the clear-screen function to return to the VTAM menu, then type "undial" to close the connection. (Note that the clear-screen function will vary depending on the emulation used. Many versions of tn3270 use Control-Z as the clear-screen function. Example of ELIXIR session: VM/XA SP ONLINE TYPE THE VMEXIT COMMAND TO TERMINATE A VTAM SESSION Fill in your USERID and PASSWORD and press ENTER (Your password will not appear when you type it) USERID ===> PASSWORD ===> COMMAND ===> dial vtam RUNNING BINGVMB 039 WELCOME TO S.U.N.Y. BINGHAMTON VM/VTAM NETWORK 039 BINGVMA BINGVMB BINGTJW BINGSOM BINGVMC CICSACAD ELIXIR - (LIBRARY CATALOG) ENTER ONE OF THE ABOVE FOR CONNECTION ==> elixir RUNNING BINGVMB 9021 SUNY BINGHAMTON PUBLIC INFORMATION SYSTEM 1. ELIXIR LIBRARY CATALOG (Excluding Periodical Citation Access) (No signon is required) 2. ELIXIR LIBRARY CATALOG (Including Keyword/Boolean searching and Periodical Citation Access) (This choice will require entering valid ID numbers on the following screen) 3. UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY (No signon is required) 9. Exit from Menu ENTER SELECTION (1, 2, 3 OR 9)===> 1 Note that selection #3 is an online directory of campus telephone and e-mail addresses. It is available without sign-on and is very easy to use. ELIXIR ONLINE PUBLIC CATALOG 9021 The ELIXIR Online Public Catalog is used to find and display: - Documents held by the library - Locations where documents are stored - Status of documents: - on shelf - charged to a user (provides due date for material) - on reserve Searching Command Used >title t >author a >subject s >keyword k Enter t a s k to display tutorials. To begin a search, enter the command, the "=", and search term (eg., t=gone with the wind ) PRESS <CLEAR> to exit or to return to the database selection menu TYPE news FOR LIBRARY-SYSTEM NEWS. TYPE COMMAND AND PRESS ENTER==> *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***NYPLnet: The New York Public Library Online Catalog*** Service: online public access catalog to New York Public Library Access: telnet nyplgate.nypl.org or 192.94.250.2 Login: nypl. Password: nypl Exit: type q from any screen to return to the main menu; then chooose menu option 4 to EXIT NYPLnet. Example of NYPLnet search: telnet nyplgate.nypl.org Querying (192.94.250.2) address...(=192.94.250.2). Trying(192.94.250.2)...open UNIX System V R.3 (WINS) (nyplgate.nypl.org) login: nypl Password: UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 2.3 nyplgate Copyright (C) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 AT&T Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp. All Rights Reserved Login last used: Thu Oct 3 09:02:56 1991 WELCOME TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY NETWORK. (NYPLnet) The following Databases are currently available: 1 - NYPL Branch Libraries Catalog 2 - Metropolitan Inter-Library Cooperative System Regional Catalog. 3 - NYPL Dance Collection Catalog 4 - EXIT NYPLnet To return to this menu at any point, type 'q' and press enter SELECT DATABASE and press enter: 1 WELCOME TO THE NYPL BRANCH LIBRARIES CATALOG Library material can be located by subjects, titles, authors, media type and standardized terms (including cross-references). To search by SUBJECT type S followed by the subject. Then ENTER. Example: S nutrition To search by TITLE type T followed by the title. Then ENTER. Example: T the land and people of korea To search by AUTHOR type A followed by the author's name. Then ENTER. Example: A white, philip louis To search for specific media formats, type MEDIA. Then ENTER. To search by CROSS-REFERENCE (x-ref) and/or STANDARD TERM type X followed by the term. Then ENTER. Example: X greece, modern history For more complete information on searching and on other functions at any time during your use of the MILCS system, type HELP. Then ENTER. s nutrition Type number of heading OR type letter below to select one of the following, Then ENTER: E.Search entire database. C.Continue list of headings. B.Move backward in list. Use S, T, A or X to start new search. N.Return to How-to- search screen. Search: S=NUTRITION (NYPL) -3. NUTELS NOEL MOTION PICTURES (1) -2. NUTHATCHES (1) -1. NUTMEG SPICE VIDEO RECORDINGS (1) * 1. NUTRITION (581) 2. NUTRITION ABSTRACTS (3) 3. NUTRITION ABSTRACTS PERIODICALS (2) 4. NUTRITION ADDRESSES ESSAYS LECTURES (8) 5. NUTRITION AND DENTAL HEALTH (4) 6. NUTRITION ASIA SOUTHEASTERN (1) 7. NUTRITION BIBLIOGRAPHY (8) 8. NUTRITION BIBLIOGRAPHY CATALOGS (1) 9. NUTRITION CHINA (1) 10. NUTRITION COLLECTED WORKS (3) *******************************************LIBRARY CATALOGS/CWIS ***SUINFO: Syracuse University Campus Information System*** Service: SUINFO is a campus information system for Syracuse University with much to offer the internet user. In addition to course catalogs and local news, there is access to the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse) database, an information resource of great importance to a variety of disciplines including education, psychology, and libraries. Syracuse University is one of a small number of ERIC participants which make this access possible. In addition to ERIC, there are several well known BITNET listserv discussion groups included, such as Humanist and NOTIS-L (for NOTIS library system users). Also accessible is the Listserv lists file which includes information on all bitnet discussion groups. (All BITNET groups are also accessible to internet users) Access: telnet acsnet.syr.edu or 128.230.1.21 At the Prompt, type "suinfo" (no quotation marks). The SUVM logon screen will appear. Tab to the command line (skipping the logon and password lines) and type suinfo. Please note that if the "..MORE" or "HOLDING" message appears at the lower right-hand corner of the screen, press the "clear" key to bring up the next screen. For most KERMIT users, be sure to use the "7171" keyboard emulation which makes the "home" key on the PC keyboard the "clear" key. If your terminal emulation does not support function keys, then just type the command at the YOUR RESPONSE prompt. There is no charge for accessing PRISM. Some selections require password authorization and are reserved for SU students and faculty. Exit: type "logoff" from the main SUINFO file selection screen. Example of SUINFO session: telnet telnet> open (to) acsnet.syr.edu Trying 128.230.1.21 ... Connected to acsnet.syr.edu. Escape character is ^]. ACSNET Thu Sep 19 12:45:00 1991 Port ID: acsnet tty42 at 9600 baud >suinfo Connecting acsnet tty42 to suinfo (vmfd 128D) ENTER TERMINAL TYPE: vt100 VIRTUAL MACHINE/SYSTEM PRODUCT S U V M Fill in your USERID and PASSWORD and press ENTER (Your password will not appear when you type it) USERID ===> PASSWORD ===> COMMAND ===> suinfo RUNNING SUVM Welcome to SUINFO! You will now be able to perform online searches on all publicly available databases currently carried by PRISM. Before proceeding, the following may be noted: * This account may be used for PRISM searches only. * Certain databases cannot be searched because of licensing restrictions. You may search these databases by logging into SUVM the regular way. * PRINTing, SENDing to a userid or the WRITEing to a computer file of your search result(s) has been disabled. Numerous error messages will be encountered if attempted! * You must type LOGOFF to EXIT PRISM Would you like to continue? (Y or RETURN/N) Y VM READ SUVM Welcome to Prism 08/29/91 16:19 File selection 32 files available Select a file or service by typing its name below, or, press the Return key to see a list of all files, or, type a category number to see a list of files in that category: 1. General Interest 2. CWIS: Campus Wide Information System (include SCIS) 3. WOT: Network Accessible Resources 4. Demonstration 5. Application Development 6. Testing New Applications Enter the name of the file you want. To see a list of files, choose a category or press RETURN. YOUR RESPONSE: 1 f1=Help f3=End Also: Setup, Lock, Pause, End Prism 08/29/91 16:19 File selection 26 General Interest files available Choose a file or service by typing its number or name below. NAME DESCRIPTION ________________________________________________________________________ 1. ACS News ACS News and Notes Articles 2. Applications Catalog Catalog of SPIRES Applications for Consortium 3. Audio Archive The Belfer Audio Archive's cylinder recordings 4. COMPUSTAT Annual COMPUSTAT Industrial 5. COMPUSTAT PDE COMPUSTAT Prices, Dividends and Earnings File 6. COMPUSTAT Quarterly COMPUSTAT Industrial Quarterly Data File (40) 7. Consortium People People at SPIRES Consortium member sites 8. Consortium Sites SPIRES Consortium member institutions 9. ERIC Abstracts of documents in the field of education 10. HUMANIST HUMANIST discussion file 11. ICPSR Guide Guide to the Data Archive's research data files. 12. IRG Internet Resource Guide 13. Job Opportunities S.U. Job Opportunities Publication -The menu of files continues on next page; press RETURN to continue Enter the name or number of the file you want. Type HELP followed by the name of a file for information about that file. YOUR RESPONSE: (return pressed) f1=Help f3=End Also: Setup, Lock, Pause, End Prism 08/29/91 16:20 File selection 26 General Interest files available Choose a file or service by typing its number or name below. NAME DESCRIPTION _______________________________________________________________________ 14. Microdb Microcomputer Article Abstracts 15. MSDS Inventory Material Safety Data Sheet Inventory 16. NOTIS NOTIS Discussion Group 17. Sci-Search Science Citation Index sample file 18. SCIS Catalog Course Catalog 19. SCIS Schedule Course Schedule 20. SCIS Syllabus Course Syllabus Abstract 21. SSS Sponsored Support Sources/grants & fellowships 22. SU Events S.U. Events Schedule 23. Weather Forecast A.L.F.A. Weather Forecast 24. WOT Discussion Groups Database of Electronic Discussion Groups 25. WOT LISTSERV Groups BITNET Discussion Groups [LISTSERV LISTS file] 26. WOT notes Database of Network accessible resources Enter the name or number of the file you want. Type HELP followed by the name of a file for information about that file. YOUR RESPONSE: 9 f1=Help f3=End f7=Previous Also: Setup, Lock, Pause, End ERIC Search 08/29/91 16:27 Welcome to ERIC This file contains bibliographic information and abstracts for a variety of EDUCATIONAL documents from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The file contains all the ERIC data from 1984 through the first quarter of 1991 (approximately 208507 records). You can search for items using one or more keywords from a variety of fields such as title, author, or abstract. For help call the ERIC Clearinghouse at 443-3640. To report technical problems contact: Jhychun Wang <JINWANG@SUVM>x-2143 -File selected; type HELP ERIC FILE for more information Type FIND to search this file. Type SELECT to choose a different file. YOUR RESPONSE: find f1=Help f2=Find f3=Select Also: Setup, Command, Suggest, Lock, Pause, End ERIC Search 08/29/91 16:27 Selected search types: ABSTRACT (ABSTRACT) Enter any word(s) that you might expect to see in an abstract for a journal article. Terminate with a pound symbol (#) to indicate a truncated word search. Abstract keyword(s): computer instruction -To continue this search, enter value above and press RETURN Type PREVIOUS below to return to search menu. Type CANCEL below to cancel this search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f3=Cancel f7=Previous f8=OK ERIC Search / FULL display 08/29/91 16:28 Find ABSTRACT COMPUTER INSTRUCTION Record 1 of 1923 __________________________________________________________________________ Accession: EJ417310 Title: A Graphing Tool for the Primary Grades. Journal: Arithmetic Teacher; v38 n2 p40-43 Oct 1990 Author: Schielack, Jane F. Pub Date: 1990 Abstract: The use of a computer software package called "Exploring Measurement, Time and Money--Level 1" to help children explore many different arrangements of data and the effects of changing that data is presented. Activities which may be used to prepare students for this instruction are described. (CW) 2 ****************************************************DATABASES ***************************************************DATABASES ***Archie: Searching Across Over 700 Software Archives*** Service: One of the most useful Internet services, acquisition of public domain software, can be the most frustrating. There are now hundreds of servers with thousands of software titles spread throughout the Internet. Often the searcher knows that the needed software is somewhere out there but finding the software title through this maze can take a long time. After checking 10 or 20 host sites, one is tempted to give up. Archie is a unique system devised to make locating software on public archives simple. Instead of searching the remote hosts one at a time, the user can enter the search on archie and find out where copies exist across 712 (at this writing) hosts. The results of the search may be viewed online or sent automatically via e-mail for later viewing. Search results identify host domain name and ip address and the exact path and filename to the requested file making it easy to ftp. The search engine has many powerful features to aid in retrieving those hard-to-find titles. Access: telnet quiche.cs.mcgill.ca Enter login of 'archie'. A description of the archie system and project and examples of an archie session and search results are included in the following sections. Note: several new Archie sites have been made available across the Internet. To spare the telnet resources of McGill University, please attempt to use the alternative server nearest you, from those listed here: USA: telnet archie.sura.net (login: archie) telnet archie.unl.edu (login: archie; password archie1) telnet archie.ans.net (login: archie) UK/Europe: telnet archie.doc.ic.ac.uk (login: archie) Finland/Europe: telnet archie.funet.fi (login: archie) Austrailia/New Zealand: telnet archie.au (login: archie) Israel: telnet cs.huji.ac.il (login: archie) At its simplest, the user enters the command 'prog', for program, from the archie prompt followed by a string of characters from a filename to be searched. archie> prog <string> For example 'prog xclock' will cause archie to search all the archives for the string 'xclock'. At the end of the search,archie will present the results back to the screen (unless directed to mail the results to another host). Exit: type 'exit', 'quit', or 'bye' from any screen and press <enter/return> Example of Archie session: telnet telnet> open (to) quiche.cs.mcgill.ca Trying... Connected to quiche.cs.mcgill.ca. Escape character is ^] SunOS UNIX (quiche.CS.McGill.CA) login: archie ARCHIE: The McGill School of Computer Science Archive Server [09 Aug 1991] Australian users: archie available on deakin.oz.au, login 'archie' European users: archie available on nic.funet.fi, login 'archie' The archie database can be accessed through Prospero. This is faster than the current interface. A standalone client is included in the Prospero distribution (/pub/prospero.tar.Z on cs.washington.edu last updated 910720 2030Z). Internet users are encouraged to write their own clients via this protocol. If you do, we'll spread the word. *** Archie standalone clients are available via anonymous ftp in ~archie/clients. These clients access the Prospero server which runs at increased priority for a faster response. Users are encouraged to use these clients in preference to the telnet interface. See the README file. We encourage the use of archie during off-peak hours (between 21:00 and 9:00 EDT (GMT -04)) for better response times. ** corrections/additions to archie-admin@cs.mcgill.ca ** 'help' for help ** bug reports, comments etc. to archie-l@cs.mcgill.ca ===================================================== archie> help Help gives you information about various topics, including all the commands that are available and how to use them. Telling archie about your terminal type and size (via the 'term' variable) and to use the pager (via the 'pager' variable) is not necessary to use help, but provides a somewhat nicer interface. Currently, the available help topics are: about - a blurb about archie bugs - known bugs and undesirable features - same as 'quit' email - how to contact the archie email interface exit - same as 'quit' help - this message list - list the sites in the archie database mail - mail output to a user nopager - *** use 'unset pager' instead pager - *** use 'set pager' instead plans - future plans for archie prog - search the database for a file quit - exit archie set - set a variable show - display the value of a variable site - list the files at an archive site ' term - *** use 'set term ...' instead unset - unset a variable whatis - search for keyword in software description database For information on one of these topics type: help <topic> A '?' at the help prompt will list the available sub-topics. Help topics available: about bugs bye email list mail nopager pager plans prog regex set show site term unset whatis Help topic? set The 'set' command allows you to set one of archie's variables. Their values affect how archie interacts with the user. Archie distinguishes between three types of variable: 'boolean', which may be either set or unset, 'numeric', representing an integer within a pre-determined range, and 'string', whose value is a string of characters (which may or may not be restricted). Currently, the variables that may be set are: autologout - numeric. Number of minutes before automatic log out mailto - string. Address that output is to be mailed to maxhits - numeric. 'prog' stops after this many matches pager - boolean. If set use the pager, otherwise don't search - string. How 'prog' is to search the database sortby - string. How 'prog' output is to be sorted status - boolean. Report how the search is progressing term - string. Describes your terminal Each variable has a corresponding subtopic entry under 'set'. See them for more details. Also, see help on 'unset' and 'show'. Subtopics available for set: autologout mailto maxhits pager search sortby status term 'set' subtopic? mailto 'mailto' is a string variable whose value is a mail address (or comma- separated list of addresses). If this is set and the 'mail' command is issued with no arguments, then the output of the last command is mailed to that address. Example: set mailto user@frobozz.com Example: set mailto user1@hello.edu,user2@goodbye.com All the various Internet addressing styles are understood. BITNET sites should use the convention user@sitename.bitnet UUCP addresses can be specified as user@sitename.uucp If you would like to mail to an Internet IP address then use '[]'. Example: set mailto bajan@[132.206.44.5] Example of archie search results: archie> prog xcalc # matches / % database searched: 82 /97% Host aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de (134.95.80.1) Last updated 05:26 31 Jul 1991 Location: /msdos/spreadsheet FILE rw-rw-r-- 250577 Feb 27 1990 excalc41.zip Host nuri.inria.fr (128.93.1.26) Last updated 02:48 9 Aug 1991 Location: /X/oldcontrib FILE rw-rw-r-- 20891 Oct 4 1990 hexcalc.tar.Z Host aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de (134.95.80.1) Last updated 05:26 31 Jul 1991 Location: /util FILE rw-rw-r-- 22539 Apr 14 1990 hexcalc.tar.Z Host reseq.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (192.48.107.50) Last updated 05:20 19 Jul 1991 Location: /public/X.V11R4/contrib/clients FILE rw-rw-r-- 17750 May 3 14:39 hexcalc.tar.Z (entries deleted) *********************************************************DATABASES ***Dartmouth's DANTE Project*** Service: online full text access to Dante's La Commedia and centuries of commentary. Scholars of Dante will find this service an indispensible companion to understanding the texts. The powerful boolean search software will make it easy to pull together original text and commentaries. Access: telnet eleazar.dartmouth.edu or 129.170.16.2 At the login prompt, type 'ddpdemo'. Exit: from any screen, type 'q' Example of Dartmouth Dante Project session: TELNET>open To: eleazar.dartmouth.edu Trying...129.170.16.2 Connected to ELEAZAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU. Escape character is ^] Dartmouth College 4.3 BSD UNIX (eleazar.dartmouth.edu) (ttyp6) login: ddpdemo Last login: Tue Sep 3 20:08:17 from bingvaxu.cc.bing Dartmouth Dante Project *** BRS/Search UNIX Version *** Initializing ... Copyright (c) 1989 by BRS Information Technologies. All rights reserved. Use by unauthorized persons is a violation of applicable laws. Revision 5.0 (001-1073-AT) Distributed By: BRS Information Technologies Licensed To: Dartmouth College Dartmouth Dante Project Preparation of this database was made possible in part by a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities and through the generosity of Dartmouth College Princeton University The Mellon Foundation Digital Equipment Corporation Apple Computer AT&T Foundation Certain material contained on this database is copyrighted by the original publishers, and is subject to the conditions of the original copyright. Material of this kind is denoted with the tag [copyrighted material]. All material not bearing this flag is copyright 1990 by the Trustees of Dartmouth College. You may freely reproduce the material on this database in any form, as long as it is not for profit or redistribution except as reference in scholarly works, or in violation of the terms of other copyrights. You may not edit the material in any way without the express consent of the Dante Project and Dartmouth College. Tap RETURN to continue ... Dartmouth Dante Project The database currently contains: 'La Commedia' & commentaries by the following authors: Jacopo Alighieri [jacopo] VenturiMomigliano Jacopo della Lana [lana] LombardiPorena Guido da Pisa [guido] PortirelliSapegno L'Ottimo commento [ottimo] CostaFallani Anonimo selmiano [selmiano] *TommaseoPadoan Pietro di Dante [pietro] BianchiGiacalone Giovanni Boccaccio [boccaccio] ScartazziniSingleton Benvenuto da Imola [benvenuto] BerthierBosco-Reggio Anonimo fiorentino [fiorentino] Ruskin Serravalle Casini-Barbi Daniello *Scartazzini-Vandelli [vandelli] Castelvetro [castel] *Grabher An asterisk indicates a partial commentary. Some pub. dates are approximate. Tap RETURN to continue ... Dartmouth Dante Project Current queries: None outstanding. Enter search or option letter (eg Line search, Help, Option list, Quit): 1_: s Enter search or option letter (eg Line search, Help, Option list, Quit): 1_: lucifer Results are: 1_: LUCIFER 94 document(s) Enter S to Search; D for Display; E for Extra Display Options [D]: d Dartmouth Dante Project Query selected for display: 1_: LUCIFER 94 document(s) Selections for display are: F to display Full output B to display Brief output C to display terms in Context (hits) E to display specific paragraphs O to Order paragraphs for displaying H to display Help S to Search Enter your selection [F]: b Dartmouth Dante Project References on query 1_: LUCIFER 94 document(s) Doc.# Reference 1 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 16.70 2 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 17.106-108 3 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 34.1-3 4 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 34.4-7 5 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 34.16-21 6 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 34.37-39 7 Guido(1327), ^Inf~. 34.46-51 8 L'Ottimo(1333), ^Inf~. 34.68-69 9 L'Ottimo(1333), ^Inf~. 34.70-81 10 L'Ottimo(1333), ^Par~. 8 Nota. 11 L'Ottimo(1333), ^Par~. 8.1-12 12 Selmiano(1337), ^Inf~. 3.34-42 13 Pietro(1340), ^Inf~. 33.100-108 14 Pietro(1340), ^Inf~. 34.28-38 15 Pietro(1340), ^Inf~. 34.70-78 Enter Doc# to View in Full; Next Screen; Search [Next Screen]: 13 Dartmouth Dante Project Dartmouth Dante Project Pietro (1340), ^Inf~. 33.100-108 Doc 13 of 94, Screen 1 Et ibi fingit se primo auram et ventum sensisse, qui spirabat ab alis Luciferi, qui significat et figurat spirationem diaboli ad odium tantum, quod glaciat hos in tanto frigido quod omne calidum charitatis amittimus. Nam sicut a Deo, qui est summum bonum, Spiritus sanctus in formam ignis suum amorem in nobis inspirat et conflat, ut in Capitulo II.+o~ Actuum Apostolorum, ibi: ^et apparuerunt illis dispertitae linguae tamquam ignis, seditque supra singulos eorum,~ ita Lucifer, qui pro summo malo ponitur, et in oppositum Deo in centro abyssi spirat spiritum maledictum, frigidum, glaciantem homines in tanto odio, ut est prodere proximos et commensales. *********************************************************DATABASES ***Library of Congress Cataloging by DRA*** Service: search access to 3.8 million titles of the Library of Congress database via DRA. Access: telnet dra.com Exit: type 'ex' from any screen The Software Development Group of Data Research Associates, Inc. has made the 3.8 million cataloging records from the Library of Congress available to researchers via the Internet. This database contains the records from the Books All, Maps, Music, Serials, and Visual Materials services as distributed by the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress. Guest users may search the database by author, title, author/title, ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, as well as qualifying searches by language, copyright date, or cataloging format. Subject and keyword searching is not available to guest users. Additional types of searches may be available for users with Data Research accounts. Telnet, using VT100 or higher emulation, to dra.com (192.65.218.43). After the copyright notice and initial screen appear, you can begin the database search. Only two guest users are allowed access at a time during business hours, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Central Time). Guest access to this database may not be used for cataloging or competitive purposes. Access from outside the United States may require prior arrangements. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to: Data Research Associates, Inc. Sales Department 1276 North Warson Road St. Louis, Missouri 63105 (314)432-1100 or CATALOG@DRA.COM Note: This information was obtained from the Internet Resources Guide. Example of search screens from the Library of Congress file at dra.com Data Research Associates, Inc. Records in this database orginating with the Library of Congress are copyrighted by the Library of Congress except within the U.S.A. To search by Enter For Example Author A=<lastname firstname> A=Shakespeare William A=King Stephen Title T=<title of book> T=Tommyknockers T=Taming of the Shrew For other types of searches enter <N> for the next screen. Subject and Keyword searching is not available to Guest users. Mail comments, or suggestions to CATALOG@DRA.COM Commands A=<name> T=<title> I=<isbn> N=<issn> L=<lccn> R=<ref number> ?? for help EX to exit ST start over N next page Data Research Associates, Inc. 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Far Tortuga / Peter Matthiessen. 1984 13 Matthiessen, Peter. Far Tortuga / Peter Matthiessen. 1988 14 Matthiessen, Peter. In the spirit of Crazy Horse / Peter Matth 1983 15 Matthiessen, Peter. Indian country / Peter Matth 1984 16 Matthiessen, Peter. Indian country / Peter Matth 1990 17 Matthiessen, Peter. Killing Mister Watson / Peter Matthi. 1990 18 Matthiessen, Peter. Killing Mister Watson / Peter Matthi. 1991 19 Matthiessen, Peter. Killing Mister Watson / Peter Matthi 1991 20 Matthiessen, Peter. Men's lives / Peter Matthiessen. 1988 (More) Commands A=<name> T=<title> I=<isbn> N=<issn> L=<lccn> R=<ref number> ?? for help EX to exit ST start over N next page B backup a page>> *********************************************************DATABASES ***NASA SPACELINK: Space-Related Informational Database*** Service: User-friendly menu-driven database, operated by the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. Access: telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or xsl.msfc.nasa.gov, or 128.158.13.250 Exit: Return to the Main Menu, and choose 1. Log Off NASA Spacelink Sample telnet session: telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov Querying (128.158.13.250) address...(=128.158.13.250). Trying(128.158.13.250)...open W E L C O M E to NASA SPACELINK A Space-Related Informational Database Provided by the NASA Educational Affairs Division Operated by the Marshall Space Flight Center On a Data General ECLIPSE MV7800 Minicomputer ******IMPORTANT!****** Do not press RETURN until you have read the following information. You are about to be asked to provide a Username and a Password. If this is your first call to NASA Spacelink, Enter NEWUSER as your Username and enter NEWUSER as your Password. If you have called before, enter your assigned Username and Password. You may send Carriage Returns or Line Feeds but NOT BOTH. You may now press RETURN, or To redisplay this message press CONTROL-D. AOS/VS II 2.02.00.00 / EXEC-32 2.02.00.06 11-Sep-91 12:11:56 @CON35 Username: Password: -------- Last message change 6-Sep-91 16:00:42 MESSAGES The system automatically deletes Usernames that have been inactive 90 days. ==> INTERNET CALLERS: Please DO NOT try to use XMODEM or YMODEM file transfer options. Attempting them will 'hang' your session with Spacelink. If you want to use XMODEM or YMODEM, call Spacelink directly at 205/895-0028. Info on Space Technology Spinoffs/Technology Transfer is under main menu 10. Info on upcoming Shuttle flight STS-48 is under main menu option 3, submenu 16. Most recent logon 11-Sep-91 12:03:26 NASA/SPACELINK MENU SYSTEM Revision:1.50.00.00 [9600] NASA Spacelink Main Menu 1. Log Off NASA Spacelink 2. NASA Spacelink Overview 3. Current NASA News 4. Aeronautics 5. Space Exploration: Before the Shuttle 6. Space Exploration: The Shuttle and Beyond 7. NASA and its Centers 8. NASA Educational Services 9. Classroom Materials 10. Space Program Spinoffs/Technology Transfer Enter a number or press RETURN to redisplay menu...2 NASA Spacelink Overview 0. Previous Menu 1. Main Menu 2. NASA Spacelink Background 3. How to Use NASA Spacelink 4. Revise Initial Registration Information 5. XMODEM & YMODEM Explanation 6. New/Updated Files 7. Lists of All Files on NASA Spacelink 8. Review Logon Messages 9. NASA Spacelink's connection to the Internet 10. NASA Spacelink Upgrade Plans and Status Report Enter a number or press RETURN to redisplay menu...2 '2_2.TXT' (1791 bytes) was created on 02-20-89 Enter {V}iew, {X}MODEM, {Y}MODEM or {M}enu [V]...v NASA SPACELINK BACKGROUND NASA Spacelink runs on a Data General ECLIPSE MV-7800 minicomputer located at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA Spacelink software was developed and donated to NASA by the Data General Corporation of Westboro, Massachusetts. The system has a main memory of 14 megabytes (14 million characters), disk storage space for 708 megabytes, and can communicate with eight callers simultaneously at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud. The data word format is 8 data bits, no parity, and 1 stop bit. NASA Spacelink is a dynamic system that will change and expand daily. It was made available to the public in February, 1988. Initial funding for NASA Spacelink was provided by the Educational Affairs Division at NASA Headquarters. The NASA Spacelink data base is maintained by the Public Services and Education Branch of the Marshall Space Flight Center Public Affairs Office. Operational support is provided by the Information Systems Office at the Marshall Center. Information on NASA scientific projects and educational programs is provided to NASA Spacelink by education specialists at NASA Headquarters and the NASA field centers. While NASA understands that people from a wide variety of backgrounds will use NASA Spacelink, the system is specifically designed for teachers. The data base is arranged to provide easy access to current and historical information on NASA aeronautics and space research. Also included are suggested classroom activities that incorporate information on NASA projects to teach a number of scientific principles. Unlike bulletin board systems, NASA Spacelink does not provide for interaction between callers. However it does allow teachers and other callers to leave questions and comments for NASA. ====PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE==== Enter a number or press RETURN to redisplay menu...3 '2_3.TXT' (2546 bytes) was created on 02-20-89 Enter {V}iew, {X}MODEM, {Y}MODEM or {M}enu [V]...v HOW TO USE NASA SPACELINK To use NASA Spacelink, type the number of the menu item most likely to contain information of interest, and press your computer's return, carriage return (CR), new line, or enter key. You will find one or more sub-menus under each item in the main menu. Continue choosing menu items until the desired information appears. For example, if you are a sixth grade teacher and you want to plan a lesson around food for astronauts, choose item 9 from the Main Menu (Materials for Classroom Use). From the next menu choose item 2 (Living in Space Activities, Grades 1-6). From the next menu choose item 2 (Food Lesson Plans). Your final menu choice will be item 6 (Grades 4-6), which will contain suggested activities for sixth grade students. At this point you'll be told to press Return to view the document or enter an X (type X and press return) to receive the file via an XMODEM file transfer. Every NASA Spacelink menu offers the options of returning to the previous menu (item 0) or returning to the Main Menu (item 1). When you first logged on to NASA Spacelink, you indicated the number of lines your computer monitor will display at one time. NASA Spacelink will pause accordingly to allow time to read information that has appeared on screen. You may press Return whenever you are ready for NASA Spacelink to continue. If you wish to override the pause feature to allow continuous scrolling, type the letter C (for Continuous) when text begins to appear. You must type the letter C every time you want text to scroll continuously. This feature will be helpful when you are not reading text, but are saving it to disk. If you wish to stop viewing text while it is scrolling, you may type the letter S (for STOP) and the previous menu will reappear. If you want text to pause on demand, type the letter S while depressing your computer's Control key. To resume scrolling, type the letter Q while depressing your computer's Control key. In brief, here are the keys you can use to control operation of NASA Spacelink: Key Effect Return Next Screen C Continuous Scrolling S Stop Viewing Document Ctrl/S Pause Ctrl/Q Cancel Pause Ctrl/X Cancel XMODEM Transfer Please note that if you are calling at 300 or 1200 baud, there will be a delay in NASA Spacelink's response to S and Ctrl/S. ====PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE==== Enter a number or press RETURN to redisplay menu...1 NASA Spacelink Overview 0. Previous Menu 1. Main Menu 2. NASA Spacelink Background 3. How to Use NASA Spacelink 4. Revise Initial Registration Information 5. XMODEM & YMODEM Explanation 6. New/Updated Files 7. Lists of All Files on NASA Spacelink 8. Review Logon Messages 9. NASA Spacelink's connection to the Internet 10. NASA Spacelink Upgrade Plans and Status Report Enter a number or press RETURN to redisplay menu...9 '2_9.TXT' (1489 bytes) was created on 08-17-91 Enter {V}iew, {X}MODEM, {Y}MODEM or {M}enu [V]...v Internet Access to NASA/Spacelink WHAT NASA/Spacelink is available to users with access to the Internet. Currently, four TELNET ports are available for callers. These ports can be reached at the following addresses: Domain Name: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov OR xsl.msfc.nasa.gov Internet Address: 128.158.13.250 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) capability will be implemented soon. XMODEM and YMODEM will not work through the Internet. If you want to use XMODEM or YMODEM, you'll need to call NASA Spacelink directly at 205/895-0028. WHY The Internet is a system that ties regional computer networks together. The regional networks are used mostly by universities, government agencies and research facilities. NASA was approached by universities and other groups designing networks to offer teachers and students access to the services available on the Internet. It became clear that connecting to the Internet would reduce access costs for NASA/Spacelink's target audiences, teachers and students. HOW NASA/Spacelink reaches the Internet via the Southeastern Universities Research Association Network (SURAnet), a regional network affiliated with National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET). FUTURE NASA/Spacelink's next expansion phase will increase several elements of the system, including additional storage for images from NASA's observatories. NASA/Spacelink's Internet connectivity will be upgraded to offer more simultaneous TELNET sessions and FTP file transfers. ====PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE==== *********************************************************DATABASES ***Oceanic: The Ocean Information Center*** Service: OCEANIC is a system of interest to any researcher in the fields of oceanographic and related marine studies. The system provides access to current research in all parts of the world, access to datasets of oceanic research observations, an electronic directory of active researchers and marine studies professionals, and even a schedule of research vessel cruises planned through the next 12-18 months. Access: telnet delocn.udel.edu or 128.175.24.1 At the 'username' prompt type 'info' and press <enter/return>. One unique feature of the system is that graphic data can be viewed online using KERMIT version 3.10 supporting the Tektronix 4010 graphics emulation. Instuctions on how to obtain a copy of Kermit (via ftp) with this emulation are included in the 'help' topics. Exit: type '$' to logoff the system from most screens. Example of OCEANIC session: TELNET>open _To: delocn.udel.edu Trying...128.175.24.1 Connected to DELOCN.UDEL.EDU. Escape character is ^]. Username: INFO PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME -> (type your name here) Welcome to O C E A N I C The OCEAN Information Center incorporating SONIC The SPAN::OCEAN Network Information Center Created and Maintained by The University of Delaware College of Marine Studies Lewes, Delaware Is your terminal or emulation package capable of supporting TEKTRONIX 4010 GRAPHICS ? (Y or [N])n Public Domain MS-DOS software is available to enable you to view graphics in OCEANIC. Type KERMIT while in HELP. OCEANIC - Ocean Network Information Center 0 What's NEW in OCEANIC? 1 WOCE Science Information (menu) 2 WOCE Program Information (menu) 3 Data Information (menu) 4 Who's Who - electronic and mail addresses (menu) 5 Research Ship Schedules and Information (menu) 6 Message to OCEANIC (1 screen) ? = FOR HELP T = tree diagram of system $ = Logoff Enter your selection -> WOCE Science Information Atlantic Field Program [AFP] Pacific Field Program [PFP] Indian Field Program [IFP] Southern Field Program [SFP] WOCE Program Information Program Structure [STR] Calendar [CAL] Int'l Progm Announcements [ANN] Algorithms, standards, etc. [ALG] Bibliography [BIB] Other Programs (TOGA, ARI) [OTH] Acronyms [ACRO] Data Information NODC [NODC] NCAR [NCAR] Hawaii Sea Level Center [PSLC] NODS [NODS] Eur Ctr Med-Range Forecst [ECMWF NSIDC [NSIDC] Univ of MIAMI [MIAMI] Univ of Rhode Island [URI] Carbon Dioxide Info Analy [CDIAC] Browse Products [PROD] WHO'S WHO Electronic Mail Addresses [DIR] Research Ship Schedules Cruise info [CRU] Ship info [SHP] Enter the code or press RETURN to continue ... Enter the code or press RETURN to continue ... pfp Woce Field Program - Pacific Ocean (maps and resources) 1. One Time Survey (menu) 2. Repeated Hydrography (menu) 3. Time Series (menu) 4. Sea Level Network (menu) 5. Floats (menu) 6. Drifters (menu) 7. Mooring Arrays (menu) 8. XBT/XCTD Sections from Ships of Opportunity (menu) 9. Cruise Plans/Progress Reports (menu) ? for help, <Return> for previous menu, * for Main Menu, $ to Logoff SELECTION -> SELECTION -> 6 Pacific Ocean Drifters PD1 (Tasman Sea, S. Fuji Basin and area east of N.Z.) PD2 (10N - 10S across Pacific) PDG (Pacific Basin N of 45S) PDSFG (sparsely sample regions of Basin) ENTER THE DRIFTER NUMBER (xx) or ? for help, <Return> for previous menu, * for Main Menu, $ to Logoff SELECTION -> Drifter No.: PD1 Core Proj: CP1 Location: Tasman Sea, S. Fuji Basin and area east of N.Z. Logistical Details (Update: Jul. 6, 1988 - IPO) Yrs covered: Orig deploy: Reseeding: Notes: Western boundary current Operators and Interested Countries (Updated: Oct. 23, 1990 - AA) Country: AA Contact: G. Cresswell at: CSIRO, Hobart Ship name: Aurora Australis, Franklin Action Date: from 1991 Notes: expect to release 10 drifters/yr for 3+ years. *********************************************************DATABASES ***PENpages: Agriculture's Online Resource*** Service: PENpages is an excellent online resource for economic information pertaining to agricultural markets. Coverage includes all products from vegetables to meats to flowers. Market data includes weekly NY livestock auctions, Chicago Mercantile Exchange futures, weekly San Francisco wholesale floral prices, and PA regional timber prices. In addition to market reports, PENpages includes many newsletters from agrichemicals to birding lists from the Delaware Valley. PENpages is a DEC-based system which has many impressive features for marking text. In addition to the selection of text through a menu-driven interface, PENpages includes a keyword/boolean search module for all texts in the system. Access: telnet psupen.psu.edu At the login prompt, type 'pnotpa' and press <enter/return>. The standard vt100 emulation works well with PENpages. An online tutorial explains the use of 'gold' key and function key commands. The system is available seven days a week. Exit: to end the session, use F3 (or CTRL-B) to back out to the initial menu. Then pick selection '0' to logoff. Another exit command is F1- (gold-period). Example of Telnet Session: telnet> open (to) psupen.psu.edu Trying... Connected to psupen.psu.edu. Escape character is ^] PSU*PEN The Pennsylvania State University Username: PNOTPA Welcome to _________________ P E N p a g e s _________________ Provided By: College of Agriculture The Pennsylvania State University PSU*PEN System Menu (0)Logoff System (1)PENpages (37 documents added on 20-AUG-1991) (2)Optional User Comments Enter selection: PENpages Menu (0) Return to previous menu (1) Menu -- access to regularly changing information (2) Index - Keyword Search -- access to all information Enter selection 1 ____________________ Welcome to PENpages Main Menu ____________________ 1. How to Use PENpages 5. Public News and Notices 2. Recent Changes to PENpages 6. Drought Management 3. Market News 4. Newsletters _ Choice: 1 ____________________ How to Use PENpages ____________________ 1. On-line Tutorial 2. PENpages User Guide 3. Referencing Information Obtained from PENpages _____________________ PENpages User's Guide _____________________ 1) Introduction and Conventions 2) Configuring Your Equipment 3) Usernames & Phone Numbers 4) Accessing PENpages 5) Using Menus 6) Using Index-Keyword Search 7) Reference 8) Hardware/Software Selection 9) Access via Internet 10) Command Summary Choice:1 ______________________ PENpages User's Guide ______________________ GETTING STARTED PENpages is a computer-based information service available seven days a week. Information is entered into PENpages by Penn State experts and many cooperators including the College of Health & Human Development, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. PENpages is housed at University Park with access points in each Pennsylvania county. There are no subscription fees charged for the use of PENpages. There are two methods to access information in PENpages: menu section and index-keyword search section. The menu section is reserved for news, market reports, newsletters and other items that change frequently. All information can be accessed through the index-keyword search section, which includes thousands of reference documents. Market News __________________ 1. PA Livestock Market Reports 17. Dairy Market News 2. PA Graded Feeder Pig Market 18. Hog Report:Peoria,IL 3. PA Graded Feeder Cattle Sales 19. TX, OK, NM Feeder Cattle Sum. 4. PA Grain Market Summary 20. Summary of NY Auctions 5. PA Hay Market Summary 21. Weekly Sum. of NY Auctions 6. PA Woodlands Timber Market Report 22. Food Market News 7. Grain Futures:Chicago Board of Trade 8. Meat Futures:Chicago Mercantile Exchange 9. Omaha, Nebraska Livestock Report 10. Poultry Market News 11. Boxed Beef Cutout Report 12. Central U.S. Carlot Beef Report 13. Central U.S. Carlot Pork Report 14. National Grain Market Summary 15. Fruit & Vegetable Market News 16. Flower Market News _ Choice: Pennsylvania Woodlands Timber Market Report Forest Resources Extension 110 Ferguson Bldg. The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 The Timber Market Report is published quarterly. 1. January/March 1991 2. April/June 1990 3. July/September 1990 4. October/December 1990 _Choice:1 Pennsylvania Woodlands Timber Market Report First Quarter-1991 January-March This Pennsylvania Woodlands Timber Market Report gives the prices for logs delivered to sawmills during the months of January through March 1991. (Please refer to stumpage and mill price descriptions below). MARKET REGIONS: The regions have been defined in such a way as to minimize the price variation within each region. Prices in counties on region borders can be expected to reflect trends in both regions. PRICE INTERPRETATION. This report is intended to serve only as a guide for stumpage and mill prices. Markets for timber often change dramatically and therefore the past prices reported here may not be representative of current market prices. In addition, the reported prices reflect general market trends and ignore specific timber tract variations. Prices paid for timber on differentconsiderably because price is influenced by many factors, including the following: - size, species, and quality of timber - total volume and volume per acre - logging conditions - distance to the mill - season of the year - market demand - end product of manufacture STUMPAGE PRICES. The stumpage prices for sawtimber and pulpwood are based on the average stumpage prices reported this quarter by sawmills, pulp and paper companies, forestry consultants, the US Forest Service and the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry. The reported average stumpage prices are determined from all data received. Normally, we do not report the highest and lowest stumpage prices, since these values would represent extremes. These extreme values would <TEXT DELETED>..... *********************************************************DATABASES ***SSDA: Aleph/Hebrew University Social Science Data Archive Catalog*** Service: The SSDA (social science data archive) catalog, a part of Israel's inter-university ALEPH network, is now accessible to foreign archives/users via Internet. The catalog accesses dataset holdings covering a variety of studies, surveys, census data, and financial records from Israel. Searching access includes subject headings, variable lists, abstracts, and library holding information. Access: telnet har1.huji.ac.il or 132.64.176.2 At the Username prompt, enter SSDA and press <enter/return>. The system will display the 'function selection menu'. Type '2' and press <enter/return>. For more information regarding searching, system use, or data orders contact Miko Levy at MAGAR1@HUJIVMS.Bitnet or telephone 972-2-883181. Exit: Type 'stop' from any screen to return to the 'function selection menu', then type '1' to select logout. Example of SSDA session: TELNET>open _To: har1.huji.ac.il Trying...132.64.176.2 Connected to HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL. Escape character is ^] WELCOME TO HAR1 (HEBREW UNIVERSITY MOUNT SCOPUS LIBRARIES) VMS VERSION 5.4 (DEC) ALEPH VERSION 2.3 (ALEPH YISSUM LTD) Username: SSDA Last interactive login on Thursday, 22-AUG-1991 02:02 Last non-interactive login on Thursday, 1-AUG-1991 13:07 Function selection 1. Logout 2. Online Aleph Functions + Iutil 3. 4. Redefine terminal type 5. Show batch log 6. Upload offline Circulation records (PC only) 7. Show Batch execution queue and Print queue 8. Select from menu 2 Search Library SSDA S O C I A L S C I E N C E S D A T A A R C H I V E The Data Archive catalogue describes, in the English language, all data sets held in the Archive. For data orders and/or further information, please call tel. 883181, use Bitnet MAGAR1@HUJIVMS or Fax. no. (972)-2-322545. S E A R C H C O D E S Data set level: Variable level: FN - File number VS - Variable list TL - File titles VN - Variable name AU - File author SH - Subjects TO BEGIN SEARCH, TYPE ONE OF THE ABOVE CODES/TEXT AND PRESS ENTER. M1 = Data-set search explanation M3 = Subject list A-I M2 = Variable level explanation M4 = Subject list J-Z To return to this screen, type SE and press ENTER. SEARCH: Data-set level search (M1) Library SSDA Finding data-sets in the Data Archive can be done in a number of ways: 1. When name of data-set is known, use code TL: TL/Labour Force Survey 1988 2. When producer of data-set is known, use code AU: AU/Central Bureau of Statistics User will receive a list of all data-sets the C.B.S. deposited in the Data Archive. 3. When data-set number is known, the code FN can be used: FN/0473 4. When none of the above details are known, use the code SH: SH/Economics From the List Screen user will be able to access all data-sets catalogued under this subject at the Data Archive. Once reaching the List Screen, the code B/line no. will give the details of any one of the list items. SEARCH: Variable level search (M2) Library SSDA The variable level search in the Data Archive catalogue provides the user with textual information about data-set variable lists and code- books. Within each data-set exist one or more records bearing a six digit number, for example: Data-set 0301 (the 1983 Census) contains two records 930101 (Demographic record) and 930102 (Geographic record). These records contain the 1983 Census data which is described by the variable lists . For searching a variable list, use the code VS/variable list number: VS/930101 This will display the variable list in its entirety by using the Continue command (C) to go from screen to screen. Note: after the record number, a four digit number appears. This number is the serial number of the variable within the specific variable list. In addition to variable list searching, for searching a specific variable over all the Data Archive's holdings, use the code VN: VN/Marital status Search Library SSDA Access List - Subjects 1. Finance (5) 2. Foreign Countries (11) 3. Government (10) 4. Health (7) 5. Household Behaviour (17) 6. Housing (23) 7. Immigration and Absorption (7) 8. Incomes and Wages (25) 9. Industry (4) Continue=C, Backward=R, Details=P/line no., References=RF/line no., Save set=CS/line no., Print screen=PS. ________________________________________________________________________ Search Library SSDA List of publications 1. Finance (5) 1-5 _________________________________________________________________________ 1. Bank of Israel 0210 BANK OF ISRAEL TIME SERIES 210 2. COMPUSTAT 0160 COMPUSTAT - ANNUAL INDUSTRIAL FILE - UPDATED TO 1981160 3. International Monetary Fund 0200 IFS - INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SURVEY 200 4. COMPUSTAT 0150 PRICE DIVIDENDS EARNINGS (P.D.E.) 150 5. Yitzhaki, Shlomo and Shalit, Haim 0796 RATES OF RETURN, TEL-AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE 796 Continue=C Access=AC, Details=B/line no., Save=S/line no., Sets=LS, Print screen=PS. Search Library SSDA Bibliographic record **0000796** SYSNO 0000796 FILE NO. 0796 TITLE RATES OF RETURN, TEL-AVIV STOCK EXCHANGE PERIOD Jan. 1977 - Jan. 198 AUTHOR Yitzhaki, Shlomo and Shalit, Haim INSTIT. Center of Economic Agriculture SECURITY 2 CLASS B SUBJECT Finance - National Economy DESCRIP. File 796 contains 11 monthly rates of return for securities and bonds. Record 01 (data file F3001.DATA.R) contains real rates of return and record 02 (data file F3001.DATA.N) contains nominal rates of return. The 11 indices are: Continue=C Next=N, Holdings=H, Issues=IS, Abstract=AB, Publications=P, Access=AC, Save=S. Search Library SSDA Bibliographic record **0000796** - Commercial Banks, Mortgage Banks, Specialized - Financial Institutions, Investment Companies, Industry, Commerce and Services, Land Construction and Developmet, Bonds Linked to Consumer Price Index, Bonds Traded in Foreign Currency, Bonds Linked to Foreign Currency - Bonds Convertible into Shares. - All of the above are available for the period of January 1977 - January 1983, a total of 73 records. RECORD 979601 - Main real and nominal rates of return (N=73) Beginning of record=B Next=N, Holdings=H, Issues=IS, Abstract=AB, Publications=P, Access=AC, Save=S. Search Library SSDA List of publications Var.list 1. 930101-0006 LOCALITY OF RESIDENCE DETAILS 1000210 2. 930101-0007 Type of geographic division 0014 1000211 3. 930101-0008 District / sub-district 0015 1000212 4. 930101-0009 Natural region 0017 1000213 5. 930101-0010 Type of locality (old) and organizational affiliation 0019 1000214 6. 930101-0011 Type of locality (new) 0022 1000215 Continue=C Details=B/line no., Save=S/line no., List of sets=LS, Print Screen=PS. *********************************************************DATABASES ***STIS: Science and Technology Information System*** - Access to NSF Publications Service: STIS (Science and Technology Information System) is an online system providing access to NSF publications and other programs including: - the NSF Bulletin, - the Guide to Programs, - grants booklet -- including forms, - program announcements, - press releases, - NSF telephone book, - reports of the National Science Board, - descriptions of research projects funded by NSF -- with abstracts, and - analytical reports and news from the International Programs Division New materials are added weekly. Access: telnet stis.nsf.gov or 128.150.195.40 At the login prompt, enter 'public' and press <enter/return>. You will be asked to select from a list of terminal definitions. There are three variations of 'vt100'. (ed. note: the 'vt100nes' seemed to be the most flexible. STIS is dependent on a partially graphical user interface which is similar to many commercial CD-ROM products used by libraries, such as the Library of Congress products. The use of the 'escape' key is critical to exit various functions and the system itself. FOR MOST USERS, THE ESCAPE KEY IS THE KEYPAD 0, *NOT* THE USUAL KEY MARKED 'ESC' ON PC KEYBOARDS! This is definitely true for Kermit users or sessions originating from VAX computers. The vt100nes emulation provided alternatives to arrow, page up and page down using control-key sequences. These always worked. The regular keyboard arrow keys, etc. did not always work. Once past these keyboard definition problems, the system is easy and fun to use). Exit: type the ESCAPE sequence (i.e. keypad 0 for most users--see note above) to exit back to the main menu, then type '7' from the main menu to end the session. Example of STIS session: $ telnet TELNET>open _To: stis.nsf.gov Trying...128.150.195.40 Connected to STIS.NSF.GOV. Escape character is ^] SunOS UNIX (master) login: public Science and Technology Information System Type up to eight letters as your personal ID, and then Enter. User ID (Example: jsmith) Enter ?=Help ESC=Exit STSMAIN Main Menu Use arrow keys or numbers to make a selection, and then Enter. 1 Search/Browse Documents (TOPIC) 2 Edit User Registration 3 View Help Menu 4 Download STIS Manual 5 Download Index to Files for FTP 6 Send a Message to STIS Operator 7 Exit STIS (log out) * Dial-in users -- sorry if you are finding our lines busy; rush hour tends to be 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. * Award abstracts for 1991 through 1989 are now available. You must CHOOSE TO SEE abstracts -- in TOPIC, select 'Documents -- Partitions' and toggle on 'awards'. 7/3/91 Enter ?=Help ESC STSHELP Help Menu Use arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn to select a help subject. Then Enter. Page 1 of 3 STIS Introduction Entering your STIS personal ID Registering to use STIS Getting help in STIS STIS Main Menu Search/Browse (TOPIC) TOPIC Basics Searches Topics Filters Enter ESC=Exit STIS Introduction STIS is... An electronic information dissemination system which provides easy access to the National Science Foundation publications. The full text of publications can be searched online, and copied from the system. Electronic publications will supplement the wide distribution of printed material from NSF. There is no charge for connect time and no need to register for a password. The service is available 24 hours a day, except for maintenance periods. Up to ten people can be on the system at the same time. STIS is available for use by... - the public, - individual researchers in science and technology, - sponsored research offices, - multi-university information network services, - library services, - science policy analysts, - the press, - other Federal programs, and - NSF staff. Publications include... Some publications available on STIS are: - the NSF Bulletin, - the Guide to Programs, - grants booklet -- including forms, - program announcements, - press releases, - NSF telephone book, - reports of the National Science Board, - descriptions of research projects funded by NSF -- with abstracts, and - analytical reports and news from the International Programs Division. New materials are added weekly. Some will be removed or replaced as they become out of date; others will remain permanently. On the Internet... STIS can be accessed by using a single command -- telnet stis.nsf.gov To copy a publication, an Internet user can: - conduct an anonymous FTP (File Transfer Protocol) session, - request that a publication be delivered via e-mail, or - print material from a screen display. Up to one million people have access to STIS via Internet -- through any of 100,000 computers linked through 5,000 networks to NSFNet. STIS is one of many emerging information services on the data superhighway of the Internet that will remove geographic and cost barriers to the rapid exchange of research information. Or by dial-in... Anyone with a modem can access STIS. You will pay a phone charge if the call is long distance. Depending on your modem, STIS is available at 1200, 2400, and 9600 baud rates. If you dial-in, you see exactly the same system as the Internet users. To copy a publication, you may: - print material from a screen display, and - download the full text using the KERMIT protocol. Once connection between your machine and STIS is established, you must press [ENTER] . [ENTER] to proceed. Login: public You may login to STIS with one simple keyword, public. Then you will key in a personal ID up to eight characters. This will be your permanent STIS ID for future sessions. Publications may be searched by... - using any keyword such as 'nsfnet', 'japan', 'superconductivity', or 'volcano'; - using a phrase or Boolean inquiry such as 'synaptic mechanism', or 'exchange of scientists and soviet union'; - using pre-defined topics, for example selecting the topic 'biosciences', would retrieve all material related to the broad subject; and - using a filter to limit the user's view of everything: - to a particular NSF organization - 'bbs' or 'geo', - to a particular type of material - 'announcement', 'award', or 'bulletin', - to a date range - '05/07/89' to '01/31/90'. STIS makes it possible to search through thousands of pages of text in seconds. A query can retrieve sections of the NSF Bulletin, the Guide to Programs, an evaluation report or analytic study, a particular program announcement, a list of projects funded by NSF, and even a listing in the NSF telephone directory. HELP... You may get help by: - accessing help screens online in STIS, - downloading a user manual from the STIS main menu, - directing questions to the STIS operators through e-mail within STIS itself, and - phoning the helpline to leave voicemail. For more about the system... Contact: Dr. STIS National Science Foundation Office of Information Systems Room 401 1800 G. Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20550 Search for documents matching pre-defined topic. STIS/public at NSF Topic Copyright(c) 1988, 1990 Verity, Inc. Topic Search Search for Topic List element-cycling-phrs energy elementary-particle-ph-phrs elementary-secondary-e-phrs emerging-eng-technologies emerging-engineer-technologies emerging-engineering-phrs emerging-engineering-t-phrs empirical-data-phrs endangered-species-phrs energy energy-biological-biom-phrs energy-budgets-phrs energy-chemical-scienc-phrs energy-education-phrs energy-engineering-phrs energy-environmental-s-phrs Search for documents matching topic. STIS/public at NSF Topic Copyright(c) 1988, 1990 Verity, Inc. Results Browser Presented: 3 of 3 Processed: 474 of 474 1 1.00 OLPA Films List NSF Films and Video Catalog 2 1.00 INT Country Report USSR: I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic E 3 1.00 INT Country Topic Netherlands: Policy Issues Germane to NSF NSF Contact : OLPA Type: Films List Date: Jan 1, 1989 File name: pub_s/flm_89 Document size: 25270 Topic: energy Filters: OFF Retrieved: 3 of 474 STIS/public at NSF Topic Copyright(c) 1988, 1990 Verity, Inc. Results Browser Presented: 3 of 3 Processed: 474 of 474 1 1.00 OLPA Films List NSF Films and Video Catalog 2 1.00 INT Country Report USSR: I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic E Country Topic Netherlands: Policy Issues Germane to NSF __ Display (d) __ Print/Write (p) __ Delete __ Explain (e) __ Download NSF Contact : INT Type: Country Report Date: June 12, 1990 File name:f oreign/cr2sov01 Document size: 6779 View the highlighted document. STIS/public at NSF Topic Copyright(c) 1988, 1990 Verity, Inc. Document Viewer Title: USSR: I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow (Part I) NSF Contact: INT Type: Country Report Date: June 12, 1990 In: U.S.S.R., The Government Sector I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Introduction The I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (Institute), the most important center of the Soviet Union in nuclear science and technology, performs research in applied as well as fundamental science. A descriptive leaflet (in Russian, no date) emphasizes the Institute's activities in nuclear energetics, nuclear power generation and cogeneration, shipboard nuclear propulsion for transport and icebreaking, research reactors, controlled thermonuclear fusion, inertially confined fusion, nuclear physics, *********************************************************DATABASES ***Louis Harris Data Center: The Institute for Research in Social Science*** Service: online access to poll data collected from the Harris organization, USA Today polls, and North Carolina polls. Printouts and datasets in the SAS format are available for a fee. Access: tn3270 128.109.157.5 Logon is 'irss1' or 'irss2', password is 'irss'. Exit: type 'quit' or F3 Over 750 Harris polls are archived at the Harris Data Center. These surveys contain over 50,000 questions and have been administered to over 900,000 respondents. The polls are a valuable source of data about American society. Many questions have been repeated over time, allowing researchers to track changes. IRSS distributes Harris data at a nominal cost. Copies of data tapes, printouts of frequencies, or printouts of other analyses are provided by IRSS staff. A copy of a Harris questionnaire with a copy of unweighted response frequencies for a single study will be provided for $25. For more information about the Harris Data Center, call David Sheaves at (919) 966-3348, fax (919) 962-IRSS, or electronic mail at uirdss@uncvm1.bitnet Example of IRSS session: VM/XA SP 2.1 ONLINE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA IBM 3090 COMPUTING SYSTEM VM/XA SP 2.1 (9002+0C12) Fill in your USERID and PASSWORD and press ENTER (Your password will not appear when you type it) USERID ===> irss1 PASSWORD ===> Type VMEXIT on <COMMAND> line to leave VM/XA COMMAND ===> RUNNING UNCVM1 Welcome to the Institute for Research in Social Science Data Services The Institute for Research in Social Science maintains an extensive archive of social science data. Three easy-to-use, menu driven systems are available to assist users in locating and accessing these data: * IRSS Data Holdings Catalog * An on-line CATALOG of IRSS data holdings arranged by title, principal investigator, and subject. * IRSS Public Opinion Item Index * Lets you search for public opinion poll questions that contain specific words or combinations of words. You can also search using study dates or study numbers, separately or with question wordings. * North Carolina Information System * The North Carolina Information System (NCIS) allows researchers to display, manipulate, and abstract data about North Carolina from a large database of county-level variables. Press ENTER for Data Services Menu INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE << IRSS Data Services Menu >> 1 IRSS Catalog of Data Holdings 2 Public Opinion Item Index 3 North Carolina Information System TO SELECT AN OPTION TYPE THE NUMBER AND PRESS ENTER F1 =HELP To QUIT type QUIT or press F3 ====> INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE << IRSS Public Opinion Item Index Menu >> 1 Atlanta Journal Constitution Polls 2 Carolina Polls 3 Louis Harris Polls 4 USA Today Polls 5 Return to Main Menu TO SELECT AN OPTION TYPE THE NUMBER AND PRESS ENTER F1 =HELP ====> HARRIS SURVEYS Search 04/13/91 17:25 THE HARRIS SURVEY INDEX This file offers the user the ability to search through the text of all Harris Survey questions (circa 1960 to the present) looking for particular topics. Once a search has been defined and the user is satisfied with the results, a printout of the questions can be obtained. If frequencies are given for a question, the results are unweighted. If you have any questions about this PRISM file, please contact: David Sheaves, IRSS 966-3348 uirdss@uncvm1 -File selected; type HELP HARRIS SURVEYS FILE for more information Type FIND to search this file. Type SELECT to choose a different file. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f2=Find f3=Select Also: Setup, Command, Suggest, Lock, Pause, End HARRIS SURVEYS Search 04/13/91 17:26 Search type selection for FIND Choose a type of search by typing the name or number for each type of information you have, e.g. QUESTION or 1 OF SEARCH DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE 1. QUESTION WORDS USED IN THE QUESTIONS GOLDWATER, MCGOVERN, TAX 2. STNC TO ASK FOR A RANGE OR SPECIFIC DATE >=1980 3. STN ENTER A HARRIS STUDY NUMBER 871028 Enter one or more search types below. Type CANCEL to cancel this search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f3=Cancel Also: Lock, Pause, End HARRIS SURVEYS Search 04/13/91 17:27 Selected search types: QUESTION (QUESTION) ENTER A WORD THAT MAY APPEAR IN THE TEXT OF A QUESTION, RESPONSE, OR ITEM LIST. BOOLEAN OPERATORS ('AND'/'OR') MAY BE USED IN THESE SEARCHES. ALSO PREFIX, SUFFIX, AND STRING SEARCHES MAY BE ENTER (ENTER HELP FOR MORE INFO). WORD(S): -To continue this search, enter value above and press RETURN Type PREVIOUS below to return to search menu. Type CANCEL below to cancel this search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f3=Cancel f7=Previous f8=OK HARRIS SURVEYS Search / BRIEF display 04/13/91 17:29 Find QUESTION JAPAN 310 records 16) Study Number: 842113, NON-VOTERS Study Date: OCT. 1984 What country or countries were your grandparents born in? MULTIPLE RECORD 17) Study Number: 842111, NON-VOTERS Study Date: AUG. 1984 What country or countries were your grandparents born in? DO NOT READ LIST -- MULTIPLE RECORD 18) Study Number: 901207 Study Date: JULY 1990 To be successful in the 1990s, will Japan have to open itself to more cultural and ethnic diversity than it has done in the past, or not? 19) Study Number: 901207 Study Date: JULY 1990 Do you think that Japan will be the number one economic power in the world in the year 2000, or not? 20) Study Number: 1918 Study Date: APRIL 1969 Which airlines did you use most often to travel abroad in the last 12 months? -Records continue on the next page; you may press RETURN to continue display Type: DIS FULL number, to see a full record. PRINT to print/mail/save records. AND, NOT, OR to refine this search. FIND to begin a new search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f2=Find f3=Select f7=Previous f9=Print f10=Display Also: And, Not, Or, Setup, Command, Suggest, Lock, Pause, End HARRIS SURVEYS Search / FULL display 04/13/91 17:30 Find QUESTION JAPAN Record 18 of 310 Study Number: 901207 Study Date: JULY 1990 Question Number: 1q. Sample: EXECUTIVES Question: To be successful in the 1990s, will Japan have to open itself to more cultural and ethnic diversity than it has done in the past, or not? Responses: Will have to open itself to more diversity/Won't have to open itself to more diversity / Not sure PERCENT RESPONSE CATEGORY Will have to open itself to more diversity Won't have to open itself to more diversity Not sure SAS Variable Name: Q1Q -Records continue on the next page; you may press RETURN to continue display Type: DISPLAY to see brief records. PRINT to print/mail/save records. AND, NOT, OR to refine this search. FIND to begin a new search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f2=Find f3=Select f9=Print f10=Display Also: And, Not, Or, Setup, Command, Suggest, Lock, Pause, End CAROLINA POLL INDEX Search / FULL display 04/13/91 17:34 Find QUESTION HELMS Record 34 of 38 Study Number: FALL 1990 Question Number: 6. Question: As of today, do you lean more toward Gantt or more toward Helms? Filter: IF 4 OR 5 IN QUESTION 4 Filter: NOTE THAT QUESTIONS 6 AND 7 ARE COMBINED IN THE DATA SET AS VARIABLE SENLEAN. NOTE ALSO THAT SENATE AND SENLEAN ARE COMBINED IN THE DATA SET AS A FINAL VARIABLE TSENATE. Responses: HELMS / GANTT / OTHER / DON'T KNOW, UNDECIDED / REFUSED, NO ANSWER PERCENT RESPONSE CATEGORY 12.7 HELMS 21.6 GANTT 41.2 DON'T KNOW/UNDECIDED 24.5 REFUSED/NO ANSWER Total number of cases: 50 SAS/SPSSX Variable Name: SENLEANA -Records continue on the next page; you may press RETURN to continue display Type: DISPLAY to see brief records. PRINT to print/mail/save records. AND, NOT, OR to refine this search. FIND to begin a new search. YOUR RESPONSE: f1=Help f2=Find f3=Select f9=Print f10=Display Also: And, Not, Or, Setup, Command, Suggest, Lock, Pause, End *********************************************************DATABASES ***SWAIS: Simple WAIS - Access to World Factbook and other Information Sources*** Service: 'swais' is a screen-mode simplified version of the WAIS (wide area information server) system. The simple wais system is a fascinating introduction to the use of distributed information resources accessed via the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. Information sources on wais servers include, the CIA World Factbook, the Wall Street Journal, the Internet Library Guide, and the Internet cookbook. Access: telnet hub.nnsc.nsf.net At the 'username' prompt, type 'wais' and press <enter/return>. Enter 'vt100' (or other appropriate terminal type) at the TERM = prompt. From the initial swais menu, type '?' to get a brief help description of commands. Exit: type 'q' from any screen to back out one screen or exit the system completely. Example of swais session: telnet> open (to) hub.nnsc.nsf.net Trying... Connected to hub.nnsc.nsf.net. Escape character is ^] SunOS UNIX (hub.nnsc.nsf.net) login: wais TERM = (unknown) vt100 SWAIS Source Selection Help Page: 1 j Move Down one source k Move Up one source ## Position to source number ## <space> Select current source <ret> Perform search s Select new sources w Select new keywords h Show this help display H Provide SWAIS overview q Leave simple wais program Press any key to continue SWAIS Source Selection Sources: 21 01: Source: directory-of-servers 02: Source: ietf-documents 03: Source: internet-drafts 04: Source: internet-rfcs 05: Source: info-mac 06: Source: US-Gov-Programs 07: Source: cosmic-abstracts 08: Source: cosmic-programs 09: Source: eff-documents 10: Source: online-libraries 11: Source: poetry 12: Source: wall-street-journal 13: * Source: world-factbook 14: Source: usenet-cookbook 15: Source: sun-mail 16: Source: internet-phonebook 17: Source: risk-digest 18: Source: sample-books 19: Source: sample-patents <space> displays, arrows move, w for keywords, <return> searches, ? for help SWAIS Keyword Entry Page 1 Keywords: zaire mobutu Enter keywords with spaces between them; <return> to search SWAIS Search Results Items: 40 # Score Source Title Lines 01: [1000] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Zaire - Geography Total area: 2, 246 02: [ 952] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Burundi - Geography Total area: 213 03: [ 850] ( cmns-vax.think) IMF Holds Up Loans Marked To Aid 72 04: [ 742] ( cmns-vax.think) World Bank Holds Zaire Loan to Push 76 05: [ 689] ( cmns-vax.think) International Brief -- Sabena: Belgi 39 06: [ 624] ( cmns-vax.think) LEISURE & ARTS: Art From the Heart o 142 07: [ 624] ( cmns-vax.think) International: Meeting of G-7 Leader 90 08: [ 603] ( cmns-vax.think) Potomac Watch: White House Losing 121 09: [ 587] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Angola - Geography Total area: 1 213 10: [ 558] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Zambia - Geography Total area: 7 218 11: [ 558] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Uganda - Geography Total area: 2 223 12: [ 558] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Sudan - Geography Total area: 2, 241 13: [ 558] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Congo - Geography Total area: 34 231 14: [ 549] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Rwanda - Geography Total area: 2 216 15: [ 549] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Central African Republic - Geogr 226 16: [ 539] ( cmns-vax.think) Country: Tanzania - Geography Total area: 251 17: [ 520] ( cmns-vax.think) Appendix E: Cross-Reference L 1072 18: [ 520] ( cmns-vax.think) THE WORLD FACTBOOK 697 19: [ 517] ( cmns-vax.think) French GDP Posts Growth PARIS -- F 27 <space> selects, arrows move, w for keywords, s for sources, ? for help 0000246CIA The World Factbook 1990 900101 Country: Zaire - Geography Total area: 2,345,410 km2; land area: 2,267,600 km2 Comparative area: slightly more than one-quarter the size of US Land boundaries: 10,271 km total; Angola 2,511 km, Burundi 233 km, Central African Republic 1,577 km, Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km, Sudan 628 km, Uganda 765 km, Zambia 1,930 km Coastline: 37 km Maritime claims: Territorial sea: 12 nm Disputes: Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled; long section with Congo along the Congo --More-- 0048161WJ 9004270074J WALL STREET JOURNAL (J), PAGE B3B 900427 Copyright (c) 1990 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. AFRIC MONETARY NEWS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, TRADE (I/MON) BANKS (I/BNK) IMF Holds Up Loans Marked To Aid Zaire ---- By Edward T. Pound Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON -- The International Monetary Fund, frustrated by repeated failures of Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to meet fund requirements, won't disburse $54 million in loans earmarked for the financially troubled nation in central Africa. Word of the IMF cutoff came this week as Mr. Mobutu, a --More-- Note from the SWAIS software developer: Subject: Simple Wais (swais) interface testing Reply-To: jcurran@BBN.COM (John Curran) Date: Sun Jul 28 01:11:21 1991 The screen-mode WAIS interface that I have been working on is now ready for alpha testing. I am aware of several outstanding problems, but am looking for feedback on the general interface and interaction model at this time. The 'swais' (simple wais) program currently supports: Selection of multiple sources for a query. Specification of keywords for query on screen. Itemization of resulting documents with attributes. Retrieval and display (via more) of any selection documents. Repeat current search specifying new keywords and/or sources. It will soon support: Retrieval of documents into a local file or to a filter program. Ability to select retrieved source descriptions in future queries. Scrolling source and document displays for >15 items. As it is still young code, I'd prefer that people try it by telneting to hub.nnsc.nsf.net; username wais. Send any comments to jcurran@nnsc.nsf.net. 3 **************************************************E-DISCUSSION ************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***AEDNET: The Adult Education Network*** Service: AEDNET is an international electronic network that now includes people from the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The network was initiated as part of a Kellogg Foundation grant to Syracuse University's Adult Education Program, School of Education, and now operates out of the Adult Education Program. Access: To enroll in AEDNET, send an email note to AEDNET@SUVM.BITNET with your FULL NAME and USERID. You will be enrolled by the "sysop" and receive further info about AEDNET and how to participate on the network at that time. The following information was provided by AEDNET: WHO Approximately 400 people from 115 sites located in 9 countries are AEDNET members and the numbers are growing, and the diversity is increasing. Participants are still primarily adult education graduate students, faculty members, administrators, and other academic staff members studying and working in higher education. AEDNET is not intended just for academics, but, because of academic affiliation, they enjoy easier access to electronic networking. -->Please help AEDNET include practitioners by arranging guest accounts at your institutions, forwarding suggestions for helping practitioners reach AEDNET through public electronic networks, or assisting nonacademic adult education-related institutions get online and networked.<--- Although AEDNET activities focus on adult education, a few members represent other fields like computing, social work, and communication, as well as other areas of education. WHY AEDNET exists to help adult educators explore this still new medium for international information sharing and to exchange information of mutual interest. Network activities thus include: 1) network-wide discussions; 2) continuing small-group discussions on special interest topics; 3) job, conference, special event, and publication announcements, and 4) specific query and response exchanges. AEDNET relies heavily on participants' contributions and suggestions. The network also serves as the distribution channel for the graduate students' electronic journal, NEW HORIZONS IN ADULT EDUCATION, and for other adult education publications as appropriate. WHERE Network activities are coordinated by, Roger Hiemstra, Professor and Chair of Adult Education at Syracuse University. Dan Eastmond, a graduate student in the program, also assists with these functions. WHEN Barring computer or network problems, your messages reach AEDNET shortly after you send them. We usually post messages intended for general distribution within 24 hours and try responding to all messages within five days. HOW AEDNET is a VM/CMS-based listserver, networked to BITNET, NSFNET, Internet, CSNET, and NYSERNet. (Sorry about the acronyms here--except for "Because It's Time" [BITNET], I'm not sure of their meanings.) To enroll members, we need their userids and node addresses AND their full names. For Example: HIEMSTRA@SUVM Roger Hiemstra SUGGESTIONS FOR PARTICIPATING Some members have institutional limitations restricting the length of any one electronic message they can receive. Please either limit what you intend for general distribution to 2-3 screens OR send your message in several parts. We are a very diverse, international group so let's avoid jargon, idioms, and specialized language. Finally, computer gremlins introduce odd line breaks plus typographical and grammatical errors into electronic messages. Don't let the gremlins discourage you! Send your contributions as they are. As several people have pointed out, we're engaged in 'written talk,' not formal writing. NEW HORIZONS - The Electronic Journal of Adult Education NEW HORIZONS IN ADULT EDUCATION is transmitted to adult educators around the world via AEDNET, an electronic network that uses BITNET for transmission. AEDNET and the journal are sponsored Syracuse University, through funding from the Kellogg Foundation. Conceived in 1987, the journal is distinctive not only because of its means of dissemination but also because it is managed by graduate students in the United States and abroad. Access to NEW HORIZONS IN ADULT EDUCATION is facilitated in two ways. First the journal is free. Second, the contents of the journal are indexed in ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center. Syracuse University's Adult Education Program hopes the journal and AEDNET will be catalysts in connecting adult educators throughout the world and in promoting the exchange of ideas and research. By using the speed of electronic transmission, NEW HORIZONS gives adult educators a means to publish the most current thinking and research within adult education and related fields. Articles can be submitted in a variety of disk formats or transmitted electronically over AEDNET. The editorial staff sends submissions out for blind review, relays the reviewers' comments to authors, and finally, formats and distributes the revised articles in the for of NEW HORIZONS IN ADULT EDUCATION - all this is done using the medium of mainframe computer telecommunications. In an individual author does not have access to mainframe computer technology, the editorial staff will work with conventional paper copies and postal systems in order to publish important thinking in adult education. Anyone interested in submitting articles, working on the editorial board, or receiving the journal can contact the network through BITNET (E-mail address: HORIZONS@SUVM). The mailing address is: Editors, NEW HORIZONS Syracuse University Adult Education Program 350 Huntington Hall Syracuse, NY 13244-2340 Tel: 315/443-3421 FAX: 315/443-5732 ***************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***Comserve: The Human Communications Forum*** Service: Comserve is a BITNET-based electronic information service for people interested in human communication studies. The service is also available to internet users. Services include journal citations, job hotline, user directory, fileserver, and more. Access: for Internet-based users, send electronic mail to comserve@vm.ecs.rpi.edu with commands in the message text area. Access and system responses are similar to a "listserv"-type group. Example of Comserve introductory information: You can obtain a brief description of Comserve's commands and their syntax by sending Comserve a note containing the following line: Send Comserve Helpfile The file that will be sent to you will also explain how you can receive detailed information about Comserve's commands. If you'd like a printed copy of the Comserve User's Guide, send a note containing your regular mailing address to Support@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or Support@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet). You are strongly encouraged to join Newsline, Comserve's news service. This channel will bring you important information about changes and enhancements in Comserve. For more information, send this message to Comserve: Show Hotlines We hope that you'll find Comserve a valuable resource. If you have any questions about the service, send a note to Support@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or Support@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet). Comserve's Principal Functions 1. Comserve is a "file server;" i.e, Comserve can send you copies of files -- computer programs and documents including bibliographies, instructional materials, announcements, research instruments, etc. -- from its extensive collection. Descriptions of files are available by category in special files called "directories". The command "Directory Info" (without quotes) returns a list of valid directory names and the command "Directory Directory_Name" (without quotes) -- where "Directory_Name" is the name of a valid directory -- returns the directory files themselves. 2. Comserve is a news service. Announcements of interest to users are distributed periodically in issues of Comserve's electronic news bulletin. Ordinarily the news bulletin will be sent to you when a new issue has been created and you send a command to Comserve. However, you can subscribe to the news as well. Users who subscribe to the news by sending Comserve the following command: Join Newsline Your_First_Name Your_Last_Name are sent the news bulletins automatically as computer mail whether they contact Comserve or not. We strongly advise users to register for this service. Comserve's "CommJobs" service is similar to the Newsline service; however, CommJobs is used to distribute advertisements for faculty positions in communication departments. Use the Join command to begin your subscription to CommJobs. 3. Comserve maintains a "white pages" or "user directory" service. Commands exist that allow you to include your name as well as multiple lines of descriptive information in Comserve's central directory of users. Others can search this directory to obtain your computer address and you can search it to obtain computer addresses of other users. 4. Comserve has a "Hotline" system that provides a method for communicating with others on topics of general interest in communication studies. Sending Comserve the command: Show Hotlines returns more information on how this service works and on which topics are currently covered by Hotlines. 5. Comserve maintains indexes of articles in important journals in the communication studies discipline. Commands are provided that allow you to perform powerful electronic searches within particular journals. Searches can be performed by authors' names or by article title. Searches are completed within seconds and results are sent to you over the network. 6. Comserve has a system for automatic distribution of announcements or survey forms in electronic format. Contact Comserve's editorial staff at Bitnet address: Support@Rpiecs for more information. ***************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***DISTED: Online Journal of Distance Education*** Service: electronic journal regarding distance education Access: subscribe to the journal using the following instructions For Internet users, send an e-mail message containing the following command to LISTSERV@UWAVM.Bitnet: SUB DISTED your_full_name Submissions: All contributions should be sent to JADIST@ALASKA.Bitnet Description of topics included: In the industrial age, we go to school. In the information age, school can come to us. This is the message implicit in the media and movement of distance education. THE MESSAGE The issues that the Journal is concerned with fall into four basic content areas: Content Area #1- *** Distance Education *** The Journal is interested in distance education as the organized method of reaching geographically disadvantaged learners, whether K-12, post secondary, or general enrichment students. Areas of interest include: delivery technologies, pedagogy, cross cultural issues implicit in wide area education delivery, * distance education projects that you are involved with, * announcements, workshops, or programs of study, * anything else regarding the theory and practice of distance education. Content Area #2- *** Distance Communications *** The Journal recognizes that education encompasses a broad area of experience and that distance education includes distance communications that fall outside the domain of formal learning. The Journal welcomes contributions that deal with serving people at a distance who aren't necessarily associated with a learning institution. The Journal welcomes information about, for example: * public radio and television efforts to promote cultural awareness, * governmental efforts to inform a distant public about social issues, * or the many training programs run by private business to upgrade employee skills. Content Area #3- *** Telecommunications in Education *** Once the distance education infrastructure is solidly in lace, local learners will want to tap into it, because they simply prefer learning in a decentralized setting or because hey want to expand their learning opportunities and resources beyond those immediately available to them. This phenomenon, which we call 'bringing distance education home,' will grow in the coming years and we look forward to hearing from people about telecommunications in education, as a tool or a content area. Content Area #4- *** Cross Cultural Communication Efforts *** --> Particularly Between the US and the USSR <-- The Journal is interested in projects concerned with overcoming cultural barriers through the use of electronic communication. The Journal particularly looks forward to contributions concerning: * efforts to improve electronic communication between the USSR and the US * international electronic conferences * cultural domination through the inappropriate use of media * the use of telecommunications to promote understanding of the human condition Contact: Any other questions about DISTED can be sent to: Jason B. Ohler, Editor JFJBO@ALASKA.Bitnet or Paul J. Coffin SPJC@ALASKA.Bitnet ***************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***KIDSLINK: A Global Dialog for Students & Teachers*** Service: A number of related listservs and cooperative programs have been organized to bring together teachers, children, and classes from around the world. Respondents include classes in many different countries and innovative projects that allow students to work collaboratively and provide forums for communication and expanding students' horizons. Access: to become involved with KIDLINK and the Kids-92 project, obtain some of the core documents from listserv@vm1.nodak.edu. These include lists of projects, contacts, and general information. The following description is taken from a recent Kids92 Newsletter. The KIDS-92 Newsletter A Global Dialog for Children 10-15 Years **************************************** Issue number 2, Aug 10 1991. The goal of KIDS-92 is to get as many 10-to-15-year-old children as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog continuing until May 19th 1992. We want their responses to these questions: 1) Who am I? 2) What do I want to be when I grow up? 3) How do I want the world to be better when I grow up? 4) What can I do now to make this happen? Here are some recent responses: >From Seoul (Korea): 1) My name is Kim You-Jung. I'm 15 year old. I am a freshman at Jung Eui girls' High School in Seoul Korea. My course is commercial so I study technical function subjects . I like to read Design books and mistery novels and write a letter and draw pictures and listen to music. 2 I hope to become a famous novelist. As a best writer I will plant "LOVE" in many people hearts. 3) As I grow up, I hope the world to be more calm and on very friendly trms among many countries. The world most not be contaminnated and racism also be disclled. 4) Not to pollute the earth, I must not use bad chemical production. I hope to compose a good book to make a human race of different religions happy. >From Kiev (Ukrain, USSR): 1) My name is Alex Yankovski. My age is 13. I live in Kiev (Ukrain). 2) When I grow up I want to be a programist. 3) I want that never wars, that people of all over the world become friends. 4) Now I can to write with childern from others countries. I want to have many friends. The name of our current project is KIDS-92, and it is limited in time. We felt a need to find a generic name to our 'movement', and the final decision was reached on June 25. The generic name is "KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15". The KIDPLAN task force also addressed the issue of access to the KIDLINK Archives. These are the rules that have been decided: All of the messages from all of the KIDLINK mailing lists are stored in publicly accessible archives on the North Dakota State University computer system. No specific permission is necessary to use them for research or publicity purposes. We expect those who use to archives to give credit to the source and to use them only in ways which respect the integrity of the kids and adults involved in the KIDLINK projects. The local adult coordinators should make sure the kids understand that their messages are public and should help them deal with the issues of what is appropriate in a public forum. There will be differences among the sites in both the procedures and the judgements of appropriateness. For instance, some sites may ask kids not to post home addresses, while home addresses may be perfectly acceptable in other areas. About KIDS-92 In addition to the young participants' responses to the four questions (see the beginning of this newsletter), we would like them to illustrate their future vision, for example in a drawing, a video tape, or something else. On May 18th and 19th, 1992, the children will be invited to "chat" with each other in a global electronic dialog. Exhibitions of selected parts of the responses will be sent back to the world for the children to see and enjoy. Our global online discussion forums, KIDS-92 and KIDPLAN, are meeting places for teachers, parents and other persons involved with the KIDS-91 project. The old KIDS-91 discussion forum is currently being used for review purposes. The project operates the following forums for the children themselves: RESPONSE - where the children send their personal introduction (their responses to the four introductory questions), KIDCAFE - where they can 'talk' about anything they like, KIDS-ACT - where they can discuss 'What we can do NOW to make the world a better place to live'. To join KIDS-92 through Internet/BITNET, send the command SUB KIDS-92 Yourname to LISTSERV@vm1.NoDak.EDU. (For example: SUB KIDS-92 Ole Olsen.) The command should be in the BODY of the text. The discussion forums are also available through several conferencing system and mail exploders around the world. Write us for more information. The following files are available by email from the KIDS-92 archives: GENERAL general information about KIDS-92 CONTACTS list of people by country who may be contacted for More information about KIDLINK and KIDS-92 PROJECTS KIDLINK Project Overview PEOPLE list of teachers and other people who may be contacted for projects, WISH list of what we would like to see happen, if we can only find the money to fund it, ARTCAT Catalog of the KIDS-92 Gallery of Computer Art NEWS1-92 Newsletter #1 TIPS92 Tips about using KIDS-92 PHONEVU a description of PhoneVu and other videophone equipments. LOGO-BGF KIDLINK logo in GIF format (binary file) LOGO-BPX KIDLINK logo in PCX format (binary file) BINSTART Binary Starter's Kit for MS-DOS ARTCAT Catalog of the KIDS-92 Gallery of Computer Art ART001 Sean Keithly GIF/UUEncoded ART001-B Sean Keithly GIF/Binary File (for FTP) To get a list of all available files in KIDS-92, send a message to LISTSERV@vm1.nodak.edu . In the TEXT of your message, write the command: INDEX KIDS-92 The resulting file will also give you a short explanation about how to retrieve individual files from our archives. If you have problems downloading files, please email Odd de Presno. All discussion forums are open for everybody, but only kids between 10 - 15 may write messages in KIDCAFE and KIDS-ACT. The KIDS-92 newsletter is an information bulletin for teachers, participants, sponsors, mediators, promoters, and others. Suggestions and contributions are invited. We plan to port the next issue of the KIDS-92 newsletter during the first week of October. But please don't wait until then to plan activities in your community! And be sure to write us if you want to get on the mailing list for KIDS-92!! Onward! Editor/Project director: Odd de Presno Mail address: Saltrod, Norway (Europe). Telefax: +47 41 27111 Online addresses: Internet: opresno@ulrik.uio.no UUCP/EUnet: uunet!ulrik.uio.no!opresno DASnet: [DEZNDP]opresno IASnet: ADIAS4 S.H.S. BBS: SYSOP (Phone: +47 41 31378) If you want to help out with KIDS-92, or participate, contact the editor, or one of the following persons: Nancy Stefanik: MetaNet=stefanik, PeaceNet=nstefanik, AppleLink=x0447, TCN=tcn145 Internet: stefanik%tmn@uunet.uu.net UUCP/EUnet: tmn!stefanik@uunet.uu.net Fax: (202) 547-2079 Jonn Ord/SciNet: jonno@scinet.UUCP You can also write to KIDS-92, 4815 Saltrod, Norway or just sign up ... ***************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***IGC: Institute for Global Communications*** Service: Access to the most comprehensive international online services for the environmental and peace movements. A variety of communications, contacts, and services are provided through the IGC networks. Access: telnet igc.org or 192.82.108.1 Enter "new" at the "login" prompt, then <ENTER/RETURN> at the "password" prompt. You will be guided through a self-registration process. Complete information regarding fees is included at the end of the following description. PeaceNet, EcoNet, and two other neworks (ConflictNet; HomeoNet) are part of IGC, the non-profit Institute for Global Communucations. ABOUT ECONET AND CONFLICTNET By subscribing to PeaceNet, you also have full access to EcoNet and Conflict, all part of the Institute for Global Communications. <>EcoNet<> serves individuals and groups interested in environmental issues, including acid rain, global warming, energy policy, rainforest preservation, and toxics in the environment. By becoming part of EcoNet you are participating in an international network working on environmental issues and education at the grassroots and planetary level. Along with hundreds of grassroots organizations, virtually all of the major national environmental organizations are represented on EcoNet. <>ConflictNet<> serves those users, groups and individuals working for social justice and conflict resolution. ConflictNet's resources include: guidelines for choosing a neutral third party; sample case development in conflict resolution; extensive bibliographies; legislative updates; newsletters from around the world. Contacting PeaceNet: Internet: telnet to igc.org (192.82.108.1) to register Bitnet cdp!peacenet%labrea@stanford UUCP: uunet!pyramid!cdp!peacenet Phone: 415-923-0900 Fax: 415-923-1665 Telex: 154205417 HOW MUCH DOES USING PEACENET COST? Rates are surprisingly low. After a $15 sign-up fee, the monthly subscription is $10, which includes one free hour of off-peak time (after 6 P.M. and on weekends) and phone support. Additional connect time is $5/hour for off-peak and $10 for peak time (7 A.M. to 6 P.M.). Some gateways and storage space are extra. University subscriptions through Internet are lower still. Please note: Subscriptions to other APC nodes are different from those listed here. For users outside of APC countries, there will also be an additional fee to connect to the public data network. There are two account billing options: A.) Use your credit card, no deposit required; B.) Send a $50 refundable deposit, pay by check each month. (If you live abroad, you subscribe through the APC partner and/or the SprintNet affiliate in your country.) *ARE DISCOUNTS POSSIBLE?* Yes! For every new user you bring online, we'll give you two free hours of off-peak computer time. If you come with a list of ten or more new users, we can offer group discounts as well. Information providers and conference facilitators are also eligible for discounts. *HOW YOU CAN JOIN* telnet to igc.org (domain name igc.org), type "new" at the "login" prompt and then <ENTER/RETURN> at the "password" prompt. You will be led through a user self-registration session. *or* Fill out this coupon and return it to us immediately! Name:__________________________________________________ Organization (if applicable):_______________________________ Address:________________________________________________ City, State, Zip:__________________________________________ Telephone:______________________________________________ Major Areas of Interest:___________________________________ Use billing option ____ A. or ____ B. If billing option A., Card Number/exp. date_________________ If billing option B., send check for $50. May we list your address in our online user directory? Yes/No May we list your phone number? Yes/No ***************************************************E-DISCUSSION ***USENET: Comprehensive News and Discussion Forum*** Service: extremely diverse and comprehensive news and discussion forum widely distributed internationally through many networks. USENET covers subjects ranging from the computing world and UNIX to birding, literature, and new age music. Some agencies like NASA distribute official press releases and bulletins via USENET. Access: readily available through electronic news distribution and via numerous bulletin boards such as UNC (samba) and the Cleveland Freenet. The "rn" or "readnews" software provides a powerful way to read, process, and organize news from newsgroups. Review documentation regarding USENET using the "man" command in unix to cover topics such as the "rn" (readnews) facility. USENET is accessed while logged in to an existing account. Exit: the "q" command at any prompt will exit "rn" and the news. USENET sits on top of several physical networks, including UUCP, X.25 and the Internet. It consists of a set of programs that provide access to news and transfer articles from one machine to another. Like UUCP, the only requirement for a host to join USENET is finding another machine to agree to transfer news to it. USENET deals with news articles, which are grouped according to newsgroups, or interest topics. There are over 350 different newsgroups, with discussions ranging from technical subjects to hobbies. Any user can post an article on a topic to be sent out and read by persons subscribing to that newsgroup. There are also facilities for posting follow-up articles and sending direct mail to the author of the article. The programs which allow users to read news articles, readnews, vnews and rn refer to the user's subscription list to determine which news articles to display. Example of USENET session for newsgroup sci.space: rn sci.space Unread news in sci.space1453 articles Unread news in sci.space.shuttle513 articles Checking active list for new newsgroups... Newsgroup alt.sys.intergraph not in .newsrc--subscribe? [ynYN] Newsgroup sci.geo.meteorology not in .newsrc--subscribe? [ynYN] Newsgroup soc.culture.new-zealand not in .newsrc--subscribe? [ynYN] ******** 1453 unread articles in sci.space--read now? [ynq] (142 more) in sci.space: 27235 Re: NASA rejects industry in favor of entertainment 27236 Re: Advancing Launch Technology 27237 Picture of Hubble Required 27238 NASA Prediction Bulletins, Part 1 27239 NASA Prediction Bulletins, Part 2 27240 Re: test Einstein's theories during next total solar eclipses 27241 Re: comsat cancellations and lawsuits 27242 Re: Saturn V blueprints 27243 Re: Uploading to alpha Centauri 27244 Re: Atlas Centaur bites the big one, 4/18 27245 R-100 and R-101 27246 Re: Laser launchers 27247 Re: Galileo status reports 27248 Re: Atlas Centaur bites the big one, 4/18 27249 * SpaceNews 22-Apr-91 * 27250 Re: Galileo status reports 27251 Re: Laser launchers 27252 Re: Government vs. Commercial R&D 27253 Re: I want to go to orbit... 27254 Re: NASA & Executive branch 27255 Re: Atlas Centaur bites the big one, 4/18 27256 MIR SWEEPSTAKES BACK, ALIVE AND WELL!! 27257 Re: Galileo status reports ___________________________ SpaceNews ___________________________ MONDAY APRIL 22, 1991 SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution. * STS-39 INFO * This information comes from Gerry Creager: The following elements are ones I made a couple of days ago to match the latest cycle on orbit flight design profile for STS-39, rotated to the current launch date of April 23 at 11:05 UTC. Because of the several maneuvers, it took 4 sets to match it within about 3 seconds. Set #1 will be in error by about 17 minutes by the end of the flight. If it launches on time, we will have good visible passes on Friday morning, Apr 26,10:47z-10:55z, and Saturday morning, Apr 27, 10:41z-10:50z. The IBSS should be deployed on the Friday pass (Orbit 49), so both it and the orbiter should be visible. Landing is at MET 8/07:25. Element Set #1 -- For Orbits 2 through 28 STS-39 1 00039U91113.52156250 .00280000 00000-0 44539-3 0 15 2 00039 57.0030 277.1989 0009407 267.9459 92.1059 16.05426977 29 Element Set #2 -- For Orbits 29 through 58 STS-39 1 00039U91115.20216435 .00280000 00000-0 44539-3 0 25 2 00039 57.0063 269.2651 0009337 272.1084 87.9165 16.06583130 292 Element Set #3 -- For Orbits 59 through 89 [7m--MORE--(34%)[m [K STS-39 1 00039U91117.06825231 .00280000 00000-0 44539-3 0 32 2 00039 57.0050 260.4383 0009142 278.8905 81.1608 16.04230096 591 Element set #4 -- For Orbits 90 through 133 STS-39 1 00039U91118.99928241 .00280000 00000-0 44539-3 0 41 2 00039 57.0040 251.3354 0009000 285.0101 75.0116 16.03012532 901 * HELPFUL HINTS * Putting Mission Elapsed Time On Your Wrist Watch When NASA and AMSAT release information on upcoming Space Shuttle schedules, time is usually given in UTC based on the expected opening of the launch window. Local US time zones are also given in a margin. However, mission events are also officially given in MET, or Mission Elapsed Time. Physics determines that many mission elements must happen so many minutes or hours after launch, since that puts them over certain parts of the world, or the Shuttle will be in range of certain ground experimenters, or other factors. Launch delays are a way of life at NASA, and the upcoming shuttle launch may be no exception. Mission Elapsed Time is referred to constantly throughout a space mission. Whether you work in the space program, try to work the SAREX, or just listen to the NASA feed on the local Ham Radio repeater (146.940 MHz in the Cape Canaveral area if you're there for the launch), cable TV, or RCA Satcom F-3 Transponder 13 (where the cable company gets it for free), you might want access to MET yourself. MET is based on the time of lift-off at "zero" in the launch countdown, when the solid rocket boosters are lit, and the spacecraft leaves the pad at Launch Complex 39. Simply start the stopwatch feature of your electronic watch at zero in the count, and you will have MET on your watch! The kind of watch best suited will go until 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds, and then click back to zero and keep on going. Simply check the cheap watches in the blister packs at your local drug store for a watch with either a stopwatch, or "24 hour chronometer" feature. If they haven't got one for less than ten bucks, check a different drug store. If you should miss the launch, simply find out what time the launch happened from the newspaper, and start it 24 hours later. Set an alarm on the watch to go off a minute before the time that is 24 hours from launch. Shuttle missions are usually up a few days, and you'd be surprised how handy MET is when keeping track of the spacecraft. Of course, remember that you'll have to keep a tally of the number of elapsed days of the mission yourself. (C) Copyright 1990 Robert Osband. Permission granted to SpaceNews, and any club to reprint this article if a copy of the newsletter is sent to PO Box 23214, Tampa FL, USA 33612. All others, contact author. [Story via Ozzie, N4SCY @ K0ZXF.FL.USA.NOAM] * TNX RPTS! * Thanks to all those who sent e-mail reports to SpaceNews, including: FE1LOZ, N2GGQ, DC4ZI, KA4PNT, N4RAK, N4SCY, WD4LYV, ZR5AAD, KB7ADO, N8JKQ * FEEDBACK WELCOMED * Feedback regarding SpaceNews may be directed to the editor using any one of the following paths: UUCP: !rutgers.edu!ka2qhd!kd2bd PACKET: KD2BD @ NN2Z.NJ.USA.NOAM INTERNET: kd2bd@ka2qhd.de.com -OR- kd2bd@tomcat.gsfc.nasa.gov MAIL: John A. Magliacane, KD2BD Department of Electronics Technology Advanced Technology Center Brookdale Community College Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 U.S.A. /EX -- John A. Magliacane FAX : (908) 747-7107 Electronics Technology Department AMPR : KD2BD @ NN2Z.NJ.USA.NA Brookdale Community College UUCP : ...!rutgers!ka2qhd!kd2bd Lincroft, NJ 07738 USA VOICE: (908) 842-1900 ext 607 4 ***************************************************DIRECTORIES ***************************************************DIRECTORIES ***Directories of Electronic Journals and Academic E-mail Conferences*** Service: two important directories have been distributed in electronic and print form. Instructions for down-loading and ordering are included in the following article. Responding to a growing interest in electronic publications, two important directories are now available, a directory of electronic journals and a complete list of academic e-mail conferences. Instructions for obtaining these documents follow: Ejournal Directory Meets Need for Catalog of Electronic Publications The Directory is currently available in ascii text from the following locations: (1) Contex-L Filelist - TELL LISTSERV AT UOTTAWA GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY TELL LISTSERV AT UOTTAWA GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY (2) Comserve The name of the Directory files changes to EJournal1 Sources and EJournal2 Sources on the Comserve fileserver. Send an electronic mail message to Comserve@Rpiecs (Bitnet) or Comserve@Vm.Ecs.Rpi.Edu (Internet) with the following command appearing on the first line of the message: Send EJournl1 Sources Send EJournl2 Sources No other words, punctuation, or symbols should appear in the electronic mail message. Comserve is an automated system for file retrieval; it will acknowledge receipt of your message and let you know that the files have been sent to you. (3) Humanist TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET EJOURNL1 DIRECTRY TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET EJOURNL2 DIRECTRY Complete Directories of Academic E-mail Conferences are now available via anonymous ftp from ksuvxa.kent.edu type: ftp ksuvxa.kent.edu signon: anonymous password: your userid type: GET filename.filetype <enter> (for each file you want, type: DIR to see list of files on the server) then: Quit . or by sending a GET filename filetype to LISTSERV@KENTVM via interactive or e-mail message. These files are also be available in print format from the ARL. Currently there are five pieces of this Directory filename filetype ACADLIST FILE1 ACADLIST FILE2 ACADLIST FILE3 ACADLIST FILE4 ACADLIST FILE5 Files 1 & 2 are Humanities and Social Sciences. File 3 is Biological/Medical Sciences. File 4 is Physical File 5 is a conglomeroid of Business and Academia (grants, academic freedom etc.).A self- decompressing, binhexed Macintosh Word 4.0 version of the Directory in its entirety will be available on the ftp server soon. if you have any questions, corrections, or updates, please contact: Diane K. Kovacs - One of the Moderators of LIBREF-L Instructor, Reference Librarian for the Humanities Kent State University Libraries Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: (216)672-3045 Bitnet: DKOVACS@kentvm or LIBRK329@kentvms Internet: DKOVACS@kentvm.kent.edu or LIBRK329@ksuvxa.kent.edu The Association of Research Libraries has published a print version of the works described above which can be ordered using the form below: Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists Compiled by Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs; Edited by Ann Okerson. Washington, DC: First Edition, July 1991 ISSN: 1057-1337 CHOICE OF FORMATS: Print-on-paper, 180 pages, 8.5 x 11 inch size 3.5" diskette, DOS WordPerfect 3.5" diskette, Microsoft Word (Macintosh) Hypertext version in preparation by Peter Scott, University of Saskatchewan. The ARL directory is derived from widely accessible networked files maintained by Strangelove and Kovacs. The directory will point to these as the principal, continuously updated, and free- of-charge sources for accessing such materials. PRICING: All orders must be PREPAID $10.00 to ARL members $20.00 to non-ARL members $25.00 US , non-U.S. price, surface mail $30.00 US, non-U.S. price, air mail Quantity: non-members receive a 10% discount for orders of more than 5 copies. NOTE: The ARL has only 119 institutional member libraries that qualify for the $10 subsidized price. Unfortunately, we have had to return a great number of orders sent from others -- this delays fulfillment. We thank you for assuring in advance that the amount you send is correct. ---- The Association of Research Libraries is a not-for-profit organization representing 119 research libraries in the United States and Canada. Its mission is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote quitable access to, and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service. These programs include annual statistical publications, federal relations and information policy, and enhancing access to scholarly information resources through telecommunications, collection development, preservation, and bibliographic control. The ARL Office of Management Services (OMS) provides consulting, information and training in the management of human and material resources in libraries. The Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing works to identify and influence the forces affecting the production, dissemination, and use of scholarly and scientific information. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), formed by ARL, CAUSE, and EDUCOM, promotes projects and linkages for the provision of information resources on existing and future telecommunications networks. ---- The following order form is provided for your convenience. Feel free to print it and attach it to your check or money order, payable to ARL. U.S. Dollars only. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PREPAID. Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing Association of Research Libraries 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA Name______________________________________________ Address____________________________________________ City __________________State_______Zip_______________ *******************************************************DIRECTORIES ***White Pages: NYSERNet/PSI Online X.500 Directory*** Service: online directory of personnel at 88 organizations representing over 225,000 users in the United States and abroad. For New York users, the White Pages is particularly useful since many New York State universities and major corporations are included. Information on file includes name, electronic mail address, postal address, telephone number, and job title. A variety of searching methods may be used to search the White Pages. A common search method is to combine name and a word from the organization name (examples in following session example). Access: telnet wp.psi.com At the login prompt, type "fred" <enter/return>. The system will display an introductory message and a fred> prompt will display at which time the user may begin searching. Exit: type "quit" <enter/return> from the fred> prompt. Description: The NYSERNet/PSI White Pages project began in July, 1989 and has become the largest project of its kind. It is noteworthy for the software design using the OSI (open systems interconnect network standard) X.500 directory standard. The service, which includes international connections, represents the first large scale use of OSI services in the Internet. The primary goal of the project is to encourage organizations to use the OSI Directory to store infrastructural information about their personnel. There are two requirements for site participation: full IP connectivity and an informal commitment on the part of the organization to devote personnel resources to running the local server and keeping the data current. A Unix device is required to run the software which is available from PSI for free. The software can be obtained via anonymous ftp (in BINARY mode) from host uu.psi.com, filename pilot/scr/pilot-ps.tar.Z There is also a compressed tar image containing the documentation for the service. This administrators guide details how to retrieve the software and join the project. For further information, contact wpp-manager@psi.com. In addition to the "fred" interface described below, an interface to the White Pages based on the X Window system called xwp is available. In addition to supporting interactive queries, xwp supports browsing for easy-to-use examination of the White Pages - simply click on a line displayed by xwp and additional information is presented. "xwp" is available via the PSI Software Source distribution package. Contact ssd-info@psi.com or (800) 82PSI82 for details. Performance Systems International, Inc. 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite 1100 Reston, VA 22091 info@psi.com Example of White Pages "fred" session: telnet> open _To: wp.psi.com Trying...192.33.4.21 Connected to WP.PSI.COM. Escape character is ^] SunOS UNIX (wp1.psi.net) login: fred Last login: Wed Aug 28 18:21:46 from 140.209.32.30 SunOS Release 4.0.3c (WP_PSI_BOOTBOX) #1: Wed Feb 27 16:29:51 EST 1991 Welcome to the PSI White Pages Pilot Project Try "help" for a list of commands "whois" for information on how to find people "manual" for detailed documentation "report" to send a report to the white pages manager To find out about participating organizations, try "whois -org *" accessing service, please wait... fred> help Operations: alias dish help quit set whois area edit manual report thisis version fred> whois luckett -org nysernet Trying @c=US@o=NYSERNet Inc. ... James Luckett (2) luckett@nysernet.org Director of Administration NYSERNet Inc. 111 College Place Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 USA Telephone: +1 315-443-4120 Mailbox information: uucp: nyser!luckett internet: luckett@nysernet.org internet: luckett@nisc.nyser.net Locality: Syracuse, New York Name: James Luckett, Administration, NYSERNet Inc., US (2) Excerpt from manual file: fred> manual FRED(1C) USER COMMANDS FRED(1C) NAME fred - a white pages user interface (FRont-End to Dish) SYNOPSIS fred [options] [command arguments ...] whois arguments ... (as in "fred whois smith -org psi") DESCRIPTION The fred program is a front-end to the OSI Directory, and in particular the dish (1c) program. It is most useful as an interface to the white pages service. The fred program is meant to be similar to the WHOIS service familiar to most users of the network. Here is a somewhat more common example: fred> whois schoffstall -org psi Trying @c=US@o=Performance Systems International ... 3 matches found. 2. Marvin Schoffstall marv@psi.com 3. Martin Schoffstall schoff@psi.com 4. Steve Schoffstall steve@psi.com fred> whois !3 Martin Schoffstall (3) schoff@psi.com Sample Searches: ... fred> whois gifford -org albany Trying @c=US@o=State University of New York at Albany ... 2 matches found. 2. Paula J Gifford +1 518-442-4148 3. Roger D Gifford rdg28@uacsc1.albany.edu fred> whois !3 Roger D Gifford (3) rdg28@uacsc1.albany.edu aka: Roger Gifford Supervising Programmer Analyst, University Library University Library 318 University at Albany 1400 Washington Av Albany NY 12222-0001 Telephone: +1 518-442-3595 Mailbox information: internet: rdg28@uacsc1.albany.edu BITNET: RDG28@ALBNYVMS Name: Roger D Gifford, State University of New York at Albany, US (3) Modified: Mon Aug 5 08:01:01 1991 5 **********************************************INFO RESOURCES **********************************************INFO RESOURCES ***Geographic Name Server*** Service: online verification of place names throughout the US and North America with access by name, state or province, and ZIP codes Access: telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 Exit: To exit the server, enter "stop", "end", "quit", "bye", "exit", "logout", "logoff", or control-D. Description of Server Functions: # Geographic Name Server, Copyright 1989, 1990 Merit Inc. All rights reserved. # >>> NEW VERSION!!! <<< Use "help" or "?" for details. . ? # New version: Wed Mar 14 10:33:50 EST 1990 # # Change summary: # 1) ZIP code queries now supported # 2) ed(1)-style regular expression queries now supported # 3) Query and session timeouts now enabled # 4) Better query parsing, error messages # 5) Response lines now terminated with CRLF instead of just LF # # Data came primarily from the US Geodetic Survey and the US Postal Service. # Coverage includes all US cities, counties, and states, # as well as some US mountains, rivers, lakes, national parks, etc. # A few international cities have also been included. # Unfortunately, some minor inaccuracies remain. Merit Inc. is not responsible # for maintaining this data. # # Queries should generally look like the last line of a postal # address, as in "Ann Arbor, MI 48103". # # All these queries will also work: # 1) ed(1)-style regular expression, like "[Bb]os.*n$" # 2) A city name alone, like "Ann Arbor" # 3) A ZIP or ZIP+4 code alone, like this: "46556", "48103-2112" # NOTE: only the first 5 digits in a ZIP+4 code are used. # 4) As in 1) or 2) but with a state name or abbreviation, like # this: "Ann Arbor, MI", "Los Angeles, California" # 5) As above but with optional nation name or abbreviation, like # "Toronto, , Canada". NOTE: there are currently very few # foreign cities. # # Punctuation, white space, and upper/lower case are ignored. # Any reasonable state/nation abbreviations are recognized. # # Here are more example queries: # # "Ann Arbor, Mich" "48103" "annarbor,mi" "Paris,,France" # "Mammoth Cave National Park" "mount mckinley" "lake michigan" # # If a query fails, try expanding abbreviations (e.g. change "Mt." # to "Mount", etc. # # Interpret server replies as follows: # # 0 <city name> # 1 <county FIPS code> <county name> # 2 <state/province abbreviation> <state/province name> # 3 <nation abbreviation> <nation name> # A <telephone area code> # E <elevation in feet above mean sea level> # F <feature code> <feature name> # L <latitude DD MM SS X> <longitude DDD MM SS X> # P <1980 census population> # R <remark> # T <time zone> # Z <postal ("ZIP") code> # # To exit the server, enter "stop", "end", "quit", "bye", # "exit", "logout", "logoff", or control-D. # # Direct questions or comments to Tom Libert, libert@eecs.umich.edu, # or phone (313) 936-3000. Please let me know if you write new clients. . Example of search for "Syracuse, NY": Syracuse, NY 0 Syracuse 1 36067 Onondaga 2 NY New York 3 US United States R county seat F 45 Populated place L 43 02 53 N 76 08 52 W P 170105 E 398 Z 13200 Z 13201 Z 13202 Z 13203 Z 13204 Z 13205 Z 13206 Z 13207 Z 13208 Z 13209 Z 13210 Z 13211 Z 13212 Z 13214 Z 13215 Z 13217 Z 13219 Z 13220 Z 13221 Z 13224 Z 13244 Z 13250 Z 13251 Z 13252 Z 13260 Z 13261 Example of ZIP code search "05753": . 05753 0 Bread Loaf 1 50001 Addison 2 VT Vermont 3 US United States A 802 F 45 Populated place L 43 57 12 N 72 59 35 W Z 05753 0 Middlebury 1 50001 Addison 2 VT Vermont 3 US United States R county seat A 802 F 45 Populated place L 44 00 55 N 73 10 04 W P 5591 E 366 Z 05753 Z 05766 . quit **************************************************INFO RESOURCES ***Weather Underground: A complete US Weather Service*** Service: The Weather Underground is a complete online weather service covering forecasts for regions and cities, long range forecasts, ski conditions, and severe weather advisories. Access: telnet madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000 or 141.212.196.79 3000 Exit: select "X" EXIT from the main menu Example of Weather Underground session: telnet> open (to) madlab.sprl.umich.edu 3000 Trying 141.212.196.79 ... Connected to madlab.sprl.umich.edu. Escape character is ^] University of Michigan WEATHER UNDERGROUND College of Engineering Atmospheric, Oceanic, & Space Sciences comments: sdm@madlab.sprl.umich.edu Select an option: ------------------------------------- 1) Forecast for a U.S. city 2) National Weather Summary 3) Current weather observations 4) Ski conditions 5) Long-range forecasts 6) Latest earthquake report 7) Special severe weather statement X) Exit program C) Change scrolling to screen 2 NWX1 NATIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY MO 8 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 WEATHER RANGED FROM TORNADOES TO HEAVY SNOW. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 10 PM CDT OVER PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA...WESTERN IOWA AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI. A TORNADO WATCH WAS POSTED UNTIL 10 PM CDT ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN ARKANSAS...AS WELL AS WESTERN AND CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH WAS POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND WESTERN THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 1 AM CDT ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. Press Return to continue printing or M to return to menu: m 1) Print forecast for selected city 2) Display 3-letter city codes for a selected state 3) Display all 2-letter state codes M) Return to main menu X) Exit program ?) Help ? Enter 2-letter state code: NY To access the current National Weather Service forecast of a U.S city, select option 1 from the menu, then type in the 3-letter code of the desired city. If you want to see a list of 3-letter codes for a particular state, select option 2 from the menu, then type in the 2-letter abbreviation of that state. To see a list of the 2-letter state codes for the U.S., select option 3 from the menu. Example: DTW is the the 3-letter code for Detroit; MI is the the 2-letter code for Michigan. Once you become familiar with the codes you want to use, the menu can be bypassed by entering the 2 or 3-letter codes you want directly, instead of typing a '1' or '2' to get the prompt asking for the codes. The Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences offers AOSS 202, "The Atmosphere", for those interested in learning more about current weather and climate issues. **************************************************INFO RESOURCES ***Websterd: Online Dictionary and Thesaurus*** NOTE: This resource UNAVAILABLE as of 1/1/92. We hope it will return. Service: comprehensive online dictionary, thesaurus, word endings and speller Access: telnet decoy.uoregon.edu 2627 (note that the "2627" is a port number), or 128.223.32.19 2627 After the "connected" message, type "HELP" to get user documentation (Note: you will not get any kind of prompt when initially connected until a command is entered) Exit: type "QUIT" and press <ENTER/RETURN> Example of Websterd session: telnet> open (to) decoy.uoregon.edu 2627 Trying... Connected to decoy.cc.uoregon.edu. Escape character is ^] HELP NeXT Websterd 2.0 beta Still under development - some commands described below haven't been implemented yet. This daemon works in much the same way as the standard Webster daemon, plus it can access both the NeXT's on-line dictionary and thesaurus. Commands are in the same format as the old websterd, with the addition of an INDEX command. See the original websterd documentation for full details DEFINE word - look up a word in the online dictionary (or thesaurus) COMPLETE word - complete the word if unambiguous ENDINGS word - produce list of endings SPELL word - indicate if spelling is correct, or possible alternates INDEX indexname - choose which index we want to use, possibilities are: INDEX dictionary - the default INDEX thesaurus - the Webster's Thesaurus INDEX dictionary - full the full content dictionary index HELP - print this message QUIT - You know, 'quit'. Characters may occasionally be printed in hexadecimal inside brackets, like this: [0xa][0x6d] - these represent various special dictionary characters that I haven't figured out how to deal with yet. Comments and suggestions to sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu . DEFINE physics DEFINITION 0 phys-ics \'fiz-iks\ n pl but sing or pl in constr [L physica, pl., natural science, fr. Gk physika, fr. neut. pl. of physikos of nature, fr. physis growth, nature, fr. phyein to bring forth -- more at BE] 1: a science that deals with matter and energy and their interactions in the fields of mechanics, acoustics, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, atomic structure, and nuclear phenomena 2a: the physical processes and phenomena of a particular system 2b: the physical properties and composition of something DEFINE ability DEFINITION 0 abil-i-ty \e-'bil-et-e^-\ n, pl -ties [ME abilite, fr. MF habilite', fr. L habilitat-, habilitas, fr. habilis apt, skillful -- more at ABLE] (14c) 1a: the quality or state of being able; esp: physical, mental, or legal power to perform 1b: competence in doing: SKILL 2: natural talent or acquired proficiency: APTITUDE <children whose abilities warrant higher education> -abil-i-ty also -ibil-i-ty \e-'bil-et-e^-\ n suffix [ME -abilite, -ibilite, fr. MF -abilite', -ibilite', fr. L -abilitas, -ibilitas, fr. -abilis, -ibilis -able + -tas -ty] :capacity, fitness, or tendency to act or be acted on in a (specified) way <ensilability> ENDINGS sense MATCHS 1 sense 2 sensedatum 3 senseful 4 senseless 5 senseorgan QUIT 6 ************************************************FTP ARCHIVES ************************************************FTP ARCHIVES ***General Accounting Office Reports Archive*** Service: full text reports from U.S. General Accounting Office Access: ftp try@cu.nih.gov Subject: GAO Online Documents The following U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO)reports are available over the Internet as part of a test to determine whether there is sufficient interest within this community to warrant making all GAO reports available over the Internet. The reports are in ASCII text format and available in the Anonymous FTP directory GAO-REPORTS at the NIH computer center (try @CU.NIH.GOV). Use the FTP TEXT down load format. 1. Computer Security: Governmentwide Planning Process Had Limited Impact, GAO/IMTEC-90-48, May 1990. Assesses the government-wide computer security planning process and extent to which security plans were implemented for 22 systems at 10 civilian agencies. (This report is named REPORT1 and is 55,062 bytes or 1,190 lines long.) 2. Drug-Exposed Infants: A Generation at Risk, GAO/HRD- 90-138, June 1990. Discusses health effects and medical costs of infants born to mothers using drugs, impact on the nation's health and welfare systems, and availability of drug-treatment and prenatal care to drug-addicted pregnant women. (This report is named REPORT2 and is 113,916 bytes or 2,421 lines long.) 3. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New Technology, GAO/IMTEC-90-9FS, December 1989. Provides information on 14 HDTV applications and the key industry officials' views on the effect of an HDTV production standard on potential applications. (This report is named REPORT3 and is 31,947 bytes or 643 lines long.) 4. Home Visiting: A Promising Early Intervention Strategy for At-Risk Families, GAO/HRD-90-83, July 1990. Discusses home visiting as an early intervention strategy to provide health, social, educational, and other services to improve maternal and child health and well-being. (This report is named REPORT4 and is 287,547 bytes or 5,711 lines long.) 5. Meeting the Government's Technology Challenge: Results of a GAO Symposium, GAO/IMTEC-90-23, February 1990. Outlines five principles for effective management of information technology that can provide a framework for integrating information technology into the business of government. (This report is named REPORT5 and is 39,017 bytes or 777 lines long.) 6. Strategic Defense System: Stable Design and Adequate Testing Must Precede Decision to Deploy, GAO/IMTEC-90-61, July 1990. Discusses why the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization will not be able to support currently scheduled full-scale development or deployment decisions on any part of Phase I of the Strategic Defense System. (This report is named REPORT6 and is 104,521 bytes or 1,847 lines long.) 7. Training Strategies: Preparing Noncollege Youth for Employment in the U.S. and Foreign Countries, GAO/HRD-90- 88, May 1990. Discusses (1) weaknesses in the U.S. education and training system for preparing noncollege youth for employment and (2) foreign strategies that appear relevant to U.S. shortcomings. (This report is named REPORT7 and is 190,323 bytes or 3,951 lines long. Some of these reports have material--e.g., pictures, charts, and tables--that could not be viewed as ASCII text. If you wish to obtain a complete report, call GAO report distribution at 202/275-6241 (7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EST) or write to GAO, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. So that we can keep a count of report recipients, and your reaction, please send an E-Mail message to KH3@CU.NIH.GOV and include, along with your E-Mail address, the following information: 1) Your organization. 2) Your position/title and name (optional). 3) The title/report number of the above reports you have retrieved electronically or ordered by mail or phone. 4) Whether you have ever obtained a GAO report before. 5) Whether you have copied a report onto another bulletin board- -if so, which report and bulletin board. 6 Other GAO report subjects you would be interested in. GAO's reports cover a broad range of subjects such as major weapons systems, energy, financial institutions, and pollution control. 7) Any additional comments or suggestions. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Jack L. Brock, Jr. Director, Government Information and Financial Management Issues Information Management and Technology Division ****************************************************FTP ARCHIVES ***Music on the Net: Lyric and Discography Archive*** Service: Archive of song lyrics, and discographies of classical and popular artists are being collected for Internet users at the University of Wisconsin--Parkside archive. There are over 225 discographies and over 1000 songs and albums represented in the archive. Access: ftp vacs.uwp.edu Login is "anonymous" and for the password enter your electronic address. Samples of the material in the archive follow. It is recommended that the user first retrieve indexes of the archive before trying to browse the files themselves. * Discography Archives: There are currently over 225 discographies in the archives at this time, submissions are always welcome. The discography archives are currently available via e-mail request from datta@vacs.uwp.edu and via ftp: vacs.uwp.edu:/pub/music/discog/* A sample FTP session/help file is also available via mail request. * Lyrics Server Most of the files are now contained in the FTP site: vacs.uwp.edu:/pub/music/lyrics/*/* Many lyrics from the old server are here and donations are welcome, there are currently over 1000 songs and albums in the archives. There is now a musical lyrics area where you can find lyrics to various albums. Look in the /pub/music/lyrics directory. Due to the extreme size of the directory, the index and readme files are in the directory /pub/music/lyrics and the files are in the directory /pub/music/lyrics/files. I recommend that you grab the file "Index" before doing a 'ls' of the 'files' directory. Dave Datta@vacs.uwp.edu Frequently Asked Questions for Rec.Music.Misc and Rec.Music.CD (Ver 08-91) A current version of this document can be found via FTP: vacs.uwp.edu:/pub/music/misc/faq.rec.music.misc Copies are also e-mailed upon request from bear@tcs.com or atta@vacs.uwp.edu. The list is also posted in rec.music.misc and rec.music.cd periodically by the author(s) of the list. * Musical Telephone directory/address list. Due to its extreme size, this has been removed and is posted as a separate article. Also via FTP: vacs.uwp.edu:/pub/music/misc/faq.list * List of Musical Mailing lists: This is currently being stored in the music FTP archives: vacs.uwp.edu:/pub/music/misc/mail.lists.music Copies are e-mailed upon request from datta@vacs.uwp.edu or from the author: xx158@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (The Music SIG) It is also posted periodically to various music newsgroups by the author. * Recreational Music Newsgroups (from the newusers listing, your site may or may not carry all of these groups) rec.music.______ afro-latin * beatles Postings about the Fab Four & their music. bluenote Discussion of jazz, blues, and related cd CD's -- availability and other CD-related discussions. classical Discussion about classical music. country.western C&W music, performers, performances, etc. dementia Discussion of comedy and novelty music. dylan Discussion of Bob's works & music. folk Folks discussing folk music of various sorts. gaffa Progressive music (e.g., Kate Bush). (Moderated) gdead A group for (Grateful) Dead-heads. makers For performers and their discussions. misc Music lovers' group. newage "New Age" music discussions. reviews Reviews of music (moderated) synth Synthesizers and computer music. video Music videos alt.______ emusic see exotic-music, some sites alias them together exotic-music Ethnic, exotic, elaborate, etc. music rap* rap-gdead Fans of The Grateful Dead and Rap. Really. Rock-n- roll Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs. rock-n-roll.metal Heavy... rock-n-roll.metal.metallica Xtra heavy... bit.listserv.____ emusic-l Technical discussion of electronic music. allmusic Discussion of all forms of music. comp.music Applications of computers in music research. ****************************************************FTP ARCHIVES ***NASA Archives*** Service: anonymous ftp site for NASA press releases, image files, data files, software for use with NASA data, indexes to NASA data and information Access: ftp ames.arc.nasa.gov or 128.102.18.3 ftp> open (to) 128.102.18.3 ames.arc.nasa.gov FTP server (Version 4.129 Tue Nov 1 20:20:51 Name (128.102.18.3:aperry): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: (input complete address, userid@node) Description: the Ames NASA archives are a rich source of information and files about the space program. The large collection of GIF (Graphical Interchange Format)tm contain images from the Voyager missions as well as the shuttle. Earth.gif is an example of a beautiful full color image of the earth as seen from space. GIF files may be viewed with a variety of software on all types of hardware. Description of codes found on the "SPACE" Directory SPACE Past and current shuttle and mission status reports. Items are stored by date, with a one or two letter indicator to identify the report type: 'ss' means Shuttle Status, 'ps' means Payload Status, 'h' means NASA Headline News, 'ms' means Magellan Status, 'gs' means Galileo Status, 'r' means Release (which are not dated, but are ordered by release number), and 'vs' stands for Voyager Status. Other files may have more informative names. Abbreviated initial directory from NASA server drwxrwxrwx 18 root 2048 Apr 12 08:08 pub "PUB" directory ftp> cd pub drwxrwxrwx 2 101 512 Feb 15 12:17 Frequent-Flyer drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Feb 8 11:34 GIF drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp 512 Oct 19 1988 GRAF-BIB -rw-r--r-- 1 9550 690 Dec 12 14:39 Index drwxr-xr-x 2 416 544 Mar 13 15:23 MAC drwxr-xr-x 7 root 512 Dec 12 08:11 MSDOS drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp 3072 Apr 15 16:18 SCUBA dr-xr-xr-x 45 108 60928 Apr 11 15:35 SPACE drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp 512 Dec 3 14:08 SUNREP drwxr-xr-x 26 root 1024 Mar 13 14:36 UNIX drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Mar 29 1989 bin -rw-rw-r-- 1 9281 71680 Feb 11 13:27 ct.tar dr-xr-xr-x 2 101 512 Jan 29 13:33 info-vw -rw-rw-rw- 1 101 21732 Aug 11 1989 paranoid.archive drwxrwxrwx 2 root 6656 Apr 18 07:04 requestqueue drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp 512 Feb 14 14:57 rrr drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp 1536 Jul 12 1990 tmnn -rw-rw-rw- 2 101 514624 Apr 17 12:49 vw-arch drwxrwxrwx 2 root 18944 Apr 18 08:58 workqueue ftp> cd SPACE Abbreviated SPACE directory drwxrwxr-x 2 108 512 Dec 14 11:47 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670123 Feb 21 21:12 shuttle6.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 108 258839 Feb 21 21:12 shuttle7.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 108 233538 Feb 21 21:12 shuttle8.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 108 283389 Feb 21 21:12 shuttle9.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 108 681151 Apr 4 20:36 sts-26.crew.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 1045 267018 Mar 24 16:39 tick.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 1045 317095 Mar 24 16:16 tick1.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 1045 309999 Mar 24 16:16 tick2.gif -rw-rw-r-- 1 108 122025 Feb 4 08:34 x-cut.gif ****************************************************FTP ARCHIVES ***Project Hermes: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions*** Service: full text of U.S. Supreme Court opinions Access: ftp FTP.CWRU.EDU Login: anonymous. Password: your user id. Change directory to hermes (cd hermes). U.S. Supreme Court opinions are now immediately available from Case Western Reserve University via "anonymous" ftp over the Internet from Case Western Reserve University, host "ftp.cwru.edu". The files relating to the opinions are located in the directory "hermes". This directory contains several readme files and two subdirectories: ascii and atex. The "atex" subdirectory contains the files as directly received from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Atex 8000 Document Processing and Typesetting system format. These files contain 8-bit typesetting codes and are extremely difficult to read on a typical display. Those wishing to copy the Atex files should make sure that they set "image" mode in FTP. The "ascii" subdirectory contains the same files as processed by a locally developed filtering program designed to remove the typesetting codes while retaining as much of the "look" of the document as possible. These files are in plain ASCII text. Each opinion consists of an optional syllabus, the opinion and optionally concurring and dissenting opinions. Each is contained in a separate file. A syllabus is associated with most of the opinions and summarizes the ruling. The files are named as they are received from the Court. Filtered files have the extension ".filt" appended to the end of the name. The file names are as they are received from the Supreme Court. The extentions are: O for the Opinion, S for the Syllabus, C for Concurring opinions, D for Dissenting opinions. (The ascii files have a .filt extention.) The files available to you via anonymous ftp are contained in two directories. The original Atex8000 word processor files are in the directory "atex". These files are in the original format as distributed by the Supreme Court. An ascii version of these files can be found in the directory "ascii". Hermes directory at ftp.cwru.edu: 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. total 40 drwxr-xr-x 5 uucp512 Dec 18 15:16 . dr-xr-xr-x 8 root512 Sep 19 1990 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root2692 Jun 25 1990 INFO -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp13924 Apr 17 18:09 Index -r--r--r-- 1 root1491 Jun 28 1990 README.FIRST -r--r--r-- 1 root2662 Dec 18 15:24 README.SECOND drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp5632 Apr 16 11:09 ascii drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp4608 Apr 16 11:10 atex drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp5120 Apr 16 11:09 xywrite Example from the ascii directory showing filenames: -rw-rw-rw- 1 uucp26294 Apr 16 10:16 90-0029.D.filt -rw-rw-rw- 1 uucp26489 Apr 16 10:16 90-0029.O.filt -rw-rw-rw- 1 uucp6142 Apr 16 10:15 90-0029.S.filt -rw-rw-rw- 1 uucp11944 Apr 16 11:13 90-0079.O.filt -rw-rw-rw- 1 uucp2400 Apr 16 11:13 90-0079.S.filt The xywrite directory contains the same files with the Atex codes stripped out or (where possible) converted into xywrite commands. Xywrite is a PC based word processor similar to Atex. These files will display the text (almost) as it was written by the Supreme Court. These files should also be copied in "image" mode in FTP. The filter program, which removes the typesetting codes, moves footnotes to the end of the document separated with a dashed line. Footnote references are enclosed in curly brackets "{ }". Users are also warned that most of the features of the typeset document, such as bolding, italicizing, use of fonts, and other similar characteristics are lost in the translation to ASCII. The resulting filtered documents, however, are quite readable on most displays. On May 11th, 1990 the United States Supreme Court began the two- year experimental program called "Project Hermes." The objective of the project is to rapidly provide copies of the Court's opinions in electronic form to as wide an audience as possible. Twenty organizations applied to be a part of this project, 12 were accepted; and one of the successful applicants was a noncommercial, nonprofit, consortium composed of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), EDUCOM, and the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN). Project Hermes is an EXPERIMENTAL two-year program which the Court will be evaluating. For the project to continue past this period we need to be able to show that the dissemination was effective. You can contact Project Hermes via e.mail on the Cleveland Free-Net at: aa584, via the Internet at: 7aa584@cleveland.freenet.edu, by writing: PROJECT HERMES, CWRU, 319 WICKENDEN BUILDING, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 66106, or by calling: (216) 368-2733, UUNET plans on making available a Unix news group which will report the U. S. Supreme Court opinions, and Project Hermes plans to make available a notification service which will notify users when new court opinions have been released. Look for more information about these services soon. An alternative site for the opinions is: info.umd.edu The decisions are in the directory: /info/USGovt/SupremeCt/Decisions Please report any problems to the id "aa584@po.cwru.edu". 7 **********************************************FEE SERVICES **********************************************FEE SERVICES ***ClariNet: The Electronic Newspaper*** Service: full text newsfeed including wireservice as well as professional and industry news. Data is transmitted to subscribers and can then be read, manipulated and filtered using USENET software such as "rn" (readnews). ClariNet Communications Corp. 124 King St. N., Waterloo, Ontario, N2J 2X8 800/USE-NETS Information provided by ClariNet: What is ClariNet? ClariNet is a new electronic publishing network service that provides professional news and information, including live UPI wireservice news, in the USENET file format. ClariNet lets you read an "electronic newspaper" right on your own computer. 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To ClariNews subscribers, we provide free use of the NewsClip programming language. This lets you filter your newsreading as finely as you desire. With special permission, you can even feed ClariNet publications to other sites -- in fact, we'll pay you to do this. Feed enough sites and your subscriptions will be free. What are the publications? ClariNews -- our "electronic newspaper," gathered live from the wire services of United Press International (UPI). ClariNews articles are distributed in one hundred newsgroups based on their subject matter, and are keyworded for additional topics and the geographicallocation of the story. ClariNews has everything from headlines to industry news to box scores to network TV schedules. ClariNews is divided into three main products: ClariNews-General -- our general news"paper" with news, sports and features. All major news, sports, weather and UPI feature articles, plus limited business and science/technology coverage. Coverage of US and international news, Washington and more. Around 400 stories per day, but categorized and headlined to help you read only what you want to read. Get your news and sports scores long before they show up in your daily newspaper. Also available is ClariNews-Canada, with regular newsbriefs on Canadian stories -- usually hard to find in the USA. For expatriate Canadians this is a must. "Iraq Pack" -- a special discounted package of Persian Gulf war news and other hot news. TechWire -- special groups for stories on science and technology and the industries around them. Computers, Electronics, Telecom, Space, Aerospace, Defence, Biotechnology, Research, Education, AIDS and more. Around 30-40 stories/day. Coming soon: A daily report of the stock prices of computer industry stocks. ClariNews-Biz -- Business and financial stories. Economic indicators, corporate news, regular stock market reports, legal issues, government info, commodities and much more. Around 150 stories/day. Newsbytes -- a daily computer industry newsmagazine, on your computer well before InfoWorld or PC Week can be on your desk. Gathered from 11 bureaus around the world. Newsbytes covers the IBM, Apple, Unix, Telecom and general computing worlds, along with coverage of trends, legal issues, industry news and reviews of new products. Delivered each business day. A delayed version, delivered weekly, is available in some areas at a reduced cost. Syndicated Columns -- ClariNet offers the finest in syndicated columns and features. Currently we offer: Dave Barry - America's Best Humour Columnist Mike Royko - Top rated opinion columnist Miss Manners - Light hearted advice on etiquette Kinsey Report - Q&A and information on sex Dozens of other features come with the UPI report. We want to bring more -- tell us what you like! Syndicated features are available via E-mail or Newsgroup. The full list of newsgroups is posted monthly to news.groups within the list of "Alternate Newsgroup Hierarchies." If you need more information, mail to info@clarinet.com. If you want an electronic order form and the full sheet of terms and conditions, mail to order@clarinet.com. You can also phone 800-USE-NETS or 519-884-7473. E-mail is easiest, but you may wish to use the phone to talk in person or give confidential information like UUCP connect info or credit card numbers. Internet users should be aware that certain commercial messages may not be appropriate for transmission over the internet. You can pay by check or credit card, or we can invoice site subscribers. There is a $1 discount per invoice if you allow electronic mail invoicing and pay promptly. We take Visa, MasterCard and Amex. You can also write to us at: ClariNet Communications Corp. 124 King St. N. Waterloo, ON N2J 2X8 What more information can I get? Write to info@clarinet.com for more information. Here are some of the files of information that we have. Many of these files duplicate what's said in this file, however. feed - How to become a site that feeds other sites newsclip - Details on the NewsClip language order - How to place an order prices - Prices and user counts for ClariNet products (Note that we need the size of your site for a quote) techwire - Description of TechWire terms - Terms, conditions and network rules newsbytes - Description of NEWSBYTES computer news feature - Further info on syndicated columns For full samples, see the group 'biz.clarinet.sample' which regularly samples different groups from within ClariNet, or request a trial subscription of any groups you are interested in. If you can't get biz.clarinet.sample, or would like a set of samples from some group mailed to you, let us know. ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***FAXON Company: Electronic Information and Subscription Services*** Service: the FAXON Company is a global information management company and provides subscription and information services to thousands of libraries. Since joining NEARNET in 1991, FAXON has made its online systems available to its library and academic customers via Internet. FAXON users no longer need to install expensive dedicated telecommunications lines or use a slow dial-up access method. Online services include access to one of the most comprehensive serials databases with services such as ordering, claiming, and management of serial publication receipts. Access: telnet to the faxon address is provided when accounts are set up. FAXON provides documentation regarding system use. For additional information: The Faxon Company 15 Southwest Park Westwood, MA 02090 (617) 329-3350 FAX: (617) 329-9875 Example of FAXON Datalinx session: Datalinx provides online access to FAXON's database and files, giving complete title and publisher data, up-to-date serial prices, current machine-readable cataloging for serial publication (MARC-S), and customer financial information. LINX Courier, the electronic mail service, allows users to place orders, as well as transmit claims online. Users can easily communicate with Faxon staff as well as with any other members of the network. The FAXON Company MAIN MENU FAXON Systems 1. Linx 2. Infoserv 3. Courier: Non-Linx hours 99. Quit Which Function: 11:29:10 Aug 13 <LINXNEWS, Page: 001 of 001> Terminal * CLM030I - INITIAL DISPLAY. Select ==> L LINX - AVAILABLE - LINX NETWORK - TYPE "L" TO LOG ON M MSGONLY - UNAVAILABLE - COURIER AVAILABLE FOR NON-LINX HOURS I INFOSERV - AVAILABLE - ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE /B # - BROWSE SELECTED BULLETIN TITLES BELOW. 1 - HELP BULLETIN 2 - ONLINE SYSTEMS AVAILABILITY - 08/09/91-08/15/91 ------------------ TITLE SEARCH FUNCTION - MENU ATTL-MNU-1 ENTER TITLE SEARCH CRITERIA IN ONE CATEGORY BELOW. ALPHA SEARCH: KEYWORD(S) : ISSN NUMBER : SELECT TITLES ORDERED BY CLIENT AND PUBLISHER. IF SEARCHING FOR ONE CLIENT'S TITLES, ENTER THAT CLIENT NO.: TO FIND ONLY ONE PUBLISHER FOR THAT CLIENT, ENTER PUB NO. : NON-ORDERABLE TITLES. INCLUDE SC-10 TITLES? (Y/N) : N INCLUDE UNION LIST TITLES? (Y/N) : N INCLUDE NON-VERIFIED TITLES? (Y/N) : N DISPLAY TITLE SORT NUMBER? (Y/N) : N PRESS ENTER WHEN DATA IS COMPLETE. PRESS PF5 TO CLEAR PREVIOUS ENTRIES. TITLE SEARCH FUNCTION - KEYWORD PA1-SCROLL AHEAD/PA2-SCROLL BACK TKEY-DTL-1 TITLE # ISSN PROC CD PUBLISHER SORT # 1 162615 069 43251 031369 AMERICAN ART REVIEW: A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE PRACTICE, THEORY, HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY OF ART SCI-DO NOT USE UNDER THIS TITLE NUMB 2 037778 03628914 034 22855 038821 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AS OF 11/89,VOLUME 9,#2 DUE OUT 12/8 3 355656 069 43251 038833 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND OF THE HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS SCI-DO NOT USE UNDER THIS TITLE NUMB 4 027110 00029319 009 89679 039309 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY ISSUES INDEXED MONTHLY.//0290//CUMUL 5 043824 S 00029319 009 89679 039311 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY-OUTSIDE U.S., CANADA & PUERTO RICO 6 314916 069 43251 041949 AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY FOUNDATION JOURNAL SCI-DO NOT USE UNDER THIS TITLE NUMB TITLE:027110 SORT#: 039309 FFC: N *W010:DATA ON PAGE 2.TTL0-DIS-1 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY TYPE: XREF: PUBL#: 89679 ISSN#: US00029319 CLM ISSUES INDEXED MONTHLY.//0290//CUMUL TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW CLM ATIVE INDEX INCLUDED IN JANUARY ISSU AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY CLM E EVERY 5 YEARS.//0289//TIME LIMIT O 1715 N.BROAD STREET CLM N CLAIMS: WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF PUBLICA PHILADELPHIA, PA 19122 CLM TION DATE.//1090// PAY: //PUBL LINE 1 USED AS PAY_TO NAME// ALSO:ADJ INV OEN PROCCD: 9 PPD MAILTO: US VOL#&DT: 35*1/91 VOL/YR: 1.00 DATE: AUTH: VOL-LY: 34 TPI: 1 LCC: KF I&A: LP SS SUBJ HD ACTIVITY LY COPIES:191 LAST ORDER DT:2/22/91 FREQ: QTRLY PUBLISHED IN: JAN APR JUL OCT LAST CHK #:341742 PRC: C1 NC O1 RATES ARE DISPLAYED UNDER RATE FUNCTION AND TSUM (FOR LINX USERS) ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research*** Service: ICPSR maintains the world's largest repository of computer- based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The Consortium Data Network (CDNet) is available via Internet and offers on-line access to ICPSR data holdings and computational resources. In addition to using Internet for access to CDNet, datasets are routinely transferred via Internet to requesting members. Description: ICPSR is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization with over 350 member colleges and university members in the U.S. and abroad. Since 1962, ICPSR has served the academic and research communities by acquiring, processing, and distributing data relevant to a broad spectrum of academic disciplines including political science, sociology, history, economics, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, and law. CDNet provides the following services * online ordering of datasets * remote access to ICPSR holdings * full-test searchable databases including ICPSR guide on-line (detailed descriptions of all ICPSR data collections, ICPSR variables (complete question text employed in selected surveys in the ICPSR holdings), ICPSR rollcalls (description of rollcall votes taken in the U.S. Congress, and SMIS (bibliographic citations from the survey methodology information system database originally developed by the Bureau of the Census). Access: Individuals can obtain accounts for searching CDNet whether their institution is a member or not. For information on new accounts and to arrange access, contact: Member Services ICPSR P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1428 (301) 763-5010 Example of CDNet session via Internet: What to search? (Guide/Rollcalls/SMIS/Variables) :guide Begin searching with SPIRES commands... Type "/Help" for SPIRES assistance. * * This subfile contains information about each collection in * the Archival Holdings portion of the most recent GUIDE TO * RESOURCES AND SERVICES, and information for each collection * announced in ICPSR BULLETINs issued since publication of that * GUIDE. If the user does not wish to view the abstract included * with the information about a collection use the BRIEF display * format. To do so, issue the command: SET FORMAT BRIEF * immediately after accessing ICPSR GUIDE. ->fin sw abortion -Result: 55 COLLECTIONS ->type skip=50 pause ICPSR 07527 ICPSR INSTRUCTIONAL SUBSET: GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY, 1975 Davis, James A. The National Data Program for the Social Sciences is a data diffusion project and a program of social indicator research funded by the National Science Foundation. The program was designed and carried out over a five-year period by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago. The General Social Survey, 1975, administered in March and April of 1975, was the fourth in series of annual surveys which began in 1972. The study included 1,490 respondents and 237 variables. This subset contains 76 variables. The 1975 interviews included items selected by the NORC staff and an advisory panel of sociologists as being ''mainstream'' interests of academic sociology. Aside from standard personal data items, it covered such areas of interest to social scientists as the family, socio- economic status, social mobility, social control, race relations, sex relations, and morale. This ICPSR subset begins with several items of personal data, such as region and size of place where the respondent lives, information about the respondent's family background, the employment status of the respondent and spouse, sex, race, religion, and political party identification. Following a few questions regarding family finances and work satisfaction, respondents were asked a number of questions about gender roles, including opinions on whether women''should ****TEXT DELETED**** SUBJECTS: education. family. instruction. instructional materials. jobs. quality of life. social attitudes and behavior. teaching. work. United States. CLASSIFICATION: X. INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS. A. Instructional Packages. 2. ICPSR Instructional SUBSETS. ... ICPSR 07345 CBS REPORTS: GENERATIONS APART Columbia Broadcasting System. 1,366 college students and non-college youth between 17 and 23 comprised the sample for this study which was conducted in 1969 by Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., for the Columbia Broadcasting System. The results were broadcast May 20, 27, and June 3, 1969, in three sections: ''Question of Values,'' 'A Profile of Dissent,'' and ''The Youth International.'' A study of the generation gap, this survey contains questions on the type of social change and societal restraints the respondents would welcome or reject. In addition the respondents were probed on their views of their parents' values as well as their own. They were asked which political events have affected their life and values. Issues inquired into include abortions, sexual relations, civil disobedience, criticism of American society, drugs,career goals, the draft and tactics to be used in social change. Demographic data includes education, marital status, occupation, income, religious preference for both respondents and their parents. The data were obtained from the Social Science Data Center at the University of Connecticut. There are 5 cards of data per respondent and 288 variables. Class IV. SUBJECTS: abortion. career goals. civil disobedience. college activities. college students. draft, military. drugs. organizations. protests. sexual attitudes. social attitudes and behavior. social change. socialization. students. universities. university students. values. youth. United States. ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***OCLC: World's Largest Bibliographic Databas***e Service: access to more than 22 million books and other library materials on the OCLC union catalog as well as other commercial and non-commercial databases. Access: telnet epic.prod.oclc.org or 132.174.100.2 Authorization and password are required to use the service. Description: There are two services of interest to Internet users: EPIC and FirstSearch. EPIC is a comprehensive online reference service providing powerful searching methods with standard Common Command Language. Databases such as ERIC (Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse), ABI/Inform, Dissertation Abstracts, Business Dateline, Pharmaceutical News Index, US Federal Documents, and Book Data pre-publication information may be accessed via EPIC. FirstSearch is an end-user-oriented reference service which provides low-cost access to the OCLC union catalog as well as ERIC and US documents. Search methods include scan (browse) on the indexes and selecting a term or display from the scan. Boolean AND and NOT searching is available for complex topics. Results screens include "hints" and "actions". Unlike EPIC, FirstSearch costs are not based on connect time but rather on a per search cost which starts at $.90 (quantity 1) to $.45/search for quantity 80,000. Institutions and individual network users will find a plan to fit their budget. For more information on EPIC and FirstSearch, contact: OCLC 6565 Frantz Road Dublin, OH 43017-3395 800 848-5878 ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***PINET: Physics Information Network*** Service: The American Institute of Physics has implemented an online system available on the Internet to serve its constituent physics and astronomy communities. The system features job placement ads, meetings calendar, advance abstracts, abstracts of published papers, news and announcements, and electronic mail. Access: For information regarding PINET services, send a request to admin@pinet.aip.org or to the following address: American Institute of Physics Special Programs 500 Sunnyside Blvd. Woodbury, NY 11797 Tel. (516) 349-7800 ext. 441 Fax. (516) 349-7669 Accounts are available for several classes of users including AIP members, non-members, group accounts, or student/retired. Information services include: * Jobs: a comprehensive summary of job opportunities covering a broad spectrum in academia and industry; updated bi-monthly by AIP's Placement Center and the American Astronomical Society. * Meetings Calendar: listings of upcoming member society conferences and symposia, posted twice each month. Searchable meeting epitomes and online registration are available for selected meetings. * Advance Abstracts: contains six weeks of abstracts of papers accepted for future publication in AIP and Member Society journals. * Abstracts of published papers covering 120 scientific journals (known as SPIN); this searchable database covers more than 5 years. Online ordering of reprints is available for selected journals. * News and announcments: a variety of timely articles, newsletters, and announcements presented in an easy-to-find, easy-to-read format, including the APS Washington, DC newsletter Whatsnew and AIP's weekly newsletter, FYI. * Electronic mail: PINET combines the best features of several electronic mail networks into one customized service to meet the needs of the scientific commuity. - user-friendly electronic mail among PINET users - access to BITNET and Internet - binary file transfer capability - ability to send telex and fax worldwide - Bulletin Boards, USENET Other system features include - an easy-to-follow menu structure that quickly guides you to desired services. The "go to" feature lets you directly access desired topics. - comprehensive text search and tetrieval feature allows you to conduct complex Boolean searches of technical databases. - Online help screens provide clear, user-friendly instructions on each of PINET's system functions. ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***Research Libraries Group: The RLIN System*** Service: access to extensive union catalog comprised of RLG member library holdings. Over 80 million records are represented. Other databases of interest include the LC Name and Subject authority files, Research in progress, and Engineering Index. Access: telnet 36.54.0.18 or 36.54.0.19 rlin.stanford.edu (full duplex) rlg.stanford.edu (half duplex) RLIN requires a user account. Rates for non-members are $119 for 10 hours connect time via Internet. RLIN supports sophisticated searching methods including sets and boolean operators. Contact bl.ric@rlg or (800) 537-RLIN for more information. Exit: type "logoff" from any prompt Sample RLIN session: Connecting to port SUNET-00233 Welcome to RLIN. Enter ? for information on access to RLIN. 21:10 04/21/91 SDB input/update and RLIN Search only are now available! Account? Password? Command> call rlin(cat) Files available for searching only The following functions WILL NOT be available from 4/19 through 4/22: - Input/update in the bibliographic files - Input/update in the authority files - Batch processing of uploaded BRCON files The following functions WILL be available from 4/19 through 4/22: - Searching in all files - Input/update in the ILL file - Input/update in the RLIN Tables - Input/update in the RLIN special databases Avery, ESTC, SCIPIO, RIPD, and Conspectus - The PASS command in the bibliographic and authority files :+? find tw journey intor ^? tomorrow FIN TW JOURNEY INTO TOMORROW - 12 clusters in BKS :MUL? FIN TW JOURNEY INTO TOMORROW - 12 clusters 1) Manciet, Yves. [AMAZONIE, TERRE INACHEV_EE. ENGLISH] LAND OF TOMORROW: AN AMAZON JOURNEY. (Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd [1964]) NYCX (c-9124 NIC) CUBG (c-9665 CU) CULW (c-9665 CLU) FLFG (c-9665 FTaSU) NYAG (c-9665 NAlU) NYRG (c-9665 NRU) 2) Sheckley, Robert, 1928- JOURNEY BEYOND TOMORROW / (New York : New American Library, c1962.) WAWG (c-9662 WaOLN) 3) Teeling, William, 1903- GODS OF TO-MORROW : (London : National Book Association, [1936].) PASG (c-9665 PSt) :? dis 2 FIN TW JOURNEY INTO TOMORROW - Cluster 2 of 12 Sheckley, Robert, 1928- Journey beyond tomorrow / Robert Sheckley. -- New York : New American Library, c1962. 144 p. ; 18 cm. ID: WAWG3845063-BCC: 9662DCF: a WAWG (c-9662 WaOLN) ************************************************FEE SERVICES ***SPIN: Sponsored Programs Information Network*** Service: SPIN is a database of funding sources and grant programs of interest to all academic fields and used by several hundred colleges and universities. SPIN enables the user to locate external funding sources with a minimum amount of time and effort. The information provided by a SPIN search enables the user to determine what funding is available and how it may be obtained. In addition to the online system, a variety of batch reports are also available and may be requested online. Access: SPIN has been available on a dial-up basis since 1980. As of July, 1991, SPIN has been made available via Internet. (ed. note: SPIN currently requires the use of the tn3270 protocol) To obtain additional information and fee schedule regarding SPIN and to apply for accounts, please contact: Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) The Research Foundation of the State University of New York P.O. Box 9 Albany, NY 12201-0009 (518) 434-7150 Description of SPIN and its coverage: Development of SPIN SPIN, established in November 1980, is a computerized data base of funding opportunities (federal, non-federal and corporate) designed to assist faculty and administrators in the identification of external support for research, education and development projects. The service was originally developed to aid the more than 18,000 faculty within the separate institutions which comprise the State University of New York (SUNY) System. SPIN services are now available by subscription to all colleges and universities across the nation. Over the last five years, the service has been tailored to meet the specialized funding needs of institutions of higher education. Only those sponsors that are national in scope and that provide substantial support to colleges and universities are profiled. Sponsors that restrict their giving to state, local or community service organizations are not included. Database Management The data base is updated daily to incorporate new funding sources, as well as changes to existing sources. Only information obtained directly from the sponsor is used to develop the funding profile. Sponsors are contacted annually (or more frequently, if appropriate) to verify existing information and to determine when policies and guidelines for the next funding cycle will he available. Secondary sources,such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Foundation Center Sourcebook Profiles, Corporate Foundation Profiles and the Annual Register, are also reviewed to identify new sources of support. As sponsor information is received, staff editors review and edit all pertinent information. A brief profile of each funding source includes: 1) program type code; 2) key word code(s); 3) sponsor name; 4) contact address and telephone number; 5) deadline date(s); 6) program title; 7) objectives or interest areas of the sponsor; and 8) restrictions which would affect the submission of a proposal. Reviewing Techniques * FOLLOW-UP DATE When policies and guidelines for the next funding cycle will be available from the sponsor; * DATE REVIEWED When the sponsor was last contacted to verify existing information; * KEY WORD CODES - Taxonomy of terms used to catalog the sponsor's interest areas; * DEADLINE DATES - Submission dates for an entire fiscal year; * OBJECTIVES - An outline of sponsor's research areas and interests; * RESTRICTIONS - A review of applicant eligibility; budget limitations (including size and number of awards to be made; restrictions on the number of applications that can be submitted by an institution, department or individual; and indirect cost and patent regulations); and method of application. In recognition of the fact that sponsors can, and often do, identify new interest areas between funding cycles, we subscribe to a variety of secondary source publications to monitor changes in sponsor trends between follow-up dates. A partial list of such publications includes: * The Federal Register * Commerce Business Daily * The Chronicle of Higher Education * Source Book Profiles * Corporate Foundation Profiles * Taft Foundation Reporter * Annual Register of Grant Support The staff also analyzes lists of grants awarded by the sponsor in order to ensure that the description of what the sponsor says it will fund is consistent with its current funding patterns. Any discrepancies are, of course, discussed directly with the sponsor and resolved. Key Word Index Once the query has been developed, there are five different ways to review the collected information. They are: ON-LINE DISPLAY -- all the documents associated with your search will be displayed at the terminal. You should be aware that the maximum number of "screens" or pages which can be displayed on- line is 98. If the search has more than 98 pages, it must be printed "all batch," an off-line method which is more economical. ALL BATCH PRINTING -- the search will be printed on a laser printer at the SPIN Office in Albany and forwarded to you the next morning. Many of our subscribers have chosen not to purchase printers since SPIN guarantees that searches will be mailed to you the morning after the request is made. ALL-ON-LINE PRINTING -- the search will be printed at an on-line printer at your location. Again for reasons of economy, the maximum number of programs that can be printed on-line is approximately 30 documents per search. SELECTIVE-BATCH PRINTING -- only those programs which were previous selected or tagged during the display mode will be printed off-line at the SPIN Office on a laser printer and forwarded to you the next morning. SELECTIVE ON-LINE PRINTING -- only those programs selected or tagged during the display mode will be printed at your on-line printer. You also have the ability to "label" or indicate the name of the individual requesting the search. In order to further minimize the administrative time spent in interpreting and disseminating searches, the codes used to develop a search along with your "label" appear on each cover page. The taxonomy used to code or catalog the funding sources is known as the KeyWord Index. It was developed to minimize computer searching time, as well as to reduce the time spent by your staff in identifying sources within specific interest areas. Several measures have been taken to ensure comprehensive search results. The Index is divided into ten major classifications to help select the most appropriate codes. It is also cross-referenced to suggest similar or related terms, and it has definitions to explain how certain terms are being used. The major classifications are: * Agriculture/Food/Forestry * Arts/Culture/Humanities/Communications * Business/Economics/Management * Education * Health/Medical Sciences * International Affairs/Area Studies * Miscellaneous/Other * Science/Technology * Social/Behavioral Sciences * Social Welfare/Public Affairs When assigning key words, we attempt to be as specific as possible in defining a sponsor's interest areas. In order to streamline the searching process, we have developed a substructure of codes for each interest area that contains more than 25 funding sources. For example, the original Key Word Index listed only one code for the interest area, Cancer. When more than twenty-five funding sources for this topic were listed on the SPIN file, the opportunities were analyzed and five new key words were added to the Index: 0719 ONCOLOGY 0171 Cancer - Foreign Scholar Support 0694 Cancer - Opportunities Abroad 0693 Cancer - Professional Development 0695 Cancer - Public Awareness Programs 0106 Cancer - Research By utilizing this substructure technique, subtopics within an interest area can be quickly identified and extracted from the SPIN file. It should he noted that the keyword code for Oncology is used only when the sponsor does not provide more specific information regarding the type of oncology projects it will support (i.e., research,opportunities abroad, professional development, etc.). It is not used as a "catch-all"code for all opportunities related to that interest area. The Index is updated regularly to incorporate new key words as they are developed. Revised Indexes are sent to our subscribers on a monthly basis. 8 ***************************************SOFTWARE/FREEWARE ***************************************SOFTWARE/FREEWARE ***Catalist: An Internet Library System Guide for MS Windows*** Service: Catalist is a hypertext guide to Internet-accessible library systems and other information resources which was created to run under Microsoft Windows (tm) and described in the announcement below. Access: CATALIST is available free from the following two anonymous FTP sites: ZEBRA.ACS.UDEL.EDU in the directory pub/library and VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU in the directory library/catalist __________________________________________ * ATTENTION MS WINDOWS 3.0 USERS * __________________________________________ The University of Delaware Department of English presents: C A T A L I S T CATALIST is a hypertext version of Billy Barron's "UNT's Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases" for Microsoft Windows 3.0. CATALIST is available FREE via anonymous FTP. As you may know, many university libraries make their bibliographic databases available as On-Line Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). Anyone who has access to the Internet may log into these systems and search them free of charge. CATALIST is a hypertext catalog of OPAC addresses and access instructions. CATALIST has the ability to search for OPACs by either geographical location or alphabetical list. The user simply starts CATALIST by double-clicking its icon, then uses intuitive hypertext principles to locate instructions for logging into a specific catalog. Because it is a Windows application it will run alongside any Windows compatible communications software. You can simply start CATALIST in one window and log into your mainframe in another. This gives you the ability to look up library after library without leaving CATALIST or your mainframe session. Once you have found a library and gotten connected, CATALIST provides information to help you search the database. CATALIST has a notebook function which will allow you to take notes and keep the notes associated with that particular library. You can even copy whole entries or screens from the library's catalog to CATALIST's notebook using the Windows Clipboard. FTP instructions for obtaining Catalist CATALIST is available free from the following two anonymous FTP sites: ZEBRA.ACS.UDEL.EDU in the directory pub/library and VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU in the directory library/catalist The following is a sample FTP session showing how to get the file README.TXT from ZEBRA. ==> represents your system prompt. ==> ftp zebra.acs.udel.edu Connected to zebra.acs.udel.edu. 220 zebra FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. Name (zebra.acs.udel.edu:duggan): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: <type your e-mail address here> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd pub/library 250 CWD command successful. ftp> get readme.txt 200 PORT command successful. 150 ASCII data connection for readme.txt (128.175.13.16,2004) (3951 bytes). 226 ASCII Transfer complete. local: readme.txt remote: readme.txt 3951 bytes received in 0.01 seconds (1.8e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. ==> The README.TXT file contains detailed information about how to get and extract the CATALIST program. We hope you will give CATALIST a try. If you need further information, or if you do not have FTP access, contact the author, Rich Duggan, at the following e-mail address: duggan@brahms.udel.edu SNAIL MAIL: INTERNET: Richard H. Duggan duggan@brahms.udel.edu English Department richard.duggan@mvs.udel.edu University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 BITNET: FCA02040@UDELVM *******************************************SOFTWARE/FREEWARE ***HYTELNET: Hypertext PC-based Internet Directory*** Service: free PC-based hypertext software and database describing many Internet resources including bulletin board systems, Freenet systems, and library systems. The library systems listed include manyinternational sites. Access: may be obtained via ftp from a variety of sites listed in the description below. Requires PKUNZIP to de-compress the files which may also be obtained at no charge via ftp as described below. **Announcing** HYTELNET 5.0 HYTELNET version 5.0, a pop-up, memory-resident browser for gaining access to Internet-accessible sites via Telnet, is now available. The browser is basically a series of ASCII files connected by hypertext links and run by the HYPERREZ engine on a PC. HYTELNET version 5.0 HYTELNET has been written specifically for those users who access the Telnet utility via a modem or the ethernet on an IBM compatible personal computer. **New in Versions 4.0 and 5.0** Many new sites have been added, in particular, specialty sites like the JvNCnet Network, World Factbook, Shakespeare's plays, etc. See <OTH000> for more details. The major site files have been arranged in subdirectories for faster accessing. Also new in this version files describing which libraries use which systems. See <SYS000> for more information. Special thanks go to Billy Barron, De Stanton, Earl Fogel, and members of lib_hytelnet for their assistance. HYTELNET 5.0 is available by anonymous ftp from: access.usask.ca - in the hytelnet/pc subdirectory. It is listed as HYTELN50.ZIP. Note: the UNZIPPED files total over 500,000 bytes...but remember, you can always edit out any information you do not need, in order to save space. **Loading HYTELNET** At the DOS prompt (in the HYTELNET parent directory), type HR to install the program in memory. After it loads, hold the Ctrl key down and depress the Backspace (<-) key. **Operations** For full keystroke information see <HELP.TXT> It is a memory-resident program which should be called-up before you load your communications program. Have it sit in the background until you need to find a Telnet address. To invoke the program just hit the Control and Back-space keys then follow the directions. When you have read the site information either hit the Escape key to return the program to the background, or hit Alt-T to remove it from memory. **Memory-resident conflicts** Because the HyperRez program makes no stack calls, it is unaffected by the loading sequence or memory location of other programs. One item to remember is that HR.EXE should be unloaded from memory in the reverse order that it was installed. That means, if you load HR.EXE before you load another program, then unload it after you unload that program. Program size: 16065 bytes (HyperRez on disk) Installed size: 59680 bytes (for program, text, and links) ASCII file size: Maximum size in 20K (set by text buffer) Maximum recall: Remembers Right-arrow jumps 64 levels deep **Essential files for running the program** Program: HR.EXE (HyperRez program) Select hot-key: HRK.EXE Title ASCII file: START.TXT HyperRez F1 file: HELP.TXT Instructions: READ.ME...this file! **Acknowledgments** **Customizing** You may wish to add your own SITE information or update those sites already listed. See <CUSTOM> for instructions. If you have any comments on the program or suggestions for improvement, contact the author at the following addresses: Peter Scott . Phone: 306-966-6016 | Order Unit Manager . FAX: 306-966-6040 | Univ of Saskatchewan Libraries . ENVOY100: PA.SCOTT Saskatoon . Internet: SCOTT@SKLIB.USASK.CA Saskatchewan, Canada S7N OWO . an682@cleveland.freenet.edu | Footnote: if you wish to keep up-to-date on the latest version of HYTELNET and be informed about new/changed/defunct Telnet- accessible sites you may join the mailing list LIB_HYTELNET at the University of Saskatchewan. Just let Peter Scott know that you wish your name to be added to the list. TO RETRIEVE HYTELNET: At your system prompt, enter: ftp access.usask.ca or ftp 128.233.3.1 When you receive the Name prompt, enter: anonymous When you receive the password prompt, enter your Internet address. When you are at the ftp> prompt, enter: binary At the next ftp> prompt, enter: cd hytelnet/pc Then enter: get HYTELN50.ZIP After the transfer has occurred, either proceed with the instructions below toretrieve the UNZIP utility (which you need unless you already have it) or enter: quit The Hytelnet program is archived using a ZIP utility. To unarchive it, you must be able to "unzip" the file. If you have the file PKUNZIP.EXE,it will unarchive the HYTELN50.ZIP file (see below for instructions). If you do not have it, you may retrieve it with by following these instructions: TO RETRIEVE PKUNZIP: Use the above instructions for connecting to access.usask.ca At the ftp> prompt, enter: binary Then enter: cd hytelnet/pc Then enter: get PKUNZIP.EXE After the transfer has occurred, enter: quit TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR PC: Because of the plethora of PC communications programs, I will not attempt to give step-by-step instructions here. You should check the instructions for your software for downloading a *binary* file from your Internet account to your PC. TO UNARCHIVE HYTELN50.ZIP: Make a new directory on your hard disk (e.g., mkdir hytelnet) Copy PKUNZIP.EXE and HYTELN50.ZIP into the new directory Make sure you are in that directory, then enter: pkunzip HYTELN50 It will then unarchive HYTELN50.ZIP, which contains the following files: HYTELNET.ZIP READNOW.!!! The file READNOW.!!! gives full instructions for un-archiving HYTELNET.ZIP. Simply put, you **MUST** unZIP the file with the -d parameter so that all the subdirectories will be recursed. To use HYTELNET, you should refer to the instructions in the release announcement by Peter Scott, or to the README file included with the package. PLEASE NOTE that I offer the above instructions as a service for those who are unfamiliar with the steps required to download and use files from network sources. I cannot be responsible for any local variations in these procedures which may exist. Please contact your local computer support staff if you have difficulty performing these tasks. *******************************************SOFTWARE/FREEWARE ***WAIS: Wide Area Information Server*** A Client-Server System with Over 35 Servers on the Internet Service: WAIS is a client-server system developed for information retrieval among information resources on decentralized servers using the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol. The code is available via ftp from the developer. Thinking Machines, Inc. and there are several versions available including gnu emacs and x-windows, and MacIntosh. Access: the wais software is available via anonymous ftp from think.com. The article below gives instructions for obtaining a copy. Description: Several articles which describe WAIS (pronounced ways) are included beginning with the announcement of the latest release and instructions on where to obtain a copy via ftp. The software was also described in a recent article in _BYTE_ magazine: (Richard Marlon Stein, "Browsing Through Terabytes", BYTE Magazine, May 1991, p.157.) A definition of "WAIS" in words of few syllables: "WAIS" -- "Wide Area Information Server": computer programs which provide, "...the user-interface structure and underlying information-retrieval protocol necessary to automatically collate, collect, and integrate diverse data streams." (Richard Marlon Stein, "Browsing Through Terabytes", BYTE Magazine, May 1991, p.157.) Now that the Internet gives us over 200 library opacs, a budding problem is that each opac has its own structure and user interface: if you've learned the MELVYL command language ("FI", "DI", "DI 12 long", etc.), that won't work with Harvard's HOLLIS, and the commands for Yale's ORBIS don't work for Dartmouth's opac. So while the Internet is making it increasingly easy to bounce back and forth among different opacs, the problem remains that the user must learn all the different interfaces. WAIS software gets around this problem by letting a user at one site -- say, MELVYL -- view data and retrieve records from other non-MELVYL sites. So, using your MELVYL commands, you can look up something in several different opacs which don't themselves use MELVYL; and, vice versa, a Dartmouth user could look up something on MELVYL or ORBIS using the Dartmouth opac's commands. The software can have other features -- the ability to make these searches simultaneously, "relevance feedback" which ranks retrievals by their relevance to the user, windowing systems -- but its essence is the ability it gives you to do online research at different sites using your "home" site's command language. This may mean cooperative cataloging and other resource sharing for librarians, Bill. It most certainly means a giant step for users -- researchers now will be looking for things in twenty opacs at once, rather than just their local one -- particularly once full-text gets loaded into opacs and other databases: the WAIS, equipped with "relevance feedback" and its other features, may be exactly the tool we need to convert an information deluge into a new era for libraries and for information handling. That's the hope, anyway. For more details -- on the immense Z39.50 protocol effort of which WAIS is an implementation, and on Thinking Machines Corp.'s development and marketing of the idea (they will give you the software for free) -- I refer you to the above BYTE article. More has been written, but it's all pretty new. Jack Kessler UC Berkeley kessler@ocf.berkeley.edu kessler@athena.berkeley.edu Announcement regarding latest WAIS release: New Unix Internet Release (Beta Release) Available Thank you for the interest in WAIS. The servers on Quake (including the directory of servers) has gotten 4500 requests from 193 different hosts all over the world in a couple of months. There are now 35 servers including one in Norway (UiO_Publications.src), poetry (poetry.src), as well as a Connection Machine serving all sorts of things. Through the Alpha release process, many people have helped find and fix bugs; thank you. With Beta, I think we are ready for widespread announcement. Please repost this on any other list you would like to. There are are a few mailing lists on this subject that you might want to be on: wais-interest: only announcements like this (1 a month or so) wais-discussion: moderated mailings every 1 or 2 weeks. Good stuff including all on wais-interest. wais-talk: unmoderated for implementors and interactive discussions. Requests to wais-<foo>- request@think.com. Archives available from wais server: wais- discussion or anonymous ftp from quake.think.com. Jonathan Goldman pulled the most recent release together. Highlights of modifications (see the release for the full report): Works on more architectures (BSD and closer on SysV and Xenix), waisindex: parses mail dates + fixes waisserver: security feature + first kludge toward relevance feedback + better logging + fixes waissearch, waisq, xwais, and xwaisq: fixes gmacs wais: can display pictures if on an Xmachine, more commands, fixes The Mac release is unchanged and stable. Thank you to all that have contributed bug reports and suggestions. Overview of components: In this release is source code for: * Server code: There is code to index text and picture files. * Protocol code: based on Z39.50-1988 using the internet. * Clients code: User interfaces for contacting servers * GNU emacs interface * simple shell interface * Mac interface (in separate WAIStation file) * tool kit for making your own interfaces * X interface * Directory of servers: This is be a network service that lists existing servers and how to contact them. * A Connection Machine server with some patent information, the CIA factbook, and some Biomedical abstracts, info-mac, risks, etc to serve as example servers. The public servers that are currently advertized are: CM-applications.src CM-fortran-manual.src CM-paris-manual.src CM-star-lisp-docs.src CM-tech-summary.src CMFS-documentation.src MIT-algorithms-bug.src MIT-algorithms-exercise.src MIT-algorithms-suggest.src Molecular-biology.src NIH-Guide.src US-Gov-Programs.src UiO_Publications.src bible.src cosmic-abstracts.src cosmic-programs.src directory-of-servers.src homebrew.src info-mac.src internet-resource-guide.src internet-rfcs.src jargon.src patent-sampler.src poetry.src risks-digest.src sample-books.src sample-pictures.src sun-spots.src tmc-library.src usenet-cookbook.src wais-discussion-archives.src wais-docs.src wall-street-journal-sample.src weather.src world-factbook.src The release is available from Think.com via anonymous FTP in /public/wais/wais-8-b1-dist.tar.Z and WAIStation-0-62.sit.hqx. Bugs to bug-wais@think.com or to me. -brewster and the wais crew "Paper and flesh are fleeting media for the treasures that are ideas." Brewster Kahle Thinking Machines Corporation Brewster@Think.com 1010 El Camino Real Project Leader Menlo Park, CA 94025 Wide Area Information Servers 415-329-9300x228 9 ********************************************************BBS ********************************************************BBS ***American Philosophical Association: The Electronic Agora*** Service: The APA Agora is a bulletin board system with news and information of interest to philosophers and the APA membership. The system features news, calendar of events, job listings, and e-mail directory of users. Access: telnet atl.calstate.edu or 130.150.102.33 At the login prompt, type "apa". Exit: type "q" from most screens. Sample Telnet session: telnet> open (to) 130.150.102.33 Trying... Connected to 130.150.102.33. Escape character is ^] UNIX System V R.3 (WINS) (atl.calstate.edu) login: apa UNIX System V Release 3.2.3 AT&T 3B2 swrl36 Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 AT&T All Rights Reserved Login last used: Fri Aug 30 23:08:06 1991 Welcome to the California State University Advanced Technology Laboratory Bulletin Board System Copyright (c) 1988 California State University Office of the Chancellor All rights reserved This system was made possible by a grant from AT&T. 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(p or s default -> p) :s Purpose of the APA Bulletin Board This is the official Electronic Bulletin Board of the American Philosophical Association (APA). It is provided as a service to APA members. Information which is found in the Proceedings and Addresses of the APA, as well as in APA newsletters can also be found here. In addition, APA members can address questions to the national office and submit short items of interest to the membership for inclusion on this board. We will attempt to update information as it is received. It is hoped that the bulletin board can provide the most up-to-date information possible. Just follow instructions at each level and make the desired menu choice. Most communication software can log the screen output to a file. This is the only way to download information from this board. Please note that this bulletin board system is new, and is officially only a beta-test version. Please report all bugs and problems to the system adminstrator: Saul Traiger Department of Philosophy/Cognitive Science Program Occidental College Los Angeles, CA 90041 (213) 259-2901 Internet: traiger@oxy.edu Press <RETURN> to continue: A NOTE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Saul Traiger has invited me to send a short note for the APA Bulletin Board, and I am happy to oblige. Saul has done the members of the APA a great service in getting the bulletin board up and running, and I know that he has gone out of his way, and volunteered more of his time than he should, to help members who have had difficulty accessing it. I am grateful to him, and to Robert Cavalier and Preston Covey, for having set this experiment in motion. Along with this note I am sending, for posting on the board, several files of material that may be useful to those of you who check in on the board from time to time, including deadlines and guidelines for paper submissions, instructions on becoming an APA member, and the schedule for APA publications, including JOBS FOR PHILOSOPHERS. This time I am also sending the material that appears in the June issue of the APA PROCEEDINGS AND ADDRESSES concerning future conferences and invitations to submit papers for a variety of projects. Both this board and the entire endeavor of electronic communication are still in their early stages, and I will appreciate any comments and suggestions you may have concerning ways in which we could make the board more useful. We have decided not to publish electronically either the coftdnts of JOBS FOR PHILOSOPHERS or the roundup of fellowship opportunities that appears in the June issue--in the latter case because it would be so large as to eat up as much in phone charges for downloading as the issue costs, in the former case because the information is restricted to members and is mailed first-class to every member who requests it on the same day. We would particularly appreciate your suggestions concerning the kinds of information that you would like to be able to obtain here. In addition to the several ways in which you can communicate with Saul Traiger, listed elsewhere on this board, you can write directly to me via INTERNET at the address: HOEKEMA@BRAHMS.UDEL.EDU. By the fall I hope to have another address for general office communication. --David Hoekema Executive Director, APA **********************************************************BBS ***Cleveland Freenet: The Electronic "City"*** Service: The Cleveland Free-Net is a multi-user community computer system serving northeast Ohio. Its 64 modem lines, campus network, and Internet connections, provide over 250 computerized information and communications services to over 4000 users a day with a total of over 12,000 members. Participants have access to the full range of Free-Net communications features including: private electronic mail, chat, the Teleport (real-time connections to other computerized information resources around the country), as well as a wide range of information resources in areas such as health, government, law, education, and the sciences. Unique programs include the Academy One project (see description in session below) for K-12 levels. An electronic version of USA Today is also available. Access: telnet freenet-in-a.cwru.edu, freenet-in-b.cwru, or freenet- in-c.cwru.edu. First time users can access the system to try it out. Accounts may be obtained at no charge which give users e-mail, chat, and remote logon capabilities. The system is set up like a city where one moves from building to building. Commands like "go library" or "go teleport" access those functions. The command "go m" returns users to the main menu. Exit: from most screens, type 'x' to exit Freenet. Example of Cleveland Freenet session: WELCOME TO THE CLEVELAND FREE-NET COMMUNITY COMPUTER SYSTEM brought to you by Case Western Reserve University Community Telecomputing Laboratory Are you: 1. A registered user 2. A visitor Please enter 1 or 2: 1 Enter your user ID (in lower case) at the Login: prompt. Then enter your password when asked. Note that the password will not print on the screen as you type it. Login: ap257 Password: CONGRATULATIONS: The Free-Net would like to congratulate Academy One teacher Jud Elliott for being selected "Teacher of the Year" at Willoughby Middle School. There is a 60 minute time limit on this connection. Last login: Tue Apr 16 20:15:59 1991 Press RETURN to continue: <<< CLEVELAND FREE-NET DIRECTORY >>> 1 The Administration Building 2 The Post Office 3 Public Square 4 The Courthouse & Government Center 5 The Arts Building 6 Science and Technology Center 7 The Medical Arts Building 8 The Schoolhouse (Academy One) 9 The Community Center & Recreation Area 10 The Business and Industrial Park 11 The Library 12 University Circle 13 The Teleport 14 The Communications Center 15 NPTN/USA TODAY HEADLINE NEWS h=Help, x=Exit Free-Net, "go help"=extended help Your Choice ==> 8 <<< ACADEMY ONE >>> (go academy) 1 About Academy One 2 The Academy One Project 3 List of Official Academy One Schools 4 Academy One Projects Underway 5 Academy One Partners Wanted 6 Teacher/Administrator Lounge 7 The Student Lounge 8 The Academy One Library 9 School Special Interest Groups 10 The Academy Bulletin Board 11 Directory of Academy One Users 12 << SIMULATED SHUTTLE LAUNCH - APRIL 8TH >> h=Help, x=Exit Free-Net, "go help"=extended help Your Choice ==> 1 <<< ABOUT ACADEMY ONE >>> ACADEMY ONE is another NPTN experimental program. It is designed to see if an online educational resource can be set-up which will meet the information and communication needs of students, teachers, and administrators, at little or no cost to the users or the participating schools. The offerings in this area are so extensive that we will not attempt to detail them here, but would rather you simply strolled around our "electronic schoolhouse" to discover at your leisure. As you do so, however, please keep three things in mind. First, some of the areas you will come upon are brand new and may not have a lot in them just yet, or are still "under construction." We have tried to mark these construction areas with parentheses so you will be able to spot them. (You may go in and look around, but don't be surprised if nothing works.) Second, and most importantly, ACADEMY ONE works because PEOPLE make it work. Everything you see is here because there are people in the community who have volunteered their time and effort to place these features online and/or to operate the various special interest areas. If you have an idea for a new feature, or want to help out with an existing one, please contact either William Beasley (ab496) or Tom Grundner (aa001). Help is definitely needed. Third, ACADEMY ONE is NOT designed to be purely a Cleveland educational resource. We strongly encourage ANY school, ANYwhere in the world that can beg, borrow, or... (well, not that) an Internet connection from a local college to join with us in this program. We already have schools from several states online with us--with more coming in all the time. If you would like your school to become an ACADEMY ONE school, read "The Academy One Project" (the next selection down from this one) for more details. As we said, this is an experiment to see what educators can make of online education, when the major cost barriers are removed. Go to it. Enjoy and learn! William Beasley ab496@cleveland.freenet.edu Academy One Project Director & Primary Sysop Tom Grundner aa001@cleveland.freenet.edu Overall Project Coordination End of File, Press RETURN to quit <<< ACADEMY ONE >>> (go academy) 1 About Academy One 2 The Academy One Project 3 List of Official Academy One Schools 4 Academy One Projects Underway 5 Academy One Partners Wanted 6 Teacher/Administrator Lounge 7 The Student Lounge 8 The Academy One Library 9 School Special Interest Groups 10 The Academy Bulletin Board 11 Directory of Academy One Users 12 << SIMULATED SHUTTLE LAUNCH - APRIL 8TH >> h=Help, x=Exit Free-Net, "go help"=extended help Your Choice ==> 2 ACADEMY ONE: A National Online Educational Community OBJECTIVE: To establish a national online educational resource for primary and secondary students, teachers, and administrators which operates at low or no cost to the users or the participating schools. IMPLEMENTATION: The host computer for Academy One will be the Cleveland Free-Net in Cleveland, Ohio. Initial sponsors will be Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland State University School of Education, and the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) The Cleveland Free-Net is a multi-user community computer system serving northeast Ohio. Its 64 modem lines, campus network, and Internet connections, provides over 250 computerized information and communications services to over 4000 users a day. Academy One participants will have access to the full range of Free-Net communications features including: private electronic mail, chat, the Teleport (real-time connections to other computerized information resources around the country), as well as a wide range of information resources in areas such as health, government, law, education, and the sciences. In addition, a special area will be established on the Cleveland Free- Net which will serve as a central meeting place for Academy One participants. Included in this area will be special sections for teachers and administrators, an Academy One electronic library, a place where telecomputing project ideas can disseminate, an area where individual schools can operate their own special interest groups, an open bulletin board, and more. Schools may register to be Academy One participants by sending a letter of intent to CWRU/NPTN (see "How to Join Academy One" below). Cleveland Free-Net registration forms will then be made available for reproduction at the individual schools. The school must: a) provide their own personal computers and modems; and b) make arrangements for an Internet connection (again, as described below). Users may then dial into the Free-Net via the Internet and use the system at will. COST: Other than for personal computer equipment--none. There is no charge for registration or for use of the Cleveland Free- Net. The service is free to the user in the same sense that a public library, for example, is free to its patrons. As mentioned above users will, however, have to provide their own computer equipment, modems, and local telephone costs. The Internet is an international academic and research network whose costs are borne by the participating colleges and universities.In most cases, these are fixed yearly charges which will not increase as a function of allowing you to participate in this project. FOR MORE INFORMATION: The overall project coordinator will be: T.M. Grundner, Ed.D Director, Community Telecomputing Laboratory CWRU, 303 Wickenden Building Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Voice: (216) 368-2733 FAX: (216) 368-5436 Internet: aa001@cleveland.freenet.edu CompuServe: 72135,1536 The project director and sysop for Academy One will be: William Beasley, Ed.D Director, Computers in Education Program Cleveland State University 1983 E. 24th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44115 Voice: (216) 687-9383 FAX: (216) 687-9366 Internet: ab496@cleveland.freenet.edu CompuServe: 71106,574 For more information on NPTN and community computing contact: National Public Telecomputing Network Box 1987 Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Voice: (216) 368-2733 FAX: (216) 368-5436 Internet: aa622@cleveland.freenet.edu CompuServe: 72135,1536 **********************************************************BBS ***University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bulletin Board System*** Service: bulletin board featuring electronic mail, discussion groups, access to USENET newsgroups, public domain software downloading/ftp, and library systems Access: telnet bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80 Follow the directions listed. Once you have chosen a password, it will be required in subsequent sessions. Exit: type 8 (goodbye) from main menu Example of UNC BBS session: login: bbs Last login: Thu Apr 9 10:22:06 from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 96) System #3: Tue Mar 10 10:49:06 EST 1992 lambada.oit.unc.edu - University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office for Information Technology Extended Bulletin Board Time left = 179 minutes and 47 seconds UNC-OIT Bulletin Board System 1. Message System 2. File Access 3. Network News Access 4. Simple WAIS Client 5. UNC Campus-Wide INFO System 6. User Options 7. Bulletins and Additional Information 8. Goodbye 9. Libraries and Campus-Wide Info Systems (LIBTEL) ?. Help ===> ? The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Office for Information Technology Bulletin Board System LUX LIBERTAS In keeping with the University of North Carolina's mission to encourageand facilitate the free exchange of information, the Extended Bulletin Board System is a service offered, free of charge, to the students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the greater university community. In addition, this service is open to all other parties interested in the affairs and events taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The EBBS is a powerful educational tool, not only allowing users to access Usenet Network News, but also providing access to INFO, the UNCCampus Information service, serving as a forum for the exchange of software files, and allowing direct access to over two hundred University and College libraries and data services internationally. In addition, users of the EBBS may communicate among themselves by means of the internal Message system, providing a truly open forum for the free exchange of ideas and opinions. SERVICES The BBS provides a wide variety of services, and due to the nature of the system, we are constantly expanding and adding more. Since we exist to serve you, the user, we would greatly appreciate your comments and suggestions to improve BBS service. You can help us by doing this in two ways: firstly, by filling out and sending in the User Survey Form located in the "bulletins" section (more on this later). Secondly, for more immediate service, feel free to send your comments and suggestions to the Systems Operator ("Sysop") via the Message function of the BBS (more on this in a moment). To assist in reporting problems in a timely manner, we have added a function to the BBS that asks you, the user, if you wish to send a private message to the Sysop as you are logging out. Keep in mind that you are in no way obligated to do so--these are just ways for us to maintain the quality of the BBS. Message Service The BBS provides a message service that allows you, the user, to communicate with other users of the BBS and the Sysop. These messagescan be up to ninety-nine lines long, and can be made public or kept private. Keep in mind, however, that obscene or threatening messageswill lead to revocation of BBS privileges. The BBS Message Service can be accessed by entering number one (1) on the Main menu. When you initially log in, the BBS will automatically tell you if you have messages waiting. You may read or send them in Message mode. Additionally, you can look up the names of other BBS Users by use of the "List BBS Users" function, number six (6), in Message mode. You also have access to Internet Mail, if you have been granted privileges (more on this later) by using function number seven (7) in Message mode. The Internet mail uses a mail process called elm, which is relatively easy to use. Finally, there are a number of different message groups on the BBS, from general, programmers, sysops, PC, Unix, to Amiga. Users of these groups tend to send messages associated with the group title. If you have any trouble using the message function, feel free to leave a note for the Sysop as you exit the BBS. Internet Mail The BBS offers you the opportunity to send and receive Internet Mail from nearly anyplace on Earth--absolutely free and nearly instantaneously. To use this option, you must first be granted privileges--for more on this, see the section below entitled "Privileges". Users may send and receive mail to and from any Internet or Bitnet site in the world. Internet to Fidonet gateways exist, so this means that users can send mail to Fidonet boards from this one. Mail may be exchanged with many UUCP sites as well. If you don't understand any of this, don't worry about it yet--you don't have to know this to use the BBS or Internet Mail. If you have problems using Internet Mail after you have been granted privs, please contact the sysops and they will be happy to help you. Conferencing An unlimited number of users can engage in real-time conferencing viathe Conferencing mode, found as number three (3) under the section called "Bulletins and Further Information," found in the Main menu byselecting number seven (7). File Transfer The BBS offers the facility to upload and download files, either via Kermit or by FTP. This is option two (2) on the Main menu, which presents you with a number of options. INFO INFO, as the name suggests, is the UNC Campus INFOrmation System. It was developed to provide quick and easy access to such helpful information as the official school calendar, job openings, Grant and Funding Opportunities, News, the campus directory, catalog, and lists, and other information systems. INFO is a way for students, faculty, staff, and the greater University community to find out about events happening on campus. INFO may not only be accessed through the BBS, but also through remote terminals in the Student Union, the basement of Phillips Hall, and through most of the micro-computer labs on campus. LIBTEL--Library Catalog Access The Online Information Systems program, Libtel, is a way to connect to the online card catalogs of over two hundred university libraries from Australia to Israel, including most of the major U.S. and Canadian university libraries. Libtel is a powerful research tool, and is constantly being updated as new libraries are brought to our attention. Because of the nature of the Internet, however, we cannot guarantee that Libtel will automatically connect you to your chosen destination. However, if a problem is recurring, please let us know and we will attempt to diagnose and fix it. In addition to the university libraries, Libtel can also connect you to the DRA Library of Congress catalog, the Ham Radio Call Book, the National Science Foundation, a Geographical Server that provides detailed information on cities, towns, lakes, countries, and provinces, and finally to the Weather Server at the University of Michigan. Copies of Libtel are available via anonymous FTP as libtel.unix. Network News Network News is one of the primary functions of the BBS. News is a way to communicate and exchange opinions about an enormous variety of subjects, the list of which is constantly expanding. Any user of the BBS may read nearly every newsgroup, but to be able to post your own news via the BBS, you must first obtain privileges by filling out and sending in the release form in the "Bulletins and Additional Information" section (number seven (7) on the Main menu). Remember, though you may use any name you wish on the BBS, you must use you legal name (or some variation thereof) in order to be granted privs. Once you have gained privs, the menu option four (4) will appear on the Network News menu, giving you the option to post news. You have a choice of text editors, either vi or emacs with which to post news. If you are unfamiliar with either of them, there is a very good Introduction to vi and a emacs help file available in the bulletin section. If you have any further questions concerning the text editor, then please feel free to send us your queries. There are two ways to use Network News: with Read News (rn) and Network News (nn). Though they do basically the same thing, they present the format of the newsgroups in slightly different ways. Some people prefer to use one, some the other. A frequent complaint about rn is that it seems to wait forever while checking for new newsgroups. This is an unfortunate side effect of the nature of the program; eventually, sometimes as long as five minutes later, the program will continue. If this is a serious problem for you, then we strongly urge you to use nn, which does not have this problem and is considered much easier to use by many people. 10 ********************************************************MISC. ********************************************************MISC. ***Gateways to Commercial Information Services/Networks*** Service: communication gateways to popular commercial information services Access: telnet hermes.merit.edu At the "Which Host?" prompt, fill in the code from the values listed below. All the services listed require separate accounts which must be obtained directly from that service. Exit: logoff normally for each service, connection will be closed by Merit. The list below was selected from the "help" service at hermes.merit.edu. A complete list may be obtained from this service by typing "help" at the "Which Host?" prompt. The services selected below represent the most important commercial information services in general use today. Most school and library users of these services, accustomed to dial-up, will find access to this wide variety of services a great benefit. Merit Code ABA/NET ACP ALANET AMANET Boeing BRS BRS-Colleague CompuServe Comshare DatapacInfo Dialcom Dialog Dow-Jones LEXIS Natl-Lib-Med NCAR-Telenet Newsnet NJIT-EIES NLM NLM-MCS NRC NYTimes OAG Peacenet SDC Source Source-11 Source-12 Source-13 STN Sumex Telenet-Cust-Serv Telenet-Mail Telenet-Telemail TOXNET Unison Vutext-Can Vutext-Freep Vutext-other WestLaw Wilsonline ************************************************************MISC. ***MicroMUSE: A Virtual Reality Adventure Game*** Service: MicroMUSE is a combination of real-time "chat" group and role-playing science fiction game. The user can enter the 24th century world of MicroMUSE and meet many other characters who inhabit the space colony. Users may enter as a guest or apply to become a character via e-mail or regular mail. There appear to be few rules. The commands are similar to many "adventure" games such as the Zork series. What makes the experience unique is that others share it at the same time. MicroMUSE is a virtual community which supports realtime conversations and provides a microworld (text-based virtual reality). Participants can communicate, explore, and even design their own corner of the microworld. Access: telnet michael.ai.mit.edu or 18.43.0.177 Login: guest Exit: type QUIT (upper case) at any point in the game. Example of MicroMUSE session: telnet michael.ai.mit.edu or 18.43.0.177 login: guest -------------------------------------------------------------------------- M i c r o M U S E Guest Account -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are connected to michael.ai.mit.edu, an internet networked computer running the UNIX operating system and based at MIT. This account you have just logged into is provided as a courtesy by the administrative staff of MicroMUSE. At this time our policy allows unlimited access to MicroMUSE and limited access to other mu* type server programs. (some information deleted) ========================================================================== Welcome! MicroMUSE is our vision of the 24th century, a blend of high technology and social consciousness with emphasis on education, concernfor the environment, and communication. Our charter is availableby anonymous ftp to michael.ai.mit.edu (18.43.0.177) in the file mud/tinymuse/charter. Visitors and colonists are encouraged to read it. * Commands available: * connect <name> <password> * connect guest * WHO * QUIT =========================================================================== For info on a new character, connect as guest and type: help register connect guest M i c r o M U S E =========================================================================== Welcome to MicroMUSE! We are hosted at chezmoto.ai.mit.edu, port 4201. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reminder: read NEWS regularly for changes, updates, new commands, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attention Space Farers: Read 'news space' for the latest gossip. =========================================================================== The bright outlines of the Cyberion City Transporter Station slowly come intofocus. You have been beamed up here(at considerable expense) from one of theEarth Transporter Stations. You are among the adventurous and moderatelywealthy few who have decided to visit (and perhaps dwell) in Cyberion City,the largest space city in the solar system. You are welcomed by the transporter attendant, who gives directions to all newcomers to this space city. Contents: Attendant Obvious exits: Out Welcome to MicroMUSE, your name is Guest1 attendant says "Welcome, Guest, to Cyberion City." attendant says "Feel free to contact any Official for aid." attendant says "Be sure to use our extensive on-line help command." attendant says "I hope you enjoy your stay." The attendant smiles at you. You step down off of the MTRS platform. Main Transporter Lobby This room has high, vaulted ceilings and white walls. The thick, black carpet makes no sound beneath your feet. You are just inside the Transporter Lobby,where Visitors arrive from Earth. To one side is an Information Desk. A door leads to the Tours office, and another leads Out into Cyberion City proper. A Public Relations Dept. Intercom stands in the center of the floor; type 'look Intercom' for instructions. Contents: Spark's firefly koosh Ramandu Intercom Obvious exits: Information <INF> Tours <T> Out For information on getting a permanent character type: help register. For information on getting started, type: help getting started. help getting started Some commands to start with: QUIT - quit and leave MicroMUSE WHO - print list of users currently on MicroMUSE help - access online help news - access online news about MicroMUSE events and topics say <something> - make your character 'say' <something> Example: say Hi Everyone! page <player>=<message> - send a <message> to a <player> on the muse Example: page Jin=Hello, Can you help me? look - look at the room you're in, or at a person or object in it. Examples: look look Tourbot go <exit> - go through one of the obvious exits in the room. Example: go out help topics Help available on the following Topics: Attributes Being killed Bogus commands Costs Currency Control Drop-to Enactor Exits Failure Gender Getting started Goals Here Homes Inheritance It Linking Me Officials Privacy Pronouns Puppets Locks Strings Sacrificing Stack Substitutions Success Tinytalk Timezones Types of objects V-Register Verbs Zones @ help register MicroMUSE player registration information. If you are a guest and wish to register a new character on MicroMUSE, please send E-Mail to: micromuse-registration@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu Please provide your real name, your character name and password, and please type out your e-mail address. Please specify if you are a NEW player and are requesting your first character. If you already have other characters in MicroMUSE, please specify them also. You are allowed to have a total of three characters. Players who do not have an e-mail account may send US mail to: MicroMUSE c/o Michael Stanley P.O. Box 2309 Fayetteville, AR 72701 Please include your address and phone number also. Once your registration has been processed, you will see Status: Citizen when you examine yourself. We thank you for your cooperation in making MicroMUSE more efficient for your enjoyment. ************************************************************MISC. ***Network Bibliography*** These are a few of the more important sources of network information--both the networks themselves and the information resources available on them.There are many more useful sources not included here; for additional information see the bibliography by Karen Bowers, et.al. Barron, Billy. UNT's Accessing On-Line Bibliographic Databases. Denton, TX: University of North Texas, 1991. [Available online on host vaxb.acs.unt.edu, in root directory] Bowers, Karen, et. al. FYI on Where to Start - A Bibliography of Internetworking Information. Network Working Group, Request for Comments 1175, August 1990. [Available online on hostnic.ddn.mil, directory rfc:, filename RFC1175.TXT] Britten, William A. "BITNET and the Internet: Scholarly Networks for Librarians." C&RL News, 51(2) (February 1990):103-107. Cerf, Vinton. The Internet Activities Board. Network Working Group, Request for Comments 1160, May 1990. [Available online on host nic.ddn.mil, directory rfc:, filename RFC.1160.TXT] - ----. Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network. Network Working Group, Request for Comments 1167, July 1990. [Available online on host nic.ddn.mil, directory rfc:, filename RFC.1167.TXT] Coalition for the National Research and Education Network. NREN: The National Research and Education Network. Washington, DC: Coalition for the National Research and Education Network, 1989. Comer, Douglas. Internetworking with TCP/IP: Volume 1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture. 2nd edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991. Condon, Christopher. BITNET Userhelp. BITNET, October 1990. [Available by e-mail message "GET BITNET USERHELP to NETSERV@BITNIC.BITNET] Frey, Donnalyn and Rick Adams. !%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks. Second Edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates, 1990. Kalin, Sally W. Beyond OPACS...The wealth of information resources on the internet. by Sally W. Kalin and Roy Tenant in DATABASE Vol 14, Number 4 ISSN: 0162-4105 Krol, Ed. The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Internet. Network Working Group, Request for Comments 1118, September 1989. [Available online on host nic.ddn.mil, directory rfc:, filename RFC1118.TXT] LaQuey, Tracy L. User's Directory of Computer Networks. Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990. List of Lists. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International, Network Information Systems Center, 1990. [Available on host ftp.nisc.sri.com in directory netinfo, filename interest-groups; also by e-mail command "Send netinfo/interest-groups" to mailserver@nisc.sri.com] Malkin, Gary Scott and April N. Marine. FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions. Network Working Group, Request for Comments 1206, February 1991. [Available online on host nic.ddn.mil, directory rfc:, filename RFC1206.TXT] National Science Foundation Network Service Center. Internet Resource Guide. Cambridge, MA: NSF Network Service Center, 1989. [Available on host nnsc.nsf.net, directory resource-guide, or via e- mail request to resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net] Quarterman, John S. The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide. Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990. St. George, Art and Ron Larsen. Internet-Accessible Library Catalogs and Databases. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1991. [Available by e-mail message "GET LIBRARY PACKAGE" to listserv@unmvm.bitnet] Shapiro, Norman Z. and Robert H. Anderson. Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, July 1985. *----- Roy Tennant * Public Service Automated Systems Coordinator The Library * 130 Doe, University of California, Berkeley 94720 (415) 642-3532 * Fax: (415) 643-7891 rtennant@library.berkeley.edu * rtennant@ucblibra.bitnet ************************************************************MISC. ***NPTN: National Public Telecommunications Network*** Service: NPTN is an organization for educators and Internet users providing innovative forums and programs for users. NPTN currently runs five separate Free-Net systems starting with the Cleveland Free-Net. The article below summarizes the activities and services for members and non-members alike. International Telecommunications for Education Provided by National Public Telecommunications Network. W. Douglas Knowles, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic Foundation 9500 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44195 USA The National Public Telecommunications Network, or NPTN, is an organization based in Cleveland, Ohio which has the goal of developing free publicly accessible computer networking services. The flagship of NPTN is the Cleveland Free-Net, a public computer network started in 1986 which now has over 12,000 members and is accessed by modem or through the world-wide Internet network over 3000 times a day. NPTN now consists of five separate Free-Net systems, with more than five new networks in the immediate planning stage. The goal of NPTN is to make computer telecommunication and networking services available as a public service similar to the public library system. The organizers foresee the free and immediate availability of all types of information from on-line encyclopedias to weather forecasts and news services to government databases, such as paten information. Indeed, the Cleveland Free-Net is already providing many of these services. Additionally, NPTN provides a wide variety of communications services from electronic mail to Usenet newsgroups to special interest groups bulletin board to real time chatting. The NPTN Network of Free-Net Systems. Now (January 1991), NPTN consists of five Free-Net systems in Cleveland, Youngstown, Cincinnati and Medina, Ohio, and Peoria, Illinois. Soon to come on line are systems in Chicago, and Los Angeles. Systems in the planning or development stage are in Miami and Washington, D.C.. The software (Unix based) for the system is available to new systems for lease for $1 per year from NPTN. All systems use telephone modems for their basic access and communications, and several are connected to the Internet network. The goal is to have complete interconnection between Free-Net systems, with the ability to login to any Free-Net system from any other. Cleveland Free-Net NPTN grew out of the huge success of the Cleveland Free-Net, where the concepts and software have been developed as a collaboration between the community users, volunteer sysops from many community groups andorganizations, and the Information Network Services of Case Western Reserve University. The founder of Cleveland Free-Net is Dr. Thomas Grunder, who started the precursor to Free-Net in 1984 as a community health information bulletin board name "St. Silicon's Hospital and Information Dispensary". With support from AT&T and Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Free-Net was established in 1986. Free-Net rapidly expanded, adding more bulletin boards with diverse interests areas. Each bulletin board has one or more volunteer sysops who moderate the discussions and often provide expert information. As the system grew, it was organized to resemble an electronic city. The structure of the system is based on familiar organization of city services. It has an Administration Building, School House, Library, Museums, Art Building, Post Office, Courthouse and Government Center, Science and Technology Center, Medical Arts Building, Business and Industrial Park, and Community Center and Recreation Area. The primary requirement has been ease of use by the unsophisticated computer user. All commands are menu-based, with on-line help available at each menu. Some bulletin boards act as simple message centers, mediating discussions carried on by their members, while other boards combine messaging with reference information, questions and expert answers, special interest calendars, and other services. Educational Services NPTN offers several categories of educational experiences for students and teachers. Telecommunication services include electronic mail, Usenet newsgroups, and real-time on-line chat facilities. Reference and catalog information is available from a number of on-line libraries. There are a number of databases available, including historical documents, Congressional voting and state political position papers, Supreme Court rulings, and the full text of the King James Bible. Also, there are a large number of question and answer bulletin boards run by experts in numerous areas, including natural history, space science, health, law, and computers. A new area, called the Academy, is being organized especially for primary and secondary students, teachers and administrators. In addition to the services listed above, the Academy will offer a meeting place for schools around the world to cooperate on joint projects, form special interest groups, and explore the possibilities of telecommunication. Electronic mail Free-Net members have access to the international electronic mail services of Internet. Through Internet gateways, electronic mail can also be sent to Bitnet, CompuServe, and other networks. Several state elementary and secondary school systems, including New York, California, and Texas, have set up school networks, which are accessible via Internet. Special interest mailing lists are maintained by list servers who distribute all messages sent to the list server to all members of the list throughout the world. One such list is Kids- List, a list server dedicated to messages between children. Of course, electronic pen-pals are one very popular feature made possible by electronic mail. My children regularly correspond with electronic friends in Estonia, one of the Soviet Baltic republics so much in the news today. Chat One feature offered by Free-Net, real time on-line chatting, provides the immediacy often lacking in electronic communication, but so critical for younger students. With this feature, members can communicate with other people around the world on the Internet. Messages are sent as soon as each line is typed, and received within seconds. Users join "channels" which are ad hoc communication groups set up by the users as they join. Each channel has a "topic" which can be changed at will. Unfortunately, most of the chatting is pretty trivial, at least on the publicly announced channels. Private channels can be established at any time, and are limited to the participants. Special-purpose channels can be created on an ad hoc basis, for example to allow two or more classrooms to participate in a joint project. Recently, a channel was used to broadcast Persian Gulf news, as it was reported by the world-wide press. On-line libraries The catalogs of many libraries can be accessed through NPTN and Internet. The Cleveland Public Library, Case Western Reserve University Libraries, six other Ohio university libraries, and the libraries of the University of California and Boston University can be reached. Each of these libraries provides on-line catalog searching and several local and national databases as well. Agricultural and farm market data can be obtained from the Pennsylvania State University. Dartmouth University provides annotated literary analysis of Dante's writings. References services are available from some of these libraries. Question And Answer Bulletin Boards Special interest groups and bulletin boards on Free-Net provide a means of sharing specialized information. An important part of these groups are the question and answer forums mediated by volunteer experts sysops. Dr. Grundner's St. Silicon's Hospital was the first of these, and provided free general health advice. The Cleveland Public Library offers reference desk assistance, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History provides "Dr. Dino's" answers to questions regarding our planet and its inhabitants. NASA has a similar service, as do various computer clubs and recreational groups. These bulletin boards are open to all members of Freenet and NPTN, and one often sees students asking for information for homework projects. The Academy NPTN is in the process of organizing an area of Free-Net, called the Academy, dedicated to primary and secondary schools. Participating schools can sign up for free, and are encouraged to use the communication and information services of NPTN for class projects. The proposal includes a Teacher/Administrator Lounge, Student Lounge, Library, Join Projects Areas, Special Interest Groups, and a Bulletin Board. Space Shuttle Centennial This January, an exciting example of the use of NPTN telecommunications occurred with the simulated flight of the Space Shuttle "Centennial". University School, a K-12 school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, organized and held the simulation, which included a mock-up of the flight deck, ground control stations, astronauts, controllers, and ground support teams. The simulation lasted 24 hours. Weather and solar flare monitoring were provided by Willoughby Middle School in Willoughby, Ohio, while San Marino School in Buena Park, California acted as an emergency back-up landing site and provided hourly weather information at the back-up landing site. All communications between the schools was provided by NPTN over the Internet. Local NASA officials and network news broadcasters attended the launch and landing. As it turned out, a severe snow storm hit Cleveland during the flight, and the shuttle had to make a (simulated) landing at the California emergency back- up site. Each of the schools involved included the simulation in many different classroom activities, from science and math to language and geography. The exercise was available to all NPTN members, and the records of the exercise are still on the Fee-Net system. Those records clearly show the enthusiasm of the student participants. How to Join Free-Net and NPTN Free-Net is free to join. You can download application forms from the system. Non-members can use most of the features of Free-Net as guests. Free-Net can be reached by modem at (216) 368-3888. Telecommunication parameters are 300,1200, or 2400 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. Fifty-four phone lines are available, and they are heavily used at peak hours. Upon establishing a connection and reaching the main menu, more information about the subjects discussed above can be obtained by entering the commands "go administration," "go NPTN," or "go Academy." Mail registration and information is available at The Cleveland Free-Net, CWRU Community Telecomputing Lab, 319 Wickenden Building, Cleveland, OH 44106. Their voice phone number is (216) 368-2982. Internet Access Free-Net can also be reached via Internet at freenet- in-a.cwru.edu or freenet-in-b.cwru.edu. Internet is an international network sponsored by the federal government for research, and education purposes. Most colleges and universities and several elementary and secondary schools are connected to Internet. It is frequently possible for elementary and secondary schools to obtain access to Internet by contacting a local university computer science department and requesting an account on the university system for the purpose of accessing Internet. There is usually no additional cost to the university for providing this access, and if it is clear that this is the only purpose that the account will be used for, there should be little reason to charge the school for the account. The school can then reach the university with a local call, and access Internet using a simple modem and communications software package. NPTN is an organization of people who support the concept of a national network of free community computer systems which will serve as a community utility or service, much like the public library system, to bring computer services and network communications and databases within the reach of all citizens. Annual memberships to NPTN are $35, which includes a subscription to a newsletter. More information is available from T.M. Grundner, Ed.D. - President, National Public Telecomputing Network, Box 1987, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, Voice: (216) 368-2733, FAX: (216) 368-5436, Internet: aa001@cleveland.freenet.edu, CompuServe: 72135,1536 The Author W. Douglas Knowles, Ph.D., is a research neurophysiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He has been involved in computers since junior high school in the early 1960's. He is a member of NPTN and Free-Net, but is otherwise unaffiliated with these organizations. He has two elementary school children who he has striven to acquaint with the potentials and possibilities of computers and telecommunications since they could first sit on his lap and hit the keyboard. He can be reached by Internet E-mail at wdk@mailgate.ri.ccf.org. -- W. Douglas Knowles, Ph.D. INTERNET:wdk@mailgate.ri.ccf.org Departments of Brain & Vascular Research and Neurology Cleveland Clinic Research Institute Cleveland, Ohio 44195 USA ************************************************************MISC. ***Reach: Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities Newsletter*** Service: The Reach: Research & Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities newsletter is a rich source of information regarding electronic discussion groups and network resources of general interest. Recent issues have listed information regarding new discussion groups on the USSR, the Baltic republics, and Eastern Europe. Also featured are conferences, educational programs of general interest, and articles regarding computing and networks. Access: internet users can obtain current and back issues of Reach via anonymous ftp to ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or 128.111.122.50. Text of "readme" file regarding Reach: This is a list of the files available through anonymous FTP from the directory of the Humanities Computing Facility at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a set of directions for the transfer of those files. Questions or comments should be directed to: Eric Dahlin, Coordinator Humanities Computing Facility 4421 South Hall University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 U.S.A. 805/893-2208 Bitnet: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.bitnet Internet: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu AVAILABLE FILES: readme (this file) The following files contain the indicated electronic versions of the issues of _REACH_, Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities, the newsletter of the Humanities Computing Facility of the University of California, Santa Barbara. reach.8912 _REACH_, December, 1989 (initial issue) reach.9001 _REACH_, January, 1990 reach.9002 _REACH_, February, 1990 reach.9003 _REACH_, March, 1990 reach.9004 _REACH_, April, 1990 reach.9005 _REACH_, May, 1990 (no issues published during this period) reach.9009 _REACH_, September & October, 1990 reach.9011 _REACH_, November & December, 1990 reach.9101 _REACH_, January & February, 1991 reach.9103 _REACH_, March & April, 1991 This is a complete list of the files available from this source as of April 4, 1991. FILE TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS To download any of these files, 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, similar to Telnet but more restricted in scope. 1. Once you have access to the FTP program, you begin by FTPing to our computer giving its address in one or the other of the following two forms: ftp ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu or ftp 128.111.122.50 2. When asked, you log on to the computer using "anonymous" as your name and your e-mail address as your password. 3. Then you change to the directory containing our files by typing in the following command: cd hcf 4. Then use the "get" command to transfer the file which you want to download 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 the directory. get (filename) 5. When the transfer has been completed, sign off by typing one or the other of the standard closing commands: bye or quit 6. To give you an idea of what the process will look like, here is the actual record of a sample session, showing both commands typed in, other than the password, and program responses: ucsbuxa% ftp ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Connected to ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu. 220 ucsbuxa FTP server (Version 5.56 Thu Sep 28 19:32:54 PDT 1989) ready. Name (ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu:hcf1dahl): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> cd hcf 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. reach.8912 reach.9001 reach.9002 reach.9003 reach.9004 reach.9005 reach.9009 reach.9011 readme 226 Transfer complete. 95 bytes received in 0.04 seconds (2.3 Kbytes/s) ftp> get readme 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for readme (2277 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: readme remote: readme 2355 bytes received in 0.02 seconds (1.1e+02 Kbytes/s) ftp> get reach.8912 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for reach.8912 (7800 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: reach.8912 remote: reach.8912 8066 bytes received in .16 seconds (49 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. ucsbuxa% ************************************************************MISC. ***WUGATE: Gateway to the Internet Libraries and More*** Service: gateway service to 111 libraries and information sources Access: telnet wugate.wustl.edu At the "login" prompt type "library"; at the "enter terminal type >>" prompt enter vt100 Description: WUGATE is a menu of Internet Library services as well as other resources. After following the above access instructions, the user will be presented with an introductory instruction screen and then with a numbered list of online resources. To connect with one of these, enter the number and press ENTER/RETURN. WUGATE will then connect to the selected system. Upon exiting the selected system, the user will return to WUGATE for another selection. Brief instructions are given on each WUGATE selection pertaining to the use of the individual systems. You should pay CLOSE attention to the exit commands for each system! Note that using WUGATE to access online sources sometimes causes slower response time than with a direct connection. All the addresses of the sources are provided should the user wish to connect directly to the source. Exit: select "8" from the WUGATE main menu Sample WUGATE screens: telnet> open (to) wugate.wustl.edu Trying... Connected to wugate.wustl.edu. Escape character is ^] ULTRIX V4.1 (Rev. 52) (wugate.wustl.edu) login: library O f f i c e o f t h e N e t w o r k C o o r d i n a t o r W a s h i n g t o n U n i v e r s i t y i n S a i n t L o u i s Washington University Services Version 2.0.3 -- Type ^L for Refresh in CURSES mode! Please enter your terminal type, or hit return to accept the default. TERM = (vt100): Washington University in Saint Louis Thu Aug 15 07:50 1991 [Menu 0: Main Menu] 1. About Washington University Services 2. Washington University Services 3. United States Libraries 4. Foreign Libraries 5. Government Libraries and Public Accessible Databases 6. Campus Wide Information Systems 7. All Services 8. QUIT the Washington University Services program Office of the Network Coordinator (ONC) Welcome to the Washington University Library/Database Access System. The selection of libraries and services has grown and now requires several screens to list them. Many systems are auto-baud, press return several time to get a response. If you have any comments or would like your service added to the menu, send mail to services@wugate.wustl.edu. Many services require passwords (hence fees). Contact the remote library system for details. There is an IBM3270 emulation package for access to IBM systems on the Internet (such systems are shown with an *). Return is the IBM enter and TAB will move you to the next field, documentation to follow, use cntl c to abort. Not all connections exit gracefully. Use the escape character cntl ] to close the connection. You can telnet directly to these services using the addresses given in the menu (this can be faster). 3 Washington University in Saint Louis Thu Aug 15 07:50 1991 [Menu 200: United States Libraries] 1. Alabama 20. Nebraska 2. Arkansas 21. Nevada 3. California 22. New Hampshire 4. Colorado 23. New Jersey 5. Delaware 24. New Mexico 6. Florida 25. New York 7. Georgia 26. North Carolina 8. Hawaii 27. Ohio 9. Illinois 28. Oklahoma 10. Indiana 29. Oregon 11. Iowa 30. Pennsylvania 12. Kansas 31. Rhode Island 13. Maine 32. South Carolina 14. Maryland 33. Tennessee 15. Massachussetts 34. Texas 16. Michigan 35. Utah 17. Minnesota 36. Vermont 18. Mississippi 37. Virginia 19. Missouri 38. Wisconsin