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- Path: sparky!uunet!usenix!toni
- From: toni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: USENIX Online Library Index Now Available
- Message-ID: <1233@usenix.ORG>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:02:26 GMT
- Reply-To: toni@usenix.UUCP (Toni Veglia)
- Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA
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- USENIX Online Library/Index
- What Is It:
-
- The USENIX online index is an electronically available
- list of papers published by the USENIX Association and
- related groups. The index is kept as a simple ASCII
- file, in refer/bib format, sorted by author, and con-
- tains information about papers published in USENIX
- conference and workshop proceedings, newsletters, jour-
- nal, and the like.
-
- The index is updated approximately monthly.
-
- How to Get the Index:
-
- The index is available online from UUNET, either via a
- mail server or anonymous ftp. The index is about 200K,
- and available only in its entirety.
-
- To get it as mail, send mail to library@uunet.uu.net
- with "send bibliography" as the contents of your message.
-
- To get it via ftp from ftp.uu.net, login as "anonymous"
- with your email address as the password. Then:
-
- ftp> cd library
- 250 CWD command successful.
- ftp> get bibliography
-
- This help file can be retrieved with "send help" or as
- the ftp file "help.bibliography".
-
- (There is no person associated with the library address
- and it will never be read by human eyes.)
-
- How to Access Information:
-
- To build the indices so you can easily access information,
- run "indxbib" on the bibliography: indxbib file.name.
- You can then pull information from the file by running
- "lookbib". You can either build refer files or run
- lookbib interactively.
-
- For example, the following commmand would put all entries
- which refer to Smith into a file called stuff:
- echo smith | lookbib bibliography > stuff.
-
- Or you could interact with the index by saying:
- lookbib bibliography
-
- It will ask you if you want instructions when it starts,
- answer yes. Then at the prompt, for example:
-
- >smith
-
- will list references to smith (upper/lower case doesn't
- matter).
-
- To Get an Online Paper:
-
- As of this date, we have not yet set up the online papers.
- When this capability is provided, we will announce it on
- the net and this document will be updated with retrieval
- information.
-
- Publications Indexed
-
- USENIX:
- Conference proceedings, Workshop proceedings
- Computing Systems Journal, Newsletters
- EurOpen (formerly EUUG - European Unix Users Group):
- Conference proceedings, Newsletters (1982-1989)
-
- Other sources are being continually evaluated and will be
- included as deemed suitable.
-
- Fields Used in the Index
- The standard bib/refer formats are used. These
- include:
-
- %A Author (may be multiple entries)
- %T Title of article
- %P Page number(s)
- %W Primary author's institution
- %I Issuer/publisher
- %B Conference proceedings or book title
- %J Name of newsletter or journal
- %D Date of publication or conference
- %C Location of conference
- %V Volume nbr
- %N Nbr within vol
- %O Other comments (e.g. "Abstract only")
-
- These fields may be extended to include other informa-
- tion such as identifier for retrieval, keywords, online
- format of paper (PostScript, troff, etc.), language (if
- other than English), etc.
-
-
- More Information:
-
- For additional information about the online index and
- library, and/or instructions for donating papers, contact:
-
- index@usenix.org
-
- Or write to:
- USENIX Association
- 2560 Ninth St., Suite 215
- Berkeley CA 94710
-
-