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- Introduction
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- The growth of NSFNET in the last few years has brought the
- benefits of networking to researchers at hundreds of
- academic, government and industrial sites. Network users
- have improved access to research tools, and there are
- greater possibilities for collaboration among members of the
- research community. But in order to take maximum advantage
- of more widespread and improved connectivity, users have to
- be aware of the resources that are available to them.
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- Our goal in publishing the _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t _R_e_s_o_u_r_c_e _G_u_i_d_e is to
- provide a service which, by increasing the visibility of
- resources accessible via NSFNET and other parts of the
- Internet, will expose users to those facilities that will
- help them do their work better. We are depending on the
- population of resource providers to furnish us with the
- information for the guide. We expect and hope that as
- copies of the guide are distributed throughout the commun-
- ity, representatives of organizations that maintain
- resources we haven't yet mentioned will submit descriptions
- for inclusion in the guide.
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- April 16, 1990 NNSC Introduction
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- How to Use and Maintain This Guide
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- The _I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t _R_e_s_o_u_r_c_e _G_u_i_d_e is intended to inform Internet
- users about the services available to them on the network.
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- Similar resources are grouped together in sections. Each
- resource has a separate entry that describes the resource,
- identifies who can use the resource, explains how to reach
- the local network via the Internet, and lists contacts for
- more information. For example, Section 1 lists special com-
- puting resources on the Internet, such as supercomputer
- centers and centers for parallel computing. Thus, research-
- ers interested in using a supercomputer can browse through
- the entries in Section 1 in search of a supercomputer center
- that can accommodate their needs.
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- Users interested in locating a particular service can check
- the tables of contents at the start of each section. In the
- future, the NNSC expects to provide an index that allows
- users to locate services based on keywords.
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- Maintaining the Guide
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- The resource guide is designed to be kept in a loose-leaf
- notebook, to make it easy to add or replace sections of
- text.
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- The guide is distributed electronically by the NNSC. If you
- wish to receive the guide, send a note to <resource-guide-
- request@nnsc.nsf.net>. Each section (new or updated) is
- sent in an individual message, which contains both a plain-
- text and a Postscript copy of a resource description. (The
- text in both versions is the same; the Postscript version is
- generally easier to read when printed). Users can then add
- the new section, or replace the existing section with the
- new copy.
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- If you prefer not to receive the guide via electronic mail,
- you may ftp the chapters that are currently available via
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- April 16, 1990 NNSC Using the Guide
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- anonymous ftp from nnsc.nsf.net (in directory _r_e_s_o_u_r_c_e-
- _g_u_i_d_e). We are maintaining a separate mailing list of peo-
- ple who wish to know only when a chapter becomes available
- for ftp. If you wish to be on this list, please send a mes-
- sage to <resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net>.
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