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- TRONIC MEDIA
-
- This section lists bulletin board systems (BBSs), electronic journals and
- newsletters, free-nets, online public access catalogs and sources of news and
- discussion group information.
-
- Bulletin Board Systems
-
- Bulletin board systems support interactive communications between users
- on a wide variety of subjects ranging from hobbies to politics. On some BBSs,
- it is possible for users to communicate both interactively and to leave
- messages for other users. Most BBSs list discussion topics with brief
- descriptions for each heading. Easy-to-use menus guide users through the
- bulletin boards. Some BBSs provide file transfer and transferring services.
- Many bulletin board systems are available to users on the Internet.
-
- List of Internet Accessible BBS - Zamfield's Internet BBS List
- A listing of Internet accessible BBS with a short description of
- topics, costs, and hours.
- Access: ftp.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
- Directory: pub/nic
- File: bbs.list.XX-XX
- Where XX-XX is the most recent date of publicati
- on
-
- Quartz - Rutgers Bulletin Board Service (BBS)
- Access: telnet quartz.rutgers.edu (128.6.60.6)
- Login bbs
-
- Samba - University of North Carolina
- Access: telnet bbs.oit.unc.edu (152.2.22.80)
- Login: bbs
-
- FedWorld - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information
- Service (NTIS).
- This is a pilot project set up by NTIS which allows access to over 100
- U.S. government bulletin boards. Programs, databases and files are available.
- Items include a weekly listing of NTIS' top 25 best-sellers, White House
- policy actions, health care reports, currency exchange rates, weather
- satellite images, government patents available for license and demonstration
- software.
- Access: telnet fedworld.gov (192.239.92.201)
- Login: new
-
- Free-nets
-
- Cleveland Free-Net
- Free-Net is an experiment by Case Western Reserve University in
- providing a free, open access community electronic information system. Based
- on the "community" model, this user friendly system allows you to "travel
- throughout the community," from building to building, gathering information on
- a broad range of topics including health care, education, technology,
- government, and recreation. Although some of the information provided is of
- interest mainly to the Cleveland community, there is also considerable
- information of wider interest such as the USA Today newsfeed.
- Access: telnet freenet-in-a.cwru.edu (129.22.8.38)
- telnet freenet-in-b.cwru.edu (129.22.8.38)
- telnet freenet-in-c.cwru.edu (129.22.8.38)
- (You may login as a visitor or as a registered user. Once logged in you may
- register as a user. A user id and password will be mailed to you.)
-
-
- Journals and Newsletters
-
- Directory of Electronic Journals & Newsletters - 1st ed., Editor;
- Michael Strangelove, (441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.ca)
- Lists over 100 electronic journals, newsletters, and some other items,
- together with information about each publication and procedures for accessing
- it. The Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters is available from
- the Contex-L fileserver and consists of two files. Send email to:
- listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
- In the body of the message type:
-
- get ejournl1 directry
- get ejournl2 directry
-
- The directory is also available in printed format from:
-
- Office of Scientific & Academic Publishing
- Association of Research Libraries
- 1527 New Hampshire Ave, NW
- Washington, DC 20036
- Cost of the printed version is $10 to ARL members; $20 to others
-
- REACH - Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities
- A quarterly newsletter regarding electronic discussion groups and
- network resources of general interest. Also included in the newsletter is
- information on conferences, educational programs, and pointers to articles
- about the humanities and computing.
- Access: ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (128.111.122.50)
- Directory: hcf
- File: reach.XXXX (where XXXX is the most current versi
- on)
- Library Catalogs
-
- This section contains guides that list online public access library
- catalogs (OPACs) accessible to Internet users. This is a particularly useful
- resource for researchers who want documents not held by their local libraries.
- While only the bibliographic citation of the desired document can be retrieved
- (not the document itself), the citation can be used to facilitate and expedite
- the process of acquiring the document through interlibrary loan.
-
- CARL Shopping List of Databases--CARL Corporation Network And Uncover
- Aside from access to the CARL Systems library catalog, The CARL Shopping
- List of Databases contains thousands of publications, products, and services
- for libraries and information centers. While access to the OPAC is free,
- restrictions apply for many of the databases. Information is provided for
- obtaining passwords to those services those which require registration.
- Access: telnet database.carl.org (192.54.81.76)
-
- List of Internet Accessible OPACs - (July 1993.) Billy Barron.
- This resource lists contact information for accessing OPACs worldwide
- and is separated into chapters.
- Access: ftp.utdallas.edu (129.110.10.1)
- Directory: pub/staff/billy/libguide
- File: libraries.intro
- libraries.africa
- libraries.americas - Libraries in the
- libraries.asia
- libraries.australia
- libraries.europe
- libraries.instructions
-
- The Library of Congress Gopher
- This site provides information on the Library of Congress and its
- holdings and access to LCMARVEL, a campus-wide information system. LCMARVEL
- includes access to LOCIS (see below), information on the United States
- Congress and government, calendars of events sponsored by the Library of
- Congress, FAQs, Library of Congress informational bulletins, and information
- concerning current exhibitions.
-
- The Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS)
- LOCIS includes over 15 million catalog records and over 10 million
- records for other types of information: federal legislation, copyright
- registrations, Braille and audio, organizations, and selected foreign legal
- materials.
- Access: telnet locis.loc.gov (140.147.254.3)
- Searching hours are:
- Monday - Friday: 6:30am - 9:30pm; Saturday: 8:00am - 5:00pm;
- Sunday: 1:00pm - 5:00pm (all times EST; closed national holidays)
-
- Library Resources on the Internet: Strategies for Selection and
- Use: Editor; Laine Farley.
- A very useful guide for users of Internet OPACs. This is not a list of
- online OPACs but rather a guide to their use. The document also contains
- useful information on the Internet aimed at new users.
- Access: ftp.unt.edu (129.120.1.1)
- Directory: library
- Filename: libaries.instructions
-
- National Agricultural Library (NAL)
- This Gopher site provides information about the National Agricultural
- Library including phone lists and catalogs of publications and available
- resources. It also furnishes access to agricultural images, various
- documents, and details on different agricultural information centers.
- Access: Gopher to gopher.nalusda.gov 70
-
- National Library of Medicine Online Catalog (NLM Locator)
- The National Library of MedicineUs online catalog contains book, audiovisual
- and journal citations to the biomedical literature.
- Access: locator.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.12.1)
- Login: locator
-
- The NLMN also has an active Gopher site including information on
- AIDS, NIH clinical alerts, and access to "Grateful Med," an online
- tool to search the NLM holdings for bibliographic information.
- Access: Gopher to gopher.nlm.nih.gov
-
- Special Collections on the Internet - Network-News. (Sept. 1992.) Dana
- Noonan.
- A section of the September 1992 edition of Network-News contains a
- listing of special collections available at libraries with Internet OPACs.
- Access: ftp.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
- Directory: pub/nic
- Filename: nnews.9-92
-
-
- News and Discussion Groups
-
- News groups and electronic discussion groups are both comprised of people who
- share a common interest in some activity, e.g., computing, molecular biology,
- car mechanics, etc., and who use the network to exchange ideas and
- information. While items for newsgroups are broadcast to all hosts that
- receive news feeds, items for electronic discussion groups are sent only to
- those who have subscribed, via electronic mail, to a particular group. If you
- are a SURAnet member and do not currently receive a news feed, FTP to
- ftp.sura.net and read the Rhow-to-get-newsS file in the directory pub/news or
- call 1-800-SURAnet. New news users should read the news file
- news.announce.newusers.
-
- News Groups
-
- BioNet Electronic Newsgroup Network
- Developed to allow easy worldwide communications between biological
- scientists who use a variety of computer networks. Newsgroup topics are
- available for distribution to sites on the INTERNET, USENET, BITNET, EARN,
- NETNORTH, HEANET, and JANET.
- Access: ftp.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
- Directory: pub/nic
- Filename: bionet.list
-
- Newsgroup Description
- A listing of existing newsgroups with a brief description.
- Access: rtfm.mit.edu (18.70.0.224)
- Directory:
- pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/active-newsgroups
- File: part1; File: part2
-
-
-
- Discussion Groups
-
- Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences - Editor Diane Kovacs
- This directory contains descriptions of electronic conferences
- (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars. E-conference is the
- umbrella term that includes discussion lists, interest groups, e-journals,
- e-newsletters, Usenet newsgroups, forums, etc. A list of the avaiable files
- follows:
- Access: ksuvxa.kent.edu (131.123.1.1)
- Directory: library
- Files: ACADLIST README (explanatory notes for the Directory)
- ACADSTAC HQX (binhexed, self-decompressing, HYPERCARD
- version of the Directory - Keywo
- rd
- searchable) 498
- ACADSMAL HQX (the above only smaller for small screen Macs)
- ACADLIST FILE1 (Anthropology- Education) 85 k
- ACADLIST FILE2 (Geography-Library and Information Science)115k
- ACADLIST FILE3 (Linguistics-Political Science) 64k
- ACADLIST FILE4 (Psychology-Writing) 68k
- ACADLIST FILE5 (Biological Sciences) 55k
- ACADLIST FILE6 (Physical Sciences) 51k
- ACADLIST FILE7 (Business, Academia, News) 31k
- ACADLIST FILE8 (Computer Science; Social, Cultural, and
- Political Aspects of Computing; an
- d Academic
- Computing Support) 139k
- ACADLIST CHANGES (Listing of all deleted e-conferences deleted
- because they no longer function)
- Interest Groups (List of Lists): (June 14, 1993)
- A list of interest groups on a wide variety of topics. The list is in
- alphabetical order by name of interest group.
- Access: ftp.sura.net (128.167.254.179)
- Directory: pub/nic
- File: interest-groups.txt
- Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists: (July 1991.)
- Available from: Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing
- Association of Research Libraries
- 1527 New Hampshire Ave, NW
- Washington D.C. 20036
- Cost: $10 for ARL members; $20 for non-members
-
- Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists--Stephanie da Silva
- This World Wide Web server includes lists available primarily via
- Internet and the UUCP network. The groups listed here are not all
- administered by the listserv software; some are administered by a list owner.
- Therefore, the method for subscribing to these lists varies and should be
- noted when using these addresses.
- Access: World Wide Web
- URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/cgi-bin/paml.html
-