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Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin
A Project of the InterNIC
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new
and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However, everyone is welcome
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Y'Know, a Web Report for K-12 Students by K-12
Students
Y'Know is a new publication produced by K-12 students as a resource to
other K-12 students. It is an ongoing, cooperative effort of two
classrooms in the Boulder, Colorado/Boulder Valley School District and two
classrooms in the Madison, Wisconsin/Madison Metropolitan School District.
Teachers assist and provide support; however, students select and annotate
all resources included in every issue of Y'Know. The publication is
supported by Net Scout Services. Two issues of Y'Know will be released
during the current school year. In the fall publication will resume and
follow a bi-weekly publication schedule throughout the 1996-97 school
year. This first issue of Y'Know, dated May 31, 1996, was written and
produced by the Nederland JASON Project team members of Nederland Middle
School and Nederland Elementary School, part of the Boulder Valley School
District and located in Nederland, Colorado. It contains sections on
building a home page, oceanography, diving, and just plain fun stuff.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/yknow
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InterNIC News Newsletter -- Vol. 1, No. 3
The June 1996 issue of the InterNIC News newsletter is available for
downloading. Highlights of the newsletter include: a call for
participation in the InterNIC Internet metering and demography
clearinghouse; articles on the federal World Wide Web Consortium of
NSF/NCSA (National Science Foundation/National Center for Supercomputing
Applications--University of Illinois); the VIVA (Virtual Library of
Virginia) network of shared electronic resources; Stanford University's
Highwire Press, a look at electronic scholarly publishing; and the End
User's Corner, which examines Site-ation Pearl Growing as a strategy for
searching for Internet resources.
http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/
ftp://rs.internic.net/NIC-support/newsletter/jun96/
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Oncolink Presents Highlights of the 1996 Annual Meeting
of Society of Clinical Oncology
The well known Oncolink Internet Cancer Resource, provided by the
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, has recently made available
highlights from the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, which took place May 18-21, 1996 in Philadelphia, Pa.
It was the largest cancer conference in the world, with 14,000
participants. Included at the site are highlights from each day's
activities, including interviews, research findings, symposia, newspaper
articles, and speeches. Note that most of this content is excerpted or
summarized. Oncolink is one of the largest and most comprehensive cancer
resources on the Internet, aiming to disseminate oncology information,
educate health care personnel, patients and families, and collect
specialty information.
AASCO meeting highlights:
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/conference/asco96/
Oncolink:
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/
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Equal Rights Party History Project -- collaborative
history from University of Toledo
The Equal Rights Party History Project, provided by Professor Timothy
Messer-Kruse of the University of Toledo, is an "experiment in
participatory research" on the 545 women and men who founded the Equal
Rights Party in May of 1872. Members such as Victoria Woodhull and
Belva Lockwood are well known, but most are anonymous to history. This
site attempts to address that oversight by encouraging interested
Internauts to adopt a founder of the ERP who once lived in a place close
to their hometown as a subject, research that subject, and report the
findings back to the ERP project. At present the site contains a
geographical database of ERP members, a brief history of the Party,
research tips, and an explanation of how to send your information to the
site. The ERP page is an interesting attempt at collaborative primary
history that hopes to "level the ivory tower walls that have long isolated
professional historians and the history they write from everyone else who
make it and live it."
http://www.utoledo.edu/www/erp/
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College Grad Job Hunter
At the heart of the College Grad Job Hunter Web site, provided by Quantum
Leap Publishing, is the Entry Level Jobs Offered Section, which at present
includes eleven companies and is, for the most part, geared toward new
college graduates. The section also offers thirteen pointers to other
sites that provide job information for new grads. Another highlight is
partial text from _College Grad Job Hunter_, by Brian Krueger.
College Grad Job Hunter also provides information on writing cover
letters, resumes, and negotiating offers. Note that at this time most of
the jobs offered are computer related.
http://www.collegegrad.com/
Partial text of _College Grad Job Hunter_:
http://www.collegegrad.com/prep/cgjh/chapters.html
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Dance Links University Pages
One of the highlights of the Dance Links Web site at Purdue University,
compiled mainly from information provided by dance videographer Amy
Reusch, is the University Dance Departments pointers page, a collection of
pointers to over 150 U.S. University Dance departments, as well as
departments in Australia, Canada, Finland, Ireland, and the United
Kingdom. Dance Links also points to resources related to dance companies,
performance listings, publications, organizations, funding, dance schools,
dancers, and other dance indexes.
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~jswhite/dance_links.html
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Nutrition Resources Bulletin Mailing List
nutrition-resbul is an open mailing list for subscriptions to the free
monthly electronic bulletin, Nutrition Resources Bulletin. Although the
bulletin is intended for health professionals, food professionals,
researchers, librarians, teachers and journalists, subscriptions are open
to anyone. Nutrition Resources Bulletin (NRB) features information about
new books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes, Web sites and teaching aids.
Topics covered are normal nutrition (healthy eating, life cycle nutrition,
sports nutrition, vegetarianism, cultural and ethnic resources), medical
nutrition (special diets), quantity food preparation, food service
management, food safety, food science and food security.
To subscribe send email to:
majordomo@sfu.ca
In the body of the message type:
subscribe nutrition-resbul
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The Christian Science Monitor Online
The Christian Science Monitor has recently opened a full text Web edition
that also provides Monitor Radio hourly broadcasts (in RealAudio format),
the mid-day edition of Monitor Radio (available for 24 hours after the
broadcast), continuous headline updates from Associated Press, and Our
Place, an archive of stories and links related to books, arts and music,
TV and film, family and community, travel, the outdoors, and kids.
Available as well are features including an interactive crossword puzzle
(which can be printed out for those with slow connections), email from
correspondents all over the world, and four chat rooms. But perhaps the
best feature of the site (besides full text of each day's issue) is a
free, searchable archive of the newspaper's content back to 1980. The
entire site is free at this time, though there will be charges for certain
parts of it at a future date.
http://www.csmonitor.com/
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_World Resources 1996-97: A Guide to the Global
Environment_
Full text of _World Resources 1996-97: A Guide to the Global Environment_,
produced by the World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment
Programme, United Nations Development Programme, and World Bank, is
available via the Web. It is the official source book for the United
Nations Habitat II Conference being held in Istanbul, Turkey June 3-14,
1996. The tenth edition of _World Resources_ contains two major sections,
Global Conditions and Trends and Data Tables, and The Urban Environment, a
special section concentrating on how urban population growth is affecting
the global environment. Major findings include: "more than half of
humankind will live in urban areas by the end of the century, and 60
percent by 2020; by 2010 the number of motor vehicles could grow to more
than 800 million; and, by 2050, as many as 2.4 billion people could live
in countries facing water scarcity." The report is available in HTML, and
the data tables and Executive Summary are available as Adobe Acrobat .pdf
files. Acrobat may be downloaded from the site. Print version availability
and pricing can be found on the home page at the bottom of the News
Release and under "Ordering Information."
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/index.html
Habitat II Conference:
http://pan.cedar.univie.ac.at/habitat/habitat.html
http://www.un.org/Conferences/habitat/
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Financial Data Finder -- Ohio State University
The Ohio State University Department of Finance has made a Financial
Data Finder available on the Web. There are pointers pages to data
providers, including Canadian, Australian, United Kingdom, and Spanish, as
well as U.S. providers; historical data; free and for-fee current
quotations; market news and analysis; and business libraries. "Couch
potato" investing tips are also provided. Most links have brief
annotations. There are also links to other Internet finance resources.
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
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Gourmet World
Gourmet World, produced by Internet World Broadcasting Corp., is an
epicurean delight. The Culinary Center offers hundreds of recipes,
organized geographically and by main ingredient, as well as pointers to
the pages of over twenty renowned chefs. The Fine Dining Court presents
restaurant reviews and restaurants by cuisine. The Library contains links
to associations, cooking schools, conversion tables, and food information.
Note that this site is a work in progress. However, there is already a
large amount of information about good eating. Bon appetit.
http://www.gourmetworld.com/
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The Rose Resource -- a flower lover's resource
The Rose Resource, provided by All America Rose Selections, is highlighted
by a searchable database of 137 AARS-approved rose gardens in the U.S. It
also contains a list of AARS-award winning roses (with selected photos)
going back to 1940, information about rose use and landscape design,
gardening tips, the history of roses, their symbolism and fragrances, and
a list of AARS trial gardens. AARS is a "non-profit organization of rose
growers and introducers dedicated to garden rose research and promotion."
It has been in existence since 1938.
http://www.rose.org/
Searchable database of AARS approved rose gardens:
http://www.rose.org/Page2/page2b.html
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Zyoga -- Zen Yoga discussion list
Zyoga is a forum for the discussion of Yoga related to Zen Buddhist
practice and philosophy. The list is open to anyone with an interest in
Yoga and Buddhism.
To subscribe send email to:
listproc@mail.win.org
In the body of the message type:
subscribe zyoga Your Name
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InterNIC Directory and Database Services Search
Tools Page
As the number of information resources available on the Internet continues
to increase, there has also been a substantial growth in the search tools
available to help users find the particular information that interests
them. InterNIC Directory and Database Services now offers an online
listing of search tools organized by type of search. The listings include
tools that help users search NetNews, tools that search for particular
software on the net, tools that search for people by name, and various
other search categories.
http://www.internic.net/tools/
InterNIC Directory of Directories:
http://ds.internic.net:80/ds/dsdirofdirs.html
To enter your resource: use the entry form at the above site,
or:
send email to:
admin@ds.internic.net
and request information about how to submit your resource
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Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 Beta Version Released
Adobe has made the hitherto code-named "Amber" Reader an official 3.0 Beta
release, available for free downloading. Features include integration with
popular Web browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer, transparent
navigation between Acrobat .pdf files and HTML, delivery of .pdf files one
page at a time, ability to read .pdf files embedded in HTML pages, an
Acrobat toolbar within a Netscape window, and continuous scrolling and
2-up pages, among others. At present the reader is available for Windows,
Macintosh, and Unix platforms. An alpha version is available for OS/2.
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/3beta/main.html
For more information on Adobe Acrobat see the Scout Toolkit:
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit/3d3.html
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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1996. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.
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