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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 to
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end of each report.
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ART 101 on the Net
Art Appreciation (ART 101) will be taught entirely on-line, self-paced,
and independent but interactive, beginning in March, 1996. Quarter
credits (3, transferable) from Southern Utah University can be earned.
http://www.suu.edu/Museums_Galleries/artapp.html
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Catalog of Electronic Journals
The Catalog of Electronic Journals is searchable and includes over 1800
entries. Categories include: academic and reviewed, college or
university, e-mail newsletters, magazines and newspapers, political,
print magazines, publishing topics, and other resources. Many of the
major categories have subcategories underneath them. Most of the entries
have descriptive information about the journal, along with the URL to
that journal's site. Journal articles are usually not available without
a subscription.
http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/
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EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western
Europe
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe, is provided
by a bibliographer at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
The site includes pointers to documents and full text works for Medieval
and Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supernational Region, and over 20
Western European Countries. Materials are transcribed, translated, or
facsimiles of the originals. Some materials are in the language of the
originating country. Time frame is medieval to present.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
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Carcinogenic Potency Database
The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a widely used resource on
the results of chronic, long-term animal cancer tests. It provides a
single, standardized and easily accessible database that includes
sufficient information on each experiment to permit investigations into
many research areas of carcinogenesis. Both qualitative and quantitative
information on positive and negative experiments are given, including
all bioassays from the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology
Program (NCI/NTP) and results from the general literature that meet a set
of inclusion criteria.
http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html
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"Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal
Implications"
"Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications" by
Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger M.
Mitchell; 1995; Rand Corporation; 267 pages, 24 tables, 18 figures;
bibliography, is available for downloading from Rand Corporation's Web
site. "This is the final report of a two-year RAND study. It is designed
as a sourcebook on key social, technical, economic, and international
issues related to providing universal access to e-mail within the United
States. It is our hope that this report will help stimulate public policy
discussions regarding the feasibility, desirability, and implications of
universal e-mail access. Decision makers involved with such public policy
issues are the primary audience for this report, but it should also be of
interest to academic and business professionals involved with
telecommunications policy and its social implications." The report is
available in both HTML and .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. A free Acrobat
Reader download site is available from the page.
http://www.rand.org/hot/
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Capitol Watch On Line Daily
Capitol Watch On Line offers content on what's going on in the nations
capital daily. A dozen or more headline stories plus a special interests
section and links to the Federal News Service and other government sites.
"Live chat with candidates and the leaders of our nation" is promised to
be coming in 2 weeks.
http://www.capitolwatch.com
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Washington University at St. Louis' FTP archive now on the Web
The gigantic and very popular FTP archive at Washington University at St.
Louis (wuarchive) is now available as a Web site, providing easy access
for those who don't remember how to spell anonymous. Over 65 gigabytes of
files in 11 top level directories (with literally hundreds of directories
underneath) covering such topics as systems, graphics, documentation,
selected Usenet News archives, and educational programs and materials.
New is a list of the hundreds of sites wuarchive mirrors. Concentration
is on computer related items, however see the public directory for an
eclectic selection of files.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/
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Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index
Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index" contains pointers to
works that are in the public domain. As clarified by Mr. Savetz: "Public
domain doesn't mean 'shareware.' It isn't a work that is owned by
somebody else, who allows you to use it for free. It isn't software
distributed under the "GNU Public License," or a copyrighted book that
the author has put online. Public domain means that the creator of the
work, with no strings attached, has given up all rights to the work. It
means that you may do anything with the work that you want - read it,
publish it, put in on CD-ROM, change it."
http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/pd/pd.html
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Virginia County Interactive Mapper
The Virginia County Interactive Mapper (was the Virginia On-Line Atlas)
makes customized maps of every Virginia county and independent city
available on the World Wide Web. It is the first component of the
Geographic Information Center's continuing Virginia Atlas Project
Initiative. Users may customize maps by choosing features to be
displayed, zooming in to a desired level of detail, and selecting
appropriate formats to download data. Users may download maps in a common
binary image file format (GIF) or as an ArcInfo interchange file, making
the data available across platforms and accessible to users of MapInfo,
Atlas GIS, and other popular GIS packages. Each map is generated "on the
fly" after the user selects features to be displayed.
http://ptolemy.gis.virginia.edu:1080/tigermap.html
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Santa's Holiday Bookmarks, including Hanukkah and Kwanzaa
Santa's Holiday Bookmarks, includes "direct e-mail to the North Pole",
the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds till Christmas, a
selection of Advent calendars, religious and general reading selections,
holiday recipes, entertainment, humor, and pointers to Hanukkah sites
and Kwanzaa information.
http://www.america.net/christmas/christmas.html
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The Book Cafe
The Book Cafe is a the conference area for book lovers. Forums like
Fiction, Poetry, Terror, Fantasy, SciFi, and Crafts are available and
each is maintained by a moderator and has multiple Topics. Topics contain
the user's Messages which can be created as regular messages or HTML
messages complete with live links. Each user's message includes their
email address and home page, if available. The Book Cafe is one of the
first online Web conferencing system of its kind. "You're sure to find
the atmosphere friendly."
http://www.books.com/scripts/newcon.exe?sid~UWgmkFlviByoG8L
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Back Packing in Australia
The Australia Back Packers' Guide offers travelers information about
Australian culture, native animals, educational places to visit,
bushwalking and climbing, employment opportunities, embassy information,
hostels and accommodations, tour guides, travel fares, camping, currency
exchange rates, International Student Exchange and more.
http://www.world.net/touristradio/Back_Pack.html
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Tenegra Awards for Internet Marketing Excellence
For those who want to see some of the better Internet marketing efforts
in the last year, the 1995 Tenegra Awards for Internet Marketing
Excellence were posted this week. A panel of experts chose six
organizations for their "innovative and significant successes in the
Internet marketing industry." Federal Express, Ragu Spaghetti Sauce,
Yahoo!, NetPOST, Software.Net, and Virtual Vineyards each excelled in a
specific way or broke new ground. Net watchers will find it interesting.
http://arganet.tenagra.com/
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Hypertext Handbook
The Hypertext Handbook includes a list of 80+ defined commonly used
Internet terms, a huge glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and
acronyms, an Internet and Unix Dictionary, and pointers to a computing
dictionary and jargon lookup.
http://world.std.com/~ldjackso/hthb5.htm
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Inter-Links -- Internet guide, tutorial, and resource
locator
Inter-Links is an easy to use Internet guide, tutorial, and resource
locator. Inter-Links contains extensive original features, and over a
dozen original search engines for finding topics, discussion groups,
software, multimedia files, games, and people. Unlike many internet
guides, *each* of the several thousand resources identified have been
hand selected for maximal utility, ease of access, and minimal hype or
advertising. While emphasizing World Wide Web resources, Inter-Links also
provides comprehensive access to a wide range of other Internet services,
including gopher, telnet, ftp, irc, mud, and bbs resources. Inter-Links
is provided as a public service by Robert Kabacoff and Nova Southeastern
University.
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/
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