Net Scout Annotations Listed by Library of Congress Classes


[ A ]
Far Eastern Economic Review
http://www.feer.com/
A weekly publication from Review Publishing Company, the Far Eastern Economic Review "is a world authority on Asian current affairs, business, economies and investment," now available in an interactive edition on the web. This frames-based, free (after registration) site contains the contents of each week's issue, as well as a searchable archive of articles previously published on the site. In addition, articles from recent issues can be browsed by country and topic (under "Business News") The site also provides up-to-the-minute Asian business news, and pointers to Asian web sites. Note that the registration process is lengthy, but the content behind it is well worth the wait.

[ AG ]
FAQ Finder
http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/
If you think FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) collections are only good for finding information about computers and technology, a visit to the FAQ Finder will show you otherwise. This collection of pointers to FAQ sites currently lists 28 categories, arranged in alphabetical order in a framed box on the side of the browser window. Within each category users will find dozens of FAQ collections, browsable from within the framed interface of the FAQ Finder. One expects to find Internet and computer FAQs in a collection like this, but here users will also find FAQ collections on animals, art and music, personal finance, health, and other topics. Of course, since this is a collection of pointers to other sites and not a comprehensively maintained FAQ archive, users will find the occasional dead link or outdated information. But having so many FAQ resources available from within one site may allow you to find quickly the information you're looking for.

[ BF ]
Decluttr--Recovery From Cluttering Mailing List

Decluttr is for discussion of recovery from cluttering (aka messiness, hoarding). It is primarily for clutterers; but family members and professionals are welcome. Appropriate topics include personal experiences, helpful organizations, and useful books.
To subscribe send email to:
LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
In the body of the message type:
SUB Decluttr yourfirstname yourlastname

[ CA ]
Britannia Internet Magazine
http://www.britannia.com/
Table of Contents
http://www.britannia.com/content/tofc.html
Britannia Internet Magazine is a monthly e-zine that considers itself a "gateway to the British Isles." At this site, interested Internauts can find a combination of articles and web resources on travel, sports, news, science, history, people, government, the arts, and other topics, as they relate to the British Isles. It is easy and fun to read, and spares the graphics for those with slow connections. Future issues promise to incorporate streaming video and audio, movie clips, and animations. BIM is a marvelous site for Anglophiles who want to keep up on all things British. About the only thing missing at present is an organized complete archive of past issues.

[ DT ]
H-SAfrica AFRI-PHIL H-SAfrica is a new electronic discussion group dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of South African history. H-SAfrica can be described as a cross between an academic journal and a friendly academic newspaper that is delivered to your electronic mailbox on an almost daily basis. It will provide all sorts of useful information, like international job adverts, book reviews, conference announcements and calls for papers. Subscribers will be notified at times of new computer software, websites, films and videos. At the same time, however, it is hoped that subscribers with an interest in South African history will join with in mature discussions of ongoing research, of articles and academic papers, books and journals, methods of teaching and debates on historiography. H-SAfrica is moderated by the editors to filter out inappropriate posts. The primary purpose of AFRI-PHIL is to provide a forum for the exchange of views, experiences, techniques, and professional information pertaining to the teaching and study of the philosophical thought of African and African-diaspora cultures. The principal emphasis of the list will be upon the philosophical examination of African thought and culture, though this emphasis should not be taken restrictively or in a manner excluding the consideration of other approaches (e.g., literary, historical, anthropological, etc.). To subscribe to H-SAfrica send email to: listserv@h-net.msu.edu In the body of the message type: SUB H-SAfrica Firstname Lastname, institution To subscribe to AFRI-PHIL send email to: LISTSERV@BUCKNELL.EDU In the body of the message type: SUB AFRI-PHIL Yourfirstname Yourlastname
[ E ]
NativeTech--Native American Technology
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/NativeTech/
Site Index
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/NativeTech/content/index.html
NativeTech, "an educational web site that covers topics of Native American technology and emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region," is the brainchild of Tara Prindle of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. This site is dedicated to disconnecting the term "Primitive" from perceptions of Native American technology and art. Categories include Essays & Articles, Poetry & Stories, Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage. The site provides in-depth information about many crafts from sewing moccasins to preparing clay to specifics on pine needle basketry. For quality, detail and on-target graphics, NativeTech deserves high marks. Note that the graphical nature of the site will make for slow page downloading for those without fast connections.

[ F ]
Canadian Information by Subject
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ecaninfo.htm
The National Library of Canada (whose main site was reviewed in the July 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report) has expanded on previous Web sites devoted to information about Canada by building a subject tree and populating the tree with links to Canadian-specific information on each subject. The subject tree is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification and makes the site easy and interesting to browse--and you don't have to be a librarian. You can also browse the subject tree in alphabetical order, and keyword searching will be available soon.

[ F ]
The West
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
Developed by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns, PBS's offers a Web site debuting to coincide with the documentary series _The West_, which began airing this week. This frames-based site is both textually and graphically rich. Its stated purpose is to explore "elements of Western history--profiles, documents, images." It includes a mini-guide to each episode, over 75 biographies, interactive timelines, maps, photographs and text documents (letters, legislation and judicial rulings). The only drawback is that the site is somewhat confusing to navigate. Users must follow site instructions carefully in order to navigate between the contents listing frame and the main frame.

[ GV ]
1996 Chess Olympiad
http://www.chess96.com/
Game transcripts and commentary
http://www.chess96.com/Olympiad/default.html
Latest news on results and pairings
http://www.chess96.com/news/default.html
The 1996 Chess Olympiad is taking place from September 15 through October 2 in Yerevan, Armenia. Internet Telepresence is providing a web site for interested Internauts to follow the proceedings. At the heart of the site is the "Live Games" section, which replays selected games with commentary. Information is also available regarding the teams, the schedule, and the results, as well as the World Chess Federation's top 100 players listing as of July 1996.

[ GV ]
College Sports Online
http://www.collegesports-online.com/
Follow your favorite major college football (Division 1-A) and basketball teams from this one-stop shopping site to all conferences and all schools in the division. Coverage from the local newspapers for each team is provided, as well as links to those newspapers with Web sites. National interest information is also provided, including links to organizations or places important to the overall collegiate and recruiting scene, and to national publications. You can hear audio clips of Fight Songs from the schools, and coming soon is a section devoted to those interesting and odd traditions practiced on many campuses during the season.

[ GV ]
golfcourse.com
http://www.golfcourse.com/
Finding a golf course has never been so easy! What started out as GolfAmerica, the world's largest golf course directory, has been taken over by InterZine productions (www.interzine.com), renamed, and added to its popular golf site iGOLF (www.igolf.com). golfcourse.com is a comprehensive guide to over 16,000 golf courses throughout the world, and offers complete information about each course's design, layouts, maps, rankings, reviews, message boards, player fees, caddies/carts, and more. At its heart is the "course locator," an extensive search engine that can be searched by course name, location, course difficulty, cost, architect, or description keyword. There are also feature articles on such topics as travel, course architecture, and effects of the environment on your game. golfcourse.com has the polished feel of a corporate web site and makes excellent use of tables and frames to organize information. Note that the site makes liberal use of graphics and complex layouts, so a fast connection is helpful.

[ H ]
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, and Other eLib Projects
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
biz/ed--Business education on the Internet
http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/
eLib HomePage
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/
EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)is a newly available web engineering meta-resource. Provided by eLib (Electronic Library Programme), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and the University Library and Institute for Computer Based Learning of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), it contains over 1300 browsable and searchable resources. Users may browse nine major categories, including chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, materials, and environmental engineering, engineering design, and general engineering. Each major category is further subdivided for ease of browsing, and filters allow users to specify both resource type and UK- or non-UK-specific information. Boolean AND/OR/NOT and truncation searching is also available. Each listing offers a general description of the site and a link to a more detailed entry, as well as a connection to the described site. EEVL joins several other eLib projects (biz/ed, OMNI, SOSIG--see URLs above) that should greatly aid researchers and educators in finding quality UK and non-UK research and education resources on the Internet (OMNI was discussed in the April 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report). Each project, although funded by eLib, is controlled by its own producers.

[ HA ]
Census Data for the United States 1790-1860
http://icg.harvard.edu/census/
The Instructional Computing Group of Harvard University, in cooperation with Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan, has made a subset of historical data from U.S. decennial censuses from 1790 to 1860 available for forms-based querying on the web. Data availability varies by year and state. From 1790 to 1830, most data concerns population breakouts by age, sex, and free or slave. From 1840 to 1860 much more data is available, including occupation, education, churches, mortality, and property and wealth, among others. After year selection, users query the database for state(s) and variable(s). Data returned can then be sorted by variable. Data are available at the state and county level, although county querying is not possible. There is no facility at this time for downloading data to statistical programs; however, this is a small price to pay for a virtual treasure house of U.S. historical information.

[ HC ]
Russia's Demographic "Crisis"
http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF124/index.html
The Rand Organization has recently made available via the Web the full text of Russia's Demographic "Crisis." "This volume is an outgrowth of a June 5-6, 1995 conference at which a group of Russian demographers presented the results of their pioneering research on Russia's demographic 'crisis' to American colleagues from the Rand Organization, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the International Programs Center of the US Bureau of the Census." The six papers that make up the volume deal with two broad categories: "(1) fertility and family planning; and (2) issues in the area of health and mortality--health status, health care, and population aging." The scope of a Russian demographic crisis is hotly debated, as well as "the interrelations between economic reforms and demographic trends in Russia." Russia's Demographic "Crisis" should shed some light on this topic.

[ HF ]
Accounting Resources on the Internet--Rutgers University
http://info.rutgers.edu/accounting/raw/internet/internet.htm
Information on International Accounting Network
http://info.rutgers.edu/accounting/raw.htm
Accounting Resources on the Internet, provided by Rutgers University, provides one-stop shopping for accounting resources. Here, interested Internauts can find information on the "Big Six" accounting firms, links to over 200 accounting firms in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 30 different accounting associations, information on accounting-related publications, educational, finance, and audit resources, and more. Accounting Resources is part of the Rutgers Accounting Web, which in turn, is part of the International Accounting Network (IAN). IAN, at present, includes providers from the United Kingdom, Australia, Finland, and the University of Hawaii.

[ HF ]
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, and Other eLib Projects
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
biz/ed--Business education on the Internet
http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/
eLib HomePage
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/
EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)is a newly available web engineering meta-resource. Provided by eLib (Electronic Library Programme), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and the University Library and Institute for Computer Based Learning of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), it contains over 1300 browsable and searchable resources. Users may browse nine major categories, including chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, materials, and environmental engineering, engineering design, and general engineering. Each major category is further subdivided for ease of browsing, and filters allow users to specify both resource type and UK- or non-UK-specific information. Boolean AND/OR/NOT and truncation searching is also available. Each listing offers a general description of the site and a link to a more detailed entry, as well as a connection to the described site. EEVL joins several other eLib projects (biz/ed, OMNI, SOSIG--see URLs above) that should greatly aid researchers and educators in finding quality UK and non-UK research and education resources on the Internet (OMNI was discussed in the April 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report). Each project, although funded by eLib, is controlled by its own producers.

[ HG ]
Finance Area
http://www.tsi.it/finanza/index.html
Central Banks of the World
http://adams.patriot.net/~bernkopf/
Finance Area, provided by Top Services International, is a giant frames-based meta-page of pointers to international finance sites in the areas of companies, markets, the European Union, stock, equity markets, and financial analysis, among others. Sites are not annotated, but the sheer number of sites along with the international flavor is what makes this site unique. Note that users must navigate from pointers page to pointers page inside of the left hand frame and this can be somewhat confusing. The opening page of any section is just a description of the various subsections within that section. Note also that almost all of the graphics at this site (which slow down transmission considerably, depending on the condition of the network between the user and Venice, Italy), can be turned off with minimal loss of content.
Central Banks of the World is a pointers page to central banks and central bank information for over 45 countries, as well as multilateral financial institutions, research and training establishments, and conference information. To show how little is generally known about the history of central banking in the United States, this site includes an email message sent to the webmaster of the First Bank of the United States, promoting a certain software company's web interactivity applications. Of course, since the First Bank of the United States was closed in 1811, its web site is primarily historical. The Central Banks site lists over 30 Internet directories and pointers pages that list the First Bank of the United States as a functioning financial institution. To help remedy this situation, the site includes a pointer to a brief history of banking in the US.

[ HQ ]
PlanetOut
http://www.planetout.com/
Yahoo PlanetOut Headlines
http://headlines.yahoo.com/planetout
Available since mid-1995 on the Microsoft Network, PlanetOut this week moves to the Web (as well as onto America Online, a major sponsor of the site). Calling itself a "worldwide community of gay, lesbian, bi, and trans people," the site offers a new home for the longstanding Queer Resources Directory (QRD), which since 1991 has been the Internet starting point for researchers and others interested in issues of marginal sexualities. In addition, there is netQueery, a guide to "everything queer on the Net," as well as arts and entertainment features, political and community pages, and chat and message areas. The news section is updated daily, and is also available in the PlanetOut section of the Yahoo Headlines service. Though the site is new to the Web, it shows considerable polish that is the result of a year's presence on MSN. Registration is free and optional.

[ HQ ]
Issues '96--New York Times and NPR
http://www.nytimes.com/issues/
Issues '96 is "a six-week on-line collaboration by The New York Times on the Web and National Public Radio focusing on the issues in this fall's US election campaign." In the areas of community, money, rights, safety, and world, the site offers synopses of several sub-issues, a collection of NPR and New York Times stories about the issues, a primer on the issues (produced by "the nonpartisan research group Public Agenda"), forums hosted by NPR correspondents or other experts, and "Where they Stand," which points to the party platforms on the issues. There are also links to Project Vote Smart (discussed in the Feb. 2, 1996 issue of the Scout Report) and the Library of Congress' Thomas service. In addition, the site contains transcripts and audio clips on issues from local voters (part of NPR's Election Project). The highlight of the site is the availability of over 120 articles, transcripts, and audio files from the two sponsors.

[ HQ ]
CLASSOF64--Teenage Life in the 60s Discussion List
CLASSOF64-This is the place to come to talk about what it was like to be a teenager during the 1960s. Ask questions, share some of your favorite memories. Get the name of that song you loved. What did you call a pair of shoes? Was growing up a teenager on the East Coast the same as on the West Coast? Subscribe and find out. CLASSOF64 could be the most fun you've had since you were a teenager. Join in on the fun as CLASSOF64 recount, recall, and remember what our life was like as teenagers in the '60s.
To subscribe send email to:
hub@xc.org
In the body of the message type:
subscribe classof64

[ HQ ]
Two New Publications from National Center For Education Statistics (NCES)
_Youth Indicators 1996_
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/yi/
_Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1976-1994_
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/96902.html
Adobe Acrobat Reader Software for many platforms
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/readstep.html
The US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has recently made two publications (in .pdf format) available at its web site. _Youth Indicators 1996: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth_ is "a statistical compilation of data on family structure, jobs, education, and other elements that comprise the world of young people." It contains 69 tables and charts covering such subjects as demographics, family income, health, employment, and educational outcomes, among others. The tables and charts, which generally present data from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, are intended to give quick, concise information. _Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1976-1994_ is a 112-page statistical review of all aspects of its topic, highlighted by 9 charts and 54 tables covering enrollment, degrees conferred, staff and salaries, finance, revenue, and expenditures. The Executive Summary and Introduction, which appear on the website, encapsulate the findings. While the 1.15 megabyte download may be arduous for users with slow connections, but the content of the report is certainly worth waiting for.

[ HX ]
Gramsci Bibliography
http://www.soc.qc.edu/gramsci
The Sociology Department of Queens College, City University of New York, offers the searchable _Bibliographia Gramsciana_, by John M. Cammett and Maria Luisa Righi, a research bibliography containing 10,350 items on the life and works of Antonio Gramsci. Citations to works in 33 languages written between 1922 and 1993 are available. Also available, as ASCII files, are the first five issues (1992-95) of the Newsletter of the International Gramsci Society. The bibliography is searchable by keyword, but is not configured for browsing. The introduction to the bibliography contains bibliographic reference breakouts by year and language. Note that this is a bibliography of works on and about Gramsci, not by him.

[ JF ]
Electronic Democracy and Elections--EDEM-ELECT Discussion List
EDEM-ELECT has been established to promote citizen exchange efforts during the election season. EDEM-ELECT intends to bring together those working to facilitate online public discussion and participation in elections held in 1996 or 1997. Depending upon the usefulness of this forum its charter may be expanded or reduced. For now EDEM-ELECT is focused on the exchange of ideas, plans, and experiences among individuals and groups working across the world to develop local, regional, or national efforts. In particular it wishes to encourage discussions on how to build and maintain geographically focused online citizen participation forums. Noting the strong concentration of activity by national media and commercial organizations, the US Presidential race will not be a primary focus. Instead EDEM-ELECT will concentrate on the "how to's" of organizing local, non-partisan efforts; such as how to recruit volunteers, how to attract and use in-kind information infrastructure donations (WWW site, e-mail lists, etc.), how to build an audience, how to work with campaigns, the media and political organizations, and how to coordinate the technical and social/political aspects of online open forums. It must be noted, however, this list is not for abstract discourse on the virtues and/or vices of representative and/or direct democracy.
To subscribe send email to:
listproc@mtn.org
In the body of the message type:
subscribe edem-elect Your Name Here

[ JK ]
Government Information Xchange
http://www.info.gov/
The Australian Governments' Entry Point
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/
Two examples of sites that are powerful in their organization of government information pointers are the US General Services Administration's Government Information Xchange, and the National Library of Australia's recently reorganized Australian Governments' Entry Point. The GSA has established the Government Information Xchange in order to "facilitate the assimilation, sharing and dissemination of information resources among federal, state and local governments, and to provide a convenient forum for all levels of government to share and exchange information with businesses and the American public." The Xchange is a page of links to federal, state, and local government information providers, as well as selected foreign government sources. It is searchable as well as browsable. The Australian Governments' Entry Point has connections to commonwealth, state, and local government information, as well as judicial information. Although the information pointed to by these sites is by no means new, they both act as gateways to information at all geographical levels of government in their respective countries. Note that parts of the Government Information Xchange are frames based.

[ JK ]
Government Information Xchange
http://www.info.gov/
The Australian Governments' Entry Point
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/gov/
Two examples of sites that are powerful in their organization of government information pointers are the US General Services Administration's Government Information Xchange, and the National Library of Australia's recently reorganized Australian Governments' Entry Point. The GSA has established the Government Information Xchange in order to "facilitate the assimilation, sharing and dissemination of information resources among federal, state and local governments, and to provide a convenient forum for all levels of government to share and exchange information with businesses and the American public." The Xchange is a page of links to federal, state, and local government information providers, as well as selected foreign government sources. It is searchable as well as browsable. The Australian Governments' Entry Point has connections to commonwealth, state, and local government information, as well as judicial information. Although the information pointed to by these sites is by no means new, they both act as gateways to information at all geographical levels of government in their respective countries. Note that parts of the Government Information Xchange are frames based.

[ JX ]
United Nations Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Conference On Disarmament Information
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/disset.htm
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Information and Full Text
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/ctbt.htm
Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/warfare.htm
Full text of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 10, 1996, is available (in .pdf format) from the United Nations Office (Geneva) web site. In addition, the site contains information on the Conference on Disarmament, as well as selected full texts of major international documents on disarmament and related issues, including "Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases" (1925), Geneva Convention documents (1949), "Partial Test Ban Treaty" (1963), and "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons" (1993), among many others. Some of these documents are in .pdf format, others are ASCII text. Connections to the free Adobe Acrobat reader can be obtained from the Conference on Disarmament Information home page (a frames-based page).

[ JX ]
United Nations Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Conference On Disarmament Information
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/disset.htm
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Information and Full Text
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/ctbt.htm
Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/warfare.htm
Full text of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 10, 1996, is available (in .pdf format) from the United Nations Office (Geneva) web site. In addition, the site contains information on the Conference on Disarmament, as well as selected full texts of major international documents on disarmament and related issues, including "Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases" (1925), Geneva Convention documents (1949), "Partial Test Ban Treaty" (1963), and "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons" (1993), among many others. Some of these documents are in .pdf format, others are ASCII text. Connections to the free Adobe Acrobat reader can be obtained from the Conference on Disarmament Information home page (a frames-based page).

[ JX ]
United Nations Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Conference On Disarmament Information
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/disset.htm
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Information and Full Text
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/ctbt.htm
Major International Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/distreat/warfare.htm
Full text of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 10, 1996, is available (in .pdf format) from the United Nations Office (Geneva) web site. In addition, the site contains information on the Conference on Disarmament, as well as selected full texts of major international documents on disarmament and related issues, including "Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases" (1925), Geneva Convention documents (1949), "Partial Test Ban Treaty" (1963), and "Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons" (1993), among many others. Some of these documents are in .pdf format, others are ASCII text. Connections to the free Adobe Acrobat reader can be obtained from the Conference on Disarmament Information home page (a frames-based page).

[ K ]
"Emerging Law on the Electronic Frontier"
http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/journal.html
http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/announce.html
The well known Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the Information Systems Division of the School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a net-only journal focusing on "issues that present special challenges in computer-mediated communication in a globally interconnected Networld." Its two most recent issues (Vol 2., Nos. 1 and 2), "Emerging Law on the Electronic Frontier" Parts 1 and 2, contain sixteen articles on this topic. Included are articles on "lawyers in the net world," cyberspace and copyright law, privacy, obscenity, online consumer protection, due process, customary law and process, and selling on the Internet, among others. "Cyberlaw" is a relatively new field, and there is much to be learned about it in these two issues. Note that while the home page of JMJC does not use frames, these two issues are frames based.

[ KF ]
US Supreme Court Decisions--1937-1975
http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
Full text of US Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975 (7,407 decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of US Reports) has been made available via the US Air Force FLITE (Federal Legal Information Through Electronics) system. Users may access the decisions through a search interface that presently allows querying by keyword or case name. Decisions are available in ASCII format.

[ L ]
Montessori Education Discussion List
The montessori-l mailing list is a forum for the discussion of the Montessori teaching method. The list is currently moderated and welcomes Montessori teachers, parents with children attending Montessori schools, parents homeschooling their children via the Montessori method and everyone who is interested in the Montessori education of children at any age. It is a place to share information, lesson plans or ideas, to ask questions, to discuss problems and successes on a more personal level than on a message board.
To subscribe send email to:
listserv@listserv.aol.com
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE MONTESSORI-L your real name

[ LB ]
Education Week Web Edition
http://www.edweek.org/
"America's Education Newspaper of Record" now publishes a Web edition. The full text of the print version is available online, as well as the monthly Teacher Magazine. The site is in final testing, so not all areas are fully functional; however, the depth of material already available makes it worthwhile to check out now. Content is divided into general categories: This Week's News offers headlines in education; In Context provides background on issues, organizations and resources relating to education; Teacher Magazine is the online version of the popular print publication; and Election Watch investigates the future of public education under the two major-party Presidential candidates, as well as important issues in the election. Searching of 15 years of archived content will be available soon, and will be free for a limited time (fee information is not yet available). The site is polished graphically, making effective and unobtrusive use of frames and images.

[ LB ]
Teachers.Net's Website Handbook and Homepage Maker 2.0
Website Handbook:
http://teachers.net/manual/
Homepage Maker 2.0:
http://teachers.net/sampler/
The well-known Teachers.Net, a collection of resources aimed at helping educators establish a web presence, has added two new services. Homepage Maker 2.0 is a fully automated web page generator. Once you fill out an online form specifying text, bullets, images, and even Java applets, JavaScripts, and other advanced web functions, an HTML file is automatically generated and emailed to you. The Net Website Handbook is not an HTML instructional guide, but rather an introduction to starting a web site. It reviews the various software (commercial and shareware) available and indicates how and where to download it; it also describes the differences between the various browsers, touches on graphics formats, points to various HTML instructional guides, and explains the procedures for getting your pages onto the web.

[ LB ]
Teachers.Net's Website Handbook and Homepage Maker 2.0
Website Handbook:
http://teachers.net/manual/
Homepage Maker 2.0:
http://teachers.net/sampler/
The well-known Teachers.Net, a collection of resources aimed at helping educators establish a web presence, has added two new services. Homepage Maker 2.0 is a fully automated web page generator. Once you fill out an online form specifying text, bullets, images, and even Java applets, JavaScripts, and other advanced web functions, an HTML file is automatically generated and emailed to you. The Net Website Handbook is not an HTML instructional guide, but rather an introduction to starting a web site. It reviews the various software (commercial and shareware) available and indicates how and where to download it; it also describes the differences between the various browsers, touches on graphics formats, points to various HTML instructional guides, and explains the procedures for getting your pages onto the web.

[ LC ]
STRONG>Institute For Academic Technology--University of North Carolina
http://www.iat.unc.edu/
Cybrarian's Desk
http://www.iat.unc.edu/cybrary/cybrary.html
The Institute for Academic Technology (IAT) at the University of North Carolina, "is dedicated to the proposition that information technology can be a valuable tool for improving the quality of student learning, increasing access to education, and containing the costs of instruction." With that in mind, its web site provides a clearinghouse of information devoted to the subject. The highlight of the site is its publications section, which includes the full text of academic and technical papers on such subjects as converting classroom courses to distributed courses, using multimedia to enhance instruction, and classroom design in the age of information technology, among others. In addition, this section holds complete archives of IAT Infobits, a monthly information and instruction technology newsletter, The Monitor, a new biweekly publication that explores hot topics in instructional technology, and information resource guides on 15 different topics ranging from copyright to grants. The site also contains information about IAT's work in consulting, consortia, technology, and workshops. The Cybrarian's Desk contains a site map, as well as external links to related topics.

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Who elects the President?--NickNacks Collaborative Education on the Internet
http://www1.minn.net:80/~schubert/VoteSum.html
NickNacks: Collaborative Education on the Internet
http://www1.minn.net:80/~schubert/NickNacks.html
Who Elects the President? is a new collaborative education project for grades 5-12 from the NickNacks Telecollaborative Learning project. It will run from October 2 to November 22, 1996 and is intended to be a "multidisciplinary project, incorporating activities in civics, language arts, mathematics, science, art and technology." Balloting is to be simulated for the upcoming US presidential election. The project is designed for individual classrooms or entire schools to participate in. Balloting, result compilation, and data analysis materials, as well as materials for several optional activities, will be provided by October 1, 1996. While American students are being solicited to participate in the balloting exercise, international students are encouraged to participate (after the actual November 5, 1996 election) in analyzing the results and contributing their opinions to the forthcoming NickNacks forum Students OnPolitics Online.

[ LC ]
Two New Publications from National Center For Education Statistics (NCES)
_Youth Indicators 1996_
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/yi/
_Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1976-1994_
http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/96902.html
Adobe Acrobat Reader Software for many platforms
http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/readstep.html
The US Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has recently made two publications (in .pdf format) available at its web site. _Youth Indicators 1996: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth_ is "a statistical compilation of data on family structure, jobs, education, and other elements that comprise the world of young people." It contains 69 tables and charts covering such subjects as demographics, family income, health, employment, and educational outcomes, among others. The tables and charts, which generally present data from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, are intended to give quick, concise information. _Historically Black Colleges and Universities 1976-1994_ is a 112-page statistical review of all aspects of its topic, highlighted by 9 charts and 54 tables covering enrollment, degrees conferred, staff and salaries, finance, revenue, and expenditures. The Executive Summary and Introduction, which appear on the website, encapsulate the findings. While the 1.15 megabyte download may be arduous for users with slow connections, but the content of the report is certainly worth waiting for.

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Chemistry and Industry Magazine
http://ci.mond.org/
Society of Chemical Industry Home Page
http://sci.mond.org/
Chemistry and Industry Magazine, a bimonthly product of the Society of Chemical Industry, provides selected full-text articles from the print magazine in the areas of news, commentary, features, latest results from chemical literature, and highlights from the latest European patents. In addition, there is a searchable and browsable archive of past issues, a daily news section, and searchable jobs and meetings databases. The Society of Chemical Industry is "an international association of about 6000 members aimed at furthering applied chemistry." One of the highlights of its web site is its publication section, where, under "electronic publications," readers can find updated daily news, jobs and meetings listings on chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and the environment. The SCI home page also carries information about the organization, as well as details about its over 35 subject and geographical groups and their meeting schedules.

[ ML ]
The Nixon-Presley Meeting--George Washington University National Security Archive
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/nsa/elvis/elnix.html
GWU National Security Archive
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/
One of the highlights of the recently opened National Security Archive (George Washington University) web site, is the Richard Nixon-Elvis Presley meeting section. After writing a six-page letter in which he suggested being made a "'Federal Agent-at-Large'" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs," Elvis Presley visited President Nixon on December 21, 1970. This site contains an image of the actual letter along with a transcription, and several presidential staff memoranda regarding the meeting (in .gif format). In addition, there is background on the meeting and photographs from it. The Nixon-Presley meeting is but one example of declassified documents that the Archive has acquired through the Freedom of Information Act and made available at the site. In addition, the Archive contains material on the Cuban Missile Crisis, selected White House email, and a searchable catalog of bibliographic records in its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Database (1945-1990).

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Incredible Art Department
http://www.in.net/~kenroar/
Text only:
http://www.in.net/~kenroar/textindex.html
At the heart of the Incredible Art Department, provided by an Indiana elementary and middle school art teacher, is the lesson plan section; it contains over 20 lesson plans, submitted by elementary, middle school, high school, and college art teachers. The site also offers links to the best school art on the Net, and a selected monthly school art room, featuring a gallery of that school's work. Users will also find links to elementary, secondary, and higher education art rooms and departments ("Art Stuff"), and a pointer to an art "site of the week." Note that while the main address is heavily graphical, much of the information at this site is also available in text-only format.

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The CeramicsWeb--San Diego State University
http://apple.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/ceramicsweb.html
The highlight of the CeramicsWeb, provided by Richard Burkett, a professor of art - ceramics at San Diego State University, is its section on ceramics databases, which includes searchable databases of tested and untested glaze recipes, "a searchable database of glaze and clay ingredient analyses," and a pointer to an interactive glaze calculation page, among others. CeramicsWeb also contains pointers to articles on ceramics, electron microscope photographs of clay, ceramics software, and links to other ceramics and arts related sites.

[ P ]
MEDIAPOLIS
http://www.partal.com/mediapolis/ANG/index.html
MEDIAPOLIS, provided by Lavinia TV and BiB Media, is meant to be "a whole resources index about mass media about the Net." To that end, this frames-based site has compiled a large number of international (predominantly European and American) links to press, radio, TV, news agencies, university media, and advertising. While the site is a work in progress and the strength of each section varies, the press section is particularly strong. The fact that MEDIAPOLIS is organized on international lines also is a plus. At present the site available in English, Spanish, and French (see the flags on the bar under the MEDIAPOLIS logo).

[ PN ]
Greatest Films of All Time
http://www.filmsite.org/films.html
Greatest Films of All Time is a loving tribute to great films, provided by Tim Dirks. Here you can find plot information on hundreds of classic films, arranged by year, genre, and title. Also, there are sections on memorable film quotations (which are linked to the movie they came from), as well as great scenes. Possibly the best part of the entire site is the large bibliography of film reference books. The only drawback to the site is that it is not searchable. Are these the best films of all time? Half the fun of this site is comparing your list to Mr. Dirks'.

[ PN ]
The Gist--TV and the Internet
http://www.theGIST.com/
Gist TV listings
http://www.theGIST.com/index.dpg
At the heart of The Gist TV and the Internet site is a listing of TV shows for the day on over 35 cable and network channels. Listings can be viewed in a grid, and by time, channel or category. Also included are Gist's daily best web picks, daily best TV picks, and special columns about TV. For the couch potato who spends a lot of time also looking at the computer screen, Gist can be a virtual TV Guide. Note that this is a very graphical site, as would be expected for a site about TV.

[ PS ]
NETLiNkS The Written Word--African American and Canadian Literature
http://www.netlinks.net/Netlinks/AFRO/words.html
NETLiNkS Afrocentric Guide to the WWW
http://www.netlinks.net/Netlinks/AFRO.HTML
NETLiNkS Afrocentric Guide to the WWW has recently added the Written Word to its compilation of African American and Canadian resources. This annotated pointers page includes an eclectic collection of information and full-text sites. Included are individual works, collections of works, historic speeches, and connections to such sites as H-AFRARTS, the Quarterly Black Review of Books, and other meta-collections of African American literature, among others. Also included in the Afrocentric Guide are Afro Web Directory, Events Calendar, Black History Archive, and Flavour of the Week (discussed in the May 24, 1996 Scout Report). It is one of the better Afrocentric meta-indexes on the web.

[ PZ ]
Canadian Review of Materials
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/cm/
Published by the Manitoba Library Association, the Canadian Review of Materials is the Web version of _CM Magazine_, a bi-weekly review of Canadian materials for young people. _CM Magazine_ contains book, media, and web reviews, as well as news, features, and stories of interest to teachers, librarians, parents, and kids. Though Web issues began appearing in June 1995, the site offers an archive of reviews, feature stories, interviews, and articles from the print version back to 1971. The archives are indexed by date, author, title, age group, and media type. The site contains pictures, sound clips and video clips. You can search for authors, book titles, and reviewers. In concert with McNally Robinson Booksellers the site offers ordering services for any book reviewed in the magazine.

[ Q ]
ChemCenter
http://www.ChemCenter.org/
The new online home of the American Chemical Society, ChemCenter intends to be the starting point for those seeking chemistry resources on the Internet. The full text of current-year issues of several ACS journals is available: Biochemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, and Environmental Science & Technology. Articles may be read in HTML format or downloaded as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files. The journal pages make intensive, though effective, use of browser frames. The site currently offers links to the home pages of the ACS's other journals, as well as Chemical Patents Plus and Analytical Chemistry's LabGuide; slated for availability in the next two months are a Graduate School Finder and a Chemcyclopedia. Links to the ACS's many professional services (career, membership, and grants) are arranged on a single page for easy reference. The "Conferences and Communications" page provides links to meetings, conferences, newsletters, policy groups, and outreach programs, as well as other Internet resources for chemists. The "Education Center" provides access to the ACS's extensive range of instructional offerings. Free registration, though not currently required, will be necessary to access special services in the future.

[ Q ]
Internet Engineering Curriculum
http://iec.nlanr.net/
The Internet Engineering Curriculum, a frames-based site provided by the National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR), attempts to "coordinate and make available on the web a 'distributed living curriculum' in network engineering." At present, it contains sections on Infrastructure Support, Developing Protocols, Applications, Social, Code Development, and Imminent Technologies. Each of these categories is further subdivided; these subcategories point to existing higher education classes in the topic, when available, as well as to other resources relating to the topic. The "distributed" aspect of this project means that the site will always be a work in progress; where class information is presently missing, a forms-based interface allows you to add the URL of your class. In this way, a "living curriculum" can be built over time.

[ Q ]
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/
Nobel Prizes will be awarded in October 1996, and interested Internauts can find much useful information on past prize winners at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive, provided by Ona Wu and Boris Pevzner. At the heart of this frames-based site is a collection of annotated links to all past winners in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace, economics, and physiology & medicine. Entries contain a short explanation of what the prize was received for, along with brief biographical information and hypertext links to other information about the recipient when available. The maintainers of the site encourage submissions of links. Prize winner information is available both by year and alphabetically. There is a complete section on the 1995 prizes, and that section should be updated next month. This site is a very useful reference for those interested in information on Nobel laureates. Note that the Nobel Prize Internet Archive is in no way affiliated with the Nobel Foundation.

[ Q ]
STRONG>increase & diffusion--From the Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/i+d/
Less graphical entrance
http://www.si.edu/i+d/toc.html
"increase & diffusion" is a new monthly webzine from the Smithsonian Institution that seeks to "capture the breadth of the institution." (The title is based on SI's mission: "the increase and diffusion of knowledge." The magazine will cover a wide variety of topics and their relationship to Smithsonian projects. The inaugural issue contains articles on the Smithsonian's "Wine in American History and Culture" symposium, poetry from Reuben Jackson's collection _Fingering the Keys_, an interview with former Los Angeles Laker basketball player James Worthy (in .wav format), and an article on how the Smithsonian obtained artifacts from a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This was the site of one of the first sit-ins to challenge racial segregation in the South, initiated by four African American students on February 4, 1960. The webzine is graphically rich, and it promises to make the stories behind the scenes at the Smithsonian as interesting as the Institution itself.

[ QA ]
Netscape Frames Tutorial
http://www.newbie.net/frames/
The Netscape Frames Tutorial, provided by Charlton D. Rose, is a no-nonsense, illustrated tutorial for the web designer interested in using this Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) feature that was pioneered by Netscape. Sections in the tutorial include "Laying Out Frames," "Targeting Frames," "Targeting Windows," and "The Tags," along with implementation notes regarding effective frame presentation. Each section contains HTML examples. Note that this site assumes knowledge of HTML and basic (non-framed) web site creation.

[ QA ]
Searching The Internet: Some Basic Considerations and Automated Search Indexes
http://rs.internic.net/nic-support/nicnews/enduser.html
This article, which appears in the September issue of InterNIC Newsletter, is a primer that looks at eight Internet search engines (Alta Vista, Open Text, WebCrawler, Excite, Infoseek Guide, Lycos, HotBot, and Infoseek Ultra), from the point of view of user search features, rather than speed or size of index. It also gives brief explanations of such features as Boolean searching, proximity operators, field searching, phrase searching, and truncation searching. The article is accompanied by a table that gives the basic syntax for how to use these features. It also speaks to some fundamental considerations for creating a search strategy. "Searching the Internet" will be at this URL until October 1, when it will be replaced by another End User's Corner, and moved to the site's archive.

[ QA ]
Exercises in Math Readiness For University Study
http://math.usask.ca/readin/
This site, provided by the University of Saskatchewan Mathematics Department, contains a collection of exercises "on those high school mathematics topics that seem to be most important for university study in mathematics, the other sciences, engineering, and commerce." Exercises are available at three levels of difficulty in fifteen subject areas ranging from absolute value and distance to polynomials and roots. In addition to the exercises, there is an explanation of each topic. Solutions are provided for all exercises, and, for more advanced exercises, hints are available as well. At present seven additional topics contain explanations but not exercises. This site is an effective resource for advanced high school math students preparing for college classes. Note that your browser must support subscripts and superscripts in order to get the most out of the exercises (version 2 of both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer will work fine).
[ QC ]
sci.physics.relativity
This newsgroup is the place to discuss and ask questions on the theory of relativity. It is an open forum for discussion related to relativity and physics. The news group sci.physics.relativity will be open to discussion on all levels. It will accept talk about alternative theories and other controversial discussions about relativity which would be outside the charter of most other sci.newsgroups, as well as more mainstream discussion on physics as described by Einstein's theory of relativity and modern research to develop more unified theories combining relativity and quantum mechanics. This reflects the kind of threads which are now popular in Usenet on the subject of relativity.

[ QC ]
Lawrence and His Laboratory
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1981/
Lawrence Berkeley Lab Image Library
http://imglib.lbl.gov/ImgLib/
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, and this frames-based web site is a tribute to its founder. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who invented the cyclotron, opened the way to "a Golden Age of particle physics and revolutionary discoveries about the nature of the universe." The story was originally told by the lab's public information department in 1981. In addition to presenting the accomplishments of Lawrence and the laboratory from 1931 to 1958, the site displays a large collection of photos from the Berkeley Lab Online Photo Archive. These are organized by topic, including accelerators, buildings, history, particle detection, people, publications, and research. Images are searchable and browsable, and all are described. Users also have a choice of resolutions for display of the images. All in all, this site provides a personal look into one of the foremost physics labs in the world, at a time when its discoveries were literally shaking the world.

[ QH ]
World Wide Web Virtual Library--Microscopy
http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/www-vl/
Non frames version
http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/www-vl/noframes.shtml
The latest addition to the WWW-VL is the subject area Microscopy, which claims "850 links to sites on all aspects of light microscopy, electron microscopy and other forms of microscopy" and is sponsored by the Samuel Roberts Electron Microscopy Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma. The site includes both a frames-based and non-frames-based version, both of which are easily navigated. As might be expected, it includes a broad spectrum of access points such as Internet Resources; Reference Sites; Laboratories, Organizations and People; Equipment and Technology; Applications and Topics; General and Education; Techniques; and Vendors and Other. Highlights include what is billed as the first photo of the Ebola virus, a Periodic Table of Elements, and the Genome Sequence Database.

[ QS ]
JayDoc HistoWeb--Histology on the Net
http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/histoweb/
JayDoc HistoWeb, provided by two medical students at the University of Kansas, is a frames-based site that provides hundreds of microscopic anatomical images, topically arranged in 19 categories ranging from blood & bone marrow to vascular system. Each image is accompanied by a short annotation and scale bar. Interested users have the option of clicking a button for a much larger view. Note that though this site is extremely graphical and may be a challenge to those with slow connections, it is a treasure house of anatomical information.
[ RC ]
MediLife Diabetes Center
http://www.medilife.com/medilife/diabetes/
Sponsored by Medilife, Inc., makers of diabetes management software, this web site offers resources for those with diabetes and those interested in finding out more about the condition. From the main page users can select: a library of information about the various forms of diabetes and innovations in treatment; a set of pages on exercise programs; two interactive tests that help users determine their possible risk for diabetes; a nutrition section that covers meal planning and special diets, and offers gourmet recipes; a medical supplies area that details the offerings of many medicine and equipment vendors; and an "ask the educator page," on which a diabetes nurse educator answers questions from visitors to the site. Also available on the site is a diabetes trivia quiz, a Java-based memory game, and "Health University," an evolving series of educational modules designed to increase diabetes awareness.

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RxList--The Internet drug index
http://www.rxlist.com/
There are two aspects of this drug information site that make it distinctively useful: first, it uses fuzzy logic as well as wildcard searching, just in case your spelling of long chemical names is imperfect; second, it's free. Don't let the simplicity of the search form fool you; while the searching is easy, it's also powerful. Search results come in the form of a listing of brand name, generic name, and category; more information on many of the drugs in the database, and on all of the 200 most frequently prescribed drugs in America, is available through links in the search results listing. The interactions database is particularly useful, since it can either search for interactions among categories of drugs or between a particular drug (that the user enters) and all of the 200 most frequently prescribed drugs at once (this search uses the Alta Vista search engine to generate results). Users may also display these most frequently prescribed drugs as an alphabetical or ranked list.

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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.iatp.org/iatp/
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/trade/iatp
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, an organization whose "mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy," has recently upgraded its web site to include information on the Institute's projects and publications in the fields of trade, agriculture, and the environment. One of the highlights of the site is its Global Food Security Resources section (frames based, under Agriculture), which provides a Food Security Resources Guide, a selected bibliography of 55 resources in the subject, and 10 full-text IATP documents on it. The website is an enhancement of the IATP's gopher site.

[ S ]
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
http://www.iatp.org/iatp/
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/11/trade/iatp
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, an organization whose "mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy," has recently upgraded its web site to include information on the Institute's projects and publications in the fields of trade, agriculture, and the environment. One of the highlights of the site is its Global Food Security Resources section (frames based, under Agriculture), which provides a Food Security Resources Guide, a selected bibliography of 55 resources in the subject, and 10 full-text IATP documents on it. The website is an enhancement of the IATP's gopher site.

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Satellite Observations of Forest Fires
ftp://fermi.jhuapl.edu/www/seaspace/gallery/fire/fire.html
The Ocean Remote Sensing Group of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has made available a series of maps of some of the fifteen major wildfires that were burning Wednesday across 264,794 acres in six Western states--Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The images are not intended as a working fire detection resource, but are offered as interesting observations. Background information is provided, and the subject matter of each image is briefly described. The files are in GIF format and range in size from 200 to 500K. The publicly available data used is from the NOAA polar orbiter AVHRR sensor, which scans the earth beneath six times per second. Links are provided to the Wildland Fire Assessment System of the USDA and Go West forest fire reports, which offers a list of links for each state with major fires.

[ TA ]
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, and Other eLib Projects
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
biz/ed--Business education on the Internet
http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/
eLib HomePage
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/
EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)is a newly available web engineering meta-resource. Provided by eLib (Electronic Library Programme), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and the University Library and Institute for Computer Based Learning of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), it contains over 1300 browsable and searchable resources. Users may browse nine major categories, including chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, materials, and environmental engineering, engineering design, and general engineering. Each major category is further subdivided for ease of browsing, and filters allow users to specify both resource type and UK- or non-UK-specific information. Boolean AND/OR/NOT and truncation searching is also available. Each listing offers a general description of the site and a link to a more detailed entry, as well as a connection to the described site. EEVL joins several other eLib projects (biz/ed, OMNI, SOSIG--see URLs above) that should greatly aid researchers and educators in finding quality UK and non-UK research and education resources on the Internet (OMNI was discussed in the April 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report). Each project, although funded by eLib, is controlled by its own producers.

[ TK ]
News.Com
http://www.news.com/
This week c|net: the Computer Network launched News.Com, an online service entirely devoted to technology news. It promises to be a useful site for a wide range of computer and Internet users who can visit once (or more) a day for updates on who's doing what in the world of the Internet, computing, Intranets, and business. Each section offers a dozen or more varied stories produced by c|net or accessed through links to other Internet publishers. Also offered in each section are short takes that provide a single paragraph summary of a piece of technology news. On the page with each current news story are links to related stories from the c|net archives that are useful for background information (the stories from the archives may be several months old, however, so be sure to check the dates to know if you are reading news or background). Opinion pieces can be found under Perspectives, and Newsmakers offers multimedia interviews with movers and shakers.

[ TK ]
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, and Other eLib Projects
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
biz/ed--Business education on the Internet
http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/
eLib HomePage
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/
EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)is a newly available web engineering meta-resource. Provided by eLib (Electronic Library Programme), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and the University Library and Institute for Computer Based Learning of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), it contains over 1300 browsable and searchable resources. Users may browse nine major categories, including chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, materials, and environmental engineering, engineering design, and general engineering. Each major category is further subdivided for ease of browsing, and filters allow users to specify both resource type and UK- or non-UK-specific information. Boolean AND/OR/NOT and truncation searching is also available. Each listing offers a general description of the site and a link to a more detailed entry, as well as a connection to the described site. EEVL joins several other eLib projects (biz/ed, OMNI, SOSIG--see URLs above) that should greatly aid researchers and educators in finding quality UK and non-UK research and education resources on the Internet (OMNI was discussed in the April 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report). Each project, although funded by eLib, is controlled by its own producers.

[ TX ]
TEATIME-LIST mailing list
The teatime-list is an email discussion list dedicated to the subject of tea. It is an "unmoderated" discussion forum; however, only subscribers are permitted to post to the list. All posts are reflected via email to all the subscribers. To subscribe send email to:
teatime-list-request@teatime.com
In the body of the message type: subscribe

[ WB ]
PTHER--Physical Therapy Discussion List
PTHER is a forum for the exchange of ideas pertaining to treatment protocols, clinic management, and the general advancement of the field of physical therapy. Practicing physical therapists, students of physical therapy, and those interested in physical therapy and related fields are encouraged to subscribe and participate. The list is not moderated.
To subscribe send email to:
MAJORDOMO@MAJORDOMO.SRV.UALBERTA.CA
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE PTHER your@email.address

[ WX ]
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library, and Other eLib Projects
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
biz/ed--Business education on the Internet
http://www.bizednet.bris.ac.uk:8080/
OMNI--Organizing Medical Networked Information
http://omni.ac.uk/
SOSIG--Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/
eLib HomePage
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/
EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)is a newly available web engineering meta-resource. Provided by eLib (Electronic Library Programme), JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), and the University Library and Institute for Computer Based Learning of Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), it contains over 1300 browsable and searchable resources. Users may browse nine major categories, including chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, petroleum, materials, and environmental engineering, engineering design, and general engineering. Each major category is further subdivided for ease of browsing, and filters allow users to specify both resource type and UK- or non-UK-specific information. Boolean AND/OR/NOT and truncation searching is also available. Each listing offers a general description of the site and a link to a more detailed entry, as well as a connection to the described site. EEVL joins several other eLib projects (biz/ed, OMNI, SOSIG--see URLs above) that should greatly aid researchers and educators in finding quality UK and non-UK research and education resources on the Internet (OMNI was discussed in the April 5, 1996 issue of the Scout Report). Each project, although funded by eLib, is controlled by its own producers.

[ Z ]
Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books
http://www.mcp.com/3316680954417/mcp/online_books/
Macmillan Computer Publishing Home page
http://www.mcp.com/mcp/
Highlight of the Macmillan Computer Publishing web site is the large collection of free online books available from its subsidiaries Que and Sams. Que's Digital Bookshelf at present contains 30 online books in topics including world wide web, web publishing, web programming, web servers, and networking, among others. Sams Publishing offers over 15 online books on topics such as web site construction, Java, Netscape 3.0, and Javascript. Also offered are _The Internet Starter Kit_, _The Computer Trainer's Personal Training Guide_, and early galleys from portions of _The Electronic Citizen: How to Speak Out and Organize on the Internet_, as well as an Internet glossary. Both the Que and Sams libraries can be searched as well as browsed. While the Macmillan site is designed to sell books, the publishers have made a staggering amount of their product freely available, and in so doing have rendered a great service to the net community.

[ Z ]
Library of Congress Classification System--Unofficial Guide
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8459/lc.html
This very simple Web site has one very useful function: it contains the outline of the Library of Congress Classification System. While the outline is not searchable, users may browse through the twenty-one categories, which are then arranged by sub-category and number range. For the library user who would like to be convinced that the LOC system is a logical organizational structure, this is a good start. This site will be most useful to library patrons who need to get an overall sense of the LOC system, and to library staff members who are assisting them.

[ Z ]
Adobe Acrobat Developer's Zone
http://www.projectcool.com/developer/acrobat/
For more information on Adobe Acrobat see the Scout Toolkit
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/3d3.html
The Acrobat Developer's Zone, provided by Project Cool, Inc. is a frames-based .pdf tutorial for creating Adobe Acrobat content on the web. Sections include "PDF basics, "Creating PDF," "PDF & the web," "Byte-serving," "Embedded PDF," and "Framed PDF." Although not comprehensive, these lessons provide the user with a basic understanding of .pdf as well as graphically illustrating what pages can look like if they are served in .pdf and HTML. This second point is what really makes the site stands out. Future tutorials are set to include multimedia .pdf, forms processing within web-based .pdf, and templates for web publishing. Note: in order to utilize this site to its fullest, users will need Netscape 2.0 or better, along with Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 beta.

[ Z ]
Querying Internet Search Indexes by Email
ftp to: ftp.netcom.com
cd to pub/gb/gboyd
Gerald Boyd has spent much time learning the internal syntax of web search engines. He has made the fruits of his labor available at an ftp site. Interested Internauts can download FAQs on how to query fifteen generic and eight specialty search engines by email. Included are Alta Vista, Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, Infoseek, OKRA, Open Text, SwitchBoard, TheList, and others. Also included is a FAQ on how to use an Agora Server to use the web by email. See the Scout Report for March 8, 1996, along with the discussion of Dr. Bob Rankin's _The Whole Internet...By E-Mail_, in the Scout Toolkit (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/3d7.html) for more on Agora. The FAQs are of greatest use to those without a web connection, but are also interesting to anyone who is intrigued by the intricacies of search engines. Users should download wsintro.faq (table of contents of FAQs), wscrack.faq (basic strategy for figuring out how to query search indexes via email) and wshelp.faq (Agora help file) before any others. For those who would like to download everything at once, wssearch.zip contains all of the files. Note that while these files are fairly technical, they are very useful for those who need such Internet access.

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Two sites for US Historical Maps
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library--University of Georgia http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
Two of the more impressive historical map sites on the Internet are: the Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia; and "Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark," a collection of maps and navigational instruments taken from an exhibition at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library. Hargrett's collection contains hundreds of images, and, as might be expected, specializes in Georgia historical maps. However, it also contains many national and international maps from the early new world, colonial, US Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras. The actual size of each map is indicated and author is given when available. "Exploring the West" contains 33 items, topically arranged, from "Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669," to "To the Western Ocean: Planning the Lewis and Clark Expedition." The power of this site is not so much in the maps themselves, but in the lavish annotations that accompany them. A bibliography and pointers to related sites are included.

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Two sites for US Historical Maps
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library--University of Georgia http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
Two of the more impressive historical map sites on the Internet are: the Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia; and "Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark," a collection of maps and navigational instruments taken from an exhibition at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library. Hargrett's collection contains hundreds of images, and, as might be expected, specializes in Georgia historical maps. However, it also contains many national and international maps from the early new world, colonial, US Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras. The actual size of each map is indicated and author is given when available. "Exploring the West" contains 33 items, topically arranged, from "Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669," to "To the Western Ocean: Planning the Lewis and Clark Expedition." The power of this site is not so much in the maps themselves, but in the lavish annotations that accompany them. A bibliography and pointers to related sites are included.

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Electronic Medical Journals from Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
http://www.library.knaw.nl/www/ejournals/elecjour.htm

Medical Information Centre
http://www.library.knaw.nl/www/main.htm
The Electronic Medical Journals page is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences' Medical Information Centre, a large medical resource site. The Electronic Journals page contains links to approximately 55 freely accessible scientific and biomedical electronic journals. Most journals offer full-text web versions of articles previously published in printed form. The Medical Information Centre offers article title, journal title, and key word searches of a much larger set of medical articles (taken from approximately 750 biomedical journals), and allows users to order (for a fee) copies of the articles in print, HTML, or email form. Numerous links to other websites, newsgroups, discussion groups, and email lists as well as a database (currently under construction) that will allow users to search for Internet medical resources, make the Medical Information Centre a great starting point for the netizen with an interest in medicine.

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The 1996 National Survey of Public Libraries and the Internet: Progress and Issues: Final Report
http://istweb.syr.edu/Project/Faculty/McClure-NSPL96/NSPL96_T.html
This report, by John Carlo Bertot (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Charles R. McClure (Syracuse University), and Douglas L. Zweizig (University of Wisconsin), is now available on the web. Major findings include: "Between 1994 and 1996 public library Internet connectivity increased 113% from 20.9% to 44.6%"; "Public libraries in communities under 5,000 are significantly (58.6%) less likely to use the Internet than those serving populations of 100,000+"; and "There are significant disparities in connectivity, service provision, and budget for Internet activities by region and population served." The study is divided into two major sections: "Study Results," and "Progress and Issues." Issues discussed include "Factors Affecting Public Library Involvement with the Internet," "The Current State of Public Library Internet Connectivity," "Identified Public Library Benefits to Connecting to the Internet," and "Connectivity Versus Services," among many others. In addition, there is much information on the survey instrument and methodology.


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