COOMBS Networked Info Services

[Vladimir Vrabec]

Vazeni,
prikladam zpravu o zajimavych australskych info zdrojich. Zdravi
                                                         Vladimir Vrabec

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Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1993 16:35:39 -0800
From: tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au (by way of tony at info.anu.edu.au (Tony
      Barry))
Subject: Coombs Networked Info. Services - 2nd Anniversary

Dear Colleagues,

This is to let you know about the approaching 2nd Anniversary (Friday, 3rd
Dec 93) of the Coombspapers electronic archives.

Coombs Computing Unit, RSSS/RSPacS, ANU has commenced its Networked
Information Services  by establishing on the 3rd Dec 1991 the
"Coombspapers" electronic archive - an anonymous ftp facility on
coombs.anu.edu.au
machine.

Two years later, in December 1993, the following range of information
facilities is made available from the Coombs Computing Unit world-wide
via AARNet/Internet:

* Coombspapers (Social Sciences Research Data Bank)
* Coombs Listservs (electronic forums)
* ANU-xxx-xxx series of WAIS Dbases
* Coombsquest (Social Sciences Information Facility)

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COOMBSPAPERS SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH DATA BANK AT ANU
(Anonymous FTP archive on coombs.anu.edu.au)

ACCESS:
ftp to coombs.anu.edu.au
gopher to coombs.anu.edu.au OR cheops.anu.edu.au, port 70
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The Coombspapers Data Bank comprised on 30th Nov 1993
807 ASCII files
totalling approx. 23.4 Mb of data.
organised into two large subdirectiries:

* Coombsarachives - research documents and materials created at the
	RSSS/RSPacS
* Otherarchives - research documents and materials originating from
	elsewhere

STRUCTURE OF THE COOMBSPAPERS/COOMBSARCHIVES AREA:
/aboriginal-history-jrnl
/anthropology
/asian-pacific-economic-literat
/australian-dict-of-biography
/cartography-unit
/contemporary-china-centre
/coombs-computing
/demography
/economic-history
/economic-policy-research
/economics-rspacs
/economics-rsss
/federalism-research-centre
/history
/history-of-ideas
/indonesia-project
/international-relations
/land-management-project
/linguistics
/pacific-asian-history
/pacific-manuscripts-bureau
/peace-research-centre
/philosophy
/political-and-social-change
/political-science
/prehistory
/rspacs-publications
/rspacs-annual-report-91
/rsss-annual-report-91
/social-science-data-archives
/sociology
/southeast-asia-economic-history
/strategic-and-defence-studies
/thai-yunnan-project
/urban-research-project

STRUCTURE OF THE COOMBSPAPERS/OTHERARCHIVES AREA:
/aboriginal-studies-archives
/andc-archives
/archaeology-prehistory-archives
/asian-studies-archives
/asian-studies-archives/tibet-archives
/australian-science-archives-project
/caut-archives
/cipsh-unesco-archives
/electronic-buddhist-archives
/health-population-archives
/humanities-research-archives
/human-communication-archives
/raia-archives
/reach-journal-archives
/soc-science-directories
/soc-science-software
/sociology-research-archives

Materials in these directories and subdirectories are mirrored by 5
systems [3 in USA, 1 in Canada, 1 in UK):
COOMBSPAPERS mirror - [updated daily] (knot.queensu.ca)
COOMBSPAPERS mirror - [updated daily] (uceng.uc.edu)
COOMBSPAPERS mirror - [updated daily] (wuarchive.wustl.edu)
COOMBSPAPERS mirror - [updated weekly] (ftp.uu.net)
COOMBSPAPERS mirror - [updated weekly] (unix.hensa.ac.uk)

The Coombspapers archives have also numerous direct gopher links made to it
from all over the world

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COOMBS LISTSERVS
12 e-mail forums (electronic discussion groups)
running on majordomo at coombs.anu.edu.au

ACCESS:
send 'subscribe [forum-name] your-name your-email' message
to majordomo at coombs.anu.edu.au
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ancient-dna-l
aphil-l
australia-nz-history-l
coombseminars
demographic-list
e-asia-area-group
pcnfs-users
philippinestudies-l
stepnet
taoism-l
vnit-l
zenbuddhism-l

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ANU-XXX-XXX SERIES OF DBASES
42 full-text WAIS databases running on coombs.anu.edu.au

ACCESS:
via standard Wais client software
via gophers
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ANU-Aboriginal-EconPolicies
ANU-Aboriginal-Studies
ANU-Ancient-DNA-L
ANU-Ancient-DNA-Studies
ANU-Asian-Computing
ANU-Asian-Religions
ANU-Australia-NZ-History-L
ANU-Australian-Economics
ANU-AustPhilosophyForum-L
ANU-Buddhist-Electrn-Rsrces
ANU-CAUT-Academics
ANU-CAUT-Projects
ANU-CanbAnthropology-Index
ANU-Cheng-Tao-Ko-Verses
ANU-Coombseminars-Listserv
ANU-Coombspapers-Index
ANU-Demography-Papers
ANU-Dhammapada-Verses
ANU-French-Databanks
ANU-Internet-Voyager-Guide
ANU-Local-Waiservers-Index
ANU-Local-Waiservers
ANU-Pacific-Archaeology
ANU-Pacific-Linguistics
ANU-Pacific-Manuscripts
ANU-Pacific-Relations
ANU-Pacific-Studies
ANU-Philippine-Studies
ANU-Philippine-Studies-L
ANU-Radiocarbon-Abstracts
ANU-SSDA-Australian-Census
ANU-SSDA-Australian-Opinion
ANU-SSDA-Australian-Studies
ANU-Shamanism-Studies
ANU-SocSci-Netlore
ANU-Strategic-Studies
ANU-Taoism-Listserv
ANU-Thai-Yunnan
ANU-Theses-Abstracts
ANU-Tropical-Archaeobotany
ANU-ZenBuddhism-Calendar
ANU-ZenBuddhism-Listserv

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COOMBSQUEST SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES INFORMATION FACILITY AT ANU
A  gopher-based system

ACCESS:
gopher to coombs.anu.edu.au OR cheops.anu.edu.au, port 70
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Coombsquest gopher was established on 28 April 1993 to act as
the world's leading electronic social sciences & humanities information
facility.

Besides providing quick access to the pioneering Coombspapers
anon.FTP archive (described above) the Coombsquest gopher offers:

- Direct access to all ANU-xxx-xxx series of WAIS format databases
- Online searching of other major social sciences international databases
- Direct access to selected info.resources, directories and network guides
- Thematic links to leading soc.sci.& humanities inf.facilities world-wide
- Direct access to the six gopher-based specialist study areas:
(1) Aboriginal Studies Facility;
(2) Asian Studies Facility;
(3) Buddhist Studies Facility;
(4) History Studies Facility;
(5) Linguistics Studies Facility;
(6) Prehistory & Archaeology Studies Facility


with many regards,


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Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK           tmciolek at coombs.anu.edu.au
Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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