vra>Scout Report: October 7, 1994

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                    Scout Report:  October 7, 1994

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by InterNIC Information
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Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  OCLC on the Web
*  Visit Hawaii, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and New Mexico... today.
*  National Criminal Justice Reference Service
*  Can get those hot tickets to the WWW conference?  Get daily updates.
*  Learn a little Italian.... ciao

World Wide Web
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The Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library has been now added to the other
four WWW Virtual Library systems (Asian Studies, Buddhist Studies,
Demography & Population Studies, and Social Sciences) developed and
maintained by the Research Schools of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian
Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Aboriginal.html

The Human-Languages Page is a collection of human-language resources on
the Net, from tutorials to dictionaries to software to literature
collections.  The Page currently contains 100 links relating to 40
different languages, and the list grows every week.
http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/Language-Page.html

OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit computer library
service and research organization whose computer network and services link
more than 18,000 libraries in 61 countries and territories. OCLC now has a
World-Wide Web server providing information about OCLC and its products
and services, including product information, research results,
documentation about how to use OCLC services, and electronic forms.  In
1995, the server will provide links to OCLC Electronic Journals Online and
the FirstSearch service, for subscribers to these reference services.
http://www.oclc.org/

Univerisy of California San Diego's Center for Astrophysics and Space
Sciences now offers a Web server with papers, images, and progress
reports that relate to the Faint Object Spectrometer on the Hubble Space
Telescope. Also available is information relating to the science,
facilities, and personnel at the center.
http://cassfos01.ucsd.edu:8080/

The Hawai`i Home Page provides a starting point for access to Web
services in the state of Hawai`i, including Hawai`i businesses, K-12 and
higher education servers, state government agencies, various
organizations and visitor information.
http://www.hawaii.net

The State of Oklahoma Web page contains current information and events in
the Sooner state, ranging from arts and recreation to application
procedures for research grants.
http://www.oklaosf.state.ok.us

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's server offers among other things
a "point-and-click" guide to the outdoor recreation resources in the
state of Nebraska, such as parks, fishing, and hunting.
http://ngp.ngpc.state.ne.us/gp.html

A new WWW server called VIVA New Mexico promotes everything New Mexican.
http://www.viva.com/nm/nmhome.html

Gopher
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American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
gopher:   sta08.swmed.edu

Canadian Mathematical Electronic (Camel) Gopher Server, a Canadian
Mathematical Society service.
gopher:   camel.cecm.sfu.ca

Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
gopher:   LCTL.ACAD.UMN.EDU

The Center for Labor Research and Education (The Labor Center) at
University of California, Berkeley, now offers a gopher server containing
information about our Center as well as a few back issues of their
newsletter/journal - The Labor Center Reporter.
gopher:   violet.berkeley.edu

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) was established
by the National Institute of Justice of the U.S. Department of Justice in
1972 to serve as an international criminal justice information
network supporting policymakers and criminal justice professionals.
NCJRS provides users with reliable, comprehensive, and current
information about the latest criminal justice studies and projects
from around the world.  A sample of offerings include information from
the Drugs and Crime Data Center Clearinghouse, and links to the NCJRS
bulletin board and other criminal justice resources on the Internet.
gopher:   ncjrs.aspensys.com 71

Rutgers University Physics Department now offers a gopher server.
gopher:   physics10.rutgers.edu

The Whitney Museum now offers a gopher server which includes a complete
exhibition and performance history for the Museum, a staff history and
institution chronology, and a searchable index to all exhibitions. Search
for exhibitions of your favorite artists.
gopher to:   echonyc.com
   choose:  art/cultural sources/whitney

Email/FTP
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The Sister Cities Listserv is devoted to those worldwide cities already
maintaining Sister Cities relationships or those wishing to establish
Sister Cities relationships. The list also attracts those organization
contacts which work in close cooperation in enhancing these city
government recognized contacts. This mailing list was created as an
international focal point for the exchange of information and as a
central information location for the 931 U.S. Sister Cities communities,
and some 1530 foreign communities in 111 nations.
send email to:
  SISCITY-REQUEST at SISCITY.OCC.UKY.EDU
in the body of the message type:
  SUBSCRIBE SISCITY FIRSTNAME LASTNAME

National Information Infrastructure
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A new WWW page "Telecom Information Resources on the Internet" is now
available and promises to be a well-maintained source of current telecom
information on the 'Net.
http://www.ipps.lsa.umich.edu/telecom-info.html

On September 23, 1994, Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC), Chairman of the
Senate Commerce Committee announced his decision to withdraw from further
consideration S. 1822, the Telecommunications Reform Act of 1994.  In a
written statement, Senator Hollings explains his reasons for taking this
action.  This has triggered a number of responses. An initially
comprehensive set of statements by key players and third parties is now
available by gopher and WWW on bell.com. These include: Senator Hollings
Statement, Senator Dole's Statement, MFJ Task Force Reaction, Sprint
Reaction, American Telemedicine Association Reaction, National
Association of Development Organization Reaction, Access2000 (Independent
Film & Video Producers) Reaction.
http://bell.com
gopher:   bell.com
FTP:  bell.com    cd   pub/Announcements_on_S.1822_Withdrawal
questions or copies via email or snail mail:
send a message to:  info at bell.com

New documents on the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications
Information Administration (NTIA) gopher:

*  Technology Policy Working Group 09/12/94 Minutes
*  National Information Infrastructure Awards Announcement
*  NII Awards Entry Kit
*  Comments Extended to 10/27 on Intellectual Property
*  Hearing/Public Comments on NII Security Issues
*  Universal Service Virtual Conference Starts 11/14/94
*  1994 NECET Grant Awards 10/04/94
*  Notice of NII Advisory Council Meeting to be held on 10/19/94
*  NII Advisory Council 06/20/94 Meeting Summary Minutes
*  National Information Infrastructure: Progress Report - Web version
*  National Information Infrastructure: Progress Report - Gopher version

gopher to:   ntiaunix1.ntia.doc.gov
   choose:  Hot Off the Press

NetBytes
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The next World Wide Web conference, beginning 17 October in Chicago, is
already a sold out event. Two Web pages have been established in
anticipation of a need to provide articles and updates across the Web for
people who are interested - or who couldn't get in.
http://riwww.osf.org:8001/ri/announcements/WWW_Conf_F94.html
or
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/IT94Info.html
Complete agenda available:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Agenda/Agenda.html

Daily reports sent live from an InterNaut at the scene of the WWW
conference will also be available via email from the folks behind
WEBster:
send mail to:  live at webster.tgc.com

An ISDN World Wide Web page is now available which lets you flip between
product info from different ISDN cards, software, and ISDN Internet
access vendors quickly, making comparisons easy. It also has links to all
known online technical specs related to ISDN. You can even order ISDN
equipment online (gasp!). New info is constantly being added, and input
is welcome.
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/

"In, Around and Online" -A Weekly Summary of Consumer Online Services is
a painless way to stay tuned to events in the worlds of Compuserve,
Prodigy, America Online, etc. A weekly report, not too long, and an easy
read.
http://www.clark.net:80/pub/robert/home.html
FTP:  ftp.clark.net pub/robert/
Email:   send a message to the author --  robert at clark.net

Weekend Scouting
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Veggies Unite!  is a searchable index of 800+ vegetarian recipes.  Also
other topics such as storage tips, vitamins, and many links to nutrition
and health WWW and gopher sites all over the world.
http://www-sc.ucssc.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/recipes/

During the next two weeks, the Booleweb server at University College,
Cork, Ireland will have information on the 39th Cork Film Festival. The
festival will screen 160 films including 33 feature films, 30
documentaries and short films and ninety-nine short films.
http://booleweb.ucc.ie/home.html

If you are looking for NFL or NBA scores, schedules stats, or history you
can check out the WWW Sports Information Service where results are
updated on a daily basis.  {The Pack was suppose to be back!}
http://www.mit.edu:8001/services/sis/sports.html

Italian lessons on the 'Net!  {yes!}
http://www.willamette.edu/~tjones/languages/Italian/Italian-lesson.html

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