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                           The Scout Report
                          February 24, 1995

             A Service to the Internet Community Provided by
       the Info Scout and InterNIC Directory & Database Services
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However everyone is welcome
to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML) or visit
the Web version of the Scout Report on the InterNIC server:

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html

Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.

Highlights In This Week's Report:

* NTIA Announces Availabilty of FY95 NII Grants (proposals due April 20)
* American Indian Science and Engineering Society Web page
* The Men's Issues Page
* AT&T - TalkingPower: text & graphics describe the U.S. phone system
* The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Gopher Server
* Musi-Cal -- a free music events calendar -- via email and the Web

Quote of the Week:

"... In fact, last year, personal computers outsold TV sets for the first
time, according to the Electronic Industries Association. More than 18
million PCs were sold, with an estimated 40 percent going into homes,
according to the market researche firm Link Resources."  Dwight Silverman,
"Digital Nation", Houston Chronicle Interactive. (See NetBytes below for
Web page address.)

Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net.

World Wide Web
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The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Web page
offers dozens of useful resources for American Indian high school and
higher education students. AISES is a private, nonprofit organization
which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology
with traditional native values. Through its educational programs AISES
provides opportunities for American Indians and Alaskan Natives to pursue
studies in science, engineering, business and other academic areas. These
graduates in technology and business will be able to assist tribal leaders
in managing and developing their lands and resources. Visit two local
AISES chapters on the Web at MIT and North Carolina State.
http://bioc02.uthscsa.edu/aisesnet.html
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/stud_orgs/aises/index.html
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/aises/aises.html
gopher to: bioc02.uthscsa.edu

AT&T - TalkingPower, produced by AT&T Global Public Networks, Columbus,
Ohio. If you have any interest at all in how your telephone service works,
check out AT&T's server, TalkingPower. There's a clickable map that lets
you explore the phone system at all levels through text and graphics. You
can even try out, online, an AT&T course that uses animations, videos, and
audio.
http://www.att.com/TALKINGPOWER/

The Division of Mammals at the Kansas University Natural History Museum
has one of the largest research collections of mammals in the world. If
you want to know more about principles and practices of natural history
collection management, check it out. A list of type specimens is
available, as are links to other sites of biological interest.
http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/~mammals/start.html

The Historically Black Colleges & Universities on the Web have been
gathered together on one home page for easy access.
http://diamond.cau.auc.edu:1060/index.html

The Men's Issues Page, produced by Father's Rights and Equality Exchange -
F.R.E.E. (tm) of Palo Alto, California, is a FAQ (frequently asked
questions) site for men's issues. Particular emphasis is placed on single
fathers (divorce, custody, alimony, child support) husband battering,
false accusations (of rape, abuse, molestation). This comprehensive
resource also includes large annotated bibliographies, lists of men's
organizations, digest of statistics.
http://www.vix.com/pub/men/index.html

News of Ireland is a weekly digest of news and sports from Ireland, and
includes a current listing of What's Hot in entertainment in Ireland.
http://iol.ie/~johnos/news1.html

The NISS Information Gateway is produced by the National Information
Services and Systems, Univ. of Bath, Avon, UK and provides information
services for the UK higher education community. The NISS Information
Gateway has amalgamated its various services into a single, graphical,
user-friendly service. An ever-increasing range of academic and related
information is available-- subject disciplines, datasets, research news,
library OPACs and more.
http://www.niss.ac.uk/

The Online Writery at the University of Missouri, Columbia, is a
student-oriented writing and learning environment that includes both
communication and information resources: e-mail, access to two MOOs ,
writing resources, teaching resources, and paperless papers. It is a place
to write and read and talk, a place to learn stuff. It is a resource you
can use whether you are writing for a class or not. These pages are made
of the stuff writers (of any kind) need: information about writing, and
opportunities to talk with other writers.
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/writery.html

The Tulane Tropical Medicine Web Page atTulane University School of Public
Health, New Orleans, Louisiana includes current scientific global research
projects, US and international academic degree programs, malaria research
activities in epidemiology, chloroquine drug resistance, and severe
disease. Also available: faculty info and contact points and links to
health-related sites.
http://www.tropmed.tulane.edu

Gopher
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NACSIS (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan)
gopher to:   gopher.nacsis.ac.jp

Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art: NMAA-Ryder is
the Internet server maintained by the National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, to provide public access to museum research and
educational materials including the museum's calendar of events, hours,
and exhibitions. The server also contains images and mutlimedia software.
Images are accessible by category, artist, and title. Users principally
interested in multimedia are provided access to image viewing software and
interactives that can be downloaded. The museum shop is also online and
with various museum products such as publications, curriculum packets,
gifts, and subscriptions. [This site was included last week with an
incorrect gopher address.]
gopher to:  nmaa-ryder.si.edu

The CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse (NAC), an arm of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has announced the creation of a new gopher
dedicated to the work of NAC and making its information available to a
wide audience. Comprehensive information on all aspects of AIDS is
available.
gopher to:  cdcnac.aspensys.com

A collection of education information related to Kansas and of general
interest has been collected on to a gopher server, including the quarterly
published newsletter The Critical Teacher; Curriculum Based Measurement
(CBM) probes in Math, spelling and reading (in .pdf format);  Acrobat pdf
files of documents (regulations, publications, school reform information)
from the Kansas State Department of Education; Special education
information including copies of grants and other materials related to
staff development; Developmental Disabilities Council (DD councils)
information exchange folder including the Kansas State Plan for
Developmental Disabilities. Mailing lists for Kansas Schools.
gopher to: nehub.nekesc.k12.ks.us

The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Gopher Server
offers a wide selection of information about or published by the
University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a
multicampus research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence
Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. It includes interntational
relations, environmental, security, and economics studies in the Middle
East, Asian- Pacific region, and Latin America.
gopher to: irpsserv26.ucsd.edu

Ohio Education Computer Network (OECN)
gopher to:  gopher.oecn.ohio.gov

The Occupational Safety & Health Gopher allows full-text searching of
OSHA standards and interpretations of standards.
gopher to:  quasar.tach.net

NetBytes
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Demystifying The Internet at theUniversity of Delaware, Newark, DE, was
developed to introduce Delaware students to the myriad Internet tools.
Other instructors have borrowed it and adapted it to their students'
needs. It explains what the tools are, their uses and benefits, and it
gives tutorials for hands-on use.
http://www.udel.edu/eileen/subject/internet/internet-index-text.html

Houston Chronicle Interactive, Houston, Texas, is the electronic media
division of Houston's largest daily newspaper and is now offering offering
Digital Nation, a series about online culture, on their Web page.The five
stories, which ran Feb. 5-8, 1995, in the Chronicle, were written by
technology reporter and computer columnist Dwight Silverman.
http://www.chron.com/

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

1.  IITF Factsheet and Contact List  (Revised 02/07/95)
2.  IITF February Report (02/13/95)
3.  Upcoming IITF Public Events  (New 02/21/95)
4.  List of Major Conferences  (New 02-16-95)
5.  01/10/95 Tech Policy Working Group Meeting Minutes  (New 02-16-95)
6.  GII:  Agenda for Cooperation  (New 02/15/95)
7.  GII:  Agenda for Cooperation (HTML version) (New 02/15/95)
8.  NTIA Announces Availabilty of FY95 NII Grants (New 02/13/95)

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

Weekend Scouting
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Musi-Cal is a free, Internet-accessible, music events calendar. Musi-Cal
lists the dates and locations of upcoming concerts, festivals, and other
musical events around the world, and allows promoters, record labels,
venues, and even fans to submit tour and other event itineraries.
Musi-Cal uniquely emphasizes data quality over a glossy appearance and is
never out of date. Full access to all entries via the Web or email.
http://calendar.com/concerts/
Email:   concerts at calendar.com [No subject or message body is needed.]

The Inline Club of Boston, Massachusettes (ICB) is an organization of
inline skaters (aka rollerbladers) dedicated to promoting safe and
responsible inline skating in Boston, its surrounding communities and
throughout New England. The Web page offers general information about
inline skating, including the ICB newsletter and links to other skating
sites.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/thigpen/icb

The Mazda Miata Home Page, produced by Gary J. Fischman of Menlo Park,
California offers tons of information about the Mazda MX-5 Miata -- the
'90s re-creation of a classic roadster from the '60s. Its popularity has
attained cult-like status worldwide. The Miata page provides information
on the car, archives of the listserver devoted to it, information on local
and regional events and clubs, and a marketplace for aftermarket products
and services.
http://www.catalog.com/miata/miata.html

About the Scout Report
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  The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by the InterNIC to the
Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay informed about
network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place selected new
(and newly-discovered) Internet resources.

  A wide range of topics are included in the Report with an emphasis on
resources thought to be of interest to the InterNIC's primary audience,
the research and education community.  Each resource has been verified for
substantial content and accessibility within a day of the release of the
Report.

  The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- mailing lists fo
both a plain text and HTML version;  gopher; and World Wide Web. The
gopher and World Wide Web versions of the Report include links to all
listed resources. The report is released every weekend.

  In addition to the plain text version, the Scout Report is distributed
in HTML format allowing sites to post the Scout Report on local
WorldWideWeb servers each week. The result is faster access for local
users. You are welcome and encouraged to re-post and re-distribute the
report. Note that copyright statements appear on all versions of the Scout
Report, and we ask that these be included when re-posting or
re-distributing.

  If you haven't yet subscribed or told your friends and colleagues, now
is the time. Spread the news by word-of-net. Join 20,000 of your
colleagues already using the Scout Report as a painless tool for tracking
what's new on the 'Net!

Comments and contributions to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be
sent to scout at internic.net

-- Susan Calcari
    InterNIC Info Scout

Scout Report Access Methods
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**  To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each
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a week -- the Scout Report every weekend.

send email to:     majordomo at dsmail.internic.net

in the body of the message, type:

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to unsubscribe to the list, repeat this procedure substituting the word
"unsubscribe" for subscribe.

**  To receive the Scout Report in HTML format for local posting,
subscribe to the scout-report-html mailing list, used exclusively to
distribute the Scout Report in HTML format once a week.

send mail to:   majordomo at dsmail.internic.net

in the body of the message, type:

  subscribe scout-report-html

**  To access the hypertext version of the Report, point your WWW client to:

http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html

>> Gopher users can tunnel to:

is.internic.net

select:  Information Services/Scout Report.

Resource Addressing Conventions
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  After each resource in the Scout Report one or more network addresses
are listed. Every attempt is made to use the same convention in each
listing for the network address of each resource. It is assumed that users
recognize the type of address and know how to use it. However, for those
users unfamiliar with the Internet we provide here the order in which
addresses are listed (by network tool) and instructions for accessing
additional information in the InterNIC InfoGuide about each network tool.
A brief explanation of one tool, WWW is included below.

  The four network tools referenced most often in the Scout Report are
World Wide Web, gopher, email, and FTP.  Occasionally WAIS and Telnet
addresses are also listed.

  After each resource at least one address is listed, and sometimes more.
This is because some resources are available using multiple network tools.
The network tool addresses are always listed in the same order after each
resource:

World Wide Web (WWW)
Gopher
FTP
Email
Telnet
WAIS

  A WWW address is called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and always
begins with a string of characters followed by a colon and two forward
slashes. For example:

http://www.internic.net/
gopher://gibbs.oit.unc.edu:70/11/research.d/grants.d
ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/hecker/internet/slip-ppp.txt

  To access the resource through the WWW you can use a WWW browser
installed on your desktop computer, or a "command-line" WWW client on your
local Internet host computer. Web browsers are available for all major
computer platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. Check with your
local support center or your Internet Service Provider for more
information about Web browsers installed on the Internet host computer or
for your desktop computer.

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Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout
Report provided the copyright notice, this permission notice, and the two
paragraphs below are preserved on all copies.

The InterNIC provides information about the Internet and the resources on
the Internet to the US research and education community under a
cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The
Government has certain rights in this material.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, AT&T, or Network
Solutions, Inc.

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