vra> Scout Report - January 20, 1995 (fwd)

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              Scout Report:  January 20, 1995

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The Scout Report is a weekly publication provided by  the Info Scout and
InterNIC Information Services to provide a sampling of the best of newly
announced Internet resources.  See the end of each report for additional
information and complete access methods through gopher, WWW, and mailing
lists for both plain text and HTML versions. Comments and contributions
to the Scout Report are encouraged and can be sent to scout at internic.net.

Past issues are archived and searchable on the InterNIC InfoGuide through
gopher or WWW:
http://www.internic.net/infoguide.html
gopher   is.internic.net   choose   Information Services/Scout Report

Highlights In This Week's Report:

*  Reports from and about the earthquake areas in Japan.
*  The Youth Music/Youth Culture page.
*  The InterNIC Net-Happenings list -- now archived at MIDnet.
*  The National Service Learning Clearinghouse for K-12 gopher
*  Colorado Mountain Bike Racing

World Wide Web
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The Child Abuse Handbook is provided by the Frontenac County Board Of
Education, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The 1995 edition is now available in
hardcopy, and a "Short Guide" is online. This handbook is designed to
provide concise information to help education staff respond to suspected
child abuse, and to disclosures by the victims.
http://www.fcbe.edu.on.ca/www/welcome.html

The Committee on East Asian Libraries maintains a page directed to the
needs of librarians who must deal with the growing volume of Asian
electronic information and should be useful for anyone interested in East
Asia or in Asian studies. The site includes pointers to specific
resources, such as the largest internet site for Chinese software, and
links grouped by area: Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, South
Korea, North Korea, and the Asia/Pacific Basin.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/ceal/welcome.html

The Kansai Area Earthquake Information Resources page is maintained by
Sony. Links are grouped by English/Japanese or Japanese only, such as the
lists of the deceased. Includes pointers to relevant USENET Newsgroups,
and lists of mirrors and other servers. Note the requests not to abuse the
links in italics, since they are serving the affected area directly as a
lifeline.
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/earthquake/index.html.

More earthquake info can be found on Ruka's Home Page. Ruka is a Japanese
Studies assistant at the East Asian Collection of the Knight Library of
the University of Oregon. A good collection of English-only Japanese
information including the Shima Media Network, providing non-official
earthquake reports and a map of the area around Kobe indicating where
railways are cut, expressways are destroyed, and fires are burning.
Ruka's page also provides links to Disaster Information Centers and
addresses to send cash and material donations.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rukat/info/quake.html

The School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of
Oklahoma offers information on research in the areas of bioengineering,
polymers science and engineering, environmental engineering, and energy
studies. Examples include the Engineering Virtual Library and the Chemical
Engineering Virtual Library, related government research labs,
discipline-specific groupings of Chemical Engineering online resources,
and selected corporate Web pages.
http://www.uoknor.edu:80/cems/

Youth Music/Youth Culture page has been assembled by students at Drake
University studying music and its affect on culture. A good variety of
links show the way beyond performers to on-line magazines, academic sites
for music/culture, listings organized by type of music, song lyrics, audio
clips, and Usenet newsgroups.
http://www.drake.edu/univannounce/thomas/honors123.html

Gopher
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Massachusetts Library and Information Network provides access to library
catalogs, periodicals with indexes, and state and federal information.
gopher to:   mlin.noble.mass.edu

The Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) Police Gopher contains
information about the annual crime on campus, the police blotter, the
student right-to-know and campus security act, statistics, and links to
other police gophers.
gopher to:  police.mtsu.edu

The National Service Learning Clearinghouse for K-12 gopher server is part
of a 3-year federal grant from the Corporation for National Service, which
houses the old ACTION and VISTA programs, the new AmeriCorps program, and
Learn and Serve America, the K-12 education portion of national service.
The National Information Center gopher provides access to online searching
of resources, programs, and organizations.
gopher to:  gopher.nicsl.coled.umn.edu

The Net-Happenings Archive at MIDnet is a great way to take full advantage
of the InterNIC net-happenings mailing list, moderated by Gleason Sackman.
Numerous directories allow easy browsing of postings to the mailing list
that have arrived today and postings sent over the past few months.  It
also contains mechanisms for searching by title and by text.
gopher to:   gopher.mid.net 7000

The New York State Assembly maintains a vt-100 telnet-based Legislative
Information System on the Internet. You can read the full text of a bill,
check its status in the legislative process, and even browse the sponsor's
Memorandum in Support. You can also review Assembly committee and floor
calendars, find out when and where public hearings are being held, and
explore the state constitution and laws of New York State.
gopher to:   assembly.state.ny.us

University of Puget Sound Biodiversity Gopher is maintained by the Slater
Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound. Information
about the natural history collections housed in the museum and other
information relevant to biodiversity are listed, including an extensive
Biodiversity and Biological Collection at Cornell.
gopher to:   biodiversity.ups.edu

Email
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New list:  VIRTED - Uses of VIRTUAL REALITY in Education is an open,
unmoderated discussion list for teachers, students and anyone else
interested in the uses of virtual reality in education and learning. The
goal of the list is to explore the use and potential uses of virtual
reality environments in both traditional and alternative educational
settings, the effects of virtual reality environments upon the learning
process, and the efficacy of using virtual reality as an educational
delivery system. Review of research, publications and observations related
to EDUCATIONAL uses of virtual reality are welcome and encouraged. The
mission is to shed light on this new avenue of education and learning
which takes place in both text based environments as well as graphic
environments.
send mail to:  LISTSERV at SJUVM
          or   LISTSERV at SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
  in the body of the message type:
      SUB VIRTED Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name

Net-Lawyers is a new mailing list for lawyers, law professors, law
students, and others interested in discussing how to use legal resources
on the Internet to advance the development, practice, and study of law.
send mail to:  net-lawyers-request at webcom.com
  in the body of the message type:  subscribe

Weekend Scouting
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Colorado Mountain Bike Racing: Information about all mountain bike races
in Colorado, such as the Iron Horse Classic, Rage in the Sage, Melee in
the Mines, and the Monarch Mountain Challenge. Includes a calendar of
races, course descriptions, contacts, team rosters, results and pictures.
Extensive information about the Colorado Off-Road Point Series.
http://www.tcinc.com/mtbike/co_mtb.html

Jazz: The 1950's - Records and Photography. A readable and interesting
page includes links to "TIME" magazine articles from the 1950's, the
"Stars of Jazz" TV series, nightclubs, a list of books that focus on the
West Coast Jazz movement, an index of musicians, and more. Hosted by
University of California, Irvine.
http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/Jazz/JPRA2.html

About the Scout Report
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC Information
Services to the Internet community as a fast, convenient way to stay
informed about network activities. Its purpose is to combine in one place
the highlights of new (and newly discovered) online resources and other
announcements seen on the Internet during the preceding week.

A wide range of topics is 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
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The Scout Report is provided in multiple formats -- electronic mail,
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of the Report include links to all listed resources. The report is
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In addition to the plain text version, the Scout Report is distributed in

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

Susan Calcari
Info Scout
InterNIC Information Services

Scout Report Access Methods
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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 through 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

Accessing resources on the WWW can be done from a WWW client installed on
your host computer. Clients are available for all major computer
platforms, including Macintosh, PC, and UNIX. To use a WWW client on your
computer, you will need a TCP/IP connection to the Internet, either
through a dedicated line connection or a SLIP/PPP connection. See the
InfoGuide for additional information about the World Wide Web and for
sites which archive WWW clients.

gopher://is.internic.net/11/infoguide/using-internet/basic-resources/

Gopher to: is.internic.net
  Choose: Information Services/Using the Internet/

Send email to: mailserv at is.internic.net
  In the body of the message type: send INDEX

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