The Scout Report - June 9, 1995
A Service to the Internet Community Provided by the InterNIC
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://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/
Additional information and detailed access and subscription instructions
are included at the end of each Scout Report.
Highlights In This Week's Report:
World Wide Web
- The Biotech Law home page offers legal and scientific information of
interest to researchers in biotechnology/pharmaceutical science. At this
time, the site provides basic articles on methods of record keeping for
inventors, an explanation of the U.S. legal standard for inventorship and
an overview of patent application preparation. The Biotech law home page
also includes more advanced articles on intellectual property licensing,
parallel importing of patented products, and the effects of electronic
publication on U.S. Patent rights. In addition to a "heads up" guide to
recently-issued U.S. biotech patents, the home page provides links to
additional sources of information on intellectual property protection, as
well as links to selected scientific resources on Internet.
http://www2.ari.net/foley/
- The Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN) has been a leader in the
instructional applications of telecommunications since 1985. Formerly
called FrEdMail (Free Educational Mail), GSN originated with a group of
teachers who with no budget and minimal support set about creating a
powerful and now internationally recognized educational information
infrastructure starting at the grass roots level. Today the Global
SchoolNet Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, is a
significant contributor to the philosophy, design, culture, and content
of educational networking on the Internet and in the classroom. GSN
envisioned and then constructed the concept of the "Global Schoolhouse"
where teachers, students, business, government, and the community can
learn side-by-side. Our other exciting projects include Where on the
Globe is Roger?, Family Tree-Mail: Language Translation,
Scientist-on-Tap, Jane Goodall Institute, and CyberStars: Number Ones of
Tomorrow.
http://www.gsn.org/
- "The Great Adventure", a tour of an exhibition experience in the
Children's Museum of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, is a colourful,
exuberant celebration of the world's cultural diversity. The Great
Adventure whisks visitors to far-flung corners of the world, such as a
Japanese home, an architect's studio in Amsterdam, an Egyptian pyramid,
and many other locations. Look for the Passport to Adventure at the
start the trip:
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/cmceng/cmeng.html (English) and
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/cmcfra/cmfra.html (French)
- The Gulf War Veteran Resource Pages provides a single resource for
information on Gulf War Syndrome. Included is information on the syndrome
and how to obtain benefits; hyperlinked versions of reports and studies
of Gulf War syndrome and its possible causes and treatments; information
about and newsletters from Gulf War veteran activist organizations;
direct links to the Department of Veteran Affairs Home Page and other
online resources of interest to veterans, their families and others
concerned. The site is fully searchable by keyword. A new feature is
"Tracings in the Sand," a section where veterans can share their
experiences of their Gulf War service, and how it has affected their
lives. Also included are weekly news flashes, such as the following: "Jan
Williams of Sen. Rockefeller's office has indicated an interest in how PL
103-446 is being administered. If you are a Persian Gulf veteran and have
been turned down for VA disability, please call Jan Williams at 202
224-2074. She is looking for records and the reasons stated on the
decision letter."
http://www.gulfweb.org/
- The Internet Sleuth is a collection of over 450 searchable indexes and
databases covering a wide variety of subjects. Indexes are organized by
topic. For example, under the music category, search the Cyberdog College
Radio Database of U.S. college and non-commercial radio stations. Handy
for quick keyword searches.
http://www.isleuth.com/
- The official Peace Corps Web Site is up and running at URL:
http://www.clark.net/pub/peace/PeaceCorps.html
- The Philosophy Web at Valdosta State University' is now up and running,
offering among other things it's Virtual Library of electronic texts
available on Gopher.
http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~rbarnett/phi/
- Visit the World of Escher, a fascinating educationally based site that
explores the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher's unique and often
impossible work. From an early age, Escher was fascinated by repetition
and infinite patterns. He explored with great enthusiasm the regular
division of the plane in his tessellation or symmetry drawings linking
math and art. Impossible buildings, spatial illusions, perspective
drawings, woodcuts, and lithographs have fascinated young and old for
more than half a century. A great teachers' resource. Is there another
artist that links math and art like Escher? Bring your students into the
magical world of Escher. Enter your own tessellation in the on-line
tessellation contest, win prizes, certificates and possibly an entry into
our Hall of Fame. Opinions and addition information on Escher are welcome
for inclusion in the site.
http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/
Gopher
Electronic Mailing Lists
- The National Workforce Assistance Collaborative Listserv (NWAC-L) is an
electronic forum for discussing issues related to the changing nature of
work and the workforce and sharing information about instructional
strategies and materials, research and its applications, staff training
approaches, evaluation methods. Also addressed is reviewing/critiquing
materials produced by the National Workforce Assistance Collaborative
(NWAC). Topics include those affecting small and mid-sized businesses in
the areas of workplace literacy, employee training, work restructuring,
or labor-management relations? Service and information providers such as
community colleges, workplace literacy providers, and manufacturing
extension centers and programs that work with small and mid-sized
businesses are encouraged to participate. The Listserv and Gopher Server
(see above) are sponsored by the National Workforce Assistance
Collaborative, a U. S. Department of Labor initiative established in 1993
through a cooperative agreement with the National Alliance of Business
and its partners. To subscribe to NWAC-L,
send an email to LISTSERV@lists.psu.edu.
in the body of the message type:
subscribe NWAC-L yourfirstname yourlastname.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/nwac/nwac-l.html
- PTHER-L 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.
send mail to: listserv@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca.
in the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE PTHER-L yourfirstname yourlastname
- The Interactive New Media: Weekly Recap is an executive summary of
business and legal news about interactive new media, including coverage
of technology, publishing, online, entertainment, telecommunications and
more. send mail to ckirkman@wsgr.com
and include your email address in the message
http://wsgrgate.wsgr.com/recap/pastissues.html
NetBytes
- Summer Intern positions are available at the Internet Society's
International Secretariat. Qualifications for interns should include
experience with common Internet applications to provide support in
several possible areas:
1) Systems maintenance and development
2) WWW HTML implementations
3) Statistics research
4) Research related to Internet Law
5) Building international on-line reference materials
6) Building an Internet Museum and Archives
7) Planning, setting up and testing a training center
8) Non-profit business planning
9) Developing foreign language versions of some of our web pages.
Foreign language skills are a plus. Please indicate your area of
interest, Internet skills, language capabilities, and provide a brief
resume' to: Jay Whittle, jay@isoc.org
Compensation is negotiable. The Society unfortunately cannot support
travel or accommodation expenses. Course credit arrangements with a
student's educational institution may be possible.
Weekend Scouting
- The Car Show and Event Listing is "dedicated to all Car Lovers the world
over, from the simplicity of the Antique Autos of the past, to pure
ground stomping power of the Muscle Cars." See schedules and locations
for regularly scheduled car events including rally's, Cruise Night, swap
meets and shows.
http://kbt.com/carshow/
- @bat is the title of the Major League Baseball at bat Web page.
http://www2.pcy.mci.net/mlb/index.html
About the Scout Report
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,
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-- Susan Calcari
InterNIC Info Scout
Scout Report Access Methods
Resource Addressing Conventions
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.
Copyright Susan Calcari, 1995.
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