Chapter 1 The Internet Resource Guide (Abridged) The "Internet" is a very large collection of computers connected by an even larger collection of electronic networks. There is an amazing amount of information available on the Internet, and most of it is completely free. The following sections: Library Catalogs, Data Archives, White Pages, Networks and E-mail Gateways, and Miscellaneous Services are descriptions of some of the things available through the Internet. All of these materials are excerpted from a larger document (itself available electronically on the Internet) entitled "The Internet Resources Guide" compiled by the NSF Network Services Center. In most cases I have provided a few of the Guide's entries to illustrate interesting things you can do on the Internet. In all cases, I have left the Tables of Contents intact to give you an idea of the breadth of the Internet. You can get the entire guide via anonymous ftp from ftp.scri.fsu.edu in directory pub/dduke. The filename is net-guide.txt. This document is also in the same place, and the filename is net-guide-abridged.txt. Directions for actually doing an ftp are provided in Appendix B. Library Catalogs A large number of libraries allow access to their library catalogs via the Internet. Such catalogs can be very useful for finding uncommon books not available at a local library. Once a book is located, it can often be borrowed by your local library through Interlibrary Loan. Another popular use of library catalogs is to check citations or references. Many catalogs also support more extended reference facili- ties. Contents Boston University (TOMUS) ............................. 2.1 Univ. California and California St. (MELVYL) .......... 2.2 Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries ............... 2.3 Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) ......... 2.4 Florida Center for Library Automation ................. 2.5 MIRLYN, The University of Michigan's Online Catalog ... 2.6 University of New Mexico Gateway ...................... 2.7 Emory University Libraries Online Public Access Catalog ............................ 2.8 MAGIC ................................................. 2.9 Info-Lib .............................................. 2.10 InfoTrax .............................................. 2.11 ARLO, The Library Catalog for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs ..................... 2.12 The Catalog of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries ........................... 2.13 The University of Wisconsin Madison and Milwaukee Campuses Network Library System (NLS) .................... 2.14 University of Utah Library Card Catalog System .............................. 2.15 Northwestern University LUIS Online Catalog ........... 2.16 URSUS, University of Maine System Library Catalog .................................. 2.17 University of Illinois at Chicago NOTIS/LUIS ...................................... 2.18 Cleveland Public Library Catalog ..................... 2.19 Penn State University Library Information and Access System (LIAS).......................... 2.20 Harvard Online Library Information System (HOLLIS) ........................................ 2.21 Cataloging from the Library of Congress .............. 2.22 The Online Catalog, Princeton University Libraries ... 2.23 POLYCAT, The Cal Poly, SLO, Kennedy Library's Online Catalog .................................. 2.24 OASIS University of Iowa Libraries ................... 2.25 The University of California MELVYL (R) Catalog Description The MELVYL catalog is a computer-based library catalog of more than 5.5 million unique book titles representing 11 million holdings of all libraries in the nine-campus UC sys- tem and the California State Library. The catalog contains records of book and periodical (serial) holdings, and other materials such as maps, films, musical scores, and sound recordings. Collections strengths include agriculture, dry lands, oceanography, entomology, performing arts (especially film and television), photography, Californiana, materials on Mexico and Central America, 17th and 18th century British literature, health sciences, science fiction, and many oth- ers. The periodical file, containing more than 640,000 unique titles of newspapers, journals, proceedings, etc., includes the holdings of Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the nineteen-campus California State University system, and selected other libraries. The MELVYL catalog also includes two article abstracting and indexing files-MEDLINE and Current Contents. Use of these files, unlike the books and periodicals files, is restricted to the UC community. The MELVYL MEDLINE database contains the current five-year file of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database, which includes article citations indexed from health sciences journals. The Current Contents file, from the Institute for Scientific Information, contains one year of citations to journals in seven disciplines. The DLA Bulletin and Mynd of the MELVYL Catalog, two publi- cations describing the online catalog and its development and use, are also available online. The MELVYL catalog also provides TELNET access to other remote library systems. The MELVYL Online Catalog and CALLS are universally avail- able. Access to MEDLINE and Current Contents files are res- tricted under a license agreement to the University of Cali- fornia faculty, staff, and students. RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) Description RLIN is the information management and retrieval system of The Research Libraries Group, Inc. It includes an online bibliographic database cataloging the holdings of well over one hundred research libraries, archives, and special collections-a total of over forty million records in August 1990. Entries are divided among eight files: books, seri- als, archival materials (e.g., personal papers, governmental records), maps, music scores, sound recordings, visual materials (e.g., films and photographs), and computer files. Smaller subject-oriented databases contain citations for articles in art and architectural periodicals; eighteenth- century English-language publications; art sales catalogs dating from the 1500s to the present; and research in the humanities scheduled for publication within the next two Florida Center for Library Automation Description Contains online catalogs of the nine state-funded universi- ties, with 5.4 million bibliographic records plus serial holdings. MIRLYN, The University of Michigan's Online Catalog Description MIRLYN is a computer based catalog that contains 1.5 million records for the holdings of the University of Michigan Libraries. The entire collection will be represented in MIR- LYN by the middle of 1990. MIRLYN also contains the follow- ing periodical indexes: Social Science Index, Humanities Index, General Science Index, Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Business Periodicals Index, PSYCHINFO, and PAIS. Info-Lib Description Info-lib is a directory of library catalogs and related resources accessible via the Internet. Cleveland Public Library Catalog Description The Cleveland Public Library's catalog is now available through Internet connections. The catalog contains 1.6 mil- lion titles and 5.9 million items representing the holdings of eighteen libraries in northern Ohio, as well as a Union List of Periodicals that includes thirty-eight area libraries, including Case Western Reserve, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and the Cleveland Health Sciences Library. Harvard Online Library Information System (HOLLIS) Description The Harvard OnLine Library Information System (HOLLIS) pro- vides access to a number of databases including two library catalogs. The union catalog of the Harvard University libraries contains approximately two million records for books, journals, manuscripts, scores, sound recordings, visual materials, and computer files in the collections of most of the Harvard libraries. (While this database represents only a subset of the six million titles held at Harvard, it does include most items cataloged since 1977.) The catalog of older Widener Library materials contains more than one million short records for books cataloged for the main research library before 1977. Cataloging from Library of Congress Description The Software Development Group of Data Research Associates, Inc. has made the 3.8 million cataloging records from the Library of Congress available to researchers via the Inter- net. This database contains the records from the Books All, Maps, Music, Serials, and Visual Materials services as dis- tributed by the Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) of the Library of Congress. Guest users may search the database by author, title, author/title, ISBN, ISSN, LCCN, as well as qualifying searches by language, copyright date, or cataloging format. Subject and keyword searching is not available to guest users. Additional types of searches may be available for users with Data Research accounts. Data Archives Contents Gene-Server ........................................... 3.1 LiMB .................................................. 3.2 MEMDB: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank ............ 3.3 NETLIB Mathematical Software Distribution System ...... 3.4 SIMBAD ................................................ 3.5 SIMTEL20 Software Archives ............................ 3.6 Southwest Research Data Display & Analysis System (SDDAS) ..3.7 IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base .................. 3.8 VxWorks Users Group Archive ........................... 3.9 Washington University Public Domain Archives .......... 3.10 Matrix of Biological Knowledge Archive-Server ......... 3.11 COSMIC ................................................ 3.12 IuBio Archive for Molecular and General Biology ....... 3.13 PENpages .............................................. 3.14 Dartmouth Dante Database .............................. 3.15 DDN NIC SERVICE Mail Server ........................... 3.16 NASA Network Information Center On Line Aid System (NICOLAS) .................................... 3.17 MATLAB User Group Archive ............................. 3.18 Statlib Statistical Software and Data Distribution System .............................................. 3.19 Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource (MBCRR) .. 3.20 NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) ................ 3.21 INFO-SOUTH............................................. 3.22 Unidata................................................ 3.23 UNC Chapel Hill INFO Service........................... 3.24 Archie Archive Server Listing Service.................. 3.25 Latin America Data Base................................ 3.26 Science and Technology Information System.............. 3.27 Online Database for Distance Education................. 3.28 GENE-SERVER Description The Gene-Server is a mail response facility that will return a specific GenBank (tm) entry requested via e-mail. Other Services: The server now distributes Protein Information Resource (PIR, also known as NBRF) protein sequence database entries. Molecular biology software for Apple Macintosh, DOS, Unix and VAX-VMS computers is also available from the server. A number of information files (the R. Roberts Restriction Enzyme database; sequence analysis reference, and such) are distributed. The Matrix of Biological Knowledge Archive-Server files are now available only from this address. Electronic mail searching of the protein sequence database is available; you simply send a properly formatted protein "query" sequence to a specific address on the server and the search will be performed automatically and the results returned via electronic mail. LiMB database Description The LiMB (LIsting of Molecular Biology databases) database is a computer-based collection of information on molecular biology and related databases. LiMB is intended to facili- tate locating and accessing these databases as well as to provide an ``overview'' that will help in developing a sys- tematic, coordinated approach to designing, developing and maintaining these databases. Each entry in LiMB currently consists of 54 fields, includ- ing: database staff names and addresses; database mainte- nance hardware and software; scope of coverage and database goals; details about submission and access to the data sets; database size; and types of data covered by the database. LiMB entries are based on questionnaires filled out by the database managers or, in the absence of a completed ques- tionnaire, on secondary sources (e.g., a journal article). LiMB is currently maintained in a relational DBMS. MEMDB: Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank Description The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank is a resource pro- ject established at Rutgers University and co-sponsored by The Resource Libraries Group, Inc. Its aim is to provide scholars with a continually expanding reference library of information concerning the medieval and early modern periods, circa A.D. 800-1800. Because MEMDB is a computer- based, electronic reference tool, it offers remarkable facilities for immediate information retrieval and manipula- tion. In 1989-90 MEMDB will become an on-line system, available to subscribers through RLG's Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN). When MEMDB becomes RLIN-based its master data set will be vastly expanded. MEMDB's scope will extend to virtually any scholarly compilation of data that can be presented in a tabular form. New material to be incor- porated will include information on such subjects as wages and prices, household size, mortality, property-holdings, charity, and nutrition, drawn from such sources as: taxation records wills and inventories parish records and vital statistics company records import/export records household/estate accounts paleopathology studies In addition, MEMDB will provide important scholarly refer- ence aids, such as: glossaries of weights and measures gazetteers of Latin and vernacular place names calendars of dates. Network access MEMDB will be accessible through RLIN, which is accessible via the Internet. (See the RLIN entry in Chapter 2). Netlib Mathematical Software Distribution System Description Netlib is a system for distribution of mathematical software by electronic mail. To get information about Netlib, mail the following one-line message to netlib@ornl.gov. send index For background about Netlib, see Jack J. Dongarra and Eric Grosse, ``Distribution of Mathematical Software Via Elec- tronic Mail,'' CACM (1987) Vol. 30, pp. 403-407. The Netlib library includes the following software collec- tions (for details on each, see the index message). a - approximation algorithms (almost empty, but soon to grow) alliant - set of programs collected from Alliant users apollo - set of programs collected from Apollo users benchmark - various benchmark programs and a summary of timings bihar - Bjorstad's biharmonic solver bmp - Brent's multiple precision package cheney-kincaid - programs from the text Numerical Mathematics and Computing. conformal - Schwarz-Christoffel codes by Trefethen, Bjorstad & Grosse core - machine constants, blas domino - communication and scheduling of multiple tasks; Univ. Maryland eispack - matrix eigenvalues and vectors elefunt - Cody and Waite's tests for elementary functions errata - corrections to numerical books fishpack - separable elliptic PDEs; Swarztrauber and Sweet fitpack - Cline's splines under tension fftpack - Swarztrauber's Fourier transforms fmm - software from the book by Forsythe, Malcolm, and Moler fn - Fullerton's special functions gcv - Generalized Cross Validation go - ``golden oldies,'' gaussq, zeroin, lowess, ... graphics - ray-tracing harwell - MA28 sparse linear system hompack - nonlinear equations by homotopy method itpack - iterative linear system solution by Young and Kincaid lanczos - Cullum and Willoughby's Lanczos programs laso - Scott's Lanczos program for eigenvalues of sparse matrices linpack - gaussian elimination, QR, SVD by Dongarra, Bunch, Moler, Stewart lp - linear programming machines - short descriptions of various computers microscope - Alfeld and Harris' system for discontinuity checking minpack - nonlinear equations and least squares by More, Garbow, Hillstrom misc - everything else na-digest - archive of mailings to NA distribution list napack - numerical algebra programs ode - ordinary differential equations odepack - ordinary differential equations from Hindmarsh paranoia - Kahan's floating point test pchip - hermite cubics Fritsch & Carlson pltmg - Bank's multigrid code; too large for ordinary mail polyhedra - Hume's database of geometric solids port - the public subset of PORT library pppack - subroutines from de Boor's Practical Guide to Splines quadpack - univariate quadrature by Piessens, de Donker, Kahaner siam - typesetting macros for SIAM journal format slatec - machine constants and error handling package from the Slatec library sparse - a set of c codes for sparse systems of equations sparspak - George + Liu, sparse linear algebra core specfun - transportable special functions toeplitz - linear systems in Toeplitz or circulant form by Garbow toms - Collected Algorithms of the ACM y12m - sparse linear system (Aarhus) SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) - U. S. gateway Description SIMBAD is a complete database for observational data and bibliographic references accessible by the name or number of the astronomical object. It is nearly complete to 1950 for stars and to 1983 for non-stellar objects. It excludes solar system objects. SAO is the official NASA agent in the U.S. for this resource. The database is maintained in France by the Centre de Donnees astronomique de Strasbourg (CDS). SAO provides administrative, network, and user assistance in the U.S. SIMTEL20 Software Archives Description WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL is a 4MW DECSYSTEM-20 Model 2065 host owned and operated by the US Army Information Systems Com- mand, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. It supports three disk structures, named PD1:, PD2, and PD3:, containing public domain, shareware, documentation, and mail archives with the following top-level directory names: PD1: PD2: PD3: __________________________________________ HZ100 ADA SIGM MACINTOSH INFO-IBMPC ARCHIVES STARS MISC MSDOS CPM UNIX-C TOPS20 PC-BLUE CPMUG VHDL PCNET ZSYS All the files are accessible via ANONYMOUS FTP. However the number of simultaneous ANONYMOUS FTP jobs is limited by time of day and day of week to provide reasonable network perfor- mance for our paying customers as well as for those ANONYMOUS users who do get in. The ANONYMOUS login direc- tory contains several files containing detailed information on the collections in general as well as files specific to certain collections. The MSDOS and CP/M collections are maintained by Keith Petersen, who makes periodic announcements of new releases to the INFO-IBMPC and INFO-CPM mailing lists, respectively. The Ada, STARS, and VHDL collections are maintain by Rick Conn who announces new releases to the ADA-SW mailing list. The UNIX-C collection is maintained by Dave Curry, with monthly announcements to the UNIX-SW mailing list. The MACINTOSH Collection is maintained by Bob Thum, Stan Sobczynski, and John Mitchener, based on announcements made on several Macintosh-related mailing lists. The PC-BLUE and SIGM collections are maintained by their respective organizations and updated as new volumes become available. Each of the mailing lists mentioned above have administra- tive addresses of the form listname-REQUEST@WSMR- SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL to take requests for additions, changes, and deletions to the lists. Southwest Research Data Display & Analysis System (SDDAS) Description The SDDAS maintains a large optical disk database of data returned by the Dynamics Explorer satellites 1 & 2. It pro- vides interactive tools for displaying this data in various ways and selected subsets may be acquired via anonymous FTP. This data is primarily used by those doing research in space physics, magnetospheric physics, and the dynamics of the upper atmosphere. The measurements are classified as fol- lows: DC magnetic field; AC electric field; particles; elec- tron and ion ionospheric temperature and density; ion compo- sition and drift; thermal neutral drift, composition, den- sity, and temperature. IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base Description The IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base is a listing of information concerning programs that have been written or converted to use IBM 3090 vector or parallel processing. The data base is maintained by the Computer Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago with support from IBM. Data provided for each program include the program's appli- cation area, name, a description, the environment under which it operates, the person to contact for more informa- tion and the approximate cost for academic user. The pro- grams themselves are not available through the data base. The data base is referred to as ``supersft'' for ``supercom- puting software.'' Washington University Public Domain Archives Description A huge archive of public domain and shareware software, including complete collections of most of the source and binary groups from USENET, as well as an official mirror copy of the Info-Mac archives. Also maintained in the archive is the complete source to TeX and the X windowing system (Version 11R3) and all of the GNU Project Software. A complete set of the Request For Comment (RFCs) documents, and Internet Experiment Notes (IENs) may also be found in the archives. Other things maintained in the archives include: UUPC (A clone of the UNIX 'UUCP') for most per- sonal computers The latest Sun EXchange Tape The public portions of the Berkeley 4.3BSD Tahoe release Public Domain implementations of TCP/IP (KA9Q and NCSA) for the IBM PC. A collection of GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) pictures. Most of the files in the archive are compressed using the UNIX 'compress' utility to save space. If you are unable to decompress files from the archive and need copies of a lim- ited number of files, send e-mail to archives@wugate.wustl.edu to make special arrangements. IuBio Archive for Molecular and General Biology Description The IuBio Archive maintains publicly available biology software and data. Molecular biology is the area of concen- tration. The archive includes software for Macintosh, VAX- VMS, Unix, MS-DOS, and any other important computer operat- ing systems. Contributions of broad interest in any area of biology, and related areas of chemistry and other sciences, are welcome. Contributions of interest over several com- puter platforms should either be plain text files or .ARC archives. PENpages Description PENpages is a computer-based information service containing thousands of reports, newsletters, and fact sheets on research-based agricultural and consumer-oriented informa- tion. This service allows you to explore the diversity of agricultural science, human health, community development, and other consumer issues. You'll find a broad range of up-to-date information on hundreds of topics. PENpages is supported and maintained by Penn State's College of Agricul- ture. Information in PENpages is provided by College of Agricul- ture faculty and cooperators, including Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, USDA, and Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. Dartmouth Dante Database Description The Dartmouth Dante database contains 600 years of line-by- line commentary to Dante's Divine Comedy, as well as the Petrocchi version of the poem itself. All texts are in their original languages (Italian, Latin, and English) with no translations. Ancient commentaries have been parsed for the users' convenience. The search program utilized is BRS/Search. DDN Network Information Center SERVICE Mail Server Description SERVICE is an automatic mail program provided by the NIC. It allows access to NIC online files and information via ordinary electronic mail. This is especially useful for people who do not have access to the NIC via a direct Inter- net link. Users can request publicly accessible files and searches in the WHOIS database via this server. Replies are batched and sent back overnight. The Network Information Center On Line Aid System (NICOLAS) Description NICOLAS is a menu-driven network user help system that func- tions both as an information server and an inter-network gateway. As an information server, NICOLAS provides syn- taxes for inter-network mail addressing, general information about wide-area networks, networking-related "how to" files, information on current NASA flight projects, and a variety of network- and computer-related information of specific interest to the NASA community. As an automated inter- network gateway, NICOLAS enables users to connect to DECnet or TCP/IP nodes, login to their NASAMail and GSFCMail accounts, connect directly to a number of other online ser- vices not normally available to TCP/IP users, perform a variety of "yellow pages" functions, and transfer files between DECnet and TCP/IP systems and from either DECnet or TCP/IP nodes to BITNET nodes. MATLAB User Group Archive Description This is a library of user-written functions, utilities, and other related items for users of the MATLAB numeric computa- tion system. The archive is set up as a mail-based server. First-time users should send an email message with their email address to: matlab-users-request@mcs.anl.gov to be added to the distribution list for the MATLAB User Group Digest. The archive includes directories for approximation theory, control theory, data analysis and statistics, graphics, numerical integration, linear algebra utilities, differen- tial equations, zero-finding tools, and tools for classroom instruction with MATLAB. Statlib Statistical Software and Data Distribution System Description Statlib is a system for the distribution of software, datasets, and general information of interest to statisti- cians. To get information about statlib, mail the following one-line message to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu: send index The Statlib system is based on the netlib software of Dongarra and Grosse. The archives include the following information: S S functions, device drivers and related software. s-news Archives of the S-news mail, in digest format. general software of general statistical interest. apstat Selected algorithms transcribed from Applied Statistics griffiths-hill Applied Statistics algorithms contained in the book by Griffiths and Hill. multi Multivariate Analysis and Clustering. An annotated directory and selected algorithms. crab Kodiak Island king crab survey data. datasets Various datasets. directory Lists of addresses and e-mail addresses of statisticians. xlispstat Luke Tierney's XlispStat system for Unix systems. disease National Notifiable Diseases Data Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource (MBCRR) Description The Molecular Biology Computer Research Resource (MBCRR) is a federally funded national resource that combines molecular biology research and computer software development with on- line computer support and training to laboratories within and outside the Boston area. NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) Description The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is an ongoing project to organize a broad range of published extragalactic data into a computer-based central archive designed for fast and flexible query via electronic networks. The January 1991 version of NED provides positions, names, and basic data for 132,000 extragalactic objects, as well as related bibliographic references and notes from catalogs and other publications. It forwards to the user, upon request, files containing the data retrieved during a session. It also allows users to browse abstracts of recent articles of extragalactic interest from five major journals (A & A, AJ ApJ, MNRAS, PASP, their Letters and Supplements), and to view the contents of several major catalogs. Future releases will provide data from the current literature and from catalogs, and tools for searching the abstract database by content. NED is an object-oriented database, meaning that all infor- mation is organized around a master list of astronomical objects (such as galaxies, groups of galaxies, quasars and radio sources) obtained from detailed cross-identifications among some thirty major catalogs. Additional catalogs are being folded in continually. Objects can be selected by name (a high-level name interpreter is built into the interface), or by vicinity, either to a named object, or to a position on the sky. INFO-SOUTH Description The INFO-SOUTH Latin American Information System provides citations and abstracts of materials relating to Latin Amer- ica, including all materials covering this critical geo- graphical area and its social, political, and economic cli- mate, whether published in the region, in the United States, or elsewhere in the world. Topics covered include: Agri- culture, Banking, Commerce, Defense, Demography, Drug Traf- ficking, Ecology, Economics, Education, Elections, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Government, Human Rights, Informatics, Intelligence Activities, Marketing, Politics, Refugees, Science and Technology, Sociology, and Terrorism. Unidata Program Description Unidata is a national program to help universities acquire weather data and to analyze and display those data for teaching and research. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Unidata negotiates a group contract with a commercial data-broadcasting firm so that universities may receive weather data at a discount. Unidata also develops and distributes software for captur- ing, analyzing, and displaying those data locally. Unidata-developed software includes the Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM), which captures real-time weather data from a satellite broadcast, and netCDF, a network-transparent, architecture-independent form for storing scientifc data. Unidata also distributes applications software developed and licensed by universities, such as Purdue University's Weather Processor (WXP) and the University of Wisconsin's McIDAS-OS/2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill INFO Service Description INFO is the electronic information service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Several items may be of interest to people outside the UNC Chapel Hill area, includ- ing the following: Continuing education classes (in the Calendar section), including the Public Health Continuing Education Calen- dar and educational opportunities through the Division of Continuing Education. Job openings, including tenured/tenure track faculty vacancies as well as staff positions (see TOP and EPA non-faculty positions). Several campus newsletters are available in the News section, including the following: Information Bulletin on Aging Approximately twenty pages monthly of information pertaining to the aged: general information, technical/professional information, grant information, meetings and conferences, and publications. Newsbrief Weekly campus computing newsletter. Supercomputing News In addition, the News section contains a series of bibliographies prepared by Health Sciences Library staff addressing specific topics relating to AIDS research, education, and treatment. Campus Directory, catalogs, and lists. Topics covered in this section include the following: Campus Directory, faculty/staff and student phone numbers, addresses, and electronic mail userids The Independent Study catalog: this is the complete catalog of courses people can take by correspondence-everything except the forms Facts & Information brochure published by the Office of Public Information provides information about the University. (From INFO's main menu, select item 7, "Ask INFO about...;" then item 6, "Campus life;" then item 18, "Facts & Information" brochure.) Archie: the McGill School of Computer Science Archive Server Listing Service Description Archie is a central database for information about archive sites. It speeds the task of finding a specific program on the net. Archie keeps track of UNIX sites; VMS sites may be added in the near future. Archie is a pair of software tools: the first maintains a list of several hundred Internet ftp archive sites, each of which is updated about once a month. The second tool allows outsiders to log onto the host to query the database. Archie also maintains a Software Description Database of the names and descriptions of various software packages, docu- ments, and datasets that are kept on anonymous ftp archive sites around the Internet. The whatis command allows you to search this database. Latin America Data Base (LADB) Description LADB is a full-text database comprising three publications on Latin America: Chronicle of Latin American Economic Affairs, Central America Update, and SOURCEMEX-Economic News & Ananlysis on Mexico. Updated four days a week, the data- base contains some of the most current economic news and analysis available on the region. Much of the information is assembled from unfiltered news sources originating from Latin America, providing an ability for organizations to understand and monitor the environments in which they have business and research interests. Currently, the database contains more than eleven thousand articles-from 1987 to present-with approximately four hundred new ones added each month. Science and Technology Information System Description The National Science Foundation (NSF) has established STIS, the Science and Technology Information System, an electronic dissemination system that provides electronic access to NSF publications. STIS allows the user to search the full text of a publication and to obtain a copy electronically. Publications include The NSF Bulletin, Guide to Programs, the grants booklet (including forms), program announcements, press releases, The NSF Telephone Book, reports of the National Science Board, descriptions of research projects funded by NSF (with abstracts), and analytical reports and news from the International Programs Division. New materi- als are added weekly. Some will be removed or replaced as they become out of date; others will remain permanently. STIS makes it possible to search thousands of pages in seconds. Publications may be searched by using any keyword (such as nsfnet, japan, superconductivity, or volcano); using a phrase or boolean inquiry (such as synaptic mechan- ism, or exchange of scientists and soviet union); using predefined topics (such as biosciences); or by using a filter to limit the user's view either to a particular NSF organization (such as bbs or geo), to a particular type of material (such as announcement, award, or bulletin), or to a date range (such as 05/07/90 to 01/31/91). Help is available by: online help screens, a user manual (available from the STIS main menu), e-mail to the STIS operator from within STIS, and telephone to the helpline to leave voicemail. Network Access On the Internet, use the command telnet stis.nsf.gov or tel- net 128.150.195.40. Otherwise, use the dial-in lines (202) 357-0359 or (202) 357-0360 with even parity, seven data bits, at full duplex, with a VT100 emulator. STIS is available at 1200, 2400, and 9600 baud rates. Once the modem establishes a connection with STIS, the user must press Enter.Enter to continue. At the login prompt, log in as user public. STIS will ask you for your name, your address, and a personal ID of eight or fewer letters. Online Database for Distance Education Description The International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL), based at the British Open University, has an online database on Distance Education. This database has been developed with funding from the British Government's Overseas Development Administration to provide an information service to the Com- monwealth of Learning (based in Canada), an organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to expand oppor- tunities for students in Commonwealth countries through dis- tance education. There are three sections in the database: Courses, Institu- tions, and Literature. White Pages The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. Because they serve a function akin to the telephone book, these databases are often referred to as "white pages." Contents NASA Ames Research Center Electronic Phone Book ............................ 4.1 DDN Network Information Center WHOIS Service .......... 4.2 NYSERNet/PSI White Pages Pilot Project ................ 4.3 CREN/CSNET User Name Server ``ns'' .................... 4.4 Knowbot Information Service ........................... 4.5 NASA Ames Research Center Electronic Phone Book Description Electronic version of the NASA Ames Research Center white pages DDN Network Information Center WHOIS Service Description WHOIS/NICNAME is a NIC program that provides an electronic ``white pages'' of network entities. WHOIS lists the name, network mailbox, US postal address, telephone number, and host for all users registered with the NIC. WHOIS also pro- vides information about registered hosts, domains, and net- works, including the names and addresses of designated points of contact, host addresses, and domain servers. There are currently more than 75,000 users and points of contact registered. NYSERNet/PSI White Pages Pilot Project Description The NYSERNet/PSI White Pages Pilot Project is a large, decentralized white pages service under multiple administra- tions. Although focused in the US, eight other countries are participating at various levels. The X.500 Directory Service is used to realize the service. Both terminal- oriented and X windows applications are available. CREN/CSNET User Name Server ``ns'' Description The User Name Server is a central database containing infor- mation about CREN/CSNET organizations and users from a variety of sites. The User Name Server automatically sends update messages at least once a year to registered users. Network access Interactive access for queries only: (1) On the Internet, TELNET to sh.cs.net and log on as ``ns,'' no password required. (2) By dial-up modem, call (617) 491-2777. (3) On the Internet, under UNIX BSD, use the whois protocol, for example, whois -h sh.cs.net ``jones oxbridge.'' Email access for queries and registration: for information, send a message to info-server@sh.cs.net with the following lines in the body of the message: Request: info Topic: ns Knowbot Information Service Description The Knowbot Information Service is a white pages ``meta- service'' that provides a uniform interface to heterogeneous white pages services in the Internet. Using the Knowbot Information Service, one can form a single query that can search for white pages information from the NIC WHOIS ser- vice, the CSNET WHOIS service, the NYSERNet White Pages Pilot Project, and MCI Mail, among others, and have the responses displayed in a single, uniform format. Networks and E-mail Gateways This section lists networks that are part of the Internet and e-mail gateways to networks that are not part of the Internet. Contents CICnet ................................................ 5.1 CREN/CSNET ............................................ 5.2 JvNCnet ............................................... 5.3 Los Nettos ............................................ 5.4 MRNet ................................................. 5.5 NasaMail .............................................. 5.6 NCSAnet ............................................... 5.7 NEARNet ............................................... 5.8 NSFNET ................................................ 5.9 NYSERNet .............................................. 5.10 Sesquinet ............................................. 5.11 USAN .................................................. 5.12 Westnet ............................................... 5.13 Los Alamos Natl. Lab Integrated Computing Network ..... 5.14 NASA Science Network .................................. 5.15 PREPnet ............................................... 5.16 SURAnet ............................................... 5.17 UUNET ................................................. 5.18 NORDUnet .............................................. 5.19 Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) ........................... 5.20 Terrestrial Wideband Network .......................... 5.21 ICBNet ................................................ 5.22 CONCERT ............................................... 5.23 SWITCH ................................................ 5.24 NevadaNet ............................................. 5.25 BARRnet ............................................... 5.26 NorthWestNet .......................................... 5.27 SUNET ................................................. 5.28 THEnet ................................................ 5.29 ILAN .................................................. 5.30 ESNET ................................................. 5.31 WVNET ................................................. 5.32 FidoNet Gateways ...................................... 5.33 California Education and Research Federation Network (CERFNET) ........................................... 5.34 SprintMail X.400 Gateway .............................. 5.35 PSINet ................................................ 5.36 MIDNet, A Midwestern Regional Network ................. 5.37 SDSCnet ............................................... 5.38 CSUNET ................................................ 5.39 WiscNet ............................................... 5.40 AARNet, the Australian Academic and Research Network .. 5.41 UNINETT ............................................... 5.42 CREN/CSNET: The Computer + Science Network Description CSNET and BITNET merged in the autumn of 1989 to form the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN). CSNET continues to supply international data communication through TCP/IP and allied email-only services. Members of CREN/CSNET include universities, colleges, government agen- cies, nonprofit organizations, and industrial research laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. CSNET offers several connection options to serve the needs of large and small organizations. The options include dial-up delivery of electronic mail, dial-up IP-based interactive service, and IP-based interactive service using leased telephone and X.25 circuits. CSNET also provides technical information to network users and support services to member organizations. It operates a 24-hour telephone hotline and a "help" mailbox, publishes CSNET-FORUM (an online newsletter), and distributes documen- tation on network use and services by email through an automated document server and other automated servers. Net- work users may access the same information by anonymous FTP. Network users may register themselves in the CSNET User Name Server, an automated directory database of users and hosts maintained at the CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC). The User Name Server may be queried by email or tel- net. CSNET participates actively in Internet organizations such as the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) and working groups organized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) Description Backbone network of the National Science Foundation to interconnect mid-level networks and other resources. USAN Description USAN (University Satellite Network) is a discipline oriented network serving organizations that do research in the atmos- pheric and oceanographic sciences. Current members are the Universities of Miami, Oregon State, Penn State, Maryland, Wisconsin, and the Institute of Naval Oceanography, the Naval Research Lab, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The primary use of the network is for access to supercom- puter facilities at NCAR. Secondary use is for access to the Internet via the NSFnet node and other Internet gateways at NCAR. The network is an IP satellite broadcast network with a star configuration with the center at NCAR. Incoming traffic is broadcast at 56Kbits from each node on its own unique chan- nel. Outbound traffic is broadcast at 224Kbits on a single channel. Membership in USAN is not restricted, however members must share in the operating costs for the network. Network access Any IP host of any USAN member may access the network. NASA Science Network (NSN) Description The NASA Science Network (NSN) is an IP network which sup- ports scientists and flight projects funded by NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications (OSSA). The network is used to provide remote access to such resources as scien- tific databases and supercomputing centers. The NSN main- tains hubs at several NASA centers which are interconnected in a partial mesh topology. These backbone sites use terres- trial circuits ranging in speed from 168 to 672 Kbps. From these hubs radiate numerous tail circuits; the majority of these tails are 56 Kbps, with a few at 9.6 Kbps as well. The NSN was designed to provide NASA's scientific communi- ties with a more general networking approach that would pro- vide full networking services in a vendor-independent environment. These services include file transfer and remote logon as well as email. NSN is a NASA-wide network managed by the NASA Science Internet Project Office (NSIPO) at Ames Research Center. It is used for NASA-funded space science research programs and flight projects. Users include NASA sites, and government facilities, research, and academic sites conducting NASA-funded research. SURAnet Description SURAnet, the Southeastern Universities Research Association Network, is a project of SURA, the Southeastern Universities Research Assocation. SURA is a consortium of universities which supports, manages, and operates projects too large or complex to be handled by a single university. SURAnet, a TCP/IP network, is one of the NSFNET mid-level networks. 8 data lines operate at T-1 speed (1.5 Mbps) and the reminder at 56 kbps. A redundant T-1 backbone is planned for the near future. SURAnet is connected to the NSFNET backbone at the Univer- sity of Maryland. SURAnet's geographic area includes the District of Columbia and 13 states in the southeast US: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis- sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. While SURA, the parent organization, is a consortium of academic organizations, SURAnet members comprise approxi- mately two-thirds academic institutions and one-third non- academic sites. Network access Any IP host of any member organization may access SURAnet. UUNET Communications Services Description UUNET is a non-profit organization whose charter is to pro- vide electronic mail connectivity among its subscribing sites. UUNET provides fast, reliable, mail service both domestically and internationally. UUNET charges connect fees on a cost recovery basis. UUNET acts as an internet mail relay for its 1,000 subscrib- ing sites. UUNET provides a proxy ftp service and archive service which allows non-internet sites to obtain files that are available by anonymous ftp. Currently, UUNET may only be accessed via TCP/IP or the UNIX UUCP protocols. UUNET IS NOT A GENERAL UUCP/INTERNET GATEWAY (despite common delusions). Commercial Mail Relay (CMR) Description The Commercial Mail Relay service currently provides mail relay functions between the Internet and three commercial electronic mail systems: Telemail, MCI-Mail, and DIALCOM systems (IEEE-Compmail, NSFMAIL, and USDA-MAIL). To send mail via the Commercial Mail Relay users on each system use their normal mail programs to prepare, send, and receive messages. Messages to be forwarded are sent to the CMR mailbox called ``Intermail'' on the local mail system. Energy Services Network (ESnet) Description ESnet is a computer data communications network managed and funded by the Department of Energy Office of Energy Research (DOE/OER) for the purpose of supporting open scientific research in multiple programs. ESnet is intended to facili- tate access to resources at ER scientific facilities, to provide for information dissemination among scientific col- laborators throughout all ER programs, and to provide widespread access to existing supercomputer facilities via remote login, electronic mail, file transfer, and related utilities. ESnet is installed and operated by the National Energy Supercomputer Center (NERSC), formerly known as the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center (NMFECC), which is located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. ESnet policy is guided by the ESnet Steering Committee, appointed by the DOE Office of Scientific Comput- ing, with representatives from each of the Energy Research Programs. The ESnet program plan, prepared by this commit- tee, is available from the National Technical Information Service as report DOE/ER-0341 (June 1987). The ESnet backbone consists of largely of T1 links (1.544 megabit per second) interconnecting nineteen sites in the United States. Network access to Europe and Japan is also supplied in collaboration with foreign research facilities. ESnet will also provide backbone capabilties to the Magnetic Fusion Energy Network (MFEnet) and the High Energy Physics Network (HEPnet) communities. In terms of protocols, ESnet supports TCP/IP and Digital Equipment Corporation's DECnet. ESnet will support X.25 and the OSI protocols as they become available from vendors. FidoNet Gateways Description FidoNet allows MS and PC DOS personal computers, linked over dial-up telephone lines, to contact UNIX and UUCP computers via gateways. FidoNet, which was started in 1984, now con- sists of more than 7,000 computers, or nodes, run by local system administrators. SprintMail X.400 Gateway Description The Merit staff operates a gateway between the Internet and SprintMail, which allows messages to be exchanged between SprintMail customers and Internet users. The gateway is connected to Sprintnet and to the Internet through Merit's connections to the NSFNET. SprintMail, operated by Sprint International, is a commer- cial X.400 electronic mail network providing services to US customers and access to other networks domestically and internationally. Formerly known as Telemail, SprintMail uses the Sprintnet (formerly Telenet) public data network for its e-mail connections. Merit provides hardware and software maintenance and administration and network operations (via the Merit Network Operations Center) for the Internet gateway; Sprint provides Sprintnet connectivity and user consulting and registration, as well as gateways to other X.400 networks. Network Information Centers This chapter lists network information centers (NICs) for various networks and disciplines in the Internet. Note that some NICs offer important services which are listed in other chapters. Contents BITNIC ................................................ 6.1 DDN NIC ............................................... 6.2 NNSC .................................................. 6.3 OCEANIC ............................................... 6.4 SPAN NIC .............................................. 6.5 CREN/CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC) .. 6.6 Ocean Network Information Center (OCEANIC) Description OCEANIC, the Ocean Network Information Center primarily sup- ports the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) research program. Examples of OCEANIC content are: - WOCE program information summaries of research projects with emphasis on data collection. WOCE Field Program plans, resources and maps. WOCE administrative information. - Directories of oceanographic datasets: holdings of major data centers. directories of datasets of special interest to WOCE. - A WOCE data-tracking system: datasets planned, being collected, being analyzed, and in data centers. - A library of data products. OCEANIC also includes: - A searchable directory of oceanographers on Inter- net, SPAN, Telemail (Omnet and Kosmos), and Bit- net. - A searchable international oceanographic research ship schedules. OCEANIC is self-explanatory and menu-driven. Though intended to work with simple terminals, to view graphical material, you must use a terminal- emulation program compa- tible with the Tektronix 4010 standard. SPAN Network Information Center Online Database System (SPAN_NIC) Description The SPAN NIC supports an interactive database system which can be accessed by logging in to the SPAN NIC host. The information in the database is grouped into six categories: (1) SPAN information section: General Information about SPAN, Administration structure of SPAN, History of SPAN (2) Query SPAN database of NODEs: Complete information about a particular node, Listing of nodes by a particu- lar field, Complete listing of all nodes in the data- base (3) INTERmail syntaxes: How to send mail from SPAN to other users on other Networks and vice versa including SPAN to X.25 hosts; SPAN to NASAmail; GSFCmail; TELEmail; OMNET; SPAN to INTERnet (ex. ARPAnet); SPAN to BITnet & EARN; SPAN to NSFnet; SPAN to JANET; SPAN to MFEnet; JUNET; UUCP; ACSnet (4) Important NEWS briefs: This section changes periodi- cally to broadcast to the general SPAN public things that are happening on SPAN. (5) Access SPAN Library of Documents: Have document e- mailed to you; Request document be postal mailed to you (6) How to access other Network Information Centers (NICs) Miscellaneous Services Contents Chiron: Linotype Postscript Typesetter ................ M.1 Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) ................................... M.2 Geographic Name Server ................................ M.3 MOSIS Chip Fabrication Server ......................... M.4 Nest - A Network Simulation Testbed ................... M.5 PROPHET ............................................... M.6 FAST - A Computer Network Broker for Standard Electronic Parts .................................... M.7 Vax Book .............................................. M.8 PROPHET Description PROPHET is an NIH sponsored graphics-oriented software pack- age designed to give biomedical researchers a wide range of computing capabilities which can increase productivity and expand computational options. Tools for data management, analysis, and scientific visualization include: comprehen- sive capabilities in statistics and mathematical modeling, molecular modeling and display, nucleic acid and protein sequence manipulation, and a high level programming language. Some of the other services PROPHET offers are: access to databases of biomedical interest, such as the Pro- tein Data Bank from Brookhaven National Laboratory, GenBank, the Cambridge Crystallographic Database, and the PIR protein sequence database, user support via electronic mail, a tele- phone hotline, an online help system, an electronic newsletter, and an organized user group, extensive documen- tation, and numerous research application-specific programs. Software created by biomedical investigators, such as MBIR, and commercial software, such as SAS, can be utilized within PROPHET. Users are also connected via the Internet to a broad community of life science researchers. Capabilities exist for establishing both moderated and unmoderated bul- letin boards in various scientific domains of interest. PROPHET's open architecture design and advanced software engineering results in a highly portable and well supported package. The Biomedical Research Technology Program of NIH's Division of Research Resources provides PROPHET at low cost to ensure that easy availability and wide distribution will foster use of distributed network workstations in research and lead to increased productivity. VAX Book Description The 326-page VAX Book attempts to answer most of the ques- tions that University of Oregon users have had about using VMS, EDT, the networks, statistics and graphics packages, etc. Most of the concepts presented are illustrated by means of annotated examples. A detailed table of contents and index are included. The book is available in either Digital Standard Runoff out- put format suitable for printing on a line printer, or in PostScript form suitable for printing on an Apple Laser- Writer or other 300 DPI PostScript printer. I am also making the raw .RNO files (and the code used to convert the guide into TeX) available for those of you who are interested in customizing the VAX Book for your own site.