The Scout Report - December 15, 1995

December 15, 1995

A Publication of Internet Scout
Provided by the InterNIC as a Service to the Internet Community

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. Subscription instructions are included at the end of each report.
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ART 101 on the Net
Art Appreciation (ART 101) will be taught entirely on-line, self-paced, and independent but interactive, beginning in March, 1996. Quarter credits (3, transferable) from Southern Utah University can be earned.
http://www.suu.edu/art101/
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Catalog of Electronic Journals
The Catalog of Electronic Journals is searchable and includes over 1800 entries. Categories include: academic and reviewed, college or university, e-mail newsletters, magazines and newspapers, political, print magazines, publishing topics, and other resources. Many of the major categories have subcategories underneath them. Most of the entries have descriptive information about the journal, along with the URL to that journal's site. Journal articles are usually not available without a subscription.
http://www.edoc.com/ejournal/
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EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe, is provided by a bibliographer at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. The site includes pointers to documents and full text works for Medieval and Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supernational Region, and over 20 Western European Countries. Materials are transcribed, translated, or facsimiles of the originals. Some materials are in the language of the originating country. Time frame is medieval to present.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
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Carcinogenic Potency Database
The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a widely used resource on the results of chronic, long-term animal cancer tests. It provides a single, standardized and easily accessible database that includes sufficient information on each experiment to permit investigations into many research areas of carcinogenesis. Both qualitative and quantitative information on positive and negative experiments are given, including all bioassays from the National Cancer Institute/National Toxicology Program (NCI/NTP) and results from the general literature that meet a set of inclusion criteria.
http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html
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"Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications"
"Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications" by Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, and Bridger M. Mitchell; 1995; Rand Corporation; 267 pages, 24 tables, 18 figures; bibliography, is available for downloading from Rand Corporation's Web site. "This is the final report of a two-year RAND study. It is designed as a sourcebook on key social, technical, economic, and international issues related to providing universal access to e-mail within the United States. It is our hope that this report will help stimulate public policy discussions regarding the feasibility, desirability, and implications of universal e-mail access. Decision makers involved with such public policy issues are the primary audience for this report, but it should also be of interest to academic and business professionals involved with telecommunications policy and its social implications." The report is available in both HTML and .PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format. A free Acrobat Reader download site is available from the page.
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR650/note.html
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Capitol Watch On Line Daily
Capitol Watch On Line offers content on what's going on in the nations capital daily. A dozen or more headline stories plus a special interests section and links to the Federal News Service and other government sites. "Live chat with candidates and the leaders of our nation" is promised to be coming in 2 weeks.
http://www.capitolwatch.com/
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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Washington University at St. Louis' FTP archive now on the Web
The gigantic and very popular FTP archive at Washington University at St. Louis (wuarchive) is now available as a Web site, providing easy access for those who don't remember how to spell anonymous. Over 65 gigabytes of files in 11 top level directories (with literally hundreds of directories underneath) covering such topics as systems, graphics, documentation, selected Usenet News archives, and educational programs and materials. New is a list of the hundreds of sites wuarchive mirrors. Concentration is on computer related items, however see the public directory for an eclectic selection of files.
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/
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Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index
Savetz's Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index" contains pointers to works that are in the public domain. As clarified by Mr. Savetz: "Public domain doesn't mean 'shareware.' It isn't a work that is owned by somebody else, who allows you to use it for free. It isn't software distributed under the "GNU Public License," or a copyrighted book that the author has put online. Public domain means that the creator of the work, with no strings attached, has given up all rights to the work. It means that you may do anything with the work that you want - read it, publish it, put in on CD-ROM, change it."
http://www.northcoast.com/savetz/pd/pd.html
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Virginia County Interactive Mapper
The Virginia County Interactive Mapper (was the Virginia On-Line Atlas) makes customized maps of every Virginia county and independent city available on the World Wide Web. It is the first component of the Geographic Information Center's continuing Virginia Atlas Project Initiative. Users may customize maps by choosing features to be displayed, zooming in to a desired level of detail, and selecting appropriate formats to download data. Users may download maps in a common binary image file format (GIF) or as an ArcInfo interchange file, making the data available across platforms and accessible to users of MapInfo, Atlas GIS, and other popular GIS packages. Each map is generated "on the fly" after the user selects features to be displayed.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/gic/spatial/tiger.browse.html
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Santa's Holiday Bookmarks, including Hanukkah and Kwanzaa
Santa's Holiday Bookmarks, includes "direct e-mail to the North Pole", the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds till Christmas, a selection of Advent calendars, religious and general reading selections, holiday recipes, entertainment, humor, and pointers to Hanukkah sites and Kwanzaa information.
http://www.america.net/christmas/christmas.html
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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The Book Cafe
The Book Cafe is a the conference area for book lovers. Forums like Fiction, Poetry, Terror, Fantasy, SciFi, and Crafts are available and each is maintained by a moderator and has multiple Topics. Topics contain the user's Messages which can be created as regular messages or HTML messages complete with live links. Each user's message includes their email address and home page, if available. The Book Cafe is one of the first online Web conferencing system of its kind. "You're sure to find the atmosphere friendly."
http://www.books.com/scripts/newcon.exe?sid~UWgmkFlviByoG8L
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Back Packing in Australia
The Australia Back Packers' Guide offers travelers information about Australian culture, native animals, educational places to visit, bushwalking and climbing, employment opportunities, embassy information, hostels and accommodations, tour guides, travel fares, camping, currency exchange rates, International Student Exchange and more.
http://www.world.net/touristradio/Back_Pack.html
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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Tenegra Awards for Internet Marketing Excellence
For those who want to see some of the better Internet marketing efforts in the last year, the Tenegra Awards for Internet Marketing Excellence are posted. Information on current and past award winners is available at the site. Net watchers will find it interesting.
http://awards.tenagra.com/
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Hypertext Handbook
The Hypertext Handbook includes a list of 80+ defined commonly used Internet terms, a huge glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms, an Internet and Unix Dictionary, and pointers to a computing dictionary and jargon lookup.
http://world.std.com/~ldjackso/hthb5.htm
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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Inter-Links -- Internet guide, tutorial, and resource locator
Inter-Links is an easy to use Internet guide, tutorial, and resource locator. Inter-Links contains extensive original features, and over a dozen original search engines for finding topics, discussion groups, software, multimedia files, games, and people. Unlike many internet guides, *each* of the several thousand resources identified have been hand selected for maximal utility, ease of access, and minimal hype or advertising. While emphasizing World Wide Web resources, Inter-Links also provides comprehensive access to a wide range of other Internet services, including gopher, telnet, ftp, irc, mud, and bbs resources. Inter-Links is provided as a public service by Robert Kabacoff and Nova Southeastern University.
http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/
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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 and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.

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December 15, 1995

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