The Scout Report - January 5, 1996

January 5, 1996

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.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/report

Send comments and contributions to: scout@cs.wisc.edu

***NOTE***

This week marks the introduction of new Web pages for all Scout services and a new name for the Info Scout organization. The Info Scout project, now called Net Scout Services, is one of 3 projects which together comprise the InterNIC. Net Scout Services is based at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has a staff of three: Susan Calcari, Info Scout, Jack Solock, Special Librarian, and Gleason Sackman, moderator of Net-happenings from his office in Fargo, North Dakota. Registration Services and Directory and Database Services are the other two InterNIC projects, managed by Network Solutions, Inc. and AT&T, respectively. Visit the new Net Scout Services pages for more information.
http://rs.internic.net/scout

This issue of the Scout Report also marks the introduction of a new service, The Scout Toolkit. The Toolkit is designed to help new users identify network tools which are most appropriate to their needs. It was built by collecting, organizing, and annotating a subset of the most effective network information tools available for searching the Net and staying current on new resources and network tools. For more information, see the Network Tools section of this issue or visit the Scout Toolkit directly.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit

Please send comments and contributions on the new Web sites and the Scout Toolkit toscout@cs.wisc.edu.

Gallery of the Open Frontier
The Gallery of the Open Frontier is a digital image library of photos, paintings, and drawings that pertain to the history of the American West. This online resource, drawn initially from the primary collections of the National Archives, is being designed by the University of Nebraska Press to serve four essential functions: 1) Allow researchers to easily view portions of the holdings of the National Archives from anywhere in the US with an Internet connection; 2) Establish a testbed for developing similar digital image libraries from the nonprofit and public sector image archives; 3) Provide a service to the educational community by making thousands of images easily accessible worldwide for educational use and historical analysis; 4) Provide the raw materials for the creation of teacher- and scholar-created "tours," educational units, and teaching aids about the history of the American expansion into the West, both online and on CD-ROM.
http://www.unl.edu/UP/gof/home.htm
[Note: Resource(s)/URL(s) mentioned above is no longer available.]
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Learning Resource Server
The Learning Resource Server at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has as its goal the provision of resources that help learners advance from "surfing" to "serving." It has been redesigned to better serve the needs of learners and teachers at all levels. The Learning Resource Server contains resources for accessing and creating knowledge for K-12 classes, higher education students and teachers, and teacher education. Resources include exemplary lesson plans, how-to guides, and good network-based learning projects and papers.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/
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Skull Anatomy 4.0
Skull Anatomy 4.0 is an interactive learning tool for topographic, bony, and radiographic anatomy of the skull. It provides photographic-quality, digitized images of the face and radiographs of the skull offering over 120 anatomical features to identify. The mouse is used to identify features and a quiz is provided for student self-tests. Student files are password protected but accessible by the instructor. The downloadable file runs under Windows.
http://www.umdnj.edu/~chamberl/sklanat/sklanat.html
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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Hubble Space Telescope Observations
The latest Hubble Space Telescope observations are available at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute Web site. They include Saturn Ring-Plane Crossing, Orion Nebula Mosaic, Galileo Probe Target, Core of Galaxy NCG, and Brown Dwarf Gliese. Each link offers photos and detailed explanatory captions. Links back to the central public Hubble picture archive are also available.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/latest.html
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ScienceDaily
ScienceDaily offers the latest discoveries and research projects in all fields of science from labs across North America. The OK Web Site of the Day offers the "coolest" science sites -- OK as in Zero Kelvin -- and you can't get any cooler than that. Other links lead to Science Magazines and Journals, collections of top-rated science sites, and hands-on science centers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
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Human Rights Library
The Human Rights Library of the University of Minnesota holds a collection of over ninety of the most important international human rights instruments -- treaties, declarations, and other materials -- together with authoritative citations. The documents are easily accessed by subject matter or searched by keyword. In addition, the site offers information about the work of the human rights treaty bodies, including general comments and recommendations, decisions and views of the U.N. Human Rights Committee, and other materials. Links to other useful sites containing information about human rights and relevant resources are also provided.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
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Transcultural Psychology and Related Topics discussion list
The Transcultural Psychology and Related Topics discussion list (short: TRANSPSY) has been established to provide a world-wide electronic forum for the exchange of ideas, opinions and information among professionals interested in cross-cultural research, minority issues, and "indigenous psychologies". The main focus of TRANSPSY is on generic issues in the study of cultures, and topics in the field of counseling and clinical psychology, including the delivery of mental health services to individuals from non-Western cultures and minorities.
To subscribe, send email to:LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU
in the body of the message type:
Subscribe transcultural-psychology yourfirstname yourlastname
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19th century American Art from the Carnegie Museum
On January 6, 1996, the 19th Century American Women Writers Web will present an exhibit of 19th century American Art from the Carnegie Museum. This exhibit marks the first time the Carnegie has allowed their collection to be presented on the Internet. Users will be able to view individual works, details from the works, and to hear, via on-demand audio, the curator of the collection discuss the works. For those interested in learning more about the individual works, they can learn in-depth about terms and concepts from an online encyclopedia and jump to other web sites that have information about the artists in the exhibit. A link is also provided to the 19th Century American Women Writers Web, a site devoted to the study and appreciation of 19th century American women writers and 19th century American culture.
http://clever.net/19cwww/exhibit.html
[Note: When last checked by the Internet Scout team, this site URL was no longer available.]
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The Sixties Project
The Sixties Project is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, activists, authors and artists interested in the 1960s and the effects of that decade on contemporary culture. The Project and the Web site are a part of Viet Nam Generation, Inc., a 501c3 literary and educational nonprofit organization devoted to providing a forum for interdisciplinary work on the 1960s and the Viet Nam War. The site offers the organization's catalog of publications which include course textbooks, anthologies, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and book, film, music, and multimedia reviews.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/
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Your Health Daily
Your Health Daily offers daily updates on health and medical news in a well-organized and easy-to-use format. Provided by The New York Times Syndicate, Your Health Daily includes news, features, analysis and columns from a variety of news sources in the United States, Asia and Europe, including Medical Tribune News Service. Users can browse the latest news or choose from 15 "Common Topics" for articles of personal interest. A database of past medical and health articles is available and searchable by topic or keyword. The site provides links to other NYT Syndicate services such as Computer News Daily and TimesFax.
http://www.yourhealthdaily.com/
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CNN Financial Network: bizz buzz
A relatively new section of the CNN Financial News site is called bizz buzz, and aptly so since the page begins with the line "Fresh from the rumor mill." What follows is a small collection of tidbits about money, public relations, or deals gone bad, along with a Tip of the Day. Link to the Financial News main page for a wide range of meatier stories and current market information. (Site originally referred to in the Scout Report as "CNN Financial News: Grapevine.")
http://cnnfn.com/hotstories/bizbuzz/
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Marketplace of Political Ideas
The Marketplace of Political Ideas site is now offered by the University of Houston Libraries. A collection of pointers to the full range of candidates and issues is available, such as Democratic sites, Republican sites, third party sites, non-partisan sites, political groups on the Left, Right, and "Fringes", and a variety of political science pointers.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/politics/markind.htm
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The Beatles!
For those of you who received The Beatles Anthology as a holiday gift, and for those of you who didn't, this page offers links to everything available online about the Fab Four: the Anthology companion Web sites by ABC and Capitol Records, the Life magazine special edition, memorabilia sites, newsgroups, discographies, book reviews, and about 40 more sites for both reminiscing and reading about their current project.
http://www.sonic.net/~custom/beat.html
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The Scout Toolkit
The InterNIC and Net Scout Services announce the release of the Scout Toolkit, a new service designed to help new users identify the network tools most appropriate for their needs. The Scout Toolkit was built by collecting, organizing, and annotating a subset of the most effective network information tools available. The Toolkit is made available for researchers, educators, and others interested in using the Internet for access to quality resources.

The Toolkit is not meant to be a comprehensive listing of all network tools, rather a select collection of tools organized by function. Internet users can investigate searchable indexes, subject catalogs, and annotated resource indexes and decide which tool best fits their needs. Links to comprehensive listings of network tools are also provided for further investigation.

Each service included in the Toolkit is previewed with a brief description, allowing the user to determine its appropriateness before linking to the site. In addition to information about search tools, the Staying Current section offers a dozen effective ways to stay informed of new Internet resources. The Specialized Tools section takes a look at current and near future graphical, 3D, audio, and video services.
http://rs.internic.net/scout/toolkit

If you find the Scout Toolkit useful for yourself and your users, let us know at scout@cs.wisc.edu.

Based onfeedback and input from the community the Toolkit will be maintained and expanded as a permanent service of Net Scout Services.
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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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The Scout Report - January 5, 1996

January 5, 1996

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