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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:26:56 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Internet Resources-Math

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From: Michael Taranto <mtaranto@sura.net>
Subject: Re:  Internet Resources - Math

e=MATH-American Mathematical Society (AMS)
        This database is the American Mathematical Society's system for
electronic communication and information delivery. Information available
on the database includes, mathematical reviews of over 93 topics:
General Algebraic Systems, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid
mechanics, Economics, and Biology and other natural sciences.
e=MATH also includes a connection to an Archie server and electronic
distribution of the Bulletin of AMS(to begin Jan. 1992).
Access: telnet 130.44.1.100  2050               (UNIX hosts)
Access: telnet 130.44.1.100  /port=2050         (VMS hosts)
login: e-math
Password: e-math

Michael Taranto
SURAnet
NIC Services
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From: dlr@MATH.AMS.COM (Dave Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Internet Resources - Math

>   Are there mathematical sciences resources available via the Internet?
>   Is Mathematical Reviews available?

MathSci is available, now that DIALOG is attached to the Internet.

Also, the e-MATH system:

        telnet e-math.ams.com   (130.44.1.100)
        login: e-math
     password: e-math

with a VT100 connection and tabs set to 8 blanks.
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From:         Loren Mendelsohn <LMENDELS@WAYNEST1>
Subject:      Re: Internet Resources - Math

There are several math databases available through STN, and I know that
STN has an Internet address, although I do not know what it is.  Access
to these databases is not free, however -- you must have an STN logonid.

Loren Mendelsohn                  LMENDELS@WAYNEST1 (Bitnet)
Science and Engineering Library   LMENDELS@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Internet)
Wayne State University
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU>
Subject:      Re: Internet Resources - Math

   Mathematical Reviews is available on CDROM.  Considering the surcharge
they want to collect to network it on one campus, it seems unlikely it
is available elsewhere on the nets, except through Dialog or other
commercial sources.

* Dan Lester                          Bitnet:   alileste@idbsu              *
* Associate University Librarian      Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu    *
* Boise State University                                                    *
* Boise, Idaho  83725                 BSU and I have a deal: I don't speak  *
* 208-385-1234                        for them and they don't speak for me. *
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From: me@SUZUKA.U-STRASBG.FR(Michel Eytan LILoL)
Subject: Re:  Internet Resources - Math

I know only of Yale U.'s Instant Math. Preprints (send e-mail to me personally
if you need more details) and the AMS's bulletin board (but you have to be a
member to use it).

        Is Mathematical Reviews available?

Not as far as I remember. There is some documentation service available, but
you must *pay* for it (contact Ms. Demchuk-Burke at bdb@vax01.ams.com).

==michel eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:24:10 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      First Search Materials

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From: Michael Hancher <MH@UMNACVX.BITNET>
Subject: Re: FirstSearch Materials Available
        Are the FirstSearch materials available by ftp?  In any case I'd
be interested in the results you've come up with.

        Michael Hancher / Department of English / University of Minnesota
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From:     <FAC_DROBISON@JMUVAX>
Subject:  RE: FirstSearch Materials Available
Is there anyway you could send the FirstSearch report via the network?
I'd love to see it and will send a disk if I have too but if I can avoid
snailmail, I will.

Thanks.

Dennis E. Robison
James Madison University
FAC_DROBISON@JMUVAX.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:33:34 CDT
From:         HERRSJ@sncac.snc.edu

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
(Please excuse the cross-posting, but I really want to get the
word out!)

Colleagues,

I have come upon a database of addresses of Internet users.
Perhaps this is new to you.  Anyway, if you are wondering if a
given person has an Internet address, check the DDN Network
Information Center (DDN NIC).  Its telnet address is nic.ddn.mil.

If you want to enter your address onto this database, get a
registration form by ftp from nic.ddn.mil, directory netinfo,
file user-template.txt.

If as many Internetwork users as possible enter the database, the
directory will be that much more complete.  Thanks for helping to
facilitate Internet and email use.

Steve Herro
Head of Reference and Information Services
St. Norbert College Todd Wehr Library
herrsj@sncac.snc.edu
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:30:33 CDT
From:         HICKEY@ITHACA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Electronic Journals

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
IF electronic journal "publishers" follow the precedents set for
print journals, & file for "International Standard Serial
Numbers" in their country of publication,"the (bibliographic)
system" will create machine-readable records for them.  This
would also be a first step toward attracting the attention of
abstracting/indexing services.
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:02:06 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Hitchhiker's Guide

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From: David Mattison <dmattiso@cue.bc.ca>
Subject: Hitchhikers Guide ... where can I find it

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol was issued as RFC 1118 in
September 1989. It's a fairly technical document and not, as one might
imagine from the title, a navigational tool. It's available on many different
anonymous ftp servers and through e-mail.

Another RFC by Jerry Martin, There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching
for Treasure in all the Wrong Places (RFC 1290, Dec. 1991; FYI: 10) gives the
following instructions for getting RFC 1118:

ftp nis.nsf.net
cd rfc
get RFC1118.TXT-1

Remember that different ftp sites assign different file names and even differ
on capitalization, so you may want to do a dir" or "ls" first to see the
file names.

Good luck!

David Mattison, Librarian
BC Archives & Records Service
Victoria, BC, Canada
Is it real, or is it Memex?
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From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
Subject: Re: Hitchhikers Guide ... where can I find it

If anybody wants a copy of The Hitchikers guide, let me know and I will
forward a copy to you via e-mail

Gleason Sackman, Coordinator               Internet: sackman@plains.nodak.edu
Technical Operations                       Bitnet:   sackman@plains.bitnet
SENDIT Project                             701-237-8109
NDSU Computer Center                       Fargo, ND  58105
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:41:14 CDT
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Novel in electronic form only?

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The following is not from a technical source, but is still of interest:

"BOOKS:  Cyberpunk writer William Gibson's next book, _Agrippa  (A Book of
the Dead)_, will be available only on computer disk -- with a virus that
will make it impossible to print on paper, the author hopes.  'The whole
piece is an investigation of the nature of the ownership of information,'
says Gibson, whose 1986 cult novel, _Neuromancer_, will also be published
on disk -- without viruses -- next year...."

_Entertainment Weekly_, no. 112, April 3, 1992, p. 10.


The word "virus" seems incorrect in the context described, but
attempting to use software to prevent printing is an interesting idea for
a text of this sort.  In general, it is little different than using
software to prevent copying to another disk.  How long will it take the
dedicated hackers of the world to break this method of copy protection, too?

dan

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* Associate University Librarian      Internet: alileste@idbsu.idbsu.edu    *
* Boise State University                                                    *
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:45:02 CDT
From:         Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      VT100 Terminal Emulation

From: rjs4808@usl.edu (Smith Richard J)

Can someone tell me why when I connect to some systems and use
the proper terminal emulation, in this case vt100, I get the
following when I capture or log the session:

mAccess to an oral history collection : the Jewish experience^[[05;20Hin
Pittsburgh^[[07;09H[0;1mAUTHOR:[07;18H[0;0mSmith, Richard J. (Richard James),
1951-[09;06H[0;1mPUBLISHED:[09;18H[0;0mPittsburgh, Pa. : National Council of
Jewish Women, Pittsburgh[10;20HSection,
1991.[12;04H[0;1mDESCRIPTION:[12;18H[0;0mxviii, 104 p. ; 28

Yet when I use a terminal emulation such as HARDCOPY, DUMB,
DFLT (default), I can capture or log the session without getting
all the escape codes.


 BOOK - Record 46 of 121 Entries Found                                Long View
 -----------------------------  + Screen 1 of 3  ------------------------------
         TITLE:  Access to an oral history collection : the Jewish experience
                   in Pittsburgh
        AUTHOR:  Smith, Richard J. (Richard James), 1951-
     PUBLISHED:  Pittsburgh, Pa. : National Council of Jewish Women, Pittsburgh
                   Section, 1991.
   DESCRIPTION:  xviii, 104 p. ; 28 cm.
         NOTES:  Title on spine: The Jewish experience in Pittsburgh.
                 Guide to audiotapes housed at the University of Pittsburgh.
                 Includes indexes.

If I'm not doing anything incorrectly and there
is no way around this, why do some systems not
offer HARDCOPY, DUMB, or DFLT terminal emulation?


Richard J. Smith
University of Southwestern Louisaiana
rjs4808@usl.edu
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:56:52 CDT
From:         Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
Subject:      2d call for votes: comp.infosystems.wais

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
[This call for votes has already gone to a number of Usenet groups;
it's repeated here to reach a more library-oriented audience.]

This is a call for votes for the Usenet newsgroup 'comp.infosystems.wais'.
Yes votes should be directed to "wais-yes@msen.com"; no votes to
"wais-no@msen.com".

WAIS, the "Wide Area Information Service", is the name for a project
which started about a year ago as a joint effort of Thinking Machines,
Apple Computer, and KPMG Peat Marwick.  It uses a version of the NISO
Z39.50 protocol to support full text searches on remote databases.
Efforts are currently underway to bring it up to spec with the 1992
version of that protocol, in the hopes that WAIS servers and clients
will interoperate with commercial Z39.50 offerings as seen in public
library catalogs and (eventually) commercial database services.

The current use of WAIS on the Internet involves about 200 different
databases, ranging in size from the complete Columbia U law library
catalog all the way down to very small personal information collections.
One of the notable uses of WAIS is as a full text searching mechanism
for usenet and Internet mailing lists; roughly half of the databases to
date are collections of news articles, either the current traffic in
(e.g.) all of the sci.* usenet lists, or a comprehensive index to all
of the articles posted in the BIOSCI set of groups that covers the
Human Genome project.  For instance, the last few months of PACS-L
are now available for searching via a server running in Sweden.

The proposed group will supersede the existing "alt.wais" newsgroup,
which currently carries discussion about the system.  The formal
process of collecting votes is as much to bring people's attention to
the existence of a discussion forum as it is to move the group to
a more mainstream, better connected part of the Usenet.

There is a brief mention of WAIS in "Newsweek" magazine in the last
few months, the issue with "Wayne" of "Wayne's World" on the cover
holding a pocket organizer with a satellite dish attached to it.  Look
in there closely for a mention of "Rosebud" -- that's the code name for
an (as yet unreleased) Apple project that turns WAIS into a personalized
electronic newspaper.
--
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
      MSEN Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI  48103 +1 313 741 1120
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:51:10 CDT
From:         Tom Owens <owens@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Novel in electronic form only?
              06 Apr 92 10:41:14 -0500. <9204061544.AA25653@Athena.MIT.EDU>

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dan Lester writes:

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
The following is not from a technical source, but is still of interest:

"BOOKS:  Cyberpunk writer William Gibson's next book, _Agrippa  (A Book of
the Dead)_, will be available only on computer disk -- with a virus that
will make it impossible to print on paper, the author hopes.  'The whole
piece is an investigation of the nature of the ownership of information,'
says Gibson, whose 1986 cult novel, _Neuromancer_, will also be published
on disk -- without viruses -- next year...."

_Entertainment Weekly_, no. 112, April 3, 1992, p. 10.
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Hmm.....it is ONLY A RUMOR , but this info is widely held to be an April Fool's
Joke.  Did EW give a source of information?
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:42:10 CDT
From:         John Garman <usr9369a@tso.uc.EDU>
Subject:      Knowledge Index

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We've been hearing of some public and academic libraries that have been
warned by Dialog to strictly limit their use of Knowledge Index to
end-users...absolutely no use of KI by librarians for patrons, or the
passwords will be "pulled."

Has this happened to anyone out there?  Have all institutional KI users
received letters, or only selected ones?

If you have KI, how do you use it?

All this is for background information - not for publication, please reply
to me directly, and I'll summarize if there are enough responses.

Nancy Garman, Editor, ONLINE
Internet: ngarman@tso.uc.edu
606/331-6345
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:53:42 CDT
From:         "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Gutenberg apology?

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

From:  Peter Graham, Rutgers University

I think the reason many of us have not responded to what Bob Bocher thought
of as somewhat inflammatory comments in the Project Gutenberg mailing is
that we don't take it very seriously.  Project G. is busily working at provid-
ing texts and services that may or may not be of use to people, but they
hardly provide a threat; and the manager of the project takes himself far too
seriously and magnifies the importance of the project far beyond reality.
I find it comforting that so many people apparently either hit the DEL key
at the beginning of that long message or just turned the page when they
got to it.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:03:54 CDT
From:         LTORIBARA@SCU.BITNET
Subject:      National Library Week reminder

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Just wanted to remind people to call (800) 530-8888 this week to say "Yes
to Your Right to Know!" and to register your support for libraries and
librarians.  (800-552-9097 -- special TDD number for the hearing impaired)

Lynne Toribara
Santa Clara University
LTORIBARA@SCU.BITNET
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:51:41 CDT
From:         "Katherine Branch" <katherine_branch@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu>
Subject:      Instant Math Preprints

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
REGARDING                Instant Math Preprints
About a week ago, a PACS-L posting asked whether there were any mathematical
sciences resources available via Internet.  Dave Rodgers of the American
Mathematical Society responded with a description of e-MATH and mentioned
Yale's IMP (Instant Math Preprints) service in his response.  This posting
describes the Instant Math Preprints project in more detail.  For more
information, please contact Katherine Branch, Yale University,
katherine_branch@yccatsmtp.ycc.yale.edu.  We are actively soliciting more
institutions to contribute to the database.

The Instant Math Preprints (IMP) project consists of a database of abstracts of
preprints plus the full text of the preprints. The abstract database resides at
Yale University.  The full electronic text of the preprints reside on computers
at other participating institutions.   The database of abstracts  can be easily
searched by author, title words, and abstract words.  Each abstract includes
the machine address from which the complete electronic text can be obtained via
anonymous ftp.

To use IMP via Internet, you need a copy of a communications program called
tn3270. The best way to obtain a copy of tn3270 is to consult your computer
center or local computer expert.  Instructions for obtaining tn3270 are also
available from Katherine Branch.  The Internet address for IMP is
YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU.  If you have ASCII terminal emulation, you can also dial
up using standard long distance lines (1200 baud=203-432-5800; 2400
baud=203-432-5804).  For dialup, set your communications software for even
parity, 7 data bits, and 1 stop bit.  At the ENTER CLASS prompt during dialup,
enter: vm.

After you have connected to the YALEVM machine, you will be prompted:

USERID:                    Math1 (or Math2, 3, 4, or 5)
PASSWORD:                  Math1 (or Math2, 3, 4, or 5)
OPERATOR ID:               Math1 (or Math2, 3, 4, or 5)

Follow on screen instructions after you enter the operator id.

Any interested mathematician or researcher may search IMP at no charge.  To
inquire about adding abstracts or preprints to IMP, please contact Victor
Wickerhauser at victor@jezebel.wustl.edu.  Some of the institutions with
abstracts in the database include  Yale, University of Texas at Austin,
Washington University-St. Louis, Syracuse University, Oklahoma State
University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Essex and
Odense University.  The project is funded in part by the Council on Library
Resources.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 11:05:22 CDT
From:         "David Mattison" <dmattiso@cue.bc.ca>
Subject:      Newsweek almost discovers the Internet

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Now that Wayne and Garth of "Wayne's World" have issued their Tech Alert via
Newsweek (Apr. 6, 1992), I wonder what others might think of some of John
Schwartz's article.

I know I've read this analogy before, "The biggest opportunity for businesses
lies in helping consumers take the fire hose of information and draw off
eight-ounce glasses at will. 'The key to this whole information explosion,'
says [Richard Saul] Wurman, 'is what's really being done to make things
understandable.'

No mention of the Internet or NREN or the Coalition for Networked Information
and similar organizations working on this problem.

Then: "The pocket communicator: The most tantalizing new marriage between
technologies combines computers and telephones. The devices will let us send
and receive messages around the world -- not just the name-and-number
snatches available on today's pagers, but full documents and, eventually, with
voice messages and pictures. Forget to bring important documents along on a
trip? Use the gadget to call the computer on your desk and retrieve the files
you need--or fax them to your hotel."

Hmmm ... I thought some of us have been doing this for the past several years.

I hope others will take the time to write or phone Newsweek and enlighten
them (and suggest they get an email address for Letters to the Editor).

David Mattison
Carpe digitus!
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