From: toni@usenix.ORG (Toni Veglia)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: USENIX Online Library Index Now Available
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:14:12 GMT
Reply-To: toni@usenix.UUCP (Toni Veglia)
Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA


                USENIX Online Library/Index
What Is It:

     The USENIX online index is an electronically available
     list of papers published by the USENIX Association and
     related groups.  The index is kept as a simple ASCII
     file, in refer/bib format, sorted by author, and con-
     tains information about papers published in USENIX
     conference and workshop proceedings, newsletters, jour-
     nal, and the like.

     The index is updated approximately monthly.

How to Get the Index:

     The index is available online from UUNET, either via a
     mail server or anonymous ftp.  The index is about 200K,
     and available only in its entirety.

     To get it as mail, send mail to library@uunet.uu.net
     with "send bibliography" as the contents of your message.

     To get it via ftp from ftp.uu.net, login as "anonymous"
     with your email address as the password.  Then:

        ftp> cd library
        250 CWD command successful.
        ftp> get bibliography
      
     This help file can be retrieved with "send help" or as
     the ftp file "help.bibliography".

     (There is no person associated  with the library address
     and it will never be read by human eyes.)

How to Access Information:
      
     To build the indices so you can easily access information,
     run "indxbib" on the bibliography: indxbib file.name.  
     You can then pull information from the file by running
     "lookbib".  You can either build refer files or run 
     lookbib interactively.

     For example, the following commmand would put all entries 
     which refer to Smith into a file called stuff:
     echo smith | lookbib bibliography > stuff.

     Or you could interact with the index by saying:
     lookbib bibliography  

     It will ask you if you want instructions when it starts, 
     answer yes.  Then at the prompt, for example:

     >smith

     will list references to smith (upper/lower case doesn't
     matter).  

To Get an Online Paper:

     As of this date, we have not yet set up the online papers.  
     When this capability is provided, we will announce it on
     the net and this document will be updated with retrieval
     information.

Publications Indexed

         USENIX:
            Conference proceedings, Workshop proceedings
            Computing Systems Journal, Newsletters
         EurOpen (formerly EUUG - European Unix Users Group):
            Conference proceedings, Newsletters (1982-1989)

     Other sources are being continually evaluated and will be 
     included as deemed suitable.

Fields Used in the Index
     The  standard  bib/refer  formats  are   used.    These
     include:

         %A      Author (may be multiple entries)
         %T      Title of article
         %P      Page number(s)
         %W      Primary author's institution
         %I      Issuer/publisher
         %B      Conference proceedings or book title
         %J      Name of newsletter or journal
         %D      Date of publication or conference
         %C      Location of conference
         %V      Volume nbr
         %N      Nbr within vol
         %O      Other comments (e.g. "Abstract only")

     These fields may be extended to include other informa-
     tion such as identifier for retrieval, keywords, online
     format of paper (PostScript, troff, etc.), language (if
     other than English), etc.


More Information:

     For additional information about the online index and
     library, and/or instructions for donating papers, contact:

             index@usenix.org

     Or write to:
             USENIX Association
	     2560 Ninth St., Suite 215
	     Berkeley CA  94710