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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:57:46 EST
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
Subject:      ORTTA Bulletin Bd on Gopher (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:17:29 CST
From: microcomputer-news <news@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: ORTTA Bulletin Bd on Gopher

The following announcement was forwarded to us by
Dan Cummings from ORTTA. It tells about information
including the NIH Guide available on Gopher.

Look in:
"University of Minnesota Campus Information:
     Department and College Information:
          Office of Research and Technology Transfer"

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          ORTTA Bulletin Board Available Through Gopher

ORTTA has established an experimental Gopher Server to supply
research information, deadlines, telephone numbers, and links to
other useful information systems.  The Internet Gopher is a U of
M developed product which provides a very flexible distributed
information delivery system combining articles, searches, and
seamless links to other gopher servers throughout the world.
Users can review information on screen or easily copy items to
their computer for other purposes.  Our gopher can be found
directly at gopher.ortta.umn.edu or in the Departmental
Information section of the CIS gopher server (gopher.tc.umn.edu).

In addition to a mirror image of the information currently
available on our AIS Public Access Bulletin Board, the new Gopher
server provides links to Gopher servers at NIH and NSF and a
telnet link to the NSF STIS system.  Over the next few months,
the gopher server will become more streamlined as we link users
directly to source data rather than rehashing articles.  Search
capabilities on our Gopher are currently unavailable but will be
added shortly.  (As soon as we get a UNIX box, or the search
engine is ported to DOS, or some kind soul out there gives us a
few cycles on their system to do indexing!!!)

For more information on the Gopher system or information on
accessing the campus computer network, please call the
Microcomputer Help Line at 626-4276. Please email your comments
and suggestions about this new service to gopher@ortta.umn.edu.
Also, if you know of other gopher servers or terminal-based
services that are particularly useful to researchers or research
administrators, please let us know so that we can include them
and make a "one-stop-shop" for useful information pertaining to
research on campus.

One item of note:

The NIH Guide currently available under GUIDES/NIH Guide is a
version that we receive via e-mail and then manipulate into a
more useful form.  By popular demand, we have made it available
in two ways:  A "full text" version which is the entire guide
just as we receive it, and a "reader version" which is the same
guide, split into sections to facilitate on-line viewing.

As you may notice, NIH is operating their own gopher server and
you may ask why we don't simply point you there to read the
Guide...well that would be much more efficient, but they have not
yet made the Guide available through this service!  Evidently
there is currently a project under way at the University of
Wisconsin in cooperation with NIH to provide a nicely
"gopherized" version of the guide with cross referencing and the
like.  As soon as this comes available, we will likely point our
NIH Guide item to that source.  Until then, we will continue to
post the Guide as you see here.

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