From: wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (WAIS Information Services (Rik Harris maintainer))
Newsgroups: comp.doc.techreports
Subject: Technical report WAIS databases
Date: 13 Jul 92 15:30:53 GMT
Expires: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 15:30:30 GMT
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Last-modified: 1992-05-11

I am currently sifting through a lot of useless information to try and 
piece together an archive of University technical reports (abstracts
and title lists).  If you have any lists or abstracts of University
techreports (or other Research type papers) I would love to hear from
you.

What I have done so far is now available for searching with WAIS.  The
wais sources are:

1) The archive sites list (regular posting to comp.doc.techreports):

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "130.194.224.201"
   :ip-name "daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "computer-techreports-index"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Mar 11 17:41:58 1992 by wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au

  This is a list of about 130 archive sites that maintain computer science
(and similar) technical reports, for public consumption.  This list is
regularly posted in comp.doc.techreports
"
)


2) The titles and authors database (soon to be abstracts):

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "130.194.224.201"
   :ip-name "daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "computer-techreports"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Mar 11 15:11:53 1992 by wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au

This is a database of titles, and authors of approximately 2700
techreports, preprints, reprints, technical notes, and papers from
Universities and research institutes from around the world.  Now
contains over 780 abstracts from technical reports.  This data is
available by anonymous ftp (login=anonymous, passwd=email address) from
daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au:pub/techreports.  Any queries, questions, etc
to rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au, or wais@rdt.monash.edu.au.
"
)


3) A great (and large) list of computer-related journal articles from
Joel Seiferas at Rochester:

(:source 
   :version  3 
   :ip-address "130.194.224.201"
   :ip-name "daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
   :tcp-port 210
   :database-name "computer-papers-list"
   :cost 0.00 
   :cost-unit :free 
   :maintainer "rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au"
   :description "Server created with WAIS release 8 b3.1 on Oct 19 22:50:29 1991 by rik@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au

  This database contains a list of journal article titles and authors from
many computing journals.  The journals codes and names are also in this
database, so you can find (for example) the name of the journal with
the code ACTAINF means, by searching the database for 'acatainf'.
both the papers list and the journals list are available for ftp from
cayuga.cs.rochester.edu:pub (where they originally came from), and from
daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au:pub/techreports/papers (where I am).
"
)


I have available a part of the archive I am currently working on.  To
access this, anonymous ftp to daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au, in the directory 
pub/techreports.  Any comments, questions, etc to me
(me = rik.harris@fcit.monash.edu.au).

The format is as follows:

%AU Author.  If multiple author's, use multiple %AU's.
%TI Title.
%RT Report Type (eg Master's Thesis).
%LT Local Title.  This is ususally something like 'CS_TR_91_15'.
%OR Organisation.
%AB Abstract.
%AV Availability (if available in journals, ftp, cost, etc).
%GP Group (part of a group of papers on a similar topic).
%DA Date (prefer in %DY, %MN, %YR).
%DY Day
%MN Month
%YR Year
%PA Number of pages.
%PL Place published.
%LA Language published in

The current Organisation names are:

ALBRT University of Alberta
BERN  University of Bern
BOSTN Boston University
CAST  Center for Advanced Study in Telecommunications (Ohio State Uni)
CITI  Center for Information Technology Integration (Uni of Michigan)
CMU   Carnegie Mellon University
CORN  Cornell University
CRG   CRG ?
CTECH Caltech
CWI   Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
DARTM Dartmouth College
DECSR Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Centre
EDRC  Engineering Design Research Centre
FKI   Forschungsberichte Kuenstliche Intelligenz
FSU   Florida State University
GLASG Glasgow University
GTECH Georgia Institute of Technology
IBMAR International Business Machines Almaden Research Centre
ICSI  International Computer Science Institute
IMAG  Imag Institute
INRIA National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
IPC   Institute for Parallel Computation
KRR   Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (Toronto)
KSU   Kent State University
MCNC  MCNC ?
MIT   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NYU   New York University
OGI   OGI ?
PRINC Princeton University
PRL   Digital Equipment Corporation Paris Research Labs
ROCH  University of Rochester
RWTH  Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen)
SEI   Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University)
SFU   Simon Fraser University
SMU   Southern Methodist University
SRC   SRC ?
STANF Stanford University
TANDM Tandem Computers Incorporated
TCD   Trinity College, Dublin
TMPRE University of Tampere
UCB   University of California, Berkekley
UCLA  University of California, Los Angeles
UCSC  University of California, Santa Cruz
UGA   University of Georgia
UNC   University of North Carolina
UTA   University of Texas, Austin
UWASH University of Washington
VIRGI University of Virginia
WATER University of Waterloo Computer Science Department
WISCN University of Wisconsin
WRL   DEC Western Research Labs
WSU   WSU ?
YALE  Yale University

The current Group names are:

CHORUS The Chorus Operating system
INTERV Interviews
CLOUDS The Cloudes Project
REYNLD John Reynold's collection
GINS   Matt Ginsford
NEURO  Neuroprose


rik.
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