Using a World Wide Web browser. The Internet provides many ways of accessing different resources. This section will cover a number of different stratagies for locating useful resources in your discipline. 4.1 Useful indexes of World Wide Web documents. A number of large indexes of documents will be examined, including the Virtual Library, Lycos and John December's Guide to Internet Resources.
Veronica provides an index of information available in 'Gopher Space'.
You will learn stratagies for using Veronica to locate information you are interested in. Archie is an index of files held at most anonymous ftp sites available on the Internet. You will learn techniques on how to conduct an archie search to locate a program or file you are interested in. 5. How to read Internet news. Subscribing and un-subscribing to news groups.