Maintain current awareness by reviewing the tables of contents of professional and scholarly journals as they are published. The geographical approach is to access a top-level gopher menu, then choose the appropriate continent, then the country, then the state, etc., until the desired gopher choice appears. Users who know the numeric or domain Internet address of a particular site may connect directly by means of the telnet command. Among the richest Internet resources for military scholars are gopher jewels and subject trees. Gopher jewels are often eclectic, but can provide links to previously undiscovered resources.
Subject trees are available at fewer sites than gopher jewels, but they tend to be more extensive.
Information Service gopher in England. The gopher at Rice University in Texas also has a subject tree with many military items. Although subject trees and gopher jewels are often useful, they may not contain the specific terms or subjects of interest to a user. Veronica literally searches the titles of every menu item on every gopher on the Internet. If the search retrieves any matches, the user can immediately connect to the relevant host by choosing it from the list of Veronica search results.