It contains many useful things, for example socrates , Stanford's Library Catalog axess , the administrative system which lets you register for your classes etc. The MLA database of citations from Language and Linguistics journals, books, etc. The PsycINFO database of citations and abstracts from Psychology journals To get to the main menu, type sel . Here's a guide to using folio . You can use a newsreader, e.g. nn , to read any newsgroup you're interested in.
Type help newsgroups-list for a list of all newsgroups currently available.
You can search the web for almost anything. Also check out the Stanford Home Page , the Portfolio page and the Linguistics Department home page, which has lots of useful things, e.g. a list of courses . It also has a list of students with a short paragraph about their interests and links to their home pages. There's also an HTML version of the 1995 Little Red Book for Stanford Linguists .