From sj-approval Fri Jul 28 08:17:00 1995 Return-Path: Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA04827; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:17:04 -0400 Received: from mail06.mail.aol.com by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA04766; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:17:01 -0400 Received: by mail06.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA279208220; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:17:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:17:00 -0400 From: RUBENEWS@aol.com Message-Id: <950728121658_42790642@aol.com> To: sj@world.std.com Subject: NET NOTES 3 Sender: sj-approval@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sj FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NET NOTES 3 COLUMN (This column of source material is written specifically for journalist colleagues around the globe. This information is not for publication. Please share with as many journalist netters as possible.) By Ruben Sosa Villegas c1995 Information web sites (search engines, etc.) for research: CUI W3 CATALOG: http://cui_www.unige.ch/w3catalog http://cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog http://www.winc.com/W3Catalog.html Searchable catalog of www resources. Uses search engine on database of 10,000 entries from NCSA What's New archives and the Virtual Library at CERN. CUSI MAIN PAGE: http://web.nexor.co.uk/susi/cusi.html DEJA NEWS RESEARCH SERVICE: http://www.dejanews.com Search usenet newsgroups using keywords. DIALOG home page: http://www.dialog.com e-mail: info@www.dialog.com DOW VISION (Dow Jones & Company): http://dowvision.wais.net ELNET GALAXY: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html ElNet is a database and free guide to www resources. Database by topic. Search the www, gopher or hytelnet resources or all three. HARVEST BROKER: http://www.town.hall.org/brokers/www-home-pages/ http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/Harvest/brokers/www-home-pages/ HUNTSTIGATORS (Merry Band of Internet Hunstigators): http://www.hunt.org/ To practice hunting through the Internet try this site which offers questions and hints on how to conduct your research. Complete searches are archived to see how others have conducted their queries using Internet research databases. INFOSEEK: http://www.infoseek.com INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY (IPL): http://ipl.sils.umich.edu INTERNET SLUETH: http://www.intbc.com/slueth INTERNET DEMOGRAPHICS STATISTICS: http://future.sri.com/ INTERNATIONAL YELLOW PAGES: http://www.yellow.com/ Yellow pages directory of companies. INTER-LINKS INTERNET ACCESS: http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/start.html Privately-maintained database indexing mainly entertainment-based resources. JUMPSTATION: http://www.sitr.ac.uk/jsbin/js Searchable database of 275,000 indexed www documents. LEXIS-NEXIS Communications Center: http://www.lexis-nexis.com/ LYCOS: http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/mim/lycos-homehtml. Searches database of 800,000 URLs by keyword. MCKINLEY INTERNET DIRECTORY: http://www.mckinley.com Christine Maxwell's researched reviews of 40,000 URLs. META-INDEX OF W3 SEARCH ENGINES: http://cui_www.unige.ch/meta-index.html Home to searching tools for information servers and software, netters, news and FAQs. Provides links to other popular search engines. MOTHER-OF-ALL-BBS: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/mcbryan/public_html/bb/summary.html Collects home pages for companies, universities, research centers, government agencies. NETSCAPE INTERNET SEARCH PAGE: http://www.netscape.com/home/internet-search.html NEWS PAGE: http://www.newspage.com New page from Individual that offers briefs but charges for full-text articles from today's news. NEWSLINK: http://www.newslink.org/ http://www.newslink.org/newslink.org/newslink/news.html Marquette U. lecterur has set up a comprehensive media page with links to newspapers in the U.S. (daily, non-daily, college and experimental), broadcasters and magazines. OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: http://www.oclc.org Stick to OCLC's EPIC and FirstSearch areas to research company products. PROJECT DA-CLOD http://schiller.wustl.eud/DACLOD/daclod/ Searchable database of general catagories. QUESTEL-ORBIT: http://www.questel.orbit.com/patents Questel offers information on its products, services and descriptions of its online databases, which include search engines. Questel's site also offers links to other patent and trademark pages. RANKED VERONICA: gopher//liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/gophers/veronica/ STARTING POINTS: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Starting Points/NetworksStartingPoints.html Maintained by NCSA. Will take visitors to Web News and Web Servers Directory. STN INTERNATIONAL (Chemical Abstracts Service): http://info.cas.org Access the STN database catalog and STN Database summary sheets to conduct research. VIRTUAL LIBRARY: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html This is an experiment by CERN; research by subject. WEBCRAWLER: http://www.biotech.washington.edu/WebCrawler/WebQuery.html http://webscrawler.cs.washington.edu/ Indexes 50,000 web documents by content, titles and URLs. WEST PUBLISHING Internet Information Center: http://www.westpub.com Well known publisher offers links to WESTLAW Information site and the West's Legal Directory. WHAT'S NEW: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html Unofficial paper of the world wide web. WORLD-WIDE WEB WORM: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html Robot searches by keyword, scans HTML document titles URLS YAHOO: http://www.yahoo.com/ NET NOTES 3 -30-