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_INTERNET RESOURCES_ Newsletter Issue 12 (Section D)
The latest BIDS News Bulletin is available at:
URL: http://www.bids.ac.uk/news.html
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The latest NISS News is available from the NISS Adviser at:
URL: http://www.niss.ac.uk/niss/advisor/index.html
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This popular UK Internet magazine, now has a web presence at:
URL: http://www.paragon.co.uk/ict/home.html
For more information contact:
ict@paragon.co.uk
Another popular Internet Magazine from the same publishers as Internet and Comms Today, also now has a web presence at:
URL: http://www.paragon.co.uk/neu/netuser.html
For more information contact:
ict@paragon.co.uk
ONLINE WORLD: The Essential Internet Magazine It would appear that this magazine is no longer being published.
editor@bbsmagazine.com
According to The Free On-line dictionary of Computing, (URL: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/) a 'bulletin board' is an electronic message database that allows people to log in and read or leave messages. In addition, a BBS can provide archives of files, email services, and other activities of interest to the board's owner. Many bulletin boards are available only to people with modems who can dial telephone numbers. This excludes many academics in the UK who access the Internet through JANET.
Much of the BBS: The Bulletin Board Services Manager magazine deals with the dialup type of service. However, there are also BBSs which are available via telnet. The classified ads in the August 1995 issue of BBS: The Bulletin Board Services Magazine list 5 BBSs with telnet addresses, including the World Data Network ( URL: telnet://wdn.com ) which offers email, ftp, gopher, newsgroups and telnet, PC World Online news, 3000 mail network forums, and over 80,000 files. The others offer mainly adult gifs and therefore there is little of interest to academics.
Other sections of BBS: The Bulletin Board Services Magazine have relevant items. In the August issue these include features about a 'superset of Web capabilities' cleint program called Worldgroup Manager, software for credit card processing, and so on. In addition, there are articles explaining how to connect a BBS to the Internet (for an example, try telnet to nlbbs.com and type BBS at the login prompt with a blank return), a regular feature called 'Webwise' about the WWW, and others about how Win 95 will affect the net, modems, and Voice E-mail, plus regular features about the large online providers such as America Online, Prodigy, and Delphi.
There is also a list of about 300 telnet accessible BBS.
See also Richard Mark's SBI (Select BBS's on the Internet) at:
URL: http://dkeep.com/sbi.html
All in all, therefore, quite a lot of potentially relevant material, even though it is slanted towards the US hobbyist BBS sysop.
PS. If you want to investigate BBSs further, try looking at Richard Mark's Index of SBI BBS's at:
URL: http://execpc.com/~rmark/sbi_idx.html
infoHIGHWAY, which is sponsored by Unipalm PIPEX, is designed to provide a concise roundup of Internet news, mixed with a blend of commentary It is a useful publication with valuable information for the serious net person. It has a Web presence at:
URL: http://www.infohighway.co.uk/
Net Commerce International is a new printed bi-monthly journal. The focus of the journal is on the technology and industry of trading on the Internet. It discusses subjects such as copyright, censorship, and security. Issue 1 had items about: Labour's vision of the Information Superhighway; Trel (produced by the publishers of the journal as the commercial Internet product finder); the InContext Spider; electronic commerce, and the inevitable article on Microsoft. The journal is of interest to anyone involved in cyberselling or the business and commercial side of the net. More information is available at:
URL: http://www.lpac.ac.uk/Trel/NCI.html
We haven't mentioned this journal since Issue 3 of the Newsletter. It is still arriving in the Library, and is still a fairly brief but useful read, especially if you are interested in the financial or entrepreneurial side of the Internet. Very much US orientated.
The August issue has an article about electronic currency, plus information about the SBA (Small Business Administration) Web server: (URL: http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov ) plus information about Microsoft's Internet Assistant, an add on to Word for the creation of Web pages, available at: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/MSLFILES/word60a.exe
The email address for Internet Business Advantage is:
iba@merlin.cobb.ziff.com
West Coast Online is a monthly magazine covering various aspects of telecommunications technology and services. It contains much about IRC, Newsgroups, and BBSs, with a list of telnetable BBSs, and also a Web directory. Aimed at the US hobbyist. Apart from being available at a subscription rate of $12, it is also distributed free in various outlets in California. It acts as both a magazine and the house journal for WCO, an online access provider. More information is available at:
URL: http://www.wco.com/mag.html
I haven't yet bought a copy of this new bi-monthly directory, but I had a good look at a copy of the first issue on the newsagents shelves. It is a guide to the best, and worst, of the Net. With about 1,000 sites featured in the first issue, plus some feature articles, it is very similar to the Whats On section of the Internet: The Essential Guide to What's On and Where to Go magazine. At £4.99, its quite expensive. It is produced by the same people which bring us .Net. Some information is available at:
URL: http://www.futurenet.co.uk/computing/netdirectory.html
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001.6441 CLE Science and technology on the Internet by Gail P Clement Library Solutions, 1995
001.6441 FLY The World Wide Web handbook: an HTML guide for users, uthors and publishers by Peter Flynn International Thomson Computer Press, 1995
001.6441 PAR Information 'superhighways': the UK National Information Infrastructure Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Post, 1995
001.6441 POP Internet UK by Ivan Pope Prentice Hall, 1995
001.645 GRA HTML Sourcebook by Ian S Graham, Wiley, 1995
001.645 HES HTML publishing on the Internet by Brent Heslop and Larry Budnick Ventana, 1995
025.6 KEN Networking in the Humanities edited by Stephanie Kenna and Seamus Ross Bowker Saur, 1995 -This book includes a chapter by Michael Breaks, the University Librarian at Heriot-Watt, entitled "Information resources on the Network or 'Thed Virtual Library'" (RM)
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