Message-Id: <55206A473154D011924D0020AFF7ACB527C8AE@mail1.oulan.ou.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:16:34 -0500
From: Bob Swisher <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Scout Report: 3 new Subject Specific Scout Reports
> Three New Publications from the Internet Scout Project:
> The Scout Reports for
> Science & Engineering, Social Science, and Business & Economics
>
> The Internet Scout Project of the Computer Sciences Department at the
> University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the start of three new free
> electronic publications designed for the higher education community.
>
> The new Subject Specific Scout Reports for Science & Engineering,
> Social Science, and Business & Economics were designed with advice
> from academics in each field and the librarians who serve them.
> Reports will be compiled by librarians and content specialists and
> published every two weeks via e-mail and the Web.
>
> Goals of the Subject Specific Scout Reports:
>
> * To expand the Internet Scout Project's existing current awareness
> services by providing the higher education community with information
> that is specific to a given field of study
>
> * To continue research into the cataloging and archiving of
> electronic resources with expansion of the content of the Scout Report
> Signpost, a database of selected Internet resources, to include highly
> specialized resources
>
> * To investigate and implement new subject-based delivery techniques
> on the Internet using the subject specific resources archived and
> cataloged in the Signpost
>
> The first report for Science & Engineering is being released today,
> September 17 on the Internet Scout website. (If you would like a plain
> text email version, send mail to scout@cs.wisc.edu.) The table of
> contents for the first issue is attached below to illustrate the
> content that will be offered in each Science & Engineering report. The
> Social Science and Business & Economics reports will begin publication
> next week. All three reports will be available via an email
> distribution list, and on the Internet Scout web site.
>
> To subscribe to the Subject Specific Scout Reports, send e-mail to:
> scoutlst@cs.wisc.edu and in the body of the message type subscribe
> srscieng, or subscribe srsocsci, or subscribe srbusecon, or all three
> depending on the publications you wish to receive. More than one
> command can be sent in a single email to scoutlst.
>
> As always, the staff at Internet Scout are very interested your
> feedback. Please send comments or suggestions to the editors at the
> addresses below.
>
> Susan Calcari
> Project Director and Managing Editor
> scal@cs.wisc.edu
> 608.265.8042
>
> Jack Solock
> Editor, Scout Report and Subject Specific Scout Reports
> jacks@cs.wisc.edu
> 608.262.6606
>
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html
> http://rs.internic.net/
>
> The ongoing goal of the Internet Scout Project is to provide improved
> resource discovery services to the higher education community through
> the implementation of leading edge technologies and research into the
> development of customizable resource discovery and delivery.
>
> Internet Scout is funded by the National Science Foundation and is a
> project of the InterNIC.
>
>
> The Scout Report for Science & Engineering
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The target audience of the new Scout Report for Science & Engineering
> is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the life sciences,
> physical sciences, and engineering. Each biweekly issue offers a
> selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the
> sciences, and related fields such as math and engineering, that have
> been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field
> of study.
>
>
> September 17, 1997
>
> T H I S W E E K:
>
> ====== Research ======
> 1. _E. coli_ Genome Project--University of Wisconsin
> 2. Cambridge University Press Journals Online
> 3. Social Insects World Wide Web (SIWeb)
> 4. NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
> 5. The Gap Analysis Program
>
> ======= Learning Resources =====
> 6. Chem4Kids
> 7. The Natural History Museum, London
> 8. Monarch Watch--Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
> 9. DASL--Data and Story Library
>
> ======= General Interest =======
> 10. Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (NIE)
> 11. CPC Civil Projects
> 12. The Gardener's Guide to Mailing Lists
> 13. The Fractory
>
> ======== Current Awareness =====
> 14. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Proposal Guide
> 15. Brown Bag Preprints--Caltech
> 16. Upcoming Books--Baker-Taylor
> 17. Springer-Verlag Journals Current Awareness Service
> 18. Conference Updates from the Scholarly Societies Project
>
> ======== New Data =============
> 19. Species in Parks Flora and Fauna Database--U.S. National Park
> Service
> 20. Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) Near-Realtime
> Data--
> Goddard DAAC
> 21. NIST Chemistry WebBook--An Update
>
> ======== In the News ===========
> 22. _E-Coli_
>
>
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