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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:09:19 -0500
From: Bob Swisher <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Scout Report -- September 19, 1997
> The Scout Report
> September 19, 1997
> Volume 4, Number 21
> Internet Scout Project
> University of Wisconsin
> Department of Computer Sciences
>
>
> == I N T H E S C O U T R E P O R T T H I S W E E K
> ========
>
>
> ====== New From Internet Scout
> 1. K.I.D.S Report and Scout Report for Science and Engineering
>
> ====== Research and Education
> 2. _Handbook of Methods_--BLS
> 3. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why?--Journal of Electronic Publishing
> 4. _AIDS Knowledge Base_--HIV InSite
> 5. 1998 On-Line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal
> Periodicals--
> Anderson Publishing Co.
> 6. SOLV-DB--NCMS
> 7. Project Primary
> 8. PSYCHOHISTORY--Historical Motivation Utilizing Psychoanalytic
> Principles
> Mailing List
>
> ==== General Interest
> 9. National Museum of American History--Smithsonian Institution
> 10. Official Documents--_The_ Stationery Office--UK
> 11. Internet Country Guides--INCORE
> 12. Culture_kiosque_
> 13. Trivial Pursuit
> 14. Org-Marketing--Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations Mailing List
>
> ====== Network Tools
> 15. Andover News--IT News
> 16. ToolVox--A Free Streaming Audio Plug-in and Tool
> 17. Northern Light
>
> ====== Where Are They Now
> 18. Volume 1, Number 20: The Scout Report for September 16, 1994
>
>
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>
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>
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>
>
>
> ====== New From Internet Scout ====
>
> 1. K.I.D.S Report and Scout Report for Science and Engineering
> K.I.D.S. Report
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/current/index.html
> Scout Report for Science and Engineering
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/current/index.html
>
> The first K.I.D.S. Report of the 1997/98 school year is available.
> Produced by fifth grade students at John F. Kennedy Elementary School
> in Madison, Wisconsin, it is entitled Famous Americans, and annotates
> sites for such luminaries as Jesse Owens, Lucille Ball, and the
> _Grolier Encyclopedia_ American Presidents resource, among others. The
> first Scout Report for Science and Engineering is available,
> annotating 22 sites in the fields of natural and physical science,
> mathematics and engineering. [JS]
>
>
>
> ====== Research and Education ====
>
> 2. _Handbook of Methods_--BLS
> http://stats.bls.gov/homhome.htm
>
> The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has made available the April 1997
> edition of its _Handbook of Methods_, in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat
> (.pdf) format. This 202 page book details the methodology by which BLS
> "obtains and prepares the economic data it publishes," providing the
> structural underpinning for such data topics as employment and
> unemployment, compensation and working conditions, occupational safety
> and health, productivity and technology, economic growth, and prices
> and living conditions. As such, it is a crucial information source for
> economists, statisticians, instructors, librarians, and business
> analysts. [JS]
>
>
> 3. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why?--Journal of Electronic Publishing
> http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/
>
> University of Michigan Press' Journal of Electronic Publishing has
> recently released a special issue on electronic publishing that
> consists of case studies of eight online scholarly journals. Journals
> covered include ACM's (Association of Computing Machinery) Journal of
> Experimental Algorithmics, Public Access Computer Systems Review,
> First Monday, and RSNA EJ, among others. These journals exist in
> electronic format only; the articles discuss what they portend for the
> future of scholarly publishing. Interesting sidebar articles include:
> "Why I Don't Read Electronic Journals," by Peter C. Grenquist (former
> Executive Director of the
> Association of American University Presses) and "Of Periodicals and
> Pork Bellies," by Paul M. Gherman (University Librarian at Vanderbilt
> University). [JS]
>
>
> 4. _AIDS Knowledge Base_--HIV InSite
> http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/akb/1997/
> HIV InSite
> http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
>
> The University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General
> Hospital have recently begun to make the 1997 edition of this massive
> (2000 page) AIDS textbook available at the HIV InSite. At present,
> fifteen of the 96 chapters in nine major sections are available. The
> entire 1994 edition is available, with icons pointing from outdated
> chapters to updated ones. HIV InSite, provided by UCSF, SFGH, and the
> Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is an exhaustive clearinghouse of
> AIDS related information for practitioners, patients, and others
> interested in the topic. One of its highlights is Today's News, a
> summary of daily news stories derived from many sources. [JS]
>
>
> 5. 1998 On-Line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal
> Periodicals--
> Anderson Publishing Co.
> http://www.andersonpublishing.com/lawschool/directory/directory.html
>
> Compiled by Michael H. Hoffheimer, Professor of Law at the University
> of Mississippi, and made available by Anderson Publishing Company,
> this no-nonsense directory contains general student-edited law
> reviews, specialty student-edited law reviews, and non-student edited
> peer review and trade journals. Each title contains publisher and
> contact information as well as number of times issued per year
> (although there are no links to sites). There is an alphabetical index
> of all publications in the directory (unfortunately not hyperlinked).
> Users are encouraged to read the explanatory guide to the directory,
> which explains selection policies and organization of titles. [JS]
>
>
> 6. SOLV-DB--NCMS [JavaScript]
> http://solvdb.ncms.org/
>
> The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences provides a beta test
> version of this "one-stop source for solvents data." At the heart of
> the site is the lookup page, where commercially available solvents can
> be queried by any of eight variables, including solvent name, Chemical
> Abstracts Number, chemical category, or synonym. Users can select by
> nine property ranges or do full text earches. Basic retrieval contains
> information about the solvent (including formula, CAS number, weight,
> cost, and boiling and freezing point among others), and there are also
> detailed sections on physical-chemical data, health and safety data,
> regulatory data, and environmental fate data. The real power of this
> site lies in the fact that most of the searchable interfaces are
> really gigantic pull down menus. Unfortunately, most variable
> explanations are produced via JavaScript rather than HTML or text
> interface. Nevertheless, this is a powerful and flexible database that
> contains a great deal of easily accessible information. [JS]
>
>
> 7. Project Primary
> http://www.owu.edu/~mggrote/pp/
>
> This site, provided by Ohio Wesleyan University, is a collaborative
> effort between professors in six departments at the university and K-3
> teachers in three Ohio counties to "produce hands-on activities for
> the teaching of science." Activities in Botany, Chemistry, Children's
> Literature, Geology, Physics, and Zoology, are simply explained and
> designed to engage children's curiosity and to help them learn. The
> philosophy of the site is explained in the Constructivism section.[JS]
>
>
> 8. PSYCHOHISTORY--Historical Motivation Utilizing Psychoanalytic
> Principles Mailing List
>
> PSYCHOHISTORY is a forum intended as a resource for individuals
> studying or doing research in the field of psychohistory, defined as
> the study of historical motivation utilizing psychoanalytic
> principles. The basic purpose of the list is to serve as a forum for
> scholarly discussions and as a clearinghouse for the distribution of
> information. Subscribers are encouraged to post questions, comments,
> or announcements of interest to individuals working in psychohistory.
> Appropriate postings might pertain to work currently in progress, the
> development of course materials, bibliographic material of interest to
> researchers, and useful Internet resources. [JS]
> To subscribe send email to:
> LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> In the body of the message type:
> SUBSCRIBE PSYCHOHISTORY yourfirstname yourlastname
>
>
>
> ====== General Interest ====
>
> 9. National Museum of American History--Smithsonian Institution
> http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/
>
> The Smithsonian Institution has recently created a homepage for the
> National Museum of American History. The site's five main sections
> include: Virtual Exhibitions, currently hosting exhibits on American
> Wine; the history of Tool Chests; World War II Home Front Posters; and
> a Centennial Salute to Cinema. Not Just for Kids features web versions
> of hands-on activities from the museum. Visitors can go to the Music
> Room for information on American music resources, consult an
> illustrated Timeline for links to information on highlighted events,
> and guess the identity of a pictured invention in the What Is It?
> section. General visitor information and teaching resources are
> offered, and the Collections, Scholarship, and Research, section
> contains contact information for scholars and students who wish to use
> the Museum's archival resources. [MD]
>
>
> 10. Official Documents--_The_ Stationery Office--UK
> http://www.official-documents.co.uk/
> Less graphical entrance:
> http://www.official-documents.co.uk/menu/ukpinf.htm
>
> _The_ Stationery Office of the UK provides one-stop shopping for
> selected UK government publications. Stationery Office publications
> are available by date, title, or government department. There is also
> a selected list of publications available from other government
> departments. As it grows, this site should become a major repository
> of UK government documents. Note the difference between _The_
> Stationery Office and Her Majesty's Stationery Office (there is a link
> at the site). [JS]
>
>
> 11. Internet Country Guides--INCORE
> http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
>
> The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, a joint
> initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations
> University, has recently updated its Internet Country Guides for India
> and Pakistan and added one for Kashmir. At present, there are eighteen
> guides available for conflict hot spots in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
> These guides are selective, briefly annotated hot lists for news,
> maps, mailing lists, and general resources about each country. The
> power of this site is the easy access it provides to much information
> on these countries. [JS]
>
>
> 12. Culture_kiosque_ [frames]
> http://www.culturekiosque.com/
>
> Culture_kisoque_, provided by Culture_kiosque_ Ltd., is an ezine with
> a decided European flavor, that contains "news, features, criticism,
> and interviews" on jazz, opera, classical music, art and archeology,
> dance, food, technology, and "nouveau." Visitors can appreciate its
> breadth of coverage of the cultural scene, and its impressive list of
> authors, who include Roswitha Erbsloh (art critic of _Die Welt_), Mike
> Zwerin (jazz and rock critic of the _International Herald Tribune_),
> Joseph E. Romero (feature writer for _Le Monde_), and Joel Kasow
> (opera critic for _Opera_), among others. Note that articles may be
> available in English, French, German, or any combination of the three.
> [JS]
>
>
> 13. Trivial Pursuit
> http://www.trivialpursuit.com/
> Less graphical entrance:
> http://www.trivialpursuit.com/htdocs/home1.html
>
> Hasbro, Inc., makers of the Trivial Pursuit board game, in a dual
> celebration of the game's fifteenth anniversary and the release of the
> new Genus IV edition, is making a selection of its over 4,800
> questions available for play via the web. Play rules are a
> simplification of the board game, and questions are available in six
> categories at three levels: Brain Stem Only, Frontal Lobe, and Calling
> All Neurons. A correctly answered question in one category means that
> the user must choose a different category for the next question. This
> is an imaginative sales pitch for a commercial board game. [JS]
>
>
> 14. Org-Marketing--Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations Mailing List
> Discussion Archive
> http://forums.telmar.com/forums/org-mrkt/
>
> Org-Marketing exists to foster communication on the subject of
> marketing for non-profit and not-for profit organizations. A
> necessarily partial list of topics which might be discussed on
> Org-Marketing would include PSA's, low (or no) budget marketing,
> promotion and advertising, surveys, service quality, marketing
> planning for non-profits, positioning, market models, relationship
> marketing, database marketing, and marketing ethics. Archives of the
> discussion are available at the above URL. [JS]
> To subscribe send email to:
> listserv@amic.com
> In the body of the message type:
> SUBSCRIBE Org-Marketing
>
>
>
> ====== Network Tools ====
>
> 15. Andover News--IT News
> http://www.andovernews.com
>
> The Andover Network, "a collection of Internet technology and software
> sites," provides daily IT news in nine subjects, including AppleWatch,
> HardwareWatch, Internet-Watch, JavaWatch, and MicrosoftWatch, among
> others. Sources include InfoWorld, Computer News Daily, Interactive
> Week, Wired, Techwire, and ZDNNews, among others. The key to this site
> is the way it repackages and organizes already existing news, allowing
> the user to follow all aspects of IT news from one place. [JS]
>
>
> 16. ToolVox--A Free Streaming Audio Plug-in and Tool
> http://www.voxware.com/
> Download area:
> http://www.voxware.com/download.htm
>
> ToolVox, provided by Voxware, Inc., offers a simple, effective way to
> create and listen to streaming audio without using an excessive amount
> of bandwith or an audio server. The free package comes with both the
> player (a browser plug-in) and ToolVox Encoder. The plug-in is
> available for IRIX, HP-UX, Macintosh, Solaris 2.5, and Windows
> 3.1/95/NT. The encoder is available for Macintosh and Windows
> 3.1/95/NT. Creating a sound file with the ToolVox Encoder is as simple
> as clicking on "record." The sounds are initially recorded as AIFF/WAV
> files and are later compressed into VOX files with a compression ratio
> of up to 53:1. Note that testing did reveal a detectable change in
> sound quality after the file was compressed. Documentation on how to
> use ToolVox, add VOX audio files to a web page, and configure a server
> to serve the files is included in the download. [TB]
>
>
> 17. Northern Light
> http://www.northernlight.com/
>
> Northern Light adds a new wrinkle to Internet search indexes by way of
> its organization of retrieved results. Any search will retrieve "best
> documents" on the right side of the screen, along with a set of
> "custom search folders," (subject, type, source, or language) on the
> left side of the screen, to help users retrieve relevant items. Click
> on any of these folders, and a set of sub-folders will be opened.
> These folders are generated on the fly, rather than being part of a
> created hierarchy. Of course, the actual relevance of retrieved items
> for this, as for any large search index, depends on the ability of the
> searcher to narrow the search by use of Boolean tools. Also, as with
> any other large search index, there is no filtering for information
> quality. At present, Northern Light supports Boolean
> OR/NOT/MUST(+)/MUST NOT(-) and phrase searching. In addition to
> searching the web, users can search a database of information
> contained in journals, books, magazines, and newswires (this premium
> service will be fee-based after early October). [JS]
>
>
>
> ====== Where Are They Now ====
>
> 18. Volume 1, Number 20: The Scout Report for September 16, 1994
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/9-16-94.html
> Quest Project--NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
> http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
> National HPCC Software Exchange
> http://www.nhse.org/
>
> When the National Aeronautics and Space Adiminstration's Quest Project
> was originally annotated, its purpose was "to provide support and
> services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the
> Internet." Today it fulfills that mission via interactive chats with
> NASA scientists, interactive projects that stress dialog between
> students and NASA scientists, and information on how to bring the
> Internet into the classroom. It plans interactive projects on NeurOn
> (the NeuroLab Space Shuttle Mission), and NASA's aeronautics mission
> in the near future, and has a project on Women of NASA that is
> presently available. The National HPPC (High Performance Computing and
> Communications) Software Exchange was designed to be a "distributed
> collection of software, documents, data, and information of interest
> to the high performance and parallel computing community." It features
> software repositories for mathematical software, parallel tools, and
> chemistry software. Software is described, along with connections to
> download sites. Selected reviews and other literature are available.
> Recently the site has added Repository in a Box (RIB), a software
> package for "setting up and maintaining software repositories." NHSE
> has twelve participating US government agencies at this time. [JS]
>
>
>
> ====== ====
> == Index for September 19, 1997 ==
> ==== ======
>
> 1. K.I.D.S. Report
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/kids/current/index.html
> Scout Report for Science and Engineering
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/current/index.html
>
> 2. _Handbook of Methods_--BLS
> http://stats.bls.gov/homhome.htm
>
> 3. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: Why?--Journal of Electronic Publishing
> http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-01/
>
> 4. _AIDS Knowledge Base_--HIV InSite
> http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/akb/1997/
> HIV InSite
> http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
>
> 5. 1998 On-Line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal
> Periodicals--
> Anderson Publishing Co.
> http://www.andersonpublishing.com/lawschool/directory/directory.html
>
> 6. SOLV-DB--NCMS [JavaScript]
> http://solvdb.ncms.org/
>
> 7. Project Primary
> http://www.owu.edu/~mggrote/pp/
>
> 8. PSYCHOHISTORY--Historical Motivation Utilizing Psychoanalytic
> Principles
> Mailing List
> Email: LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> Message: SUBSCRIBE PSYCHOHISTORY YourFirstname YourLastname
>
> 9. National Museum of American History--Smithsonian Institution
> http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/
>
> 10. Official Documents--_The_ Stationery Office--UK
> http://www.official-documents.co.uk/
> Less graphical entrance:
> http://www.official-documents.co.uk/menu/ukpinf.htm
>
> 11. Internet Country Guides--INCORE
> http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
>
> 12. Culture_kiosque_ [frames]
> http://www.culturekiosque.com/
>
> 13. Trivial Pursuit
> http://www.trivialpursuit.com/
> Less graphical entrance:
> http://www.trivialpursuit.com/htdocs/home1.html
>
> 14. Org-Marketing--Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations Mailing List
> Discussion Archive
> http://forums.telmar.com/forums/org-mrkt/
> Email: listserv@amic.com
> Message: SUBSCRIBE Org-Marketing
>
> 15. Andover News--IT News
> http://www.andovernews.com
>
> 16. ToolVox--A Free Streaming Audio Plug-in and Tool
> http://www.voxware.com/
> Download area:
> http://www.voxware.com/download.htm
>
> 17. Northern Light
> http://www.northernlight.com/
>
> 18. Volume 1, Number 20: The Scout Report for September 16, 1994
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/9-16-94.html
> Quest Project--NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
> http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
> National HPCC Software Exchange
> http://www.nhse.org/
>
>
>
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