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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:35:00 -0600
From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@ou.edu'" <it-fyi@ou.edu>
Subject: Scout Report -- November 28, 1997
> The Scout Report
> November 28, 1997
> Volume 4, Number 31
> 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. Scout Report for Science & Engineering
>
> ====== Research and Education
> 2. Online Accounting Faculty Directory
> 3. Two American Revolution Sites
> 4. The Molecular Modeling Electronic Conference (TMMeC)
> 5. WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--ACRL WSS
> 6. NRL Plasma Formulary
> 7. Not Just Cows
> 8. The Write Site
> 9. CA-TEACH--Complex Analysis Mailing List
>
> ====== General Interest
> 10. Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: December 1997--UNAIDS WHO
> 11. Proposed Rule on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
> Program (TANF)
> 12. Important and Great Movies
> 13. Amber: Window to the Past--AMNH
> 14. What is a dollar worth?--FRB MPLS
> 15. Business Wire
> 16. Japanese Oldtales: A Multilingual E-text Collection
>
> ====== Network Tools
> 17. Free Code--Andover.Net
> 18. Hobbes' Internet Timeline
> 19. WebFind Assistant--A Browser Buddy for Searching via the Top 9
> Search Engines
>
> ====== Where Are They Now
> 20. Volume 1, Number 31: The Scout Report for November 25, 1994
>
>
> Copyright and subscription information appear at the end of the Scout
> Report. For more information on all services of the Internet Scout
> Project, please visit our website: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/
>
> If you'd like to know how the Internet Scout team selects resources
> for inclusion in the Scout Report, visit our "Selection Criteria" page
> at: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/criteria.html
>
> Feedback is always welcome: scout@cs.wisc.edu
>
> ====== New From Internet Scout ====
>
> 1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/
>
> The sixth issue of the Scout Report for Science and Engineering is
> available. It annotates over twenty new and newly discovered Internet
> resources in the physical and life sciences and engineering. The In
> the News Section annotates eight resources concerning the current
> space missions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
> (NASA). [JS]
>
> ====== Research and Education ====
>
> 2. Online Accounting Faculty Directory
> http://rarc.rutgers.edu/raw/hasselback/
>
> Professor James R. Hasselback of Florida State University has provided
> this no-nonsense directory, housed at the well-known Rutgers
> University Accounting Web (discussed in the September 20, 1996 Scout
> Report). Users simply enter name, school, or geographic location, and
> basic contact information about Accounting faculty is returned. The
> database is adapted from Hasselback's _1998-1999 Accounting Faculty
> Directory_. Although geographic location is searchable only by states
> of the US, there are many international university listings here, and
> users should access them either via name or school lookup. Note that
> faculty at schools beginning with "University" are listed under Un,
> Univ, or University, and a place lookup may be needed in some cases to
> find these faculty. [JS]
>
>
> 3. Two American Revolution Sites
> Liberty!: The American Revolution--PBS [QuickTime]
> http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
> The American Revolution--H-Net
> http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
>
> These two sites have been launched as companion sites to the
> recently-aired PBS documentary Liberty!: The American Revolution. The
> PBS site is divided into five sections. Chronicle of the Revolution
> contains significant successes and setbacks in the revolution, as well
> as a bibliography, time line, index of varied related subjects, and
> collection of annotated links. Perspectives on Liberty offers
> information that places the revolution in context. Liberty Today is a
> photo essay on newly naturalized citizens, and Liberty! The Series
> offers a behind-the-scenes look at the program. The Road to Revolution
> is an interactive game based on the series. H-Net
> (Humanities and Social Sciences Online--discussed in the June 14, 1996
> Scout Report) has also created a site that contains program notes on
> each series episode, a bibliography, essays on central issues of the
> revolution by leading scholars, and an interactive question-and-answer
> session with historians. H-Net also hosts a collection of related
> resources, including annotated links and citations of selected
> articles from the _William and Mary Quarterly_. [MD]
>
>
> 4. The Molecular Modeling Electronic Conference (TMMeC)
> http://bilbo.edu.uy/tmmec/
> US Mirror
> http://fcindy5.ncifcrf.gov/tmmec/
>
> This electronic conference, sponsored by the Montevideo Theoretical
> Chemistry Laboratory, Universidad de La Republica, Montevideo,
> Uruguay, is slated as a combination of a conference and a journal.
> Journal articles address "methodological and computational
> developments that allow or facilitate the computing of structure,
> reactivity and properties of isolated or interacting molecules." The
> conference aspect of the site promotes communication of ideas in the
> field via various multi-media formats and encourages speed of
> intellectual communication, as well as open and public discussion
> about that communication. Each issue of TMMeC contains a Table of
> Contents (TOC), an editorial, peer-reviewed articles, reviews,
> proceedings, and news and information. Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2 are
> currently online. [KH]
>
>
> 5. WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--ACRL WSS
> http://www.library.yale.edu/wss/
>
> The Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research
> Libraries maintains this site, which is an excellent example of a
> distributed meta-resource. The thirteen major thematic sections at
> this time include art and film, health, history, and science and
> technology, among others. Each section is maintained by a subject
> librarian at a different university library; the quality of selected
> sites listed demonstrates a cumulative expertise across these subject
> areas pertaining to women's studies. This information-rich site would
> benefit from the addition of an overall search engine. [JS]
>
>
> 6. NRL Plasma Formulary
> http://w3.pppl.gov/~dcoster/nrl/
>
> This handbook, provided by the US Naval Research Laboratory, is a
> "compilation of mathematical and scientific formulas, and contains
> physical parameters pertinent to a variety of plasma regimes, ranging
> from laboratory devices to astrophysical objects." Contents includes
> information on vector identities, physical constants, Maxwell's
> equations, fundamental plasma parameters, and solar physics
> parameters. [JS]
>
>
> 7. Not Just Cows
> http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/
>
> Designed to provide access to agricultural resources on the Internet,
> Not Just Cows, provided by Wilfred Drew, Systems and Reference
> Librarian at the State University of New York Morrisville College of
> Agriculture and Technology, delivers. Resources available at this site
> include enology (commercial wine production), fisheries, market news,
> state laws, and an extensive Libraries section, among others. Most of
> the resources contain descriptions. [ATW]
>
>
> 8. The Write Site [.pdf]
> http://www.writesite.org/
> Text only:
> http://www.writesite.org/textonly/index.html
>
> Provided by Greater Dayton (Ohio) Public Television, this site is a
> powerful aid to middle school language arts teaching. It provides
> information on teaching and learning the basic skills of journalism.
> Features include the history of journalism and famous journalists,
> style tips, and pointers to relevant reference sites. Teachers can
> refer to the well-organized instructional guide, a guide that includes
> graphic organizers, task cards, and checklists (the last three
> available in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only). Though designed for
> middle schoolers in Ohio, there is a great deal of useful information
> at this site for any middle school language arts class. [JS]
>
>
> 9. CA-TEACH--Complex Analysis Mailing List
> List Archive
> http://archives.math.utk.edu/hypermail/ca-teach/
>
> CA-TEACH is devoted, though not restricted, to the discussion of the
> teaching of complex analysis to undergraduates. Regular topics on
> CA-TEACH could include: a discussion of Complex Analysis textbooks,
> broadcasts of URLs where documents on complex analysis can be found,
> personal reports on teaching complex analysis courses at a particular
> institution, a discussion on the impact of technology on the teaching
> of complex analysis, curriculum debates, lecture notes, and examples
> of how various software packages have assisted in complex analysis
> visualization. Archives of the discussion can be found at the above
> listed URL. [JS]
> To subscribe send email to:
> MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu
> In the body of the message type:
> SUBSCRIBE CA-TEACH
>
>
>
> ====== General Interest ====
>
> 10. Report on the Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: December 1997--UNAIDS WHO
> http://www.unaids.org/highband/document/epidemio/report97.html
> US Mirror
> http://www.us.unaids.org/highband/document/epidemio/report97.html
>
> UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) and the World
> Health Organization (WHO) provide the 1997 version of this report,
> which contains a global summary of the state of the epidemic, global
> estimates, and regional summaries. Figures and tables illustrate major
> trends covered in this report. Interested users may also access the
> 1996 version of the report (discussed in the December 6, 1996 issue of
> the Scout Report). Both reports are available in English, French, and
> Spanish. [JS]
>
>
> 11. Proposed Rule on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
> Program (TANF)
> HHS Press Release
> http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/regfact.htm
> Proposed Regulation
> http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/hypernews/topics2.html
>
> On August 22, 1996, President Clinton signed the "Personal
> Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act," which
> established the "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
> program," designed to replace the longstanding Aid to Families with
> Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Proposed regulations for the TANF
> program were issued in the _Federal Register_ on November 20, 1997,
> and are posted at this site by the US Department of Health and Human
> Services. There is an open period for public comment from November 20,
> 1997 through February 18, 1997. [JS]
>
>
> 12. Important and Great Movies
> National Film Preservation Board
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/
> AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
> http://www.afionline.org/100/
>
> What do _The Big Sleep_, _The Great Dictator_, _Harold and Maude_,
> _Knute Rockne, All American_, and _Wings_ have in common? They, along
> with 20 other films, have been selected to the National Film Registry
> of the National Film Preservation Board. The NFPB is a "public
> advisory group to the Librarian of Congress...that...works to ensure
> the survival, conservation and increased public availability of
> America's film heritage, including: advising the Librarian on the
> annual selection of films to the National Film Registry." In addition
> to the 1997 list, users can find a comprehensive list of titles added
> to the registry between 1989-1997, a list of NFPB members, and links
> from the 1989-96 National Film Registry to their credits as they
> appear in the Internet Movie Database. The NFPB also recently released
> a report and three public testimonies on the state of television and
> video preservation. On another front, the American Film Institute has
> recently launched 100 Years...100 Movies, as a keystone of its
> celebration of 100 years of American movies. The site features a
> chronological listing of 400 American movies, from which the best 100
> are to be selected by "by more than 1,500 leaders from the American
> film community." Visitors can view a press release, and consult a
> brief timeline of American film history highlights at the site. [JS]
>
>
> 13. Amber: Window to the Past--AMNH
> http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Amber/
>
> A once-arcane branch of paleontology, the study of ancient life
> trapped in fossilized tree resin has experienced a renaissance in the
> last few years. The Amber site depicts this arena of scientific
> investigation with stunning images and clear, accessible text. Users
> learn that DNA can indeed be preserved within organisms trapped in
> amber for millions of years and that both vertebrates and
> invertebrates are found in amber deposits. Images and text describe
> human use of amber for art and ornament for over 13,000
> years. Many samples of amber are featured containing a variety of
> organisms, from termites to geckos to feathers, visible in
> well-reproduced images. This site stems from an exhibition at the
> American Museum of Natural History. [DF]
>
>
> 14. What is a dollar worth?--FRB MPLS [JavaScript]
> http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html
>
> This site, provided by Rob Grunewald of the Federal Reserve Bank of
> Minneapolis, is simple, yet elegant and powerful in both concept and
> execution. Based on the Consumer Price Index (all major expenditure
> classes), users enter a year between 1913 and 1997 (at present) and a
> dollar amount purchased. Then another year is entered, and the "CPI
> Calculation Machine" produces an equivalent dollar amount for that
> year. The calculator will work both forward and backward in time. The
> site also provides an annual table of the CPI-All 1913-1997 (yearly
> inflation rates provided), and a clear, concise explanation of how the
> index is used to answer this type of question. [JS]
>
>
> 15. Business Wire
> http://www.businesswire.com/
> No frames:
> http://www.businesswire.com/index.htm
>
> Business Wire offers hundreds of daily business-related announcements
> in ten categories, including daily news, hi-tech, health,
> entertainment, corporate news, and IPO's on the Net, among others. A
> one week searchable archive is available. There is also information on
> several of Business Wire's fee-based services. Users should bear in
> mind that the listing of information on Business Wire is a for-fee
> service that not all companies subscribe to. [JS]
>
>
> 16. Japanese Oldtales: A Multilingual E-text Collection [Java]
> http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/
> Multilingual HTML Browser Project
> http://mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/gwy/
>
> The University of Library and Information Science in Ibaraki, Japan
> hosts this site as a part of their Multilingual HTML Browser Project,
> a project devoted to enabling browser display of foreign languages and
> fonts. Ten Japanese folktales are currently featured in French,
> Japanese and English. Titles include: The Six Jizos and the Braided
> Hat; The Grateful Crane; Cracking Mountain; The Bamboo Princes; and
> The Crab and the Monkey. All ten folktales can be read in one language
> at a time or in the three featured languages simultaneously. The
> Multilingual HTML Browser Project site offers users an opportunity to
> view pages written in a foreign language on an experimental browser.
> Language options include Thai, Japanese, Tirkish, Greek, Traditional
> Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, among other languages. [JR]
>
>
>
> ====== Network Tools ====
>
> 17. Free Code--Andover.Net
> http://www.freecode.com/
>
> Free Code, a service of Andover.Net, is a large index of
> Internet-related software tool source code. The tools are written in
> C/C++, Perl, Java, or Visual Basic, and are free for personal and
> commercial use. They range from handy Perl CGI scripts to Java-based
> graphics packages. Each tool in the index is briefly described,
> characterized by language and operating system, and linked to both the
> home page for the tool and the source code. The total lack of
> documentation for the search engine makes useful queries hard to
> create, but the tools are still easy-to-find. This is a very useful
> index for anyone building Internet or Web-based applications. [CL]
>
>
> 18. Hobbes' Internet Timeline
> http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html
>
> This site, provided by Robert H'obbes' Zakon, is a concise hyperlinked
> history of the Internet beginning with the formation of the US Defense
> Department's ARPA (Advanced Research Products Agency) in 1957. As can
> be expected, entries are more detailed for the later years of the
> timeline. Beginning in 1995, the author provides his list of the
> technologies of the year. Country domain registrations are tracked
> beginning in 1988. Growth figures and charts, as well as contributors,
> are provided (including Internet Scout Project director Susan
> Calcari); in this "small print" can be found a wealth of information
> about the Internet, as well as many of the
> people who facilitated its development. [JS]
>
>
> 19. WebFind Assistant--A Browser Buddy for Searching via the Top 9
> Search Engines
> http://www.crushware.com/software/webfind/index.html
>
> The newest version of WebFind Assistant, 1.0.2 (Macintosh only), was
> recently released by Crush! Software. This is a great helper tool for
> those who spend a good deal of time searching. It functions as a
> toolbar that hovers over the Netscape or Internet Explorer browser.
> The interface contains a pop-up menu of the search engines and an area
> for entering a search string. When the user hits search, it
> automatically begins the search using the selected search engine. The
> demo version, which can be downloaded at the above URL, is limited to
> AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo. When purchased
> ($20.00), WebFind Assistant also supports HotBot, Magellan, Starting
> Point, and WebCrawler. For advanced searching, WebFind Assistant
> supports features like "exact phrase," "all terms," and "any term"
> without the user having to learn the advanced search syntax specific
> to a particular search engine. [TB]
>
>
>
> ====== Where Are They Now? ====
>
> 20. Volume 1, Number 31: The Scout Report for November 25, 1994
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/11-25-94.html
> American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital
> Library--LOC
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
> Previews of Future Collections
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amfuture.html
>
> The November 25, 1994 Scout Report mentioned the US Library of
> Congress' American Memory site for the first time, but it was already
> famous even then. Today, this magnificent site houses a collection of
> 26 multimedia resources ranging from the African American Perspectives
> pamphlet series, to Early Motion Pictures 1897-1916, to the American
> Variety Stage 1870-1920, to Words and Deeds in American History.
> However, to really understand and appreciate this enterprise, users
> need only refer to the previews of future collections. Information
> about 28 exhibits slated to come online in between 1997 and 2000 is
> offered. Previews of some of these collections are available. American
> Memory is an unmatched example of what a national library can provide
> digitally in terms of a portal into its own archival holdings, and
> into the history of a nation as well. [JS]
>
> ====== ====
> == Index for November 28, 1997 ==
> ==== ======
>
> 1. Scout Report for Science & Engineering
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/
>
> 2. Online Accounting Faculty Directory
> http://rarc.rutgers.edu/raw/hasselback/
>
> 3. Liberty!: The American Revolution--PBS [QuickTime]
> http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
> The American Revolution--H-Net
> http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/
>
> 4. The Molecular Modeling Electronic Conference (TMMeC)
> http://bilbo.edu.uy/tmmec/
> US Mirror
> http://fcindy5.ncifcrf.gov/tmmec/
>
> 5. WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--ACRL WSS
> http://www.library.yale.edu/wss/
>
> 6. NRL Plasma Formulary
> http://w3.pppl.gov/~dcoster/nrl/
>
> 7. Not Just Cows
> http://www.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/njc/
>
> 8. The Write Site [.pdf]
> http://www.writesite.org/
> Text only:
> http://www.writesite.org/textonly/index.html
>
> 9. CA-TEACH--Complex Analysis Mailing List
> List Archive
> http://archives.math.utk.edu/hypermail/ca-teach/
> Email: MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu
> Message: SUBSCRIBE CA-TEACH
>
> 10. Proposed Rule on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
> Program (TANF)
> HHS Press Release
> http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/regfact.htm
> Proposed Regulation
> http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/hypernews/topics2.html
>
> 11. City/Place Population Estimates 1996--US Census Bureau [.zip]
> http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/citypop.html
>
> 12. Important and Great Movies
> National Film Preservation Board
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/
> AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
> http://www.afionline.org/100/
>
> 13. Amber: Window to the Past--AMNH
> http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Amber/
>
> 14. What is a dollar worth?--FRB MPLS [JavaScript]
> http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html
>
> 15. Business Wire
> http://www.businesswire.com/
> No frames:
> http://www.businesswire.com/index.htm
>
> 16. Japanese Oldtales: A Multilingual E-text Collection [Java]
> http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/
> Multilingual HTML Browser Project
> http://mhtml.ulis.ac.jp/gwy/
>
> 17. Free Code--Andover.Net
> http://www.freecode.com/
>
> 18. Hobbes' Internet Timeline
> http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html
>
> 19. WebFind Assistant--A Browser Buddy for Searching via the Top 9
> Search Engines http://www.crushware.com/software/webfind/index.html
>
> 20. Volume 1, Number 31: The Scout Report for November 25, 1994
> http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/11-25-94.html
> American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital
> Library--LOC
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
> Previews of Future Collections
> http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amfuture.html
>
>
>
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> Managing Editor Susan Calcari
> Editor Jack Solock [JS]
> Production Editor Jeannine Ramsey [JR]
> Contributors Teri Boomsma [TB]
> Michael de Nie [MD]
> David Flaspohler [DF]
> Aimee D. Glassel [AG]
> Kathy Harris [KH]
> Matthew Livesey [ML]
> Christopher Lukas [CL]
> Thiam Hee Ng [THN]
> Amy Tracy Wells [ATW]
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