News Groups, Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists
Mailing Lists
These are Internet discussion groups. You subscribe to, read & contribute to a mailing list by electronic mail (e-mail). To get on a mailing list, you send a subscription message to the computer which houses the list. Always leave the subject line blank. These are just a few of the thousands of available mailing lists:
CADAM-L: Discussion of computer-assisted design (CAD)
Access: send e-mail to listserv@suvm.syr.edu
body of message: subscribe CADAM-L
CASE-L: Discussion of computer-aided software engineering
Access: send e-mail to listserv@uccvma.ucop.edu
body of message: subscribe CASE-L
CHEME-L: chemical engineering: economics & new research trends in industry & academia
Access: send e-mail to listserv@psuvm.bitnet
body of message: subscribe CHEME-L
MECH-ENG: Discussion of mechanical engineering.
Access: send e-mail to listserv@utarlvm1.uta.edu
body of message: subscribe MECH-L
ISO 9000: Discussion of standards for ISO 9000, a quality management system for business, government & other organizations.
Access: send e-mail to listserv@vm1.nodak.edu
body of message: subscribe ISO9000
Electronic Journals
Some journals are now on the Internet. Most are published only as electronic journals, but there are more and more print journals available via Internet as well. These are just two of the many electronic journals now available:
Architronic - The Electronic Journal of Architecture: dedicated to the profession & issues of architecture, scholarly & critical articles, presents & reviews research.
Access: send e-mail message to arcitron@kentvm.kent.edu
body of message: subscribe ARCITRON
EDUPAGE: A twice-weekly summary of news item on information technology. This electronic journal is provided by EDUCOM, a consortium of leading colleges & universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
Access: send e-mail message to listproc@educom.edu
body of message: sub edupage
USENET Groups
USENET is a system of several thousand topic areas known as newsgroups. You can choose to subscribe to any of the USENET newsgroups that your Internet service provider carries. We have listed only a few of the many newsgroups available. Click on any of the highlighted newsgroups below to look at the most recent postings:
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Architecture and Planning
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Architecture
- Excellent starting point for web searching for architects and landscape architects. Contains information on conferences, jobs, etc and links to other sites.
- Architectural Resources
- This site is rich in links to graphical data and includes links to some electronic journals.
- Architecture and Building
- Well organized and comprehensive coverage of WWW sites, gopher collections, images, listservs, newsgroups and more. Each site is annotated.
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Computer Science and Engineering
- Thomas Register of Manufacturers
- Neural Networks in High Energy Physics
- Central source of information on applications of neural network techniques to experimental high energy physics. Provides links to software and hardware information, conference announcements, related journals and organizations, to name a few.
- MIT
- Offers a link to all academic research and the MIT Library. Provides information on all research centers and laboratories such as: Laboratory for Computing Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Center for Advanced Engineering Study. Full text of some technical reports available.
- Science:Engineering:Electrical Engineering:Institutes
- Provides direct links to WWW sites at institutions with academic departments and centers focusing on Science and Engineering. Scope is international.
- Chemical Physics Preprint Database
- Brown University's Department of Chemistry provides a means for rapid and efficient preprint distribution within the international chemical physics community.
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Aerospace
- Contains images from NASA/Kennedy Space Center as well as full text of NASA newletters. Provides information about manufacturers, businesses and both commercial and government research.
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Chemistry
- All chemistry, all the time. Includes access to Environmental Protection Agency database with full-text search capabilities.
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography
- Provides computer programmes, conferences, databases, employment opportunities, journals, suppliers of equipment,and current research.
- Artificial Intelligence Resources
- Includes bibliographies, on line technical reports, Canadian AI projects and employment opportunities.
- Canadian Federation of Engineering Students Resources
- This organization represents approximately 40,000 students attending 42 engineering universities/colleges across Canada. Provides access to mailing lists and some unusual fun links (ie X-Files).
- The UW Electronic Library
- This site provides keyword search capability of resources by discipline. It has an excellent Career Resource Center which includes an Academic Position Network and provides a link to Career Mosaic. Noteworthy: The Daily News (Hfx. newspaper).
- ICE Index
- Provides a broad and complete catalog of Internet-based engineering resources for engineers, researchers, students and faculty. Contains a keyword searchable employment database and full text of many technical reports and University theses.
- Engineering and Technology
- This site is broken down by specific subject categories. It includes an extensive list of directories and research centers and allows for keyword searching.
- AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Selected full-text of articles and statistics related to Bell research. Provides an FTP link to their research sites.
- Netlib
- Netlib is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
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General Interest
- UnCover
- UnCover is a current-article access & delivery system supplied by CARL (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries). It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With UnCover you can:
- view tables of contents of more than 14,000 journals, most published since 1989 (no charge)
- search over 4,000,000 articles by title keywords & authors' names (no charge)
- order complete articles for delivery by FAX within 24 hours (using your credit card)
Access: telnet database.carl.org
Terminal type 5 (VT 100)
Type 1 (UnCover .... Article Access)
Press RETURN until "Welcome to UnCover" Banner is displayed.
- Net Happenings
- A great way to find out what's new on the Internet. Every day Gleason Sackman sends out a list of new happenings on the Internet to his mailing list: new gopher sites, WWW pages, software, electronic magazines and more. This is a searchable index to his Net Happenings mailing list.
- Canadian WWW
Servers
- An alphabetical list of all the Web servers registered in Canada.
- Traditional GopherJewels
- This index originally started out as a list of notable gopher sites. It has since branched out to cover WWW pages.
- The Awesome List
- One person's opinion of the best WWW pages.
- Apple Computer
- The home of Apple. Software updates, device drivers, press releases.
- Microsoft Home Page
- Software upgrades, updates, patches, device drivers, press releases.
- AT&T Searchable Index of 800 #'s
- A great tool for finding 800 numbers of employment prospects, suppliers, or organizations.
- NaisMap Home Page
- The first WWW-based GIS (geographical information system). View and manipulate National Atlas spatial data layers and construct your own map of Canada.
- Ziff-Davis Publishing Home Page
- Many of their publications have on-line versions. Check out PC magazine, MACWorld, PC Lab Week, etc.
- CISTI home page
- The Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information home page describes their collection and services available. Find out about document delivery, online databases, current awareness and more.
- BookWire Home Page
- The first place to look for book information on the web. Just about everything you want to know about books, both electronic and print, is available here. Where to buy them (including online), who is writing and publishing and what's selling are some of the areas included.
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
- A great source for keeping attuned in your field of interest and verifying book information. These catalogues include print and images and are organized geographically.
- Interactive Employment Network
- Thousands of job openings are posted here and all are less than four weeks old. This job bank is searchable by keyword, region, industry and job title. Post your own resume.
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Architecture, Computer Science and Engineering Links
The Library has put together the following list of Internet sites that we hope will be useful to faculty, students and staff at TUNS. It contains links to WWW, gopher and telnet sites. You will probably have to configure your browser with a telnet client in order to use the telnet links. The TUNS Home Page has telnet programs for most platforms (via the Gopher Tree link) if you don't already have one.