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- Introduction
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- The growth of National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)
- in the last few years has brought the benefits of network-
- ing to researchers at hundreds of academic, government and
- industrial sites. Network users have improved access to
- research tools, and there are greater possibilities for col-
- laboration among members of the research community. But in
- order to take maximum advantage of more widespread and
- improved connectivity, users have to be aware of the
- resources that are available to them.
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- When the NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) began to publish
- the "Internet Resource Guide" in 1989, our goal was to
- increase the visibility of the resources that are accessible
- via NSFNET and other parts of the Internet. We have depended
- on the population of resource providers on the Internet to
- furnish us with the information for the guide.
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- We have just finished an extensive update of many of the
- entries to the Internet Resource Guide. We hope that this
- new November 1992 edition of the printed version of the
- guide will inspire its readers, many of whom surely maintain
- resources we haven't yet mentioned, to submit descriptions
- of their resources for the guide.
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- If you wish to submit a new entry to the Internet Resource
- Guide, send a message to "resource-guide@nnsc.nsf.net", and
- we will send you a template and instructions for preparing
- your entry.
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- How to Use and Maintain This Guide...
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- Using the Guide...
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- The Internet Resource Guide is intended to help Internet
- users learn what services on the network are available to
- them.
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- Each service is listed in a separate section, which
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- describes the resource, explains who can use the resource,
- how the network is reached via the Internet and lists con-
- tacts for more information.
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- To assist users trying to find a particular type of
- resource, similar resources are grouped into chapters. For
- example, Chapter 1 lists all the special computing resources
- on the Internet, including supercomputer centers and centers
- for parallel computing. Thus, users interested in finding a
- supercomputer to work on can browse through the sections in
- Chapter 1, in search of a supercomputer center that can
- accomodate their needs. Users interested in locating a par-
- ticular service can check the tables of contents at the
- start of each chapter.
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- The resource guide is indexed in WAIS (the Wide Area Infor-
- mation Server system), which can be accessed on
- quake.think.com, nnsc.nsf.net, and many other Internet host
- computers. Telnet to the host computer, and login as "wais".
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- Maintaining the Guide...
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- The resource guide is designed to be kept in a loose-leaf
- notebook, to make it easy to add or replace sections of
- text. Users can add new sections to their collection, or
- replace the existing sections, with updated entries. The
- guide is also designed to be stored on a host computer, with
- each section in a separate file.
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- The guide is distributed electronically by the NNSC. To get
- on one or more of the distribution lists for the guide, send
- a note to "resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net".
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- o+ The "text" list receives a Text (ASCII) copy of each
- new or updated entry in an email message.
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- o+ The "PostScript" list receives a Postscript copy of
- each new o updated entry in an email message.
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- o+ The "ftp" list receives announcements of new or
- updated entries that are available for anonymous ftp
- on nnsc.nsf.net.
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- Please specify which list or lists you prefer. (The text in
- both the Text and PostScript versions is the same; the
- Postscript version is generally easier to read, but it can-
- not be read on-line or searched by computer, unless you have
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- a computer uses PostScript for its screen display.)
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- For More Information...
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- For more information about the Internet Resource Guide,
- including instructions for obtaining the guide by anonymous
- ftp, send a message to "info-server@nnsc.nsf.net", with the
- following text in the body of the message:
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- request: resource-guide
- topic: overview
- topic: readme
- request: end
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- You will receive automatic replies by email.
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- Copyright Notice
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- The Internet Resource Guide is compiled by the NSF Network
- Service Center (nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net) at BBN Systems and Tech-
- nologies from contributions by members of the networking
- community. This work is supported by a subcontract with the
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR),
- which operates under agreement with the National Science
- Foundation (NSF). The editors have made reasonable efforts
- to provide correct information, but neither UCAR, NSF, NNSC
- nor BBN is responsible for the accuracy of the listings in
- this guide. Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 BBN Systems
- and Technologies.
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