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- From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>
- Subject: ORTTA Bulletin Bd on Gopher (fwd)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:17:29 CST
- From: microcomputer-news <news@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
- Subject: ORTTA Bulletin Bd on Gopher
-
- The following announcement was forwarded to us by
- Dan Cummings from ORTTA. It tells about information
- including the NIH Guide available on Gopher.
-
- Look in:
- "University of Minnesota Campus Information:
- Department and College Information:
- Office of Research and Technology Transfer"
-
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-
- ORTTA Bulletin Board Available Through Gopher
-
- ORTTA has established an experimental Gopher Server to supply
- research information, deadlines, telephone numbers, and links to
- other useful information systems. The Internet Gopher is a U of
- M developed product which provides a very flexible distributed
- information delivery system combining articles, searches, and
- seamless links to other gopher servers throughout the world.
- Users can review information on screen or easily copy items to
- their computer for other purposes. Our gopher can be found
- directly at gopher.ortta.umn.edu or in the Departmental
- Information section of the CIS gopher server (gopher.tc.umn.edu).
-
- In addition to a mirror image of the information currently
- available on our AIS Public Access Bulletin Board, the new Gopher
- server provides links to Gopher servers at NIH and NSF and a
- telnet link to the NSF STIS system. Over the next few months,
- the gopher server will become more streamlined as we link users
- directly to source data rather than rehashing articles. Search
- capabilities on our Gopher are currently unavailable but will be
- added shortly. (As soon as we get a UNIX box, or the search
- engine is ported to DOS, or some kind soul out there gives us a
- few cycles on their system to do indexing!!!)
-
- For more information on the Gopher system or information on
- accessing the campus computer network, please call the
- Microcomputer Help Line at 626-4276. Please email your comments
- and suggestions about this new service to gopher@ortta.umn.edu.
- Also, if you know of other gopher servers or terminal-based
- services that are particularly useful to researchers or research
- administrators, please let us know so that we can include them
- and make a "one-stop-shop" for useful information pertaining to
- research on campus.
-
- One item of note:
-
- The NIH Guide currently available under GUIDES/NIH Guide is a
- version that we receive via e-mail and then manipulate into a
- more useful form. By popular demand, we have made it available
- in two ways: A "full text" version which is the entire guide
- just as we receive it, and a "reader version" which is the same
- guide, split into sections to facilitate on-line viewing.
-
- As you may notice, NIH is operating their own gopher server and
- you may ask why we don't simply point you there to read the
- Guide...well that would be much more efficient, but they have not
- yet made the Guide available through this service! Evidently
- there is currently a project under way at the University of
- Wisconsin in cooperation with NIH to provide a nicely
- "gopherized" version of the guide with cross referencing and the
- like. As soon as this comes available, we will likely point our
- NIH Guide item to that source. Until then, we will continue to
- post the Guide as you see here.
-
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