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- From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
- Subject: U.S. Federal Register via InterNet or CD-ROM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.181014.7611@ncsu.edu>
- Keywords: Federal Register InterNet CD-ROM
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- Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:10:14 GMT
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- In a discussion just a few days ago, I commented to Larry London,
- compiler of the sustainable/organic ag database at SunSite and occasional
- poster to bionet.plants, that indexable/retrievable access to the Federal
- Register (the gazette of the daily business of Congress) would be
- empowering to a number of people. Larry sent me the following, which I
- think might be of general interest.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:30:12 -0500 (EST)
- >From: Larry London <london@SunSite.unc.edu>
- Subject: Federal Register available on the Internet
- .....
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- >From: susan calcari <calcaris@nic.cerf.net>
- Sat, 9 Jan 93 09:45:01 PST
- To: Multiple recipients of list <nis@cerf.net>
- Subject: Federal Register Available on Internet
-
- PRESS RELEASE
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- COUNTERPOINT OFFERS FIRST DAILY FEDERAL REGISTER VIA INTERNET
-
- CAMBRIDGE, MA. (Jan. 7, 1993) -- Counterpoint Publishing, Inc. today
- announced a new service providing same-day availability of the complete
- Federal Register (FR) via the Internet, the largest data communications
- network in the world. The Federal Register is an official U.S. Government
- daily publication containing all proposed and final rules and notices from
- more than 130 government agencies.
-
- The Counterpoint Federal Register service will provide the fully
- indexed text of the complete Federal Register sourced from the magnetic
- tapes provided daily by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Articles in
- the FR contain, for example, new EPA regulations, grant and funding
- opportunities, Presidential documents and hundreds of other proposals,
- rules and meeting notices each day.
-
- Counterpoint's simplified menu-driven software allows end-users to
- view the daily Federal Register by table of contents, key words in any and
- exact order, article type, full-text or heading only, agency, date or range
- of dates or citation. The software does not require graphical interfaces,
- a mouse or function keys, thus making it easy to use on a variety of
- computing platforms such as IBM-compatibles, Macintosh(tm), Unix(tm),
- VMS(tm), etc. Routine searches can be stored add replayed. Documents in
- the FR are exportable in ASCII format with text exportable to E-mail, any
- word processor, or printer.
-
- Counterpoint will also provide alternative access to the Federal
- Register to better address the unique needs of the Global Internet
- community. Using such distribution and access mechanisms as Usenet News
- (NNTP), Mail (SMTP), Gopher, WAIS and the World Wide Web, Counterpoint will
- provide the daily Federal Register in the most cost efficient and timely
- manner possible, using the most up to date and powerful tools available to
- the network user.
-
- The new Counterpoint service is provided through arrangement with
- Internet.COM - Internet Consulting Services of Cambridge, MA., helping
- providers of goods and services develop commercial presence on the Global
- Internet.
-
- Counterpoint is the nation's leading publisher of federal source
- documents in electronic formats. Several thousand customers now use the
- weekly CD-ROM version of the Federal Register instead of the hardbound
- paper version. Counterpoint also introduced recently the complete U.S.
- Code of Federal Regulations on Compact Disc. This product will also be
- made available to the Global Internet in the future.
-
- --- For more information, call Counterpoint at 800-998-4515 or via e-mail
- on the Internet at fedreg@internet.com.
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- I have no financial interest in CounterPoint nor have I even contacted them
- yet....but for those who would like to become self-sufficient in tracking
- announcements of federal grant programs or legislation/regulation affecting
- your science ...I think this is a big step forward!
-
- Steve
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- | In person: Steve Modena AB4EL |
- | On phone: (919) 515-5328 |
- | At e-mail: nmodena@unity.ncsu.edu |
- | samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu |
- | [ either email address is read each day ] |
- | By snail: Crop Sci Dept, Box 7620, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695 |
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