Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication

John December (decemj@rpi.edu)

Copyright © 1994 by John December (decemj@rpi.edu). Permission to use for non-commercial, personal or educational purposes. This copyright and permission notice must appear in all copies. Permission is also granted to describe this document in products or online services (but not to reproduce in whole or in part without permission.)

Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. I make no representations about this document's suitability, accuracy, or stability.

PURPOSE

to list pointers to information describing the Internet, computer networks, and issues related to computer-mediated communication (CMC). Topics include the technical, social, cognitive, and psychological aspects.

AUDIENCE

those getting started in understanding the Internet and CMC; for those experienced, it compactly summarizes sources of information.

ASSUMPTION

you have access to and know how to use finger, ftp, gopher, http, telnet, email, or Usenet newsgroups.

NOTES

1. Respect access privileges. (See Net Etiquette Guide, below.)
2. This information changes quite a bit; Additions/comments welcome.
3. Use Archie to find a file if it is not at the site given here.
4. Learn to use Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, WWW, to find more information.
5. When using with WWW/Mosaic, sometimes an ftp link will not work; if it doesn't, try to access via ftp manually.

Contents

• THE INTERNET AND SERVICES

• INFORMATION SERVICES/ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS

• SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

• NEWSGROUPS

• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Information about updates to or different formats of this document:

• Internet-cmc information (internet-cmc.readme) describes the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication list

INTERNET DESCRIPTIONS

• NEW USER INTRODUCTION/MOTIVATION
  • Gold in Networks! (fyi_10.txt) a description of gold nuggets in the network, by J. Martin
  • Hitchikers Guide (rfc1118.txt) describes the Internet (circa September 1989), by Ed Krol
  • New User's Questions (fyi_04.txt) answers questions commonly asked by new users, by Malkin and Marine
  • Surfing the Internet (surfing.2.0.3.txt) a narrative of what the Internet has to offer, by Jean Armour Polly
  • What is the Internet? (fyi_20.txt) by Krol and Hoffman
  • Internet Services FAQ (faq) The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for alt.internet.services Usenet newsgroup
• COMPREHENSIVE GUIDES
  • AARNet Guide Australian Network Sites and Resources Guide
  • AARNet User Guide Australian Network User's Guide
  • Big Dummy's Guide written by Adam Gaffin for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Big Dummy Web (bdgtti-intro.html) Big Dummy's Guide in HTML
  • CERFNet Guide by the California Education and Research Federation Network
  • Desktop Internet a DOS hypertext reference to the Internet.
  • De Presno Guide a shareware book, `The Online World' (long)
  • DDN New User Guide (nug.doc) Defense Data Network guide for new users
  • Infopop (readme) a WINHELP (hypertext) guide to the Internet, Compuserve, BBS systems, and more
  • Internet Companion(parts) A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking by Tracey LaQuey
  • Internet Guide (guide1.txt) A guide to Internet/Bitnet, by Dana Noonan
  • NSF Resource Guide (overview) National Science Foundation Guide to Internet Resources
  • NWNet Internet Guide (README.nusirg) NorthWestNet's User Service Internet Resource Guide
  • NYSERNet Internet Guide (Guide.V.2.2.text) New York State Education and Research Network Guide to the Internet
  • SURANet Internet Guide () updated as infoguide.MM-YR.txt
  • Zen / Art of Internet
• SPECIALIZED GUIDES OF GENERAL INTEREST
  • Agricultural Guide (agguide.dos) Not Just Cows, by Wilfred Drew
  • Electric Mystics Guide (electric-mystics-guide*)
  • Library Resources (libcat-guide) Strategies for Selection and use, Ed. Laine Farley
  • BUBL The Bulletin Board for Libraries
• EXPLORING:
  • The Dos Internet Kit public domain programs that enable Ethernet or serially-connected PCs to access Internet services, by Dean Pentcheff
  • Internet Beginner (bgi12.zip) The Beginner's Guide to the Internet, a DOS-based tutorial, by Pat Suarez
  • Internet Cruise A Cruise of the Internet, computer-based tutorial for Internet navigators, DOS or Mac formats
  • Internet Explorer's Kit (explorer.doc) a hypertext system about the Internet for DOS, by Ernest Perez
  • Internet Hunt a game for learning about Internet resources
  • Internet Hunt Gopher Hunt Questions, Results, and Comments
  • Internet Navigating Navigating the Internet Workshop List, by Richard J. Smith
  • Internet Mining (mining_readme) workshops and electronic event
  • Internet Safari (safari-guide.txt) A Classroom User's Guide to the Internet, by Yvonne Marie A
• TRAINING:
  • Competencies: Competencies for Electronic Information Services, by John Corbin: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET CORBIN PRV4N6"
  • Gopherin a course for cyberspace
  • HWGUIDE (hwguide.txt) A hypertext version of Noonan's Guide to Internet/Bitnet
  • LeJeune Course course materials and files, by Urban A. LeJeune
  • Milles (interlaw.txt) An Introduction to Using the Internet at St. Louis University School of Law
  • Monsarrat (internet_course.tar.Z) Internet Course for Basic or Serious Level
  • Navigating an interactive workshop, by Richard J. Smith
  • Newcastle/Tyne (tms-list.txt) Network Training Materials and Related Documentation
  • Schneider Bib (training.bib) A bibliography of Internet Training Materials, by Karen Schneider
  • Start (newusers.faq) Where to Start for New Internet Users, by James Milles
  • Trainmat Training Materials Gopher
  • Trainpack (README) repository of training and training-related materials
  • Wheeler (nettrain.00readme) Internet Training handouts written by Bill Wheeler
  • Usenet and trn
  • VAX/VMS Networking (vms-mail.guide) Beginner's Guide to Networking on the VAX/VMS, by Lucia Ruedenberg
• ADMINISTRATIVE/TECHNICAL/HISTORY:
  • Internet Growth charts showing the Internet's past and projected growth, by Texas Internet Consulting
  • Internet History (nethist8.txt) Master's Thesis, Henry Edward Hardy
  • Internet Monthly Report monthly communications to the Internet Research Group
  • Internet Maps (Europe)
  • Internet Maps (Many)
  • Internet Maps (NSFNET)
  • Internet Maps (SuraNet)
  • Internet Size
  • Internet Statistics NSF Statistics about Internet use
  • Web country maps (maps.html)

INFO REPOSITORIES

• COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTIONS:
  • Merit (READ.ME) network information center
  • Merit Gopher network information center
  • NIC/DDN Network Information Center/Defense Data Network
• NETWORK INFO CENTER
  • InterNic Telnet Directory and Database Services Telnet Interface Login as : guest
  • InterNIC Ftp ftp archives for InterNIC
  • InternNIC via email: Mail service: mail mailserv@internic.net Body: "help"
  • InterNIC Gopher information server for Internet Network Information Center
  • InterNIC Home Page (internic.html)
  • InterNIC Database Services
  • InterNIC Reg Services
  • InterNIC Info Sources (infosource-contents)
• DOCUMENT SERIES:
  • For Your Information (INDEX.fyi)
  • Internet Standards (INDEX.std)
  • Request for Comments (INDEX.rfc)
• INTERNET/REGIONAL NET WEB PAGES
  • Duke's NetCom
  • Stanford Med (Net.html)
  • NCIH (welcome.html) North Carolina Information Highway
  • NOSC Page (internet.html) list of Internet-related sources, by Richard Bocker
  • Yale (WorldWideWebTop.html) General Overview of Worldwide Internet Resources
• SOURCES OF NETWORKING, COMPUTING AND RELATED INFORMATION:
  • ACM Gopher Association of Computing Machinery's information server
  • ALAWON archive: files from American Library Association: mail listserv@uicvm.uic.edu Body: "send ala-wo filelist"
  • CNI Gopher Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments
  • CNI search Coalition for Networked Information search server Login as : brsuser
  • CPSR Gopher
  • Communications Res Cen (index.html) Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
  • EARN Gopher
  • EFF Gopher A gopher information server for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • HCI ftp site Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) bibliography repository
  • HCI Launching Pad Human-Computer Interaction
  • HPCC Office Web Page the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications
  • ICSI The International Computer Science Institute
  • IEEE Gopher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's information server
  • IEEE Tech: Portfolio of Emerging Technologies: mail info.new.tech@ieee.org Body: "anything"
  • ISOC Gopher the Internet Society's Information server
  • HelpNet Archives reference base for new users to the Internet
  • HPCWire The High-Performance Computing news and information service, covering workstations through supercomputers
  • Introducing the Internet Merit's Directory of miscellaneous introductory Internet information
  • Library of Congress (index) a directory of Internet User Guides
  • LIT Laboratoire d'Informatique Technique
  • MetaCenter (MetaCenterHome.html) National MetaCenter for Computational Science and Engineering
  • Meta Net Gopher support for groups and individuals who use The Meta Network
  • MSU Net and DB Network and Database Resources (CWIS, gopher, electronic info.)
  • MSEN Gopher MSEN offers Usenet and Internet Connectivity
  • NEARnet New England Academic and Research Network
  • NIST Web Page (welcome.html) National Institute of Standards and Technology WWW Home Page
  • NIST Gopher National Institute of Standards and Technology Gopher
  • NYSERnet New York State Education and Research Network
  • OPTOLINK (00README.ACCESS) an expanding set of online services offered to the scientific and engineering communities by The International Society for O
  • PSGnet/RAINet networking in the developing world, low-cost networking tools, computer networking in general
  • RIPE Gopher
  • Singapore DMC Digital Media Centre (DMC) Mosaic Home Page
  • Software Tool and Die The World, online service for dialup access to the Internet
  • SRI's Network Info SRI International
  • SURAnet (README) Southeastern Universities Research Association Network
  • SWITCHinfo Swiss Network
  • Telecomm Archives files about telecommunications, from the Usenet group comp.dcom.telecom
  • UNC's Sunsite Univ of North Carolina's collection
  • USENET Repository collection of FAQ's and files from Usenet newsgroups
  • USENET Periodic Postings list of Usenet periodic postings
  • UUNET archive UUNET Communications Services collection
  • UWO's NIC Univ of Western Ontario's Network Information Centre
  • Washington and Lee Explore Internet Resources
  • WATERS (WATERS-GS.html) Wide Area Technical Report Service

SERVICES AND TOOLS

• INFORMATION AND SERVICES LISTS
  • Cyberpoet Guide (cyberpoet.gvc) cyberpoet's Guide to virtual culture---a multipart guide to the electronic frontier, by John Frost
  • Gopher Jewels subject-oriented gopher list
  • Gopher Jewels .links format
  • Gopher Jewels (index.html)
  • Gopher Jewels Index: lists of files available about Gopher Jewels: mail ftpmail@tpis.cactus.org Body: "get gj-index.txt"
  • Hypermedia/Internet (hypermedia.html) Hypermedia and the Internet, by David Green
  • Internet Handbook (internet-technology-handbook-contents) a list of RFCs by subject and category
  • Information Sources (internet-cmc.readme) the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Internet Meta-Index (MetaIndex.html) Internet Resources Meta-Index, by Marc Andreessen
  • Joel's List (index.html) Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index
  • MaasInfo Indexes (maasinfo.files) The index of indexs of Internet online files, by Robert Elton Maas
  • May List (nal006.txt) lists telnet sites/services, by CC May
  • Must Have List (musthave-list.txt) List of five `must have' Internet Resources
  • Networking Overview (Networking.html) Overview of information available
  • Planet Earth (info.html) planet earth home page, a list of things on the Internet, by Richard Bocker
  • Smith's BigFun List (bigfun.txt) telnet, ftp, and other sites, by Jeremy Smith
  • ThesisNet FAQ (thesisfaq.html#ftp) a summary of academic resources pertaining to cyberspace
  • Yale Overview (WorldWideWebTop.html) General Overview of Worldwide Internet Resources
  • Yanoff's Services List (inet.services.txt) Special Internet Connects, by Scott Yanoff
  • Yanoff List HTML (inet.services.html) Hyptertext markup language version of Yanoff's list
• LISTS OF TOOLS
  • Internet Browsers (syslib.html) Sources for Internet Browsers and Client Software
  • Internet Tools EARN (earn-resource-tool-guide.txt) guide to network resource tools, by European Academic Research Network Association
  • Internet Tools NIR (nir.status.report) A status report on networked information retrieval tools and groups, by Joint IETF/RARE/
  • Internet Tools/December HTML (internet-tools.html) HTML version of a list summarizing Internet tools and forums, by John December
  • Internet Tools/December (internet-tools) a list summarizing Internet tools and forums, by John December
  • Internet Systems UNITE (systems-list.txt) a list of Internet tools and systems, by User Network Interface To Everything
• WEB SEARCHING TOOLS
  • Archie via Web (archie.html)
  • Gopher Jewels Search (gopher.html) Search the Gopher Jewels
  • GNA Meta-Library (index.html)
  • JumpStation (js) referencing the information available on the World Wide Web
  • NorthStar (top.html?) search indexes the headers of World Wide Web documents
  • WWW Catalog (w3catalog)
• TOOLS
  For a longer list of tools see Internet Tools/December, listed above.
  • Alex description (NIR.Tool) NIR (Networked Information Retrieval) description of Alex
  • Alex Web Page (alex.html) Alex FTP Filesystem
  • Archie (whatis.archie) a service for finding files remotely
  • Archie hypertext (archie.html) Hypertext Archie Servers
  • Archie demo a telnet session to demonstrate archie Login as : archie
  • Cello (readme.1st) DOS-based Internet browser incorporating WWW, Gopher, FTP, Telnet, News
  • ComIndex: a menu-driven program for PCs to search a database of communication references: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "Help Topics ComIndex"
  • Email-How to Introduction to Sending and Receiving Electronic Mail
  • Essence (README) resource discovery system using indexes
  • Ftp FAQ (faq) Anonymous FTP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
  • Gopher (00README) locates and retrieves resources using a graph of menus
  • Gopher FAQ (gopher-faq) the Frequently Asked Questions and answers list from the Usenet group comp.infosystems.gopher
  • Gopher demo a session demonstrating gopher at Univ of Minnesota
  • Gopher Sites (veronica.gopher.sites) a list of World-Wide Gopher Sites (sorted by domain structure)
  • Gopher telnet demo a telnet session demonstrating gopher Login as : gopher
  • Hytelnet (README) Peter Scott's Hypertext database of publicly accessible Internet sites
  • Hytelnet demo Login as : hytelnet
  • Jughead (jughead.ReadMe) (Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display) gets menu information
  • LISTSERV: A mailing-list server for group communication: mail listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu Body: "send listserv memo"
  • LISTSERV guide: The Listserv Guide for General Users: mail listserv@earncc.bitnet Body: "get lsvguide memo"
  • Mosaic (README.Mosaic) provides network distributed hypermedia system for information discovery
  • Mosaic paper (mosaic.ps.Z) NCSA Mosaic Technical Summary, by Marc Andreessen
  • Mosaic Home Page (NCSAMosaicHome.html) the HTML file for the mosaic home page
  • Netfind (README) a way to find someone on the Internet
  • Netfind telnet demo a demonstration of Netfind Login as : netfind
  • Ping (README) requests echo from an Internet host to check status
  • Prospero () provides user-centered view of remote files
  • Telnet-How to Introduction to telnet
  • USENET World (acn4-5.txt.Z) special issue of Amateur Computerist Newsletter about Usenet
  • USENET What is? (part1) What is Usenet? by Salzenberg
  • Usenet via telnet
  • Usenet via gopher
  • Veronica locates titles of Gopher items by keyword search
  • Veronica blurb (veronica) an announcement of the Veronica service
  • Veronica demo gopher server at veronica.scs.unr.edu
  • Vi-How to The vi Editor
  • WAIS retrieves resources by searching indexes of databases
  • WAIS information at think.com directory of sources and documents
  • WAIS, Free (README) a UNIX based, freely available information server.
  • WAIS information at UWO
  • WAIS (wais.txt) A Sketch of An Overview, by Jeff Kallem
  • Whois (rfc0954.txt) provides info on registered network names
  • Whois demo a telnet session demonstrating whois
  • Whois Servers List (whois-servers.list) List of Internet whois servers, by Matt Power
  • Whois via mail: whois for DDN: mail service@nic.ddn.mil Body: "whois DOMAIN NAME"
  • White Pgs/PSI Performance Systems International White Pages Pilot Project Login as : fred
  • World Wide Web retrieves resources by hyptertext browser of databases
  • WWW FAQ (www-faq.html) gnat's World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions and Answers Lists
  • World Wide Web demo a telnet session demonstrating the World Wide Web
  • WWW Tools (Overview.html)
  • WWW, Entering the (www.guide.html) A Guide to Cyberspace by Kevin Hughes
  • World Wide Web Book (the_www_book.tex) a book describing the World Wide Web project
  • X.500 (rfc1308.txt) provides globally distributed directory service
  • X.500 Implement (fyi_11.txt) A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
• SERVICES
  • Anonymous post: : mail anonymus+ping@tygra.michigan.com Body: "help"
  • Anonymous post: : mail help@anon.penet.fi Body: "help"
  • Anonymous remail: : mail remail@tamsun.tamu.edu Subject: "remail help" Body: ""
  • BITFTP: obtain files via anonymous ftp on Bitnet: mail Bitftp@PUCC.Princeton.edu Body: "help 13-Dec-93"
  • CARL Systems databases for article access and delivery
  • Correct Time/NBS tells National Bureau of Standards correct time
  • ENewsstand information provided by U.S.magazine publishers Login as : enews
  • ENewsstand gopher information provided by U.S.magazine publishers
  • Email FTP: get files at anonymous ftp sites via email.: mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com Body: "help"
  • Email Gopher: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp Body: "help"
  • Email WWW: obtain a web file (e.g., http) via email; URL = Uniform resource locator: mail listserv@info.cern.ch Body: "www URL"
  • Email Usenet: post to newsgroup via email: mail hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu Subject: "Your Subject" Body: "Your Contents"
  • FAXNET: FAX's via email ($): mail info@awa.com Body: "help"
  • Finger database Access to a database facility via finger
  • Hytelnet assists users in reaching Internet libraries, Free-nets, CWISs, BBSs, and other information sites by telnet
  • Internet Marketing: by the Internet Company: mail market@internet.com Body: "send market info""
  • Knowbot provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote information services
  • Mail name server: gives email information about many email names (e.g. IP address given name): mail dns@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Body: "help"
  • Softlock: selling freely-copyable computer programs and documents: mail Info@SoftLock.COM Body: "send info"
  • WorldWindow a service of the Washington University Libraries

NETWORKING

• BITNET intro: : mail listserv@bitnic.educom.edu Body: "send BITNET INTRO"
• CERT Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon Univ.
• FidoNet News archives of the newsgroup comp.org.fidonet
• FidoNet Nodes (fidonet-nodelist.src) a list of systems with FidoNet
• FidoNet Gateway (internet.fidonet) How to use the UUCP/Fido-Net Gateway
• INET 93 Proceedings of the INET '93 conference
• International Connect International Connectivity Table, by Larry Landweber
• Internet Country Codes (country-codes) FAQ about country codes
• Internet Domain Names (rfc1394.txt) Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains
• Internet Root Domain lists of Internet hosts
• Internet Security (gao8957.txt) GAO report on Computer Security (June 1989)
• InterNetwork Mail (internetwork-mail-guide) methods of sending mail from one network to another, by John Chew and Scott Yanoff
• Intro TCP/IP (intro.to.ip) describes the Internet protocols
• List of FTP Sites (ftp-list) list of Internet sites accepting anonymous ftp (December 1991), by Jon Granrose
• PSGnet/RAINet info networking in developing world, low-cost tools, networking in general
• NREN Information (INDEX.nren) Merit's directory of National Research and Education Network information
• NREN Recompetition (INDEX.recompete) contains information about the recompetition of the NSFNET backbone project
• SDSC Appl Net Res Group (README) activities of the San Diego Supercomputer Center Applied Network Research group.
• Sprintlink FTP site for Sprint's networking activities
• Sprintlink Gopher Sprint's internetworking activities and networking information
• USENET Maps Maps of Usenet news feeds/backbones
• ACCESSING NETWORKS:
  • BBS Internet List (internet_bbs.txt) Zamfield's Wonderfully Incomplete, Complete Internet BBS List
  • Community Networks (communet.msg) information about community networks, by Arthur R. McGee
  • Connecting to Internet (fyi_16.txt) What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate
  • Freenet papers papers about network public access
  • FSLIST the Forgotten Sites List of public access Internet sites, by Louis Raphael
  • Global Networks (readme.txt) an archive for documents to bring the network to lesser-developed areas of the world
  • Internet Access Guide (access.guide) Access Guide to introducing.the.internet, by Ellen Hoffman
  • Internet Access (internet.access) Individual access to Internet, by James Milles
  • Internet Modem (dial-access) Internet service providers in the US accessible through dial-up connections from a personal computer, by Geneviev
  • Internet Providers (internet-access-providers-alphabetical-listing.txt) All Providers Alphabetically
  • Internet Providers Non-US (internet-access-providers-non-us.txt) Non-US Internet Providers
  • K12 Access (README) documents of California Education Network (CENet) Technical Planning Committee
  • NII (nii) National Information Infrastructure
  • Network Startup (README) NSF-sponsored Network Startup Resource Center
  • PDIAL (pdial) The Public Dialup Internet Access List, by Peter Kaminski
  • NIXPUB (Nixpub_Posting_(Long)) Public/Open Access UNIX, by Bux Technical Services
  • Registering on the Net (rfc1400.txt) Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration Service, by S. Williamson
  • Rural Nets: Rural Datafication Project: mail rjacot@cic.net Body: ""
  • SEA Community Network Seattle's community networks
• SOME COMMERCIAL SERVICE (Online, Internet, Public-access) PROVIDERS
  • America Online: : phone 800-827-6364
  • BIX: : phone 800-695-4775
  • CONNECT: : phone 408-973-0110
  • Compuserve: : phone 800-848-8990
  • Delphi: : phone 800-695-4005
  • Dialog: : phone 800-334-2564
  • Dow Jones: : phone 800-522-3567
  • GEnie: : phone 800-638-9636
  • MCI Mail: : phone 800-444-6245
  • Netcom: : mail info@netcom.com Body: ""
  • PC-LINK: : phone 800-827-8532
  • PSI: Performance Systems International, dial-up Internet access: phone 703-620-6651
  • Pipline: NYC-based Internet gateway: mail infobot@pipeline.com Body: "help"
  • Prodigy: : phone 800-766-3449
  • TMN: The Meta Network: mail info@tmn.com Body: ""
  • The WELL: : mail support@well.sf.ca.us Body: ""
  • The World public access Unix
• SOME FREENETS (tm)
  • M-Net Michigan Freenet Login as : newuser
  • Cleveland the Cleveland Free-net Login as : new
  • Digital City de Digitale Stad, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Nyx The Spirit of the Night Login as : new
  • NCF National Capital (Canada) Freenet Login as : guest
  • Toledo Login as : visitor
  • Youngstown Login as : visitor

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DISSEMINATION

• Cataloging Internet Res: explores how to catalog electronic information, by Priscilla Caplan: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get caplan prv4n2"
• CNI Coalition for Networked Information
• Doc Center (home.html) Document Center, a hard copy document delivery service for government and industry specifications and standards
• DIMUND Document Understanding Information and Resources
• DIMUND FTP Document Understanding FTP Archives
• CNI TopNode Project part of CNI's Directories and Resource Information Services Working Group
• CNI Gopher Coalition for Networked Information Gopher
• CNIDR Gopher Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Gopher
• CNIDR Web Page (welcome.html) Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page
• IAFA (charter) Internet Anonymous FTP Archives Working Group
• Library Special (nnews.1993-10) Library special collections on the internet
• NIR Archives Networked Information Retieval
• NIR Gopher Networked Information Retrieval Gopher
• OCLC Research Report
• Retrieval success successful stories of using the Internet for reference, by Karen Schneider
• Uniform Resources (url3.txt)
• UNITE Archive User Network Interface To Everything
• URI Archive (uri-archive) transcript of Uniform Resource discussion list
• UWI (uwi-info.html) UnderWorld Industries, nodes that wish to share information with other UWI nodes

DIRECTORIES

• CSOIRG Home Page (chome.html) The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
• Dartmouth Merged SIGL Special Interest Group Lists
• Electronic Conferences (acadlist.readme) Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs
• Electronic Zines/Jrl An Index to Electronic Journals and Zines
• Electronic Journals Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters, by Michael Strangelove
• Electronic Magazines an archive of various electronic magazines
• Electronic Zines List (e-zine-list) summary of electronically-accessible zines, by John Labovitz
• Finding Lists: how to find LISTSERV lists: mail listserv@vm1.nodak.edu Body: "GET NEW-LIST WOUTERS"
• Free Databases (free-databases) a catalog databases that are available without payment
• Interest Groups List (interest-groups) The Lists of Lists, a listing of special interest group mailing lists available on the Interne
• Library Access Script (libs.tar) a script to login to online card catalogs
• Library Guide Accessing on-line Bibliographic Databases, by Billy Barron and Marie-Christine Mahe
• Library Catalogs Noonan (guide2.txt) a list of academic and public library catalogs online, by Dana Noonan
• Library Catalogs St Geo Internet - Accessible Library Catalogs and Databases, Art St. George and Ron Larsen
• Online books (books.html) On-line books
• Online bibs (bibliographies.html) On-line Bibliographies and Journal Contents
• Online journals (journals.html) On-line Journals
• Online libraries (e-libraries.html)
• Subject Guides subject-specific Internet Resource Guides collected by UMich
• Subject Guides UMich collection via gopher
• Subject Guides (chhome.html) UMich's collection via WWW
• Technical Reports technical reports archive
• Virtual Tourist (world) geographical directory of WWW Information Services
• WAIS sources (readme) a brief description of the content of many WAIS sources on the Internet, grouped into relevant categories

COMMUNICATION

• AUDIO
  • CERL The CERL Sound Group (U of IL)
  • Internet Sound (INDEX) various documents and programs having to do with sound
  • Internet Talk Radio (ITRintro.readme) by Carl Malamud
  • Internet Multicasting FAQ: FAQ for the Internet Multicasting Service: mail info@radio.com Body: "send FAQ"
  • Internet Multicasting WWW (radio.html) Home page for the Internet Multicasting Service
  • Internet Talk Radio sites: : mail sites@radio.com Body: "send SITES"
  • Multicast Backbone (faq.txt) live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet
• HYPER/MULTIMEDIA
  • CGU (Manchester, UK) (CGU-research.html) The Computer Graphics Unit - Research
  • GA Tech Graphics (gvutop.html) Georgia Institute of Technology's Graphics, Visualization, + Usability Center
  • Multimedia Index (MultimediaInfo) Multimedia Information Sources, by Simon Gibbs
  • Multimedia Survey (mmsurvey.txt) A Survey of Distributed Multimedia Research, Standards and Products, by RARE
  • Multimedia Lab BU Multimedia Laboratory at Boston University
  • MIT Media Lab access to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab
  • MIT Telemedia (tns-www-home.html) Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group
  • Scientific Visualization (annotatedURLs.html) Annotated Scientific Visualization URL Bibliography
  • TX A+M Media Lab (home.html) Texas A and M Hypermedia Research Lab
• MASS COMMUNICATION
  • CBC Home Page (cbc.html) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  • CBC Gopher Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gopher
  • Media BBS: Media BBS List, broadcasting/journalism BBS list, by Mark S. Leff: mail listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu Body: "GET MEDIA BBSLIST"
  • NBC News: NBC nightly news comments/questions: mail nightly@nbc.com Body: ""
  • NPR Weekend Ed: US National Public Radio Weekend Edition -- Weekend and Sunday ONLY: mail wesun@cap.gwu.edu Body: "Please send info."
  • NPR Talk/Nation: US National Public Radio Talk of the Nation: mail totn@aol.com Body: "Please send info."
  • NPR Science Friday: US National Public Radio Science Friday Program: mail scifri@aol.com Body: "Please send info."
  • PWN: PeaceNet World News Service: mail pwn-info@igc.apc.org Body: ""
  • Journalism (journalism-net-resources) Journalism List of Internet Resources, by John S. Makulowich
  • Satellite (sat.html) The Satellite TV Page
  • TV Schedules (television.html)
• GROUP COMMUNICATION
  • Computer Network Conf (rfc1324.txt) A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing, by D. Reed
  • Hypermedia/Internet (hypermedia.html) Hypermedia and the Internet
  • Interactive Geo (plotd) Interactive Geographical Index, a way for people to mark where they are
  • Internet Relay Chat(IRC) real-time, many-many text discussion divided into channels
  • Free for All (Free.html) an experiment in a networked hypermedia group bulletin board
  • Multiple User Dialogue (MUD) real-time interaction usually for social role-playing
  • MUD Lists The Totally Unofficial List of Internet Muds
  • MUD Page (mud.html) Experimental MUD WWW Page, by Russ Smith
  • LISTSERV managing: How to Start and Manage a BITNET LISTSERV Discussion Group, by Kovacs, McCarty, and Kovacs: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get kovacs prv2n1"
  • LISTSERV searching: Quick Start Guide to Searching the CARR-L Archives: mail listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet Body: "get database search"
  • LISTSERV tips: List Management Tips for LISTSERV Postmasters and List Owners, by Lisa M. Covi: mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet Body: "get listserv tips"
• EMAIL
  • Email Services (email_services.txt) a list of serves available via email, by David DeSimone
  • Email Understanding (vol3no2.txt) special issue of Univ of IL newsletter describing electronic mail
  • Email 101 (email025.txt) describes how to use email as well as other Internet features, by John Goodwin
  • College Email addresses information on email addresses at colleges
  • Finding Email addresses (email_address.txt) how do I find someone's email address?
  • MetaMail (README) multimedia
  • MIME (rfc1341.txt) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
  • MIME overview (MIME-overview.txt) Internet Multimedia Mail with MIME, Emerging Standards for Interoperability, by Nathaniel S. Borens
  • Pine email (pine.blurb) a Program for Internet News and Email
  • PGP Mail Pretty Good Privacy, a public key encryption package
  • PEM (FAQ) Privacy Enhanced Email

LANGUAGE/CULTURE/COMMUNITY/SOCIETY

• Activism a collection of various online resources about activism
• Anonymity FAQ Anonymity on the Internet
• African a collection of various online resources about African issues
• APC (orgs-on-igc) Association for Progressive Communications
• Artwork OTIS project to collect online art
• ASCII Art (asciifaq.us) A FAQ about ASCII art, by Jorn Barger
• BABEL 94 (babel94a.txt) a listing of computer-orientated abbreviations and acronyms, by Irving Kind
• Baylor etexts
• Bordeaux and Prague illustrated fictions of both an artistic and a theoretical nature
• CTI: Centre for Textual Studies, Oxford: mail ctitext@vax.ox.ac.uk Body: ""
• Community Nets collection of papers about Community Computer Networks rights and access
• Computer Jargon search search the jargon file on WWW
• Computer Jargon (jargon-README) The Jargon File (the definitive compendium of hacker slang)
• Computer Underground (meyer) The Social Organization of the Computer Underground, an MS Thesis by Gordon R. Meyer
• Computing Dictionary The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Coombs Papers science and humanities papers, bibliographies, directories, theses abstracts and other high-grade research material
• CPET Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text
• Cyber Papers EFF's collection of cyberspace-related papers
• Cyberspace/Law (cyberspace)
• Cyberpunk FAQ (cyberpunk-faq) from the Usenet newsgroup alt.cyberpunk
• EStyle (litext) review of the book *Electronic Style* by Xia Li and Nancy Crane, by Peter Graham
• Electronic Text Catalogue of projects in electronic text, Center for Text and Technology
• FineArt Forum (fineart_online) a newsletter about online art
• Friends + Partners (home.html) USA and Russia information and communication
• Future Culture: FutureCulture FAQ, or Cyberography, is maintained by Andy Hawks: mail future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu Subject: "send faq" Body: ""
• Gender a collection of various online resources about gender issues
• Gutenberg Project Texts
• Gutenberg Web Page (Welcome.html)
• Indigenous a collection of various online resources about indigenous peoples issues
• Internet Glossary (fyi_18.txt) Internet-specific terms defined
• Internet Wiretap (FEATURES) electronic books and information
• Internet Wiretap Gopher electronic books and information
• IRC Community (electropolis)
• Latin a collection of various online resources about Latin issues
• MTV music-oriented information server run by Adam Curry
• Net Rights (brrec.text) Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for the Electronic Community of Learners
• Net Ethics (rfc1087.txt) Ethics and the Internet
• Net Etiquette Guide (netiquette.txt) by Arlene H. Rinaldi
• Netizen Anthology The Netizens and the Wonderful World of the Net--an anthology, Ronda Hauben, Micahel Hauben
• Netizen Paper (netizens.Z) by Michael Hauben, The Net and Netizens
• Networking: Networking on the Network, by Phil Agre: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: "archive send network" Body: ""
• Online Book Initiative (README)
• Oxford Archive Oxford Text Archive
• Post-Gutenberg Galaxy (harnad.jnl) The Fourth Revolution in the Means of Production of Knowledge, by Steven Harnad
• Privacy archive about network privacy, from usenet group alt.privacy
• Reasons for NII (README) Federation of American Research Networks (FARNet) Network Stories for 51 Reasons to Build the National Information
• Smiley Dictionary (smiley-dictionary) unofficial list of smilies
• Smileys (part01.Z) a smiley server by David W. Sanderson
• Togethernet on-line information and communication network for sustainable planetary future
• Tribe: an email list for no purpose but for gathering people together: mail listserv@lists.colorado.edu Body: "info tribe"
• Usenet (leviathan) Searching for the Leviathan in Usenet, by Rich MacKinnon
• Virtual Community (slice.of.life) A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community, by Howard Rheingold
• Taking/Web (start.html) Taking Over the Web, An agenda for re-colonizing the Internet with the general population
• The WELL (town-on-internet-highway) Small Town on the Internet Highway
• UWI Cultural Play (uwi.html) UWI's Web's Edge/UnderWorld Industries' Cultural Playground
• Writer's Resources (resources) Internet Writer Resources, Compiled/Edited/Maintained by L. Detweiler

EDUCATION/ACADEMIA

• AskERIC automated information outlet for ERIC system
• AskERIC Gopher
• Bell-TCI Bell Atlantic-TCI project
• CAF FTP Archive Computers and Academic Freedom Archive
• CAF Web Page (cafhome.html) Computers and Academic Freedom Web Page
• CAUSE gopher association for managing and using information technology in higher education
• CWIS List (cwis-l) Campus-Wide Info Systems list
• CWIS Paper (hallman.txt) Campus-Wide Info Systems by Judy Hallman
• Cyberion City virtual environment built by schoolchildren Login as : guest
• Distance Ed (disted:ellsworth)
• Distance Ed DB A database from the International Centre for Distance Learning at the UK Open University
• Diversity U Diversity University, an experiment in interactive learning through internet
• Education Gopher Florida Tech's collection of educational resources
• Educator's Email (educatrs.lst) An Educator's Guide to E-Mail Lists
• Educator's USENET (edusenet.gde) Ednet Guide to Usenet Newsgroups
• Empire Schoolhouse Empire Internet Schoolhouse, a selection of K-12 resources, projects and discussion groups Login as : empire
• Electronic Academical Village (iath_pamphlet.html)
• High school/Internet a case study of an east central Florida high school, by Michael Anthony Gallos to the internet
• IAT: Institute for Academic technology (IBM and UNC): mail INFO.IAT@mhs.unc.edu Body: "send help"
• IAT archive Institute for Academic technology ftp site
• IKE IBM Kiosk for Education
• Incomplete Guide K12 Internet and other telecommunications opportunities for k-12
• Internet and Ed by Noel Estabrook
• IRD/Educators (K-12NREN1.1) Internet Resource Directory for Educators
• KidLink gopher aimed at 10-15 year olds
• K-12 NREN (K-12NREN1.1) Equity, Access, and a Trojan Horse
• Learning V: Learning Village, Internet access to schools, by National Public Telecomputing Network and Ameritech: mail tmg@nptn.org Body: ""
• MEU BBS Mind Extension University Bulletin Board System
• Networking: Networking on the Network, an essay by Phil Agre: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send Profess Network"
• NPTN (basic.guide.txt) National Public Telecomputing Network
• Online LC Mount Allison University's Online Learning Centre--tele-education
• Scholarly Communication (reports) Quarterly Technical Reports
• Scholary Comm Project (scholar.html) Scholar -- WWW
• Scholarly Comm/Libraries Published by The Association of Research Libraries for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Scholarly Publishing (trln-copyright-paper) Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Tech
• Tech/Schools (refuse_1.4) Technology Refusal and the Organizational Culture of Schools, by Steven Hodas
• US Dept of Ed United States Department of Education
• USENET University (FAQ) an online a society of people interested in learning, teaching or tutoring

GOVERNMENT/PUBLIC POLICY

• Clinton Information a collection of presidential and government information
• Federal Info Resources (INDEX.omb) documents from the Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
• Federal Information (keller-gov-guide.txt) Federal Information and the Internet by Anna Keller
• Fedworld a system for government information
• Fedworld Feasibility (fedline.txt) a report on government-wide information locator system by NTIS
• GILS Government Information Locator Service
• Govt/Citizenship Information
• Govt Agencies (government-agencies) government agencies on the internet
• Govt Information (gumprecht-guide.txt) Internet Sources of Government Information by Blake Gumprecht
• Economic BB Commerce Department's Economic Bulletin Board (EBB) Login as : trial
• Electronic Records U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• Info Policy: Information Policy for Electronic Information Resources, by Mary Lou Goodyear: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET GOODYEAR PRV4N6"
• Internet Accounting (accting.sg.ps.Z)
• Internet Economics (Economics_of_Internet.txt) Some Economics of the Internet by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
• Internet Policy (rfc1527.txt) What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?, by G. Cook
• Internet Pricing (Pricing_the_Internet.txt) Pricing the Internet by MacKie-Mason and Varian
• Internet Public Subsidy (schickele.txt) The Economic Case for Public Subsidy of the Internet, by Sandra Schickele
• Library of Congress Marvel (Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library) Login as : marvel
• NII FTP (niiagenda.asc) National Information Infrastructure
• NII BBS The White House Information Infrastructure Task Force BBS Login as : gopher
• NII Gopher The White House Information Infrastructure Task Force BBS
• NII Dialup: The White House Information Infrastructure Task Force BBS: phone
• Open Platform Public Policy for the Information Age, EFF
• US Fed Govt Internet resources for U.S. Federal Government Information, by Maggie Parhamovich

MARKETPLACES

• Book Stacks Unlimited on-line Bookstore and Readers' Conference System
• Career Connections recruiting, advertising, and career searching tool
• D3 Electric Catalog (home.html) pc products
• GNN Marketplace (mkt.intro.html) Global Network Navigator (GNN) Marketplace
• InterMart (front_door.html) Mac/PC/Unix software, books, magazines
• MarketBase Gopher on-line catalog of goods and services
• Online Career Center

MISC/POPULAR TOPICS

• Current Weathermap GIF
• File Compression Info (pcnet)

INFORMATION SERVERS

• ALMANAC: A service for multi-media document and information delivery and database functions: mail almanac@oes.orst.edu Body: "send guide"
• CCITT Doc Retriev: : mail teledoc@itu.arcom.ch Body: "help"
• Comserve: online service for human communication research: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send Comserve Helpfile"
• Concise (Overview.html) database about networks, networking tools and projects
• HCIBIB: A mail-based retrieval system interface to a database related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).: mail hcibib@bellcore.com Body: "query:"
• RFCs via mail: Request For Comments--documents about various issues for discussion, covering a broad range of networking issues.: mail rfc-info@isi.edu Body: "help: ways_to_get_rfcs"
• Virtual Work BBS Virtual Workplace Bulletin Board Login as : lewisnts

DISCUSSION LISTS

• CBNVEE: educational environments using networked virtual reality software: mail listserv@mcmuse.mc.maricopa.edu Body: "sub CBNVEE YOUR NAME"
• CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication Comserve Hotline: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "join CMC YOUR NAME"
• Cypherpunks mailing list archive--encryption, remailers, etc.
• Cypherwonks: general cutting-edge `cyberspatial development' projects such as in cryptography, digital cash, and `electronic democracy': mail Majordomo@Lists.EUnet.fi Body: "sub cypherwonks YOUR NAME"
• EduTel: Comserve Hotline use of computers in education: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "join edutel YOUR NAME"
• Interpedia: a public-domain Internet encylopedia: mail interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com Body: "subscribe YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
• IAMCRNet: Comserve Hotline International Association for Mass Communication Research Network: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "join IAMCRNet YOUR NAME"
• CNI-DIRECTORIES: Coalition for Networked Information Directories.: mail listproc@cni.org Body: "sub CNI-DIRECTORIES YOUR NAME"
• FUTUREC: FutureCulture e-list: mail futurec@uafsysb.uark.edu Body: "sub FUTUREC YOUR NAME"
• HELP-NET: For people new to the Internet: mail listserv@templevm.bitnet Body: "sub HELP-NET YOUR NAME"
• HYTEL-L: announcements of new versions of the popular HYTELNET program: mail listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Body: "sub HYTEL-L YOUR NAME"
• InterNIC Announce: announcements list for Internet Network Information Center: mail listserv@is.internic.net Body: "sub announce YOUR NAME"
• InterNIC Net Resources: resources only, low volume: mail listserv@is.internic.net Body: "sub net-resources YOUR NAME"
• InterNIC NICS: Internet Network Information Center Network Information Centers list: mail listserv@is.internic.net Body: "sub YOUR_EMAIL_ADR nics"
• InterNIC Net Happenings: conferences, publications, political news, resources, newsletters, etc.: mail listserv@is.internic.net Body: "sub net-happenings YOUR NAME"
• Interpedia: an online Internet encyclopedia: mail interpedia-request@telerama.lm.com Body: "sub YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
• IPCT-L: The Interpersonal Computing and Technology List, issues in education, especially networking and computing.: mail listserv@guvm.georgetown.edu Body: "sub IPCT-L YOUR NAME"
• IPCT Gopher
• IRVC-L: foster, ecourage, advance, and communicate research on virtual culture: mail listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu Body: "sub IRVC-L YOUR NAME"
• LM_NET: A World-Wide Discussion Group For School Library Media People: mail Body: "sub LM_NET YOUR NAME"
• NETTRAIN: a discussion list about training/support of others in using the resources available on Bitnet and Internet.: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "sub NETTRAIN YOUR NAME"
• Net Happenings Archive search net-happenings mailing list archive Login as : brsuser
• NEW-LIST: discusses new LISTSERV mailing lists.: mail listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet Body: "sub NEW-LIST YOUR NAME"
• NewJour-L: new electronic journals/newsletters: mail listserv@e-math.ams.org Body: "sub NewJour-L YOUR NAME"
• NewNIR-L: announcements of new Network Information Retrieval and Online Public Access Catalogue Services: mail listserv@itocsivm.csi.it Body: "sub NEWNIR-L YOUR NAME"
• NIR: Network Information Retrieval. List dedicated to studying networked information retrieval tools and processes.: mail mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk Body: "sub NIR YOUR NAME"
• OCLC-JOURNALS: OCLC electronic journal publishing: mail listserv@oclc.org Body: "sub OCLC-JOURNALS YOUR NAME"
• UNITE: interface to all network services.ng. theme: mail mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk Body: "join UNITE YOUR NAME"
• RESODLAA: distance education and open learning research: mail Listserver@usq.edu.au Body: "sub RESODLAA YOUR NAME"
• RITIM-L: Research Institute for Telecommunications and Information Marketing discussion list: mail listserv@uriacc.uri.edu Body: "sub RITIM-L YOUR NAME"
• SCHOLAR: text analysis and natural language processing, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: mail listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu Body: "sub SCHOLAR YOUR NAME"
• Technomads: wireless, mobile data comm networks: mail technomads-request@ucsd.edu Body: "sub technomads YOUR NAME"
• TEI Text Encoding Initiative, issues relating to text encoding and SGML
• ThesisNet: criticism of works-in-progress related to all aspects of human interaction with and within cyberspace: mail thesisnet-request@seas.upenn.edu Body: "sub THESISNET YOUR NAME"
• VPIEJ-L: Electronic publishing issues, especially Scholarly Electronic Journals: mail listserv@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Body: "sub VPIEJ-L YOUR NAME"
• WWW courseware: new or existing educational applications of the World-Wide Web: mail www-courseware-request@eit.com Body: "sub YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"
• WWW literature: new or existing literary resources/works on the World-Wide Web: mail www-literature-request@eit.com Body: "sub YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"

JOURNALS/NEWSLETTERS

• ALAWON: American Library Association (ALA) Online Newsletter: mail listserv@uicvm.uic.edu Body: "sub ALA-WO YOUR NAME"
• Bits and Bytes: a weekly electronic newsletter about miscellaneous high-tech issues: mail listserv@acad1.dana.edu Body: "SUBSCRIBE bits-n-bytes"
• Bits and Bytes archive
• Boardwatch: Boardwatch Magaine BBS, voice line for information: phone
• CETH Newsletter: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton and Rutgers: mail ceth@zodiac.rutgers.edu Body: ""
• Chaos Corner: Dr. Chaos's random and interesting things about computers, networks, and other things: mail chaos-request@pelican.cit.cornell.edu Body: "sub YOUR NAME"
• Chaos Corner Archive
• Chaos Digest: frauds, hacking, swapping, legislation: mail tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu Body: "sub YOUR NAME"
• Chaos Digest Archive
• Cook Report($): a monthly newsletter on NREN, National Information Infrastructure, and Internet commercialization: mail cook@path.net Body: "Please send Cook Report info."
• CPU: electronic journal for computer industry workers: mail listserv@cpsr.org Body: "sub CPSR-CPU YOUR NAME"
• CPU Archives
• Cu-Digest: technical, social, ethical, legalekly electronic journal/newsletter devoted to many computing issues: mail tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu Body: "sub YOUR NAME"
• Cu-Digest Archive
• Current Cites A journal which provides citations and brief annotations for articles from 30 journals in networks and information and computer technolog
• DECNEWS: from Digital Equipment Corporation's Education Business Unit for the education and research communities worldwide: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "sub DECNEWS YOUR NAME"
• EDUPAGE: summary of information technology news: mail listserv@bitnic.educom.ed Body: "sub EDUPAGE YOUR NAME"
• Effector Online (Index) Electronic Frontier Foundation Newsletter
• EJC/REC: Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication Covers communication theory, research, practice, and policy: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "join EJCREC YOUR NAME"
• EPIN: Electronic Public Information Newsletter: mail epin@access.digex.com Body: "Please send EPIN info."
• EJournal: Concerned with implications of electronic networks and texts: mail listserv@albany.bitnet Body: "sub EJRNL YOUR NAME"
• EJournal Archive back issues of EJournal
• EJVC: Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, communicate scholarly thought on aspects of virtual [CMC] culture.: mail listserv@kentvm.kent.edu Body: "sub EJVC-L YOUR NAME"
• EJVC Archive
• Fed Comm Law J (fclj.html) Federal Communications Law Journal Web Page
• GNN: Global Network Navigator: mail info@gnn.com Body: "Please send GNN info."
• GNN Home Page (GNNhome.html)
• HOTT-LIST: (Hot Off The Tree) advances in computer, communications, and electronics technology: mail Body: "SUBSCRIBE HOTT-LIST"
• HPC SELECT NEWS: The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing: mail sub@hpcwire.ans.net Body: "Select 601"
• INFOBITS: electronic service of the Institute for Academic Technology's Information Resources Group: mail listserv@gibbs.oit.unc.edu Body: "sub INFOBITS YOUR NAME"
• INFOSYS: The Electronic Newsletter for Information Systems: mail listserv@american.edu Body: "sub INFOSYS YOUR NAME"
• InterText an electronically distributed magazine of fiction
• InterText Web Page (ITtoc.html)
• JASBITS: A newsletter of miscellaneous net information, editor James A. Squires: mail jsquires@cerf.net Subject: "JASBITS SUBSCRIBE" Body: "YOUR NAME how you knew"
• Netweaver: The Newsletter of the Electronic Networking Association: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send Netweave Winter91"
• Nets and Comm: Networks and Community, a newsletter of FUTURE DATA: mail samsam@vm1.yorku.ca Body: ""
• DISTED: Online Journal of Distance Education and Communication: mail listserv@uwavm.bitnet Body: "sub DISTED YOUR NAME"
• ConneXions: Newsletter on information on networking: mail ole@csli.stanford.edu" Body: "Please send ConneXions info."
• IBJ Internet Business Journal
• Internet Review An `irregular and on-line journal of new and interesting stuff on the net'
• Internet World: a paper journal from MecklerMedia: mail meckler@jvnc.net Body: "Please send Internet World info."
• Legion of Doom Tech J
• Link Letter Merit/NSFNET newsletter.
• LITA Newsletter Library and Information Technology Association
• Matrix News: (monthly online newsletter, $) Covers crossnetwork issues.: mail mids@tic.com Body: "Please send Matrix News info."
• Matrix News some issues
• MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "sub MCJRNL YOUR NAME"
• Meta net community interests--cryptograhy, electronic publishing, free software, internet, privacy
• NETNEWS: newsletter for network resources by Metronet (St. Paul, MN): mail listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet Body: "sub NNEWS YOUR NAME"
• NETNEWS Archive
• PACSR: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "sub PACS-P YOUR NAME"
• PACSR Index: The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Index: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get index pr f=mail"
• REACH Research and Education Applications of Computers in the Humanities Newsletter
• Red Rock Eater: Red Rock Eater News Service, Phil Agre's periodic messages about Internet: mail rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: "subscribe YOUR NAME" Body: ""
• Surfpunk Technical Journal `a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California mat
• TNS Telelearning Network Synthesizer, Edited by Tom Copley
• TidBITS: a free weekly electronic publication that reports on interesting products and events in the computer industry: mail listserv@ricevm1.rice.edu Body: "sub TIDBITS YOUR NAME"
• Voices Voices from the Net Magazine
• The WELL The Whole Earth Electronic Magazine
• Wired: a magazine of cyberspace and technology: mail infobot@wired.com Body: "get index"
• Wired Gopher
• Wired Web
• 3W: World Wide Web Newsletter: mail 3W@ukartnet.demon.co.uk Body: "Please send 3W info."

NON-PROFIT/ACADEMIC

• ACM SIGCOMM (overview.html) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Communications
• ASIS: American Society for Information Science: mail asis@cni.org Body: ""
• CCN: The Center for Civic Networking, applying information infrastructure to the broad public good: mail ccn@civicnet.org Body: ""
• CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "help topics associates"
• CIX (README) Commercial Internet eXchange Association, non-profit trade association promoting communications services.
• CME: Center for Media Education, promotes democratic potential of electronic media.: mail cme@access.digex.net Subject: ""CME Sub"" Body: ""
• CNI Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments
• CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives, develop information processing technology
• CoSN: Consortium for School Networking, helps educators and students access information and communications resources: mail cosn@bitnic.bitnet Body: "Please send CoSN info."
• CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, alliance of computer professionals who discuss the impact of computer technology on society.
• CREN supports low-cost access to worldwide electronic networking for education and research
• EARN European Academic Research Network
• ECHO European Commission Host Organisation Login as : echo
• EDUCOM: dedicated to the study and access of information technology in higher education and integrating technology into learning and research: mail inquiry@educom.edu Body: "Please send EDUCOM info."
• EFF (about-eff) public interest organization to educate public about computer and communication technologies.
• EFF Web Page Electronic Frontier Foundation Web Page
• ENA: Electronic Networking Association, promotes electronic networking: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send Netweave Winter91"
• FARNET non-profit corporation to advance the use of computer networks for research and education.
• GNA (index.html) Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with the Usenet University, goal is create an fully accredit
• HPCC Office the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications
• IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
• IGC (README) Institute for Global Communications, improving global network communication and information exchange
• IRVC Institute for Research on Virtual culture
• ISOC The Internet Society, supports the development of the Internet and promotes education and applications.
• ITU International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications
• MCNC (MCNC.html) electronic and information technologies, private/non-profit, formerly the Micro-electronics Center of North Carolina
• NIIT (niit_top.html) National Information Infrastructure Testbed
• OSF (index.html) Open Software Foundation
• RARE Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne, European networking organizations
• RIPE Reseaux IP Europeen, ensures coordination to operate a pan-European IP network.
• WAENA: WideArea Educational Network: mail jwmilton@waena.portal.com Body: ""
• SEA Society for Electronic Access

COMMERCIAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS/CONSULTING/PUBLISHERS

• AT+T Web Page Web server for AT+T Bell Laboratories
• Bell Atlantic Bell Atlantic FTP site
• CityScape CityScape Internet Services, Ltd.
• Cyberspace Development: consulting in building an Internet storefront: mail development@marketplace.com Body: ""
• DEC (info.html) Digital Equipment Corporation, Marketing Home Page
• EIT Enterprise Integration Technologies
• EINet (galaxy.html) a commercial provider of network communication and information services
• MailCom (README) a telecommunications publishing and training firm located in Oakland, California.
• Maxwell
• MIDS (TIC) Matrix Information and Directory Services, a private consulting partnership based in Austin, Texas.
• MIDS Gopher
• NOMA: National Online Media Association: mail natbbs-request@echonyc.com Body: ""
• O'Reilly and Assoc. publisher of books for UNIX, open systems, and networking. Login as : gopher
• O'Reilly Resource Center (center.html) O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.
• Oslonett
• Internet.COM: The Internet Company, consulting in network access and commercial use of the Internet: mail info@internet.com Body: "Please send Internet.com info"
• Internet.COM Gopher
• MecklerMedia: publishers of Internet books and conferences: phone 800-MECKLER
• MecklerMedia email: : mail meckler@jvnc.net Body: ""
• NTT Web Page (index.html) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
• SCO Web Page (index.html) The Santa Cruz Operation
• VTLS Web Page automation solutions for libraries and other information centers worldwide
• Wavefront graphics for animation

• Beginners (news.announce.newusers) for people new to USENET
• Computer Archives (comp.archives)
• Computer BBS (comp.bbs.misc)
• Cu-Digest (comp.society.cu-digest) Computer Underground Digest
• Cyberpunk (alt.cyberpunk) cyberpunk/cyberspace culture and literature
• Email (comp.mail.misc)
• FAQs (news.answers) Frequently Asked Questions (and answers)
• Gopher (comp.infosystems.gopher)
• Groupware (CSCW) (comp.groupware)
• Hackers (alt.hackers)
• ISDN (comp.dcom.isdn)
• Information Systems (comp.infosystems)
• Info Sys (new) (comp.infosystems.announce) Information systems new resources
• Internet Access (alt.internet.access.wanted)
• Internet BBS (alt.bbs.internet)
• Internet Best (alt.best.of.internet)
• Internet Culture (alt.culture.internet)
• Internet Library (comp.internet.library)
• Internet Protocols (comp.protocols.tcp-ip)
• Internet Relay Chat (alt.irc)
• Internet Services (alt.internet.services)
• Internet Talk Radio (alt.internet.talk-radio)
• Lists of Information (news.lists)
• MUDS (rec.games.mud.announce) Multiple User Dialogues
• New Newsgroups (news.announce.newgroups)
• Newsgroups (news.groups)
• PostScript Net Maps (news.lists.ps-maps)
• Technical Reports (comp.doc.techreports)
• Telecomm (clari.nb.telecom)
• Telecomm (comp.dcom.telecom)
• Undernet (alt.irc.undernet) an alternative to the current EFNet IRC system
• USENET Culture (alt.culture.usenet)
• USENET Humor (alt.humor.best-of-usenet)
• USENET Recovery (alt.usenet.recovery)
• USENET University (alt.uu.future)
• WAIS (comp.infosystems.wais)
• World Wide Web (comp.infosystems.www)

ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES/SYLLABI

• CMC December (internet-cmc.bib) bibliography of selected readings in CMC and networking, by John December
• CMC Hacker: CMC bibliography, by Kenneth L. Hacker: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get compumed biblio"
• CMC Parker: : mail listserv@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu Body: "send netstart info"
• CMC Shedletsky (cmc-bibliography.txt)
• CMC: communication: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get compunet biblio"
• CMC Stephen: description of a CMC course: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get compumed syllabus"
• CMC ED Higgins: : mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get rescmc syllabus"
• CMC ED Paulsen: : mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get disted2 biblio"
• CMC ED Rice: : mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get cmced biblio"
• CMC Study Review (cmc-study-review.txt) Ed CMC, a field study of recent research
• CSCW Bibliography (README)
• Ed Tech/England: for a course, Introduction to Educational Telecommunications: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get EdTel biblio"
• Electronic Serials (bailey.bib)
• Email 1/Thelen: email in social contexts (A-H): mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get email 1 biblio"
• Email 2/Thelen: email in social contexts (I-Z): mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get email 2 biblio"
• FYI Bibliography (fyi_03.txt)
• IAT Internet Bib (irg-14.txt)
• Info Nets/Newby: course outline and bibliography for a course `Information Networking': mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get InfoNet Syllabus"
• Information Soc (cud5.68) bibliography by Rob Kling
• Internet Bks Review: reviews of Internet books, from NETTRAIN list: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "GET NETTRAIN REVIEWS NETTRAIN"
• Internet Bks Quarterman (rfc1432.txt)
• Internet/NREN Pugh: an annotated bibliography of the Internet and NREN by Pugh: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get internet biblio"
• Intro Internetworking (fyi_19.txt)
• Network Reading List (net-read.txt)
• Networked Info Bib (stanton.bib)
• New User's Bib: a short bibliography for new users, from NETTRAIN list: mail listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu Body: "GET NEWUSERS FAQ NETTRAIN"
• New User's Bib (ftp) (newusers.faq)
• Telecom/Newby: course outline and bibliography for a course entitled `Telecommunications': mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "get Telecomm Syllabus"
• WAIS Bibliography (lincoln.bib)
• WWW Bib (Bibliography.html) Bibliography for the World Wide Web

SPECIAL ISSUES/JOURNALS ON NETWORKS/CMC

• Communications of the ACM (1991). Collaborative computing issue. Volume 34, number 12, December.
• Communication Research (1987). Special issue on Theories of Organizations and Information Technology. Volume 14, number 5, October.
• Communication Yearbook (1989). Issues and Concepts in Research on Computer-Mediated Communication Systems. Volume 12, chapter 8.
• EJC/REC V3N2: Electronic Journal of Communication special issue on CMC: mail comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu Body: "send EJCTOC V3N293"
• Internet Business Journal (1993). Special Issue on Internet Advertising. Volume 1, numbers 3/4, September/October 1993.
• Journal of Communication (1989). Issue on computer communication affecting social power distribution. Volume 39, number 3.
• Online Access (1993). Issue on the Internet. October.
• The Serials Librarian (1991). Issue on technology and information for serials. Volume 21, numbers 2/3.
• Serials Review (1992). Issue on Economic Models for Networked Information. Volume 18, numbers 1-2.
• Scientific American (1991). Issue on computer networks. Volume 265, number 3, September 1991.
• The South Atlantic Quarterly (1993). Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Volume 92, number 4, Fall 1993.
• Wall Street Journal (1993). A Report on Technology. Volume CCXXII, number 96, November 15, 1993. Section R.
• Written Communication (1991). Issue on computers, language, and writing. Volume 8, number 1, January.

BOOKS: a selected listing of particularly useful books.

• BIBLIOGRAPHIES
  • Burge, Elizabeth (1992). Computer Mediated Communication and Education: A Selected Bibliography. Toronto, Ontario: Distance Learning Office, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor St W,
  • Romiszowski, A. J. (1992). Computer-mediated communication: a selected bibliography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
• THE INTERNET
  • Cronin, Mary J. (1993). Doing business on the Internet: how the electronic highway is transforming American companies. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
  • Dern, Daniel P. (1994). The Internet Guide for New Users. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Estrada, Susan (1993). Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly Buyer's Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Glister, Paul A. (1993). The Internet navigator: a new user's guide to network exploration. New York: Wiley.
  • Hahn, Harley and Rick Stout (1994). The Internet Complete Reference. New York: Osborne McGraw-Hill.
  • Hahn, Harley (1993). A Student's Guide to Unix. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Hardie, Edward T. L. and Vivian Neou (1993). Internet: mailing lists. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Kehoe, Brendan (1994). Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Krol, Ed (1992). The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Lane, Elizabeth S. and Craig Summerhill (1992). An Internet primer for information professionals: a basic guide to Internet networking technology. Westport, CT: Meckler.
  • LaQuey, Tracy with Jeanne C. Ryer. Foreword by Al Gore. (1992). The Internet companion: a beginner's guide to global networking. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Lynch, Daniel C. and Marshall T. Rose., Eds. (1993). Internet System Handbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Malamud, Carl. (1993). Exploring the Internet: a Technical Travelogue. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  • Rose, Marshall T. (1993). The Internet Message: Closing the Book with Electronic Mail. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PTR Prentice Hall.
  • Fisher, Sharon (1993). Riding the Internet Highway. Carmel, IN: New Riders.
  • Smith, Richard and Mark Gibbs (1993). Navigating the Internet. SAMS Publishing.
  • Tennant, Roy, John Ober, and Anne G. Lipow (1993). Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook. Berkeley, CA: Library Solutions Press.
  • Quarterman, John (1994). The Internet connection: system connectivity and configuration. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
• COMPUTER NETWORKS
  • Adams, Rick and Frey, Donnalyn. (1993). !%@:: A Directory of Mail Addressing and Networks, 3rd Ed. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Kessler, Gary C. (1990). ISDN: concepts, facilities, and services. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • LaQuey, Tracy L., ed. (1990). The User's Directory of Computer Networks. Bedford, MA: Digital Press.
  • Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. (1993). Electronic style: a guide to citing electronic information. Westport, CT: Meckler.
  • McClure, Charles R., Ann P. Bishop, Philip Doty, and Howard Rosenbaum. (1991). The National Research and Education Network (NREN): Research and Policy Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
  • Motorola Codex. (1992). The Basics Book of Information Networking. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Quarterman, John S. (1990). The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide. Bedford, MA: Digital Press.
• COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
  • Chesebro, James W. and Donald G. Bonsall. (1989). Computer-mediated communication: human relationships in a computerized world. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  • Dunlop, Charles and Rob Kling, eds. (1991). Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. Academic Press.
  • Gattiker, U. E., ed. (1992). Technology-mediated communication. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter.
  • Harasim, Linda M. (1993). Global networks: computers and international communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Hiltz, Starr Roxanne and Murray Turoff. (1993). The Networked Nation: Human Communication via Computer. Rev. Ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Lea, Martin, ed. (1992). Contexts of computer-mediated communication. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
  • Mason, Robin and Anthony Kaye., eds. (1989). Mindweave: Communication, Computers, and Distance Education. New York: Pergamon Press.
  • Rapaport, Matthew. (1991). Computer mediated communications : bulletin boards, computer conferencing, electronic mail, and information retrieval. New York: Wiley.
  • Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Sproull, Lee and Sara Kiesler. (1991). Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization. MIT Press.