New on the Net
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045404 |
| Pages | 414-419 |
| Published date | 01 April 1995 |
| Date | 01 April 1995 |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
New on the Net
We list the newly announced Net resources that have caught our eye in the last
couple of months as being useful to the electronic librarian.
A note about style.
E-mail
addresses and URLs are the bane of typesetting. We
hope our readers are discerning enough to guess that a '.' at the end of an address
which happens
to be
the last thing in
a
sentence is a full stop or period, not part of the
address
itself:
however, hyphens are not so obvious. Sometimes they are meant to
be
there,
sometimes
not.
Therefore, we will forcibly break an address or
URL
at the
end of
a
line rather than introduce a hyphen. If you see a hyphen, it is part of that
address.
Astronomy images and archive
The Grove Creek Observatory, an as-
tronomical facility in Australia,
is
now
online. It has its own astronomical
CCD images (in GIF format) avail-
able,
astronomy-related FTP areas and
pointers to other astronomical Web
and FTP servers. The URL is
http://gco.apana.org.au and there is a
mirror Web page in the US:
http://wwa.com/~stevew
Book Nook
This is a world-wide linked resource
gathering book reports by children on
children's literature. It is described as
'a great resource for students/teach-
ers/parents: sort of a "consumer's re-
ports"
on what readers really liked, or
not.'
http://i-site.on.ca/Isite/Education
/Bk_report/
The British Council.
The British Council, the organisation
that promotes educational, cultural,
scientific and technical co-operation
between Britain and other countries,
has a Web page that is still under de-
velopment at the time of writing. How-
ever, it is intended to provide
comprehensive information about
British Council services worldwide,
and to provide a single point of access
to British resources in education and
culture.
http://www.open.gov.uk/bc/
bcchom01.html
BT Laboratories
BT Laboratories (BTL) has launched a
Web server at http://www.labs.bt.com.
The server provides information on
BT's research and development activi-
ties,
graduate opportunities, and short-
term fellowships at BTL. Listings of
books and papers published by BT re-
searchers and BTL's press releases are
also available. In future updates it is
planned to give users the opportunity
to try out new software technologies
for themselves.
The server is linked to BT's home
page
(http://www.bt.com)
which pro-
vides general information about BT.
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
The Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), located in Atlanta,
Georgia, USA, is an agency of the
Public Health Service in the Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services.
It
defines its mission as 'to promote
health and quality of life by preventing
and controlling disease, injury, and
disability.' Its page gives information
on disease outbreaks and so forth in
various parts of the world, and has
fur-
ther information on subjects such as
what shots are needed.
http://www.cdc.gov/aboutcdc.htm
The Consortium for International
Earth Science Information
Network
The Consortium for International
Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN) and the World Bank have
announced experimental Internet ac-
cess to two World Bank datasets: 'So-
cial Indicators of Development, 1994'
(http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/
sid-home.html) and 'Trends in Devel-
oping Economies, 1994'
(http://www.
ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html).
'Social Indicators of Development'
contains the World Bank's most de-
tailed data collection for assessing hu-
man welfare to provide a picture of the
social effects of economic develop-
ment. Data
are
presented for more than
170 economies, omitting only those
for which data are inadequate. 'Trends
in Developing Economies' (TIDE)
provides brief reports on most of the
World Bank's borrowing countries. In
each case, any user with a forms-capa-
ble Web browser can query the con-
tents of these two datasets directly.
Disability-related sites
Families and Disability News is a tri-
annual,
8-page
publication which con-
tains disability-related information for
families, service providers, policy
makers, individuals with disabilities
and others. The publication can be
found at http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/
cwis/units/LSI/b/beachhp.html.
Alternatively, WebABLE is an in-
formation repository for people with
disabilities, adaptive,
assistive,
and ac-
cess technology researchers, users and
manufacturers. Additionally, Web-
ABLE was created to assist In-
ternet/WWW publishers with helpful
information about building accessibil-
ity into their sites. It provides links to
an international set of
FTP,
gopher and
Web sites. BBSs, forums and listservs
are also listed. The URL is
http://www.webable.com/.
Educational sites
A bunch of sites for education and edu-
cators. Most are American-based,
which may say something about dif-
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