New on the net
| Published date | 01 February 1996 |
| Pages | 178-182 |
| Date | 01 February 1996 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045465 |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
New on the Net
We list the Net
resources
that have caught our eye in the last couple of months as
being
useful to
the
electronic
librarian.
If
there is
a
site you
would
like
added,
please
let
us
know.
Adoptee/birthparent locators
The home page of JJ&K Searchers, a
service that helps locate and reunite
adoptees/birthparents.
¤ http://www.tcd.net/~jjk
African Primates at Home Home
Page
Where else can you hear
a
chimpanzee
scream, a gorilla chest-beat, and a
mangabey whoop-gobble? Follow the
trail to explore these and other pri-
mates'
East African habitats, brought
to you by a research scientist.
¤ http://www.indiana.edu
/~primate/primates.html
African sites
Pages for several African countries
have become available. The URLs for
the sites mostly follow the pattern
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_
Studies/Country_Specific/< of
country>>.html, where <e of
country>> can be any of the follow-
ing: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Bot-
swana, Burkina Faso (for country put
Burkina), Burundi, Cape Verde (for
country put C_Verde), Central African
Republic (for country put CAR), Chad,
Congo, Cote
d'Ivoire
(for country put
Cote),
Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial
Guinea (for country put Eq_Guinea),
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Libe-
ria, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nige-
ria, Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and
Principe (for country put Sao_Tome),
Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone (for
country put S_Leone), Somalia, South
Africa (for country put S_Africa), Su-
dan, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Co-
moros, Uganda, Togo, Tunisia, West-
ern Sahara (for country put W_Sa-
hara),
Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Also available are:
• Cape Verde Home Page
(Unofficial):
http://www.umassd.edit/Special
Programs/caboverde
/capeverdean.html
• Ethiopia: A Country Study:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/et_00_00
.html
• Ivory Coast Home:
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u
/ghillgar/rci/home.html
BigBook
A directory of 11 million US busi-
nesses, with nationwide street-level
maps,
third-party reviews and cus-
tomer ratings. Search by Business
Name, Category, City or State.
¤ http://www.bigbook.com
Black Star Publishing Co.
Black Star has announced a year-long
photo gallery on the Web to com-
memorate six decades of photographic
assignments for business and the me-
dia. The exhibit includes 600 photos
and 20 000 words of narrative, all in-
volving world trends, events and phe-
nomena over the past 60 years. Each
story involves one to four photos, plus
narrative, and stories are grouped into
thematic sections, indexed and cross-
referenced. Items in the exhibit are de-
scribed as being as trivial as a '60s fad
for motor scooters in New York or a
Rogues' Gallery of notable crooks, or
as momentous as the rise and fall of
Apartheid or the Second World War.
¤ http://exhibit.blackstar.com
Blue Ribbon Campaign
More and more Web sites are sporting
the Blue Ribbon
motif,
and it's all part
of the Blue Ribbon Campaign for On-
line Freedom of Speech, Press and
As-
sociation, details of which are at this
Web site. Links available are to the
American Civil Liberties Union, the
Center for Democracy & Technology,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
the Electronic Privacy Information
Center and Voters' Telecom Watch.
¤ http://www.umsl.edu/~muns
/blueribbon/1.htm
Bosnia
Taking its cue from the series of Dum-
mies books for computers, there the
Bosnia 101 home page on the World
Wide Web patiently explains the Bos-
nian situation (http://www.taponline
.com/tap/newz/bosnia/index.html). A
slightly elevated, emotional but under-
standable site, All About Geopolitics
(http://futon.sfsu.edu/~vojin
/Geopolitics.html), has background in-
formation and links to other
sites.
The
Bosnia Homepage at Caltech gives a
slightly Americanised take on the situ-
ation, but has several links to other
sites on the Web (http://cco.caltech
.edu/~bosnia/bosnia.html). The Day-
ton Agreement that broke the war's
back and brought about peace is
widely available on the Internet
(http://ralph.gmu.edit/cfpa/peace
/dayton/index.html), while the coming
International Criminal Tribunal has a
huge site of documents and informa-
tion (http://www.igc.apc.org
/tribunal).
Finally, This Week in Bos-
nia-Herzegovina carries a wide sam-
pling of news (http://world.std.com
/~slm).
Canadian Law Library
A large and ever expanding collection
of links related to Canadian Law.
Available in French and English, and
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