OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNET RESOURCE GUIDE 11 November 1992 The NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) publishes a guide to resources on the Internet. These resources include facilities such as supercomputers, databases, libraries, or specialized programs on the Internet which are available to large numbers of users. Each entry in the guide contains a description of the resource, a description of who may use the resource, the type of access supported (email, ftp, telnet), and contact points for further information such as a phone number, email address, and name of a contact person where appropriate. Each listing is approximately one page of text. The categories of resources are (1) Computational Resources, (2) Library Catalogs, (3) Archives, (4) White Pages (information about users), (5) Networks, (6) Network Information Centers, and (7) Miscellaneous. See the section "How to Get the Internet Resource Guide", below, for instructions on ways to get your copy of the Internet Resource Guide. Wanted: New Entries for Internet Resource Guide The NNSC is eager to add descriptions of additional resources to the Guide. If you are part of an organization that maintains a facility that should be included in the Guide, please send a message to: resource-guide@nnsc.nsf.net and we will send a template for you to use to submit your information. We will edit the submission, and check it with you before we publish it. If you know anyone who might want to make a contribution, please pass on this message or send us a note giving us the name of a contact person. We need your help to make the guide a valuable tool for Internet users -- its effectiveness will depend on the active participation of the community of resource providers. How to Get the Internet Resource Guide The Guide is published using an electronic submission and distribution system. We have created electronic mailing lists for people who wish to receive additions the guide. We distribute these in plain-text and PostScript form. Recipients can print the pages locally and insert them into a looseleaf binder, which they can update when they receive new material. The Guide is also available, via anonymous FTP, from nnsc.nsf.net, in the directory "resource-guide". There are three mailing lists available for updates to the Guide. 1) sends updates via email in PostScript format 2) sends updates via email in plain-text (ASCII) format 3) sends an announcement via email when new entries are available via FTP If you would like your name added to one of these lists, please send a message to: resource-guide-request@nnsc.nsf.net and be sure to let us know which list you prefer. For sites that do not have ftp access, we have placed the Internet Resource Guide on the NNSC Info-Server. The Info-Server is an automatic retrieval system that uses email. To receive the "help" file with instructions for using the Info-Server, and the "index-resource-guide" file with a list of the sections and chapters in the Guide, send an email message to: info-server@nnsc.nsf.net In the body of the message, type: Request: resource-guide Topic: help Topic: index-resource-guide For people who are unable to use either FTP or email, the NNSC also publishes printed copies of the Guide at a price of $25.00 per guide. This fee assists us in covering the costs associated with the hardcopy distribution of the guide, which we send by U.S. mail. Please send a check or money order made payable to: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., in the amount of $25.00 (U.S. dollars), to: NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 10 Moulton Street Mail Stop: 6/3B Cambridge, MA 02138 ATTENTION: Alanna MacDonald Please be sure to include the following account number on your check: 4001-49-06480. IMPORTANT: Please note that we are unable to accept purchase orders. --NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) Staff