Subject: COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf. Facility at ANU, Canberra

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 10:38:59 +1000

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Dr T. Matthew CIOLEK           [email-masked]
Coombs Computing Unit, Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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ANNOUNCING  NEW GOPHER SERVICE

                                The COOMBSQUEST - Social Sciences and Humanities
                           Information Facility at the Australian National University

                Name=COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU
                Host=cheops.anu.edu.au
                Type=1
                Port=70
                Path=

Canberra, 7 May 1993
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ABOUT THE COOMBSQUEST - SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
INFORMATION FACILITY AT AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

The Coombs Computing Unit at the Joint Research Schools of Social Sciences
and
Pacific Studies, ANU is now providing a central access facility to the
Social
Sciences and Humanities electronic information available world-wide via
the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) and Internet, the global
network.

The COOMBSQUEST uses the Unix Gopher software to provide simplified, direct
and
rapid access to information facilities of interest to the researchers and
students in the field of the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

 The current top menu of the COOMBSQUEST  gopher server is:

      1.  Welcome to COOMBSQUEST Social Sci.& Humanities Inf.Facility (ANU)
      2.  Aust. Nat. Univ. Theses Abstracts (ANU)
      3.  COOMBSPAPERS Soc.Sci.Research Data Bank - Archives (ANU)
      4.  COOMBSPAPERS Soc.Sci.Research Data Bank - Databases (ANU)
      5.  ELISA - Electronic Library Information System (ANU)
      6.  SSDA - Social Science Data Archives (ANU)
      7.  Soc.Sci.Inf. Resources - Guides & Query Systems (World)
      8.  Soc.Sci.Inf. Resources - Leading Information Facilities (World)
      9.  Soc.Sci.Inf. Resources - Quick Access Nodes (World)
      10. Special Projects (ANU)
      11. Testing Area [restricted access]

  The current Special Projects menu of the COOMBSQUEST  gopher server is:

      1.  CAUT - Committ.for Advancement of Univ.Teaching
(Coombspapers,ANU)
      2.  CIPSH-UNESCO Endangered Languages Project (Coombspapers,ANU)
      3.  East Asia/Pacific Wireless Files (US Information Service/ANU)
      4.  Electronic Buddhist Archives (Coombspapers,ANU)

The COOMBSQUEST - Social Sciences and Humanities Information Facility at
the ANU
aims at providing it's users with research information of the highest
possible
standard and is committed to the policy of continuous development and
enhancement of all of its services and procedures.

Similarly, the COOMBSQUEST aims at provision of direct network links to
those
computer facilities which offer excellence and quality in information
services
as demonstrated by (1) uniqueness and quality of their data; (2) their
hosts'
reliability and ease of access; (3) screen-readability of their menus and
served
documents.

New (or upgraded) information facilities joining the Internet community are
encouraged to contact the COOMBSQUEST Facility administrators (see adddress
below) should they wish to be added into the COOMBSQUEST's register of the
leading Social Sciences Information Resources.

HOW TO ACCESS THE COOMBSQUEST - SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
INFORMATION FACILITY AT ANU

COOMBSQUEST uses software called gopher and will work best with  gopher
software on your own computer system pointing at:
        Name=COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU
        Host=cheops.anu.edu.au
        Type=1
        Port=70
        Path=
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PLEASE NOTE :
The above interim address will be CHANGED in the near future to the
following
PERMANENT address:
        Name=COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility at ANU
        Host=coombs.anu.edu.au
        Type=1
        Port=70
        Path=
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Gopher interface allows files to be downloaded to your machine and for
local
printing. In the case of Macintosh and X terminals graphical  material can
also
be downloaded and displayed.

 However, access to COOMBSQUEST is also available via telnet software. To
do so please
 take these three steps:

* Establish telnet connection with "info.anu.edu.au" using public access
password:
                "info".
* From the ELISA - Electronic Library Information System's menu
                select an option  "Local ANU databases"
* From that level select an option entitled:
                "COOMBSQUEST Soc.Sci & Humanities Inf.Facility (ANU)"

Textual material accessed via this method can be viewed on  the screen and
then
transmitted to an e-mail address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

name 1:   Dr T. Matthew Ciolek  (inquiries about the COOMBSQUEST holdings)
                email           [email-masked]

name 2:    Sean S. Batt  (inquiries about the COOMBSQUEST software &
hardware)
                email           [email-masked]

address:   Coombs Computing Unit,
                Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies
                Australian National University
                Canberra A.C.T. 0200 AUSTRALIA

phone:          + 61 6 249 4600
fax               + 61 6 257 1893
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