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Kongshem, Lars – Executive Educator, 1994
Describes several new Internet features for classroom use, including two documents answering frequently asked user and technical guidance questions, a Voice of America international news service, America Online's trial inclusion of Gopher and Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) databases, a help file for Windows users, and a USENET e-mail news…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Current Events, Electronic Mail, Elementary Secondary Education
Gillespie, Robert G. – EDUCOM Review, 1994
Reviews current federal legislation that concerns the National Information Infrastructure. Highlights include telecommunications deregulation; activities of cable and telecommunication industries, including Regional Bell Operating Companies; allowing telephone companies to provide video services; plans of the Clinton administration; and concerns…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Computer Networks, Federal Legislation, Government Role
Smoot, Oliver – EDUCOM Review, 1994
Examines the relationship between the National Information Infrastructure (NII) and the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Topics discussed include the reduction or elimination of tariffs on NII products; protection of copyrighted works; unresolved trade issues, including the European telecommunications market; standards; and privacy and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Copyrights, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Peer reviewedKlassen, Tim W. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1995
Describes Usenet, an Internet service that provides access to computerized discussion groups, and examines how it can be used as a reference tool. Topics include subject groups, appropriate questions, exhausting local resources before posting, explaining Usenet to patrons, sending the question, and evaluating the answer. (AEF)
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Information Networks, Information Services, Questioning Techniques
Makulowich, John S.; Bates, Mary Ellen – Online, 1995
Presents 10 tips on managing Internet searches; highlights include area and level of expertise, request forms, lay terms for casual users, realistic times for retrieving results, a systematic approach, the operating platform and tools, a file of servers' and patrons' addresses, bookmarks and home pages, shortcuts, and the Internet Hunt. (AEF)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Information Management, Information Networks, Information Retrieval
Nickerson, Gord – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Discussion of software tools for accessing information on the Internet focuses on the WorldWideWeb (WWW) system, which was developed at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) in Switzerland to build a worldwide network of hypertext links using available networking technology. Its potential for use with multimedia documents is also…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Hypermedia
Peer reviewedStilwell, Christine – International Information and Library Review, 1992
Describes the emergence of resource center forums (i.e., popular information networks) in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Background and objectives are summarized for the Transkei Fieldworkers' network, Natal Resource Centre Forum, Cape Inter-Resource Forum, Transvaal Resource Centre Network, Sekhukhuneland Educational Projects forum, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Information Networks, Information Services
Chapin, A. Lyman – EDUCOM Review, 1992
Provides background on the Internet and describes the responsibilities of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force, and Internet Research Task Force. The Request for Comments series (i.e., publications of the Internet research and development community) and the development of Internet standards are explained, and the…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Governing Boards, Information Networks, Internet
Nickerson, Gord – Computers in Libraries, 1992
Describes the development of Usenet, the User's Network, a computer network that distributes group discussions (newsgroups) on different topics. Network News software is described, the rapid growth in popularity and heavy network traffic is discussed, and a hierarchical classification scheme to limit the amount of information for users is…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer System Design
Berners-Lee, Tim; And Others – Electronic Networking: Research, Applications and Policy, 1992
Describes the World-Wide Web (W3) project, which is designed to create a global information universe using techniques of hypertext, information retrieval, and wide area networking. Discussion covers the W3 data model, W3 architecture, the document naming scheme, protocols, document formats, comparison with other systems, experience with the W3…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Hypermedia, Information Networks
Machovec, George S. – Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1994
Discusses the growth of the Internet and the attitudes of users toward advertising, provides examples of kinds of advertising used on electronic networks, and lists several companies that help advertisers use the Internet. Fifteen guidelines are suggested to help advertisers use the Internet in a reasonable and appropriate way. (Contains 11…
Descriptors: Advertising, Attitudes, Computer Networks, Electronic Mail
Peer reviewedRowland, Lucy M. – Communication Education, 1994
Discusses librarians and electronic mail, use of Listservs by librarians, libraries on the Internet, redefining online public catalogs, searching databases on the Internet, finding a personal librarian in hyperspace, and the future of libraries on the Internet. (SR)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Higher Education, Information Networks, Librarians
Peer reviewedWard, Jean; Hansen, Kathleen A. – Journalism Quarterly, 1991
Examines the roles of librarians and reporters and the use of information technologies by newspapers. Finds that information retrieval technologies and databases are causing the work of newspaper reporters and librarians to merge and blend. Finds that 90 percent of the newspapers studied subscribed to a least one database, and 60 percent searched…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Notess, Greg R. – Online, 1993
Explains how the Usenet network's dissemination model differs from electronic-mail-based discussion groups in terms of how users can choose which information best fits their needs. Various methods of limiting excessive numbers of unwanted messages are explained. (EAM)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Electronic Mail, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Ricart, Glenn – EDUCOM Review, 1993
Provides technical recommendations for wiring of college campuses to provide for current and future computer network needs, considering wiring in and between existing and new buildings. The effects of trends in networking costs are discussed. The importance of higher education's involvement and influence in various information technology issues is…
Descriptors: Campuses, Computer Networks, Costs, Higher Education
