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                                   Volume 4, no. 10
                                     October 1993

                      Information Systems Instruction & Support
                                The Library
                         University of California, Berkeley
                            Edited by David F. W. Robison
                                   ISSN: 1060-2356

                                    Contributors:
       David B. Rez, Teri Rinne, Vivienne Roumani-Denn, Mark Takaro, Roy Tennant
        _______________________________________________________________________

   Information Transfer

   Chroust, David Z. "From FirstSearch to Wordperfect: Cleaning Up
   Downloaded Screens" ONLINE 17(5) (September 1993):44-50.  Through
   nine well-defined macros, Chroust instructs the reader on
   "cleaning up" OCLC FirstSearch screens downloaded to Wordperfect
   5.1. - VR

   Jackson, Kathy M. and Nancy L. Buchanan. "Unlimited Access to
   FirstSearch: An Online Success Story" ONLINE 17(5) (September
   1993):34-43.  Jackson and Buchanan, reporting on Texas A&M
   University's faculty and students' successful experience using
   OCLC's FirstSearch, describe the various methods of access
   available to their clientele, and documentation support. Their
   statistics include monthly use, databases used, connect time per
   search, and per-search pricing. - VR

   Mintz, Anne P. "Availability of Electronic Full-Text Sources: A
   Look Behind the Scenes" Database 16(5) (October 1993):24-31.
   Mintz, Director of Information Services at Forbes, explains the
   "legal, financial, and technological concerns [including image
   technology], as well as issues of data integrity and quality"
   that are affecting online availability of titles.  Until these
   issues are resolved, "we have a long way to go...before we see
   easily searchable full text with images."  - VR

   Orenstein, Ruth M. "`How Full Is Full' Revisited: A Status Report
   on Searching Full-Text Periodicals" Database 16(5) (October
   1993):14-23.  Experimenting with the coverage of Forbes through
   several vendors and databases, including Dialog, Nexis, Data-
   Star, Trade & Industry, Orenstein traces the currency and
   completeness of full text journal coverage.  Grids and tables
   substantiate her warning, "...many librarians are considering
   canceling their print subscriptions and relying on online full
   text sources for articles.  Given the variability in currency
   shown here, this is a strategy that bears rethinking!" - VR


   Networks and Networking

   Dern, Daniel. The Internet Guide for New Users. New York: McGraw
   Hill, 1993. 570p. $40 (hardcover), $27.95 (paperback).  Dern,
   editor of Internet World magazine, has produced a fine new guide
   to the Internet.  This book does well by covering both
   introductory material along with specific information on using
   networked resources.  Dern leaves no stone unturned, though a
   little more coverage of topics like encryption and the politics
   of network development would be nice.  The tone of the book is
   friendly, helpful, and humorous, with captions like, "Remote
   login is a lot like astral projection."  Another small nitpick,
   the quality of a few of the images could be improved.  Overall,
   this is an excellent all-round guide to networking that even
   intermediate and advanced users will find helpful. - DR

   Hart, Michael S. "How Shared ARE Our Shared Resources, Anyway?"
   Internet Research 3(2) (Summer 1993):4-7.  Hart, well known on
   the net for his postings and Project Gutenberg, offers his
   opinion on the idea of public domain works.  Hart complains that
   current copyright law fails to protect the public good by
   preventing the free distribution of works over the network for
   too many years.  Hart compares this limitation on the access to
   information free of charge to access to other resources, like
   air and water, and describes this as the creation of an
   artificial scarcity.  Hart makes some interesting comments,
   often not seeming to realize the implications, for instance,
   publication of expensive artworks on CD-ROM highlights the value
   of the information over the medium (but he seems to believe
   users should only be charged for the medium). He also claims
   that all compression schemes but DES are illegal in the United
   States.  The journal's editor, Charles McClure, asks interested
   readers to send their responses in for possible publication. -
   DR

   Kaman, Geradine M. "Broadband-ISDN: Personal Connections to
   Global Resources" Internet Research 3(2) (Summer 1993):8-20.
   Kaman attempts to focus attention on some of the social issues
   surrounding the deployment of both narrowband ISDN (utilizing
   standard copper wire to provide voice, data, and low-quality
   video) and broadband ISDN (fiber in the loop to provide voice,
   data, and high-quality video).  Pointing out that technical
   issues have been the primary focus of ISDN development since its
   inception in 1971(!), Kaman suggests that for widespread
   implementation to begin, demand for the service must be created
   by addressing users and their needs.  Included with this article
   is handy list of acronyms. - DR

   Kapor, Mitchell and Daniel J. Weitzner. "Developing the National
   Communications and Information Infrastructure" Internet Research
   3(2) (Summer 1993):21-30.  Based on testimony before Congress in
   Janury 1993, this article describes the Electronic Frontier
   Foundation's (EFF) Open Platform Proposal to deploy narrowband
   ISDN services in the United States.  The EFF supports deployment
   of ISDN technology as a near-term solution to providing wide-
   scale, affordable access to the National Information
   Infrastructure.  The discussion presented here describes both
   the benefits and limitations of narrowband ISDN. - DR

   Malamud, Carl and Marshall T. Rose. "An Experiment in Remote
   Printing or Toward the Integration of the Internet and
   Telephony" ConneXions 7(9) (September 1993):27-29.  In case you
   have not heard, the communications technology of the early 90s--
   FAX transmission--has been networked, Internetworked.  Internet
   FAX combines telephony, IP addressing and the Internet's use of
   long-distance lines to offer FAX services at no charge to the
   user.  Internet FAX is now available in all of Australia, all of
   Washington, DC, most of Silicon Valley, parts of Riverside, CA,
   and all of the University of Michigan.  Coming online soon are
   Denmark, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Japan, and Sweden.
   International FAX for free?  Check this out. - DR

   Medvinsky, Gennady and B. Clifford Neuman. "NetCash: A Design
   for Practical Electronic Currency on the Internet" Proceedings
   of the First ACM Conference on Computer Communications Security
   (November 1993) [available via anonymous FTP, <URL=ftp://
   prospero.isi.edu/pub/papers/security/netcash-cccs93.ps.Z>].
   Addressing the pressing problem of how to conduct fiduciary
   business on the Internet, Medvinsky and Neuman describe a system
   that allows clients, merchants, and currency servers to interact
   in a secure fashion over an insecure medium.  The framework
   presented here addresses, to varying degrees, the following
   issues: security, anonymity, scalability, acceptability, off-line
   operation, transferability, and hardware independence.  The
   authors readily admit that this scheme does not solve all of
   these problems perfectly, but it does allow for the integration
   of other protocols when utmost anonymity and offline capabilities
   are required. - DR

   Notess, Greg R. "Reading Usenet News: Using the rn and trn
   Newsreader" ONLINE 17(5) (September 1993):94-98.  Notess's goal
   is to help us simplify Usenet News reading through selected Unix
   newsreader commands.  The commands described help us find and
   move between newsgroups, organize .newsrc (a listing of
   newsgroups available), save articles, and reply to articles. - VR

   Ryan, Joe. "A Pathfinder to Core Resources for Network Users"
   Internet Research 3(2) (Summer 1993):69-87.  Ryan has created a
   very useful guide to locating help on using the Internet.  Ryan
   adresses this article to beginner, intermediate, and expert
   users.  Covered here are suggestions for finding help using
   books, articles, email, and, mentors as well as brief
   descriptions of various general resources like archie, Gopher,
   etc.  The references are rather verbose, and I mean that in a
   good way, so are useful as a resource themselves; unfortunately,
   some of the information in the references is out of date, always
   a danger with network resources. - DR

   Tuss, Joan. "Easy Online Access to Helpful Internet Guides"
   ONLINE 17(5) (September 1993):60-64.  This is a useful,
   instructional guide to the FTP sites for retrieving Internet
   guides, such as "Surfing the Internet", "There's Gold in them
   thar Networks!", SURAnet "Guide to Selected Internet Resources",
   and others. - VR

   Valauskas, Edward J. "One-Stop Internet Shopping: NCSA Mosaic on
   the Macintosh" ONLINE 17(5) (September 1993):99-101.  Valauskas
   describes Mosaic, as an easy way to organize and "pull together
   documents, Internet search tools, scientific data, and other
   [Internet] files under a single framework."  The Macintosh and
   MS Windows versions are currently in beta testing, while the X-
   Windows version is in full release. - VR

   Walsh, R. Taylor. "Development of a Community Information
   Service: The National Access Capital Area Public Access Network
   (CapAccess) - A Work in Progress" Internet Research 3(2) (Summer
   1993):41-59.  Walsh, acting Executive Diretcor of CapAccess,
   describes the history and development of this civic networking
   project.  Beginning from the well-founded premise that local
   governments, organizations, businesses, and citizens have an
   important role to play in networking, this Washington, DC group
   has created a well-run and very interesting community network.
   Walsh sees community, or civic, networking as an important step
   in the development of the National Information Infrastructure.
   Also included in this article are a number of screen dumps that
   illustrate the breadth of information available through the
   system (in addition to email and online forums), ranging from
   local online library catalogs to information on public-access
   cable television shows to local tax information. - DR

   Wiencko, Joseph A., Jr. "The Blacksburg Electronic Village"
   Internet Research 3(2) (Summer 1993):31-40.  Wiencko, project
   manager of the Blacksburg Electronic Village, describes the
   vision and scope of this groundbreaking project now underway.
   The idea is to connect every member of the town of Blacksburg,
   Virginia (pop. 34,000) to a local high-speed network that is
   also connected to the Internet.  Part of the project is to
   identify what the critical mass of users is, identify and create
   applications that are useful to users from all sectors of the
   population, and encourage users to create new applications.  On
   the technological side, connections will be made available
   through both ISDN and FDDI (optical fiber) services at little or
   no chargeback to the user. - DR

   "WIRE: Women's Information Resource & Exchange Opens Online
   Doors" EFFector Online 6(2) (October 1, 1993) [availabale via
   anonymous FTP <URL=ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/EFF/newsletters/
   effector6.2>].  WIRE is a new resource designed to both provide
   information of special interest to women and to encourage women
   to become involved in networking.  Users (women and men) can use
   a special graphical client to access to "databases, discussions,
   alerts, abstracts, resources and experts on health, politics,
   career, finance, technology, parenting, education, lifestyle and
   is fee-based, available both as dial-up and via telnet.  For more
   information, email [email protected]. - DR

   Zeeman, Johan and Dennis MacKinnon. "Spreading the ILLINET: A
   Distributed Network for Library Resource Sharing in Illinois"
   Internet Research 3(2) (Summer 1993):60-68.  Zeeman and
   MacKinnon describe the two-phase plan to bring the ILLINET
   resource sharing system into a client-server mode employing
   Z39.50.  The idea is to establish a statewide Interlibrary Loan
   system that allows users to order materials from any
   participating library from a single interface. - DR


   Optical Disc Technologies

   Desmarais, Norman. "Driving CD-ROM: MicroSolutions Backpack CD-
   ROM Drive" CD-ROM World 8(9) (September 1993):70-71.  Desmarais
   describes an innovative DOS-based CD-ROM drive just released by
   MicroSolutions.  Designed for easy portability, the Backpack
   drive is especially convenient for those who want to add CD-ROM
   capability to their system and do not have an available expansion
   slot. This external drive connects to the computer's parallel
   printer port. - TR

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