Below is a collection of Internet resources previously used circa 1995 by the Bodleian Library in Oxford as starting points for Oxford users wishing to explore Internet services and information sources. It is interesting to see how the Web has changed!

Sections

• Resource Discovery Tools
• Library Information
  • Oxford
  • United Kingdom
  • Rest of the World
• Oxford
• Here by request . . .
  • WWW - General Information
  • UK - General Information
  • Specialist Information
  • Electronic Publishing

Resource discovery tools

• Digital's Alta Vista Web Index
• W3 Search Engines - some well know examples on a single form
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
• Martijn Koster's list of CUSI-like services around the World (CUSI = Configurable Unified Search Engine!)
• List of World-Wide World-Wide Web Servers organized by geographical location
• The Clearing House for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
• The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information (Carnegie Mellon)
• The World-Wide Web Worm
• The Mother of All Bulletin Boards
• The Harvest Information Disovery and Access System - a highly customizable set of resources disovery tools
• CUI's searchable W3 Catalog
• Internet Resources Meta-Index at NCSA
• Special Internet Connections - compiled by Scott Yanoff
• SilverPlatter's Internet Index
• WebCrawler - a list of current WWW indexes
• The Yahoo Archive of WWW Links at Stanford
• Archieplex (a WWW forms interface to the archie program that allows you to find files on ftp sites).
• Michael Scott's Internet Hot List - an interactive web homepage of alphabetized sites in categories.
• The UK Index, a manually maintained index of resources in the UK
• The NISS Information Gateway

Library information

Oxford

• Telnet to OLIS, Oxford University Libraries' Catalogue
• Oxford Libraries - General Information and Readers' Guides
• Bodleian Library Home Page (Readers Guides, local applications and other Library information)
• Bibliographic IT services
• The HEFCE pilot Site Licence Initiative - access to online journals for Oxford University only
• Oxford University's Datasets Working Party.
• Oxford Libraries Branch of the Oxford University Information Service (UNIS)

United Kingdom

• COPAC - The National OPAC (based on the CURL database).
• The BUBL (UK's Bulletin Board for Libraries) Experimental World-Wide Web Server
• SOSIG - Social Science Information Gateway (funded by ESRC)
• OMNI (Organising Medical Networked Information) - Internet Resources for Medicine and Bioscience
• The Follett Report: Joint Funding Council's Libraries Review Group, Dec. 1993
• Libraries Review: Non-Formula Funding of Specialised Research Collections in the Humanities (Note, you need a graphics client)
• The BIDS WWW Server
• PORTICO - the British Library's Online Information Service
• Edinburgh University's Links to UK Libraries
• SALSER Serials Search - Scottish Academic Libraries
• The Internet Bookshop, includes ability to search database of 780,000 titles
• ASLIB - the Association for Information Management
• Library and Related Resources Guide - University of Exeter
• M25 Web Guide - Consortium of Higer Educational Libraries bounded by the M25 Motorway

Rest of the World

Hytelnet

• Log on to libraries and other IT services on the Internet using the Hytelnet software mounted at Oxford
• Webbed version of Hytelnet mounted at Cambridge
• Webbed version of Hytelnet mounted in Alaska
• Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet (Hunter Monroe)
• Search Entire Norwegian Library Space in one sweep via BIBSYS
• Lund University Electronic Library, UB2, Sweden
• Lund University Electronic Library, UB2, Sweden - a short presentation on current projects.
• University of Waterloo Electronic Library, Canada
• The ARL Web Server
• The Danish Technical Library, Copenhagen
• Hyperpals, a hypertext interface to Minnesota's university and college libraries OPAC
• Some Library-based WWW Links produced by Peter Gorman
• Some Library-oriented Web Servers maintained by Thomas Dowling
• HyperDOC - a Multi-Media/Hypertext Resource at the U.S. National Library of Medicine
• Publishers' catalogues - University of Saskatchewen (Peter Scott)
• OCLC's Home Page
• The Scholarly Societies Project, University of Waterloo Library
• The RLG (Research Libraries Group)
• The Cabot Science Library, Harvard (including Harvard Science Publications Online)
• UWELib - University of Waterloo Electronic Library (winner of the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association's 1994 Award for Information Innovation)
• Innovative Internet Applications in Libraries (Ken Middleton, Todd Library, Middle Tenn.)
• Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline
• ZWeb WWW/Z39.50 Gateway service from Michigan State University
• The ISSN International Centre, Paris
• PACS Review - Public-Access Computer Systems Review is a refereed electronic journal, established in 1989, that publishes articles on campus-wide information systems, CD-ROM LANs, document delivery systems, electronic publishing, expert systems, hypermedia and multimedia systems, locally mounted databases, network-based information resources and tools, and online catalogs.
• WebZ - OCLC demonstration of their WWW/Z39.50 Gateway
• McGill University Libraries
• The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions IFLANET WWW service

Oxford

• UNIS (Oxford University Networked Information Service) - the top-level home page for WWW within the University
• The Oxford University list of WWW servers
• Information about Oxford
• The University of Oxford's Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Oxford University's Database Union List
• Gopher and WWW? An HTML-to-Gopher Server at the Computing Laboratory, Oxford.
• USENET: all newsgroups at Oxford (and some FAQs too)

Here by request . . .

WWW - General Information

• WWW Servers arranged by Continent/Country/State
• First International Conference on the World-Wide Web
• The Internet Society
• Elsevier Science Web Server - includes Proceedings of the WWW '94 Conference
• Best of the Web '94 Awards
• SIGWEB UK and I - A Special Interest Group for the United Kingdom and Ireland on the World Wide Web
• The GNA - Global Network Academy
• U.S. House of Representatives
• CETH - The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Princeton (Susan Hockey)
• The Community of Science Web Server
• LOGOS Group Multilingual Dictionary

UK - General Information

• United Kingdom based WWW servers
• An Interactive Map and Guide to Eire and the UK
• An Interactive Map and Guide to Academic WWW Sites in the UK
• The Experimental SuperJANET; WWW Server
• The BBC Networking Club (including broadcasting schedules and the Caversham Diaries)
• The Employment Network People Bank (Micro Media Services Ltd., UK
• UK & World Gopher Servers & Library Gopher Servers

Specialist Information

• Supreme Court Decisions
• The Bangemann Commission: Europe and the global information society, Recommendations to the European Council
• CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• The Image Sciences Division of NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Glen Segell's List of Internet sources for Historical Research
• WWW for Classicists & Mediterranean Archaeologists
• The Labyrinth - WWW Disciplinary Server for Medieval Studies
• National Trade Data Bank
• World Heritage - International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
• U.S. Department of Commerce, Information Services
• Telnet to WISDOM - The Wellcome Information Service Databases on Medicine (includes SPIN - Science Policy Information News
• The HUMBUL Gateway - International Resources for the Humanities
• Nentrez - the WWW Interface to the Internet version of the Entrez provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (maintainers of the GenBank Sequence Database)
• Graduate Horizons - Career Information for UK Graduates
• ABELL On-Line Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature On-Line
• I'M EUROPE - Information about the EU, Fourth Framework Program, ECHO, CORDIS and other EU programmes
• MBx on WWW - The European Collaborative Interspecific Mouse Back Cross from the Human Genome Mapping Project
• The Order of Saint Benedict
• UK Medical Mirror Sites (Trans-Atlantic Medical sources mirrored at Cambridge)
• The Dan-EMIR System (Mathematics in Denmark and EuroMath)
• Business Researchers' Interests - Yogesh Malhotra

Electronic Publishing

• The Times
• Electronic publications in Oxford and elsewhere - maintained by the Computing Laboratory
• Some Electronic Journals listed by BUBL
• OTA - the Oxford Text Archive
• Springer Journals Preview Service
• Chemical Abstracts Service
• INSPEC - IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers) Publishing and Information Services
• Running A World-Wide Web Service, a handbook written by Brian Kelly of Leeds and funded by the Support Inititiative For Multimedia Applications (SIMA)
• Theses - a new Times Higher Educational Supplement Internet Service
• OCLC Reference Services. Access to the FirstSearch Service and Electronic Journals Online (note that only suscribers may access these and you will need a different User ID and Password for each service)
• Private Eye on the Web
• Blackwell's on the Internet - Blackwell's Bookshops
• Oxford University Press WWW Server
• HyperJournal Discussion List - Goldsmith College
• Institute of Physics Web Server (including Physics Letters Express)
• The European Patent Office Online
• BMJ - The British Medical Journal Web Service
• Electronic Publishing in the Scientific Domain - Announcement of Joint ICSU Press/UNESCO Conference
• The Digital Library Magazine
• The Electronic Telegraph
• Ariadne - a print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists
• Scientific American Online
• New Scientist

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