A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources

Version 1.7, 10 November 1993

Copyright 1993 by Una R. Smith

ISSN: 1071-9857

Una Smith smith-una@yale.edu
Yale University, Department of Biology, Osborn Memorial Laboratories, PO Box 6666, New Haven, Connecticut 06511-8155 USA

Contents

1. Introduction (part 1 of 6)

1.1 What's New

1.2 Conditions of Use

1.3 How to Get the Latest Version

1.4 Some Mind-Boggling Statistics

2. Networking (part 2 of 6)

2.1 Netiquette

2.2 Usenet

1 Newsgroups of Special Interest

2 Special Usenet Hierarchies and Gated Mailing Lists

3 Usenet FAQs about Usenet

4 Usenet by E-mail

2.3 Mailing Lists Using LISTSERV

1 Commands

2 Archives

3 Gateways to Usenet

2.4 Other Mailing Lists

2.5 Newsletters

3. Biological Research Archives (part 3 of 6)

3.1 Bibliographies

3.2 Directories

3.3 Software

3.4 Data

1 Systematic Databases

2 Search Engines

3.5 List of Archives

3.6 Access Tools

1 Telnet

2 Anonymous FTP

3 Anonymous FTP by E-mail

4 Gopher

5 Archie

6 Veronica

7 Wide-Area Information Servers (WAIS)

8 World-Wide Web (WWW)

4. Useful and Important FAQs (part 4 of 6)

4.1 What's an FAQ and where can I get one?

4.2 Does anyone have an e-mail address for X?

4.3 How do I find a good graduate program?

4.4 Where can I get old newsgroup/mailing list articles?

4.5 Where can I find biology-related job announcements?

5. Commercial Services

Acknowledgements

Bibliography (part 5 of 6)

Appendix. Assorted Mailing Lists Using LISTSERV (part 6 of 6)