From bit.listserv.devel-l Mon Jun 14 18:31:38 1993 Message-ID: Newsgroups: bit.listserv.devel-l Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 13:04:34 -0600 From: Molly Molloy Subject: Other Internet resources/Latin America/Development Status: RO Included here are several other Internet resources, including some articles on the net or in journals. You may be able to use these sources in your compilation. Molly Molloy Internet Resources for Latin Americanists: A Working Bibliography Molly Molloy New Mexico State University Library Las Cruces, NM 88001 505-646-6931 mmolloy@lib.nmsu.edu This bibliography contains references to articles, books, electronic files, & computer programs for learning about the Internet and for making the nets' vast resources more accessible. It is in no way comprehensive, but a good beginning. I have tried to include things that might be especially useful to Latin Americanists. Association for Progressive Communications. 1993. Global Computer Communications for Environment, Human Rights, Development and Peace. GNET Archive. Brochure of the Association for Progressive Communications. FTP Directory Filename . Details of the APC organization, including addresses of the APC member networks all over the world, including Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua. CYBERLIBRARY. Gainesville: University of Florida Library Systems Office. To access via telnet: Login: Also available via any gopher server that provides menu access to other gophers. Contact: Suzy Shaw . Cyberlibrary provides online access to Internet reference sources such as the Art St. George list of telnet accessible library catalogs, the Kovacs list of electronic conferences, the Strangelove list of electronic journals and more. It also contains a "L atin American Information" menu item that provides access to several electronic mail lists on Latin America. The user can also search the State Department Travel Advisories via Cyberlibrary and several other electronic reference sources. ECUANET: Corporacion Ecuatoriana de Informacion. Corporacion Ecuatoriana de Informacion. Access via any gopher menu which provides access to gopher servers worldwide. Contact for ECUANET: Xavier Baquero, Director or or . ECUANET provides Internet access and services to more than 500 users in Ecuador as of May 1993. Via the ECUANET gopher, users can access library catalogs, other gophers, archie and a variety of (standard) Internet services. Also provides a news service, " Diario Hoy", which is also sent to the ECUADOR e-mail list subscribers. Gerich, E. November 1991. Expanding the Internet to a Global Environment but...How to Get Connected? COMPUTER NETWORKS AND ISDN SYSTEMS 23 (1): 43-46. Policy paper that discusses the growth of the Internet and relations between the US NSFNET and international networks connected to the Internet. Jacobson, T. L., and S. Zimpfer. 1993. Non-Commercial Computer Networks and National Development. GNET Archive. FTP from Directory Filename Article to be published in Telematics and Informatics . Discusses the growing role of computer networks in developing countries in the context of other communications media. Kovacs, D. et al. 1993. Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences. , 6th revision ed.Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Libraries. Exists as a set of electronic files. Files can be retrieved via email or FTP. Send email messages to with the message line: get filename.filetype. To retrieve via FTP, ftp ksuvxa.kent.edu Look in the library directory for a li st of the files. Also available in this directory as keyword- searchable hypercard stacks. For more information contact Diane Kovacs [dkovacs@kentvm.kent.edu] . Provides good subject access to hundreds of electronic discussion lists. Subject divisions in this revision include: anthropology, education, geography and area studies, library science, linguistics, political science, business, biological sciences, compu ter science, etc. contains the area studies lists, including many on Latin America. FILE2 also includes the library science lists. The contains detailed information about retrieving the files and about subscribing to the lists. The entries note whether or not the list is moderated and/or archived. . Krol, E., and E. Hoffman. March 1993. Internet Draft: What is the Internet? INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE (IETF) Available via FTP from the internet-drafts directory at several sites. To obtain, ftp to ftp.nisc.sri.com or ds.internic.net. Login as 'anonymous' and use 'guest' or your address as password. CD to internet-drafts. Send command: get draft-ietf-uswg-fyi- 0 0.txt. According to the document, these "internet drafts" are valid for 6 months. For questions send via email to [internet- drafts@cnri.reston.va.us]. An example of many documents available over the network via FTP. This document answers the question: What is the Internet? It is a modified version of a chapter in Ed Krol's 1992 book: THE WHOLE INTERNET USER'S GUIDE. Contains a lot of information on curr ent issues of privatization and commercialization of the Internet. Krol, E. 1992. The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog. O'Reilly & Asso. Comprehensive guide to the network, how it works, acceptable use, security and other issues. Lane, G. 1990. Communications for Progress: A Guide to International E-Mail. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations. Excellent overview of electronic communications intended as a manual for non-profit organizations. Good technical background with details on networks accessible in developing countries. McGee, A. R. African, African American, African-Caribbean, African Latin Internet/Bitnet Mailing Lists. Retrieve latest version of this list-of-lists via FTP from: in the directory: Also available via email to: . Art McGee regularly posts updates of this list to many of the Latin American interest groups and other email discussions. The list includes many of interest to Latin Americanists. NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement. The full text of the NAFTA document is available from several ftp archives: and probably more. An Archie search yielded only the ariel site, but the other addresses were given as answers to var ious inquiries. . The NAFTA document is quite long and unless you have a lot of disk space available and facility for electronically storing and searching the document, you may not want to retrieve it. You can however, search the text via WAIS (Wide Area Information Serve r) at . See WAIS entry below. O'Brien, R. 1993. The APC Computer Networks: Global Networking For Change. GNET Archive. Retrieve via FTP from the GNET Archive. FTP Directory Filename Paper also published in the July 1992 edition of the Canadian Journal of Information Science. Analysis of how social activists all over the world are using computer communications to enhance networking, focusing specifically on the Association for Progressive Communications. Pimienta, D. May 1993. La Comunicacion Mediante Computador: una esperanza para el sector academico y de investigacion del Tercer Mundo. La experiencia de REDALC en America Latina y el Caribe. GNET Archive. Paper available from the GNET Archive via FTP in the directory Filename . First paper of the GNET archive published in Spanish...Pimienta goves various reasons why network communication aids development. Description of the REDALC project. . Robbin, A. June 1992. Social Scientists at Work on Electronic Research Networks. ELECTRONIC NETWORKING: RESEARCH, APPLICATIONS, & POLICY 2 (2): 6-30. Report of research on on how a group of social scientists used CMC (computer mediated communication) to obtain access to online data. Saizar, P. 1992. A Guide to the Latin-American Mailing Lists. This list appears at intervals on various e-mail lists. Contact compiler: . This list was used by Kovacs in the Latin American section of the "Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences." The latest update I have seen is January 1992. The document includes basic instructions for subscribing to the lists and some info on membe rship and subject matter of the lists. St. George, A., and R. Larsen. 1992. Internet Accessible Library Catalogs & Databases [ftp document]. University of Maryland, University of New Mexico. Available as an FTP file from in the directory with the filename . . This file provides telnet addresses and user information for library catalogs in the U.S., Canada, UK, Mexico and several other countries. New catalogs are always becoming available and the directory is updated frequently. Many libraries are also instal ling software (such as gopher, libs, etc) that make the telnet connection automatically. Strangelove, M. July 1992. Directory of Electronic Journals & Newsletters. , Edition 2.1 ed.Ottawa: University of Ottawa. Available in two large files via electronic mail. Send an e-mail message to: . In the body of the message type: You may also be able to retrieve via interactive listserv command s. Also available via FTP <137.122.6.16> CD File is According to the author, a new version of the list will be coming out in June/July 1993. . One of the first attempts to maintain a listing of electronic journals and newsletters. Useful for identifying potential information sources on the net. Entries usually contain details for subscribing. United Nations Development Programme. UNDP Gopher. Telnet address [nywork1.undp.org, port 70] For information contact Lorraine Waitman, Dag Hammarskjold Library [lwaitman@nygate.undp.org]. This gopher server contains a directory of the UN system, UNCED documentation with WAIS search facility, UNDP field office telecommunications catalog, press highlights, etc. New information is added daily. . UT-LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center. Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies. Access via telnet Login You can also access via any gopher server with a menu system that allows access to "all gophers in the world" or something else like that. Just choose North America, Texas, etc. For more inform ation contact: Ning Lin, LANIC Technical Director or Carolyn Poage . Announced in April 1993, the UT-LANIC gopher offers a menu that will provide access to Latin American databases, access to library catalogs and other services. Experimental. WAIS Searchable Information of Interest to Latin Americanists. To connect to WAIS: Login: 'wais'. The LIBS software described above provides seamless access to WAIS. . WAIS allows keyword access to various archived electronic files. Browse the list to see what is available. This does change often and there are other WAIS sites out there. Some e-mail list archives are searchable via WAIS. The following files and sites c urrently available may be of interest to Latin Americanists: . You can also search the Kovacs list of Academic E-mail Conferences via WAIS This makes more sense once you get into the WAIS server at quake. think.com. You can browse through the list, select files to search, enter keywords, and retrieve relevant texts from the files. . Yanoff, S. Internet Services List. Milwaukee: Computer Services Division, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Updated about every 2 weeks. Obtain via FTP Directory filename Also available via Or subscribe to the USENET list alt.internet.services. An eclectic list of special Internet files and services. Arranged in ABC order, browse list to become aware of new things on the net.