Guide to WWW and Internet Resources

News

• Online Newpapers and Wire Services
  • Deutsche Welle
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • taz
  • Spiegel Online
  See also summary of german and international newpapers at TVTODAY.

Weather and Environment

• Images from METEOSAT - Current - Forecast - Movie
• Weather - MSU server - U.S. browser
• Earth Quake Reports - with maps - plain text

Dictionary and Thesaurus

• The Webster interface
• Dictionary English -> German and German -> English (TU Dresden)
• Roget's Thesaurus
• The Acronym Server
• See also a summary of dictionaries from Uni Passau.

Reference

• HEPIC - High Energy Physics Information Center
• LBL Particle Data Group
• The English Server - numerous services
• German postal codes - Form access or Gopher Menu
• German Railway Timetables - Simple - Complex Query
• Finding email addresses or phone numbers
  • Gopher to Phone books from around the world
  • X.500 Gateways: Tuebingen - Giessen - Rutgers
  • Netfind: Essen login as netfind

Scientific Journals

• Nuclear Physics - Overview - NP A - NP B - papers in press
• Physical Review (Letters) - Table of contents General Information - Online service
• Astrophysical Journal
• Nature
• Physics Today
• Science
• Elsevier
  • Keyword search - simple - combined

Other Journals

• iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazin

Standards

• RFC Index search

Web Navigation

• WWW Catalogues:
  • CERN World-Wide Web Home Page
  • The WWW Virtual Library
  • Virtual Tourist - resource maps of Germany or Europe
  • Planet Earth Home Page - the Navy blue World View
  • Yahoo - Yet Another Hierarchically Odiferous Oracle
  • EINet Galaxy
  • Richard's Home Page - the largest home page...
  • Commercial Services on the Net
  • CUI W3 Catalog
• WWW Indices and Search Engines:
  • W3 Search Engines Selector - the meta meta index
  • Alta Vista
  • WebCrawler
  • Lycos
  • Infoseek
  • ALIWEB
  • World Wide Web Worm
  • NIKOS
• Global Network Navigator - Welcome and Home page
  • Global Network Navigator

Tools for Internet Information Retrieval

• John December's Tools List - also available by topic
• Archie: Searching FTP Servers - via ArchiePlex - NCSA - others
• Veronica: Searching Gopher space - via Server Selector
• WAIS: Wide Area Information Search - via WAIS Inc.

News Groups

• List of Internet Newsgroups - Summary of USENET FAQ's
• WAIS Interface to comp.infosystems .wais , .www
• CERN xfind Interface to cern .heplib , .lgeant , .lfatmen
• Mosiac has a poor news interface, use a real newreader, like mxrn.

Miscellaneous

• Simulations of C60-C240 collisions
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy Home Page (JPL)

Institutions
APS , BNL , DFN , DPG , EC , EPS , LBL , MIT , NASA , NCSA , OSF , RIKEN , USGS

Experiments
See SLAC HEP Experiments Index. Also EOS , STAR ,

Name Likes

• GSI - Information Systems Group
• GSI - Geographical Survey Institute of Japan
• ALADiN - Strasbourg astronomical Data Center - Astronomical Database
• ALADiN - Washington Research Library Consortium Catalogue

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