FYI: Information Research Website Inserts

[David Novak]

        The Spire Project

The Spire Project is a most ambitious effort to create a serious guide to 
information resources.

To date we have achieved some impressive successes. Not only as the largest 
and most read collection of this kind. Currently, we publish or manage the 
Information Research FAQ, the cn.net.au website, a free shareware package, 
the Research Webring, and most recently, the Comp.Patents newsgroup and the 
Patent Research FAQ.

The core content of this project are a collection of articles on topics like 
Country Profiles, UN Research, Patent Research and locating books, 
describing Internet, Library and Commercial resources. Each article presents 
a research strategy and guides users to worthy resources.

I bring this to your attention because we also provide this information as 
website inserts.

Further, the articles come with your navigation bar and background. The 
whole archive is about 1Mbyte, and is updated monthly. We hope this will 
help Library and University School webmasters bridge some of the gap between 
patrons or students, and the widely dispersed information resources. (It can 
also provide a healthy dose of realism for some.)

Participating sites already include:
	Central Connecticut State University Library
	Tasmanian Institute of Business
	University of Lyon, France - Information Sciences
	Curtin University - Dept of Information Studies
	Scinet.org

For hosting information, read http://cn.net.au/fi_host.html
To peruse the articles, visit  http://cn.net.au
To download InfoKey v7, visit ftp://cn.net.au/pub/

If anyone here is interested, I am certainly fielding questions.

David Novak
david at cn.net.au
Spire Project
http://cn.net.au