New: Subject Specific Scout Reports from Internet Scout

[Jack Solock]

Please excuse any duplication as this message is being sent to several
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        Three New Publications from the Internet Scout Project:
                    The Scout Reports for
    Science & Engineering, Social Science, and Business & Economics

The Internet Scout Project of the Computer Sciences Department at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison announces the start of three new free
electronic publications designed for the higher education community.

The new Subject Specific Scout Reports for Science & Engineering,  Social
Science, and Business & Economics were designed with advice from academics
in each field and the librarians who serve them. Reports will be compiled
by librarians and content specialists and published every two weeks via
e-mail and the Web.

Goals of the Subject Specific Scout Reports:

* To expand the Internet Scout Project's existing current awareness
services by providing the higher education community with information that
is specific to a given field of study

*  To continue research into the cataloging and archiving of electronic
resources with expansion of the content of the Scout Report Signpost, a
database of selected Internet resources, to include highly specialized
resources

* To investigate and implement new subject-based delivery techniques on the
Internet using the subject specific resources archived and cataloged in the
Signpost

The first report for Science & Engineering is being released today,
September 17 on the Scout Report website. (If you would like a plain text
email version, send mail to scout at cs.wisc.edu.) The table of contents for
the first issue is attached below to illustrate the content that will be
offered in each Science & Engineering report. The Social Science and
Business & Economics reports will begin publication next week. All three
reports will be available via an email distribution list, and on the
Internet Scout web site. 

To subscribe to the Subject Specific Scout Reports, send e-mail to:
scoutlst at cs.wisc.edu and in the body of the message type subscribe
srscieng, or subscribe srsocsci, or subscribe srbusecon, or all three
depending on the publications you wish to receive. More than one command
can be sent in a single email to scoutlst.

As always, the staff at Internet Scout are very interested your feedback.
Please send comments or suggestions to the editors at the addresses below.

Susan Calcari
Project Director and Managing Editor
scal at cs.wisc.edu
608.265.8042

Jack Solock
Editor, Scout Report and Subject Specific Scout Reports
jacks at cs.wisc.edu
608.262.6606

http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html 
http://rs.internic.net/scout/report/index.html

The ongoing goal of the Internet Scout Project is to provide improved
resource discovery services to the higher education community through the
implementation of leading edge technologies and research into the
development of customizable resource discovery and delivery.

Internet Scout is funded by the National Science Foundation and is a
project of the InterNIC.


The Scout Report for Science & Engineering
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The target audience of the new Scout Report for Science & Engineering is
faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the life sciences, physical
sciences, and engineering. Each biweekly issue offers a selective
collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, and
related fields such as math and engineering, that have been chosen by
librarians and content specialists in the given field of study.


September 17, 1997

T H I S   W E E K:

====== Research ======
1.  _E. coli_ Genome Project--University of Wisconsin
2.  Cambridge University Press Journals Online
3.  Social Insects World Wide Web (SIWeb)
4.  NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
5.  The Gap Analysis Program

======= Learning Resources =====
6.  Chem4Kids
7.  The Natural History Museum, London
8.  Monarch Watch--Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
9.  DASL--Data and Story Library

======= General Interest =======
10. Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (NIE)
11. CPC Civil Projects
12. The Gardener's Guide to Mailing Lists
13. The Fractory

======== Current Awareness =====
14. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Proposal Guide
15. Brown Bag Preprints--Caltech
16. Upcoming Books--Baker-Taylor
17. Springer-Verlag Journals Current Awareness Service
18. Conference Updates from the Scholarly Societies Project

======== New Data =============
19. Species in Parks Flora and Fauna Database--U.S. National Park Service
20. Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) Near-Realtime Data--
Goddard DAAC
21. NIST Chemistry WebBook--An Update

======== In the News ===========
22. _E-Coli_