Porter, 'WWWorld', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v22n12 (July 1995)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 22 no. 12
July 1995
Porter, George
"WWWorld"


Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (mp_arc) is an 
electronic archive for research papers in mathematical 
physics.  This service, completely free to users, allows one to 
deposit papers in an electronic format by e-mail, to retrieve 
them in a variety of different ways (including e-mail, ftp, 
gopher, wais, www), and to receive weekly updates.  Through 
July 10, 1995, there were nearly 1,400 papers with searchable 
titles and abstracts on deposit retrievable in various TeX 
formats and some in PostScript.

http://www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/mp_arc-home.html


National Library of Canada/Biblioth=E8que Nationale du Canada 
maintains a bilingual presence on the World Wide Web. The 
English language version:

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ehome.htm

and French version:

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/fhome.htm

reflect the bilingual mandate of the library to gather, make 
known, preserve, and promote Canada's published heritage.  
Part of the promotional effort is reflected in the current 
online exhibition, "Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction 
and Fantasy."

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/events/sci-fi/esci-fi.htm


Anita Cannon has implemented a WWW version of Canadian 
Government Information on the Internet, now in its third 
edition.  It features a fine-grained division of information 
produced by the national government and additional sections 
with links to provincial and municipal government data sites.

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/Government/CanGuide/


The Tobacco Control Archives (TCA), sponsored by the 
University of California at San Francisco Library & Center for 
Knowledge Management, Department of Archives & Special 
Collections, will be a central, organized source of information.  
Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to 
papers and unpublished documents relevant to tobacco control 
issues primarily in California.  TCA will collect:  papers and 
records of individuals and organizations active in the 
nonsmoking movement, political campaigns, or scholarly 
research of the health effects of tobacco use; tobacco control, 
investigating issues in general; and the tobacco industry.

http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco

Of particular note is the Brown & Williamson Collection.  
Thousands of pages of Brown & Williamson Tobacco 
Corporation documents were donated unsolicited to the UCSF 
Tobacco Control Archives in 1994.  These documents consist 
primarily of scientific studies on the addictive nature of 
nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke.  These 
materials have been the subject of a suit in the San Francisco 
Superior Court in which Brown & Willamson sought to remove 
the disputed material from the library permanently.  The 
University of California contends all of the documents are in 
the public domain and should be available to scholars and other 
interested parties.  On May 25, 1995, the court ruled that these 
documents should be available for public review.  
Approximately 50 percent of the documents are now available 
in electronic versions through the Web.

http://galen.library.ucsf.edu:80/tobacco/bw.html


The University of Toronto's G7 Information Centre is a joint 
effort of the University of Toronto Library and the G7 Research 
Centre.  The site includes links to scholarly articles and 
bibliographies on the Group of Seven, searchable newspaper 
and wire service accounts of the summit meetings, and 
official documents.

http://library.utoronto.ca/www/g7


The U.S. Geological Survey provides an HTML interface to the 
fielded data within the Selected Water Resources Abstracts 
from 1939 to 1995.  You may enter general search query terms 
or mix a general query with specific field searches.

http://waisqvarsa.er.usgs.gov/public/nawdex/swra.html


The National Institutes of Health have created Molecules R Us.  
This combines a full-text search of the Protein Data Bank 
database with a form interface to customize the format (text, 
image, interactive) of the selected structure.

http://www.nih.gov/htbin/pdb