Because people find information in many different ways, the Guide provides several indexes. All indexes include hypertext links to the Guide entry. Each Guide entry includes links, where available, to the resources themselves.
. This is not a static document -- we expect it to change and you can help change it.
The Guide: Who is it for?
As we skimmed the Net, we harvested resources based on their potential value to a neuroscientist--a researcher, educator and/or clinician. Certain disciplines within neuroscience are more involved in the Internet community than others and those variances betray themselves in what we found. If we can be accused of any intentional bias, it would be that we searched harder for underrepresented disciplines in the hope that our work might light some lamps and encourage development. Having said that, we encountered considerable vision and initiative in the neuroscience community concerning Internet use and potential. There is plenty of room to grow. We encourage you to get involved.
The Compilers: Who are we?
- Sheryl Cormicle, sherylc@sils.umich.edu
- Steve Bonario, sbonario@umich.edu
We are not neuroscientists. We are librarians in the grand tradition of discovering, evaluating, organizing and preserving the intellectual record, stretching that mission to embrace new technologies and formats, all the while remembering the people in the labs and at the keyboards with real needs. More specifically (and less poetically), we prepared this guide as part of our coursework in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. Go Blue. If circumstances allow (read "we're job hunting"), we intend to maintain this guide.
Assumptions
We assume you are not new to the Internet. If you are, we strongly recommend you read or refer to Ed Krol's book, The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog (O'Reilly & Associates, 1992). Then take a look at our guide.
We don't assume you are familiar with the World Wide Web (WWW) . . . ok, maybe we do . . . but if not, we recommend you check it out. We were (and still are) avid aficionados of NCSA's Mosaic, a web client. It makes life on the Internet frontier worth living.
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
We have used a format for designating the "addresses" of the resources which may be unfamiliar to you. This format is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). It is basically a standardized path name. It's used within a WWW document to create hypertext and hypermedia links to other files. Even if you are not using a web client, you can analyze it to extract the information you need to find resources using more traditional tools.
The template is: resource type://host.domain[:port]/path/filename
Resource types typically include:
- -file: a file on your local system, or a file on an anonymous ftp server
- -gopher: a file on a Gopher server
- -WAIS: a file on a WAIS server
- -http: a file on a World Wide Web server
Formats and Access
The most dynamic and functional format of this guide is the web version:
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html
You can access an ASCII text version from the Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides as follows:
- anonymous FTP:
- host: una.hh.lib.umich.edu
- path: /inetdirsstacks
- file: neurosci:cormbonario
- gopher:
- via U. Minnesota list of gophers
- menu: North America/USA/Michigan/Clearinghouse.../AllGuides
- WWW:
- http://http2.sils.umich.edu/~lou/chhome.html
- gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/11/inetdirs
- Gopher .link file:
- Name=Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (Umich)
- Type=1
- Port=70
- Path=1/inetdirs
- Host=una.hh.lib.umich.edu
Credits
There are a gaggle of folks we'd like to thank for helping us to compile and assemble this Guide, for giving us advice and otherwise assisting us. There are so many, in fact, that we are still in the process of pulling all of the names together. For the moment, though, we'd like to make sure to thank the following:
Joe "I get 10%" Janes, Lou "I get 10%, too" Rosenfeld, our fellow students in ILS 606, the creators and developers of NCSA's Mosaic, Dr. Stan Watson, Warren Young, Ben Clopton, Patricia Morris, and Lee Liming.
Alphabetical Listing of Resources
The following list is arranged alphabetically by the title of the resource. Each title is linked to the corresponding entry in the Guide, not to the resource itself. Each entry, however, does contain a direct link to the resource where available.
The Keyword Index provides access to the guide's resources via subject-related keywords. No attempt has been made to utilize a controlled vocabulary. We welcome any suggestions from the Neuroscience community for additional keywords which we may not have used or which may be more appropriate.
Please note that this is only a preliminary index to a few of the resources. This index will continue to be updated until all of the resources in the Guide have been indexed.
3D
ADAPTIVE SIMULATED ANNEALING (ASA)
ADDRESSES
AMPHIBIANS
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)
ATLAS
BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
BRAIN
COGNITION
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROENGINEERING
DATA SETS
DIRECTORIES
DISEASES
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
EPILEPSY
EVENTS
FAQ
FTP SITES
GOPHERS
HIGHER EDUCATION
HUMAN HEAD
HYPERCARD
IMAGES
JOURNALS
LISTSERVS
MAC or MACINTOSH SOFTWARE
MRI
NEURAL NETWORKS
NEUROANATOMY
NEUROBIOLOGY
NEUROENGINEERING
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
NEUROPSYCHIATRY
NEWS/NEWSGROUPS
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PHOTOGRAPHS
SAGITTAL
SKULL
SOFTWARE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TAPE AVAILABLE
TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS
THREE DIMENSIONAL
UNIX FILE
USENET GROUPS
WAIS INDEXED
WEB HOME PAGES
This index is provided for the convenience of locating Neuroscience resources by the type of resource rather than by subject or content. The items listed below are identical to those found in the Keyword Index.
DATA SETS
DIRECTORIES
EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
FAQ
FTP SITES
GOPHERS
IMAGES
JOURNALS
LISTSERVS
NEWS/NEWSGROUPS
USENET GROUPS
WAIS INDEXED
WEB HOME PAGES
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)