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Appendix 3 National UK Services

Services

The Bulletin Board For Libraries (BUBL) holds a wide range of information of interest to anyone involved with libraries in education. Further information is available at the URL http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/home.html

The Mailbase mailing list service run a WWW server which is available at the URL http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/

The Micros Hensa service run a WWW server which is available at the URL http://micros.hensa.ac.uk/

The Unix Hensa service run a WWW server which is available at the URL http://unix.hensa.ac.uk/

CTISS run a WWW server which is available at the URL http://www.ox.ac.uk/cti/

The Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) runs a WWW server which is available at the URL http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/UKOLN/home.html

NISS is setting up a WWW server which is available at the URL http://www.niss.ac.uk/

A TLTP specific Web Server is available at the URL http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/tltp

The Social Sciences Information Gateway is available at the URL http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/

CCTA, the UK Government computer agency, runs a WWW server which is available at the URL http://www.open.gov.uk/

Directories

A list of United Kingdom Based WWW servers is available at the URL http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/all-uk.html

A UK tourist guide is available at the URL http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/misc/uk/intro.html

A UK sensitive map is available at the URL http://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/ukinfo/uk.map.html This service is maintained by the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton (email jphb@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk)

WAIS Resources

The following WAIS services are provided by NISS.

NISS Bulletin Board

A wide range of information of interest to varying sectors of the academic community. This service is available at the URL wais://gopher.niss.ac.uk/NISSBB

World Factbook

Basic details (population, climate, main industries and so on) for the countries in the World. Use a search term such as the name of a country to locate particular records. This service is available at the URL wais://wais.niss.ac.uk/World_Factbook

Roget's Thesaurus

The 1911 edition (enhanced with an additional 1,000+ words not included in the original version) of the ever-useful thesaurus of the English language. Use any word as your search term. This service is available at the URL wais://wais.niss.ac.uk/Roget

JANET News

JANET News contains material about the JANET computer network, such as registered domain names and addresses, and information about gateways to other networks. This service is available at the URL wais://news.janet.ac.uk/JANET.news

CHEST Directory

The CHEST Directory of software is available at the URL wais://wais.niss.ac.uk/CHEST_Directory

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