INTERNET DATABASES
                               Short Listing

                       Access via TELNET, FTP, or EMAIL
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CARL (Online database, book reviews, fax service):

          telnet pac.carl.org or 192.54.81.128


CHAT (Interactive Discussion on Aids -- Login as 'Chat'):

          telnet debra.dgbt.doc.ca or telnet 142.92.36.15


Chess Server (Play or watch chess):

          telnet valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu 5000 or 128.2.232.4 5000


Dante Project  (Divine Comedy -- Login, 'Connect dante'):

          telnet library.dartmouth.edu or 129.170.16.11


Diplomacy (Play SSI Diplomacy via email)

          mail judge@milton.u.washington.edu


DUATS (Weather reports, flight planning, etc. -- Login, 'your surname'):

          telnet duat.gtefsd.com or telnet 131.131.7.105 
          telnet duats.gtefsd.com or telnet 131.131.7.106


Earthquake Information (Location and time of recent earthquakes):

          finger quake@geophys.washington.edu or 128.95.16.50


E-Math (American Mathematics Society BBS -- Login and password, 'e-math'):

          telnet e-math.ams.com or 130.44.1.100


FaxGate (Fax service):

          mail FaxGate@elvis.sovusa.com  
   

FDA BBS   (Consumer and AIDS information -- Login, 'bbs'):
     
          telnet fdabbs.fda.gov or telnet 150.148.8.48


Freenet (Online Modern History Review, USA Today, etc.-- Login, 'guest'):

          telnet freenet.victoria.bc.ca
          telnet freenet.carleton.ca
          telnet freenet-in-[a,b,c].cwru.edu or 129.22.8.47 
          telnet yfn.ysu.edu or 192.55.234.27


FTP Sites/Archives (GIF Database, software, Bible, Declaration of
Independence, etc.):

          ftp ocf.berkeley.edu or ftp 128.32.184.254
          ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu or rainbow.cse.nau.edu or
          ftp ftp.uu.net
          ftp archive.umich.edu
          ftp oak.oakland.edu 
          ftp ftp.sura.net


Genetics Bank (general genetics database):

          mail gene-server@bchs.uh.edu
          mail retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
          mail blast@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov


Geographic Server (City, latitude/longitude, etc.):

          telnet martini.eecs.umich.edu 3000 or 141.212.99.9 3000


Georgetown Medical Library (Login, 'medlib',  Password, 'dahlgren',  Last
name, 'netguest'):

          telnet mars.georgetown.edu or telnet 141.161.40.4
  

Global Land Information System (Land use and geological info.- Login,
'guest'):

          telnet glis.cr.usgs.gov or telnet 152.61.192.54


Gopher (Access other services -- Login, 'gopher'):

          telnet consultant.micro.umn.edu or telnet 134.84.132.4
          telnet panda.uiowa.edu or telnet 128.255.40.201
          telnet gdunix.gd.chalmers.se or 129.16.221.40 (SWEDISH)
          telnet gopher.uiuc.edu or telnet 128.174.33.160
          telnet tolten.puc.cl or telnet 146.155.1.16 (CHILE)
          telnet wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu  (Login: wsuinfo)
          telnet gopher.ora.com or telnet 140.186.65.25
          telnet gopher.th-darmstadt.de or telnet 130.83.55.75
          telnet nstn.ns.ca or 137.186.128.11 (login: fred)


Guitar Chords/TAB (Guitar chords):

          ftp nevada.edu or ftp 131.216.1.11


Gutenberg Project (Library of books, short stories, historical document --
Login. 'anonymous'):

          ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu


Ham Radio Callbooks (National ham radio callbook):

          telnet callsign.cs.buffalo.edu 2000 or 128.205.32.2 2000
          telnet ham.njit.edu 2000 or telnet 128.235.1.10 2000


Handicap/Medical Site (Software and medical information-- Login,
'anonymous'):

          ftp handicap.shel.isc-br.com or ftp 129.189.4.184


Hpcwire (Information Searches -- Login, 'hpcwire'):

          telnet hpcwire.ans.net or telnet 147.225.1.51


Hytelnet Server (Library and university catalogues -- Login, 'hytelnet'):

          telnet access.usask.ca or telnet 128.233.3.1


Information and Software Server (Login, 'infoserv' or 'softserv'):

          telnet rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de or 129.69.1.12


Iowa Political Stock Market (Market for Political Candidates):

          telnet ipsm.biz.uiowa.edu or 128.255.44.2


IRC Telnet Client (Internet Relay Chat Access):

          telnet bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu or telnet 128.2.54.2
     

ISAAC (System for Advanced Academic Computing):

          telnet isaac.engr.washington.edu or 128.95.32.61


Law Library (Law Library and legal research -- Login, 'Lawlib'):

          telnet liberty.uc.wlu.edu or telnet 137.113.10.35 


LawNet (Judicial Information -- Login, 'lawnet'):

          telnet sparc-1.law.columbia.edu or telnet 128.59.176.78


Library Catalogs On Internet:

          ftp dla.ucop.edu (pub/internet/libcat-guide)
          ftp ftp.unt.edu (library/libraries.txt)
          ftp ariel.unm.edu (library/internet.library)


Library of Congress Catalogue:

          telnet dra.com or 192.65.218.43


List of Lists:

          ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com or ftp 192.33.33.22 
          mail mlol-request@wariat.org (music list of lists)


Lunar/Planetary Institute: (Login, 'lpi'):

          telnet lpi.jsc.nasa.gov or telnet 192.101.147.11


Lyric and Music Server:
     
          ftp ftp.uwp.edu
          ftp ftp.iastate.edu (/pub/lyrics)


Macintosh Computer Software Archive:

          ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu 


MELVYL: (Access to California, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard etc. University
Libraries):

          telnet melvyl.ucop.edu


MicroMUSE (Educational Multi-user simulation -- Login, 'guest'):

          telnet michael.ai.mit.edu or telnet 18.43.0.177


NASA Headline News:

          finger nasanews@space.mit.edu


NASA SpaceLink (NASA news):

          telnet spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov or 192.149.89.61    


National Education BBS (Login, 'guest'):

          telnet nebbs.nersc.gov or telnet 128.55.160.162


NED (NASA Extragalactic Database -- Login, 'ned'):

          telnet ned.ipac.caltech.edu or telnet 134.4.10.118


NICOL (Access to Electronic Publishing Service -- Login, 'nicol'):

          telnet nisc.jvnc.net or telnet 128.121.50.7


NICOLAS   (Internet network information -- Login, 'dftnic'):

          telnet dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.10.3


NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration Database -- Login,
'NOAADIR'):

          telnet nodc.nodc.noaa.gov or telnet 140.90.235.10


NODIS (National Space Science Data Center -- Login, 'nodis'):

          telnet nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.25
          telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.23


Nuclear Data Center (Database -- Login, 'nndc'):

          telnet bnlnd2.dne.bnl.gov or telnet 130.199.112.132


OSS-IS (Library and lists, government documents):

          ftp soaf1.ssa.gov
          mail info@soaf1.ssa.gov with "send index" as your msg.


PaperGate (Electronic Mail-- regular post):

          mail PaperGate@elvis.sovusa.com  


Public-Access Unix (Login, 'new'):

          telnet nyx.cs.du.edu or 130.253.192.68


Public-Access Unix ((Which host: 'um-m-net'  Enter 'g' for guest.  login:
newuser):

          telnet hermes.merit.edu or telnet 35.1.48.150
          telnet m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us or telnet 35.208.17.4


Queer Resource Directory (Aids and Gay Rights Information):

          ftp nifty.andrew.cmu.edu


SDDAS (SW Research Data Display & Analysis Center):

          telnet espsun.space.swri.edu 540 or 129.162.150.99 540


SERVICES (Access to listed services -- Login, 'services'):

          telnet wugate.wustl.edu or 128.252.120.1


Sid's Music Server (List of rare live recordings):

          mail mwilkenf@silver.ucs.indiana.edu


SPAN (Space Physics Analysis Network -- Login, 'SPAN_NIC'):

          telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov or telnet 128.183.36.23


StatLib Server (Statistics Programs and databases):

          mail statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu


STIS (Science & Technology Information System --Login, 'public'):

          telnet stis.nsf.gov or 128.150.195.40


Supreme Court Rulings (U.S. Supreme Court):

          ftp ftp.cwru.edu


UMD Information Database (Supreme Court Proceedings, etc.-- Login, 'info'):

          telnet info.umd.edu or telnet 128.8.10.29


UNC BBS (Access Library of Congress and other U.S. libraries -- Login,
'launchpad'):

          telnet launchpad.unc.edu or telnet 152.2.22.80 


Weather Maps (Surface analysis & current infrared weather maps GIFs):

         ftp vmd.cso.uiuc.edu


Webster (Dictionary)

          telnet cs.indiana.edu 2627 or 129.79.254.191 2627


World-Wide Web (Documents and lists -- Login, 'www'):

          telnet info.cern.ch or telnet 128.141.201.74 (SWISS)
          telnet eies2.njit.edu or telnet 128.235.1.43 (USA [NJ])
          telnet vms.huji.ac.il or telnet 128.139.4.3  (ISRAEL)
          telnet info.funet.fi or telnet 128.214.6.100 (FINLAND)


ZIB Electronic Library (Software and links to libraries -- Login, 'elib'):

          telnet elib.zib-berlin.de or telnet 130.73.108.11


                                 GLOSSARY
                                 ========


email     -- electronic mail


finger    -- issued to determine the identity of other users. For example:
          finger joedoe@freenet.victoria.bc.ca


ftp       -- file transfer protocol; used to transfer files across Internet


IP Address - unique address of a computer on Internet. The IP Address of 
          the computer used by the Dartmouth Library is:
          129.170.16.11


login     -- user identifier prompt


ping      -- command used to determine if a host site is operating.  For 
          example:  ping freenet.victoria.bc.ca


talk      -- command which permits interactive conversations; used when
          email is inconvenient or difficult to use. Example:
          talk joedoe@unixg.ubc.ca


telnet    -- Internet dial out protocol; used to call other computer sites.

          For example: (dialing site 'elib.zib-berlin.de',).
               telnet elib.zib-berlin.de  or  
               telnet 130.73.108.11