THE ONLINE WORLD Resources Handbook <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> by Odd de Presno Version 3.4 - ISBN 82-7820-016-5 (23th release, Nov 1997) Highlights of changes since the last release: --------------------------------------------- * Research: The IQuest database service. Chinese books in Chinese. * News: News only search engines. Full text search of Russian newspapers and periodicals. Top 10 news from Asia. * Business: Japanese databases within science, technology and medicine. OECD. * Education: More reference work links. The Francopholistes l'annuaire des listes de diffusion francophones. Virtual museums around the world. Chinese philosophy. * After hours: German wines. Search engine for travel information. * Health: Free MEDLINE information. More AIDS information. Herpes. Chinese medicine. * Various: Packet radio. Virtual Helsinki 2000. IRC information. More hints for searching the web by email. Making web pages accessible to people with disabilities. Organizations prepared to host mailing lists. Lists of free NNTP servers. More meta-search agents. The online hypertext version ---------------------------- is at http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/, and will soon be available from mirror sites in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungrary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, or the United States. http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/mirrors.html [Norway] http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/presno/bok/mirrors.html [U.S.A.] The ascii version is at http://home.eunet.no/~presno/online.txt. Check http://home.eunet.no/~presno/where.html for a detailed listing sites that carry it. For sample articles (hypertext) from The Online World Monitor newsletter, see http://home.eunet.no/~presno/monitor.html. This bi-monthly publication focuses on trends, and important developments in the online world. Thanks, Odd de Presno (Author, publisher, Norwegian) ;-------------------==> presno@eunet.no <==-------------------------. : http://home.eunet.no/~presno/presno.html : : KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15 - http://www.kidlink.org : `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'