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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1995
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED382225 |
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- The Internet Compendium: Subject Guides to Humanities Resources. Rosenfeld, Louis And Others Humanities Indexes Internet Online Searching Resource Materials Telecommunications This guide describes and evaluates the Internet's humanities resources by subject. It offers information on a multitude of listservs; Usenet newsgroups; forums; electronic journals; topical mailing lists; text archives; Freenets; bulletin boards; FAQs; newsletters; real-time chats; databases; and library catalogs. Internet users can draw upon these resources to find up-to-the-minute information about literature and the arts, religion, philosophy, library science, and education. The book enables readers to explore thousands of finding guides in subject areas such as: book discussions and reviews; film and video resources; popular music; theater and performance studies; architecture and building/construction; environmental conservation; Christian, Buddhist, Tibetan, and other religious studies resources; the occult and mysticism; and journalism. It also contains numerous library and information science job listings, arranged by both region and profession. The volume is divided into easy-to-use, fully indexed subject guides that allow access to exact topics and provides a critical analysis of the content. Information is provided on everything the novice Internet user needs to know to get started: navigating traditionally with Telnet; FTP (File Transfer Protocol); ways of efficiently searching with Gopher, World Wide Web; and looking for information with Archie, Veronica, Jumpstation, and WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers). (Author/MAS)