ABSTRACT

This book provides a straightforward manual and review handbook for accessing and using the resources of the Internet in the day to day labours of the working scientist. It addresses the problem of how to cope with an army who have discovered a whole new toy shop full of goodies.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

An overview of the purpose of this book, and what can scientists can do with the Internet

part |161 pages

Communicating with other People

chapter |17 pages

Email

chapter |49 pages

Index to Scientific Mailing Lists

chapter |19 pages

Newsgroups

chapter |56 pages

Newsgroup Reviews

chapter |17 pages

Real Time Chat

MUDs, MOOs, IRCs, Electronic Conferencing

part |114 pages

Communicating with other Computers

chapter |5 pages

Telnet, or Host Presenter

chapter |15 pages

The World Wide Web

chapter |24 pages

Reviews of WWW Science Sites

chapter |37 pages

Creating your own Web Site

chapter |4 pages

The Tea Break