New Scout Publications Uncover Internet Ground

The Internet Scout Project of UW–Madison’s computer sciences has announced the start of three new free electronic publications designed for the higher-education community.

The new Subject Specific Scout Reports for Science & Engineering, Social Science, and Business & Economics were designed with advice from academics in each field and the librarians who serve them. Every issue, compiled by librarians and content specialists, will be published every two weeks via e-mail and the World Wide Web, according to Susan Calcari, project director and managing editor.

Goals of the new reports are:

• To expand the Internet Scout Project’s existing services by providing the higher-education community with information specific to a given field.
• To continue research into the cataloging and archiving of electronic resources, with expansion of the content of the Scout Report Signpost, a database of selected web sites and Internet resources, to include highly specialized resources.
• To investigate and implement new subject-based delivery techniques on the Internet using the cataloged contents of the Signpost.

The first report for Science & Engineering was released Sept. 17. The Social Science and Business & Economics reports begin publication this week. All three reports will be available through an e-mail distribution list and from the Internet Scout web site.

To subscribe to the Subject Specific Scout Reports, visit the web site or send e-mail to: scoutlst@cs.wisc.edu and in the body of the message type subscribe srscieng, or subscribe srsocsci, or subscribe srbusecon, depending on the publication you wish to receive.

The goal of the Internet Scout Project is to provide improved resource discovery services to the higher-education community through the implementation of leading-edge technologies and research into new directory and delivery technologies.

Internet Scout is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is a project of the InterNIC. InterNIC, a collaboration of NSF, Network Solutions, Inc., and AT&T, can be found on the web.