FYI: THE SCIENTIST - press release

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

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Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 13:50:49 -0400
From: garfield@aurora.cis.upenn.edu (E. Garfield)
Posted-Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 13:50:49 -0400
Message-Id: <9305211750.AA25888@aurora.cis.upenn.edu>
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu, spresre@aurora.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: THE SCIENTIST - press release
Cc: garfield@aurora.cis.upenn.edu




May 21, 1993



Dave Farber
University of Pennsylvania

Dear Dave:

Recently you posted a message to interesting people about the 
_Internet Business Journal_.  However, I don't recall a similar 
notice about THE SCIENTIST, so I prepared the following press 
release for you to use.

Best wishes,
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Gene
Eugene Garfield                Phone:(215)386-0100 Ext. 1504
The Scientist                  Fax  :(215)387-1266
3501 Market Street             E-mail: garfield@aurora.cis.upenn.edu
Philadelphia,  PA 19104, U.S.A.
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THE SCIENTIST newspaper, now available on internet....


THE SCIENTIST, a biweekly newspaper for scientists and the 
research community, is now available electronically -- in full 
text and free of charge -- on the Internet network.  Eugene 
Garfield, publisher of THE SCIENTIST, states that electronic 
access to the newspaper's articles and features has been made 
fully available following a successful trial experiment on 
NSFnet, the electronic communications network of the National 
Science Foundation.

Founded in 1986, THE SCIENTIST is published in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, USA, and is circulated internationally to 
researchers, administrators, and policy makers in academia, 
industry, and government.  THE SCIENTIST is the only newspaper 
that exclusively covers current issues and events that impact the 
professional research environment--including funding legislation, 
new grants, employment and salary trends, career advancement 
opportunities, ethics and conflicts of interest, representation 
of women and minorities in science, and the interplay of 
industrial, academic, and governmental research.  In addition, 
THE SCIENTIST reports on trends in research and features the 
opinions of leaders in science.

THE SCIENTIST can be accessed on the NSFnet AT&T server by the 
instructions provided below.  The full text of issues from 
November 1992 onward are accessible.  New issues are added every 
two weeks on alternate Mondays, coinciding with the cover date of 
the printed edition.  Back issues are being loaded every other 
week, until the full seven year file is completed.  

For more information, contact Eugene Garfield at:
Phone:  (215)386-0100 Ext. 1504
Fax:    (215)387-1266 
E-mail: garfield@aurora.cis.upenn.edu


INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACCESSING THE SCIENTIST ON AT&T SERVER:


ftp Method:
type:  ftp ds.internic.net
at login, type: anonymous
at prompt, type in your internet address as password
at next prompt type: cd pub/the-scientist
at next prompt type: dir

This will You will list the files in The Scientist directory
type : get (and the issue you wish to retrieve)

To leave the server, type: quit

The Scientist files are added every two weeks.
File numbers will correspond to date of publication.

Example:  get the-scientist-921207
is:       the-scientist-92(for year) 12(for month) 07(day)


                              OR

telnet/WAIS Client:

type:
telnet ds.internic.net
at login, type:  WAIS   (no password required)
at search prompt, type: database resource-guide
at search prompt, type: list db
at search prompt, type: db the-scientist
at next prompt, type : query_(key words to be searched)


A tutorial on searching by WAIS is available on the menu. 



                               OR

 You can access The Scientist via AT&T Info-Server, which is 
 an automatic program that delivers information by electronic 
 mail.  To request The Scientist from the Info-Server, send 
 a message to :

 INFO-SERVER@admin@ds.internic.net

 You do not need a subject field.  However, the text of your 
 request must be in a special format as follows:

 REQUEST: the-scientist
 LINE-LIMIT:1500   or BYTE-LIMIT: 40K
 TOPIC: the-scientist-921207 (if you want the December 7 issue) 
 or
 TOPIC:the-scientist-index (if you wish to see the list of 
                           Scientist files)
 REQUEST:END


 This request asks for two documents -- The Scientist of 
 December 7, 1992 and Index to The Scientist.  You can request 
 upto 20 topics in one request.  Each topic on a separate line.

 The AT&T Info-Server is now configured to split documents into a 
 maximum size of 40,000 bytes (40K bytes).  The reason is that 
 some important mail gateways reject messages longer than an 
 arbitrary limit, and others have difficulty with long messages 
 from time to time.  This is why you have to give Line or Byte 
 Limit on the second line of your request.

 The requested information will be transmitted to your mail box.


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