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Download This PDF File African studies computer resources By Patricia S. Kuntz Internet/Bitnet Internet and beyond: African The most common network systems through­ linkages out the world are Internet and Bitnet. Internet is growing in popularity with the various com­ patible networks such as NetNorth (Canada), he “information highway” is very busy Janet (United Kingdom), and EARN (Europe). T among Africanists around the world. Schol­ Nearly all U.S. universities and most colleges ars based in Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, purchase a connection to the Internet. This em­ Kenya, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, ployment benefit enables faculty, staff, and stu­ Zambia, and Zimbabwe with colleagues in the dents access to File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Americas, Europe, and Asia have coordinated Telnet, and UseNet. In contrast, Bitnet’s main conferences, written research papers, and feature is the automatic conversation lists called shared ideas on technology using one or more “Listserv.” One should not confuse the new of the four computer network services. software “Listserver” which is comparable for This essay focuses on African studies com­ the Internet. puter resources available in the U.S. with link­ ages to Africa. Four fundamental computer sys­ Electronic Mail tems exist: Intemet/Bitnet, Fidonet, UseNet, and Both Intemet/Bitnet networks provide electron­ BBS (dial-up bulletin board services). An up­ ic mail (e-mail) for sending public and private dated list of these network services is available messages. Messages from one network system from Arthur McGee.1 For a complete list of files, are tracked through gateways to other systems. contact: Internet-.<[email protected]> Consequently, readers having only an Internet <amcgee®eis.calstate.edu> BDPA BAC: [1-707- or Bitnet address can still send and receive 552-3314] to [Arthur McGee]; Data Bits Online: messages to the other network. In fact, gate­ [1-213-295-6094] to [Arthur McGee]; ways also facilitate the use of Fidonet and UUCP CompuServe: [72377,1351]; Voice: [1-310-320- technology. BYTE] For example, e-mail contacts to Africanists AFRIMAIL.MSG = Intemet/Bitnet Mailing Lists and inquiries concerning African studies can AFRISITE.MSG = Online Information Sites be made through the following organizations: AFRINEWS.MSG = UseNet Newsgroups • African Studies Association (ASA): BLACKBBS.MSG = BBS List <[email protected]>. One of the To demonstrate the wide variety of network oldest area studies associations of academics services available to Africanists, only a few ex­ with over 3,000 members. amples will be mentioned in each category. • American Association for the Advance­ Nevertheless, the field of information technol­ ment of Science/African Academy of Science ogy via computers is exploding even in Afri­ (AAAS): <[email protected]>. A joint can countries with limited resources and con­ U.S. and African association for the promotion flicting political and social policies. of scientific research and technology. Patricia S. Kuntz is outreached director of the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; bitnet: ‹k u n tz @wiscmacc›; Internet: <[email protected]> 68/C&RL News • Association of African Studies Programs Distribution lists (AASP): ‹N A ›. An association of colleges and Another Intemet/Bitnet feature is the option of universities which offer a collection of courses creating public or private distribution lists. These concerning African content. This organization consist of frequently used addresses which form sponsors the summer language programs. an identifiable interest group. Users are obli­ • Washington Office on Africa (WOA): gated to discuss issues centering on the topic <[email protected]>. This office lobbies the U.S. of the distribution list. Congress concerning issues of Africanists, Afri­ One type of distribution list can be devel­ cans, and African-related issues. oped and maintained as an extension to a pri­ As a result of the National Defense Educa­ vate account. In this situation the list owner tion Act (1958), the U.S. Department of Educa­ manually maintains the board and answers tech­ tion funds the following universities to teach nical questions concerning list policy, topics, courses, conduct research, and disseminate in­ and software. Generally, subscribers have ac­ formation about Africa throughout their respec­ cess to these lists free of cost. Unlike other ser­ tive regions. Below is a list of the current grad­ vices, these private distribution lists do not ar­ uate and undergraduate centers for African chive messages or update subscribers. An studies (NDEA/HEA Title VI African Studies example of this feature is Michigan State Uni­ Centers): versity’s African Studies Center biweekly news­ • Boston University: not available letter. Africanists can contact the list owner, • Univ. o f California-Berkeley: <asc@ Yacob Fisseha, at his personal address: uclink.berkeley.edu> <[email protected]> for inclusion on the mail­ • Univ. of Califomia-Los Angeles: ‹ ? ©others. ing list. sscnet.ucla.edu> The following list of lists is a sample of sev­ • Cornell University: not available eral African-related public distribution • Univ. of Florida: <[email protected]. newsgroups. Some of the groups are open to ufl.edu› the public while others are designed for Afri­ • Univ. of Illinois: <dcrummey@uxl. cans of a particular nationality or persuasion. If cso.uiuc.edu> not specifically indicated, assume that they of­ • Indiana University: <[email protected]> fer public access. Since not all list owners fol­ • Michigan State University: <africa@ low a specific subscription convention, one may msu.edu› need to write the board directly to obtain di­ • Ohio State University: <mowoe.2@ rections for subscription procedures. osu.edu› • [email protected]. Discussion concern­ • Univ. o f Pennsylvania Consortium: ing Burkina Faso or those who worked in there. <[email protected]> • [email protected]. African • Stanford University: <richard.roberts@ news service from various wire services and forsythe.stanfond.edu> information concerning the Boston-area • Univ. o f Wisconsin: <afrst@macc. Africanists. wisc.edu› • [email protected]. • Yale University: not available Subscribe: <algeria-net-request@monte. svec.uh.edu>. Commercial companies also provide e-mail • [email protected]. Persons connections, in addition to a wide variety of interested in Berbers and North Africa with other services such as online news, weather messages accepted in English, French, and reports, and so forth. The largest commercial Tamazight. Subscribe: <amazight-net-request@ company is CompuServe, which provides engcd.bu.edu>. CompuServe Africa service for the growing Af­ • [email protected]. A monitored service rican demand for network connections, espe­ for members and friends of the American Asso­ cially from southern Africa.2 Another commer­ ciation of Teachers of Arabic (AATA). Discus­ cial service for African news is NewsNet.3 This sion focuses on linguistic and pedagogical is­ company has the following products among sues of Arabic. others: AFRICA NEWS, ANGOLA PEACE MONI­ • [email protected]. A Canadian service for TOR, ASP DIPLOMAT, MIDEAST MARKETS, African students [email protected]. SOUTH AFRICAN FOCUS, SOUTHSCAN— Egyptian students and friends. Subscribe: SOUTHERN AFRICA. <egypt-net-request@das. harvard.edu>. February 1994/69 A Better Way To Search Databases e started in 1985, database searchers software. But a better way means meeting Wcommitted to better search software the evolving needs - individual and campus design. We became the premier vendor of wide - of today’s library users. Medline, then expanded our catalog to other databases. Last year we won nnouncing OVID: a database interface Information World Review’s PRODUCT Aso flexible it molds itself to your search O F T H E Y E A R for faster, easier search environment. W ith O V ID you’re free to move A haven fo r beginners, O V ID ’s Search with natural language from one operating system Easy Mode has on screen i f y ou like. O V ID mapping to another without retraining. prompts. The more experienced cuts through the mystery o f OVID ’s Common User can pull-down menus showing controlled vocabularies, homing Interface assures identical an array o f search options. in on precisely matching functionality in DOS, Experts w ill feel at home subject headings. Windows and UNIX. using online syntax. There’s an unprecedented array o f H E LP fo r every search function search tools - indexes, thesauri, is context-sensitive and on limits and fields - many never before screen, never more than a key­ available in an interface. They’re all stroke or mouse click away. standard O V ID features. OVID. A better way to search ERIC, Current Contents®, PsycINFO®, Medline, Readers’ Guide Abstracts, EMBASE and more. CD PLUS Technologies New York 800-950-2035/2 12-563-3006 London 44-(0)81-748-3777 Amsterdam 20-672-0242 February 1994/71 service (WAIS). In addition to providing e-mail • South Africa— Discussion of the political, addresses, course lists, weekly announcements, economic, social situation in South Africa in­ and faculty addresses, this connection accesses cluding the Apartheid philosophy, the “transi­ computerized library catalog systems around tional government,” and constitutional revisions. the world. • Southern Africa Drought—The agricultur­ The University of Pennsylvania, African Stud­ al and environmental situation in eight south­ ies Consortium, has created an African studies ern African
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