Agricultural information on the Internet : what is out there and how to find it
Hugo Besemer, I.V. Veerman · Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 1995
Information on the Internet can be stored as a document in an ftp server, gopher server or World Wide Web (WWW) server, as a record in WAIS-indexed database, or appear as a posting to a mailing list or a Usenet newsgroup. Each information unit has a unique address (now mostly represented by a Uniform Resource Locator(URL). Searching gopherspace can be done by Veronica servers but indexing for the WWW is being developed. Internet resource guides are available in printed form as well as documents that can be downloaded. The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides is maintained by the University of Michigan's University Library and School of Information and Library Studies and is available over the Internet. Subject trees in gophers are also maintained by various gopher sites. Searching on the Internet is limited but browsing the Internetwith the help of gopher and WWW will lead to unexpected sources of information. Currently indexes to WWW are available free of charge but commercial enterprises such as Infoseek are charging a fee for the use of their indexes.