How to Get A Biologist's Guide to Internet Resources This guide contains an overview and lists of free Internet resources such as: scientific discussion groups and mailing lists research newsletters, directories, and bibliographies huge data and software archives tools for finding and retrieving information a bibliography of useful books and Internet documents The current version of the free 45-page guide can be obtained over the Internet via Usenet, gopher, FTP and e-mail: - In Usenet, look in sci.bio or sci.answers. - Gopher to sunsite.unc.edu, and choose this sequence of menu items: Sunsite Archives Ecology and Evolution Or, from any gopher offering other biology gophers by topic, look for the menu item "Ecology and Evolution [at UNC and Yale]". The guide is stored there in two ways: as a file for easy retrieval and as a menu for browsing. - FTP to rtfm.mit.edu. Give the username "anonymous" and your e-mail address as the password. Use the "cd" command to go to the directory pub/usenet/news.answers/biology/guide and use "get part1", "get part2" etc. or "prompt" and "mget *" to copy all 6 parts of the guide to your computer. The files are stored as part1.Z etc. and are compressed binary files, but if you specify "part1", the file will be uncompressed and translated to readable ASCII before it is transfered to your computer. For information about how to get other useful documents from this archive, send the message "help". You can also use anonymous FTP to sunsite.unc.edu, where this guide is stored as pub/academic/biology/ecology+evolution/FAQ. - Send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the text "send usenet/news.answers/biology/guide/*". You will receive 6 files in response, one for each part: save each part separately, delete the e-mail headers, and merge them. -- Una Smith Department of Biology smith-una@yale.edu Yale University New Haven, CT 06511