A Guide
to Resources at
Washington University
This page will be updated regularly as more departments and
resources at the university become available on the WWW. Questions,
comments and corrections to this list should be addressed to
lynn@pharmdec.wustl.edu.
- WashU. World Window:
Washington University's 'window' to the
Internet.. includes listings of library catalogs and resources at institutions
around the world, databases, and internet tools including a
gopher client, and a lynx (WWW) client (usable only within the
.wustl domain). You do not need an account or password to use
the basic system. Follow the instructions given.
- The WashU Home Page, has
links to all areas of the university, and a descriptive page of
university
resources.
- A list of
Electronic Resources at Washington University which includes all
WWW, Gopher and FTP servers of departments at the medical and
hilltop campuses.
- The
WashU Campus Bookstore, with information on everything from
ordering books to price listings from the campus
computer store.
- So, do you think you have seen everything in St. Louis? Take a look through
the St. Louis Home Page.
Some of the contents include a helicopter
tour of the city,
historical information (including the
'Great Flood of 1993'), the KDHX Area Arts Calendar,
and the 1995 schedule for the St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra.
- Ok. SHOW ME.
- Wuarchive (see below).
- The Washington
University Observatory Page contains a brief history
of the observatory, a description of heavenly bodies currently
visible, and lists hours when the observatory is open to the public.
- Home page for the Central Institute for the
Deaf.
- The St. Louis Science Center is
now on-line! You can interactively tour many of the
galleries, and multimedia exhibits.
- MOBO!!The
Missouri Botannical Gardens. Take a walk through the
Shaw Gardens or read through their many, ongoing educational programs.
- The Electronic Zoo
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Wuarchive is one of the largest ftp archives
in the country.
Its contents are so varied and diverse that it deserves its own section.
The ftp archives can be reached in one of four ways, directly from these
web pages, by anonymous ftp to wuarchive.wustl.edu,
via their web server at http://
wuarchive.wustl.edu, or through the gopher server at gopher://wuarchive.wustl.edu/.
A few helpful hints..
General information about the archive resides in the /info directory. The arrangements file in this directory
has a somewhat jumbled outline of the filing system, and the
paths to specific directories.
Information on the contents of specific directories can often be found in
the README file (when present). Some directories
may also have an index listing of all files (named 00index.txt).
Many files will be compressed or encoded in some manner. Some common
compression/encryption forms include: .Z (UNIX compressed), .gz
('gnuzip'), .zip (compressed with PC-zip), .sit (Macintosh
Stuffit Archive), and .hqx (Bin-Hex). I have put together list of
commonly encountered file suffixes, and
what to do about them. At the very least,
reading through this page may save you some hours of pulling out tufts of hair
trying to find the right decoder for the decoding program you need to
decode, to decode your program.. etc..
The bottom of the top index page to
Wuarchive has a lot of useful information on using the archive,
transferring files, and how to tell the server to automatically
decode files for you as you download them.
What you can find in Wuarchive?
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Databases maintained at the School of Medicine may all be accessed
via the Home Page for the
Becker Medical Library..
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Information
about all WashU. libraries. (Hours, location on campus, available resources..)
The page for the
WashU Medical Library includes access to the Online BACS Catalog** (**Telnet link to
128.252.152.52). You do not need an account to use the catalog.
Follow the instructions given.
LUIS-PLUS**, the online catalog
for all libraries on the WashU main campus (**Telnet link to
notis.wustl.edu). You do not need an account to use the catalog.
Follow the instructions given.
Special Collections of
Olin Library, includes the Rare Books
Colection, and the
Manuscripts Collection.
Libraries
at University of Missouri, St. Louis
(UMSL)
Pius XII Library at St. Louis University
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The Visible Human Project. Correlative Anatomy Demonstration.
The Cochlear Fluids Laboratory
has a very nice tutorial (with excellent pictures!) on the functioning of the
Inner Ear.
The WWW
Histology Service
Learn about
tornadoes,
earthquakes, and
dinosaurs at the St. Louis
Science Center.
A series of
cases and teaching files at the Mallinckrodt Institute of
Radiology
Various tutorials
on using the internet, and different computer systems, put together
by the Center for High
Performance Computing
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Wuarchive has one of the largest collections
of shareware and freely available computer software.
The Institute for Biomedical Computing
The Software Library on
the WashU main campus (part of ACN, the Academic Computing Network)
Tools put together by the Center for High Performance
Computing
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last modified 11-12-95
