University of Toronto

The University community consists of approximately 45,000 undergraduate students, 8,000 graduate students, 3,300 academic & librarian staff, and 7,300 administrative & union staff. This community is accommodated in 258 buildings spread over three large campuses: St George campus in downtown Toronto, Scarborough College 33 kilometres (21 miles) to east, and Erindale an equal distance to the west. The University's Libraries provide the community with access to over 7.7 million books, 37 thousand serial subscriptions, and millions of other materials. Every imaginable discipline is covered at the University and there are 66 doctoral specializations.

There are many World Wide Web and Gopher information services at the University of Toronto, with material of interest to the university and international communities. This page can only provide some starting points for exploration.

University of Toronto Starting Points

• UTLink: University of Toronto Library and Information Network
• Online Library catalogue using Web form or standard interface (login as "utlink")
• University of Toronto Phone Directory
• University of Toronto by expertise in the Community of Science (formerly BEST) database

University of Toronto Information Services:

• Aging, Centre for Studies of
• Architecture and Landscape Architecture, School of
• Astronomy Department
• Astrophysics, Canadian Institute for Theoretical (CITA)
• Bladen Library
• Biochemistry, Department of
• Botany, Department of
• Chemistry, Department of
• Communications Group, Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Computer Science, Department of
• Computer Systems Research Institute
• Computing and Communications (UTCC), Division of
• Data Library
• Economics, Department of
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
• Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
• EPAS Computing Facility
• Environment, Division of the
• Erindale College
• Industrial Engineering, Department of
• Forestry, Faculty of
• Geology, Department of
• Graduate Studies, School of
• Health Boosters
• Humanities, Centre for Computing in the (CCH)
• Information Studies, Faculty of(formerly Library & Information Science)
• Instructional and Research Computing (UTIRC), Computing & Communications
• Landscape Research, Centre for
• Library, University of Toronto
• Mcluhan Program in Culture and Technology
• Mathematics, Department of
• Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto
• Mechanical Engineering, Department of
• Medical Biophysics, Department of
• Network and Operations Services (UTNOS), Computing & Communications
• Oxford English Dictionary (at CCH)
• Physics, Department of
• Policy Analysis, Institute for
• Scarborough College
• Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
• Technology Support Group (UTTS), Computing & Communications
• VM Gopher
• Zoology, Department of

Some International Starting Points

• Catalog of WWW resources courtesy CUI
• WWW Information By Subject
• WWW Information By Type
• NCSA: Network Starting Points, Information Resource Meta-Index
• The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides courtesy University of Michigan
• Scott Yanoff's Internet Services List
• O'Reilly & Ass. Global Network Navigator (GNN) and register for notices
• Nova-Links: Internet access made easy
• All USENET Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) via UofT Physics or Ohio State
• All the Gopher servers in the world
• Hytelnet database (including Internet reachable On-line Library catalogs)

Information sources about and for WWW

• For a description of WWW choose Web Overview
• About the WWW Information Sharing project
• WWW Information By Subject
• WWW Information By Type
• For information about WWW software
  • About Lynx WWW browser
  • Demo for Mosaic, What's New with NCSA Mosaic, and NCSA Mosaic Server,

This page is maintained by Alex Nishri, alex.nishri@utoronto.ca, of Computing & Communications. Created April 1, 1994. Last Updated $Date: 95/04/07 14:50:35 $

Thanks to Chen Wang, chen@cs.toronto.edu, of the Department of Computer Science for the first version. Thanks to Terry Jones of Computing & Communications for the University crest.