Internet on a CD: Nexus Library and Virtual WWW

Many nations do not have access to the internet, putting their scientists at a disadvantage, the equivalent of living in the electronic stone age. This is especially so in crystallography where access to the latest scientific software and the resource sharing technology the internet enables is extremely important. A CD is being developed for PCs running DOS and Windows that contains a variety of freeware, shareware and crystallographic utility software normally obtained via the internet. Also included is background information on the internet including sample crystallographic and academic web pages to create a simple, crude "Virtual WWW" so that people who have never seen this technology can get an idea of what it is about. 20 "test" CDs are available free by contacting Lachlan at the following address, Recipients are under an obligation to "eventually" produce and submit a Web page containing information on their labs for the Crystallographic Nexus Web page.

An existing Web page of this type is X-ray Lab, Chemistry Div., Natl Center for Scientific Res. (CNIC) , Havana, Cuba: http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/nexus/cuba/library/software.htm. The contents of the CD are available at http://www.unige.ch/crystal/stxnews/nexus/library/software.htm

Contact L. Cranswick at: lachlan@melbpc.org.au.