An internet review: The compleat neuroscientist scours the World Wide Web

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5290, 1996, Pages 1104-1108

  Bloom, Floyd E ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEUROSCIENCES; PERIODICALS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0029959554     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5290.1104     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. W. Gibson, Neuromancer (Ace Books. Berkeley Publishing, New York, 1981).
2. New York Times Magazine, 14 July 1996.
3. What to do with all those sites. Once you've gotten your Web browser "wet," so to speak, it won't be long before you're going to get interested in some ways to keep your sampled "keeper" Web sites organized. There are many shareware software programs that are available to do this, and the most competent browsers have at least rudimentary address books included for this purpose. A list with descriptions of the shareware software (such as ericsbookmarks, hotlistgrabber, urlclerk, and urlmanager) can be seen at URL http://www.jumbo. com. There are also commercial applications available that are somewhat better at this task. Compiling this survey of neuroscience Web sites gave me an opportunity to test WebWhacker and Cyber-Finder extensively. WebWhacker, from the Fore-Front Group, version 1.0.2 http://www.ffg.com (telephone: 713-961-1101) lets you save specific pages without leaving your browser. You can then and go back to that site later and save the pages it contains, as well as some of the external links to a local file on your hard drive. In that way, you can browse to your heart's content, usually much more quickly than if you were downloading each page as you needed it from the Web. A demo version good for 30 days ia available from their Web site in both Mac and Windows versions. CyberFinder, produced by Aladdin Systems of Watsonville, CA (telephone: 408-761-6200), provides "hot keys" through which you can blindly save Web sites you like to libraries of sites that you can organize in any categoriss you wish; you drag saved sites from one library to another, and you can go to the selected sites immediately by using another hot key to launch your Web browser to that site. Through a sad mistake, this pioneer discovered that one can-not keen both programs installed at the same tirrie. Web Buddy for PowerPC Macs now) (from DataViz Inc., Trumbal, CT (telephone: 203-268-0030: URL http://www.dataviz.com] wiil also try to perform ex-actly this same series of tasks but was only recently available for testng in a beta veision. It goes the other commercial software one better by allowing the user to make bookmarks of a site, make immediate captures of pages at a site at many levels selow the home page or schedule those offen prolonged downloading asseions for times when the Web is lass prone to heavy use (such as 3 a.m. on Sundays).