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From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:21:39 -0001
Subject: Med. Internet Buch
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 09:48:56 -0600
From: Mari Stoddard <stoddard@AHSC.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject: BOOK REVIEW: A Pocket Tour of Health & Fitness on the Internet
Jeanne C. Ryer
A Pocket Tour of Health & Fitness on the Internet
Sybex, 1995
$12.99
Size: 8" x 6"
User level: Beginning/Intermediate
Table of Contents: 3 levels, detailed
Index: 9 pages, Boldface page numbers for primary discussions
Summary: a useful and inexpensive book, valuable to anyone in health care
who answers questions about the Internet.
This 176 page book starts with a well-organized 41-page introduction to
the Internet that is clear and very succinct. Combined with
recommendations to local Internet Service Providers, this should be
sufficient to get most health care professionals started on the Internet.
Unfortunately, the section on FTP has several badly garbled command-line
examples.
The second part of the book is a subject guide to the Internet,
listing Web, Gopher and Mail resources. Only four or five resources are
given for each topic, and most information specialists will be familiar
with the majority of them. However, the listings are well selected and
nicely
annotated. Naturally, many of the Web addresses in this book
are already out-of-date. Unhappily, and unlike a number of other authors
of Internet books, Ryer is not providing an update on the Web to her
selections.
[Two AHSL resources -- the nutrition and smoking guides -- were listed by
Ryer. The address for both are out-of-date. Nutrition is being revised
extensively, and Smoking has been replaced by NicNet
(http://www.medlib.arizona.edu/~pubhlth/tobac.html).]