CYBERSPACE UPDATE--Get Connected

by David Carlson

NCRVE has a variety of electronic services available to the public. Highlights of the past few months include: simpler, more flexible searching of publication abstracts and more publications available on the World Wide Web. For titles of items added to the Web in the last few months, see Products Online in the pullout section of this CenterWork. Our electronic services are already used by thousands of people--for information on how you can join in, keep reading! (Note: electronic addresses given below are enclosed in <angle brackets> to set them off from the text. Do not include the brackets when typing the addresses on your computer.)

Simpler, More Flexible Searching

A new, less cluttered search form has been created for searching the NCRVE products catalog (the titles and abstracts of all NCRVE publications): <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/QuickFind.html>. This form is now the default when you follow the link "Search NCRVE Product Abstracts" on the NCRVE home page. You can still access the more complete form at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/ProdSearch.html>.

Both of these search forms now include check boxes that allow you to restrict your search to those items that have full-text or executive summaries available online.

Rate the NCRVE Website

We'd like to know how you feel about the usability and content of the NCRVE website. Please provide your feedback on a quick-and-easy online form at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/WebEvalForm.html>.

Keep Up with the NCRVE Website

Would you like to get a short email message whenever new publications and features become available on the NCRVE website?

If so, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu, and put the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line of the message. About 550 people were on the list at the end of February.

VOCNET and DISSMN8

VOCNET, NCRVE's email discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,522 subscribers. Approximately 400 items were posted in November-February. VOCNET archives are available on the AskERIC website, at <http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/VOCNET.html>.

DISSMN8, NCRVE's email discussion group for educational dissemination-related topics, now boasts 190 subscribers, up 3 percent from November 1.

How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services

World Wide Web --Point your WWW browser to <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/>.

VOCNET--See the instructions on the NCRVE website at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/VOCNET.html>.

DISSMN8--See the instructions on the NCRVE website at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/DISSMN8.html>.

NCRVE-WWW-Announce--To subscribe, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu that contains the word subscribe in the subject line.

AskNCRVE--If you have a question about a vocational education-related issue, send email to AskNCRVE@ncrve.berkeley.edu.

CyberSpace Update --For a copy of the most recent CyberSpace Update, which summarizes the items added to the NCRVE website during the preceding two months, send a blank email message to CyberSpace@ncrve.berkeley.edu. Current and back issues of CyberSpace Update (covering events since April 1998) are available on the web at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CyberSpace/>.

David Carlson managed electronic communications for NCRVE's Dissemination Program.