Welcome to CNIDR, the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval.

This is our World-Wide Web server, which we use to publish various papers, reports, and other information. This page is the "table of contents" for our collection.

What's New at CNIDR

• The CNIDR United States Patent Database System: serving patents related to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and provided as a public service by CNIDR, USPTO, NSF and AT&T

• CNIDR Whois++ gateway/server: part of our new resource location systems initiative!

• CNIDR Z39.50 server: part of our on-line libraries project and Z39.50 development.

CNIDR Information

• CNIDR Objectives: CNIDR's goals, as defined by our Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF).
• CNIDR History: How CNIDR was formed.
• CNIDR Funding: Who supports CNIDR and its work.
• CNIDR Staff: The staff at CNIDR.
• CNIDR Projects: A description of the projects underway at CNIDR.
• CNIDR Papers: Various papers by the CNIDR Staff.
• CNIDR Milestones: What CNIDR has done and hopes to do.
• Working with CNIDR.

Other Information

• About Z39.50
• About World Wide Web.
• The WWW Virtual Library
• Astronomy/Astrophysics Sites.
• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
• SunSITE at UNC.
• Experimental access to on-line libraries.

We try to maintain some consistency among the pages on this server. Any time you see , you can click on it to return to this page.

Please send comments and suggestions to Jim Fullton (jim.fullton@cnidr.org) or Nassib Nassar (nassib.nassar@cnidr.org).