1994-1995: Vanderbilt’s second homepage (below) was the first to go live. Only a few academic or administrative departments had sites to link to from the homepage, however.
Welcome to the Vanderbilt University World Wide Web server, a gateway to information services provided by and for the Vanderbilt community. Vanderbilt is an independent university with an undergraduate program and a full range of graduate and professional programs. It has a strong faculty of over 1,600 full-time members and a diverse student body of about 9,700.
Students from many regions, backgrounds and disciplines come together for multidisiplinary study and research. (Select this link to read about the current status of this server.)
Blair has a WWW home page for its course in Computer Music (MUSC 216). Blair also offers information about Music
to Go, a listing of all the classes offerd by the School for non-music majors.
The School of Medicine houses various W3 servers. You can access the BMES (contact andy.hsieh@mcmail.vanderbilt.edu for questions regarding this server), the Medical Center Library and the Virgil Project servers.
This section offers access to the Computational Science Educational Project. For questions regarding this project, contact the editor, Verena Umar, at verena@csep0.cc.vanderbilt.edu.
Local Art Galleries On-Line
This section offers access to the on-line exhibitions of Vanderbilt artists. You can link to an exhbition of Computational
Art, by VUCC Research Artist Brian Evans.
An electronic version of the publication Television News Index and Abstracts, which allows people to identify television newscasts. Copies from the Archive’s collection are loaned to individuals throughout the world for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research.
This is the gateway to the Press’s World Wide Web homepage. In the future, you will be able to access a hypertext version of the seasonal catalogs of books published by Vanderbilt University Press (select this link to access a gopher version), sales and order information (gopher version), excerpts from recent Vanderbilt titles, and much more.
A project of Vanderbilt University that enables K-12 educators to communicate electronically with each other in order to share resources, ideas, techniques, and other aspects of their work.
World Wide Web Servers in Nashville
Belmont University
Belmont University has an experimental W3 server, which includes a pointer to their gopher server.
Fisk University
Select this link to access the Fisk University World Wide Web Server. It includes information about Departments,
Faculty and Students, among other things.
Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University, a co-educational, tax-supported institution, is located in Murfreesboro
at the geographic center of the state.
By selecting this section you will gain access to the TELNET gateway to ACORN, Vanderbilt libraries’ online catalog. (Description of Acorn.) If you see the prompt USERNAME: type ACORN and press the RETURN key.
This link takes you to the VUinfo server. (Description of VUinfo.)
USENET News
You can use SHUNI (the Simple HTML USNET News Interface) to access Vanderbilt’s news server. In order to use this interface, your web browser must be able to handle forms. This interface allows you to access all the news groups received
by our news server, or you can have listed the newsgroups that match a given keyword, or you can ge a list of the newsgroups whose description matches the given keyword. (This service is restricted to on campus users.)
You can access the guide in various formats. Select the hypertext format if you wish to read it using your WWW browser (e.g., lynx). If your browser is configured to display postscript, you can select the postscript version of the guide. If you wish to produce a hardcopy of the guide you probably want to select the compressed format of this document and download it to your personal computer. (The guide is approximately 250 pages long).
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