Getting Biology Information off the Net.

Jan 25 22:33 UTC 1994

        As I was starting my term paper for Advanced Biology yesterday (it was
due this morning), I suddenly realized that I needed several sources and
didn't have time to go to the library.  At the request of somebody in Agora
(I'm too exhausted to remember who), I'm posting the methods I used for
getting all the information I needed without leaving the chair I was sitting
in.
        I decided that my paper was going to be on the ethical issues in human
genome research.  I didn't know where to look, but I figured I might be able
to find something through gopher.  I logged into the um-gopherblue to get to
the MSU gopher through that, since Merit was refusing to connect me to MSU
gopher.  When I got into the UM gopher menu for other gophers in Michigan,
I found out that there was a UM Medical Center gopher, so I decided to try
that instead.  Once there, I picked the library services menu, and then the
menu for the Life Sciences library.  At that point, there were a couple of
menu items relating to the Human Genome Project, which lead to far more
information than I had ever dreamed of being able to find.  The hardest part
was deciding what *not* to use.  It had a very easy to use interface that
allwed keyword searches through the articles, so I searched for the word 
"ethics."  Just from that, I was given far more information than I needed.
All that without even standing up...