LINKED GOPHER AND WORLDWIDE WEB SERVICES FOR THE AMERICAN-PSYCHOLOGICAL-SOCIETY AND HANOVER-COLLEGE-PSYCHOLOGY-DEPARTMENT

The Internet is a vast and unorganized collection of information, making it difficult to find desired information. This paper describes the World-Wide Web (WWW) pages and Gopher directories designed to provide easy access to psychological resources set up by both the American Psychological Society (APS) and a college psychology department. The types of resources found at these sites include links to APS job listings, electronic journals, and psychology departments with Internet directories of information. One particular resources that is highlighted concerns the development of WWW tutorials in sensation and perception. These tutorials are offered as examples of how the WWW can be used to supplement texts and classroom instruction.