Further to queries about the availability of the NSF/NIH/DOE
(Rodman) thesaurus, version 4, which is in the public domain:

I received further detail from InfoEd Inc. about the status of the public
domain version, ver.4. and the version they use for coding funding
opportunities on their database.

The reason I said I __thought__ I could make ver. 4 available is that I was
not sure whether InfoEd has modified it. In fact, they started with ver. 4
and added several hundred terms to make it more inclusive of non-federal
funding opportunities. Therefore their version is proprietary, although
the CEO, Ed Johnson, tells me they plan to make it freely available on the
Internet when they launch new Gopher-based funding resources later this
year.

I do not have a copy of the unabridged version 4. The InfoEd version, which
I will use to describe faculty interests, is currently available from
them at nominal cost (xxxxxx@infoed.org).

Apparently NIH and NSF are no longer using the thesaurus, although DOE
and some of its Fedix partners are.

My purpose in entering this discussion thread was to explore interest in
other universities cooperatively making their faculty interest databases
available on the Internet. The means (eg. which thesaurus) ought to be a
secondary consideration. Is there any interest out there??

Charlie
Charlie Graham, Director, Office of Sponsored Research
117D David Boyd Hall, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 50310       504-388-8692    xxxxxx@UNIX1.SNCC.LSU.EDU