This message is from Larry Cruse.---------Johnnie
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>1. AAUP LAUNCHES ON-LINE CATALOG AND BOOKSTORE
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> An unprecedented global resource for scholars, librarians, writers,
>students, and book buyers has just been unveiled on the Internet by the
>Association of American University Presses (AAUP). The AAUP On-line Catalog
>and Bookstore contains fully searchable bibliographic data and descriptive
>text from more than fifty scholarly publishers. Currently, 65,000-plus
>titles are represented, and this number is expected to climb rapidly to
>more than 100,000 titles from nearly 100 presses. The free on-line catalog
>includes scholarly monographs in the humanities, social sciences, and
>natural sciences as well as general interest trade books and regional
>titles, reference works, electronic publishing projects, and nearly four
>hundred scholarly journals published by AAUP member presses. The entire
>contents of the on-line catalog can be searched over the Internet by
>author, title, keywords, and Library of Congress subject headlings.
>Searches can also be confined to specific subject areas or individual
>publishers. After reading a book's description, the user has the option of
>downloading a customized order form that can be faxed or mailed to the
>appropriate publisher. Users may access and search this global electronic
>resource via the World Wide Web (http://aaup.princeton.edu) or Gopher
>(press-gopher.uchicago.edu) . For more information about the AAUP, send
>e-mail to [log in to unmask] or contact Peter Grenquist, Executive
>Director, AAUP, 584 Broadway, Suite 410, New York, NY 10012.
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>2. Women's bookstores: Web references.
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>An extensive selection of women's bookstores is available through access on
>the Web. Here is one address for you to try.
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>http://www.igc.apc.org/women/bookstores/
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>3. The University of Washington Bookstore in Seattle has developed a web
>page that introduces others to the benefits of book shopping on-line. At
>present, its book "browsing" features are somewhat limited, but there are
>plans to soon have a complete listing of books available by subject area as
>part of the web page. For those of you not familiar with the University of
>Washington Bookstore, it offers one of the widest selections of academic
>texts in the nation, and is a book browser's "paradise".
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>Web address: http://www.bookstore.washington.edu
>Toll-free phone: 1-800-335-READ
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>End of NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Dec 1995 to 17 Dec 1995 - Special issue
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