This message is from Larry Cruse.---------Johnnie --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > >1. AAUP LAUNCHES ON-LINE CATALOG AND BOOKSTORE > > 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. > > >2. Women's bookstores: Web references. > >An extensive selection of women's bookstores is available through access on >the Web. Here is one address for you to try. > >http://www.igc.apc.org/women/bookstores/ > > >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". > >Web address: http://www.bookstore.washington.edu >Toll-free phone: 1-800-335-READ > >------------------------------ > >End of NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 16 Dec 1995 to 17 Dec 1995 - Special issue >************************************************************************* >