Fw: [WEB4LIB] Joseph Henry Press -- free online books

[Ward Price]

I sent this to the author of the original message (who has responded to me,)
but I meant to send it to the list.  Are these free online books worth it?
(I'm not ready to give up and just have a single link to Google Scholar
yet.)

Ward Price

-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Price [mailto:wprice at panam.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 9:43 AM
To: George Porter
Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Joseph Henry Press -- free online books

Is this too good to be true?  Do these publications have a political
(religious, economic, whatever) slant or agenda?  Are they scholarly
books that a college/university library should have?  Should we link to
them and/or include them in our collections plan?

Ward Price

----- Original Message -----
From: <george at library.caltech.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Joseph Henry Press -- free online books


> Joseph Henry Press <http://www.jhpress.org/> is an imprint of the
> National Academies Press <http://www.nap.edu>.  As is the case with
> literally thousands of books published by NAP
> <http://www.nap.edu/info/browse.htm> over the last couple of decades,
> the vast majority of JHP books are freely available online.
>
> Whether your tastes run to space exploration (1), gen-mod food (2), or
> quantum physics (3), Joseph Henry Press can swell your online book
> collections without draining your budget.
>
> George S. Porter
> Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
> California Institute of Technology
> Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
> Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
> http://library.caltech.edu
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>
> 1) Mark Wolverton. The Depths of Space:  The Story of the Pioneer
> Planetary Probes. Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, c2004.
> http://www.nap.edu/books/0309090504/html/
> ISBN: 0309090504
>
> 2) Nina V. Federoff and Nancy Marie Brown. Mendel in the Kitchen:
> Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Food. Washington, DC : Joseph
> Henry Press, c2004.
> http://www.nap.edu/books/0309092051/html/
> ISBN: 0309092051
>
> 3) Edmund Blair Bolles. Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the
> Quantum Revolution. Washington, DC : Joseph Henry Press, c2004.
> http://www.nap.edu/books/0309089980/html/
> ISBN: 0309089980
>
>
C. Ward Price    Web Librarian
University of Texas-Pan American
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