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

[Patricia F Anderson]

I link to some of them, but at the same time there is at least one John
Henry title that generated a great deal of scandal due to methodlogic
inaccuracies and questionable reporting practices. So ... be selective.
RE, Google Scholar, I tested it with some college kids homework questions,
and it failed utterly to retrieve helpful resources. Perhaps *too*
scholarly for the typical student? I'll be watching it closely as it
evolves, but am not yet persuaded that G-Scholar is as useful as G-News,
for example.

Patricia Anderson, pfa at umich.edu

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Ward Price wrote:

> 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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> > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
> >
> > 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
> http://www.lib.panam.edu/
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