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

[Martin Wallace]

I did a keyword search for "Joseph Henry Press" in our online catalog
and got 6 results, all of which we access via Net Library. All six look
like legitimate science books. Five are on biotechnology and one is on
natural disasters. None appear to be slanted or conform to an agenda of
any sort.



Martin K. Wallace
Library Specialist III
University of North Texas
Research Park Library
(940) 369-7200
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>>> Ward Price <wprice at panam.edu> 11/18/2004 7:35:25 PM >>>
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
> contributor http://stlq.info |
> 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/ 
wprice at panam.edu 
(956) 316-7046