Fwd: Electronic access to recently published books

From: Phil Chappell (phil_chappell@access.inet.co.th)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 01:32:57 PST


This may be of interest to xmca'ers, given the diverse contexts from
which we're from.
Phil

Begin forwarded message:

> From: PeterHFries@cs.com
> Date: February 14, 2004 6:18:32 AM GMT+07:00
> To: sysfling@lists.ed.ac.uk
> Subject: Electronic access to recently published books
>
>
> There is a new library service which may be of interest (perhaps
> primarily to
> residents of countries where library budgets are severely restricted).
> A
> number of publishers are now placing electronic versions of their
> recent books on
> line at ebrary. I have been told that John Benjamins is placing all
> of their
> new books with ebrary. I also know that at least some linguistics
> books
> published by other companies are also available there. Apparently,
> over 35,000
> titles are available at this time.
>
> The address is <ebrary.com>. (No www in front.) Then click on
> <discover.ebrary.com> which will get you to a page where you can
> register and do searches.
> You can search to see what is available without registering, but you
> can't
> read anything until you register. Registering requires a deposit of
> at least US
> $5.00. That money can then be used to pay for downloading ($0.50 per
> page),
> or printing ($0.25 per page). but you can read as much as you want to,
> once
> you have put your deposit down.
>
> Peter Fries
>
> Peter H. Fries, Professor of English and Linguistics
> Central Michigan University
> Mount Pleasant MI 48859
>
>
> Office Tel: 989-774-3184
> Office Fax: 989-774-1271
> Office Email: fries1ph@cmich.edu
>
> Home Address:
> Box 310
> Mt. Pleasant, MI, 48804, USA
>
> Tel: 989-644-3384
> cell: 989-400-3764
> email: peterhfries@cs.com
> webpage: http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/peter_fries/default.htm
>
> Web page of the North American Systemic Functional Linguistics
> Association:
> <http://www.yorku.ca/cummings/nasfla>.
> Web page of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics
> Association:
> <www.ISFLA.org>
>
>



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