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 or Gopher at:
http://aaup.princeton.edu   or   gopher://press-gopher.uchicago.edu

            For more information about the AAUP, send e-mail to
aaupco@ix.netcom.com or contact Peter Grenquist, Executive
Director, AAUP, 584 Broadway, Suite 410, New York, NY 10012.

[From: Peter Grenquist <aaupco@ix.netcom.com>]