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- From: takefuji@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Yoshiyasu Takefuji)
- Subject: letters.7-23-92
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- From news@u.washington.edu Wed Jul 22 16:52:46 1992
- From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu (Thomas Dowling)
- Subject: Re: letters.7-20-92
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-
- > I appreciate your Internet libraries newsgroup a great deal. I was
- > wondering, however, if there is an on-line Books In Print anywhere.
- > Despite DRA.COM's admirable Library of Congress index, it has neither
- > all books currently in print (as categorized by ISBN, that is, being
- > various versions of the same book, such as paperback availability) nor
- > the current price etc. Is there any way to obtain this information,
- > short of finding an Internet library with some of this information
- > stored in it for a particular book?
-
- This has become something of a FAQ, so apologies to those who have seen this
- answer before.
-
- BIP (and CARL Uncover, the IEEE database, etc.) is a commercial database
- whose producer depends on it to make money. Providing it anywhere for free
- would tend to discourage anyone from paying for it through other channels.
- If you were to find free access to it, you would know that someone had
- already paid for your access; when that person finds out about this, he or
- she will most likely turn that access off.
-
- So, if you really want to search Books in Print via the Internet, my suggestion
- is to get an account from Dialog Information Services (1-800-3-DIALOG in the
- U.S.), telnet to dialog.com, and search BIP from there.
-
- On the other hand, if you want a free listing of new books, Stanford's
- bookstore has their holdings in the Stanford catalog. Telnet to
- forsythetn.stanford.edu,
- use the account "socrates", and issue the command "select bookstore".
-
- >
- > Doug Lamb
- > Center for Semicustom Integrated Systems
- > University of Virginia
- > dtl8v@Virginia.EDU
-
- |Thomas Dowling | tdowling@u.washington.edu|
- |Engineering Library | (206) 543-0741|
- |University of Washington FH-15 | Seattle, WA 98195|
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