[Air-L] Encyl of HCI now free online

[Conor Schaefer]

This is of course excellent news, but it's a shame they didn't go the 
whole nine yards and do full-out open access, via PDF or something. We 
can dream, can't we?

Thanks for the link, Barry!

Conor

Barry Wellman wrote:
> Folks, it's great news that the Encyclopedia of HCI is available online.
> FOR FREE.
>
> As I contributed a few articles, I got a print copy, and it is very
> impressive. This is in theory a $200+ value
>
> Sociologist Bill Bainbridge edited it.
> Karen Christensen published it (see note below). These are both Good
> People, and my special thanks to Karen for setting up this amazing free
> offer.
>
>  Barry Wellman
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:14:50 -0400
> From: Karen Christensen <karen at berkshirepublishing.com>
> To: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
> Subject: Your article now available online from Berkshire & Exact Editions
>
> I'm delighted to tell you that the Berkshire Encyclopedia of
> Human-Computer Interaction, which you contributed to, is now available in
> full-text online-and completely free, too, for a limited time. Berkshire
> is running this experimental launch with our friends from UK-based Exact
> Editions. It seems to be the first time an academic reference publisher
> has done such a thing, so we're getting a lot of media coverage, and we
> want to share the news-and the edition itself-with you. Just go to
> http://www.exacteditions.com/berkshirepublishing.
>
> Please do try the search system and check out the extensive linking.
> There's also a great Clipping Tool that allows you to select a small
> section from a page and paste it into your blog or a website. You can see
> what this looks like at the Exact Editions blog:
> http://exacteditions.blogspot.com/2007/09/exact-editions-for-book-publishers.html
>
> We've done this in large part because Berkshire is a new company and we
> want to let the librarians who select print and online reference titles
> see for themselves the titles that we're so proud of, and that have been
> getting such great reviews and awards. We hope you'll pass this link to
> your institution's or department's chief librarian, and also please feel
> free to use the resources with your students--who will love the search
> capacity and the Clipping Tool (better than Google's!).
>
> We have much more in mind, as we plan a new major project in
> human-computer interaction and web science, and want to share this
> excellent work as widely as possible, to stimulate fresh ideas about
> publishing in your fast-changing and important field.
>
> Cheers, Karen.
>
> Karen Christensen
> CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group
> Office +1 413 528 0206 | Skype: karen_christensen
> Email karen at berkshirepublishing.com
> Blog http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog
>
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