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 _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Room 418 Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-7162 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing "Return to Sender" these days _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:14:50 -0400 From: Karen Christensen <karen@berkshirepublishing.com> To: wellman@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... 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@berkshirepublishing.com Blog http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/blog