Dear Friends,
We are pleased to inform you about the soft-opening of ICIMOD Books On-line. By soft opening, we mean that the site can now be accessed by outside users, but that we are not yet making any official announcement.
The site will be officially 'launched' on World Environment Day (June 5), we will use the time until then to identify and iron out any problems, if any. The resource is available at http://www.books.icimod.org , which is hosted along with the ICIMOD website in the USA, or can be accessed via the ICIMOD website.
Users accessing this site from ICIMOD will be automatically directed to an internal host, which is a copy of the above site but makes the resources accessible more quickly. ICIMOD Books On-line is a repository of downloadable electronic versions of ICIMOD technical /scientific publications in pdf files. It contains full-text and chapter-wise download options for all technical /scientific publications issued after year 2000 plus a few selected earlier publications, especially popular out-of-print manuals.
The title and table of contents will be posted for all other earlier publications, with an option to request the pdf file or photocopy (scan on demand). All books can also be ordered in hard copy.
The catalogue is searchable using full-text contents, title, year of publication, keywords, language, author and broad subjects. There are 140 ICIMOD publications (with 1300 pdfs) already added to the database, 103 documents of which are in complete full-text form and an additional 37 have the title page and contents page.
The e-library working team IKM-IMCO
Source: email correspondence from Tek Jung Mahat at tmahat@icimod.org to ATREE
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