[Reader-list] university of California Press Online

[sadan at sarai.net]

Dear All,
Today while surfing I found that University of California Press has
published 25% of its academic books online for free access. So now
you have a lot of complete texts at your disposal
So if you want to read Irschick, Eugene F. Dialogue and History:
Constructing South India, 1795-1895. Berkeley:  University of
California Press,  1994. the site is http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft038n99hg/
or Bazaar India by Anand Yang you can find full text online.
This is what they write about the project:
The eScholarship Editions project is managed by the eScholarship
program at the California Digital Library. As one of the University of
California libraries, the CDL supports the assembly and creative use of the
world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities
they serve. The eScholarship program facilitates innovation and
experimentation in the production and dissemination of scholarly works.

More than 1,400 electronic editions of academic books have been
published online at the eScholarship Editions web site. All eScholarship
Editions are available for free to UC faculty, staff, and students.
Additionally,more than 25 percent of the books are available for free to
the public.

eScholarship utilizes an XML- and Java-based infrastructure to
support the publication of electronic books that are user-friendly,
flexible, and viable for the long term. This infrastructure provides a full
range of services for researchers, scholars, teachers, and readers,
including full-text searching and internal links to footnote and index
references.
the link is http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/
happy reading.
wishes,
sadan.