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- March 16, 1992--Peachpit Press announced the long-awaited release of
- EcoLinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information, by Don
- Rittner, the first guide to the use of computer technology by scientists,
- environmentalists, and concerned citizens to share ideas and research on
- environmental issues. EcoLinking documents this growing phenomenon,
- detailing how networks, bulletin boards, and online services can be put to
- work to save the planet. With the one out of every 12 Americans belonging
- to an environmental organization and with 75 million Americans using
- personal computers, this book is expected to become the definitive guide
- to exchanging information using local, regional, national, and worldwide
- computer networks.
-
- Divided into five sections, the book gives step-by-step instructions on how
- to access the immense academic, bibliographic, and scientific information
- found on global networks and commercial online services, focusing on how
- to get online and on what types of data can be retrieved. EcoLinking also
- explains how to conduct online scientific and environmental research using
- bibliographic retrieval services, CD-ROM databases, and electronic
- bulletin board systems. Comprehensive appendices profile a sample online
- session, list recommended communications software, and detail the
- environmental discussion lists available through Internet. Also included
- in the appendices is a discussion of "gateway" services that provide
- access to networks such as Internet, BITNET, and Usenet.
-
- Don Rittner is an educator and activist who has been involved in studying
- and preserving the environment for more than 20 years. He is an avid
- computer user and columnist, and is currently the founder and director of
- the MUG News Service, an informational clearinghouse that reaches more
- than 350,000 Macintosh users worldwide.
-
- Access
-
- EcoLinking: Everyone's Guide to Online Environmental Information (ISBN
- 0-938151-35-5, 300 pages) has a retail price of $18.95. It is available
- through bookstores or directly from Peachpit Press, 2414 Sixth Street,
- Berkeley, CA 94710. Review copies, color transparencies, and
- black-and-white photographs are available to the press. Contact Suzanne
- Ludlum at 800/283-9444 (or for the quickest response to your request, by
- fax at 510/548-5991).
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