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Joni R. Roberts and Carol A. Drost I n  t e r n e t  R e  v i e  w  s  

Scholarship Repository. Access: the selected item is peer reviewed, a statement 
repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship. to that effect will appear as well as a link to 

an explanation of the peer­
review system. Readers are 
also given the option to 

The University of California’s eScholar­
ship Repository is an open­access scholarly 
publishing center. Created in response to the 
high costs and inefficiencies of the schol­
arly journal system, the repository provides 
highly visible online access to a wide range 
of scholarly materials. Announced in 2002, 
the eScholarship Repository now hosts over 
800,000 freely available full­text downloads, 
with thousands more added regularly. 

The eScholarship Repository is available 
to all users and is sponsored by the California 
Digital Library (CDL), the digital library of the 
University of California (UC) system. It is a 
project of the CDL’s Office of Scholarly Com­
munication’s eScholarship program and con­
sists of scholarly output contributed by faculty 
from more than 160 participating UC research 
units. These research units are responsible for 
selecting, editing, and depositing all materials 
found in the eScholarship Repository. Schol­
arly output includes work from authors outside 
the UC faculty, but works must be selected 
and managed by a UC department or 
unit. Diffi cult­to­find working papers 
and associated content, seminars, and 
research results are made accessible along with 
peer­reviewed journals and series. 

Search options include topic, author, year, 
sponsoring research department, journal, or 
series. Readers are given a full citation and 
abstract, the name of the research unit, the 
journal or series name, and the option of 
downloading or printing the full­text piece. If 

Joni R. Roberts is associate university librarian for 
public ser vices and collec tion development at 
Willamette University, e-mail: jroberts@willamette. 
edu, and Carol A. Drost is associate university librarian 
for technical services at Willamette University, e-mail: 
cdrost@willamette.edu 

e­mail the selected paper 
to colleagues. An e­mail message is generated 
complete with a link to the chosen piece. 

The homepage hosts a “Paper of the Day” 
link that takes readers directly to a paper 
selected from the repository each day. It 
also displays an e­mail notification option for 
users interested in receiving alerts to newly 
published works within their field of interest. 
Like the rest of the CDL, the eScholarship 
Repository site is well organized, clean, and 
uncluttered. Each page of the site follows 
the same simple, effective design and pro­
vides readers with consistent navigational 
tools.—Sarah Goodwin Thiel, University of 
Kansas Libraries, sgthiel@ukans.edu 

National Memorial Institute for the 
Prevention of Terrorism. Access: www. 
mipt.org/. 

Following the September 11 terrorist at­
tacks, librarians have faced the challenges of 
learning a whole new sphere of resources on 
homeland security and emergency manage­

ment. The National Memorial Institute for 
the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) Web site 
offers a good starting point for current­affairs 
research on terrorism and security. Incor­
porated in Oklahoma in 1999 following the 
Murrah Building bombing, the institute serves 
as a living memorial as well as an educational 
tool. MIPT’s mission is to serve as a resource 
for “first responders,” and the organization 
has also received a special congressional 
appropriation to research terrorism and pre­
ventive technologies. The variety of full­text 
documents and data that is available on the 
institute’s Web site makes it a noteworthy 

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http:mipt.org
mailto:sgthiel@ukans.edu
mailto:cdrost@willamette.edu


resource for domestic and foreign terrorism 
and security information. 

The main page offers a number of access 
points to its resources. Most prominent is 
the section entitled “Digital Library,” which 
links to more than 40 very recent PDF docu­
ments, ranging from a Government Account­
ability Office report on homeland security 
to a Congressional Research Service report 
entitled Terrorism in South Asia. “Terrorism 
Knowledge Base” provides access to material 
collected over the past 35 years and is largely 
based on Rand Corporation data. Multiple 
access points to the terrorism statistics allow 
the user to search by group and ideology, key 
leader’s name, prosecution status, and date 
of terrorist incident. Data contains updates 
within the last month. Extremely useful are 
the accompanying analytical tools, such as 
the graph wizard, which allow the researcher 
to create graphs, tables, or charts display­
ing data according to need. “Information 
Resources” offers an extensive list of books, 
articles, timelines, and organization/govern­
ment reports, most of which are provided in 
full­text format. 

Librarians will also want to investigate 
“Physical Library,” a growing resource of 
thousands of books, reports, studies, and 
journals. The library strives to become a 
clearinghouse for material related to terror­
ism, offering a search feature for exploring all 
of its print and electronic holdings. 

“Lessons Learned Information Sharing” 
highlights best practices as discussed in con­
ference and report findings. The site also in­
cludes a “Conference Calendar” of upcoming 
events, which features a listing of signifi cant 
worldwide terrorism incidents and dates. 

The MIPT site provides a wealth of data, 
full­text documents, chronologies, links, and 
contacts for those interested in up­to­date 
resources on terrorism and homeland secu­
rity. The site is comprehensive, with detailed 
content but a user­friendly feel, and is rec­
ommended for students, faculty, librarians 
and interested community members.—Bar­
bara Hillson, George Mason University, 
bhillson@gmu.edu 

American Press Institute. Access: www. 
americanpressinstitute.org. 

Founded by a group of newspaper 
publishers in 1946, the American Press In­
stitute (API) is an 
organization that 
provides training 
and professional 
development opportunities for news indus­
try professionals and journalism educators. 
Despite this seemingly narrow focus, the site 
should prove useful to a broader audience. 

Tabbed links at the top of the main page 
provide easy access to the five separate areas 
of the site. “The Learning Newsroom” and 
“The Media Center” will be of interest pri­
marily to journalists, journalism students, and 
journalism educators, since they emphasize 
news and events in the media industry or the 
institute itself. Although the obvious emphasis 
throughout the site is on journalistic research, 
“Journalists’ Toolbox,” “BusinessJournalism. 
org,” and “CyberJournalist.net” provide tools 
and links that facilitate Web searching and 
add real value to the site for researchers in 
other disciplines. 

“Journalists’ Toolbox” is one of the most 
functional features of the site. Links to topi­
cal resources in subject areas ranging from 
agriculture to medical and health resources to 
women’s issues are available via a pull­down 
menu, through featured links listed on the 
page, or by using the keyword search box. 

“BusinessJournalism.org” is a recent addition 
to the site and, as the name implies, features 
business news and resources. Some of the nota­
ble resources include links to business resources 
and organizations on the Web, an extensive 
glossary of business terminology, a company 
research tool, current business headlines and 
news, stock market data, and a bibliography of 
books on various business topics. 

“CyberJournalist.net” focuses on the ways 
the Internet and other new technologies 
impact journalism and news delivery. Edited 
and published by award­winning journalist 
Jonathan Dube, the site features the “Cyber­
Journalist SuperSearch,” an innovative and 

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http:CyberJournalist.net
http:BusinessJournalism.org
http:CyberJournalist.net
http:americanpressinstitute.org
mailto:bhillson@gmu.edu


Web services librarian at Mississippi State 
University. 

R e t i r e m e n t s  

James Julich has retired after having served 
the University of Iowa Libraries for 20 years 
as the humanities and Latin American stud­
ies bibliographer. 

D e a t h s  

Robert Laurence Gitler, 95, founding di­
rector of the Japan Library School, Keio Uni­
versity, Tokyo, Japan, has died. Gitler also 
served as library school director at the Uni­
versity of Washington, the State University of 
New York­Geneseo, and Peabody College, 
and as executive director of the ALA’s Library 
Education Division. He completed his career 
at the University of San Francisco where he 
served as University Librarian from 1967 
until his retirement in 1975. He received an 
honorary Ph.D. from Keio University and 
was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 
by the Emperor of Japan. His autobiography 
Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School 
was published by Scarecrow Press. 

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Linda Lucas, 64, former dean of library/ 
learning resources at Las Positas College, 
has died. As dean, Lu­
cas oversaw several 
academic programs, 
information technol­
ogy and media ser­
vices, and the college 
library, for which she 
was instrumental in 
designing and oversee­
ing the construction of 
a new library building. 
She retired in 2000 after 31 years of service 
in the Chabot­Las Positas Community Col­
lege District. After retirement, she earned a 
juris doctorate from John F. Kennedy Uni­
versity and was looking forward to serving 
the community by providing pro­bono legal 
services for seniors. 

David Nowak, 59, associate professor/ref­
erence services librarian at Mississippi State 
University Libraries, has died. Prior to joining 
MSU, Nowak worked as a reference librarian 
at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He also 
taught French at a number of institutions. 

Linda Lucas 

(“Reviews” continues from page 64) 

useful tool that allows searching of dozens 
of Internet search tools and resources from a 
single interface. Also included here is exten­
sive information for anyone with an interest 
in Weblogs or online news, including “The 
Weblog Blog.” 

Despite its size and the number of dis­
crete sections described above, the site is 
well designed, which makes navigation fairly 
intuitive. It should be considered a must­see 
resource for journalism students or faculty 
and for librarians supporting journalism and 
mass communication programs. The impres­
sive list of topical links and the various search 
tools available also make it worth a visit for 
anyone using the Internet for research.—Pat­
rick Reakes, University of Florida, pjr@mail. 
ufl ib.ufl .edu 

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