[Fwd: [NHC List] American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications]

[Thomas Daniel Moritz]

Dear Colleagues --

Please note, we have experienced unprecedented demand for these digital
publications.  If you have difficulty accessing the site it is almost
certainly due to extremely high demand.

On our first day of availability, we had more than 30,000 "hits" by 7:00am
and more than 150,000 hits by close of business.  We are making necessary
technical adjustments but you may still experience delays.  Please be
patient.

We are also very interested in receiving comments and feedback, problems
or otherwise, we would like to hear from you.  This is (essentially)
"Version 1.0" of this offering we fully intend to continue to refine and
enhance services as time and resources permit.

Tom Moritz
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Subject: [NHC List] American Museum of Natural History Scientific
Publications From:    "Thomas Daniel Moritz" <tmoritz at amnh.org>
Date:    Tue, January 10, 2006 16:56
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The American Museum of Natural History Library is pleased to announce the
availability of the complete legacy of the museum’s scientific
publications.  Both back issues and current-ongoing issues have been
digitized and all publications are now openly available on the Web at:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace

AMNH scientific series disseminate the results of work conducted by museum
scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics,
paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology, and are comprised of
the following four titles:

 American Museum Novitates, v1 - , 1921 - present
 Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1-
, 1907 - present
 Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1- , 1881 - present
Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, v.1-15,  1893 - 1930

These publications are made available using DSpace, an open source digital
repository system.  For more information, please visit
http://www.dspace.org

This project is the result of close collaboration between the AMNH Library
and the AMNH Science Senate  and has been completed with the generous
support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Comments and evaluations are welcome: dspace at lists.amnh.org .


Tom Moritz

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