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This
Virtual Library will present books, reports and grey literature
initially only of AFES-PRESS but soon also from other publishers
and from research institutes in these four areas:
- International
environment policy (including climate and energy issues);
- Peace
research with a focus on armament, arms control and disarmament;
- Global
and European security policies and institutional structures;
- The
Mediterranean region with a focus on the environment, energy,
conflict, peace and security issues.
that
were published in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Polish
(and hopefully later also in other languages). It is our goal to
develop a tool that facilitates access to scientific literature.
This service will be offered only in English.
Goals
The
scientific communication within the security, the peace research,
the envi ronment policy and the Mediterranean research communities
has been highly fragmented along disciplinary lines and is taking
place primarily in English and has clearly been dominated by authors
in North America, the UK and Northern and Central Europe. This dominant
scientific communication hardly notes scientific communications
in other languages but English and by authors from Sou-thern Europe
and from North Africa and the Middle East (MENA). At book fares
(e.g. at the annual Frankfurt International Book Fare) publishers
from developing countries, especially from the MENA region, have
hardly been represented. Thus, many important publications of scholars
and research institutes in the MENA region as in many third world
countries are hardly taken note of in the North.
This virtual library wants to contribute to:
- overcome
the disciplinary boundaries of social and natural sciences in
environment, peace and security studies;
- to
overcome the language barrier between the dominant English writing
and the research communities publishing in other languages;
- to
offer a platform for small publishers, especially in Third World
Countries, with a focus on North Africa and the Middle East and
around the Mediterranean;
- to
offer a possibility for research institutes working on the four
issues areas to present their research reports or to offer links
to their research institutes.
Audience
- Social
and natural scientists
- Research
institutes
- Publishers
- Journalists
and the Media
- International
and national policy makers.
Structure of the Website
- During
the initial period the AFES-PRESS Virtual Library will present
all the books that may be obtained from AFES-PRESS Books (AFES-PRESS
Reports, Collection STRADEMED, Editions Publisud, Hans Günter
Brauch).
- After
this trial period both publishers and research institutes working
on environmental, peace, security and Mediterranean issues are
invited to submit books and reports they would like to have included.
If the books are selected we ask the publishers or research institutes
to send us one page in English with: a) scanned in title page,
b) full bibliographical data, c) links to the publishers website,
d) a 10-20 line cover text that summarises the content, and e)
additional links to the authors and their universities and research
institutes.
- AFES-PRESS
will try to obtain grants from foundations to obtain funding to
cover the costs of expanding and maintaining this new website.
- AFES-PRESS
does not take sites in any of the ongoing violent conflicts.
- As
a non-profit scientific society AFES-PRESS does not pursue any
commercial, political, religious or other interests besides supporting
multilateral scientific cooperation based on democratic principles.
Conditions for Participation
- The
website will present only books and reports by scientist or with
a scien tific focus.
- Besides
the submission of one free publication, AFES-PRESS will charge
no fee for this contribution to scientific communication.
- All
books and reports are to remain for at least three years in this
virtual library on this website.
- Initially
this website will be updated four times a year.
- AFES-PRESS
may build up a scientific network of advisers, contributors and
reviewers with a geographical focus on Europe and the Mediterranean
region.
- Proposals
for participation should be sent to: afes@afes-press.de.
- Books
and research reports to be considered for inclusion should be
sent to:
AFES-PRESS Virtual Library, Alte Bergsteige 47, 74821 Mosbach,
Germany
- By
E-mail a 10-15 line abstract of the book, report preferably in
English (but in no other languages than German, French and Spanish).
By E-mail you should also add any links to other webpages where
background information on the book or report, the author and the
institution as well as reviews that have been published can be
accessed.
AFES-PRESS
plans to update the virtual library once every three months and
will include all relevant material received until 31 March, 30 June,
30 September and 31 December in the next edition. The initial version
will be loaded in April 2002 reflecting the information we received
until 31 December 2001.
Any
suggestions on how this virtual library should be structured and
what kind of information should be included are welcome. However,
AFES-PRESS will not include political or religious statements or
references to activities that are not of a scientific but only of
a purely commercial nature. This service will be open to the general
public free of charge.
AFES-PRESS
virtual library team
Hans Günter Brauch and Thomas Bast
AFES-PRESS-Books Copyright Notice
This copyright notice applies to the contents of all pages on this
website created and managed by AFES-PRESS. You may freely download
or cite text and data presented by AFES-PRESS on the web. Any reproduction
- in any medium, electronic or printed - of text or data presented
by AFES-PRESS, is authorised only by permission. No part of this
website may be reproduced on any other website in total or in part
without permission. Permission may be granted provided that:
- A
request for permission is submitted to AFES-PRESS.
- Attribution
to AFES-PRESS in a source credit-line is given, including the
phrase "Information from AFES-PRESS, www.afes-press-books.de".
This applies to both citations and reproduction.
If
text or data are to be used for commercial purposes and permission
is granted, the parties will negotiate a royalty for such commercial
purposes. Electronic search engines may refer to and store references
to all websites without prior permission.
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