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Deals with the University of California's Social Sciences eScholarship Repository of working papers which eases the editorial and administrative labor of creating e-print repositories. Preservation strategies of librarians in the university; Technique used by the university to stimulate interest in the repository; Strategic value of repository.

This article provides information on electronic information resources on economics in the U.S. The traditional bastion of scholarly literature in economics has been EconLit, the database of the American Economics Association. It indexes six document types: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers and book reviews. It is not just an index database, but also contains abstracts and some full text. NetEc, the network for economists, began as an international academic effort to improve the communication of economics via electronic media and took full advantage of Internet technology. The scholarly literature in economics frequently involves working papers, the pre-prints of the academic economic research community. These working papers are collected in RePEc, which is a free, open access source. The largest contributors are listed at the site and include universities, publishers and governmental bodies. The National Association for Business Economics acts as a portal to the profession. Not only does it provide on its home page news of interest to economists, it also has links to useful and interesting information in the field of business economics.

This article focuses on Web sites and open source databases featuring contemporary U.S. military and defense information. Information professionals, especially those familiar with the .S. Department of Defense or its agencies, realize that large amount of military and defense-related information, once freely available on the World Wide Web, is no longer accessible. The demand for increased operational security amid the potential for further terrorist attacks as well as the need to reduce the vulnerability of troops deployed in operations has led the defense establishment to put an emphasis on information posted publicly on the Web. Nevertheless, the amount of quality content still available online in the form of full-text papers, theses, monographs, and data sets allegedly remains extensive. Apparently, military gateways make excellent starting points for exploring the defense information sector. The small sample of authoritative directories can help one quickly see the entire spectrum of defense-related information, ranging from full-text reports to doctrine and lessons learned, from subject bibliographies and citation indexes to force structure tables and budget figures, from military maps and photos to weapons and equipment capabilities.

The article presents an update of issues related to the social sciences and humanities online information services in the U.S. as of May 2004. The American Psychological Association will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, the association's new gray literature database. Other PsycEXTRA documents include research reports not submitted to scholarly journals, convention papers and abstracts, policy papers, newsletters, magazines, popular books, consumer brochures, curricula, and fact sheets. ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde Fitch, and James Herne are among the leading post-Civil War playwrights added to American Drama 1714-1915. ProQuest also announced the first release of Twentieth Century Drama. When complete, the new database will contain 2,500 plays in English, the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, all in searchable full text. H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities& Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.