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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 16:38:51 +0300 (IDT)
From: barry rubin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: on meria
Sender: barry rubin <[log in to unmask]>
To: Paul Auchterlonie <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: barry rubin <[log in to unmask]>
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Lis-Middle East
Dear librarians:
I'm writing to update you about the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) and especially on a new project of ours designed in large part to benefit librarians.
MERIA is a project seeking to take advantage of new technologies to help and encourage research, writing, and mutual help in the study of the modern Middle East. It includes MERIA Journal, a scholarly quarterly, and MERIA News, a monthly with shorter articles and much information about researching the region using printed sources and the internet.
We have a range of other services including answering queries, email lists for specialized research, and we are now producing three printed books--dealing with Turkish foreign policy, contemporary issues in the Persian Gulf, and Islamic movements.
After two and a half years, MERIA has grown to over 7,600 readers in 64 countries. If you are not now receiving MERIA, we will be delighted to send you a free subscription via e-mail. Some librarians print these issues and make them available as regular periodicals. All our services are provided free of charge.
Given a great amount of interest, though, we are now negotiating to do a printed version of MERIA as a regular journal in addition to internet distribution. The printed journal will feature the best of MERIA's articles and information.
If you would like to subscribe to a printed version of MERIA, please let us know--without obligation of course--and we will use your suggestion and expressions of interest in organizing this new approach.
As we all try to adapt to new technologies, the option of both internet and print distribution of materials is to everyone's advantage, and allows libraries to keep up with these changes which offer an opportunity to improve our own work and services.
So if you would like to receive MERIA via e-mail and/or would lend your voices to support a printed edition, please write me at: <[log in to unmask]>.
Sincerely,
Prof. Barry Rubin
Editor, MERIA
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Paul Auchterlonie
Librarian for Middle East Studies
University of Exeter
Old Library
Prince of Wales Road
Exeter EX4 4PX
U.K.
Tel.: 01392 264051
Fax.: 01392 263871
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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