College and Research Libraries and that everyone else would be im- proved by adopting their frame of mind.-Julie Still, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey Short Notices The Economics of Information in the 1990s. Ed. Jana Varlejs Jefferson. N.C.: McFarland, 1995. 93p. $15.95, paper. (ISBN 0-7864-0130-3.) These proceedings of a 1994 symposium at Rutgers University contain five contri- butions, an introduction and conference discussion, and an annotated bibliogra- phy. Its central concern is to assess the impact of digital technology on the eco- nomics of information production, stor- age, and dissemination. The papers come from five very different perspectives: an economist (Malcolm Getz), a library school researcher (Paul Kantor), a pub- lisher (Janet Bailey), a public interest ad- vocate (James Love), and a library direc- tor (Arthur Curley). Although each is of some interest, they are all quite short- barely scratching the surface of such a complex (and crucial) topic. (BW) McDermott, Patrice. Politics and Scholar- ship: Feminist Academic Journals and the Production of Knowledge. Champaign, Ill.:Univ.oflllinoisPr.,1994.197p.,alk. paper, $13.95. (ISBN 0-252-02078-2.) Politics and Scholarship examines the his- tory of three feminist academic journals and traces their evolution and transfor- mation: Feminist Studies, Frontiers, and Signs. McDermott chooses journals af- filiated with major research universities in order to investigate the different ways they address both the feminist and the scholarly communities. She shows how, increasingly, feminist scholars choose to publish in feminist journals that replicate traditional aca- demic publishing standards because of the recognition afforded them by tenure and promotion review committees, as well as their wider audiences and more stable financing. (E W) Book Reviews 465 Journal of Electronic Publishing. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Pr. (ISSN 1081-2711.) URL: http:/ /www.press. umich.edu/ jep. As of June 1995 this "electronic archive" on electronic publishing included thirteen articles, divided into six categories: Copy- right Issues, Digital Issues, Economic Is- sues (with FAQs on "usage-based" pric- ing by two University of Michigan econo- mists), Imaging Issues, Policy Issues ("In- stitutional and Policy Issues in the Devel- opment of the Digital Library"), and Tech- nical Issues (e.g., a critique of HTML by Philip Greenspun). Some of the articles provide hypertext links. The phrase "a lawyer has at his touch" connects, aptly enough, to the homepage of Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, and the terms "adze" and "diazo" to dictio- nary definitions. Unlike much of what one finds on the Web, however, this par- ticular publication is clearly more inter- ested in providing substance rather than flash. (SL) Haricombe, Lorraine J., and F. W. Lan- caster. Out in the Cold: Academic Boy- cotts and the Isolation of South Africa. Arlington, Va.: Information Resources Pr., 1995. 158p. $29.50. (ISBN 0-87815- 067-6.) Stemming from Haricombe' s dissertation at the University of Illinois, this study "was designed solely to determine to what extent scholarship in South Africa may have sufffered as a result of various manifestations of an academic boycott." These manifestations included the ban- ning of South African scholars from con- ferences, rejection of manuscripts by South African scholars for publication, nonrecognition of South African degrees, etc. Access to information played a key role in the boycott, and the authors de- vote some attention to the debate among librarians (especially at the 1987 ALA con- ference and its aftermath), and to the ac- _ tions they and publishers took to isolate South African scholarship. The bottom 466 College & Research Libraries line is that the academic boycott (such as it was) was more a nuisance than an ef- fective agent for change in South Africa, in part because many of the restrictions were, in fact, quite easy to get around. (An exception was copies of dissertations, which UMI refused to supply.) A most in- teresting work. (SL) Building Partnerships: Computing and Li- brary Professionals. Ed. Anne Lipow and Sheila Creth. Berkeley, Calif.: Li- brary Solutions Pr., 1995. 102p. $29, paPer. (ISBN 1-882208-18-8.) The papers in this volume were presented at a two-day program designed to bring together librarians and computing pro- fessionals to talk about how to work September 1995 collaboratively in new ways. The goal was to explore common interests and ac- knowledge the real differences of perspec- tive. Clearly, the increasing interdepen- dency of libraries and campus comput- ing centers is uncomfortable for both sides. The resulting book is useful but very tentative-mostly affirmations of the importance (and difficulties) of collabo- ration with brief descriptions of nine spe- cific collaborative projects underway at various campuses. Perhaps most useful is the more extended paper tracing the recent history of computing/library in- teraction at Rice University. (BW) Contributed by Stephen Lehmann, Bob Walther, and Ethelene Whitmire. Use. INTERNET to U C n over ... UnCover UnCover UnCover UnCover 50S 6 million articles from Reveal Complete Order articles by fax, 20,000 multidisciplinary Electronic TOC Pre-1989 journals phone, e-mail or post periodicals delivered by service with can be ordered from UnCover's Single fax in 24 hours or less user profiling online Order Source service The UnCover Company E-mail: uncover@carl.org 380 I East Florida Avenue, Suite 200 D Denver, CO 8021 0, USA Phone: 1-800-787-7979 D Fax: 303-758-5946 Readmore, Inc. . .. 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