Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 22:57:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Puttaraj Choukimath <puttuc@yahoo.com> Dear Mr. Vijay, U can check 4 these options : 1. Web-OPACs : of the technological institites like IISc, IIT's, British Council Libraries, TIFR, CUSAT, NSL, ISI's, LOC, CoOPAC, etc. (Most of these are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/opac.htm ) 2. Publishers' own sites : Most of the publishers have hosted their own web sites. Some of them popular in engg. are like * http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ * http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/engineering.html * www.prenhall.com/ * http://www.textbookx.com/browse.php?code=TEC009000 * http://www.springeronline.com/ etc. 3.U may also require 2 aquire standards 4 ur library : U can check 4 these sites - * http://www.standardsindia.com/ * http://www.wssn.net/ * http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList (many of such are accessible via http://www.infolibrarian.com/spt.htm 4. Union cataloges like : * http://www.rri.res.in/htmls/library/forsadb.html * 5. Other links to the publishers: such as - * http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/ * http://www.business.com/directory/media_and_entertainment/publishing/books/p... * http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Publishers/S... OK? ALL THE BEST. Puttaraj, A.C. AL, TISS, Mumbai.