Publications issued by or forthcoming from WorldViews include:
Quarterly Magazine
Third World Resource
Directory 1994-1995
Third World Resource
Directory 1997-1999
Directory of Organizations
Africa World Press
Guide
Quarterly Magazine
Since 1984 WorldViews has published a quarterly
review of print and audiovisual
resources from and about the Third World: Third World Resources
(ISSN 8755-8831). The title of the quarterly magazine changed to
WorldViews: A Quarterly Review of Resources for Education and
Action with Volume 12, Number 1, January-March 1996. Librarians,
educators, human rights workers, political activists, and others use
the magazine to identify and acquire print and audiovisual
resources that offer fresh perspectives on critical world affairs.
Each issue of the 28-page magazine contains descriptions and evaluative
reviews of
Organizations
Books
Periodicals
Pamphlets
Films and videotapes
Audiotapes and compact discs
CD-ROMs
The Table
of Contents from a recent issue of the quarterly
illustrates the breadth of coverage and the diversity of resource materials
in the magazine.
Advertising Rates and Schedules
The WorldViews quarterly contains display and classified advertising of
print and audiovisual resources that are in keeping with the purpose of the
magazine. The back page of each issue features a Directory of Organizations
with 30-word descriptive organizational listings.
A ratecard
is available with fees and schedules.
Electronic Version
Issues of WorldViews: Resources for Education and Action
are being prepared in Portable Document Format (PDF) versions for viewing
on the Internet with Adobe Acrobat. Contact WorldViews for
more information.
Diskette Version
WorldViews is preparing a diskette version of its quarterly magazine
that will allow free-text searching of back issues of the quarterly.
The diskette will be usable on DOS-based computers and requires no
additional software to run. Contact
WorldViews for more information.
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Third World Resource Directory
1994-1995
In spring 1994 Orbis Books (New York) published an 800-page directory of
print, audiovisual, and organizational resources on Africa, Asia and Pacific,
Latin America and Caribbean, and the Middle East entitled:
Third World Resource Directory 1994-1995 (ISBN 0-88344-941-2).
The directory, compiled and edited by WorldViews directors Thomas Fenton
and Mary Heffron, contains annotated, indexed, and cross-referenced listings
of some 2,500 books, periodicals, pamphlets, videos, audio tapes, and other
resources on Third World regions and topics. Also included is a comprehensive
Directory of Organizations with full contact information for more than
2,300 international publishers and distributors of Third World-related print
and audiovisual resources. Five indexes guide readers to individually numbered
entries throughout the directory.
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Third World Resource Directory 1997-1999
Publication of the next
edition of the Third World Resource
Directory has been postponed for the time being in order to allow for experimentation with online
versions of the content of the directory prior to the appearance of the
print edition.
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Directory of Organizations
The Third World Resource Directory 1994-1995 contained a
51-page Directory of
Organizations with full-contact listings of publishers and distributors
of print and audiovisual resource materials around the world. Titles and
bibliographical data for other directories of organizational information
were also supplied (e.g., An Alternative Directory of Non-Governmental
Organizations in South Asia and the International
Directory of Non-Governmental Organizations Working for Environmentally,
Socially, and Economically Sustainable Development).
Expanded and updated editions of the Directory of Organizations are available
from WorldViews in a variety of print and electronic formats.
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AFRICA: Africa World Press Guide
WorldViews has produced the manuscript for a popularly styled
annotated guide to resource materials from and about Africa. The
print edition of the guide,
entitled Africa World Press Guide, is scheduled to be published in
fall 1996 by Africa World Press (Lawrenceville, N.J.). An
electronic edition of the Africa resource guide is available in draft
form at a WorldViews Web site.
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