The internet and the world wide web are rapidly changing many aspects of scholarly communication and knowledge dissemination and transfer. These changes include the publishing industry and the publishing of scholarly texts. A website with the registered domain name cultureonline.org has been launched for the webpublishing of books in the humanities and social sciences and, as webbooks, of PhD dissertations and M.A. theses (in English, French, and German). All webbooks published in http://www.cultureonline.org receive an ISBN number assigned to http://www.cultureonline.org by the National Library of Canada ( whttp://www.nlc-bnc.ca/) (prefix 1-894569-). The URL of the archival site at the National Library will be available for electronic preservation and archiving following publication in cultureonline.org. As well, cultureonline.org webbooks will be listed in the yearly Books in Print, hard cover and online.

For details about the process and the costs of webbooks in cultureonline.org please go to www.cultureonline.org.

The webpresence of and online access to work in the humanities and social sciences benefits the authors of the webbooks as name recognition and in the context of communication and dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Most importantly, New Media Scholarship has more readers and serves the scholarly community world wide. cultureonline.org is looking forward to receiving proposals to publish new work by interested scholars. Please pass the word about this new service to scholars everywhere.

For the publishing and academic credentials of the publisher, Steven Totosy, please go to http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/cv99.html.