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Vol. 6, No. 4
4th Quarter 2000
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AAPG Bulletin Archives Now Online

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) makes history as it offers the entire AAPG BULLETIN archive to AAPG members (only) at a single-user subscription rate of $99 per year. Non-members can access the BULLETIN archive at http://www.petris.com/windsmall, receive a password and be eligible to download any article for a small fee, or Companies and University Libraries can subscribe by contacting AAPG/Datapages for special rates.


In addition to the electronic BULLETIN subscription, a sampling of electronic products of interest to US-based explorers include:

  • Single AAPG articles (including memoirs) available at at http://www.petris.
    com/windsmall. (Free search - pay only for document delivery).

  • Comprehensive Index to Publications, 2000 Edition (AAPG, RMAG, SEPM, GCAGS, LGS, WTGS, CSPG, JPG-UK, OGS, ETGS, GCS-SEPMF, Univ. Texas BEG, PBS-SEPM). This CD-based utility combines titles, authors, and citations from the journals most widely searched by petroleum geologists. Current through 1999. 38,000+ citations. Cost is $95 (plus shipping).

  • AAPG BULLETIN Quarterly Subscription on CD-ROM (2001). Mailed every three months, this CD-based subscription offers all Bulletin articles and all meeting paper abstracts in Adobe Acrobat® format (PDF) format. Price is $39 (plus shipping).

  • A CD-ROM of well records includes three separate databases for $50 (plus shipping):

    • Exploratory Well File of 385,000 USA well records.

    • Geothermal Gradient Database of 23,000 temperature records. Each record includes latitude/longitude and   bottom temperature.

    • Stratigraphic Correlation Database of more than 18,000 locations, offers formation and lithologic information.

  • Atlas of Coal Geology CD-ROM (Published by AAPG Energy Minerals Division). Volumes 1 (Coal Geology) and 2 (Coal Petrology). PDF format. Fully searchable. Cost $52 (plus shipping)

  • Atlas of Borehole Imagery (2000). A comparative guide to images seen in borehole analysis. PDF format. Cost is $39 (plus shipping).

  • Digital Maps in ARC/view GIS format.

    • Sedimentary Provinces of the World Map ($125 plus shipping).

    • Arabian Plate Map ($126 plus shipping).

    • Tectonic Map of North America ($195 plus shipping).

For information on any of the AAPG products, or to subscribe to the online AAPG BULLETIN Archive, contact AAPG/Datapages at (888) 945-2274, Ext. 429 (for U.S. and Canada) - 1-918-560-9429 for outside north America. See AAPG's website (http://www.AAPG.org/datasystems/index.html) for full listing of products and subscription services. (Courtesy of Larry Nation, AAPG).

Society Engaging in Electronic Evolution

Can you imagine an SPE in which you can access customer services, professional training and continuing education, peer reviews and volunteer tasks - all from the same source? That vision is not very far away.


The advancement of electronic services and communications will rapidly affect the future of SPE membership and member services. To meet the Society’s mission of providing the means to collect, disseminate, and exchange technical information in this electronic evolution, the SPE Board of Directors has provided the guidance for a bold initiative, the Electronic SPE, also known as “eSPE.”


The eSPE initiative provides both the means and opportunity to re-architect SPE’s core function-providing members with access to technical knowledge. The vision of the eSPE includes:

  • Automation and extension of member services. This includes online customer service, online education, and streamlined volunteerism. All projects are aimed at providing members with work-flow tools and putting the SPE office within their reach.

  • New products and services. Specifically, the framework of eSPE will provide virtual communities, improved search capabilities, the aggregation of services, personalization, enhanced information and news.

  • The premier industry portal. By providing unequaled content, community, and commerce, eSPE will extend its reach. Some of these benefits include a collaborative community, the comparison of common upstream products, and volunteer research.

While embracing the electronic future, the SPE Board of Directors will continue to provide a full range of traditional services such as Journal of Petroleum Technology, conferences and exhibitions, and books to “unwired” members.

 

To learn more about the eSPE or other SPE member services, call Customer Service at 972-952-9393, send an email to newsletter@spe.org, or visit the SPE Web site at www.spe.org

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eLibrary Now Offers Subscription Options

Subscriptions to the SPE eLibrary (formerly the Online Information Library) are now available.


The SPE eLibrary is an unequaled collection of knowledge, experience, and ideas from the upstream oil and gas industry that delivers technology directly to members. The eLibrary includes an archive of more than 30,000 technical papers from almost one-half century of research, study, and innovation.


With individual and corporate subscriptions, as well as singular paper downloads, eLibrary offers a variety of options to meet the unique technology needs of SPE members. Four subscription options are available including limited and unlimited corporation, limited individual, universities and colleges.


Individual subscriptions offer unlimited search capabilities, but downloads are limited to 25, 100, 200, or 300 papers per year. This purchase method is more convenient because it eliminates separate credit card transactions for each order. It also provides a low-cost option for professionals at smaller companies that do not choose unlimited download subscriptions.


Corporate subscriptions allow all of a company’s employees, located any where in the world, to download any SPE paper(s) through the company’s Intranet. Subscribers have unlimited search capabilities and there is no limit to the number of papers down-loaded for internal use.


As part of the new eSPE, the eLibrary offers members and nonmembers access to search, preview, and download papers from SPE’s vast collection of technical information. Users can search the archive by year, author, subject, source, reference number, organization, and key words.

 

To find out more about the subscriptions and pricing for the SPE eLibrary, call SPE Customer Service at 972-952-9393, email service@spe.org, or visit www.spe.org/oil

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