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The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the release of its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series in a new e-book format that is readable on popular electronic devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad. The e-book edition combines many of the benefits of print and web publications in a new form that is portable and extremely convenient. During the pilot phase of the FRUS e-book initiative, select FRUS volumes are available here. The public is invited to download the new e-books and provide feedback to help improve the FRUS e-book edition. At the conclusion of the pilot phase, the Office will work to offer e-book versions of many more FRUS volumes both through the Office website and on a wide array of e-bookstores. The Office will continue to expand and enhance its e-book offerings, as part of the ongoing FRUS digitization effort.
The FRUS e-book initiative is an outgrowth of the Office of the Historian’s efforts to optimize the series for its website. Because the Office adopted the Text Encoding Initiative’s open, robust XML-based file format (TEI), a single digital master TEI file can store an entire FRUS volume and can be transformed into either a set of web pages or an e-book. The free, open source eXist-db server that powers the entire Office of the Historian website also provides the tools needed to transform the FRUS TEI files into HTML and e-book formats.
For questions about the FRUS e-book initiative, please see our FAQ below; for other questions or to provide feedback, please contact history_ebooks@state.gov. To receive updates about new releases, return to this page, or follow us on Twitter at @HistoryAtState.
The following 109 publications are available during the current phase of our release:
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010), Doc. 262.rather than
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Vol. XXXII, SALT I, 1969-1972 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010), 774-781.