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Where can you buy a Relativity Mouse Mat, a pair of sterling silver earring replicas of Oxford's Radcliffe Camera, and a "bundle" of J. R. R. Tolkien goodies, all at the push of a button? Only in a new "virtual" shopping arcade - the latest money-spinning venture from Oxford University's Bodleian Library.

The Bod has launched its mail-order gifts catalogue into cyberspace on the World-Wide Web, at the Universal Resource Locator Only 12 gifts are currently available, but readers of The THES are invited to suggest items they would be interested in purchasing. Virtual Oxford University professorships, perhaps?