Notes on key reviews in this issue
Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 27, Issue 1
Notes on key reviews in this issue
British Antique Furniture (RR 0213/025). The sixth edition of this guide to British furniture up until the mid-nineteenth century first published in 1968 and last updated in 2006. Although mainly a price guide, the subtitle is With Prices and Reasons for Value, it includes over 1,000 illustrations and almost 500 colour plates.
British Librarianship and Information Work 2006-2010 (RR2013/001). Now self-published by the editor due to lack of interest from commercial publishers, this is the latest in an unbroken series of volumes surveying developments in British librarianship that stretch back to 1929.
Councils, Committees and Boards (RR 2013/002). The 14th edition of CBD’s directory of “advisory, consultative, executive,regulatory and similar bodies in British public life”, the red-cover of which will be familiar to many British librarians. Like the companion orange covered Directory of British Associations (RR 2003/287), it remains available only in print, the publisher continuing to shun making these still widely used sources available online.
Encyclopedia of Cancer (RR 2013/021). Another major STEM reference resource from Springer, reviewed here as an e-book, but with a print version extending to seven volumes. Differs from Gale’s regularly updated Encyclopedia of Cancer (RR 2006/328) in that it is primarily intended for clinicians, researchers and students rather than the wider public.
Encyclopedia of Country Music (RR 2012/027). A new edition of this Oxford University Press encyclopedia offering 1,200 entries on all aspects of country music. Updates the first edition of 1998, widely regarded as the most authoritative reference guide to country music available.
Reading Architecture (RR 2013/030). A pioneering and innovative reference from publisher Laurence King comprising a directory of visual images of buildings using 512 coloured photographs intended to help in the identification of architectural styles, building types and construction elements.
Routledge History Online (RR 2013/035). One of a number of aggregated reference databases from Routledge, similar to the previously reviewed Routledge Religion Online (RR 2006/071), in concept,offering content from a range of the publisher’s encyclopedias,dictionaries, etc.
University Press Scholarship Online (RR 2013/005). A new database of aggregated scholarly monograph content from Oxford University Press,with the same design and functionality as Oxford Scholarship Online (RR2005/122), but not limited to the publisher’s own titles. At inception provides content from a range of university presses including University of California Press, Edinburgh University Press and University Press of Florida.
Tony Chalcraft
