Editorial notes and queries
Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 26, Issue 3
Notes on key reviews in this issue
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (RR 2012/140). A new fulltext database from Readex, part of the company’s America’s Historical Newspapers collection. Covering over 200 titles, this is the most comprehensive source for fulltext African American newspapers.
Dictionary of Entomology (RR 2012/124). Second edition of this CABI title, first published in 2001, now expanded to include 43,000 definitions.
Encyclopedia of Power (RR 2012/109). Another Sage Publications encyclopedia providing nearly 400 entries covering all aspects of“power” in relation to political and social science, international relations, public policy, social psychology, etc.
Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (RR 2012/111). A major new work from ABC-Clio available as an e-book or in four print volumes. As the title implies, the set takes a geographical approach, each volume covering a region of the world. Different in focus to Scribner’s earlier and more US-centric Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (RR 2003/370).
Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health (RR 2012/126). New edition of this recently published four volume Gale set (RR2006/210 for review of first edition) covering child health from infancy through to adolescence.
Global Health Library (RR 2012/127). World Health Organization (WHO) freely accessible database launched in 2005 pulling data from Medline and a variety of regional health databases such as African Index Medicus and Latin American and Caribbean Health Science Literature.
Guide to Reference (RR 2012/102). Review of the ALA’s online subscription database intended as a successor to the now discontinued print Guide to Reference Books. Several print “spin-offs”from the database are available, one of which, ALA Guide to Sociology and Psychology Reference, was previously reviewed in these columns (RR2011/260).
Historical Dictionary of the War in Vietnam (RR 2012/143). One of the most substantial recent contributions to the Scarecrow Press Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution and Civil Unrest series.
Synagogues of Britain and Ireland (RR 2012/106). The definitive architectural survey of synagogues in the British Isles from the UK arm of Yale University Press, also publisher’s the Pevsner series of guides.
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (RR2012/132). A new two volume encyclopedia from Wiley-Blackwell, offering 5,000 mainly short entries and without illustration, aimed at the academic market.
Tony Chalcraft
