Notes on Key Reviews in this Issue

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Chalcraft, T. (2011), "Notes on Key Reviews in this Issue", Reference Reviews, Vol. 25 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/rr.2011.09925aaa.002

Notes on Key Reviews in this Issue

Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 25, Issue 1

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  Chicago Manual of Style (RR 2011/01). 16th edition of this editorial and publishing industry standard replacing the 15th ed. (2003). Reviewed here in its online version, but remains available as a printed volume.

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  CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics 3rd ed. (RR 2011/30). Probably the most comprehensive reference work on mathematics available covering most topics other than the history of mathematics. Follows the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics (1999).

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  Dictionary of 20th-Century Century Communism (RR 2011/12). Impressive new title from Princeton University Press, based on a work first published in Italian in 2006. 400 entries, about one-third biographical, with the emphasis on politics and the European experience of communism.

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  Encyclopedia of Africa (RR 2011/49). Another major Oxford University Press title reviewed here in its digital version. Follows a number of other works providing encyclopedic coverage of the African continent, notably New Encyclopedia of Africa (Gale, 2008) (RR 2008/242) and the less wide-ranging Encyclopedia of African History (Fitzroy Dearborn 2005) (RR 2006/54).

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  Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences 3rd ed. (RR 2011/02). The latest incarnation of this library and information science standard, now in seven volumes and with greatly widened subject coverage extending to archival science and museum studies amongst other areas. Supersedes the 2nd ed. (RR 2004/356) which, in turn, replaced the mammoth original ed. published 1968-1982 and updated by numerous supplements.

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  Encyclopedia of the World’s Coastal Landforms (RR 2011/34). Springer two-volumes describing the coastlines of the world by continent and country. Based The World’s Coastlines (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985). No particular relationship to the earlier Springer volume Encyclopedia of Coastal Science (RR 2006/90).

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  Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature (RR 2011/26). Companion set to the Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature (RR 2010/172).

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  Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (RR 2011/27). Based entirely on the Oxford English Dictionary, “the entire English vocabulary from Anglo-Saxon to the present day arranged in thematic order by meanings” (review). A massive undertaking cumulating a project begun as long ago as 1965, this is a major and outstanding new work of lexical reference.

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  Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 (RR 2011/03). The latest in Gale Cengage’s ongoing digitisation of British news sources following in the footsteps of such as the Times Digital Archive (RR 2003/46) and Nineteenth Century British Newspapers (RR 2008/247). A project to digitise the Picture Post is nearing completion and the end product will be reviewed in these columns.

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  International Studies Compendium Project (RR 2011/15). Online version of Wiley-Blackwell’s 12 volume The International Studies Encyclopedia. 400 peer reviewed entries on international studies and international relations.

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  Latindex (RR 2011/36). Free web index to mainly Spanish language periodicals that now covers most of Latin America as well as Spain and Portugal. Focuses on scientific subjects but extends to other disciplines.

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  Oxford Bibliographies Online (RR 2011/04). The database to finally haul traditional bibliographies into the online era? To comprise a series of subject bibliographies for specific subject areas, with new sections to be added on a regular basis.

Tony ChalcraftEditor, Reference Reviews and University Librarian, York St John University, York, UK