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Reference Reviews

Reference Reviews was a British academic journal published by Emerald Group Publishing which provided reviews of reference works with a target audience of librarians. It was established in 1987 by Nick Moore, aiming to provide "unbiased, comparative, and evaluative reviews" of reference materials, primarily British publications. Its first issue was published in March that year by Parker Moore Ltd. and edited by Nick Moore. The publication was acquired by the publisher Longman in 1988, and later by Emerald. Under its second editor Stuart James, the journal went from publishing four issues a year to eight issues a year and also began to be provided on the Internet. Its third editor, Tony Chalcraft, announced the end of the journal in its final issue in 2018.

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Reference Reviews
DisciplineReference works
LanguageEnglish
Publication details
History1987–2018
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing (United Kingdom)
Frequency8/year
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt Paid subscription required)
ISO 4Ref. Rev.
Indexing
CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN0950-4125 (print)
1758-7697 (web)
LCCN90644079
OCLC no.310916705
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Reference Reviews was a British academic journal published by Emerald Group Publishing which provided reviews of reference works with a target audience of librarians.1 It was established in 1987 by Nick Moore (Birmingham City University),2 aiming to provide "unbiased, comparative, and evaluative reviews" of reference materials, primarily British publications.3 Its first issue was published in March that year by Parker Moore Ltd. and edited by Nick Moore.4 The publication was acquired by the publisher Longman in 1988,2 and later by Emerald (then known as MCB University Press).1 Under its second editor Stuart James,5 the journal went from publishing four issues a year to eight issues a year and also began to be provided on the Internet.6 Its third editor, Tony Chalcraft, announced the end of the journal in its final issue in 2018.5

Categories

The journal reviewed dictionaries and encyclopedias of either a generalist or specialist nature.1 Reviews of the specialist reference works were categorized under the following headers:7

  • Philosophy and religion
  • Social sciences
  • Business
  • Management
  • Languages and literature
  • Science and technology
  • Leisure and sportsa
  • Geography
  • Biography
  • History
  • Area studies
Notes

Notes

  1. Or "leisure and sport"8
References

References

  1. Hartmann 2009, p. 410.
  2. British Book News. National Book League. 1989. p. 622.
  3. Library Times International: World News Digest of Library and Information Science. Future World Publishing Company. 1987. p. 72.
  4. Education for Information 1987, p. 365.
  5. Chalcraft 2018.
  6. Duckett 2006, p. 440.
  7. Bemis 2014, p. 217.
  8. Katz 2012, p. 123.

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