Notes on key reviews in this issue

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Chalcraft, T. (2013), "Notes on key reviews in this issue", Reference Reviews, Vol. 27 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/rr.2013.09927eaa.001

Notes on key reviews in this issue

Article Type: Editorial notes and queries From: Reference Reviews, Volume 27, Issue 5

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  Encyclopedia of American Studies (RR 2013/209). E lectronic version of this encyclopedia from John Hopkins University Press produced in conjunction with the American Studies Association and first published as four print volumes by Grolier Press in 2001.

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  Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture (RR 2013/199). With 1,000 articles from 200 contributors, plus 500 images, this large single volume provides the first encyclopedic treatment of Australian architecture.

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  Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine (RR 2013/192). Another of Springer’s major STEM reference publications reviewed here in its electronic version, but also available as a four-volume set. Despite a bias to US practice, this is likely to be a standard reference in major medical libraries worldwide.

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  Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (RR 2013/186). With over four million words this is the largest reference work in the science fiction field. Produced online by Gollancz and The SF Gateway, this third edition is a much expanded and still growing enhancement of the CD-ROM version produced in 1995, in turn derived from the 1993 second print edition.

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  Native Plant Information Network (RR 2013/195). Maintained by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Centre at The University of Texas, Austin this currently catalogues 7,300 North American native plants in the Native Plant Database linked to a separate collection of over 30,000 images.

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  New Oxford Style Manual (RR 2013/188). Combines New Harts Rules (2005), itself a successor to the various editions of Hart’s Rules, with the Oxford Style Manual (2003) (RR 2003/428).

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  Oxford Companion to American Politics (RR 2013/179). Major two-volume Oxford companion mainly concerned with modern US politics and with minimal historical material.

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  Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (RR 2013/190). Superseding the third edition of 1993, the new fourth edition of this established and well-respected encyclopedia from Princeton University Press has over 1,000 entries. The emphasis is on the mechanisms and contexts of poetry as “poetics” in the title implies; this is not a work for encyclopedic information on individual poets.

Tony Chalcraft