Book News provides libraries with timely news of high-level books through its core, quarterly publications: SciTech Book News (published since 1976) and Reference and Research Book News (since 1986).

Moreover, the searches are inked to each library's local holdings.

Rapid Access --Monthly Updates

Book News Online is updated monthly, and libraries can subscribe to either database or both :

• SciTech Book News (for all fields of Science, Medicine, and Engineering)
• Reference & Research Book News (covering the Social Sciences and the Humanities)

Book News Online gives rapid access to rich citations for more than 180,000 scholarly monographs and reference titles (growing at approximately 1,600 titles per month ).

Book News Online covers all fields of Science, Medicine, Technology, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities from English-language publishers worldwide.

Entries are presented with full bibliographic data and concise annotations.

Book News reviews many important books that are reviewed nowhere else.

Librarians and patrons can now search the vast Book News Online database by:

• Keywords
• Publisher
• Title
• ISBN
• Subject Heading

Current and Up-to-Date Contents

Readers familiar with SciTech Book News and Reference & Research Book News already know their value for staying abreast of new titles.

Now, Book News Online makes it possible to search the Book News archive; and because it's updated each month with the newest information, Book News Online is fresher and more current than the quarterly printed issues.

Thorough Resource Discovery-Current and Archival

Because every word in the Book News reviews is indexed in Book News Online, your patrons will discover books that go unnoticed if accessed only by standard bibliographic data.

The hallmark of Book News has always been promptness: information is made available soon after books are published. Book News works only from bound books (no galleys), so readers know that cited books are indeed available when the annotations are published.