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).
Rapid access-Monthly Updates
BookNews 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)
BookNews 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).
BookNews 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 BookNews Online database by:
- Keywords
- Publisher
- Title
- ISBN
- Subject Heading
Current and Up-to-Date
Readers familiar with SciTech Book News and Reference & Research Book News already know their value for staying abreast of new titles.
Now, BookNews Online makes it possible to search the Book News archive; and because it's updated each month with the newest information, BookNews Online is fresher and more current than the quarterly printed issues.
Thorough Resource Discovery-Current and Archival
Because every word in the BookNews reviews is indexed in BookNews Online, your patrons will discover books that go unnoticed if accessed only by standard bibliographic data.
The hallmark of BookNews has always been promptness: information is made available soon after books are published. BookNews works only from bound books (no galleys), so readers know that cited books are indeed available when the annotations are published.
