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New: Choice Reviews Online (1988-): quality book reviews

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Choice - coverFinding expert reviews has now become easier for Oxford readers. I’m delighted to announce that you have access to Choice Reviews Online with content starting in 1988.

Published monthly by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice Reviews Online publishes annually more than 7,000 concise reviews of academic titles, including books and electronic resources.

The reviews are organized by discipline and also feature bibliographic essays and lists of significant forthcoming titles.

You can browse or search through the issue, going back to 1988. If you want to keep up with news issues, you can sign up for Table of Content alerts.

The resource can be accessed via SOLO or OUeJournals.

Trial until 28 March: Choice Reviews Online (1988-)

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Choice - coverPublished monthly by the Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice Reviews Online publishes annually more than 7,000 concise reviews of academic titles, including books and electronic resources.

The reviews are organized by discipline and also feature bibliographic essays and lists of significant forthcoming titles.

You can browse or search through the issue going back to 1988. If you want to keep up with news issues, you can sign up for Table of Content alerts.

The trial can be accessed via SOLO or OxLIP+.

Please send feedback to isabel.holowaty@bodleian.ox.ac.uk by 28 March 2014.

Reviews in History: keep up-to-date with choice of RSS feeds

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Launched in 1996, Reviews in History publishes reviews and reappraisals of significant work in all fields of historical interest.  The ejournals includes over 1000 reviews to date and new reviews appear regularly. You can browse reviews by type of review (digital reviews, textbooks, articles, books, etc.) or by subject, period or country.

The journal’s key features are:

* Reviews of greater length than usually found in scholarly journals (2000–3000 words)
* Free access to reviews, with free email alert with links to the latest reviews.
* Texts available to print in convenient format
* Speed of publication
* Right of reply for authors and editors
* Reviews undertaken by leading scholars
* Broad scope – chronologically, geographically and thematically
* Valuable as a resource for research, teaching and studying history at undergraduate and graduate levels

To help you keep-up-date with new reviews, the ejournal now also offers a great choice of RSS feeds: this week’s review, digital reviews, and feeds by subject, period and country. Take your pick and don’t miss a trick!