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Article: Finding health sciences books and book reviews online. (Caduceus) (Column)
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- May 1, 1993
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Books are an expensive part of Health science library's collection. Access to authoritative book reviews in online databases is a cost-effective way to aid in collection development decisions [1]. Fortunately, several full-text and bibliographic databases provide full book reviews or point the searcher to the location of the review in a printed source. Some online book catalog databases and special subject databases also have abstracts of books. Use of publication/document type indicators make it easy to retrieve book reviews and books from these databases. Two databases use review evaluation/grade indicators that rate books as excellent to poor. Of course, subject ...
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