Health Media Review Index 1984 86

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1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.

- Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, from 109 publications. - Electronic version with expanded coverage, and retrospective version available, see p. 5 and p. 31. - Pricing: Service Basis-Books.

Discusses the various types of reference, bibliographic, and information sources in the health sciences and their uses for reference work. Dates are not noted for the first two editions, which are here updated to account for new or expanded electronic and online sources, including computer multimedia reference. Addressed to practicing and student librarians. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Index provides a broad coverage and access to book reviews in the general social sciences, humanities, sciences, and fine arts, as well as general interest magazines and includes journals from Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and Australia. In addition, it indexes several journals that, while published in the US, concentrate on reviewing foreign published or foreign language books. These include Hispania, French Review, German Quarterly and World Literature Today.