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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2005
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2007
Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Date: 10-2011
DOI: 10.3138/JSP.43.1.52
Abstract: This article examines the status of the book review as a form of scholarly publication in the humanities, looking at the role and characteristics of humanities book reviews and at who writes them and why. It examines evidence for the influence and impact of book reviews in the humanities and makes suggestions for the future of the scholarly book review in an online information environment.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-2006
DOI: 10.1108/00220410610688741
Abstract: Scholarly monographs are a major information resource in the humanities. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of abstracting and indexing (A& I) databases and library catalogues (OPACs) for subject retrieval of these monographs. A s le of monographs in philosophy was checked in the Philosopher's Index database and in library OPACs to establish how many subject terms were assigned per page of text. The results highlighted the inadequate indexing of monographs in these databases. Various methods of improving subject access are discussed, including enriched subject content of database records. The search potential of full‐text databases is examined, with specific reference to two such databases, Oxford Scholarship Online and JSTOR. It is suggested that current and planned digitization projects need to incorporate improved search facilities, either by automatic generation of subject‐rich document surrogates, or by the incorporation of author‐generated metadata. This paper clarifies the current problems related to subject retrieval of scholarly monographs at a time when the launch of major digitization projects calls for urgent attention to this issue.
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