This new edition of the standard guide to health sciences sources is essential for students, librarians, and health professionals. Prepared with the Medical Library Association, this completely updated and revised fifth edition lists classic and up-to-the-minute print resources and helps librarians to meet customers changing expectations for electronic versions of traditionally print reference sources, new reliable electronic only resources, and resources that they can access from their home computers through freely available Web sites or through library licenses. The authors address questions librarians need to consider in developing and maintaining their reference collections in both the print and electronic environments, focusing on works that can be considered foundation or basic works. New contributors including Jean Blackwell, Feili Tu, Katherine Schilling and Tom Flemming provide fresh takes on organization and management of the reference collection; bibliographic sources for periodicals; indexing, abstracting, and digital database resources; U.S. government documents and technical reports; conferences, reviews, and translations; terminology; handbooks and manuals; drug information sources; and grant sources. Other chapters cover bibliographic sources for monographs, consumer health sources, medical and health statistics, directories and biographical sources, and history sources.
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...a towering achievement and continues the high standard set by previous editions of this tool for health sciences reference work...highly recommended for all health sciences library collections. It will be useful not only for students and new health sciences reference librarians, but also to keep seasoned reference librarians up to date on the latest tools and resources. --Journal of the Medical Library Association, January 2009
Packed with very helpful information--general, practical, and theoretical--that would be useful to students and researchers, librarians, and health care practitioners alike. It is recommended for public libraries, community college libraries, academic libraries, health science libraries, and hospital libraries. --ARBA, June 2008
An essential tool for anyone involved with medical research since it lists resources according to usefulness, quality, and reputation. --SciTech Book News, June 2008
Packed with very helpful information--general, practical, and theoretical--that would be useful to students and researchers, librarians, and health care practitioners alike. It is recommended for public libraries, community college libraries, academic libraries, health science libraries, and hospital libraries. --ARBA, June 2008
An essential tool for anyone involved with medical research since it lists resources according to usefulness, quality, and reputation. --SciTech Book News, June 2008
About the Author
Fred W. Roper is Dean of the College of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. He is active in the Medical Library Association, and the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Jo Anne Boorkman is Head of the Carlson Health Sciences Library, University of California, Davis. She is the co-author of Reference Update; in The Literature of Animal Science and Health, edited by Wallace C. Olsen, Cornell University Press, 1993. She is active in the Medical Library Association and Special Libraries Association.
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