Choice Reviews Online

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Choice Reviews Online

• What is it?
• Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is
  the premier source for reviews of
• academic books,
• electronic media,
• Internet resources
• of interest to those in higher education.

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Why use it?

• Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000
  reviews that are
• Timely - typically the first comment on scholarly
  publications
• Authoritative - written by selected experts in
  the subject
• Concise - brief but thorough, providing
  information and recommendations
• Easy to Use - logical arrangement, including data
  needed to order the item reviewed

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Tips for maximum useminimum effort

• Set up a personal profile
• Create automatic alerts based on self selected
  criteria such as
• subject areas or interdisciplinary categories
• LC call numbers (see http//www.loc.gov/catdir/cps
  o/lcco/)
• title keywords
• format type
• recommendation level
• Create and maintain lists
• Save searches

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LC Call search examples

• HB to HC9999 (economics)
• HD to HE (retrieves all items classified HD but
  not those classified HE)
• PQ6000 to PQ8999 (Spanish literature)
• QE to QE9999 (geology)

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Other Helpful Features

• Bibliographic Essays
• Forthcoming Titles and past FT lists
• Outstanding Academic Titles (OAT)
• Hot Topics (varies by individual issue)
• ISBN link to WorldCat link to Foxtrax