Reference Reviews
Academic journal
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Reference Reviews was a British academic journal published by Emerald Group Publishing which provided reviews of reference works with a target audience of librarians.[1] It was established in 1987 by Nick Moore (Birmingham City University),[2] aiming to provide "unbiased, comparative, and evaluative reviews" of reference materials, primarily British publications.[3] Its first issue was published in March that year by Parker Moore Ltd. and edited by Nick Moore.[4] The publication was acquired by the publisher Longman in 1988,[2] and later by Emerald (then known as MCB University Press).[1] Under its second editor Stuart James,[5] the journal went from publishing four issues a year to eight issues a year and also began to be provided on the Internet.[6] Its third editor, Tony Chalcraft, announced the end of the journal in its final issue in 2018.[5]
| Discipline | Reference works |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1987–2018 |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | 8/year |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Ref. Rev. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0950-4125 (print) 1758-7697 (web) |
| LCCN | 90644079 |
| OCLC no. | 310916705 |
| Links | |
Categories
The journal reviewed dictionaries and encyclopedias of either a generalist or specialist nature.[1] Reviews of the specialist reference works were categorized under the following headers:[7]
- Philosophy and religion
- Social sciences
- Business
- Management
- Languages and literature
- Science and technology
- Leisure and sports[a]
- Geography
- Biography
- History
- Area studies