[Web4lib] Peter's Digital Reference Shelf

[Lois Kiehl]

Peter's Digital Reference Shelf - March 2007

Before the April edition of Peter's Digital Reference Shelf is posted you
can stil catch the March review on the Gale Group website. It is available
free of charge to all users at:
        http://www.gale.com/reference/peter/index.htm

Peter Jacso is a faculty member at the University of Hawaii School of
Library and Information Science. His in-depth reviews are illustrated with
dozens of screenshots and provide a multi-linked virtual walk-through of
the databases he evaluates. Jacso was the 1998 recipient of the Louis
Shores-Oryx Press Award of the Reference and User Services Association for
his discerning database reviews.

This time Peter reviews:

American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)
	This popular resource of nearly 17,000 reviews of ready-reference
publications has been enhanced by a swift and smart software, and offers
an excellent tool not only for acquisitions and reference librarians to
know which ready-references sources may complement their existing
collection, but also for end-users to find out which encyclopedias,
dictionaries, almanacs, atlases, biographies, bibliographies yearbooks,
directories and handbooks may be the most appropriate for looking up a
fact.

While you're at the site be sure to check out any previous reviews you may
have missed. Here are the most recent and there are many more in the
Archives (index column link).

February 2007
	Choice Online Reviews
	CSA Illustrata

January 2007
	Blackwell-Synergy
	Web of Science

December 2006
	Scirus
	SiloBreaker

November 2006
	Publishers Weekly
	Google Book Search

October 2006
	Aardvark
	Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

September 2006
	Annual Reviews Archive
	Science Direct