The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources by R G Lester

The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources by R G Lester

The New Walford highlights the best resources to use when undertaking a search for accurate and relevant information, saving you precious time and effort. For those looking for a selective and evaluative reference resource that really delivers on its promise, look no further. In addition to print sources, The New Walford naturally covers an extensive range of e-reference sources such as digital databanks, digital reference services, electronic journal collections, meta-search engines, networked information services, open archives, resource discovery services and websites of premier organizations in both the public and private sectors. But rather than supplying a list of all available known resources as a web search engine might, The New Walford subject specialists have carefully selected and evaluated available resources to provide a definitive list of the most appropriate and useful. With an emphasis on quality and sustainability the subject specialists have been careful to assess the differing ways that information is framed and communicated in different subject areas. As a result the resource evaluations in each subject area are prefaced by an introductory overview of the structure of the relevant literature. This ensures that The New Walford is clear, easy-to-use and intuitive.

"Since The New Walford is especially aimed at the newcomer, it serves as a good first-stop resource for students and researchers beginning their research in these selected fields…The work is well designed and indexed, with superb content"

-- Booklist

"It is logically planned with a clear definition of its audience and what it is trying to do for them. It is also carefully organized and well indexed. Altogether, it deserves the tag on its front cover: "belongs on every reference desk"…it is so much easier to find the resource you need by consulting this well planned, comprehensively indexed and clearly laid out volume."

-- Reference Reviews

"This is certainly a major array of resources, meticulously organised and concisely described…It is a great reference resource, a worthy global overview of the social sciences, and incidentally a useful portfolio for ongoing library collection development purposes."

-- The Australian Library Journal

Ray Lester was formerly Head of Library and Information Services at the Natural History Museum.

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ISBN 13	9781856044981
ISBN 10	185604498X
Title	The New Walford Guide to Reference Resources
Author	R G Lester
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Facet Publishing
Year published	2007-12-01
Number of pages	848
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