Rezensionen sind ein Qualitätsfilter in der jährlichen Publikationsflut und sind mitbestimmend für den Stellenwert eines Werkes. Die interdisziplinäre, internationale Rezensionsbibliographie IBR ist eine einmalige Informationsquelle: die Datenbank weist über 1,2 Millionen, vornehmlich die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften berücksichtigende Buchrezensionen in 6.820 vorwiegend europäischen wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften nach. Über 560.000 rezensierte wissenschaftliche Werke sind erfasst. Die Datenbank wächst jedes Jahr um 60.000 Eintragungen.
Jeder Eintrag enthält folgende Informationen:
- Zum rezensierten Werk: Autor, Titel
- Zur Rezension: Rezensent, Zeitschrift (Jahr, Ausgabe, Seite, ISSN), Sprache des Aufsatzes, Sachgebiet (in Deutsch, Englisch, Italienisch)
- Verlag, Adresse der Zeitschrift
The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, offers book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,000 mainly European scholarly journals. This unique bibliography contains over 1.3 millions book reviews. 60,000 entries are added every year with details on the work reviewed and the review.
The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, offers book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,000 mainly European scholarly journals. 60,000 entries are added every year with details on the work reviewed and the review.
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Reviews are an important aspect of scholarly discussion because they help filter out which works are relevant in the yearly flood of publications and are thus influential in determining how a work is received. The IBR, published again since 1971 as an interdisciplinary, international bibliography of reviews, it is a unique source of bibliographical information. The database contains entries on over 1.2 million book reviews of literature dealing primarily with the humanities and social sciences published in 6,820, mainly European scholarly journals. Reviews of more than 560,000 scholarly works are listed. The database increases every year by 60,000 entries.
Every entry contains the following information: On the work reviewed: author, title On the review: reviewer, periodical (year, edition, page, ISSN), language, subject area (in German, English, Italian) Publisher, address of journal
