title: Medical book reviewing.
abstract: The large number of medical books published complicates selection by medical librarians. Book reviews are a potentially useful aid to selection. How available medical book reviews are to medical librarians, as well as how timely and accessible they are, were studied. Book reviews appearing in 1981 in a select group of medical journals were studied, and questionnaires sent to book publishers and the book review editors of the journals in the study.
mesh_terms: D001873:Book Reviews as Topic; D001874:Book Selection; D007992:Libraries, Hospital; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D011643:Publishing