Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice's January is sue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic library community. The 2012 feature includes 644 titles in 54 disciplines and subsections. In awarding OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE status, the editors apply several criteria to reviewed titles:

* overall excellence in presentation and scholarship

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* originality or uniqueness of treatment

* value to undergraduate students

* importance in building undergraduate library collections

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REFERENCE

General

Atlas of Yellowstone, ed. by W. Andrew Marcus et al. California, 2012. 271p bibl index afp ISBN 9780520271555, $65.00 Dec'12, 50-1795

Citavi 3. Swiss Academic Software GmbH. Purchase price for Citavi 3 Team-Academic: $248.75 (1-3 users) to $93.78 (100+ users). Site licenses/other options. URL: http://www.citavi.com/ Jun'12, 49-5388

Early American Newspapers: Series 4 and 5, 1756-1922. Readex. For academic libraries, Readex offers a one-time tiered purchase price with an annual maintenance fee. URL: http://www.readex.com/ Dec'12, 50-1798

Encyclopaedia Iranica, from Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies. URL: http://www.iranicaonline.org/ Nov'12, 50-1196

Encyclopedia of creativity, ed. by Mark A. Runco and Steven R. Pritzker. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2011. 2v bibl index ISBN 9780123750396, $400.00 Feb'12, 49-3009

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Planned obsolescence: publishing, technology, and the future of the academy. New York University, 2011. 245p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814727874, $75.00; ISBN 9780814727881 pbk, $23.00; ISBN 9780814728963 e-book, contact publisher for price Apr'12, 49-4188

Going Global. Going Global. Contact publisher for price. URL: http://www.goinglobal.com/ May'12, 49-4787

Lyons, Martyn. Books: a living history. Getty Publications, 2011. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781606060834, $34.95 Mar'12, 49-3590

The Oxford classical dictionary, ed. by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth with Esther Eidinow. Oxford, 2012. 1,592p ISBN 9780199545568, $175.00 Oct'12, 50-0603

Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/ May'12, 49-4789

Humanities

Cavalier, Stephen. The world history of animation. California, 2011. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780520261129, $39.95 Jun'12, 49-5398

Companion to Irish traditional music, ed. by Fintan Vallely. Cork University Press, 2011. 832p bibl index ISBN 9781859184509, $80.00 Jun'12, 49-5401

Doyle, Charles Clay. The dictionary of modern proverbs, comp. by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro. Yale, 2012. 294p bibl afp ISBN 9780300136029, $35.00 Oct'12, 50-0613

Early African American print culture, ed. by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein. Pennsylvania/Library Company of Philadelphia, 2012. 422p index afp ISBN 9780812244250, $55.00 Dec'12, 50-1814

The Great builders, ed. by Kenneth Powell. Thames & Hudson, 2011. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780500251799, $40.00 Feb' 12, 49-3023

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