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Blackwell Retrospective Collection Development

Our Retrospective Collection Development Service can augment your library’s resources with an innovative approach that combines features from our New Title Service and Firm Order programs.

Source

At the center of our Retrospective Collection Development Service is a database of over two million titles drawn from our New Titles Service. All information has been verified from our book-in-hand edits, and every book has been individually assigned subject and non-subject codes.

Selection

This database may be accessed retrospectively using any combination of subject and non-subject terms. Moreover, selection can be limited by imprint year or by any range of dates from January 1, 1970 to the present. Your profile of interests can be drafted as broadly or narrowly as you wish. You might, for example, want a list of all university press publications since 1985; or, you might have the far more specific requirement of all psychology titles published in the English language since 1990 that are suitable for an undergraduate collection.

Format

Titles identified from the match between your profile of interests and our database can be displayed on one of two formats:

  1. Multi-part forms. Under this option a separate bibliographic slip is provided for each title. The 3" x 5" formats are designed so that they may double as order forms.
  2. Concise listing. Lists may be arranged by author, title, or LC class. Records detail author, title, publisher, series, imprint year, and list price at time of publication.

Consolidation

If your collection is in machine-readable form, we can match the results of our search against your holdings to eliminate duplication, significantly reducing pre-order searching. This service is limited to larger projects.

Cost

Retrospective Collection Development Service is free of charge on the understanding that subsequent orders are placed with Blackwell.

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