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Introducing the ‘Books Forum’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2006

Nathan Greenslit
Nathan Greenslit
Affiliation:
STS Program, MIT (ES1 - 098), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In February 1929, James McKeen Cattell, the editor of Science, published an editorial about book reviews, opening with his opinion that, ‘[t]he reviewing of scientific books is the most difficult situation that the editor of Science must meet’. The difficulties he outlined included competency in diverse subjects, the physical limitations of journal space, and the questions of ‘impartiality’, collegial tact and whether reviewers should remain anonymous.

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BioSocieties , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 133 - 135
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London School of Economics and Political Science

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