[Yulpub] Fwd: RE: Concise Dictionary of World Place Names

[Suzanne Lorimer]

Please read from the bottom up below for information on the current 
availability of Oxford's Concise Dictionary of World Place Names through 
Oxford Reference Online.  Many thanks to Emily Horning for forwarding a 
posting about this title on the Chronicle of Higher Education's News Blog.

-Sue

>Subject: RE: Concise Dictionary of World Place Names
>Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:16:21 -0400
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>Thank you for contacting us.
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>You are quite right; this title has been removed from ORO, pending
>correction of the errors that have sparked an outcry in India. As far
>as we know at present, sales of the book and access to the online
>version will be restored once the appropriate corrections have been
>made.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suzanne Lorimer [mailto:suzanne.lorimer at yale.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:58 PM
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>Subject: Concise Dictionary of World Place Names
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>
>We subscribe to Oxford Reference Online Premium and are in a quandry
>concerning our access to the title, Concise Dictionary of World Place
>Names.
>
>We have a record in our online catalog for this title, which links to
>the title in Oxford Reference Online through this link:
>http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t209
>
>The link, however, leads us to the announcement, "You are not
>subscribed to this book".  How can we not be subscribed to a title in
>Oxford Reference, when, by definition, we subscribe to ALL titles in
>ORO?
>
>An interesting corollary question is why the title no longer appears
>in the list of titles included in ORO.  It's also missing from the
>list of six titles in ORO that appear in the result list for a search
>for the place name "karnataka".
>Does this have anything to do with the announcement that "Oxford
>University Press has suspended sales of a [Concise Dictionary of World
>Place Names] published in 2005 after an outcry over errors that was
>led by historians and government officials in the southern state of
>Karnataka . . ." (Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog, May 21,
>2007)?
>
>-Sue Lorimer
>
>Suzanne Lorimer
>Coordinator of Research Services
>Sterling Memorial Library
>Yale University
>P.O. Box 208240
>New Haven, CT 06520-8240
>(203) 432-8371

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527