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Reference work

A reference work is a document, such as a paper, book, encyclopedia or periodical (or their electronic equivalents, usually available online), to which one can refer for information. The information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Such works are usually referred to for particular pieces of information, rather than being read in its entirety.…

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Library reference book

Types of reference works

Electronic resources

General

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Reference work

Nodes252
Edges251
Triples91
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007937
Components1

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Reference work

Top relations

related to General · 30
Reference work → American Library Association, Ancient Babylon, Basic Information Services, Bloomsbury Press, Cheney, Chicago, Frances Neel, Fundamental Reference Sources, Gavin, Handbooks, Higgens, Introduction, ISBN, Jack, Katz, Library Association, Library Practice, London, Lynch, McGraw-Hill
related to Handbook · 7
Reference work → Due, During, Historically, It, Latin, Oxford English Dictionary, The
related to Types of reference works · 7
Reference work → Abstracting, Business, Chronology, Digest, Encyclopedia, Quotations, The
related to Encyclopedia · 6
Reference work → An, As, Encyclopedia, Encyclopedias, Generally, Internet
related to External links · 4
Reference work → Media, Reference, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Thesaurus · 2
Reference work → Peter Mark Roget, They
is a · 1
Reference work → document

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Important terminology

reference information book list books words works used usually dictionary also ed many work knowledge may directory lexicon language isbn

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Reference workis adocument0.90text
library catalogsinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
art catalogsinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
concordancesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
dictionariesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
directories such as business directoriesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
telephone directoriesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
discographiesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
encyclopediasinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
filmographiesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
gazetteersinstance ofcatalogs0.80text
glossariesinstance ofcatalogs0.80text

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