[Lexicog] Historical-Lexicographical Methodology in WSJ Review

[Fred Shapiro]

It may be of interest to some on this list that the Wall Street Journal 
has a review today of my book, The Yale Book of Quotations.  The review 
focuses on the methodology I used in researching quotation origins, 
specifically extensive searching of full-text historical online databases. 
The YBQ is the first quotation dictionary to use OED-like research methods 
to trace sayings back to their earliest findable appearance.

Databases I used that are mentioned in the article include JSTOR, ProQuest 
Historical Newspapers, Times Digital Archive, LexisNexis, 
Newspaperarchive, Questia, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and 
Literature Online.

Fred Shapiro


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Fred R. Shapiro                             Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and     YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
   Access and Lecturer in Legal Research     Yale University Press
Yale Law School                             ISBN 0300107986
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               http://quotationdictionary.com
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