The American Historical Association and Choice have announced a twelve-month pilot project to provide AHA members with complimentary access to Choice reviews. During the pilot phase, all AHA members will receive free and full access to Choice Reviews Online (CRO) via a link from the members-only portion of the AHA website (http://www.historians.org/). There, they will find more than 160,000 reviews of carefully selected scholarly titles published since September 1988, which includes the approximately 1,000 new reviews in history and related fields published by Choice annually.

James Grossman, AHA Executive Director, expressed enthusiasm for the pilot project. “Access to Choice reviews will nicely complement our own book review program at the American Historical Review.  Choice reviews are typically far shorter and appear noticeably earlier than the more detailed accounts in the American Historical Review.”

Irving Rockwood, Choice editor and publisher, agreed on the complementarity of the new partnership. “As recent surveys have made clear, faculty members who are familiar with us are almost always favorably disposed toward Choice. Up to this point, however, very few of them have been aware of, or had access to, Choice reviews.”

The American Historical Association is a nonprofit membership organization incorporated by Congress in 1889 to promote historical studies in every period and geographical area. For the full text of the press release announcing AHA-Choice pilot project, go to http://www.historians.org/press/AHA-Choice.pdf.