You Can Tell a Book by Its Color, Part 2

The Pink Book. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the full title is Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. The Pink Book: Course Textbook. This “Pink Book” includes updated information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent. You can also read the current edition online(12^th edition, 2011) You can even download this book to your digital reader from sites such as Google e-books and Amazon.com

The Pink Book Making Health Communication Programs Work.  Published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), this “pink book” refers to the color of the original (print) book that guides health communication program planning. You can read and download the HTML or PDF version of the Pink Book from the NCI site.

The NLM has two Red Books.

The Red Book. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) publishes this book, fully titled The Red Book: the Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases. It is available online by subscription and in hard copy. You can still buy the 2009 (28^th edition) hard copy or the 2011 Update on CD-ROM. The Red Book includes the “latest findings and clinical guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 common childhood conditions.”The AAP updates the online version frequently.

The RED BOOK™ Drug References . Thomson Reuters publishes and updates this resource daily. It covers the costs of prescription, over-the-counter, and other medicines.

The Gold Book. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) publishes the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology. It’s called “The Gold Book” in honor of Victor Gold, who worked on the First Edition of the book. The IUPAC has other books with color names that pertain to medicine, pharmacy, and basic and applied medical research.

The Silver Book®. Published by The Alliance for Aging Research (AAR), this book examines current research on the “burden of chronic disease and the value of investing in medical research.” It has information from more than 200 individuals and organizations. The AAR updates the book throughout the year.

QUESTION: Can you name other books better known by their colors than by their real titles? Post the books’ names as comments.

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January 11, 2012  Tags: blue book, books, colors, green book, orangebook, plum book, yellow book  Posted in: Collection Development, Colors

5 Responses to “You Can Tell a Book by Its Color, Part 2”

1. lklein says:

   January 12, 2012 at 7:13 pm

   Glad to see some discussion started. Question: now that we are providing access to more books electronically, are these “known as” titles disappearing? For example, my co-workers and I access the “List of title word abbreviations” from the Centre internationale de l’ISSN/ISSN online, so some of them didn’t know the predecessor was the “green book” of abbreviations.
2. cbw337 says:

   January 11, 2012 at 3:08 pm

   Oops missed part 1
3. cbw337 says:

   January 11, 2012 at 3:04 pm

   and one more “The Yellow Book” CDC Health Information for International Travel
   http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/yellowbook-2012-home.htm
4. cbw337 says:

   January 11, 2012 at 2:58 pm

   There’s the “Green Book” or “Graduate Medical Education Directory” published by the AMA.
   • NLMReferenceBlog says:

     January 11, 2012 at 3:06 pm

     Hi, cbw337. The Green Book was posted in Part 1. Thanks for sending, since some may not have read Part 1.

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