sourcebook

From source +‎ book.

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sourcebook (plural sourcebooks)

1. A book consisting of a collection of writings on a particular subject.
2. (roleplaying) A publication intended to supplement the core materials of a roleplaying game.
   • 2008, James Wyatt, Bill Slavicsek, Richard Baker, Dungeon Master 4th Edition For Dummies, page 156:

     That sourcebook is aimed at players of fighters, rogues, rangers, and warlords, and by design you're not going to find much in that book to appeal to other characters.

Professor of knowledge organization Birger Hjørland warns, in the context of library and information science: "The word sourcebook is relatively often used in the literature. It is not, however, a meaningful concept. It is sometimes used about bibliographies, sometimes about anthologies, sometimes about collections of pictures etc."^[1]

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