Book Reviews (Subject Guides)

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Databases

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Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
Select "book review" from the document type menu (you may need to scroll down to see this option on the seach page).

Book Review Index Online Plus (Full Text)
Comprehensive reference database for locating reviews of books, periodicals, books-on-tape and electronic media. Contains the entire backfile of Book Review Index print content (1965-), has more than 5 million review citations and more than 634,000 full-text reviews.

Books and Authors discus
This database includes book reviews from more than 30 sources such as Publishers Weekly (and users can generate their own reviews), bibliographies, and links to related social sites like del.icio.us. Users also can create reading and search lists in their user accounts, which remain intact from visit to visit in a “My Reading Room” feature.

Academic OneFile (Full Text)
Search for book reviews and additional information by typing key title words and/or author's name and "review" in a key word search.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index - Full Text) (Full Text)
Choose "article search" then limit to "Book Reviews" using the check list on the right.

Choice Online
CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources in all subject areas of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. Only ONE user at a time; please log off when you have completed your searching.

JSTOR (Full Text)
Search can be limited to find only reviews.

American Reference Books Annual (ARBA Online)
Reviews of electronic products and serving as a source of information on professional products for librarians and information specialists.

Arts and Humanities

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (Full Text)
Select "Review" in "Publication Type" menu.

Art Full Text (Full Text)
Use the Advanced Search and select "book review" in "Record Type Phrase" menu.

Media Review Digest
Reviews of educational and entertainment resources produced in a variety of media formats.

Project MUSE (Full Text)
In advanced search, select "Review" under "Limit Search - By Type."

Business and Economics

Business Source Premier (Full Text)
Select "book review" under "Document Type."

EconLit
Use the Advanced Search and select "book review" in "Record or Article Type" menu.

Education

Education Full Text (Full Text)
In advanced search, select "book review" in the "Document Type" menu.

Media Review Digest
Reviews of educational and entertainment resources produced in a variety of media formats

Social Sciences

Alternative Press Index
In advanced search, select "book review" in "Article Type Phrase" menu.

America: History and Life
In advanced search, select book review as "Document Type."

Project MUSE (Full Text)
In advanced search, select "Review" under "Limit Search - By Type."

PsycARTICLES (Full Text)
Use this field code and search phrase: AT book review. Combine with other relevant search terms.

Social Service Abstracts
Combine "book review" with other search terms.

Sociological Abstracts
Combine "book review" with other search terms.

Newspapers

National Newspapers (Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times (1980 to present), Washington Post (1987 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), Wall Street Journal (1984 to present) and Christian Science Monitor (1988 to present).

New York Times (current) (Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times from 2002 to present.

New York Times (historical) (Full Text)
Full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2001.

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Print Resources

Book Review Digest
REF Z1219 C95
1905-

Book Review Index
REF Z1035 A1 B6
1965-

Magill's Literary Annual
PN44 M343
1977-1999 in C of C Stacks (non-circulating)
2000- in Reference

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
REF AI3 R48
1900-1998
For book reviews, check for the book reviews section at the back of each volume.

An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities
REF Z1035 A1 I63
1960-1990

Current Book Review Citations
REF Z1035 A1 C86
1976-1982

Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals
REF Z1035 A1 C64, 15 volumes
1886-1974

The New York Times Book Review Index 1896-1970
REF Z1035 A1 N442, 5 volumes
Author, title, subject, byline, and category indexes.

Nineteenth Century Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890-1899, with Supplementary Indexing, 1900-1922
REF AI3 R496 2 vols.
See the book review section at the back of each volume.

The Literary Index to American Magazines, 1850-1900, Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature
REF PS214 W44 1996

Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (microfiche)
LEL 22398 - 401
Contains book reviews originally published from October 1802 to 1829.

The London Review of English and Foreign Literature
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Z1007 L84
Vol. 1 (Jan. 1775)-v.12, no. 1 (July 1780)

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Internet Resources

Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com

Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com

The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/
The Archive includes a searchable index of all articles from 1963 to the present. At this point, only selected reviews are available in full text, but the complete archives will become available in full text for subscribers

AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/bookrev.html
Links compiled by the Vanderbilt University library. Organized by discipline with some genre categories

BiblioReview.com
http://www.biblioreview.com/
a gateway to online book reviews and author interviews. Listings from major publications and smaller, more selective sources offering reviews of a more diverse nature. Our goal isn't to bring you every review of a book but an eclectic mix of well-written reviews of a large variety of titles.

Yahoo! Directory of Book Reviews
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Reviews/

Education Book and Media Reviews
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/edu/reviews.html

Book Remarks
http://www.book-remarks.com/
The goal of Book-Remarks.com is to offer exciting, timely, positive, and useful information to the African-American reading community

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Current Print Periodicals (plus a couple not current but useful)

The New York Times Book Review
A regular section in the Sunday editions of the New York Times.

The Booklist
10/01/1917 - 08/01/1956, 09/1969-

TLS / Times Literary Supplement
1969-

World Literature Today
12/21/1977-

The New York Review of Books
1979-

The Women's Review of Books
1997-

The Black Book Review / QBR
3/1999-

Books Abroad (microfilm)
1927-1976
"An international literary quarterly."

A.L.A. Booklist
Sept. 1909-July 1917

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