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How do I Find Book Reviews? |
Book Reviews are published in all kinds of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Below are a couple of general databases that cover a wide variety of magazines and journals. Be sure to also look at the specialized database in your field by clicking on the Articles & More link from the Library homepage and then choosing your field from the drop-down subject list, or you can choose one of the databases below from the alphabetical list.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Readers' Guide is a comprehensive index of the most popular general-interest periodicals
published in the United States and Canada from 1982-present. Search for the title of the book
and select "book review" under document type.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective is a comprehensive index of the most popular general-interest periodicals
published in the United States and Canada from 1890-1982. Search for the title of the book
and select "book review" under document type.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online archive of many scholarly journals in a variety of social science
and humanities fields. The easiest way to search for book reviews in this database
is to type the title of the book in quotes into the first search box and then further down
the page there is a check box that says reviews. Check this box and click search.
Books in Print with Reviews
Books in Print with Reviews provides online full text reviews for some of the titles
it includes. Search for the title of the book being reviewed and look for a star
next to the book you are searching for and then click on the title. Once you are in the
record for your title, click on the Title Reviews tab. If there is no star next to
your title, then the database does not contain reviews for your title.
Academic LexisNexis
Academic LexisNexis contains the full text of many newspapers, including the
New York Times. To search for book reviews, click on Guided News Search tab near
the top of the screen. Choose Arts & Sports News from the first drop down menu.
Then choose Book, movie, music or play reviews from the second drop down menu.
Finally, search for the title of the book being reviewed in quotes.
Publisher's Weekly
The largest collection of book reviews published since 1987 in the print and online edition of
Publishers Weekly has become open access (along with other materials in Publishers Weekly). Although
only the title and some bibliographic data elements (ISBN, author, publisher, BISAC subject) are searchable,
not the full text itself, the full text of the reviews can be displayed and printed. The informative reviews
help in selecting the most appropriate books for adults, children and young adults in all genres, and on all
subjects. The software has some annoying deficiencies that may confuse the users, but are easy to fix.
If you encounter book reviews that are not full text in any of the print or electronic resources you have just read about and you wish to locate those materials, use the instructions for finding an article to make your search successful.
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