Subject Guides: Book Reviews: Book Reviews

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Many of the discipline-specific databases (e.g. MLA, Historical Abstracts, Philosopher's Index) include citations to book reviews. Typically you can limit your search to "Reviews" under "Document Type" in the Advanced Search. (Terminology difers from database to database.)

Here are some other good resources for book reviews, especially from non-scholarly sources (i.e. magazines and newspapers)...

Discovery Search
Our broadest search. Limit to "Reviews" under "Source Types."
Book review digest retrospective: 1908-1982.
An online record of books and reviews reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest. The database covers some 300,000 books and provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window From business and political science to literature and psychology, ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of the most utilized subjects and topics. The database includes thousands of full-text titles, with a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, important and general interest magazines.
Academic oneFile This link opens in a new window A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML and PDF format from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects; intended primarily for academic researchers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides online access to the back issues of a multidisciplinary array of journals. Coverage includes the arts and humanities; the social and political sciences; mathematics and the hard sciences; and business and economics.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world.

Selected Book Review Publications

Booklist
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Kirkus Reviews
Magill's Literary Annual
Each volume of Magill's Literary Annual contains essay-reviews of 200 outstanding books published in the United States during the previous year. Coverage includes 1977 to the present.
New York Review of Books
Coverage includes 1963 to the present.
New York Times Book Review
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
(Coverage 1902 to Five Years Ago | Full-text)
We have the current five years in print.

Lucy Scribner Library

Book Reviews: Book Reviews

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Selected Book Review Publications